His father's background helped his career: the elder Bertolucci had helped the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini publish his first novel, and Pasolini reciprocated by hiring Bertolucci as first assistant in Rome on Accattone ( 1961 ), where he met his first wife, Adriana Asti.

As the show progressed, Chico's background was revealed as being Mexican on his father's side and Puerto Rican on his mother's side, and ( in a nod to Prinze's faux-Hungarian ancestry ) "... my grandmother speaks a little Hungarian !".

Wilfrid's background is never explicitly described as noble, but the king's retainers were frequent guests at his father's house, and on leaving home Wilfrid equipped his party with horses and clothes fit for a royal court.

Such was the political background when Cetshwayo became absolute ruler of the Zulus upon his father's death in 1873.

As a result of his father's work, Barry was raised in and around cinemas in northern England and he later stated that his childhood background of being brought up in the theatres owned by his father influenced his musical tastes and interests as a result.

" This gives him a Almoravid lineage, ie a Berber and Islamic background, on his father's side, and a link on his mother's side to Takrur.

Zinta, who describes herself as a tomboy as a child, has emphasised her father's military background as having a lasting impression on how family life was conducted.

Despite her and her husband's and father's Republican background and relationships to Presidents Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Julie Nixon Eisenhower supported Democrat Barack Obama for President in 2008.

Raised in Newport Beach, he is Jewish on his father's side and connects and identifies with his father's religious and cultural background.

Raised in the Pardee Home in Oakland, George Pardee closely followed in his father's medical background.

The subject of the Metal Opera was Oresteia and the Greek myths related by Aeschylus, very familiar to David DeFeis, because of his father's theaterical background.

Worried by his celebrity and his father's Italian background, he began to suspect he might fall victim to a Mafia hit.

) After graduating from high school, she joined her father's road show for two and a half years, first as a wardrobe assistant, then as a background vocalist and occasional soloist.

The bloody 1956 revolution, and his father's background, informed Fischer's debut novel Under the Frog, a Rabelaisian yarn about a Hungarian basketball player surviving Communism.

Primarily jazz is used for background music, reflecting both his father's occupation as a musician who tinkers with inventing new musical instruments and his mother's style as an avant-garde artist.

She was disliked by some Swedes for her German background and her father's support of the Nazis.

Most of the children have fanciful names, such as Marquis and Jenny Lind, influenced by the father's artistic background ( Rebecca is named after both the heroines in Ivanhoe ).

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

After four years he decided to declare himself king, sleeping with his father's concubines, then raised a revolt at Hebron, the former capital.

Yōzei was succeeded by his father's uncle, Emperor Kōkō ; and in the reign of Kōkō's son, Emperor Uda, the madness re-visited the tormented former emperor:

In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and his father's former commander.

He remains close friends with his father's former bandmate Paul McCartney.

During his reign, he moved the empire's capital from his father's newly-constructed city of Dur-Sharrukin to the old city and former capital of Nineveh.

* September 3 – Oliver Cromwell dies and his son Richard assumes his father's former position as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

" Similarly, the former Birgitte Eva van Deurs was titled " HRH Princess Richard of Gloucester " from her wedding until her husband succeeded to his father's dukedom in 1974.

The most irreconcilable of Bruce's Scottish enemies also came: Ingram de Umfraville, a former Guardian of Scotland, and his kinsman the Earl of Angus, as well as others of the MacDougalls, MacCanns and Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, the only son of the Red Comyn, who was born and raised in England and was now returning to Scotland to avenge his father's killing by Bruce at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries in 1306.

His sons had to start from scratch in rebuilding the family fortunes, as they had renounced any rights to their father's former possessions or titles when their own attainders had been lifted in January 1558.

" He has written at length on how much of contemporary conflict has its origin, in his view, in lines drawn on maps: " After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies.

Nevertheless, Charles Emmanuel obtained the help of French troops to free Alba from the Spaniards ( January 1617 ), as the new King Louis XIII resumed his father's former alliance with Savoy.

Vader's relationship to Luke Skywalker is parodied by Helmet declaring himself Lone Starr's " father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

One of the members recruited into the Sinestro Corps was Amon Sur, the son of former Green Lantern Abin Sur, who held a grudge against Hal Jordan for being chosen to bear his father's ring instead of him.

The Nobel family, including Ludvig Nobel, the founder of Nobelbra, and Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prizes, was a descendant of Rudbeck through his daughter Wendela, who married one of her father's former students, Peter Olai Nobelius.

On the other hand, the original version of the Gesta was written in explicit praise of Hereward ,; much of its information was provided by men who knew him personally, principally, if the preface is to be believed, a former colleague in arms and member of his father's former household named Leofric the Deacon.

From Moore, or Ellen Scott, or from his father's former assistant P. B. Freeman, Scott got to know the work of his father.

For the College of St Gregory, which he founded in 1375 to support eight priests, he used his father's former house and an adjoining plot.

Now diversified into lumber, railroads, etc., Nora's fortune is apparently vast indeed and is managed for the couple by her father's former partner who lives in an estate on Long Island's North Shore " Gold Coast.

After his father's death on September 11, 1063, Ladislaus and his brothers agreed to accept the rule of their cousin who had come back followed by German troops, if they received their father's former duchy.

They made an agreement on January 20, 1064, in Győr, under which Ladislaus and his brothers accepted Salamon's rule, and they received their father's former duchy, i. e., the one third of Hungary.

Buckley moved back to Los Angeles in September when his father's former manager, Herb Cohen, offered to help him record his first demo of original songs.

Habibullah Khan, Abdur Rahman Khan's eldest son and child of a slave mother, kept a close watch on the palace intrigues revolving around his father's more distinguished wife ( a granddaughter of Dost Mohammad ), who sought the throne for her own son.

Newton returned to Liverpool, England and, partly due to the influence of his father's friend Joseph Manesty, obtained a position as first mate aboard the slave ship Brownlow, bound for the West Indies via the coast of Guinea.

Her father's earlier business venture had depended at least in part upon slave labour, and the outcome of the American Civil War caused the family to live in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born.

They were all underage children, and put on trial, sentenced to an agonizing death if they were complicit in their father's rebellious " sedition ", or if they were innocent of their fathers crimes, were to be sentenced to castration and serving as a eunuch slave to Chinese troops, when they reached 11 years old, and handed over to the Imperial Household to be executed or castrated.

They were all underage children, and put on trial, sentenced to an agonizing death if they were complicit in their father's rebellious " sedition ", or if they were innocent of their fathers crimes, were to be sentenced to castration and serving as a eunuch slave to Chinese troops, when they reached 11 years old, and handed over to the Imperial Household to be executed or castrated.

Born a slave just like his mother, the baby John Louis Brown's ownership passed to his father / much-older half-brother Judge Morgan W ( elles ) Brown ( January 1, 1800-March 7, 1853 ) after his father's death in 1840, as did the ownership of his mother.

After the Civil War broke out, Conway located several dozen of his father's slaves in Washington, DC., who had fled from Virginia, and escorted them through Maryland — still a slave state — to safety in Ohio.

He delivered several other speeches during the session, including one against the abolition of the slave trade, which reflected his father's strong opposition to William Wilberforce's campaign.

They were all underage children, and put on trial, sentenced to an agonizing death if they were complicit in their father's rebellious " sedition ", or if they were innocent of their father's crimes, were to be sentenced to castration and serving as a eunuch slave to Chinese troops, when they reached 11 years old.

As a boy, he worked on his father's farm, attending school for only brief periods, and in 1808-1812 he lived at Wheeling, Virginia ( now in West Virginia ), where he served an apprenticeship to a saddler, and where — Wheeling being an important headquarters of the interstate slave trade — he first became deeply impressed with the iniquity of the institution of slavery, and determined to devote his life to the cause of abolition.

After he disposes of her body, he returns home where his son confesses that he had stolen one of the apples and that a slave, to whom he had told about his father's journey, had fled with it.

In 1655 Elizabeth Key Grinstead, who was a slave in Virginia, won her freedom in a lawsuit based on her father's status as a free Englishman ( her mother was a slave and her father was her mother's owner ), helped by the fact that her father had baptized her as Christian in the Church of England.

He wrote about his own memories of Rolleston, a childhood slave companion and friend, and the war years, as well as about his father's role and their family members.

On the 1840 Census 6 free blacks under the age of 10 were recorded in his father's household, as well as 1 male slave child under 10 and an older female between the ages of 55 and 100.

While traveling to Antioch on state business, Judah learns that his real father's chief servant, the slave Simonides, lives in a house in this city, and has the trust of Judah's father's possessions.

They were all underage children, and put on trial, sentenced to an agonizing death if they were complicit in their father's rebellious " sedition ", or if they were innocent of their father's crimes, were to be sentenced to castration and serving as a eunuch slave to Chinese troops, when they reached 11 years old, and handed over to the Imperial Household to be executed or castrated.

This romantic legend was adapted by the English poet Robert Southeyfor his Laila and Manuel, in which the lovers were a Muslim girl and her father's Christian slave.

Blackwell and the rest of the children adopted their father's liberal views and, rather ironically, voluntarily gave up sugar in protest of the slave trade.

He also had 5 half-siblings, from his father's side, and possibly a sixth one Perry Samuel born of a slave, and on his mothers side Frank James ( born 1841 ), Robert B. James ( born and died in 1845 ), Jesse James ( born 1847 ) and Susan Lavenia James ( born 1849 ).

The Persian Boy is a 1972 historical novel written by Mary Renault and narrated by Bagoas, a young Persian from an aristocratic family who is captured by his father's enemies, castrated, and sold as a slave to the king Darius III, who makes him his favorite.