His father's background as a former slave, and his personal awareness of social injustices transformed Robeson into a political activist.

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 ).

Alexios IV Angelos, the son of the deposed Isaac II, had recently escaped from Constantinople and now appealed to the crusaders, promising to end the schism of East and West, to pay for their transport, and to provide military support to the crusaders if they helped him to depose his uncle and sit on his father's throne.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Disliking this job, he quit, and for a time he helped with his father's garden ornaments business along with his brother, Terry Major-Ball.

Tamar was also pressured into dismissing her father's appointees, among them the constable Qubasar, a Georgianized Kipchak of ignoble birth, who had helped George III in his crackdown on the defiant nobility.

Schwarzenegger claims to have helped Butler in casting himself as a villain, citing his story about not returning home for his father's funeral as having been told to him by a French bodybuilder ; however, following the film's release, claims surfaced that Schwarzenegger had in fact refused to attend the funeral.

They helped him gain possession of his mother's land in North Topeka, which he inherited despite his father's attempt to gain control of the land.

A & M Heine, her father's firm, helped finance Napoleon III ’ s war with Prussia.

About the time of his father's death, Cavendish began to work closely with Charles Blagden, an association that helped Blagden enter fully into London ’ s scientific society.

Gavrik helped out with the production on some of his father's films.

In interviews after the book came out, Rice claimed that her own father's death helped to form the model for the relationship between Lestat and Talbot.

He restored his father's officials to their former positions and was surrounded by the Uyghur, Naiman and Central Asian officials, favoring Han Chinese commanders who helped his father's conquest of Northern China.

When he left school in 1895, Hobbs initially worked as an errand boy before his father's connections at the university helped him to get a summer job as a college servant, chiefly assisting the cricket team.

This evidence has helped to strengthen the view of some scholars, such as A. E. Vacalopoulos, who see these references, combined with a reevaluation of Byzantium's classical past, to be the genesis of Greek nationalismWith the loss of Constantinople, this comparison played on the idea of " hellenes surrounded by barbarians ; Choniates equated the Seljuk sultan killed by Theodore I with Xerxes, and patriarch Germanos II recalled the victory of John III Vatazes as another battle of Marathon or Salamis. In much the same way, Theodore II Laskaris compared his father's victories to those of Alexander the Great and proceeded to extol the martial values of contemporary “ Hellenes ”.

Osbourne also helped his mother in managing his father's annual touring festival, Ozzfest, advising her about up-and-coming bands.

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.

Nevertheless Randolph inherited something of his father's literary flair, and carved out a career for himself as a journalist ( helped by the liberal employment of ghost-writers ).

Years later he recalled that his father's reputation " had helped me to be elected, and now I was on my own.

Her best friend is her father's assistant, Mi ( Michael ) Taylor, whose father – as Mrs. Brown's swimming coach – helped her cross the channel.

He portrayed the character Marco, who went to high school with Cregg ( Allison Janney ), and who helped her deal with her father's steady mental decline due to Alzheimer's disease.

Although he and fellow New Hampshire delegate John Langdon, his father's former commanding officer, reached Philadelphia after the proceedings were well under way, they both immediately joined in the debates and helped hammer out the compromises needed to produce a document that might win approval in every state and region.

He began working while young, and had helped part-time in his father's grocery store and delivered newspapers.

But it was only when Golo Mann helped edit his father's diaries in later years that he realised fully how much acceptance he had gained.

After the early death of his father, Ambrose followed his father's career.

Cesare's career was founded upon his father's ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France ( reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d ' Albret, sister of John III of Navarre ), in the course of the Italian Wars.

Following his graduation in 1917, Cukor was expected to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue a career in law.

The son's career began with working in Germany as assistant in his father's business as a dairy salesman.

His son Richard Andree followed in his father's career.

He greatly honored the memory of his father, and throughout his career defended his father's writings against all critics.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

Taking her father's advice from when she began her recording career (" Own your own masters "), she owns or holds an interest in most of her material, including videos.

According to Edmund Gosse, his father's career was destroyed by his " strange act of wilfulness " in publishing Omphalos ; Edmund claimed his father had " closed the doors upon himself forever.

* Military and officer classes as characters reflecting his father's career, such as in G. I.

Casta's modeling career reportedly began when she was discovered by the photographer Frederic Cresseaux, during a family holiday in her father's native Corsica, at age 15.

" The boy would often participate in investigations at great personal risk until eventually finding his own career as a police forensic artist at the service of his father's precinct.

The tale of a young lady who inherits her father's miserliness, it also became the most critically acclaimed book of his career.

By the time he was 21, his father's alcoholism threatened the reputation of the family act, so Keaton and his mother, Myra, left for New York, where Buster Keaton's career swiftly moved from vaudeville to film.

Harvey's father rewards Captain Troop by hiring his son, Dan, to work on his prestigious tea clipper fleet, and is delighted at his son's new maturity and their relationship dramatically improves even as Harvey decides to begin his career with his father's shipping lines.

Carte started his career in his father's music publishing and musical instrument manufacturing business.

He worked part-time in his father's print plant and imagined a possible career as a journalist.

The young adult Boba Fett book series released after Attack of the Clones depicts Fett taking his father's ship and armor to begin his own bounty-hunting career.

With her help, various rare documents regarding the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and her father's career have been gathered, documented and displayed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina as well as on the internet.

In his third year of high school, he borrowed his father's car and ran away to California to visit family friends and begin his music career.

His son, also Pierce Egan ( 1814 – 80 ) and usually referred to as ' the younger ', began his professional career as an illustrator of his father's books and himself wrote around fifty romances.

He had enjoyed a promising career for several years before World War I in the House of Commons, but then he succeeded to his father's peerage as the 2nd Viscount Astor.

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Sara Karloff about her father's career for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.

Around the age of twelve, when his father's career was faltering, he was sent to Normandy to be brought up in the household of William de Tancarville, a great magnate and cousin of young William's mother.