Hiroshi Hara graduated from the University of Tokyo with a BA in 1959, and subsequently earned an MA in 1961 and a PhD in 1964, also from the University of Tokyo.

* 1959 Aru kengo no shogai ( Life of an Expert Swordsman ) is a samurai film by Hiroshi Inagaki, adapted from Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, and starring Toshiro Mifune in the Cyrano role.

Boris Pasternak wrote his last complete book, When the Weather Clears, in 1959.

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

Bertrand Russell ( 1959 ) wrote, " Beyond doubt [...] he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century, and certainly the greatest American thinker ever.

Despite his lack of formal education, he wrote many books, including his autobiography, Groucho and Me ( 1959 ) and Memoirs of a Mangy Lover ( 1963 ).

He wrote his last novel, The Vision of Gombold Proval ( posthumously published as Head to Toe ), in 1959, and had his writing accepted soon afterward.

He wrote the book The World as Non-Objectivity, which was published in Munich in 1926 and translated into English in 1959.

In 1959 Thomas Gold proposed the name " magnetosphere " when he wrote:

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

Peckinpah wrote and directed a pilot called Trouble at Tres Cruzes, which was aired in March 1959 before the actual series was made in 1960.

In 1959, he wrote the lyrics for the musical Gypsy.

Edwards also created, wrote and directed the 1959 TV series Peter Gunn, with music by Henry Mancini.

He received the news of the death of his father in October 1959 whilst performing with Juan Carlos Copes and María Nieves in Puerto Rico and on his return to New York City a few days later, he asked to be left alone in his apartment and in less than an hour wrote his famous tango, Adiós Nonino, in homage to his father.

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

Rodgers wrote the music for musicals and revues including Once Upon a Mattress ( 1959 ), From A to Z ( 1960 ), Hot Spot ( 1963 ), The Mad Show ( 1966 ), Working ( 1978 ), and Phyllis Newman's one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West ( 1979 ).

He wrote a memoir, Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart, which was released in 1959.

Sinclair wrote a book for Bernard's Publishing, Practical transistor receivers Book 1, which appeared in January 1959.

As Albert Guttenberg ( 1959 ) wrote many years ago, "' Land use ' is a key term in the language of city planning.

In 1959 Sykes wrote and directed the one-off BBC special Gala Opening, with a cast that included ' Professor ' Stanley Unwin and Hattie Jacques, and played a small supporting role in the Tommy Steele film Tommy the Toreador.

He wrote for Felix, Imperial's student newspaper, and in 1959 served as editor of the University of London Carnival Committee's journal, Carnival Times.

In 1959, he wrote the country and western song " The Ballad of Boot Hill " for Johnny Cash who released the song as part of an EP on Columbia Records.

Hua participated in the 1959 Lushan Conference ( an enlarged plenary session of the CPC Central Committee ) as a member of the Hunan Provincial Party delegation, and wrote two investigative reports defending communes and the Great Leap Forward.

Anka also wrote " It Doesn't Matter Anymore " a song written for Buddy Holly which Holly recorded just before he died in 1959.

His talent went beyond the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( reworked in 1962 from a song Anka wrote earlier called " Toot Sweet " which had been rewritten with lyrics and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959 as " It's Really Love ") since Anka composed Tom Jones ' biggest hit record " She's a Lady " and wrote the English lyrics to " My Way ", Frank Sinatra's signature song sung by many well known artists.

A ' live ' version for American TV was transmitted in 1959 which was directed by George Schaefer.

For certain periods between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lamas sometimes directed the Tibetan government, which administered portions of Tibet from Lhasa.

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

Yasujirō Ozu directed Good Morning ( 1959 ) and Floating Weeds ( 1958 ), which was adapted from his earlier silent A Story of Floating Weeds ( 1934 ), and was shot by Rashomon / Sansho the Bailiff cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

It was eight years before he directed another theatrical film, A Hole in the Head ( 1959 ) with Frank Sinatra, which was his first feature film in color.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

In 1959, he directed a live action feature film, Ugler i Mosen, which also contained stop motion sequences.

* 1959: Mon pote le gitan, directed by François Gir

* 1959: Messieurs les ronds de cuir, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger

* 1959: Vous n ' avez rien à déclarer ?, directed by Clément Duhour

* 1959: Arrêtez le massacre, directed by André Hunebelle

* 1959: Certains l ' aiment froide, directed by Jean Bastia and Guy Lionel

* 1959: Le Gendarme de Champignol, directed by Jean Bastia

* Solomon and Sheba ( 1959 )-Epic film directed by King Vidor, starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida

* Gypsy ( 1959 ) ( music by Jule Styne ; book by Arthur Laurents ; directed by Jerome Robbins )

Russian fantasy director Aleksandr Ptushko's mythological epics Sadko, Ilya Muromets, and Sampo were internationally acclaimed as was Ballad of a Soldier, a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigori Chukhrai

Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Billy Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder, the trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger in 1959, is " indispensable,.

In 1959, Richardson co-founded Woodfall Film Productions with John Osborne and producer Harry Saltzman, and, as Woodfall's debut, directed the film version of Look Back in Anger, his first feature film.

The Big Fisherman is a 1959 American film directed by Frank Borzage about the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.

Her last films made abroad were Beyond All Limits ( Mexican-American production, 1957 ) with Jack Palance, Faustina ( Spain, 1957 ), Sonatas ( Spain, 1957 ) directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and La Fievre Monte a El Pao ( French-Mexican production, 1959 ) directed by Luis Buñuel.

In 1959, Wyler directed Ben-Hur, which won 11 Oscars ( a feat equalled only by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003 ).