Over his long and successful career spanning over 50 years, he directed over 400 motion pictures, many of them highly acclaimed, such as the 1949 box office smash, Sands of Iwo Jima.

Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

The trio was written late in the " middle period " ( spanning roughly 1803 to 1814 ) of Beethoven's compositional career.

In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.

Earnhardt drove the No. 3 car for most of his career, spanning the early 1980s until his death in 2001.

Throughout the 1980s and ' 90s, Young promised fans a follow-up to the original Decade collection, provisionally titled Decade II ; eventually, this idea was scrapped in favor of a much more comprehensive anthology to be titled Archives, spanning his entire career and ranging in size from a box set to an entire series of audio and / or video releases.

In an NHL career spanning 10 seasons and 568 games, Bailey scored 107 goals and 171 assists with 633 penalty minutes.

He went on to enjoy a Test career spanning 15 years, in which he played in 102 matches.

In a career spanning 22 years, he played for Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both.

Frank Kelly Freas ( 27 August 1922 – 2 January 2005 ), called the " Dean of Science Fiction Artists ", was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years.

First was Mothership, a 24-track best-of spanning the band's career, followed by a reissue of the soundtrack to The Song Remains the Same, which included previously unreleased material, and a new DVD.

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Peggy Lee ( May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002 ) was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades.

Systemic functional grammar ( SFG ), a component of systemic functional linguistics ( SFL ), is a form of grammatical description originally developed by Michael Halliday in a career spanning more than 50 years.

Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most " continuously successful " band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s.

Ced Gee and Moe Love both provided demos and unreleased songs spanning the group's entire career to Tuff City for a series of four albums which were released without Kool Keith's consent.

In a career spanning over 50 years, writing and composing more than 52 albums, Vangelis is regarded as one of the greatest composers of electronic music of all time.

Mid-2004 saw the release of Christine's new solo album, In the Meantime, her third in a career spanning five decades.

The album contains 20 of Queen's biggest hits spanning their entire career and was released in four different formats: single disc, double disc ( with commentary ), double disc with feature book, and a vinyl record.

While she is best known for an ongoing acting career spanning more than two decades, she has increasingly become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism.

In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors.

She starred on the big screen one final time, playing Dr. Brockton in Herman Cohen's science fiction horror film Trog ( 1970 ), rounding out a career spanning 45 years and over 80 motion pictures.

Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years.

The band has enjoyed commercial success with 23 UK Top 40 hits spanning their career and 14 million albums sold by 2000.

In addition to featuring the majority of Prince's hit singles ( with the exception of " Batdance " and other songs that appeared on the Batman soundtrack ), The Hits includes an array of previously hard-to-find recordings, notably B-sides spanning the majority of Prince's career, as well as a handful of previously unreleased tracks such as the Revolution-recorded " Power Fantastic " and a live recording of " Nothing Compares 2 U " with Rosie Gaines.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

Poirot is extremely punctual and carries a turnip pocket watch almost to the end of his career.

The split in the Tory / Conservative party over the repeal of the Corn Laws had profound implications for Disraeli's political career: almost every Conservative politician with official experience followed Peel, leaving the rump bereft of leadership.

Compiled by Young himself, with his hand-written notes about each track, Decade represents almost every album from his career and various affiliations through 1977 with the exception of Four Way Street and Time Fades Away.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Edgar G. Ulmer spent almost his entire Hollywood career working at B studios — once in a while on projects that achieved intermediate status ; for the most part, on unmistakable Bs.

During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films.

The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century.

He eventually parlayed his job as a bouncer into a career as a bodyguard that lasted almost ten years.

She received almost no encouragement from her family or " society " to pursue a career in journalism, and had no prior newspaper experience.

At the same time, Søren also almost faced impeachment after insulting Carsten Anker, the host of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly ; and in September 1818 he returned to Gjerstad with his political career in ruins.

While these absences in the Marine Corps, which took almost five years out of the heart of a great baseball career, significantly limited his career totals, he never publicly complained about the time devoted to service in the Marine Corps.

He retained many other records for almost a half century or more, including most career hits until 1985 ( 4, 189 or 4, 191, depending on source ), most career runs ( 2, 245 or 2, 246 depending on source ) until 2001, most career games played ( 3, 035 ) and at bats ( 11, 429 or 11, 434 depending on source ) until 1974, and the modern record for most career stolen bases ( 892 ) until 1977.

He was unusual in persisting with his roundarm action throughout his career, when almost all other bowlers adopted the new overarm style.

** Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years.

And that, " One feature of the band's career had been their ability to stay on the news pages of the rock press almost permanently for years on end, including the years when they did fuck all.

He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career ( 1946 – 1965 ) for the New York Yankees.

Gran Torino grossed almost $ 30 million ( US $ in dollars ) during its opening weekend release in January 2009, the highest of his career as an actor or director.

Nearly all his life and career was spent in Germany, writing in German and living in Berlin from the age of almost 17.

Numan re-evaluated his career and went in a harsher, more industrial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice — for the first time he played almost all the instruments himself.