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.

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.

Looking back from the spring of 1629 over the four years of Milton's undergraduate days, certain phases of his college career stand out as of permanent consequence to him and hence to us.

These expenditures are estimated to be $12.1 billion, an increase of $187 million over 1960, reflecting additional longevity pay of career personnel, more dependents, an increased number of men drawing proficiency pay, and social security tax increases ( effective for the full year in 1961 compared with only 6 months in 1960 ).

It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.

The modest success of this opera would launch Salieri's 34 year operatic career as a composer of over 35 original dramas.

The record for the highest career OBP by a hitter, based on over 3000 plate appearances, is. 482 by Ted Williams.

Carlos Beltrán, with 286 steals, has the highest career success rate of all players with over 300 stolen base attempts, at 88. 3 %.

The paparazzi preyed upon her marriage, while she and her husband clashed over the direction of her 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.

He is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career.

* Call of Samuel or Youth of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1-7 ): From Samuel's birth his career as Judge and prophet over Israel.

The Grateful Dead performed " Not Fade Away " 530 times over the course of their career, making it their seventh most-performed song.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

His career spanned over three decades ; he appeared on stage, in motion pictures and TV series.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

Young was traded back to Cleveland, the place where he played over half his career, before the 1909 season, to the Cleveland Naps of the American League.

Rosenthal, noted for such television plays as Bar Mitzvah Boy, began his career on the show, writing over 150 episodes between 1961 and 1969.

Giovanni was assassinated in 1497 in mysterious circumstances: with several contemporaries suggesting that Cesare might have been his killer, as Giovanni's disappearance could finally open him a long-awaited military career ; as well as jealousy over Sancha of Aragon, wife of Cesare's younger brother Gioffre, and mistress of both Cesare and Giovanni.

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

Considered one of the best NASCAR drivers of all time, Earnhardt won a total of 76 races over the course of his career, including one Daytona 500 victory in 1998.

At first he considered a career in law, but came to have, in his words, " an insurmountable aversion to everything but the pursuits of Philosophy and general Learning ; and while family fanceyed I was poring over Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the Authors which I was secretly devouring.

Over his career he mapped over 3. 9 million square kilometers of North America and for this has been described as the " greatest land geographer who ever lived.