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.

Over his long career, Douglas Shearer was nominated for an Academy Award a total of twenty-one times, winning seven times for Sound and Special Effects.

He occupied the curule chair a total of twenty-one times throughout his career, and according to tradition he lived to be one hundred.

Being twenty-one full homilies of his middle and later career for the most part not previously edited, with some shorter pieces, mainly passages added to the second and third Series.

At twenty-one, Hannington decided to pursue a clerical career, and entered university at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, where he again proved to be a desultory student.

At the age of twenty-one, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the Los Angeles Times.

During the twenty-one years of his career in Germany, he campaigned energetically for the emancipation of the Jews from their civil disabilities, especially for the removal of the humiliating and obnoxious oath known as the more judaico.

Overall, in his career and including all his bands and projects ( as principal instrumentalist / creative force or as a member ), Lucassen has released twenty-one studio albums, two live albums, four EPs and seventeen singles.

Johncock competed in twenty-one NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events in his career.

His professional wrestling career spanned twenty-one years.

He was an outstanding right-arm medium-fast bowler for Surrey and England in a first-class playing career that spanned twenty-one years.

At the end of her Dash Series career, she had three wins and twenty-one top-tens.

His arrival – now almost thirty years old and just married – in Bloemfontein in August 1874 was the start of a residency of twenty-one years, as well as the start of a glowing career, to be crowned with his election as State President.

Just a year into her modeling career, Hicks began writing about her life experiences and ideas surrounding her modeling, and by age twenty-one, had completed her first book, Excuse Me, are you a Model?

Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.

During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.

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.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

One might expect that in a poetic career of seventy-odd years, some changes in style and method would have occurred, some development taken place.

Skorich, who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

Kieler eventually rebounded from the shame of the scandal and had her own successful writing career while remaining discontent with sole recognition as " Ibsen's Nora " years afterwards.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

During the early years of his career he produced several drawings and additional contributions for Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly.

He set goalscoring records for both the England team and Manchester United, with both records remaining intact some 35 years after the end of his playing career.

Holly influenced many other singers during and after a career that lasted barely two years.

* In 1990, Haley's eldest son, John W. Haley, along with John von Hoëlle wrote Sound and Glory, a biography focusing mostly on Haley's early life and peak career years.

Pilots serve two to three years, and position assignments are made according to team needs, pilot experience levels, and career considerations for members.

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

Bo Diddley spent many years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 1971 to 1978 while continuing his musical career.

Later in life, Chaplin referred to his Mutual years as " the happiest period of my career.

His political career in the federal cabinet was unique in that he had served four ministerial posts in the years between 1953 and 1969.

Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.

The Indians had a solid offensive season, led by career years from Travis Hafner and Grady Sizemore.

The Cubs retained many players who experienced career years in ' 98, and after a fast start in 1999, they collapsed again ( starting with being swept at the hands of the cross-town White Sox in mid-June ) and finished in the bottom of the division for the next two seasons.

The concert was Montand's first public performance in four years and the film includes film clips from his long career as a singer and actor.