His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

Griffith began his creative career as a playwright but met with little success ; only one of his plays was accepted for a performance.

George Francis Abbott ( June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995 ) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades.

In the 1960s, Losey began working with playwright Harold Pinter, the collaboration beginning what would be a long friendship and a successful career for Pinter as a screenwriter.

Townshend has written several scripts spanning the breadth of his career, including numerous drafts of his elusive Lifehouse project, the last of which, co-written with radio playwright Jeff Young, was published in 1999.

By the late 1740s, she had moved to London, where she embarked on her career as a poet and playwright.

Burgoyne was also an accomplished playwright known for his works such as The Maid of the Oaks and The Heiress, but his plays never reached the fame of his military career.

Accounts of the lavish lifestyle he maintained on the Saratoga campaign, combined with a gentlemanly bearing and his career as a playwright led less-than-friendly contemporaries to caricature him, as historian George Billias writes, " a buffoon in uniform who bungled his assignments badly ".

Mary Jane West ( August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980 ), known as Mae West, was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.

May Robson ( April 19, 1858 – October 20, 1942 ) was an actress and playwright whose career spanned 58 years, starting in 1883 when she was 25 years of age.

After high school, she attended Carleton University in Ottawa ; after graduating, she moved to New Brunswick, where she worked at odd jobs for several years and began a career as a playwright.

When her speaking career waned, Dickinson turned to the theater as both a playwright and actress.

Making his professional West End debut at the Garrick Theatre in 1911, flamboyant playwright, composer and actor Noël Coward had a career spanning over 50 years, in which he wrote many comic plays, and over a dozen musical theatre works.

The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright.

Prior to the start of his career as a playwright, Ford wrote other non-dramatic literary works — the long religious poem Christ's Bloody Sweat ( 1613 ), and two prose essays published as pamphlets, The Golden Mean ( 1613 ) and A Line of Life ( 1620 ).

in 1968, served in the Army during the Vietnam War, and then began his career as a professional actor and playwright with the Harlequin Dinner Theatre of Washington, D. C. and Atlanta.

He became famous playing works of Eugene O ' Neill, an American playwright, and regularly performed in O ' Neill's works throughout his career.

Early in his career, Gillette figured out that it would be in the triple role of playwright, director and actor that he would make the most money.

In his early career Galuppi made a modest success in opera seria, but from the 1740s, together with the playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni, he became famous throughout Europe for his comic operas in the new dramma giocoso style.

He also enjoyed success as an actor early in his career appearing in the screen version of playwright Louis S. Peterson's Take a Giant Step.

She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s.

O ' Donoghue's early career included work as a playwright and stage actor at the University of Rochester where he drifted in and out of school beginning in 1959.

In addition to his career as a playwright, Belich also has a background in the sciences, having studied physics at the University of Minnesota where he earned a PhD under his advisor, Dr. James Kakalios.

He began his dramatic career as a serious playwright, switching to one-man revues at the height of the Apartheid era.

In addition to the various personality traits of Rainey's with which all the roommates took issue, Rainey mocked Zamora's Cuban accent, denigrated his career as an educator, and made aforementioned gay-related jokes that offended Zamora.

Hornblower fears for his career, having offended the daughter of an earl and sister of a marquis.

Throughout his Parliamentary career he was unafraid to speak his mind and often sparked strong criticism from those he criticised or offended.

This incident, in which Seidel's poetry offended readers, was a defining moment in his career, and one that he would repeat in subsequent books by consciously trying to offend -- or at least, to shock -- his readers ( although none of his subsequent books caused anywhere near the same degree of controversy that his first book did ).

Roberts was offended that the catalogue ‘ would lead the uninitiated to suppose that the artists designated as " Other Vorticists " are in some way subservient to Lewis ', and published a series of ' Vortex Pamphlets ' in which he railed against the exhibition, the catalogue, the press coverage and the account of his own career contained in Modern English Painters by the Tate's director, Sir John Rothenstein, which appeared at about the same time.

John soon became offended by his brother, objecting to his attempt to use family connections to advance his career.

Wang Jin had offended Grand Marshal Gao Qiu and was forced to abandon his career and flee.

Thus, many a creativity-oriented aspirant for a career in architecture, drama, or journalism, resigns himself to a real estate business ; ;

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.

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.

1875 Canadian Illustrated News cartoon shows Mackenzie the Mason and Governor General Lord Dufferin the Overseer In Canada, Mackenzie continued his career as a stonemason, building many structures that still stand today.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

The records of many who worked with Johnson throughout his career corroborate that this was an isolated incident.

Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists ; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family.

He also instructed many prominent singers throughout his long career.

Cuyp signed many of his works but rarely dated them, so that a chronology of his career has not been satisfactorily reassembled.

Throughout most of his career, Athanasius had many detractors.

" Cobb was a mean-spirited man, fiercely competitive and loathed by many of his fellow professionals, but his career batting average of. 366 has yet to be bested.

De Palma has collaborated with many of the same actors and crew members throughout his career.

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

The report names many current and former players who allegedly used performance-enhancing drugs during their career, including Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Miguel Tejada, Eric Gagné, and Paul Lo Duca.

Throughout his career, he went on to write many other songs primarily for children to achieve an iconic acceptance among Turkish children of 1980s and 1990s.

Matthews, who was voted " Player of the Century " in 2000, played his entire career with Hawthorn and brought many of the Hawthorn disciplines to the Lions.

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

Having a successful career such as being a professional athlete or an entertainment industry based professionals are careers that many average people can identify with but can only dream about pursuing.

For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

In 1839 she took up the first of many positions as governess to families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841.

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.

This period of his career marked the first of his many collaborations with writer Jack Rosenthal.

Patron Lemoine Pierce said of Alston's work: " Never thought of as an innovative artist, Alston generally ignored popular art trends and violated many mainstream art conventions ; he produced abstract and figurative paintings often simultaneously, refusing to be stylistically consistent, and during his 40-year career he worked prolifically and unapologetically in both commercial and fine art.