David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

Vertov's brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, Elizaveta Svilova.

Vertov was born David Abelevich Kaufman () into a family of Jewish lineage in Białystok, Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire.

Most of Vertov's early work was unpublished, and few manuscripts remain after the Second World War, though some material survived in later films and documentaries created by Vertov and his brothers, Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman.

The so-called " Council of Three ," a group issuing manifestoes in LEF, a radical Russian newsmagazine, was established in 1922 ; the group's " three " were Vertov, his ( future ) wife and editor Elizaveta Svilova, and his brother and cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman.

Vertov's brother Boris Kaufman was a noted cinematographer who worked much later for directors such as Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet in America.

Coordinating the spectacle as road manager was Phil Kaufman, who had served time with Charles Manson on Terminal Island in the mid-sixties and first met Parsons while working for the Stones in 1968.

Gershwin, along with George S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, was a recipient of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Of Thee I Sing.

Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.

A working ion thruster was built by Harold R. Kaufman in 1959 at the NASA Glenn Research Center facilities.

Filming was done at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens ; it was the last film the brothers would make in New York.

It was directed by Victor Heerman and adapted from a successful 1928 Broadway musical of the same title by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, also starring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont.

Universal scrambled to appear responsive: a spokesman told a UCLA Daily Bruin reporter that the studio was " delighted " by the interest, and that " we have negotiated with the heirs of the writers ( Morrie Ryskind and George S. Kaufman ), but they were asking much more than we wanted to spend.

An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution was overlooked by the committee.

" NARTH was founded in 1992 by Joseph Nicolosi, Benjamin Kaufman, and Charles Socarides.

The peak was discovered in 1871 and originally named Mount Kaufmann after Konstantin Kaufman, the first Governor-General of Turkestan.

Andrew Kaufman praised it, saying that it was Heinlein's crowning achievement.

The play was written in collaboration with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman, who regularly wrote with others, notably Marc Connelly and Edna Ferber.

The character was based on Kaufman and Hart's friend, critic Alexander Woollcott.

The same year, a building at the old Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York, where she had made ten films in early career, was renamed in her honor.

On October 24, 1975, Kaufman was fired at Eastwood's command by producer Bob Daley.

Kaufman had commenced directing The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ) but was notoriously fired under Clint Eastwood's command by producer Bob Daley due to strong disagreements between the two.

His onstage persona, that of an egotistical, narcissistic, nervous comic, an ironic showbiz insider who punctured himself before an audience by disassembling his mastery of comedic stagecraft, influenced other ' 70s post-modern comedians, including Steve Martin, Martin Mull and Andy Kaufman.

Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

Edited by John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman.

While not recording, he frequently hung out and jammed with members of New Jersey – based country rockers Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends ( whose members included Tony Bennett's sons, Danny and Dae Bennett as well as future Dylan sideman and member of the Alpha Band, multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield ) and the proto-punk Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, who were being managed by Kaufman.

Fisher and McElroy were returned to Los Angeles by Kaufman, who dispersed the remnants of Parsons ' stash in the desert.

* Jewish introductions to classical theism, limited theism and process theology can be found in A Question of Faith: An Atheist and a Rabbi Debate the Existence of God ( Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1994, ISBN 1-56821-089-2 ) and The Case for God ( St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8272-0458-2 ), both written by Rabbi William E. Kaufman.

* 1981: Mouse embryonic stem cells are derived from the inner cell mass by scientists Martin Evans, Matthew Kaufman, and Gail R. Martin.

* Sondheim appears in the 1974 PBS television version of the play June Moon by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.

* The Land of Promise ( 1917 ) directed by Joseph Kaufman and starring Thomas Meighan.

* Pacini Operas with original casts, by Thomas G. Kaufman

The film is directed by Herbert Vesely and stars Mathieu Carriere as Schiele, Jane Birkin as his early artistic muse, Christine Kaufman as his wife and Kristina Van Eyck as her sister.

The city came under Russian rule after the citadel had been taken by a force under Colonel Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman in 1868.

( Kaufman also performed in the play's original Broadway cast in the role of a frustrated playwright hired by Hollywood.

After George Washington Slept Here ( 1940 ), Kaufman and Hart called it quits, although throughout the 1930s, Hart worked both with and without Kaufman on several musicals and revues, including: Face the Music ( 1932 ); As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ), with songs by Irving Berlin ; Jubilee ( musical ) ( 1935 ), with songs by Cole Porter ; and I'd Rather Be Right ( 1937 ), with songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

* 1945 – Lloyd Kaufman, American film director and producer

Bob Zmuda ( born December 12, 1949 ) is an American writer, comedian, producer and director best known as the sidekick, co-writer and friend of cult personality Andy Kaufman.

Also Lorne Michaels asking the home viewing audience to vote Kaufman off the show, which happened in 1982, two years after Michaels left the show as executive producer and Dick Ebersol took over.

James Gandolfini was executive producer of the film, which was directed by Philip Kaufman.

Charles Stuart " Charlie " Kaufman ( born November 19, 1958 ) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director.

Lloyd Kaufman ( born December 30, 1945 ) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor.

Eastwood's sacking of Kaufman resulted in Eastwood being fined ( reported to be around $ 60, 000 ) from the Directors Guild of America, who subsequently passed new legislation reserving the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging a director and replacing him with himself.

Their son, Peter Kaufman, was the producer of Henry and June, Rising Sun and Quills, Twisted and Hemingway & Gellhorn.

The producer Cy Feuer took over the direction from Kaufman.

Rising Sun is a 1993 film directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery ( who was also an executive producer ), Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

Paul " Lucky " Goldberg, director, producer and cinematographer for ThunderVision Media Ltd and president of Hollywood New York International since 1993, worked with producer and partner Paul Allen of ThunderVision Media Ltd, based in New York at Kaufman Astoria Studios to capture the action.

* Charlie Kaufman ( born 1958 ), American screenwriter, producer, and director

Leonard B. Kaufman, the producer, wrote in liner notes for Shelly Manne's Daktari, that he shot the series on location in Mozambique.

* Lloyd Kaufman ( 1964 ), independent filmmaker and producer.