Directors such as Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, and Michael Curtiz brought a dramatically shadowed lighting style and a psychologically expressive approach to visual composition, or mise-en-scène, with them to Hollywood, where they would make some of the most famous of classic noirs.

Perhaps no director better displayed that spirit than the German-born Robert Siodmak, who had already made a score of films before his 1940 arrival in Hollywood.

Justinian was portrayed by Orson Welles in the 1968 German film Kampf um Rom I, directed by Robert Siodmak.

Robert Siodmak was considered an actor's director, discovering Burt Lancaster and skillfully directing actresses such as Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Dorothy McGuire, Yvonne de Carlo, Barbara Stanwyck and Ella Raines.

* Literature on Robert Siodmak

* The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941-1951

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* People on Sunday, Robert Siodmak, 1930

* March 10 – Robert Siodmak, German-American director ( b. 1900 )

Laughton played a henpecked husband who eventually murders his wife in The Suspect ( 1944 ), directed by Robert Siodmak, who would become a good friend.

He worked in Germany with several other beginners ( Billy Wilder and Robert Siodmak also worked with him on the 1929 feature People on Sunday ) before going to America to study film.

Chaney had run-ins with actor Frank Reicher ( whom he nearly strangled on camera in The Mummy's Ghost ) and director Robert Siodmak ( over whose head Chaney broke a vase ).

The Robert Cains brewery in Liverpool brews Cains Double Bock beer at 8 % abv, and the Dark Star Brewery, West Sussex, produce a 5. 6 % abv Maibock.

In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947.

During their marriage they had three children: Mary Louise ( 4 / 21 / 1931 ), William Eugene ( 8 / 9 / 1933 ), Robert Frank ( 5 / 10 / 1935 ).

Robert Anson Heinlein ( ; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988 ) was an American science fiction writer.

Robert Leroy Johnson ( May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938 ) was an American blues singer and musician.

The Wegmans School of Nursing is also named after Robert Wegman, who contributed $ 8 million to the college to create the School of Nursing.

A comprehensive study to date by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle has identified 137 design dimensions grouped into a dozen separate categories, including: ( 1 ) Replication Control, ( 2 ) Replication Information, ( 3 ) Replication Substrate, ( 4 ) Replicator Structure, ( 5 ) Passive Parts, ( 6 ) Active Subunits, ( 7 ) Replicator Energetics, ( 8 ) Replicator Kinematics, ( 9 ) Replication Process, ( 10 ) Replicator Performance, ( 11 ) Product Structure, and ( 12 ) Evolvability.

* John Doggett ( seasons 8 – 9, main ) – is portrayed by Robert Patrick.

* June 8 – Robert Preston, American actor ( The Music Man ) ( d. 1987 )

* May 8 – Robert Johnson, American guitarist and singer ( d. 1938 )

* June 8 – Robert Taylor, American actor ( b. 1911 )

* June 8 – Robert Desnos, French poet and resistance fighter ( b. 1900 )

* January 8 – Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts ( b. 1857 )

* August 8 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( Davis refuses the request upon receipt ).

* May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author ( b. 1907 )

* April 8 – Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1876 )

* September 8 – Robert Taft, U. S. Senator from Ohio ( d. 1953 )

* November 8 – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist ( d. 1957 )

* February 8 – Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish novelist ( b. 1825 )

* June 8 – Robert Ford, assassin of Jesse James ( b. 1862 )

* June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics

* June 8 – Robert Schumann, German composer and pianist ( d. 1856 )