On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plans to make a biographical film on her life.

Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 ).

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, a 1981 biographical film focusing on a young girl's drug addiction in West Berlin, featured Bowie in a cameo appearance as himself at a concert in Germany.

* King David ( film ), 1985 biographical film starring Richard Gere

Fuller was portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker in Tim Burton's 1994 Wood biographical film Ed Wood, a portrayal of which she disapproved due to the image of her smoking in the film.

* Edvard Munch, a 1974 biographical film

In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

A biographical film, Gia, debuted on HBO in 1998.

Hildegard has been portrayed on film by Patricia Routledge in a dramatized BBC biographical documentary called " Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait: Ordo Virtutum.

Hansie is a biographical film released in 2008 about the life of Hansie Cronje that aims to portray him in a positive light and as a victim of circumstance lured by an evil system of illegal gambling and bookmakers from India.

* In 2009, it was reported that Roger Daltrey was developing a biographical film about Moon called See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure, to be released in 2012.

In 1937 a biographical film, Karel Hynek Mácha, was made by Zet Molas ( a pen name of Zdena Smolová ).

Dunst's next film role was the title character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette.

She has expressed interest in playing the role of Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in Michel Gondry's upcoming biographical film about the band.

In 1985, Richardson made her film debut as Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom, in Mike Newell's biographical drama, Dance With a Stranger.

Paganini has been portrayed by a number of actors in film and television productions, including Stewart Granger in the 1946 biographical portrait The Magic Bow, Roxy Roth in A Song to Remember, and Klaus Kinski in Kinski Paganini ( 1989 ).

Helm received many plaudits for his acting debut in Coal Miner's Daughter, a biographical film about Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role opposite Sam Shepard in 1983's The Right Stuff.

In 2005 actor Shane West was cast to play Crash in the Germs biographical film What We Do Is Secret named after a song by the Germs.

* Killer: A Journal of Murder ( novel ), a 1970 biographical novel upon which the 1996 film is based

Pierre Fresnay portrays Vincent de Paul in the 1947 biographical film, Monsieur Vincent.

The Times thought his later non-musical stage work notable, including adaptations of works by Somerset Maugham and Sacha Guitry, and his biographical play The Shelley Story ( 1947 ).

" He also appeared in a short biographical sports documentary Golf Doctor ( 1947 ).

Ovington wrote several books and articles, including a study of black Manhattan, Half a Man ( 1911 ); Status of the Negro in the United States ( 1913 ); Socialism and the Feminist Movement ( 1914 ); an anthology for black children, The Upward Path ( 1919 ); biographical sketches of prominent African Americans, Portraits in Color ( 1927 ); an autobiography, Reminiscences ( 1932 ); and a history of the NAACP, The Walls Came Tumbling Down ( 1947 ).

After The Last Tycoon ( March 14, 1957 ), adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about a film studio head, Frankenheimer followed with Tad Mosel's If You Knew Elizabeth ( April 11, 1957 ) about an ambitious college professor ; another Fitzgerald adaptation, Winter Dreams ( May 23, 1957 ), dramatizing a romantic triangle ; Clash by Night ( June 13, 1957 ), with Kim Stanley in an adaptation of the Clifford Odets play ; and The Fabulous Irishman ( June 27, 1957 ), a biographical drama tracing events in the life of Robert Briscoe.

In notes to accompany his biographical novel A Man of Parts David Lodge describes how Wells came to regret his attitudes to the Jews as he became more aware of the extent of the Nazi atrocities.

Poetic Memoirs is a collection of 128 poems Mulhern describes as " arranged in a biographical sequence ".

It is not a biographical movie, and in the introduction describes itself as " not the story of his life, but a fairytale about this great spinner of fairy tails.

This finding aid contains biographical information about Cole and describes the collection of his papers ( correspondence, journals, notebooks, essays and poetry ) held by the New York State Library.

His book is still the most-cited primary source in biographical accounts of the lives of many artists from his lists, but of most interest to historians is his criticism of their work, especially when he describes the location and owner of the paintings, thus becoming a valuable source for art provenance.

Greg Clingham describes the Lives in these terms: " The topics in criticism covered in the Lives read like a list of most of the important issues in literary history during the years 1600-1781 " along with having " equally important historical, biographical, and philosophical topics.

The Monash biographical dictionary of 20th century Australia describes Lane as " a capable and empathetic interviewer, though often expounding controversial views ".

In his British Film Institute Modern Classics book, Paul Farley describes the inspiration that Terence Davies used for the biographical backbone of the film:

It describes what happened to the people who actually went to the museum on the designated afternoon to see if Soames showed up ; at 2: 10 PM, a person meeting Soames ' description appears, and begins searching through the catalogue and various biographical dictionaries.

A lengthy essay casts light on the historical growth of the relationship between Bahá ' ís and Esperantists, presents biographical sketches of prominent Bahá ' í Esperantists and describes the development of BEL.

Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa is a biographical book by John Heilpern, in which he describes a journey by theatre director Peter Brook and a group of actors, including Helen Mirren, across the Sahara in Northwest Africa.

Later this phase of his life would also inspire him to write his Memórias do Cárcere ( literally " Memories of Prison "), in which he describes the meanders of the then miserable and overcrowded prison of Relação, at the centre of Oporto, intertwined with intimate ramblings of the imagination and biographical fragments.

*" Casey at the Bat " Web site with biographical details on Thayer, Hopper, Mike " King " Kelly and chronology of the poem's publication.

However, as mentioned in the introduction, biographical details such as these should be regarded with scepticism.

His name appears in the Bible only in Habakkuk 1: 1 and 3: 1, with no biographical details provided other than his title " the prophet.

The apocryphal Lives of the Prophets, which may be Jewish or Christian in origin, offers further biographical details about Jonah.

When asked for biographical details, Tiptree / Sheldon was forthcoming in everything but gender.

Other historians maintain that the biographical details, and Egyptian background, attributed to Moses imply the existence of a historical political and religious leader who was involved in the consolidation of the Hebrew tribes in Canaan towards the end of the Bronze Age.

Historical research has not identified any biographical details of a real Nicolas Chauvin, leading to the claim that he may have been a wholly fictional figure.

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

Modern scholars largely reject such efforts to garner biographical details from fictive texts preferring instead to interpret the diverse characters and themes as representing the poet's own contrastive perceptions of contemporary life and thought.

Some cautioned against reading biographical details in his writings.

They contain biographical details: she mentions a sister who died, the visit to Echizen province with her father and that she wrote poetry for Shōshi.

Though rooted in factual biographical details of Gull's life, Moore admitted taking substantial fictional license: for example, the real-life Gull suffered a stroke ; Moore fictionalizes this event as a theophany, with Gull seeing " Jahbulon ", a Freemasonic figure, fundamentally altering Gull's world view and indirectly leading to the murders.

Both types of courses tend to emphasize a balance among the acquisition of musical repertory ( often emphasized through listening examinations ), study and analysis of these works, biographical and cultural details of music and musicians, and writing about music, perhaps through music criticism.

The history of the Karmapa lineage, including biographical details of the historical Karmapas, can be found at the following web sites.

Other invented biographical details include years of college education at a variety of institutions, world travel, an acting tour of the United Kingdom, and success in high school athletics.

At various times in his career, Burr or his managers offered biographical details that appear spurious or unverifiable.

It is impossible to be certain that he adhered to any school, and he is usually more interested in biographical details than in philosophical doctrines.

It is the narrator's quest for biographical details about Hoenikker that provides both the background and the connecting thread between the various subsections of the story.

O ' Brian protected his privacy fiercely and was reluctant to reveal any details about his private life or past, preferring to include no biographical details on his book jackets and supplying only a minimum of personal information when pressed to do so.

Dictionary of N. Bailey ', with an introduction by W. E. A. Axon ( English Dialect Society ), giving biographical and bibliographical details.

The preface to this edition collects all the biographical details and gives full references to manuscripts and editions.

Almost no reliable, biographical details have been recorded.

Traditional accounts of his life, on which we rely for biographical details, were almost entirely deduced from his poetry or were simply fiction, as for example an account by Pausanias of his supposed transformation from a lame, stupid school teacher in Athens to the mastermind of Spartan victories against the Messenians.