Who is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", Paul Bogart or Ransom Riggs?
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Paul Bogart Paul Bogart (November 21, 1919 – April 15, 2012) was an American television and film director and producer.
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Ransom Riggs Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children".
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Humphrey Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( ; December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor whose performances in 1940s films noir such as "The Maltese Falcon", "Casablanca", and "The Big Sleep" earned him status as a cultural icon.
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Mal Peet Malcolm Charles Peet (5 October 1947 – 2 March 2015) was an English author and illustrator best known for young adult fiction. He has won several honours including the Brandford Boase, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize, British children's literature awards that recognise "year's best" books. Three of his novels feature football and the fictional South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. "The Murdstone Trilogy" (2014) is his first work aimed at adult readers.
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Thomas P. Cullinan Thomas P. Cullinan (November 4, 1919 – June 11, 1995) was an American novelist and playwright, as well as a writer for television. He is perhaps best known for his 1966 novel "The Beguiled", which was made into two films of the same name, in 1971 and again in 2017.
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Gary Blackwood (author) Gary Blackwood (born October 23, 1945) is an American author known for "The Shakespeare Stealer" trilogy. Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen. In 1998, he published "The Shakespeare Stealer", a historical fiction novel about an orphan, Widge, who is sent to steal "Hamlet" from William Shakespeare and The Lord Chamberlain's Men. After it won the 1999 ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Blackwood published two sequels, "Shakespeare's Scribe" (2000) and "Shakespeare's Spy" (2003). Since then, he has continued writing historical fiction, such as "Around the World in 100 Days" (2010), which the "Smithsonian" named a 2010 Notable Book for Children and "Kirkus Book Reviews" one of 2010's Best Books for Teens.
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The Return of Doctor X The Return of Doctor X (also billed as The Return of Dr. X) is a 1939 American science fiction-horror film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, and Humphrey Bogart as the title character. It was based on the short story "The Doctor's Secret" by William J. Makin. Despite supposedly being a sequel to "Doctor X" (1933), also produced by Warner Bros., the films are unrelated.
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Marguerite Roberts Marguerite Roberts (21 September 1905 – 17 February 1989) was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband John Sanford refused to testify in 1951 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, she was blacklisted for nine years and unable to get work in Hollywood. She was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures.
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Angus Oblong Angus Oblong is the pen name of David Walker (born August 28, 1976), an American writer and illustrator best known as the author of "Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children" (1999) and the 2001 television series it spawned, "The Oblongs". The character Milo—which appeared in his "Creepy Susie" book—was based on a young version of himself; the Milo that appeared on the television show "The Oblongs" was a less exaggerated version of the character from the book.
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Rolf Potts Rolf Potts (born October 13, 1970) is an American travel writer, essayist, and author. He has written two books, "Vagabonding" (Random House, 2003) and "Marco Polo Didn't Go There" (Travelers Tales, 2008), and his travel writing has appeared in "National Geographic Traveler", "Outside", Salon.com, Slate.com, "The Guardian", and "World Hum". His non-travel essays and criticism have appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Believer", the "New York Times Magazine", and the digital versions of "The Nation" and "The Atlantic".
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Stephen Sommers Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director, best known for "The Mummy" (1999) and its sequel, "The Mummy Returns" (2001). He also directed Disney's live action version of "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book" (1994), the action/horror film "Van Helsing" (2004), and "" (2009).
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Lennie Bluett Lennie Bluett (January 21, 1919 – January 1, 2016) was an American film actor, pianist, dancer and singer. His mother was a cook for Humphrey Bogart. At age 16, Bluett started playing the piano at Bogart's parties.
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The Long Haul (novel) The Long Haul (published originally as simply Long Haul) is a 1938 novel by A. I. Bezzerides that depicts the lives of truckers. Its central characters are Nick & Paul Benay, who transport fruit and other perishable goods between Northern and Southern California. It was adapted into the film "They Drive by Night", starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart. The book was also reprinted with the title They Drive by Night, published by Dell (book #416.)
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Paul Robeson Jr. Paul Robeson Jr. (November 2, 1927 – April 26, 2014) was an American author, archivist and historian.
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Richard Christian Matheson Richard Christian Matheson (born October 14, 1953) is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of over 100 critically hailed short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in his landmark short story collections "Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks" #1 bestseller "Dystopia" and "Zoopraxis". He is the author of the critically celebrated suspense novel "Created By" and Hollywood novella "The Ritual of Illusion", and was the editor of the commemorative book "Battleground".
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Sheldon Dick Sheldon Dick (1906–1950) was an American publisher, literary agent, photographer, and filmmaker. He was a member of a wealthy and well-connected industrialist family, and was able to support himself while funding a series of literary and artistic endeavors. He published a book by poet Edgar Lee Masters, and made a documentary about mining that has been of interest to scholars. Dick is best known for the photographs he took on behalf of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, and for the violent circumstances of his death.
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Missee Lee Missee Lee is the tenth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, set in 1930s China. The Swallows and Amazons are on a round-the-world trip with Captain Flint aboard the schooner "Wild Cat". After the "Wild Cat" sinks, they escape in the "Swallow" and "Amazon", but are separated in a storm. Both dinghies eventually end up in the lair of the Three Island pirates, where they are held prisoner by the unusual Missee Lee, the leader of the Three Island pirates.
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Greg Lamberson Gregory Lamberson (born April 19, 1964) is an American filmmaker and author. He is known for writing novels such as "Johnny Gruesome" and the series "The Jake Helman Files", and for directing the 1988 film "Slime City".
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J. A. Baker John Alec Baker was an English author best known for "The Peregrine," which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1967. Robert Macfarlane deemed it to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read." Werner Herzog called it the "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films," and said elsewhere "... it has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad."
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Pixie Davies Pixie Davies is an English child actress who has starred in many notable films and TV series, including "Roald Dahl's Esio Trot", "The Secret of Crickley Hall," "Humans", and "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children".
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Treasure Island (1985 film) Treasure Island (French: L'île au trésor ) is a 1985 adventure film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. France, Great Britain and the United States funded Ruiz’s obscure and complex adaptation of the classic coming-of-age novel "Treasure Island" written by Robert Louis Stevenson. "Treasure Island" stars Melvil Poupaud as Jim Hawkins/Jonathan, a familiar face in Ruiz filmography, along with a few other popular actors like Anna Karina playing his mother.
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Broadway Bound (film) Broadway Bound is a 1992 American made for TV comedy film directed by Paul Bogart, written by Neil Simon, and starring Corey Parker and Jonathan Silverman. Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1986 play "Broadway Bound", the third chapter in what is known as the "Eugene trilogy", the first being "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and the second being "Biloxi Blues".