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Griffith, William
Griffith, William[1876-1936](2)Born Memphis, Mo., Feb. 15, 1876. Educated in public schools. Married Florence Vernon, of Brooklyn, in 1909. Mr. Griffith has had an active career in the…William Goldman
William Goldman was the prolific author and screenwriter whose most famous work may now be the 1987 movie The Princess Bride, based on his 1973 novel of the same name. William Goldman burst onto the…King William I
William I, known as William the Conqueror, was the first Norman king of England, having wrested the throne away from Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. William was the illegitimate son of the…William Hurt
A cerebral leading man and offbeat character actor, William Hurt was one of the more distinctive Hollywood stars of the 1980s. Hurt won an Oscar for his leading role as a story-spinning prisoner in…William Holden
Name at birth: William Franklin Beedle, Jr.William Holden was a major leading man of the 1950s, when he played heroic cynics in the war movies Stalag 17 (1953) and Bridge On the River Kwai (1957),…William Safire
Name at birth: William Safir Conservative figurehead William Safire was an author and speechwriter for Richard Nixon before winning a Pulitzer Prize during his 30-year run as a columnist for The New…William of Ockham
William of Ockham (also spelled Occam) was a 14th century English philosopher who was also a Franciscan friar. Resistant to the popular wave of Scholasticism, a philosophical position that tried to…William McKinley
A Republican congressman from Ohio, William McKinley beat out William Jennings Bryan in 1896 to become the 25th president of the United States. McKinley called for war against Spain in 1898, partly…Dar Williams
The Green WorldRazor & Tie Say this much about Dar Williams. She is taking the road less traveled. After all, who else is writing songs based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's book Satan in…Esther Williams
Esther Williams was a swimming champ who became a movie star in the 1940s, known especially for her "aqua musicals," a string of box office hits that featured her (and her bathing suit) in elaborate…Trending
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