John Ball (novelist)
John Dudley Ball( July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African- American police detective Virgil Tibbs.
Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel" In the Heat of the Night", which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar- winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.
Ball was born in Schenectady, New York, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
He wrote for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the" Brooklyn Eagle".
For a time he worked as a part- time reserve deputy for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, was trained in martial arts, and was a nudist.
In the mid-1980s, he was the book review columnist for" Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine".
Ball lived in Encino, California, and died there in 1988.
He was a member of the exclusive The Baker Street Irregulars, a society of ardent Sherlock Holmes fans.
He was invested in the BSI in 1960 as" The Oxford Flier."
Ball's" Last Plane Out" consists of two stories which share characters and then meld together.
The first involves a group of travelers in a troubled Third World country, waiting for the last plane out, which they hope will carry them to safety.
The second story is shared by an aviation buff who is given his chance to increase his flying skills by the airline that has been built by the pilot of the first story.
He died in 1988 and was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
The Negro (film)
The Negro is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Morin and released in 2002.
An examination of racism, the film centres on a police officer in a small Quebec town who is trying to reconstruct, through the conflicting testimony of witnesses and participants, the events of the night before, when the petty vandalism of a woman's lawn jockey escalated within a few hours to the woman being found dead and the young Black Canadian suspected of committing the vandalism having been viciously beaten in a field.
The film's original title, equivalent in French to" the nigger", was controversial, with a Black youth group in Montreal demanding that the film's title and promotional poster be changed.
Morin, however, defended his choice to use a controversial title, stating that" If it stirs up some controversy, then at least people will be talking about racism."
The film's cast includes Iannicko N' Doua- Légaré, Béatrice Picard, Robin Aubert, Vincent Bilodeau, Sandrine Bisson, René- Daniel Dubois and Dorothée Berryman.
Robert Morin
Robert Morin( born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.
David Nelson (actor)
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John McMahon (Surrey and Somerset cricketer)
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Henry Moore (cricketer)
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Wale Adebanwi
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Last Plane Out
Last Plane Out is a 1983 film, directed by David Nelson, son of Ozzie and Harriet.
It was based on journalist Jack Cox's (who co-produced the film) experience in Nicaragua when it was ruled by Anastasio Somoza Debayle and his battle against insurgents during the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Hartley Lobban
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Question: Which film has the director born first, Last Plane Out or The Negro (Film)?
Answer: Last Plane Out