Louis Lichtenfield
Louis Lichtenfield( June 1, 1919 – September 12, 2003) was an American special effects artist, he was nominated for Best Special Effects at the 30th Academy Awards for the film" The Spirit of St. Louis".
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.
He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.
With "The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin.
After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut.
He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy "Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo.
Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's "Double Indemnity" (1944), a film noir.
Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler.
Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story "The Lost Weekend" (1945), about alcoholism.
In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed "Sunset Boulevard", as well as "Stalag 17" in 1953.
From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.
Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) and
"Some Like It Hot" (1959), and satires such as "The Apartment" (1960).
He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar-nominated performances.
Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute (AFI)
Life Achievement Award in 1986.
In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
The Spirit of Christmas 2009
The Spirit of Christmas 2009 is part of the Spirit of Christmas album series.
The Spirit of Christmas 2008
The Spirit of Christmas 2008 is part of the Spirit of Christmas album series.
The Spirit of St. Louis (film)
The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 aviation biography film in CinemaScope and WarnerColor from Warner Bros., directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Leland Hayward, that stars James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh.
The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his historic flight, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
Along with reminiscences of his early days in aviation, the film's storyline largely focuses on Lindbergh's lengthy preparation for and finally his history-making transatlantic flight in the purpose-built "Spirit of St. Louis" high-wing monoplane.
His take off begins at Roosevelt Field and ends 33 hours later on May 21, 1927 when he lands safely at Le Bourget Field in Paris.
The film ends with actual newsreel footage of Lindbergh's ticker tape parade in New York.
Spirit of St. Louis (train)
The Spirit of St. Louis was a named passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors Penn Central and Amtrak between New York and St. Louis, Missouri.
The Pennsylvania introduced the" Spirit of St. Louis" on June 15, 1927, replacing the" New Yorker"( eastbound) and" St. Louisian"( westbound); that September its schedule was 24 hr 50 min each way.
The name honored the airplane" Spirit of St. Louis", flown the month before by Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris.
The" Spirit of St. Louis" remained in service through the inception of Amtrak, by that time extending to Kansas City, Missouri and also having a branch from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., via York, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland.
It finally disappeared from the timetable in July 1971.
It was replaced by the" National Limited" – the name of a longstanding train that had been operated by the Baltimore& Ohio Railroad and had been the principal rival of the" Spirit of St. Louis."
The Spirit of Christmas 2014
The Spirit of Christmas 2014 is part of the Spirit of Christmas album series.
The Spirit of St. Louis (disambiguation)
The Spirit of St. Louis is the aircraft flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first non-stop solo trans- Atlantic flight in 1927.
The Spirit of St. Louis may also refer to:

Question: When did the director of film The Spirit Of St. Louis (Film) die?
Answer: March 27, 2002