AWARD IN JOURNALISM; Winner Chosen for the First Seymour Berkson Grant
Date: 25 August 1961
1st S Berkson Foreign Assignment Grant to D H Schoelkopf (Minneapolis Tribune); he gets 6-mo assignment on UPI staff
Jared Harris Aniversari, data de naixement
Jared Francis Harris (born 24 August 1961) is a British actor. The son of actor Richard Harris, he went on to study drama at Duke University and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has received various accolades including a British Academy Television Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Harris started his professional acting career in productions of the works of William Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in London and The Public Theater in New York. He made his film debut in a supporting role in the British comedy The Rachel Papers (1995) before portraying Andy Warhol in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) with supporting roles in Far and Away (1992), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), Dead Man (1995), and Happiness (1998). He took a recurring role as David Robert Jones in the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2012).
He received critical attention for his role as Lane Pryce in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2009–2012), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. During this time he took roles in the films The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Lincoln (2012) and played Anderson Dawes in the Syfy science fiction series The Expanse (2015–2017) and Captain Francis Crozier in the AMC supernatural horror series The Terror (2018).
Harris portrayed King George VI in the Netflix historical drama series The Crown (2016–2017) for which he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. He took a leading role playing Valery Legasov in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. His recent film roles include in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Certain Women (2016), Allied (2016), and A House of Dynamite (2025). Since 2021, he has taken the leading role of Hari Seldon in the Apple TV+ science fiction series Foundation.
llegir més...- Aniversari, data de naixement
- dijous, 24 d’agost de 1961
- Lloc de naixement
- Hammersmith
- Edat
- 64
- Horòscop
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El 24 d’agost de 1961 era un dijous sota el signe estrella de ♍. Era el 235 dia de l'any. El president dels Estats Units era John F. Kennedy.
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24th of August 1961 News
Notícies tal com van aparèixer a la portada del New York Times el 24 d’agost de 1961
RIGHTIST ATTACKS HURT 4 IN FRANCE; Wave of Bombings in Paris Is Worst in Seven Years
Date: 24 August 1961
By W. GRANGER BLAIR Special to The New York Times
W. BLAIR
25 bombs explode, France, hurting 4; 27 bombs explode, Algeria, hurting 4; Right-Wing extremists linked; Paris homes of Min Jeanneney, Amb Boegner, newsman P Brisson and F Sagan attacked
DETROIT FREE PRESS IS CLEARED TO PRINT
Date: 25 August 1961
Fed ct enjoins picketing of Free Press; paper resumes; FMCS sets more talks as Miami Herald
Adaptation of African Folk Art Adorns Facade of Nigerian Bank
Date: 25 August 1961
Concrete sculpture relating ancient African legend, modern version of African folk art form, made by Brit and Nigerian sculptors for Chase Manhattan Bank branch, Lagos, Nigeria; illus
UNESCO Study Finds 70% of World in Dark
Date: 24 August 1961
UNESCO information media survey shows nearly 70% of world has no knowledge of events at home or abroad; urges concerted action by govts and internatl orgns
BONN EXPELS RUSSIAN; Charges Izvestia's Reporter Disparaged Germans
Date: 24 August 1961
Special to The New York Times
Govt ousts Moscow Izvestia newsman for disparaging W Ger pub figures
FOREIGN NEWSMEN TO GET U.S. CENTER; U.S.I.A. to Open Unit Here at 340 East 46th Street
Date: 25 August 1961
Special to The New York Times
Information center, NYC, for foreign newsmen to open; staffed and operated by USIA; planned by USIA, State Dept and White House; to have special 'voice line' from Washington; E G Wiener to head it; P Salinger comments
EPSTEIN'S WORKS GIVEN TO ISRAEL; More Than 200 Sculptures, Nearly His Entire Output, Presented by Widow SLATED FOR JERUSALEM Gift Was First Suggested by Billy Rose for New Museum's Collection
Date: 25 August 1961
By ANTHONY LEWIS Special to The New York Times
Anthony Special
Sir J Epstein widow presents over 200 original plaster models by him; announcement made by B Rose who suggested gift; some works listed; illus
C.B.S. FILLS A GAP IN ITS 'CALENDAR'; Harry Reasoner to Be Host of Morning News Show
Date: 25 August 1961
By VAL ADAMS
Val ADAMS
TRANSPORT NEWS: SITE STUDY ASKED; Planners Urge Full Review of Indiana Port Locations
Date: 25 August 1961
AIA com urges rev of other sites for Indiana deep water port; Burns Ditch site disputed by advocates of proposed Indiana Dunes natl monument