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Fran Drescher
Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress, comedian, writer and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series "The Nanny" (1993–99), and for her nasal voice and thick New York accent.
Fran Allison
Frances Helen Allison (November 20, 1907 – June 13, 1989) was an American television and radio comedian, personality and singer. She is best known for her starring role on the weekday NBC-TV puppet show "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," which ran from 1947–57, occasionally returning to the air until the mid-1980s. The trio also hosted "The CBS Children's Film Festival", introducing international children's films, from 1967-77.
Fran Drescher
Drescher made her Broadway debut on February 4, 2014, in the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella". She replaced Harriet Harris as stepmother Madame for a 10-week engagement. She reprised the role during the North American tour's engagement in Los Angeles, lasting from March through April 2015. Drescher's previous stage performances include an off-Broadway production of Nora Ephron's "Love, Loss, and What I Wore", and "Camelot" at the Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic.
Francis Martin Drexel
Francis Martin Drexel (April 7, 1792 – June 5, 1863) was a Philadelphia banker and artist. He was the father of Anthony Joseph Drexel, the founder of Drexel University and the grandfather of Saint Katherine Drexel.
Hans Fischerkoesen
Hans Fischerkoesen, also known as Hans Fischerkösen or Hans Fischer, (18 May 1896 – 23 April 1973) was a German commercial animator. Fischerkoesen is considered an animation pioneer, due to the inventions and innovations he applied to animation technology, especially the use of three-dimensional elements in his animations. Later he becomes Germany’s most influential cartoonist, often nicknamed “Germany’s Walt Disney”. He won both first and second prizes at a Dutch-sponsored international competition in 1937, for advertising films (the runners up included George Pal and Alexander Alexeieff ). By 1956 he had won major prizes at commercial film festivals in Rome, Milan (three times), Venice, Monte Carlo and Cannes. Most notable was the participation in the 1st Berlin International Film Festival, where Fischerkoesen's film "Blick ins Paradies" won the Bronze Medal (Advertising Film) award.Hans Fischer was born on 18 May 1896 in the small town of Bad Kösen, near Naumburg, at the River Saale in the German state of Saxony. Because the name “Fischer” was a very common name in the film industry, he later created the alias of Fischerkoesen, by combining his name – Fischer and his birthplace - Kösen, in order to distinguish himself from others. His father was a middle-class entrepreneur, dealing with building materials. He was a sensitive child, affected by asthma, which determined his parents to spoil both him and his sister Leni, by creating puppet shows and home entertainment, thus they developed a taste for fantasy and spectacle. Confined in bed most of his childhood by this bad case of asthma, he developed a great passion for drawing. Later, in 1916 he and his equally talented sister Leni, attended for three years the Academy of Graphic Arts, in Leipzig. Over the years, Leni was Fischerkoesen’s closest collaborator on many animation film projects.
Fran Drescher
After two years of symptoms and misdiagnoses by eight doctors, Drescher was admitted to Los Angeles's Cedars Sinai Hospital on June 21, 2000, after doctors diagnosed her with uterine cancer. She had to undergo an immediate radical hysterectomy to treat the disease. Drescher was given a clean bill of health and no post-operative treatment was ordered.
Melvin Dresher
Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) (March 13, 1911 – June 4, 1992) was a Polish-born American mathematician, notable for developing, with Merrill Flood, the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma while at RAND in 1950 (Albert W. Tucker gave the game its prison-sentence interpretation, and thus the name by which it is known today).
Frankie Darro
Frankie Darro (born Frank Johnson, Jr.; December 22, 1917 – December 25, 1976) was an American actor and later in his career a stuntman. He began his career as a child actor in silent films, progressed to lead roles and co-starring roles in adventure, western, dramatic, and comedy films, and later became a character actor and voice-over artist. He is perhaps best known for his role as Lampwick, the unlucky boy who turns into a donkey in Walt Disney's second animated feature, "Pinocchio" (1940). In early credits, his last name was spelled Darrow.
Frankie Darro was born on Saturday, December 22, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois, as Frank Johnson, Jr. His parents, Frank Johnson, Sr. and his wife Ada, were known as "The Flying Johnsons", a flying circus act with the Sells Floto Circus; it was a profession that his father attempted to train him in, and he cured Frankie's fear of heights by having him walk on a length of wire, gradually raising the height of it until his son had mastered the trick.
Carl Duering
Gerald Percy Fox (29 May 1923 – 1 September 2018), better known as Carl Duering, was a German-born British actor whose best known role is as Dr. Brodsky in Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange". He died in London in September 2018 at the age of 95.
Living with Fran
Living with Fran is an American sitcom that aired on The WB. It starred Fran Drescher and Ryan McPartlin, and was co-created by Jamie Kennedy. The series debuted on April 8, 2005, and ran two seasons before ending on March 24, 2006.
J'Accuse…!
Alfred Dreyfus was born in 1859 in the city of Mulhouse, which was then located in the province of Alsace in northeast France. Born into a prosperous Jewish family, he left his native town for Paris in 1871 in response to the annexation of the province by Germany following the Franco-Prussian War. In 1894, while an artillery captain for the General Staff of France, Dreyfus was suspected of providing secret military information to the German government.
Fran Drescher
A uterine cancer survivor, Drescher is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist, and is noted for her work as a Public Diplomacy Envoy for Women's Health Issues for the U.S. State Department. Divorced from writer and producer Peter Marc Jacobson, she currently lives in Malibu, California.
The Fran Drescher Show
The Fran Drescher Show (also called The Fran Drescher Tawk Show) is an American talk show hosted by actress Fran Drescher. The series premiered on November 26, 2010, in six cities on Fox owned stations: New York on WNYW, Los Angeles on KTTV, Philadelphia on WTXF, Phoenix on KSAZ, Minneapolis on KMSP and Orlando on WOFL. "The Fran Drescher Show" was given a three-week trial run with the option of being nationally syndicated. In its debut, the program placing a 0.8 rating/2 share in six metered markets. With declining ratings throughout its run, the show did not return.
Frank Nuderscher
Nuderscher was born in St. Louis, the son of a successful building contractor. His father wanted him to join the family business, but Nuderscher always had an interest in art. Legend has it that Nudersher finally convinced his father to support his aspirations when at age 12 he earned two dollars sketching a bas-relief for a stonemason, therefore convincing his father that he could earn a living as an artist.
Michael Drescher
In 2004, Drescher wrote and performed a one-man, autobiographical, spiritual comedy show in Los Angeles entitled “18 Arrests, No Convictions”. The story followed a boy who sees angels and goes on a journey from NBA ball boy who unsuccessfully pursued a diploma at seven colleges, to a powerful businessman who closes multimillion-dollar business deals with Time Warner, Disney, and Microsoft. All proceeds went to the nonprofit, One Tribe. The play is hitting Off-Broadway in 2016. He is currently producing a documentary on the making of “We Are The World,” called “One Night. One Song. One World.” The documentary is co-produced and directed by Chip Duncan.
The Beautician and the Beast
The Beautician and the Beast is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis. It stars Fran Drescher as a New York City beautician who is hired, under the false assumption she is a science teacher, to tutor the four children of a dictator, played by Timothy Dalton, of a fictional Eastern European nation. Ian McNeice, Patrick Malahide, Lisa Jakub, Michael Lerner, Adam LaVorgna, Phyllis Newman, and Heather DeLoach appear in supporting roles. Produced by Drescher's company High School Sweethearts in partnership with Paramount Pictures, "The Beautician and the Beast" is her first starring role in a film, and part of her attempt to transition from television to film.
John Draper
John Thomas Draper (born March 11, 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch or Crunchman (after the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal mascot), is an American computer programmer and former legendary phone phreak. He is a widely-known figure within the computer programming world and the hacker and security community and generally lives a nomadic lifestyle. Following the emergence of the Me Too movement in 2017, allegations against him, some dating back decades, surfaced in public concerning inappropriate sexual behavior.
Francis Mechner
Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1931, Mechner came to the United States in 1944 after having spent three years in France and over two years in Cuba. By age 19 he was an accomplished classical concert pianist, portrait painter, and USCF-rated chess master. In the late 1980s he composed the soundtracks for the original versions of "Karateka" and "Prince of Persia" (video games) both developed by his oldest son Jordan Mechner. Mechner has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies since 1985.
Lilian Drescher
Lilian Drescher Kelaidis (born 23 May 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland.
Fran Drescher
In April 2014, Drescher presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition with Bryan Cranston, Idina Menzel and Denzel Washington, after raising donations at her Broadway show "Cinderella". Drescher became an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church Monastery so that she could legally officiate LGBT wedding ceremonies.
Franz Stigler
Oberleutnant Franz Stigler (21 August 1915 - 22 March 2008) was a German fighter pilot in World War II. He was born August 21, 1915 in Regensburg, Bavaria. His father, also named Franz, was a World War I pilot/observer. Franz started flying in 1927 at the age of 12. In the 1930s he flew for Lufthansa and was an instructor pilot. One of his most famous students was Gerhard Barkhorn. Of Barkhorn's lessons Stigler has said "he could barely fly the plane and I almost failed him".
Franz Drameh
Franz Alhusaine Drameh (born 5 January 1993) is a British actor. His film debut was in Clint Eastwood's fantasy drama, "Hereafter". He also appeared in British film "Attack the Block" and the 2014 blockbuster "Edge of Tomorrow". He appeared in "The Flash", a television series on The CW, and starred in its spinoff, "Legends of Tomorrow," as a main character playing Jefferson Jackson / Firestorm during the first 3 seasons and along with his late partner, Martin Stein (played by Victor Garber), departed the series during the third season.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were iconic dance partners who made motion pictures together from 1933 to 1949. They made a total of 10 films, nine of them with RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, "The Barkleys of Broadway", with M-G-M in 1949, their only color (Technicolor) film. Many years later, they became known by the portmanteau nickname of "Fringer", popularised by Australian entertainer Dave Gorr.
Fran Drescher
In 2008, Drescher announced that she was developing a new sitcom entitled "The New Thirty", also starring Rosie O'Donnell. A series about two old high school friends coping with midlife crises, Drescher described the premature plot of the show as "kind of "Sex and the City" but we ain't getting any! It'll probably be more like "The Odd Couple"." The sitcom failed to materialize however. In 2010, Drescher returned to television with her own daytime talk show, "The Fran Drescher Tawk Show". While the program debuted to strong ratings, it ended its three-week test run to moderate success, resulting in its shelving. The following year, the sitcom "Happily Divorced", created by Drescher and her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, was picked up by TV Land for a ten-episode order. It premiered there June 15, 2011. The show was renewed in July 2011 for a second season of 12 episodes, which aired in spring 2012. On May 1, 2012, TV Land extended the second season and picked up 12 additional episodes, taking the second season total to 24. The back-order of season two debuted later in 2012. "Happily Divorced" was cancelled in August 2013.
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter. He is widely regarded as the most influential dancer in the history of film.
Isabel Drescher
Isabel Drescher (born 9 March 1994) is a German figure skater. She is the 2007–08 German national silver medalist and competed at three World Junior Championships. Her best result was 10th in 2009.
Michael Flessas
Michael C. Flessas (born June 2, 1959 in Miami, Florida), is the birth name of American actor Michael Flessas, who is of Greek ancestry. Flessas' most notable film role was "Angry Man" in the Cannes Film Festival 2000 Palme d'Or winning film "Dancer in the Dark" directed by Danish film director Lars von Trier. Originally, the director himself considered playing the role but, instead, the role was given to Flessas. "Dancer in the Dark" starred Icelandic singer/actress Björk who won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role. French film icon, César Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve, and other noteworthy artists such as Academy Award and Tony Award winner Joel Grey, Peter Stormare, David Morse, and Stellan Skarsgård also performed in the multiple prize winning film. One of Björk's songs for the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
Peter Marc Jacobson
Peter Marc Jacobson (born October 27, 1957) is an American television writer, director and producer, and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the popular sitcom "The Nanny", which he created and wrote with his then wife actress Fran Drescher, who was the star of the series. He was often credited as Peter Marc in his early acting roles.Jacobson and Fran Drescher married in 1978 and moved to Los Angeles to launch their careers. Jacobson and Drescher divorced in 1999, after being separated for a number of years. The couple had no children. He came out as gay to her after their marriage ended. The couple developed the 2011 television series "Happily Divorced" for TV Land based on their lives.
Claude VonStroke
Barclay Macbride Crenshaw (born July 7, 1971), who is known by the stage name Claude VonStroke, is an American house and techno producer based in Los Angeles. He owns Dirtybird Records based in San Francisco. In July 2006 he released his debut album, "Beware of the Bird". He has produced a 'Fabric' mix, which was released in May 2009, and has also appeared on Pete Tong's Essential Mix Radio show. In 2009, he released his second studio album, Bird Brain. In 2016, he was named America's Best DJ in Pioneer DJ and DJ Times’ annual poll. The rankings, which are based upon fan votes, both online and in-person, favored the beloved Dirtybird ringleader over global powerhouses such as Kaskade, The Chainsmokers, and Bassnectar. In 2017, he was nominated at the Electronic Music Awards for both DJ of the Year and Radio Show of the Year for "The Birdhouse".
Frank Perry
Frank Joseph Perry Jr. (August 21, 1930 – August 29, 1995) was an American stage director and filmmaker. The 1962 independent film "David and Lisa" was nominated for two Academy Awards for best director (Frank Perry) and best screenplay (written by his then-wife, Eleanor Perry). The couple would go on to collaborate on five more films including the cult classic "The Swimmer" starring Burt Lancaster, "Diary of a Mad Housewife" starring Carrie Snodgress, and the Emmy Award–nominated "A Christmas Memory", which was based on a short story by Truman Capote and also adapted by his wife Eleanor. Frank Perry went on to form Corsair Pictures, which was privately financed by United Artists Theatres, producing two film flops, "Miss Firecracker" and "A Shock to the System", before folding. His later films include the Razzie Award–nominee Joan Crawford bio drama "Mommie Dearest" and the documentary "On the Bridge", about his battle with prostate cancer. Author Justin Bozung, who has been researching the filmmaker's life since 2013, is currently writing the official biography of Frank Perry titled "Character Is Story: The Life & Films of Frank Perry." The book is due out in 2019.
Anastazy Wilhelm Dreszer
Dreszer was born in Kalisz. After studying at the conservatory in Dresden with Krebs, Döring, and Früh, Dreszer moved to Leipzig then Halle. He taught singing at a school he founded in 1868. He composed two symphonies and various pieces for piano. He died, aged 62, in Halle.
Colin Dredge
Colin Herbert Dredge (born 4 August 1954 in Frome, Somerset) is an English former first-class cricketer for Somerset. He was known as the "Demon of Frome", a nickname coined by journalist, Alan Gibson.
Fran Drescher
During the 1980s, Drescher found moderate success as a character actress with memorable roles in films such as "Gorp" (1980), "The Hollywood Knights" (1980), "Doctor Detroit" (1983), "The Big Picture" (1989), "UHF" (1989), "Cadillac Man" (1990), and memorably in "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984) as publicist Bobbi Flekman. She also made an appearance in a second-season episode of "Who's the Boss?" in 1985 as an interior decorator. She also had an appearance on Night Court as a woman with dissociative identity disorder who flips from a prude to a sexually minded woman and ends up in a hotel with ADA Dan Fielding.
Thomas Drescher
Thomas Drescher (born 24 November 1978 in Bad Nauheim) is a German former footballer who last played for 1. FC Eschborn. He spent two seasons in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Franz Rauscher
Franz Rauscher, born in Vienna, Austria, (30 July 1900 – 11 March 1988) was an Austrian Social Democrat politician.
Nesthäkchen in the Children's Sanitorium
Else Ury (November 1, 1877 in Berlin; January 13, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful "Nesthäkchen" series. The books, the six-part TV series Nesthäkchen (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.
Frank Stanley (cinematographer)
Frank Walter Stanley (May 5, 1922 – December 21, 1999) was an American cinematographer. He is best known for four Clint Eastwood films in a row: "Breezy" (1973), "Magnum Force" (1973), "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974) and "The Eiger Sanction" (1975). During the filming of "The Eiger Sanction", shot in Switzerland, which required a great deal of precarious mountain-climbing cinematography,
Stanley fell during the shoot but survived. He used a wheelchair for some time and was taken out of action. Stanley, who later managed to complete filming after a delay under pressure from an unsympathetic Clint Eastwood, would later blame Eastwood for the accident due to a lack of preparation, describing him both as a director and an actor as "a very impatient man who doesn't really plan his pictures or do any homework. He figures he can go right in and sail through these things". Stanley was never hired by Eastwood or Malpaso Productions again. Bruce Surtees was Eastwood's regular cinematographer before and after this period, on a total of twelve films.
Frank Dickens
Frank William Huline-Dickens (9 December 1931 – 8 July 2016) was a British cartoonist, best known for his strip "Bristow", which ran for 51 years in the "Evening Standard" and was syndicated internationally. According to "Guinness World Records", "Bristow" was the longest running daily cartoon strip by a single author.When looking at the character Bristow itself the series is even one year older than that, as Bristow debuted in Dickens' older series "Oddbod" in "The Sunday Times" in 1960. Due to his popularity he received his own spin-off series soon afterwards. Dickens broke the original record held by Marc Sleen, whose "The Adventures of Nero" was drawn for 45 years without any assistance. However, even Dickens' record has been broken in his turn by Jim Russell, whose series "The Potts" ran for 62 years. Dickens received eight awards for "Strip Cartoonist of the Year" from the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain.
Jack Fritscher
Fritscher was raised in Peoria, Illinois. His father was the child of Socialist Austrian-Catholic immigrant stonemasons (arrived in 1885) and his mother was the grandchild of Irish-Catholic immigrant steelworkers (arrived in 1847). His uncle and namesake was the noted World War II Catholic army chaplain, Father John B. Day. Born during the Great Depression and growing up during World War II in rental housing, Fritscher was part of the gay generation who in their teens, during the 1950s, rebelled against conformity through the birth of pop culture and the Beats. In their twenties, during the 1960s, these gay youth marched for peace and civil rights, and in their thirties, during the 1970s, they worked to secure the cultural and aesthetic foundations of modern gay liberation in its first decade after the Stonewall riots.
Fred Essler
He was born Fritz Essler, on February 13, 1895 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, (now Austria); and, died on, January 17, 1973 (age 77) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Jack Drescher
Jack Drescher (born 1951) is an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for his work on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Constance Drexel
Constance Drexel (ca. November 24, 1884 or ca. November 28, 1894 (possible; disputed) – August 28, 1956), a naturalized United States citizen, and groundbreaking feature writer for U.S. newspapers, was indicted (but not tried or convicted) for treason in World War II for radio broadcasts from Berlin that extolled Nazi virtues.
Fran Drescher
Drescher appeared in "Jack" (1996), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, "The Beautician and the Beast" (1997) (for which she was also executive producer) and "Picking Up the Pieces" (2000) co-starring Woody Allen. She was also the voice of "Pearl" in "Shark Bait" (2006).
Hans-Jürgen Döscher
Hans-Jürgen Döscher (born November 18, 1943 in Eberswalde, Province of Brandenburg) is a German historian. Döscher has written many articles about Nazism and anti-Semitism, mostly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has made nine television documentaries including programs about foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the 1997 series "Hitler's Helpers" on German TV network ZDF.
Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman (né Wachsmann; 24 December 190624 February 1967) was a German and American composer of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His film scores include "Bride of Frankenstein", "Rebecca", "Sunset Boulevard", "A Place in the Sun", "Stalag 17", "Rear Window", "Peyton Place", "The Nun's Story", and "Taras Bulba". He received twelve Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars in consecutive years (for "Sunset Boulevard" and "A Place in the Sun"). He also received a Golden Globe Award for the former film. Bernard Herrmann said that the score for "Taras Bulba" was "the score of a lifetime."
Fritz Ascher
Fritz Ascher (17 October 1893 in Berlin, Germany – 26 March 1970 in Berlin, Germany) was a German artist, whose work is characterized by Expressionist and Symbolist sensitivity. In paintings, works on paper and poetry he explored existential questions and themes of contemporary social and cultural relevance, of spirituality and mythology. Ascher’s expressive strokes and intense colors create emotionally intense and authentic work.
Wolfgang Drechsler
Wolfgang Drechsler (born June 6, 1963 in Marburg, West Germany) is a Public Administration and Management, Innovation Policy and Political Philosophy scholar. He is Professor of Governance, and one of the founders and directors of the Technology Governance program, at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, where between 2010 and 2016 he also served as Vice Dean for International Relations at its Faculty of Social Sciences. Since 2017, he is also affiliated with Harvard University, as a Davis Center Associate and a member of the center’s Advisory Board,
Henrik Drescher
Henrik Drescher (born in 1955) is a Danish artist.
Michael Drescher
Michael Drescher (born July 14, 1954) is a media entrepreneur. In 1981 he co-founded JDTV, a multimedia and production company that built up the world’s largest database of interactive television and movie descriptions in 11 languages with an international distribution. Privately held JDTV was sold to Tribune Media Services in 1999. It was said that through that sale, JDTV would offer competition to TV Guide and added 4 million subscribers. In 1997, he established Drescher Holdings and in 2003, along with DHL, became co-founder, partner and director of global publishing for One World Yellow Pages. In 2010, he co-founded two companies: Okanjo’s SAAS marketplace and ad-tech platforms that transform content into commerce for publishers, and Tuesday (formerly Bodyhum), a product line focusing on women’s breast health. In 2015, TechCrunch described Okanjo’s technology as an alternative to the growing-in-popularity native advertising. That same year, the startup raised $1.7 million in follow-on funding Okanjo’s “Product Match” feature allows any site to add a “buy it now” feature and is often compared to Facebook. The locally-driven site has been praised for its simplicity and transparency. In January 2015, Okanjo raised another $1.7 million in what was speculated to lead to a venture capital round. Drescher serves on the board of directors for Newaukee, Okanjo Partners, Vibrant LLC, MiKE and International Film Finance.
Dwight Frye
Dwight Iliff Frye (born Fry; February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American character actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his portrayals of neurotic, murderous villains in several classic Universal horror films, such as Renfield in "Dracula" (1931) and Fritz in "Frankenstein" (1931).
Constance Drexel
Yet by all accounts, including the one provided by Constance Drexel to the Bureau of Investigation in 1918, she was born in Germany, apparently in the 1880s, many decades after Francis Drexel emigrated from Europe to Philadelphia in 1817. After she began broadcasting from Nazi Germany during wartime, at least one American syndicated columnist speculated that “Drexel” was a pseudonym.
Happily Divorced
"Happily Divorced" is inspired by the real lives of series creators Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson, who had been high school sweethearts and then married in 1978. They divorced in 1999. Jacobson later came out as gay to Drescher and the two remained friends. In 2010 the pair, who had previously created Drescher's earlier series "The Nanny", began developing the series based on their life experiences. Initially Drescher planned only to write and produce "Happily Divorced" but eventually decided to star as well. Set in Los Angeles, Fran's gay ex-husband still lives with her for economic reasons, with "a very traditional family. Everyone's very accepting that he's gay. They're both dating; he's new at it, she's new at it." TV Land gave the green light to a pilot episode in November 2010. The network announced on March 21, 2011, that the series had been picked up with a ten-episode order. The show is shot in front of a live studio audience at CBS Radford in Studio City., which provides "Happily Divorced" the typical style of the 1990s' sitcoms. There are still more parallels to "The Nanny": the opener is an animation, underlaid with specially composed music and also, Drescher refuses a role name and is just called 'Fran'. "The Nanny" regulars, Renée Taylor and Charles Shaughnessy, have made guest appearances; the latter having also co-starred on "Living With Fran". The show premiered on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, in the 10:30 time slot after the television show "Hot in Cleveland".
Frank Croucher
Frank Donald Croucher (July 23, 1914 – May 21, 1980), nicknamed "Dingle", was a Major League Baseball shortstop who played four seasons in Major League Baseball; 3 for the Detroit Tigers (1939–1941) and 1 for the Washington Senators (1942).
The Nanny
In June 2018 Dresher said, "We’re talking about it. Peter and I are talking about it," Drescher told "Entertainment Tonight", referencing her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, who co-created the series with her. "She would’ve maybe gotten involved in more things [that] Fran Drescher is involved with," the actress told "Entertainment Tonight". "All kinds of things from environmental issues, to health, to civil liberties, that’s what I think Fran [Fine] would be doing now — opening her big Queens mouth for the greater good."
John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-American computer programmer, writer, journalist and political commentator. He formerly wrote a column in "National Review" before moving to a staff position at the white supremacist website VDARE, where he continues to work. He has also written for the "New English Review". His columns cover a broad range of political-cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, and race. Derbyshire's 1996 novel, "Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream", was a "New York Times" "Notable Book of the Year". His 2004 non-fiction book, "Prime Obsession", won the Mathematical Association of America's inaugural Euler Book Prize. A political book, "", was released in September 2009. Derbyshire has been described as a figure within the alt-right movement, and also considers himself to be part of it.
Nesthäkchen Flies From the Nest
Else Ury (November 1, 1877 in Berlin; January 13, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful "Nesthäkchen" series. The books, the six-part TV series Nesthäkchen (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.
Francis Dreyfus
Francis Dreyfus (1940 – 24 June 2010) was a French record producer, who focused on jazz and electronic music, publishing Jean-Michel Jarre's first commercially successful work, "Oxygène".
Chester Drescher
Chester Drescher (1981–2000) was a performing dog and Fran Drescher's Pomeranian. He played C.C. Babcock's dog on "The Nanny", who seemed to like nanny Fran Fine better than he did C.C. He was also in the 1990 film "Cadillac Man".
Nancy Drexel
Nancy Drexel (April 6, 1910 – November 19, 1989) was an American film actress of the late silent and early sound era. She was born Dorothy Kitchen and is sometimes credited by this name in films. She appeared in twenty nine films, generally B film westerns.
Hermann Rorschach
Rorschach was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the eldest of three children born to Ulrich and Philippine Rorschach. He had one sister, Anna, and one brother, Paul. He spent his childhood and youth in Schaffhausen, in northern Switzerland. He was known to his school friends as "Klex", or "inkblot" since he enjoyed klecksography making fanciful inkblot "pictures". By the time of Rorschach's youth, consideration of the projective significance of inkblots already had some historical context. For example, in 1857, German doctor Justinus Kerner had published a popular book of poems, each of which was inspired by an accidental inkblot. It has been speculated that the book was known to Rorschach. French psychologist Alfred Binet had also experimented with inkblots as a creativity test.
David Angell
David Lawrence Angell (April 10, 1946September 11, 2001) was an American television producer and screenwriter. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series "Frasier". Angell and his wife Lynn both died heading home from their vacation on Cape Cod aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.
The Beautician and the Beast
Fran Drescher pitched and sold the concept and title for "The Beautician and the Beast". She was an executive producer for the film, which was handled through her company High School Sweethearts. The original title was "The King and Oy", a reference to the musical "The King and I". Joy was Drescher's first starring role in a feature film, though her first movie appearance was in the 1977 drama "Saturday Night Fever". Drescher chose to play a character similar to her earlier roles to encourage audiences to accept her transition to film. She modeled her transition from television to movies on the careers of John Travolta and Michael J. Fox. Director Ken Kwapis explained: "She has had to overcome a lot of skepticism about her voice, her abilities, the specificity of her comedy."
Francis Drake
Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, England. Although his birth date is not formally recorded, it is known that he was born while the Six Articles were in force. His birth date is estimated from contemporary sources such as: "Drake was two and twenty when he obtained the command of the "Judith"" (1566). This would date his birth to 1544. A date of c.1540 is suggested from two portraits: one a miniature painted by Nicholas Hilliard in 1581 when he was allegedly 42, so born circa 1539, while the other, painted in 1594 when he was said to be 53, would give a birth year of around 1541.
Dr. Dre
Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and was previously co-owner of Death Row Records. He has produced albums for and overseen the careers of many rappers, including 2Pac, The D.O.C., Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Xzibit, Knoc-turn'al, 50 Cent, The Game, and Kendrick Lamar. He is credited as a key figure in the crafting and popularization of West Coast G-funk, a rap style characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats. , he is the third richest figure in hip hop, with a net worth of $770 million.
Fran Drescher
Drescher has been the recipient of the John Wayne Institute's Woman of Achievement Award, the Gilda Award, the City of Hope Woman of the Year Award, the Hebrew University Humanitarian Award, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Spirit of Achievement Award. In 2006, she was honored with the City of Hope Spirit of Life Award, which was presented to her by Senator Hillary Clinton. On April 10, 2010, she was guest of honor at the "Dancer against Cancer" charity ball held at the Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria, where she received the first "My Aid Award" for her achievements in support of cancer prevention and rehabilitation.
Don Henderson
Donald Francis Henderson (10 November 1931 – 22 June 1997) was an English actor of stage, television and screen. Henderson was known for playing both "tough guy" roles and authority figures, and is remembered for his portrayal of detective George Bulman between 1976 and 1987 in the popular Granada Television police drama series "The XYY Man", "Strangers", and "Bulman", as priest Frank Kane in BBC drama "The Paradise Club" (1989–90), and as General Tagge in the first "Star Wars" film (1977). This last role also brought him attention from science fiction fans, and he later appeared in cult science fiction television series "Red Dwarf" and "Doctor Who".
Ian Dench
Ian Alec Harvey Dench (born 7 August 1964, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is an English songwriter and musician. Dench was the guitarist and principal songwriter for EMF, who scored a major international hit reaching number 1 in the United States with "Unbelievable" in 1991. It was voted one of BBC Radio 2's 'Greatest Guitar Riffs'.
Fran Landesman
Born Frances Deitsch in New York City in 1927, she had a mother who was a journalist and a father who was a dress manufacturer. Her brother Sam Deitsch founded and operated some neighborhood bars in St. Louis. With his partner Ed Moose, he later founded the Washington Square Bar and Grill in San Francisco.
Fran Drescher
After separating in 1996, Drescher and Jacobson divorced in 1999. They had no children. Drescher stated, "I would have been able to conceive but not hold on." Drescher has worked to support LGBT rights issues after her former husband came out. Drescher has stated that the primary reason for the divorce was her need to change directions in life. Drescher and Jacobson remain friends and business partners. She has stated that "we choose to be in each other's lives in any capacity. Our love is unique, rare, and unconditional; unless he's being annoying."
Jean Auscher
Jean Auscher was a 20th century French artist, caricaturist, and illustrator. He was born in Nancy, France on 18 August 1896 and died c. 1950.
Georges-François Hirsch
Georges-François Hirsch (born 5 October 1944 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris) is a French stage director.
Charles Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy is also well known for his portrayal of Maxwell Sheffield opposite Fran Drescher on CBS' "The Nanny" from 1993 to 1999. He and Drescher resumed acting together in Drescher's next sitcom, "Living with Fran", wherein Shaughnessy appeared fairly frequently as her philandering but needy ex-husband, Ted. "Living with Fran" was cancelled on 17 May 2006, after two seasons.
Nesthäkchen and Her Grandchildren
Else Ury (November 1, 1877 in Berlin; January 13, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful "Nesthäkchen" series. The books, the six-part TV series Nesthäkchen (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.
Franz Dörr
Franz Dörr (10 February 1913 – 13 October 1972) was a German fighter ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. During World War II Franz Dörr was credited with 128 victories in over 437 combat missions. All but six of his victories were claimed over the Eastern Front, including 16 Il-2s.
Nesthäkchen's Teenage Years
Else Ury (November 1, 1877 in Berlin – January 13, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful "Nesthäkchen" series. The books, the six-part TV series "Nesthäkchen" (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.
Fred Wilder
Fred Wilder (born November 14, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, painter, and musician. His early career was devoted to painting, and creating electronic music including soundscape. His filmography as writer director includes the films Scream Karl (2006), and Karl Bites (2006), which feature the robot Fast Karl. Zombees (2008), and Vampire Flesh a Poem (2009), both of which are experimental films driven by poetry. Wilder's films are known for surreal otherworldly and dreamlike images and he often incorporates stop motion animation with live action scenes.
Fran Striker
Francis Hamilton "Fran" Striker (August 19, 1903 – September 4, 1962) was an American writer for radio and comics, best known for creating the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon characters.
Jack Fritscher
Jack Fritscher (born June 20, 1939) is an American author, novelist, magazine journalist, photographer, videographer, university professor, and social activist known internationally for his fiction and non-fiction analyses of popular culture. As a pre-Stonewall activist he was an out and founding member of the American Popular Culture Association. Fritscher was the founding San Francisco editor-in-chief of "Drummer Magazine".
Nesthäkchen's First School Year
Else Ury (November 1, 1877 in Berlin; January 13, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful "Nesthäkchen" series. The books, the six-part TV series Nesthäkchen (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.
Brendan Fletcher
Brendan Fletcher (born December 15, 1981) is a Canadian character actor in film, television and theatre. He is best known for playing troubled, eccentric, or unhinged characters in films such as "Tideland, Freddy vs. Jason," and "Rampage." He has also appeared in television series such as "Smallville," "The Pacific""," "Rogue and Arrow" and has received two Gemini Awards and one Genie Award.
Fran Drescher
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Frank Jenner
Frank Arthur Jenner was born on 2 November 1903 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. His father was a hotel pub owner and former sea captain. Jenner had four brothers. According to his posthumous biographer Raymond Wilson, Jenner was anti-authoritarian as a boy and, at the age of twelve, during World War I, he was sent to work aboard a training ship for misbehaving boys. When he was fourteen, the ship sailed from Southampton to Cape Town, South Africa. On the way, while the ship was docked at a port in West Africa, a tsetse fly bit Jenner and infected him with "Trypanosoma"; he therefore contracted African trypanosomiasis, which is also called "sleeping sickness". He subsequently entered a 15-day coma, but eventually recovered. From this point on, he suffered from excessive daytime sleepiness and was eventually diagnosed with narcolepsy, which prevented him from ever being able to drive a car. When the war ended, he returned to England.
Paul Dresher
Paul Joseph Dresher (born January 8, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an American composer. Dresher received his B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in composition from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, and Bernard Rands.
Janis Hirsch
Janis Hirsch (born c. 1950) is a comedy writer best known for producing and writing for television series, including "Frasier, Will & Grace, My Wife and Kids, Anything But Love", "LA Law", "The Nanny", "Til Death", "Square Pegs", the "National Lampoon" show, "Murphy Brown", and "It's Garry Shandling's Show". She has written books and for several publications including the "New York Times" and "National Lampoon" magazine.
Frank Merrill (actor)
Frank Merrill (born Otto Adolph Poll; March 21, 1893 in Newark, New Jersey – February 12, 1966) was a Southern California and national title-winning gymnast (with over 58 titles to his credit), police officer, stuntman, and actor, most famous for being the fifth actor to portray Tarzan on film.
Frank Tashlin
Francis Fredrick von Taschlein (February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), better known by his stage name Frank Tashlin, was an American animator, cartoonist, comics artist, children's writer, illustrator, screenwriter, and film director. He was also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash.
Dave Jeser
David Mark Douglas "Dave" Jeser (born September 25, 1977) is an American television writer and co-creator with Matt Silverstein of "Drawn Together". He has also written for other television shows including "3rd Rock from the Sun", "The Man Show", "Action", "Greg the Bunny", "Axe Cop", "The Goode Family" and "The Cleveland Show", and also created the MTV animated comedy "DJ & the Fro" in 2009.
Fran Drescher
In 1990, Drescher appeared as Roxanne, in "ALF" the wife of grown up Brian, who had no clue she was the Mob Boss, in the episode "Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades".
Norman Foster (director)
Norman Foster (born Norman Foster Hoeffer, December 13, 1903 – July 7, 1976) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed many Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films as well as projects for Orson Welles and Walt Disney. As an actor he was a leading man in early talkies and also appeared in Welles’ final film "The Other Side of the Wind".
Edward Crankshaw
William Edward Crankshaw was born in the suburban town of Woodford, County of Essex, England on 3 January 1909 to Arthur Edward Crankshaw (1876–1965) and Amy Beatrice Crankshaw (1879–1962). He had one sibling, a younger brother Geoffrey Crankshaw (1912–2009) a noted critic of English music. Edward Crankshaw was educated in the Nonconformist public school Bishop's Stortford College, Hertfordshire, England. He started working as a journalist for a few months at "The Times". In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German. He witnessed Adolf Hitler's Austro-German union in 1938, and predicted the Second World War while living there.
Franz Stahl
Franz Kenneth Stahl (born October 30, 1962) is an American guitarist, best known for being a member of both the Washington, DC hardcore punk band Scream with his brother Peter Stahl, and the alternative rock band Foo Fighters, led by former Scream and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as the Federal Minister of the Interior Germany from 1969 to 1974, and as the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1992 (except for a two-week break in 1982, after the FDP had left the Third Schmidt cabinet), making him the longest-serving occupant of either post and the only person, holding one of these posts under two different Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1991 he was chairman of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Frederic Charles Dreyer
Frederic Dreyer was born on 8 January 1878 in the Irish town of Parsonstown (now Birr) in King's County (now County Offaly), the second son of the Danish-born astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer who was director of the Armagh Observatory. Educated at The Royal School, Armagh, in 1891 Dreyer joined the Royal Navy and entered the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
Carl Fick
Carl Fick (born August 5, 1918, Evanston, Illinois) was the director of several documentaries including the Cannes award-winning "A Day in the Death of Donny B" and the author of two novels, "The Danziger Transcript" and "A Disturbance in Paris." "The Danziger Transcript" was published in hardcover by Putnam in 1971, and in mass market paperback by Dell in 1974. He also co-authored or ghost-wrote "From Mexico with Death" with Jose Luis Guzman, published in 1977 by Zebra. "A Disturbance in Paris" was published by Little, Brown in 1982.
Ian Kershaw
Kershaw was born on 29 April 1943 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, to Joseph Kershaw and Alice Robinson. He was educated at Counthill Grammar School, St Bede's College, Manchester, the University of Liverpool (BA) and Merton College, Oxford (D.Phil). He was originally trained as a medievalist but turned to the study of modern German social history in the 1970s. At first, he was mainly concerned with the economic history of Bolton Abbey. As a lecturer in medieval history at Manchester, Kershaw learned German to study the German peasantry in the Middle Ages. In 1972, he visited Bavaria and was shocked to hear the views of an old man he met in a Munich café who told him: "You English were so foolish. If only you had sided with us. Together we could have defeated Bolshevism and ruled the earth!"—adding in for good measure that "The Jew is a louse!" As a result of this incident, Kershaw became keen to learn how and why ordinary people in Germany could support the Nazi ideology (National Socialism or Nazism).
Frank Dux
Frank William Dux (; born April 6, 1956) is a martial artist, fight choreographer and author. Dux states a ninjutsu expert named Senzo Tanaka trained him as a ninja when he a teenager. He established his own school of ninjutsu called Dux Ryu Ninjutsu, and says he won a secret martial arts tournament called the Kumite in 1975. His alleged victory at the Kumite served as the inspiration for the 1988 film "Bloodsport" starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dux's victory at the Kumite has been disputed, as has the existence of both the Kumite he described and Senzo Tanaka.
Bernd Drechsel
Bernd Drechsel (28 October 1953 – 21 January 2017) was a German wrestler who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt.
Jürgen Fitschen
Jürgen Fitschen (born September 1 1948 in Harsefeld, Germany), sometimes rendered "Juergen Fitschen" in English, is a German banker who served as co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2016. He served alongside Anshu Jain until 2015 and John Cryan from 2015. He was President of the Association of German Banks from 2013 to 2016.
Franz Tscherne
Franz Tscherne (born December 3, 1964 in Graz) is an Austrian actor and film director.
Ramón Flecha
Ramon Flecha was born in 1952. In 1967 he collaborated in the creation of a center of cultural activities in the poorest area of his hometown, Bilbao. From 1969, and until the dawn of democracy in Spain, he was a member of the clandestine movement against Franco’s dictatorship (Giner, 2010). He played a relevant role as a leader of the democratic movement in all the places where he studied, worked or lived, managing to combine this role with his open opposition to those who within these clandestine movements were in favor of other sort of dictatorships and to those who exerted or justified sexual harassment within organizations. As proven by the many and diverse evidence collected by Dr. Giner (2010), he was always consistent in his personal and social life with the ideas bof democracy, equality and freedom which he defended in his work.
Franzobel
Franzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer (Franz) Stefan Griebl. He was born on March 1, 1967 in Vöcklabruck. In 1997 he won the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize and in 1998, the Kassel Literary Prize, amongst numerous other literary awards. In 2017 he won the prestigious Nicolas Born Prize and was long-listed for the German Book Prize for his novel, "Das Floß der Medusa". He now lives in Vienna.