All Entries in the "I" Category
William T. Iversen
Mini Biography: Grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and began making films with the family camcorder at an early age. He realized the gift an untrained eye has in terms of creativity when he attended film school at American University. In the three semesters abroad at FAMU in Prague, he feels he honed his cinematographer’s [...]
Robert Ivers
Date of Birth: 11 December 1934 Birth Name: Robert L. Prestlien Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m) Mini Biography: Robert Ivers attended one of the few high schools (Tucson High 1950-1953) that offered a wide range of theatre classes including Stagecraft, Make-Up, Lighting, History of the Theatre and Acting. After appearing in all the high school [...]
Jon Ivay
Mini Biography: Jon Ivay was born on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.He studied at the Oxford school of drama and the Webber Douglas academy of dramatic art.Formed his own theatrical production company where he produced and directed many national tours of contemporary dramas and comedies, working with some of Britain’s best known theatres. He has [...]
Aleksei Ivashchenko
Date of Birth: 1958 Birth Name: Aleksei Igorevich Ivashchenko Nickname: With Georgi Vasilyev: 1980′s – “Gosha and Lyosha”, 1990′s – “Ivasi”. Mini Biography: Aleksei Ivashchenko and Georgi Vasilyev (b. 1957, a bank director now) are the wittiest and so the youth favourite Russian bards known as “Gosha and Lyosha” in 1980′s and as “Ivasi” in [...]
Ana Ivanovic
Date of Birth: 6 November 1987 Height: 6′ 1¼” (1.86 m) Mini Biography: Ana Ivanovic started to play tennis when she was only 5, after being inspired by Monica Seles (by watching TV), also a Serbian player. It was a hard task for Ana who had to practice in the early morning in 1999 in [...]
Aleksandr Ivanov-Gai
Date of Birth: 1878 Mini Biography: Burdened with Russia’s most common name (Ivanov = Jones), Aleksandr Ivanovich Ivanov-Gai differentiated himself by the hyphenated “Gai.” Thus he should not be confused with another Russian director, Aleksandr Gavrilovich Ivanov [qv] (1898-1984), who was not hyphenated and not related! Ivanov-Gai initially earned his living as an ace newspaper [...]
Vsevolod Ivanov
Date of Birth: 24 February 1895 Birth Name: Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov Mini Biography: Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov was born on February 24, 1895, in a Siberian village of Lebyazhe, Semipalatinsk province, Russian Empire (now Lebyazhe, Kazakhstan). His father was a school teacher. Young Ivanov studied at School of Agriculture in Pavlodar. He dropped out of school [...]
Vladimir Ivanov
Date of Birth: 27 October 1945 Mini Biography: Born in Moscow in 1945, he graduated as a director from a drama department at Moscow’s film school VGIK. From 1971 he worked at a studio that produced popular science films; during this time he directed over 15 productions, largely about the cosmos. From 1977-80 he made [...]