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After the title loss, he attacked The Miz with a knockout punch and hugged Theodore Long, turning face in the process. Later on in the night as part of the 2010 WWE draft, <mask> was drafted back to the SmackDown brand. He returned to the brand on the April 30 episode of SmackDown and was subsequently named the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, later on in the night, he interrupted World Heavyweight Champion Jack Swagger as he was giving his "State of Championship Address" and knocked him out with a WMD.On the May 7 episode of SmackDown, <mask> sat ringside during the Swagger/Kane main event. After Swagger was disqualified, <mask> chokeslammed him through the announce table. He also crashed Swagger's achievement celebration and cost him his match with Kofi Kingston in the next week. <mask> defeated Swagger via disqualification at Over the Limit, but did not win the title. On the May 28 episode of SmackDown, General Manager Theodore Long scheduled qualifying matches for the World Heavyweight Championship match at Fatal 4-Way and that <mask> had already qualified by defeating Jack Swagger via disqualification at Over the Limit. At Fatal 4-Way, <mask> faced Rey Mysterio, CM Punk and Swagger for the World Heavyweight Championship, but Mysterio won the title. On the following episode of SmackDown, Swagger debuted his new finishing move, The Ankle Lock, and applied it on <mask>, thus injuring his ankle and continuing their feud.Two weeks later on SmackDown, <mask> saved Rey Mysterio, whose ankle was injured by the same move, from Swagger. Later that night, <mask> fought Swagger to a double count-out. Soon he began a feud with CM Punk and his Straight Edge Society, confronting him the Friday night before the Money in the Bank event, and unmasking him to reveal his bald head. After failing to win the SmackDown Money in the Bank ladder match at Money in the Bank, he fought the mysterious masked member of the SES, also unmasking him as Joey Mercury. <mask>'s feud with the Straight Edge Society continued after he defeated them in a 3 on 1 Handicap match at SummerSlam and CM Punk at Night of Champions. <mask> was made Team SmackDown's captain for Bragging Rights on the October 8 episode of SmackDown. At Bragging Rights, <mask> was counted out with Sheamus during the match but his team ultimately won with Edge and Rey Mysterio left on the team.He was on Rey Mysterio's team for Survivor Series where he was a survivor along with Mysterio. The following episode of SmackDown, he was unsuccessful in qualifying for the King of the Ring tournament as he was defeated by Alberto Del Rio by count-out thanks to interference by his personal ring announcer, Ricardo Rodriguez. On the January 7, 2011 episode of SmackDown, <mask> participated in a Fatal 4-Way match to determine the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, losing due to interference by former Nexus leader Wade Barrett. The next week, <mask> faced Barrett and won via disqualification when former Nexus members Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel attacked him. Moments later Ezekiel Jackson appeared to help him, but instead attacked <mask>. The next week, Barrett, Slater, Gabriel and Jackson informed that they had formed the Corre. In the following weeks, the Corre continued to assault <mask>, due to the size and power of Ezekiel Jackson.At Elimination Chamber, <mask> participated in the Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight Championship, eliminating Wade Barrett before being eliminated by Kane. <mask> feuded with The Corre in the following weeks. On the March 4 episode of SmackDown, <mask> faced Kane in a confrontation until the Corre interfered on Kane's behalf. However, a miscommunication led to Kane turning on the Corre. <mask> and Kane thus reunited to take on the Corre. At WrestleMania XXVII, <mask> and Kane teamed with Santino Marella and Kofi Kingston to beat The Corre. On the April 22 episode of SmackDown, the duo defeated Corre members Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater to win the WWE Tag Team Championship, their second championship win as a team.<mask> was drafted back to the Raw brand as a part of the 2011 WWE draft. He and Kane then started feuding with the New Nexus. After defending the titles against Wade Barrett and Ezekiel Jackson at Extreme Rules and CM Punk and Mason Ryan at Over the Limit, Kane and <mask> lost their titles to Michael McGilligutty and David Otunga on the following night on Raw. After losing the titles, <mask> was run over by Alberto Del Rio's car, driven by his ring announcer Ricardo Rodriguez, and was sidelined with an injury for almost a month. He returned during a match between Kane and Del Rio, attacking both Del Rio and Rodriguez. <mask> then began feuding with Mark Henry after he attacked and injured him on the June 17 episode of SmackDown, as <mask>'s frustrations and anger towards Del Rio was redirected unintentionally to Mark Henry. Henry retaliated by attacking <mask> during his match at Capitol Punishment and attacking him with the World's Strongest Slam through an announce table, causing <mask> to lose to Del Rio by knockout.Henry did the same thing on Kane through the broadcast table the next night on Raw after their arm wrestling match, and again on the June 27 episode of Raw when Henry then broke the cage door during the steel cage match between <mask> and Alberto Del Rio, allowing Del Rio to escape. He then attacked <mask> with the cage door, breaking the cage viciously. On July 17, 2011, at Money in the Bank, Henry defeated <mask>. After the match, Henry fractured <mask>'s fibula, keeping him out of action for almost three months. World Heavyweight Champion (2011–2013)

On the October 7 episode of SmackDown, <mask> returned and became number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship after he attacked Mark Henry and chokeslammed him through the broadcast table. At Vengeance, <mask> fought Henry to a no-contest after the ring collapsed following a superplex from Henry, similar to his match with Brock Lesnar in 2003. This time, less damage was done, and the damage mainly occurred around the lower right-hand ring post.<mask> ended up being taken out on a motorized cart with a flatbed. <mask> faced Mark Henry for the World Heavyweight Championship once again at Survivor Series winning via disqualification when Henry hit <mask> with a low blow, afterwards he leg dropped a chair on Henry's leg, much like what Henry did to <mask> months before. On December 18 at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, <mask> finally defeated Henry for the World Heavyweight Championship in a Chairs Match. Afterwards, Henry knocked <mask> out with a DDT onto a chair and Daniel Bryan immediately cashed his Money in the Bank contract on <mask> to win the title. This gave <mask> the shortest-ever World Heavyweight Championship reign at 45 seconds. <mask> challenged Bryan for the World Heavyweight Championship on the January 6, 2012 episode of SmackDown, but Bryan retained his title by disqualification when he goaded Mark Henry into attacking him. The next week on SmackDown, <mask> received a rematch for the title contested under no disqualification, no count-out rules.Bryan again retained his title as the rematch ended in a no-contest after <mask> accidentally crashed into AJ (Bryan's storyline girlfriend) at ringside, injuring her. At the 2012 Royal Rumble, <mask> faced Bryan and Henry in a triple threat steel cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship, but Bryan escaped the steel cage to retain his title. At the Elimination Chamber event, <mask> failed again to capture the World Heavyweight Championship in an Elimination Chamber match after he was eliminated second by Cody Rhodes. In the following weeks, <mask> began a feud with Rhodes after Rhodes highlighted <mask>'s embarrassing moments in previous WrestleManias, often costing <mask> to lose matches in the process. At WrestleMania XXVIII, <mask> defeated Rhodes to win the Intercontinental Championship. With this, <mask> became the twenty-fourth wrestler to win the Triple Crown Championship and the twelfth Grand Slam Champion in the WWE, and is currently the most recent wrestler to complete the original Grand Slam format. <mask> then began highlighting embarrassing moments in Rhodes' career.After a four-week reign, <mask> lost the Intercontinental Championship back to Rhodes at Extreme Rules in a Tables match. <mask> received his rematch on the May 7 episode of Raw, where he defeated Rhodes via countout after Rhodes walked out on the match. After a series of confrontations with Raw and SmackDown General Manager John Laurinaitis, <mask> was fired by Laurinaitis for making fun of his voice on the May 14 episode of Raw. Six days later, <mask> returned at Over the Limit, seemingly to help John Cena in his match against John Laurinaitis; instead, he knocked Cena out with a WMD and allowed Laurinaitis to win the match by pinfall, turning heel in the process. The following night on Raw, <mask> explained that his actions were of necessity to keep his job in the WWE, therefore resulting in Laurinaitis re-signing him to an "ironclad contract with a big fat bonus", also stating that nobody showed him any sympathy when he got fired. Over the next few weeks, he attacked Cena, Brodus Clay, Alex Riley, R-Truth, Santino Marella, Zack Ryder, and Kofi Kingston because of the terms of his contract. On the June 11 episode of Raw, he accidentally knocked out Vince McMahon after McMahon decided that Laurinatis would be fired if <mask> lost to Cena at No Way Out in a steel cage match.<mask> went on to lose that match at No Way Out and as per stipulation, Laurinaitis was fired. At Money in the Bank, <mask> faced Cena, Kane, Chris Jericho, and The Miz in the WWE Championship Money in the Bank ladder match, but was unsuccessful as the match was won by Cena. On July 23 at Raw 1000, <mask> attacked Cena during his WWE Championship match against CM Punk causing a disqualification. He continued the attack on Cena until The Rock made the save. The following week on Raw, a WWE Championship number one contenders match between <mask> and Cena ended in a no contest due to interference from Punk. Following this, both <mask> and Cena were entered in the championship match at SummerSlam by Raw General Manager AJ Lee. At SummerSlam, however, <mask> was unsuccessful as Punk retained the title.<mask> returned on the September 24 episode of Raw, attacking Brodus Clay and Tensai during their match. Four days later on SmackDown, <mask> defeated Randy Orton to become the number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship. <mask> received his title opportunity on October 28 at Hell in a Cell, where he defeated Sheamus to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the second time. 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<mask> made his televised return to WWE on the August 12 episode of Raw, and helped Mark Henry and Rob Van Dam from an attack by The Shield, turning face in the process. On the August 16 episode of SmackDown, <mask>, Henry, and Van Dam defeated the Shield in a six-man tag team match. After speaking out against COO Triple H on the following Raw, <mask> was placed into a three-on-one handicap tornado tag team match against The Shield, which he lost.Following this, the Authority (Triple H and Stephanie McMahon) claimed <mask> was broke, and in order to save his job, forced him to knock out his friends including Daniel Bryan, Dusty Rhodes, and The Miz. At Battleground, he interfered in the WWE Championship match between Bryan and Randy Orton (the later of whom was allied with the Authority) and knocked out both of them, ending the match in a no-contest. He then faced Orton for the WWE Championship at Survivor Series but failed to win. At TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, <mask> teamed with Rey Mysterio to unsuccessfully challenge Cody Rhodes and Goldust for the WWE Tag Team Championship in a four-way match, also involving RybAxel (Ryback and Curtis Axel), and The Real Americans (Antonio Cesaro and Jack Swagger). He subsequently started a feud with Brock Lesnar, which was settled at the Royal Rumble, where he was defeated. <mask> later participated in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania XXX, being the last person eliminated by winner Cesaro. On the September 26 episode of SmackDown, <mask> started a feud with Rusev, when he defeated him by disqualification, but Rusev was ultimately successful in a rematch at Hell in a Cell.<mask> turned heel when joined the Authority at Survivor Series when he turned on John Cena and caused him to be eliminated from the Survivor Series elimination match against the Authority. In his first pay-per-view match as part of the faction, <mask> defeated Erick Rowan in a first-ever Steel Stairs match at Tables, Ladders, and Chairs. Later in the event, <mask> attacked Cena during his match with Seth Rollins but was then confronted by Roman Reigns, leading to Cena winning the match. Reigns went on to defeat <mask> multiple times by count-out and disqualification. On January 25, 2015, at the Royal Rumble, <mask> entered the Royal Rumble match at #29, eliminating five superstars before being eliminated by Reigns, the eventual winner. At Fastlane, <mask>, Rollins and Kane defeated Dolph Ziggler, Erick Rowan and Ryback. <mask> went on to win the 2nd Annual André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31.However, <mask> lost to Reigns in a Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules. After a brief hiatus, <mask> returned on the June 1 episode of Raw, where he knocked out The Miz and confronted Intercontinental Champion Ryback. <mask> challenged Ryback for his title at Money in the Bank, winning the match by disqualification after The Miz attacked <mask>. A triple threat match for the title took place at SummerSlam, where Ryback retained the title. On the August 31 episode of Raw, <mask> received another championship match against Ryback, which he lost following a distraction from The Miz, ending the feud. <mask> later became involved in the Authority's feud with Sting, facing him in a match on the September 14 episode of Raw. The  match ended in a disqualification after interference from Seth Rollins.This led to John Cena storming the ring and the match becoming a tag team match with the team of Cena and Sting defeating the team of <mask> and Rollins. He was subsequently defeated by Brock Lesnar in the main event of Live from Madison Square Garden. On the November 9 episode of Raw, <mask> entered the 16-man tournament to crown the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion and lost to Roman Reigns in the first round. At the Royal Rumble, <mask> entered the Royal Rumble match at #15 and eliminated Ryback and Titus O'Neil before being eliminated by Braun Strowman. On the January 28, 2016, episode of SmackDown, <mask> turned face by helping Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, and Chris Jericho fend off all the members of The Wyatt Family, whom he, Kane and Ryback defeated at Fastlane after several singles matches against the likes of Erick Rowan and Braun Strowman, mostly in winning efforts, leading up to the event. However, the next night on Raw, The Wyatt Family would defeat the trio in a rematch. At WrestleMania 32, <mask> and Kane participated in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, where <mask> faced off with Shaquille O'Neal, but the other participants would gang up on the two powerhouses and they were eliminated simultaneously.Kane and <mask> subsequently defeated Braun Strowman and Erick Rowan on the April 19 episode of Main Event, ending their feud the Wyatt Family in the process. Sporadic appearances and departure (2016–2021)

<mask> was drafted to Raw as part of the 2016 WWE draft. During this time, <mask> began appearing mostly on the live event circuit rather than televised events, as he transitioned into a part-time role. At the Royal Rumble on January 29, 2017, <mask> entered the Royal Rumble match at number 9, but was eliminated by Braun Strowman. After defeating Rusev at Fastlane, he competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 33, from which he was also eliminated by Strowman. <mask> wrestled Strowman two weeks later on Raw, where the ring collapsed after Strowman superplexed on him, resulting in the match going to a no contest, similar to his matches with Brock Lesnar in 2003 and Mark Henry in 2011, respectively. Throughout the summer of 2017, <mask> feuded with <mask>, culminating in a match at  SummerSlam, where he was defeated.On the September 4 episode of Raw, <mask> lost to Strowman in a steel cage match and was thrown through the cage after the match. The attack was written to take <mask> off television as he required hip surgery. His next appearance for WWE was on April 6, 2018, when he inducted his long-time friend and rival Mark Henry into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2018. <mask> returned on the October 9 episode of SmackDown, where he faced Randy Orton in a losing effort. The following week, on the 1000th episode of SmackDown, <mask> formed a short-lived alliance with The Bar (Cesaro and Sheamus) by helping them defeat The New Day for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, thus turning heel in the process. This alliance ended on the November 27 episode of SmackDown, after <mask> performed a KO Punch on Cesaro backstage. Following this, <mask> was written off television due to him suffering a hamstring injury.On the January 6, 2020 episode of Raw, <mask> returned from injury over a year later as a fan favorite, teaming with Kevin Owens and Samoa Joe to defeat Seth Rollins and AOP via disqualification. In a match filmed after WrestleMania 36 ended, which aired on the April 6 episode of Raw, <mask> reverted to a heel after insulting and challenging newly crowned WWE Champion Drew McIntyre for his title. He was subsequently defeated. His heel turn was short-lived, as <mask> turned face again by helping The Street Profits and The Viking Raiders fend off the group of ninjas led by Akira Tozawa on the June 15 episode of Raw. He last wrestled in an unsanctioned match against Orton on the July 20 episode of Raw. On November 22, 2020 he made an appearance at Survivor Series during The Undertaker's retirement ceremony. He made his final WWE appearance on the January 4, 2021 edition of Raw for Legends Night.Wight and WWE parted ways the following month after it was reported the two sides were unable to agree to financial terms on a new contract. Wight also cited "creative frustrations" and lack of ideas as reasons for his exit. All Elite Wrestling (2021–present)
On February 24, 2021, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced that <mask>, now known in AEW by his real name, Paul Wight, had signed with the company and would be providing commentary alongside Tony Schiavone for their new YouTube series AEW Dark: Elevation, which premiered on March 15. It was also confirmed that while commentary for Elevation would be his initial role, he would also compete as an in-ring performer. He debuted on the March 3 episode of AEW Dynamite titled The Crossroads and announced he had a "big scoop" that AEW would sign "a Hall of Fame worthy talent that is a huge surprise and a huge asset" at Revolution which was revealed to be Christian Cage. He also had some matches on AEW, most notably, defeating QT Marshall at All Out. Legacy
Wight has often been compared to André the Giant throughout his career due to both suffering from acromegaly and having a similar overall body structure to André.Unlike André, who was content with his fate, Wight had surgery of the pituitary gland to halt his condition. The similarities led to WCW billing him as André's son early in his career (despite no biological relation) and WWE involving him in similar angles as André. Wight has also stated that many older fans in the Southern United States (where Wight is from and where André made his home in the United States) not aware of kayfabe have often told Wight during autograph sessions how much they "loved his father when he wrestled", even though Wight's biological father was a mechanic. Wight would also outlive André, who died at age 46. Wight is also well known for his frequent turns between face and heel throughout his career, to the point it has become a running gag among wrestling fans. One wrestling site has estimated that through 2018 Wight has made approximately 34 turns since his WCW debut in 1995, four of those alone coming during his first year with the WWF. Wight himself acknowledged that while the frequent turns may have hurt his legacy and his mystique, he was also honored with the fact that he can play both roles well and fit in wherever he is needed to put younger talent over.Other media
<mask> has been featured in infomercials for Stacker 2 with former NASCAR drivers Kenny Wallace and Scott Wimmer, NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Elliott Sadler, retired crew chief turned Fox Sports broadcaster Jeff Hammond, and 2002, 2005, and 2011 Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart. In addition, Wight appeared on the "Thong Song" remix music video by Sisqó and Foxy Brown. Wight was featured on the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, winning $15,000 for his chosen charity, United Service Organizations. He is the only contestant to appear on two versions of the game show in two different countries. On March 31, 2012, <mask> won the first-ever Slime Wrestling World Championship at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, defeating The Miz after throwing him into a tub of slime. In 2018, The <mask> Show appeared in the Wizards of the Coast's  Dungeons and Dragons stream "Stream of Many Eyes Day Three - Jocks Machina" alongside Joe Manganiello, Travis Willingham, cross fit athele Ron Mathews, and Mike Mearls as Dungeon Master. Filmography

Personal life
Wight married his first wife, Melissa Ann Piavis, on February 14, 1997.They separated in 2000 and their divorce was finalized on February 6, 2002. Together, they have a daughter. On February 11, 2002, he married his second wife, Bess Katramados. Together, they have two children. For many years, Wight has been an active supporter of Special Olympics, including the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games in New Jersey, where he participated in the Opening Ceremony. He was later named WWE Goodwill Ambassador for the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles. Since 2018, he has served as a Global Ambassador for Special Olympics International.Legal issues
Wight was arrested in December 1998 by the Memphis Police Department for allegedly exposing himself to a female motel employee. The charge though was subsequently dropped due to insufficient evidence. In March 1999, Wight was charged with assault by Robert Sawyer, who alleged that Wight had broken his jaw during the summer of 1998 in the course of an altercation at Marriott Hotels & Resorts in Uniondale, New York. Wight claimed that Sawyer had verbally abused, threatened, and shoved him, and that he had responded by punching Sawyer. After three days, Judge Thomas Feinman delivered a verdict of not guilty. Championships and accomplishments

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<mask> (September 9, 1932 – July 2, 2019 in Modesto, California) is an American operatic bass-baritone who has sung with many of the world's greatest opera companies. He began his career in Germany in the late 1950s, ultimately becoming a leading performer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1962 to 1964. He then embarked on a highly successful career at the Metropolitan Opera where he sang regularly between 1964 and 1977. Between 1977 and 1982 he sang regularly at the Vienna State Opera, after which he remained active as a freelance artist on the international stage through the early 1990s. Dooley possessed a rich, deep, and warm voice that had a considerable amount of dramatic power and a wide vocal range. In his prime singing years he particularly excelled within the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Although primarily an exponent of German opera, his repertoire spanned a wide range of languages from French and Italian to Russian and even, in the case of the opera Montezuma, Aztec, Spanish and Latin.He sang in numerous world premieres throughout his career, including Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids. Biography
<mask> entered the University of Rochester in 1950, graduating from there in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in English. During that time he also studied singing as a music minor under Lucy Lee Callund at the Eastman School of Music. After graduation he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in Munich between 1954 and 1956. During his off duty hours he studied singing with Viktoria Prestel and Hedwig Fichtmüller. <mask> made his professional opera debut in 1957 as Posa in Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos at the Stadttheater Heidelberg. He spent the next two years performing in operas and concerts throughout Germany.He joined the roster at the Städtische Bühnen in Bielefeld in 1959, where he sang regularly for the next three years. While there he notably portrayed the title role in Marcel Mihalovici's one character opera Krapp, ou, La dernière bande for its world premiere broadcast on RTF radio in France on May 15, 1961, its stage premiere at the Théâtre des Nations the following July 3, and its premiere in Germany at the Städtische Bühnen in February 1962. In the summer of 1962 <mask> became a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he sang leading baritone roles for two years. While there he notably sang the role of Apollo in the world premiere of Darius Milhaud's L'Orestie in 1963 and the role of Hernán Cortez in the world premiere of Roger Sessions's Montezuma in 1964. He was also well known in Germany for his interpretation of the role of Jago in Verdi's Otello which he sang in Bonn and many other German opera houses and abroad with great success. <mask> returned to the United States in 1964 to become a member of the company at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He made his debut with the company in the title role of Eugene Onegin on February 15, 1964 opposite Leontyne Price as Tatiana.He spent the next 13 years singing with the company for a total of 188 performances. He particularly excelled in the works of Richard Wagner during his time at the Met, portraying the roles of Amfortas in Parsifal, Gunther in Götterdämmerung, Donner in Das Rheingold, Herald in Lohengrin, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, and the title role in The Flying Dutchman. In 1966 <mask> notably sang the role of The Messenger of Keikobad in the Met's first production of Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, and in 1976 he portrayed Marquis de la Force in the Met's first production of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites with Maria Ewing as Blanche de la Force. His other roles during his career at the Met included the four villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Amonasro in Aida, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Pizarro in Fidelio, Escamillo in Carmen, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, John the Baptist in Salome, Mandryka in Arabella, the Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos, Orest in Elektra, Rangoni in Boris Godunov, Scarpia in Tosca, the Speaker in The Magic Flute, and the title role in Wozzeck. His last performance at the Met was on March 11, 1977 as the Marquis de la Force. During his time at the Met, <mask> occasionally performed with other companies and at music festivals internationally. In 1964 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as the title hero in Mozart's Lucio Silla.He returned to Salzburg two years later to portray the Captain of the Royal Guard in the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids and the role of Escamillo in Carmen. In 1965 he sang in the world premiere of Isang Yun's Der Traum des Liu-Tung at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. <mask> made two appearances with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company in 1968, portraying Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wagner's Tannhäuser with Jess Thomas in the title role and Count Almaviva to Pilar Lorengar's Countess. He also made several appearances at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen during the late 1960s. In 1976 he returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin to sing in the world premiere of Toshiro Mayuzumi's Der Tempelbrand. <mask> joined the roster at the Vienna State Opera in the Fall of 1977. He sang there for the next six seasons, performing much of the same repertoire that he had performed at the Met.In 1979 he portrayed the role of Pastor Oberlin in the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz at the Hamburg State Opera. In 1984 he appeared in the world premiere of Aribert Reimann's Gespenstersonate at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in 1989 he sang in the world premiere of Marc Neikrug's Los Alamos at the Los Angeles Opera. In 1991 he portrayed Tiresias in the American premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Oedipus at the Santa Fe Opera, a role he had sung earlier for the opera's 1987 premiere in Berlin. References

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Eastman School of Music alumni
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<mask> (, but often erroneously ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of Dante Alighieri. Today he is still among the 40 most translated Italian authors. Many of his most popular novels have been adapted as comics, animated series and feature films. He is considered the father of Italian adventure fiction and Italian pop culture, and the "grandfather" of the Spaghetti Western. Life

<mask> was born in Verona to a family of modest merchants. From a young age, he had a desire to explore the seas and studied seamanship at a nautical technical institution in Venice, but his academic performance was too poor, and he never graduated.He began his writing career as a reporter on the daily La Nuova Arena, which published some of his work as serials. As his powers of narration grew, so did his reputation for having lived a life of adventure. He claimed to have explored the Sudan desert, met Buffalo Bill in Nebraska (he had actually met him during his "Wild West Show" tour of Italy), and sailed the Seven Seas. His early biographies were filled with adventurous tales set in the Far East, events which he claimed were the basis for much of his work. Salgari had actually never ventured farther than the Adriatic Sea. He turned his passion for exploration and discovery to writing. His first stories were serialized in newspapers.Early in his career, he began signing his tales as "Captain <mask>", a title he once defended in a duel when his claim to it was questioned. Though knighted by the Queen of Italy and wildly popular, Salgari did not earn much money from his books and lived hand to mouth for most of his life. Salgari married Ida Peruzzi – nicknamed "Aida," with whom he was very happy for years. The couple had four children. Salgari's private life was clouded by several tragedies. In 1889 his father committed suicide. Ida became ill after 1903 and Salgari's struggling increased with her medical bills.These events led Salgari to depression, and he attempted suicide in 1910. After Ida  was committed to a mental ward in 1911, Salgari was overwhelmed and took his own life soon afterwards, imitating the Japanese ritual of seppuku, and died on 25 April 1911. He left three letters, addressed to his and Ida's children, his publisher, and the editors of his newspaper in Turin. The letter to his publisher said:

 One of the sons of <mask> and Aida also committed suicide in 1933. Writing career
Salgari wrote more than 200 adventure stories and novels, setting his tales in exotic locations, with heroes from a wide variety of cultures. He gained inspiration from reading foreign literature and newspapers, travel magazines and encyclopedias, which he used to portray his heroes' worlds. He wrote four major series: The Pirates of Malaysia; The Black Corsair Saga; The Pirates of Bermuda; and a collection of adventures set in the Old West.Salgari's heroes were mostly pirates, outlaws and barbarians, fighting against greed, abuse of power, and corruption. His most legendary heroes Sandokan, The Tiger of Malaysia, a Bornean prince turned pirate, and his loyal lieutenant Yanez of Gomera, led their men in attacks against the Dutch and British fleets. They declared war on James Brooke, the White Rajah of Sarawak, and tried to force him from his throne. The Black Corsair and Captain Morgan maintained a chivalric code in the Caribbean, while Salgari's pirates of Bermuda fought for American independence. His tales had been so popular that soon his publisher hired other writers to develop adventure stories under his name. They added 50 novels to his “canon”. Salgari's style was imitated by many, but no other Italian adventure writer managed to duplicate his popular success.Legacy

<mask>'s work was imitated in one form or another by many who came after him. A large part of the Italian adventure literature is a continuation of Salgari's work. Many late 19th century writers such as Luigi Motta and <mask>i wrote further Sandokan adventures imitating Salgari's style: fast-paced, filled with great battles, blood, violence and punctuated with humour. The style soon spread to movies and television. One example is the work of the  director Sergio Leone, whose outlaw heroes in his Spaghetti Westerns were inspired by Salgari's piratical adventurers. More than 50 film adaptations have been made of Salgari's novels, and many more were inspired by his work (corsair stories, jungle adventure stories, and swashbuckling B movies, such as Morgan, the Pirate, starring Steve Reeves). Federico Fellini loved <mask>'s books.Pietro Mascagni had over 50 Salgari titles in his library. Umberto Eco read Salgari's works as a child. His work was very popular in Portugal, Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, where Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, all attested to reading him when young. Che Guevara read 62 of his books, according to his biographer Paco Ignacio Taibo II, who remarked that the revolutionary's anti-imperialism could be seen to be "Salgarian in origin". Though popular with the masses, Salgari was shunned by critics throughout his life and for most of the 20th century. It was not until the late 1990s that his writings began to be revisited, and new translations appeared in print. They have been newly appreciated for their characterization and plots.In 2001 the first National Salgari Association was founded in Italy to celebrate his work. Films

Historians debate the first film adaptation of a Salgari novel. Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone bears many similarities to <mask>'s 1908 adventure novel Cartagine in Fiamme (Carthage is Burning). <mask> was never credited, and Gabriele D'Annunzio was billed as the official screenwriter. D'Annunzio had been brought on board to help revise the film once it had been shot, earning the credit by changing the title to Cabiria, changing the name of some of the characters, and rewriting the captions from what Pastrone had done. The three-hour epic movie with its cast of thousands created a sensation throughout Italy. It pioneered epic screen production and foreshadowed the work of D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein and others.Vitale De Stefano brought Salgari's pirates to the big screen in the early 1920s with a series of five films shot over two years, including Il corsaro nero The Black Corsair and La Regina dei caraibi (The Queen of the Caribbean). Lex Barker appeared as the tiger hunter Tremal-Naik in the 1955 B-movie The Mystery of The Black Jungle. Sandokan was played by Hercules star Steve Reeves in Sandokan the Great and The Pirates of Malaysia aka The Pirates of The Seven Seas. Ray Danton played the pirate in Luigi Capuano's Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak (aka Throne of Vengeance.) and later reprised the role in Sandokan Fights Back (aka The Conqueror and the Empress). The 1944 Mexican film El corsario negro is based on his novel The Black Corsair. The 1965 adventure film La montagna di luce (The Mountain of Light) was loosely based on <mask>'s 1902 novel of the same title, which referred to the name of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.The film was released in English under several titles, the most commonly known of which was Jungle Adventurer. One of the alternate titles used for a later re-release was Sandok, an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Salgari's fictional pirate Sandokan, even though neither the novel, nor the film had anything to do with Sandokan's character or the settings of his adventures (the plot revolved around a fictitious attempt to steal the Koh-i-Noor, and took place in 19th-century India). In 1976, the landmark Sandokan TV miniseries played throughout Europe. It starred Kabir Bedi in the title role and attracted more than 80 million viewers a week. Bedi has been considered the quintessential Sandokan ever since. He later reprised the role in the late 1990s in a series of sequels. Publishers
<mask>'s works have been published by numerous publishing houses worldwide.These include: Donath, Viglongo, Carroccio, RCS MediaGroup, and Mondadori in Italian; Saturnino Calleja, Ediciones Porrua, and Ediciones Gaviota in Spanish; Editora Illuminuras  in Portuguese; Bouquins in French; ABLIT Verlag in German; and ROH Press in English. ROH Press has been republishing the novels in Italian, with their translations into English and Spanish. Work available in English

Though <mask>'s novels have been popular in Europe and Latin America for over a century, at present only nine titles are available in English, translated by Nico Lorenzutti. The Tigers of Malaysia series
 The Mystery of the Black Jungle
 Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
 Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia
 Sandokan: The Two Tigers
 Sandokan: The King of the Sea
 Sandokan: Quest for a Throne

The Black Corsair series
 The Black Corsair
 The Queen of the Caribbean

Captain Tempesta
 Captain Tempesta

Bibliography

The Sandokan series

 The Mystery of the Black Jungle (I Misteri della Jungla Nera, 1895)
 The Tigers of Mompracem (Le tigri di Mompracem, 1900)
 The Pirates of Malaysia (I pirati della Malesia, 1896)
 The Two Tigers (Le due Tigri, 1904)
 The King of the Sea (Il re del mare, 1906)
 Quest for a Throne (Alla conquista di un impero, 1907)
 Sandokan to the Rescue (Sandokan alla riscossa, 1907)
 Return to Mompracem (La riconquista di Mompracem, 1908)
 The Brahman (Il Bramino dell’Assam, 1911)
 An Empire Crumbles (La caduta di un impero, 1911)
 Yanez’ Revenge (La rivincita di Yanez, 1913)

The last three tiles were published posthumously. Each excerpt is introduced by a brief synopsis of the novel it was drawn from. Bibliografia analitica ragionata, 1475–2005. Roma, IsIAO, 2009, pp.350–362
 "<mask>", ROH Press, in English. Also includes images from movies and animated series based on his novels. "<mask>i: Literature’s Invisible Man", ROH Press, in English. Read a review of the Sandokan series. Carla Passino, "Book of the Week: Sandokan, the Tigers of Mompracem", Italy Magazine, December 2009

External links

 "Italy’s enduring love affair with <mask>", The Economist, June 2017

 The Tiger of Malaysia, Barga News

 Angela Valenti Durazzo "Il Corsaro Nero Signore di Ventimiglia"

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Italian historical novelists
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Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period
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Italian fantasy writers
Italian science fiction writers
Maritime writers
Italian children's writers
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Italian male short story writers
Italian male novelists
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<mask> is an English composer, record producer and digital influencer. Filmography
<mask>'s work on movie scores consists of about 20 Hollywood features including The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Megamind, and four James Bond movies including The World Is Not Enough and Quantum of Solace. Other credits include Ocean's 11, 12 and 13, Moulin Rouge!, Shaft, Zoolander, The Bone Collector, Plunkett and MacClean, Analyze That, Buffalo Soldiers and Luc Besson's Kiss of the Dragon. More recently, <mask> joined his wife, Internet celebrity Laura Clery, to form "Idiots Inc" – a digital media company, creating viral entertainment content and producing shows for TV / Digital and Commercials

<mask> wrote the original scores for New Town Killers, The Children, Cherrybomb, Salvage, Third Star, Sword of Vengeance and Kill Command among others. He also collaborated with composer David Holmes on Code 46, Haywire and Hunger, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Musical career
<mask> produced acts such as Badly Drawn Boy, Miguel feat Wale – with Peter Asher, David Holmes and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, co-wrote and produced the track "Drone Zone" with Siouxsie Sioux, for her solo album Mantaray. <mask> has worked with many artists and has contributed to the works of Gwen Stefani, Hans Zimmer, No Doubt, U2, Pharrell Williams, Jack White, Alicia Keys, Wale, Crystal Castles, Madonna, Moby, Dave Stewart, Depeche Mode, Ke$ha, Massive Attack, Mikky Ekko, Miguel, Shirley Bassey, Sky Ferreira,  Purity Ring, FKA Twigs, Alanis Morissette, Chris Lake, Oleta Adams, Moloko, Isaac Hayes, The Pet Shop Boys, Scott Walker, Pulp, David Holmes, Bomb the Bass, Mel C, The Divine Comedy, Dirty Vegas, Martina Topley-Bird, Natasha Bedingfield, Joy Zipper, The John Spencer Blues Explosion, David Arnold, Trevor Horn and Rick Nowels.He has also remixed songs by No Doubt, Sky Ferreira Orbital, Craig Armstrong and Primal Scream and provided many compositions for commercials for companies such as Apple (multiple spots), Ferrari / Shell, Mercedes, Audi, Guinness, VW, Levi's, Comme De Garcon, Sony, Renault Clio, Amex and Jean Paul Gaultier
<mask> composed, produced and mixed the music for the National Movie Awards. The Free Association

Stephen and a band of Dobermans formed The Free Association with David Holmes. Together as a band of composers and producers they scored the futuristic love story, Code 46, directed by Michael Winterbottom. This resulted in a nomination for European Composer of the Year at the European Movie Awards. The Free Association also scored Bronwen Hughes' film Stander, based on a true story about South African chief of police in 1979. The Free Association's album received critical acclaim and the band embarked on an extensive European tour, performing at Glastonbury, V2003, Kristiansand and Roskilde and on BBC's Later with Jools Holland. The band's music features on a variety of car adverts, including a Renault Clio Campaign (UK) and a VW Campaign (Germany & Turkey).Other repertoire has been licensed to CSI (the American crime drama series) amongst other TV series. FlyKKller

<mask> sometimes uses the moniker FlyKKiller (now called FLYKKLLR), his debut artist project . The album was reviewed by The Sunday Times as the "best psyched up twisted soul record of the year". The LP was released in October and the band were lauded by the British music press as one of the most important breakthrough acts of the year. His work is notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Personal life
<mask>’s first wife was Artist Pati Yang. <mask> married second wife  Internet celebrity and comedian Laura Clery in 2012 and frequently appears in her videos.On 15 November 2018, <mask> and Clery announced via Facebook they were expecting their first child. They have two children, Alfie and Penelope. They currently reside in Los Angeles, California. In November 2021 <mask> revealed that he is Autistic

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 Code 46 Composer

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 The War Within Composer

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 The 18th Electricity Plan Composer

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 The Children Composer
 New Town Killers Composer

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 Salvage Composer
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<mask> (January 6, 1912 – June 18, 1978) was a Tennessee attorney and Democratic politician. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Friends High School (now Sidwell Friends) in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1931 and was admitted to the Tennessee bar the same year. He was elected to a first term in the Tennessee State Senate in 1948. In 1950 he first ran for governor of Tennessee in the Democratic primary against incumbent governor Gordon Browning and was defeated in a very close election where <mask>'s main issue was that the state should start providing free school textbooks to all school children. Running again in 1952 he was again defeated, running third (Frank G. Clement was the winner, with Browning finishing second). <mask> was seen by some as the representative of the urban and progressive forces as opposed to those whose support was largely rural, such as Clement.He was also a staunch opponent of Boss Crump of Memphis, and was invariably opposed by the Crump political machine. The rivalry between <mask> and Clement was such that on one occasion, health inspectors shut down a downtown Nashville restaurant owned by <mask>, who got a court order allowing it to reopen. This was judged by Nashvillians to have been politically motivated, and the restaurant reopened to long lines. <mask> was elected to the State Senate again in 1954 where he was a strong advocate for teachers and the public schools. <mask> urged enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education. In 1958 he again entered the Democratic primary for governor, losing to Buford Ellington, a Clement colleague who had served Clement both as campaign manager and Cabinet member. During this period of what was essentially one-party rule in Tennessee (by the Democrats in the western two-thirds of the state and by the Republicans in East Tennessee), organized factions within the parties often served the role traditionally served by parties, nominating tickets of candidates who ran together, pooled their resources in advertising, and generally ran for office as a unit.In January, 1957 the Tennessee State Senate refused to seat Richard Fulton, who had been elected to the seat formerly held by <mask>. Fulton had run for the office in the place of his popular older brother Lyle, who had died of cancer shortly after entering the race to succeed <mask>, but was several weeks short of having reached the constitutionally required age of 30 prior to the beginning of the legislative session, and <mask> was appointed back to this seat again. Assessor of Property
In 1960 <mask> was elected Assessor of Property for Davidson County, Tennessee. This position was (and generally still is) widely regarded as an unglamorous administrative courthouse position, little-noticed by the public except when complaints are made about increasing property assessments. However, <mask> was to make it his political base for the next 15 years. In 1962, Nashville voters agreed to merge many of the functions of the former City of Nashville municipal government and those of Davidson County into a metropolitan government. While the position of assessor of property (popularly referred to as "tax assessor") was retained in the combined government, <mask> decided to run for mayor of the consolidated city-county.<mask> finished second behind long-time rival Beverly Briley, the last county judge (chief executive) of Davidson County. The new Metropolitan Charter required a runoff since no one received a majority, and Briley defeated <mask> in the runoff. <mask> long had positioned himself as a populist, a defender of the rights of the elderly, impoverished, and "average people". He worked to make a certain amount of property held by elderly homeowners with low incomes exempt from property tax. The issue with which he will be perennially identified in Tennessee political history is undoubtedly that of "Question 3". The Tennessee State Constitution had stood unamended from 1870 to 1952, the longest any such document had ever stood such in the world. In part, this was due to the extremely difficult procedure set by the document for amendment.One of the methods permitted allowed the legislature to put on the ballot a call for a limited constitutional convention, one which would be limited to discussion and proposals on only those parts of the constitution named in the call. This procedure was limited to once in a six-year period; beginning in the 1950s conventions began to be held almost as often as allowable, and had made considerable changes in the state's basic document, such as allowing city-county consolidation as alluded to above and also for other updatings such as the extension of gubernatorial and state senate terms from two to four years, allowing legislators to be paid over and above expense money, and other similar modernizations. <mask> began to shape the 1971 convention to suit his principal issue. In Tennessee, the rate of assessment to appraisal on property taxes had long varied from county to county, with some counties applying the entire rate (expressed as dollars and cents per hundred of value such as "$1.27") on the entire appraised value of a property; most others applied a percentage of it, which varied wildly (from as low as 25% to as high as 70%). This system was needlessly confusing and arcane, and made comparison of tax rates from one jurisdiction to another very difficult (which some stated was one of the prime reasons for its existence). <mask> managed to explain this difficult and confusing issue in such a way as to win a large majority for the holding of a constitutional convention in which it would be discussed. It was known as "Question 3" because the legislature at the same time proposed four other constitutional sections for discussion at the same convention; however these other propositions were all voted down, limiting the scope of the convention solely to the property tax issue.<mask> was aided by the existence of the six-year limit between such events; opponents of a state income tax were aware that if a convention were to be held and limited to the property tax issue, another one at which an income tax might be proposed could not be held for at least another six years. Having helped pass the call for the convention, <mask> then set out to shape it to his ideas, firstly by winning election to it as a delegate while continuing to serve as assessor of property. <mask> soon became the leading figure of the convention, and its proposal, which called for an assessment of 25% of appraised value on residential and agricultural property and 40% on commercial property and even higher on utilities, was essentially <mask>'s plan, and was subsequently approved by Tennessee voters and remains the law as of 2012 except that the U.S. Senate overrode the higher tax rate on utilities at the urging of Senator Howard Baker. This victory helped to assuage the defeat which <mask> had suffered earlier in the year, when he lost another race for mayor. In this race <mask> was shocked to have finished fourth, well short of participation in the runoff (which again was won by Briley over runner-up Casey Jenkins, a former motion picture projectionist who had gained notoriety largely as an opponent of forced busing for school desegregation). Progressives such as <mask> in this election were hurt by the busing decision that was announced in the month before the election and fueled massive white turnout for the anti-integration candidates such as Jenkins. Congressman
In 1975 when Richard Fulton was elected mayor to succeed Briley and resigned as Congressman, <mask> entered the crowded Democratic primary field in the ensuing special election, and won, beating the incumbent district attorney Thomas Shriver, legislator Mike Murphy, and attorney (later federal Sixth Circuit judge) Gilbert Merritt, largely because of having far more name recognition than any other candidate and because of his populist attack on high rates being charged by local electric and gas utilities.As the Republicans had by this time given up on making serious bids for a district they hadn't won since Reconstruction, his victory in the special general election was a foregone conclusion, and he took office on November 25, 1975. Once in Congress, <mask> tried immediately to establish a high profile for a freshman legislator, to the consternation of some and the disdain of others. His primary issue was the higher electricity rates being charged by the Tennessee Valley Authority, primarily in order to finance its ambitious nuclear energy program. <mask> called for the adoption by the TVA of "lifeline rates", a low, subsidized rate for low-income, low-volume electric users who would essentially be subsidized by the utility's major customers. TVA management objected vehemently to <mask>'s proposal, stating that it violated provisions of the TVA Self-Financing Act of 1959 which required all of the agency's power operations to be self-financing and unsubsidized, and would further dissuade new large customers from moving into its service area as opposed to adjoining areas where they would not be subject to such a scheme. The idea apparently was well received by a majority of Nashville-area voters, however; <mask> was elected to a full term in November 1976. However, <mask> was regarded by many as increasingly a relic of an earlier era; he tended to address all issues at discursive length in the tradition of Southern country lawyers.In some circles in Washington, he was given the derisive nickname "The Tennessee Talking Horse", as an indication of his perceived verbosity (a title previously held by former Memphis Congressman Dan Kuykendall). Other politicians felt that <mask> might be vulnerable in 1978; several filed to run against him in the 1978 Democratic primary. However, only days before the deadline for withdrawing from the primary race, <mask> suffered a massive heart attack. All but one of his opponents then withdrew from the race as they were concerned about the possible repercussions of "kicking a man when he is down". On June 11, the day after the withdrawal deadline passed, <mask> died. The only candidate who didn't withdraw from the race a few days earlier, State Senator Bill Boner, thus appeared alone on the Democratic primary ballot. While one of the erstwhile opponents, Elliot Ozment, then tried to conduct a write-in campaign, this proved totally futile, and Boner won the nomination, and in effect, election in November.<mask> died at St. Thomas Hospital from complications of a heart attack on June 18, 1978. References

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Dr. <mask><mask> is an Italian-American diplomat, business leader, and educator. <mask> has held a number of posts in the US government including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and US Ambassador. He has also founded, led, and contributed to a number of prominent NGOs and private sector companies. He served as Rector of the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica until February, 2013. Early life

<mask> has a Doctorate (PhD) in International Relations from Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations. Graduated from Yale University and then went on to pursue graduate work at the London School of Economics. Upon graduation, he served in the US military as a naval officer in North Africa and Europe.He then spent 6 years in early assignments as a career diplomat in the US Department of State. Government career

<mask> was Chef de Cabinet for two Secretary Generals of NATO, Manlio Brosio and <mask>, in Brussels. From 1978 to 1985, <mask> held a number of senior posts within the US Department of State. He was Deputy Head of the US Delegation for the Negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act, Head of NATO Political Affairs, Director of Western European Relations, and Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy Paris. From 1986-1989, <mask> served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO at the US Department of Defense in Washington. He was responsible for all US military activities in Europe, including participation in NATO, US bases, and military relations with the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. In 1989, <mask> was appointed Ambassador and Chairman of the United States Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).In this role he was the principal architect of the agreements which formally ended the Cold War and established new institutions for the post-Cold War era, the "Charter of Paris for a New Europe," and the "Joint Declaration of Twenty-Two States," both signed by the heads of State of 33 countries at the Paris Summit of 1990. In 1992, he was appointed United States Ambassador and Special Representative for mediation of the conflicts in Cyprus and Nagorno Karabakh. In this role, <mask> was responsible for helping to create the so-called "Minsk Group," which since 1992 has been the basic forum for negotiation of a peaceful settlement of the N-K conflict. Following this post <mask> was appointed Ambassador and Special Envoy to open United States relations with the newly independent states of Central Asia and the Caucasus. He helped to establish the principle that the newly independent States from the former USSR were entitled to membership in the OSCE, thus giving them their first direct link with Europe and North America. Post-Government Activities

Dr. <mask> was a Guest Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington from 1994-1995. After his tenure at USIP, he spent one year as President at the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) in Prague.From 1997-99, <mask> Served as Vice President for International Relations, Union Oil of California (Unocal) where he created a single, company-wide corporate social responsibility program which directed millions of dollars toward constructive charitable objectives to countries in need. In 1999, Dr. <mask> founded the Business-Humanitarian Forum (BHF) in Geneva, Switzerland. BHF is devoted to encouraging business engagement in sustainable development, and developing public-private sector projects in post-conflict and very poor countries of Asia, Africa and Southeastern Europe. And he worked as a Rector in ADA. University for Peace
In 2007 Dr. <mask> was appointed Rector of the University for Peace, and served as such until February, 2013. Headquartered in Costa Rica, the United Nations-mandated University for Peace was established in December 1980 as a Treaty Organization by the UN General Assembly. As determined in the Charter of the University, the mission of the University for Peace is: "to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations".Ambassador <mask> has served and currently serves on a number of boards including the American University of Paris;    International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX); Search for Common Ground; National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR); Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School, Harvard University; Humanitarian Affairs Review; Commission for Security and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf; American-Iranian Council (AIC); Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF); AIG Silk Road Fund; ISO Senior Advisory Group on Corporate Responsibility; Commission on Business in Society of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); OECD Secretary General's Round Table on Corporate Social Responsibility. Publications
Books:  "To Helsinki," Duke University Press, 1985, second edition and paperback edition, 1987; "The End of the Cold War," Stanford University, 1995; "Helsinki Revisited: A Key U.S. Negotiator's Memoirs on the Development of the CSCE into the OSCE", ibidem Press, 2016; "The Unknown Peace Agreement. How the Helsinki–Geneva–Vienna–Paris Negotiations of the CSCE Produced the Final Peace Agreement and Concluded World War Two in Europe"
ibidem Press 2022. Articles: A considerable number of articles on international relations, which were published in distinguished dailies and quarterly magazines

Fiction: "The Russian Operation", Edition Noema

External links
Business-Humanitarian Forum (BHF)
United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE)

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Yale University alumni
Alumni of the London School of Economics
United States Department of State officials
United States Department of Defense officials
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<mask> (March 15, 1919 – February 26, 2002) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and tough guys, roles that mirrored his own frequent brushes with the law. In 2005, film critic David Kehr of The New York Times described "the hulking Tierney" as "not so much an actor as a frightening force of nature". Early life
<mask> was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mary Alice (née Crowley) (1895–1960) and <mask> (1891–1964). His father was an Irish-American policeman with the New York aqueduct police force. <mask> was a star athlete at Boys' High School, winning awards for track and field and joining Omega Gamma Delta fraternity. He earned an athletic scholarship to Manhattan College but quit after two years to work temporarily as a laborer constructing a section of the 85-mile-long Delaware Aqueduct, which supplies nearly half of New York City's water supply. He then bounced around the country from job to job, working for a time as a catalogue model for Sears Roebuck & Company.Career
After an acting coach suggested he try the stage, <mask> joined the Black Friars theatre group, moving on to the American-Irish Theatre. He was spotted there in 1943 by an RKO talent scout and given a film contract. In 1943 and 1944, <mask> was cast in several uncredited roles in RKO releases such as Gildersleeve on Broadway, Government Girl, The Ghost Ship for producer Val Lewton, The Falcon Out West, Seven Days Ashore, and Youth Runs Wild, also for Lewton. Dillinger and stardom
<mask>'s breakthrough role was starring as 1930s bank robber John Dillinger in 1945's Dillinger, made for the King Brothers and Monogram Pictures, which borrowed him from RKO. Advertised as a tale "written in bullets, blood, and blondes", Dillinger was initially banned from theaters in Chicago and other cities where the gangster had operated. A low-budget production that cost $60,000 to make, Dillinger nevertheless proved popular, with Tierney being characterized as "memorably menacing". Back at RKO, <mask> resumed his work there in small and supporting roles in Those Endearing Young Charms (1945), Back to Bataan (1945) (with John Wayne in one scene), Mama Loves Papa (1946), and in the Western Badman's Territory (1946) in which he portrays Jesse James.However, as ticket sales for Dillinger continued to rise and that film's financial success became apparent at RKO, the studio promoted <mask> in 1946 to star status in Step by Step, another film noir, one that portrays an ex-Marine being falsely accused of murder. He next starred as a reformed prison inmate in the 1946 release San Quentin. The next year he was cast as the lead in two more RKO productions that have since gained cult followings among film noir enthusiasts: The Devil Thumbs a Ride directed by Felix E. Feist and the more notorious Born to Kill directed by Robert Wise. In Feist's film, <mask> plays a homicidal hitch-hiker, while under Wise's direction he portrays a suave but murderous conman. Film critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times condemned Born to Kill upon its release in 1947, professing that it was "not only morally disgusting but an offense to a normal intellect." He decried Tierney "as the bold, bad killer whose ambition is to 'fix it so's I can spit in anybody's eye,'" being "given outrageous license to demonstrate the histrionics of nastiness." Despite such negative contemporary reviews of the film, more recent critics and film historians have expressed admiration for <mask>'s intense performance and identified the production as a quintessential example of film noir, in particular of RKO's approach to the genre.Yet, in reflecting on his career, <mask> himself maintained he did not like playing such violent roles:

Following Born to Kill, <mask> was periodically cast in more sympathetic roles. In RKO's 1948 release Bodyguard, based on a story co-written by Robert Altman and George W. George, he plays a man wrongly accused of murder. That year RKO also announced its intentions to star him in The Clay Pigeon, but Bill Williams was instead assigned the leading role. Post-RKO
In 1950, <mask> was cast by Eagle-Lion Films to star in Kill or Be Killed, directed by Max Nosseck, who had also directed Dillinger. That same year, however, <mask> only received second billing in Joseph Pevney's Shakedown, although in 1951 he returned to a starring role in another film produced by Eagle Lion and directed by Nosseck: The Hoodlum. He then returned to RKO to play a supporting role, performing again as Jesse James in Best of the Badmen (1951). After co-starring in The Bushwhackers (1952), director Cecil B. DeMille cast him as the villain who causes a train wreck in the 1952 Best Picture Oscar-winner The Greatest Show on Earth.<mask>'s supporting work in that film earned him a request by the director of Paramount Pictures to put him under contract, but that proposal was dropped by the studio when the actor was arrested for fighting in a bar. Additional supporting roles and return to the stage
For the remainder of the 1950s, <mask> continued to work in supporting roles in The Man Behind the Badge, The Steel Cage (1954), and Singing in the Dark (1956). He did share top billing with Kathleen Crowley, John Carradine, and Jayne Mansfield in the low-budget film noir Female Jungle (1956), but as offers of further screen work steadily declined, he returned to the stage, playing Duke Mantee in a touring version of The Petrified Forest alongside Franchot Tone and Betsy von Furstenberg. Television
During the 1950s and 1960s, <mask> also had guest roles in many television series, including Naked City, The Detectives, New York Confidential, Man with a Camera, Adventures in Paradise, Peter Gunn, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Follow the Sun, Bus Stop, The Lloyd Bridges Show, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Among his film roles were parts in John Cassavetes' A Child Is Waiting (1963), Naked Evil (1966), Custer of the West (1967), and Killer Without a Face (1968). After Child is Waiting he moved to France. After several years of living in France, <mask> returned to New York City, but his troubles with the law continued.In New York City, he worked as a bartender and construction worker, and drove a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park. 1970–1982
According to the book The Films of John Avildsen: Rocky, The Karate Kid and Other Underdogs, <mask> was supposed to play the role of Joe Curran in Avildsen's 1970 hit Joe but due to an incident two days before principal photography began, when he was arrested for assaulting a bartender who refused to serve him any more liquor, he was fired. During the 1970s, he occasionally found film work, appearing in a bit part as a security guard in Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends (1971), as an FBI agent in Joseph Zito's Abduction (1975), in Andy Warhol's Bad, in 1976 (which he later described as "a terrible experience—unprofessional"), as well as small roles in Cassavetes' Gloria (1980) and Zito's The Prowler (1981). He was also in The Kirlian Witness (1980), Bloodrage (1980), and Arthur (1981). He was billed second in Midnight (1982). Return to Hollywood
<mask> returned to Hollywood in December 1983, and over the next 16 years, resumed a fairly successful acting career in film and television. He guest-starred on television shows such as Remington Steele, Fame, Hunter, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and The Simpsons, where former show runner Josh Weinstein called <mask>'s appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had".In 1984, <mask> appeared as part of a national campaign in an Excedrin TV commercial playing a construction worker. In 1985, he had a small speaking role as the chief of the New York City police in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor. Between 1985 to 1987, <mask> made several guest appearances on the last two seasons of the police drama Hill Street Blues, portraying Desk Sergeant Jenkins working the precinct's night shifts. He spoke the last line of dialogue on the series' final episode when he answered the front desk phone, uttering "Hill Street." <mask> had a more substantial supporting role as the father of protagonist Ryan O'Neal in Norman Mailer's film adaptation of his own novel Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987). He also played a baseball-bat wielding bar owner in the film adaptation of Stephen King's Silver Bullet. <mask> credited Tough Guys Don't Dance in particular with rejuvenating his acting career, and he personally ranked it as some of his best work.In 1988, <mask> played Cyrus Redblock, a tough holodeck gangster in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Big Goodbye". In February 1991, he guest-starred as Elaine Benes's gruff father Alton Benes in the Seinfeld episode "The Jacket". Reservoir Dogs
In 1991, Quentin Tarantino cast him in a supporting role as crime lord Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs. The success of the film bookended <mask>'s career in playing gangsters. In an homage to his first starring role, <mask> reports that one of his henchmen was "dead as Dillinger". During production, <mask>'s off-screen antics both amused and disturbed the cast and crew. At the end of his first week of directing Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino got into a fist fight with <mask> and fired him.He later referred to <mask> as "a complete lunatic" who "just needed to be sedated". Despite his reputation as a brawler and being difficult to work with, <mask> remained in steady demand as a character actor in Hollywood until he suffered a mild stroke in 1995 which made him gradually slow his career. He had suffered a previous stroke in 1982. He turned to doing voice-over work on animated features and made occasional appearances in film and television (most of which feature him only sitting) as his health slowly deteriorated until his death. One of <mask>'s later roles was an uncredited cameo appearance as Bruce Willis' invalid father in Armageddon (1998) in a short scene which ended up being deleted from the theatrical version. The same year, his long-time agent, Don Gerler, recounted Tierney's continuing troubles with the law: "A few years back [in 1994] I was still bailing him out of jail. He was 75 years old and still the toughest guy in the bar!"His final acting role was a small part in the 1999 independent film Evicted, written and directed by his nephew <mask>, after which <mask>, then age 80, retired from acting altogether. Off-screen troubles
<mask>'s numerous arrests for being drunk and disorderly and jail terms for assault on civilians and lawmen alike took a toll on his career. He was an admitted alcoholic who tried to go sober in 1982 after having a mild stroke, once observing during a 1987 interview that he "threw away about seven careers through drink". Between 1944 and 1951, <mask> was arrested over 12 times in Los Angeles for brawling, frequently for drunkenness which included ripping a public telephone off a wall in a bar, hitting a waiter in the face with a sugar bowl for refusing to serve him any more drinks, and attempting to choke a taxi driver. He was jailed for three months for brawling in May 1947 and again in June 1949 and drunkenness in January 1949 and October 1950. His legal troubles included a 90-day jail sentence which he served from August to October 1951 for breaking a New York college student's jaw during another barroom brawl. He served 66 days in the city jail in Chicago, Illinois from March to May 1952 for drunk and disorderly charges.In October 1951, he was sent to a mental hospital in Chicago after being found disheveled in a church. In New York City, he was arrested for assault and battery of a barroom pianist in August 1953 and again in October 1958 for resisting arrest and assaulting two police officers in another barroom brawl. At the time of his 1958 arrest outside a Manhattan bar, The New York Times reported that he had been arrested six times in California and five in New York City on similar charges. In January 1973, he was stabbed in a bar fight on the West Side of Manhattan. Two years later, <mask> was questioned by New York City police in connection with the apparent suicide of a 24-year-old woman who had jumped from the window of her high-rise apartment. <mask> told police "I had just gotten there, and she just went out the window." He never was arrested or charged with the young woman's death.The apparent suicide closely resembles the death of Rosa, played by Allene Roberts in the 1951 film The Hoodlum. <mask>’s Vincent Lubeck, the hoodlum of the title, is suspected of driving Rosa into throwing herself off a roof shortly after talking to Lubeck. In July 1991, during the filming of Reservoir Dogs, <mask> shot at his nephew in a drunken rage at his Hollywood apartment, and was arrested and bailed. He was released for a day from the jail to continue filming, as recounted by the film's director Quentin Tarantino in an interview. As a result, Tarantino never again worked with or hired <mask> to act in his films. Personal life and death
With much of his career and personal life repeatedly embroiled in legal problems and hampered by alcoholism, <mask> elected to never marry. He did, though, father one child; a daughter named Elizabeth who was born in 1961.Both of <mask>'s younger brothers preceded him in death, Edward dying in 1983 and Gerard (actor Scott Brady) in 1985. On February 26, 2002, at age 82, <mask> died in his sleep of pneumonia in a Los Angeles nursing home, where he had been residing for nearly two years. Selected filmography

 Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943) as Cab Driver (uncredited)
 Government Girl (1943) as FBI Man (uncredited)
 The Ghost Ship (1943) as Seaman Louie Parker (uncredited)
 The Falcon Out West (1944) as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
 Seven Days Ashore (1944) as Crewman (uncredited)
 Youth Runs Wild (1944) as Larry Duncan
 Dillinger (1945) as John Dillinger
 Those Endearing Young Charms (1945) as Lt. Ted Brewster
 Back to Bataan (1945) as Lt. Cmdr. Waite
 Mama Loves Papa (1945) as Sharpe
 Sing Your Way Home (1945) as Reporter in Paris (uncredited)
 Badman's Territory (1946) as Jesse James
 Step By Step (1946) as Johnny Christopher
 San Quentin (1946) as Jim Roland
 The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) as Steve Morgan
 Born to Kill (1947) as Sam
 Bodyguard (1948) as Mike Carter
 Kill or Be Killed (1950) as Robert Warren
 Shakedown (1950) as Harry Colton
 The Hoodlum (1951) as Vincent Lubeck
 Best of the Badmen (1951) as Jesse James
 The Bushwackers (1951) as Sam Tobin
 The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) as Mr. Henderson
 The Steel Cage (1954) as Chet Harmon, a Ringleader (segment "The Hostages")
 Female Jungle (1956) as Det. Sgt. Jack Stevens
 Singing in the Dark (1956) as Biff Lamont
 A Child Is Waiting (1963) as Douglas Benham
 Naked Evil (1966) as The Doctor (U.S. version)
 Custer of the West (1967) as Gen. Philip Sheridan
 Killer Without a Face (1968)
 Such Good Friends (1971) as Hospital Guard
 Abduction (1975) as FBI Agent I
 Andy Warhol's Bad (1977) as O'Reilly-O'Crapface
 The Kirlian Witness (1979) as Detective
 Bloodrage (1980) as Malone
 Gloria (1980) as Broadway Bartender
 Arthur (1981) as Man in Coffee Shop
 The Prowler (1981) as Maj. Chatham
 Midnight (1982) as Bert Johnson
 Terrible Joe Moran (1984) as Pico
 Nothing Lasts Forever (1984) as Carriage Driver
 Prizzi's Honor (1985) as Lt. Hanley
 Silver Bullet (1985) as Owen Knopfler
 Murphy's Law (1986) as Cameron
 From a Whisper to a Scream (1987) as Warden
 Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) as Dougy Madden
 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) as Angel Manager
 House III: The Horror Show (1989) as Warden
 Why Me?(1990) as Armenian Robber #1
 Dillinger (1991) as Sheriff Sarber
 Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991) as Slave Master
 The Runestone (1991) as Chief Richardson
 City of Hope (1991) as Kerrigan
 The Death Merchant (1991) as Ivan Yates
 Reservoir Dogs (1992) as Joe Cabot
 Eddie Presley (1992) as Joe West
 Junior (1994) as Mover
 Starstruck (1995) as Patron
 Fatal Passion (1995) as Robert Pearlman
 2 Days in the Valley (1996) as Older Man
 American Hero (1997) as Captain Roads
 Southie (1998) as Colie Powers
 Armageddon (1998) as Eddie "Gramp" Stamper (uncredited)
 Evicted (1999) as Bob (final film role)

References

External links

 <mask> Official Website

 Todd Mecklem's Tierney tribute
 Essay on Tierney by writer Eddie Muller

1919 births
2002 deaths
Male actors from New York City
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male stage actors
RKO Pictures contract players
American people of Irish descent
People from Brooklyn
Deaths from pneumonia in California
20th-century American male actors
Boys High School (Brooklyn) alumni

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