Media Arts and Film
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Biographical Sources A Biographical Dictionary of Film, 3d ed. PN1998.2 .T49 1994 Main Ref.
Biographical description of directors, performers, producers, etc. Includes complete filmography for directors and a representative list of film credits for others. Offers general background and information as well as some critical commentary. Entry length varies from one paragraph to two pages.
Biography and genealogy master index
An index to hundreds of sources with biographical information on people worldwide and from all time periods. Does not give actual biographical information, only information on which reference resources one can find that information in.
Biography Resource Center (Marquis' Who's Who)
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 1,000,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It contains more than one million biographies. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.
Facts on File
World news coverage from Facts on File News Services and Reuters, including the complete Facts on File World News Digest, 1940-present. Includes editorials, obituaries, government leaders, country profiles, plus additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1940.
Variety Obituaries, 1905-1990 PN 1583 V35 1988 Main Ref.
Facsimile printing of obituaries from Variety magazine between 1905-1990. Includes news articles, special obituary columns and formal obituaries. Arranged chronologically. 13 volumes indexed.
Who's Who in Television and Cable PN1992.4.A2 W44 1983 Main Ref.
Who's Who style biographical listings. Includes 2500 professionals related to the television and cable industries. Short entries include educational and employment history, awards, career highlights and sometimes personal information.
World Biographical Dictionary of Artists (CD-ROM) In CD Cabinet, Information Commons.
Contains some 300,000 entries, including 18,868 references and 281,070 biographical documents. 20,085 biographical documents are based on 'hidden' biographies." Includes articles from Thieme-Becker and Vollmer. In English and German. Print Equivalent: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. Main Ref N40 .V6 and Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Main Ref N40 .T4
(Wilson) Biography Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank contains narrative profiles of over a half million people. Included are the original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (covering many print volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson and others, including all volumes of Current Biography), combined with thorough periodicals coverage of Biography Index and full text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases.
Motion Picture Studios