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Brendan Gleeson
Gleeson at the British Independent Film Awards, 2014
Born
(1955-03-29) 29 March 1955 (age 62)
Dublin, Ireland
Residence
Dublin, Ireland
Nationality
Irish
Other names
Breeses Gleesies
Occupation
Actor, Film director
Years active
1989–present
Spouse(s)
Mary Weldon (m. 1982)
Children
4; including Domhnall and Brian
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA Awards, one Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and three times for a Golden Globe Award.
His best-known performances include supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Lake Placid (1999), Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Gangs of New York (2002), 28 Days Later (2002), Troy (2004), as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–10), Albert Nobbs (2011), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Assassin's Creed (2016), and leading roles in films such as In Bruges (2009), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014) and Live by Night (2016). He won an Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm.
He is also the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson.
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Musical talent
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
4.1 Film
4.2 Television
5 References
6 External links
Early life[edit]
Gleeson was born in Dublin, the son of Pat and Frank Gleeson.[1] Gleeson has described himself as having been an avid reader as a child.[2] He received his second level education at St Joseph's CBS in Fairview, Dublin where he was a member of the school drama group. After training as an actor, he worked for several years as a secondary school teacher of Irish and English at the now defunct Catholic Belcamp College in North County Dublin, which closed in 2004.[3][4] He was working simultaneously as an actor while teaching, doing semi-professional and professional productions in Dublin and surrounding areas. He left the teaching profession to commit full-time to acting in 1991.
In an NPR interview to promote Calvary, he revealed that he was abused by a Christian Brother, saying, "I remember a particular Christian Brother dropped the hand on me at one point. It wasn't very traumatic and it wasn’t at all sustained, it was just one of these things where something odd happened."[5]
Career[edit]
As a member of the Dublin-based Passion Machine, Gleeson appeared in several of the theatre company's early and highly successful plays such as Wasters (1985), Brownbread (1987) and Home (1988). He has also written three plays for Passion Machine: The Birdtable (1987) and Breaking Up (1988), both of which he directed, and Babies and Bathwater (1994) in which he acted.[6] Among his other Dublin theatre work are Patrick Süskind's one-man play The Double Bass and John B. Keane's The Year of the Hiker.
Gleeson started his film career at the age of 34.[7] He first came to prominence in Ireland for his role as Michael Collins in The Treaty, a television film broadcast on RTÉ One, and for which he won a Jacob's Award in 1992. He has acted in such films as Braveheart, I Went Down, Michael Collins, Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Lake Placid, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Mission: Impossible 2, and The Village. He won critical acclaim for his performance as Irish gangster Martin Cahill in John Boorman's 1998 film The General.
In 2003, Gleeson was the voice of Hugh the Miller in an episode of the Channel 4 animated series Wilde Stories.[8]
While Gleeson portrayed Irish statesman Michael Collins in The Treaty, he later portrayed Collins' close collaborator Liam Tobin in the film Michael Collins with Liam Neeson taking the role of Collins.[9] Gleeson later went on to portray Winston Churchill in Into the Storm. Gleeson won an Emmy Award for his performance. Gleeson played Hogwarts professor Mad-Eye Moody in the fourth, fifth and seventh Harry Potter films. His son Domhnall played Bill Weasley in the seventh and eighth films.
Brendan Gleeson, September 2005
Gleeson provided the voice of Abbot Cellach in The Secret of Kells, an animated film co-directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey of Cartoon Saloon which premiered in February 2009 at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.[10]
Gleeson starred in the short film Six Shooter in 2006, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. This film was written and directed by Martin McDonagh who also wrote and directed In Bruges in 2008. The film, and Gleeson's performance, enjoyed huge critical acclaim, earning Gleeson several award nominations, including his first Golden Globe nomination. In the movie, Gleeson plays a mentor-like figure for Colin Farrell's hitman. In his review of In Bruges, Roger Ebert described the elder Gleeson as having a "noble shambles of a face and the heft of a boxer gone to seed."[11]
Gleeson will be making his directorial debut in a film adaptation of Flann O'Brien's novel At Swim-Two-Birds. The Irish production company Parallel Pictures will produce the film with a budget of $11 million. Colin Farrell, Gabriel Byrne, and Cillian Murphy have been attached to star in the film, which was originally set for release in 2010.[12] In October 2009, however, Gleeson expressed concern that the Irish Film Board's budget might be reduced given the state of the Irish economy and that At Swim-Two-Birds might fall through.[13] Gleeson confirmed in July 2011, that he has secured funding for the project. He described the writing of the script as tortuous, saying that it has taken fourteen drafts so far.[14]
In July 2012, he started filming The Grand Seduction, with Taylor Kitsch, a remake of Jean-François Pouliot's French-Canadian La Grande Séduction (2003) directed by Don McKellar; the film was released in 2013.[15] In 2016, he appeared in the video game adaptation Assassin's Creed and Ben Affleck's crime drama Live by Night. In 2017 he finished Psychic, a short he directed and starred in.[16]
Musical talent[edit]
Gleeson is a fiddle and mandolin player, with an interest in Irish folklore.[2] He played the fiddle during his role in Cold Mountain, Michael Collins and also The Grand Seduction, and also features on Altan's 2009 live album.[17]
Personal life[edit]
He has been married to Mary (née Weldon) since 1982. He has four sons; Domhnall, Brían, Fergus, and Rúairí. Domhnall and Brían are also actors.[18] Gleeson speaks fluent Irish and is an advocate of the promotion of the Irish language. Gleeson is a fan of Football League Championship team Aston Villa, as is his son Domhnall.[19]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1990 The Field Quarryman
1992 The Bargain Shop Jim Kennedy
1992 M.A.N.: Matrix Adjusted Normal Dr. Abraham Short film
1992 Far and Away Social Club Policeman
1992 Conneely's Choice Josie Conneely Short film
1992 Into the West Inspector Bolger
1995 The Life of Reilly Patient Short film
1995 Braveheart Hamish Campbell
1996 Angela Mooney Barney Mooney
1996 Michael Collins Liam Tobin
1996 Trojan Eddie Ginger
1997 Spaghetti Slow Frank Ferguson
1997 Turbulence Stubbs
1997 The Butcher Boy Father Bubbles
1997 A Further Gesture Richard
1997 I Went Down Bunny Kelly Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
1997 Before I Sleep John Harte Short film
1998 The General Martin Cahill Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1998 The Tale of Sweety Barrett Sweet Barrett
1999 Lake Placid Sheriff Hank Keough
1999 My Life So Far Jim Menries
2000 Mission: Impossible 2 John C. McCloy
2000 Harrison's Flowers Marc Stevenson
2000 Saltwater Simple Simon
2000 Wild About Harry Harry McKee
2001 J.J. Biker
2001 Cáca Milis Pól Short film
2001 The Tailor of Panama Michelangelo 'Mickie' Abraxas
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence Lord Johnson-Johnson
2002 28 Days Later Frank
2002 Gangs of New York Walter 'Monk' McGinn
2002 Dark Blue Jack Van Meter
2003 Cold Mountain Stobrod Thewes
2004 In My Country De Jager
2004 Troy Menelaus
2004 The Village August Nicholson
2004 Six Shooter Donnelly Short film
2005 Kingdom of Heaven Raynald of Châtillon
2005 Breakfast on Pluto John Joe Kenny
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody/Bartemius Crouch Jr.
2006 Studs Walter Keegan Nominated—IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Film
2006 The Tiger's Tail Liam O'Leary
2007 Black Irish Desmond
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
2007 Beowulf Wiglaf Motion-capture
2008 In Bruges Ken Nominated—IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Film
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2009 The Secret of Kells Abbot Cellach Voice
2009 Perrier's Bounty Darren Perrier Nominated—IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Film
2010 Green Zone Martin Brown
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
2010 Noreen Con Keogh Short film
2011 The Guard Sergeant Gerry Boyle Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated—IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film
2011 Albert Nobbs Dr. Holloran Nominated—IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Film
2011 The Cup Dermot Weld
2012 Safe House David Barlow
2012 The Raven Captain Charles Hamilton
2012 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Pirate with Gout Voice
2012 The Company You Keep Henry Osborne
2013 The Smurfs 2 Victor Doyle
2013 The Grand Seduction Murray French
2014 Calvary Father James Lavelle British Independent Film Award for Best Actor
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film
Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
2014 Edge of Tomorrow General Brigham
2014 Song of the Sea Conor / Mac Lir Voices
2014 Stonehearst Asylum The Alienist
2015 Suffragette Arthur Steed British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
2015 In the Heart of the Sea Old Thomas Nickerson
2015 Pursuit Searbhán
2016 Alone in Berlin Otto Quangel
2016 Trespass Against Us Colby
2016 Atlantic Narrator Voice
Documentary
2016 Live by Night Thomas Coughlin
2016 Assassin's Creed Joseph Lynch
2017 Hampstead Horner
2017 Paddington 2[20] Knuckles McGinty
Television[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1989 Dear Sarah Brendan Dowd Television film
1990 Hard Shoulder Lorry Driver Television film
1991 Saint Oscar Television film
1991 The Treaty Michael Collins Television film
1991 In the Border Country Farmer Television play
1993 The Snapper Lester Television film
1993 Screenplay Thomas Macken Episode: "Love Lies Bleeding"
1994 The Lifeboat Leslie Parry 9 episodes
1995 Kidnapped Red Fox Television film
1998 Making the Cut Flanagan Television film
1998 This Is My Father Garda Jim Television film
2009 Into the Storm Winston Churchill Television film
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie
Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated—IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Television
Nominated—British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
2017–present Mr. Mercedes Bill Hodges 10 episodes 2017 Psychic (Short Film) Acting and directing. Also starring Domhall and Brian Gleeson. Written by Ruari Gleeson and music by Fergus Gleeson. 2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Television miniseries
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "The heart of the matter" Archived 11 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine. 17 February 2011, RTE.ie
^ Jump up to: a b In Conversations with Eamon scruphy Archived 20 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine. 10 November 2007, RTÉ
Jump up ^ "School is out for Brandon Gleeson", 23 July 1999, Entertainment Weekly
Jump up ^ "Gannon to get €400m for Belcamp College site" Archived 4 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine. 10 September 2006, Business Post
Jump up ^ "Brendan Gleeson reveals abuse by Christian Brother". Independent.ie.
Jump up ^ "Irish Theatre Institute's Playography database". Irish Theatre Institute.
Jump up ^ "STARS WHO HIT IT BIG AFTER 30". The Hype. Archived from the original on 23 August 2013.
Jump up ^ "The Devoted Friend". Wilde Stories. Channel 4. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
Jump up ^ Brendan Gleeson on Foodandwine.net
Jump up ^ "THE SECRET OF KELLS to screen at the Dublin International Film Festival" 10 December 2008, Irish Film Board web site
Jump up ^ Review of In Bruges by Ebert at Rogerebrt.com
Jump up ^ RTÉ article on At Swim Two Birds RTÉ
Jump up ^ Quote from Irish Examiner re Irish Film Board funding Irish Examiner
Jump up ^ Gleeson, Sinead (16 July 2011). "Capturing the Glee Factor". Irish Times. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
Jump up ^ Fleming, Mike (30 July 2012). "Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch Find 'The Grand Seduction'". Deadline.com. PMC. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
Jump up ^ https://www.irishfilmboard.ie/news/shooting-wraps-on-brendan-gleesons-debut-short-film-psychic
Jump up ^ "Altan EPK". Mpibands.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
Jump up ^ "Capturing the Glee factor", 16 July 2011, The Irish Times
Jump up ^ "Star Wars actor Gleeson: Villa Wembley win was special day" Archived 16 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine., 13 May 2015, Aston Villa
Jump up ^ "Hugh Grant joins Paddington sequel as shooting begins".
External links[edit]
Brendan Gleeson on IMDb
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BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film
Ray Winstone (1998)
Ian McKellen (1999)
Daniel Craig (2000)
Ben Kingsley (2001)
James Nesbitt (2002)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2003)
Phil Davis (2004)
Ralph Fiennes (2005)
Tony Curran (2006)
Viggo Mortensen (2007)
Michael Fassbender (2008)
Tom Hardy (2009)
Colin Firth (2010)
Michael Fassbender (2011)
Toby Jones (2012)
James McAvoy (2013)
Brendan Gleeson (2014)
Tom Hardy (2015)
Dave Johns (2016)
Josh O'Connor (2017)
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Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Robert De Niro (1980)
Burt Lancaster (1981)
Dustin Hoffman (1982)
Eric Roberts (1983)
Haing S. Ngor (1984)
Jack Nicholson (1985)
Bob Hoskins (1986)
Albert Brooks (1987)
Daniel Day-Lewis (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
Jeremy Irons (1990)
Nick Nolte (1991)
Denzel Washington (1992)
Daniel Day-Lewis (1993)
Albert Finney (1994)
Nicolas Cage (1995)
Geoffrey Rush (1996)
Al Pacino (1997)
Brendan Gleeson (1998)
Jim Carrey (1999)
Colin Farrell (2000)
Brian Cox / Denzel Washington (2001)
Adrien Brody (2002)
Bill Murray (2003)
Jamie Foxx (2004)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
Forest Whitaker (2006)
Frank Langella (2007)
Sean Penn / Mickey Rourke (2008)
Jeremy Renner (2009)
Jesse Eisenberg (2010)
Brad Pitt (2011)
Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2013)
Michael Keaton (2014)
Paul Dano / Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
Casey Affleck (2016)
Daniel Kaluuya (2017)
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Robert Cummings (1955)
Lloyd Nolan (1956)
Jack Palance (1957)
Peter Ustinov (1958)
Fred Astaire (1959)
Laurence Olivier (1960)
Maurice Evans (1961)
Peter Falk (1962)
Trevor Howard (1963)
Jack Klugman (1964)
Alfred Lunt (1965)
Cliff Robertson (1966)
Peter Ustinov (1967)
Melvyn Douglas (1968)
Paul Scofield (1969)
Peter Ustinov (1970)
George C. Scott (1971)
Keith Michell (1972)
Laurence Olivier (1973)
Anthony Murphy (1973)
Hal Holbrook (1974)
William Holden (1974)
Laurence Olivier (1975)
Peter Falk (1975)
Anthony Hopkins (1976)
Hal Holbrook (1976)
Ed Flanders (1977)
Christopher Plummer (1977)
Fred Astaire (1978)
Michael Moriarty (1978)
Peter Strauss (1979)
Powers Boothe (1980)
Anthony Hopkins (1981)
Mickey Rooney (1982)
Tommy Lee Jones (1983)
Laurence Olivier (1984)
Richard Crenna (1985)
Dustin Hoffman (1986)
James Woods (1987)
Jason Robards (1988)
James Woods (1989)
Hume Cronyn (1990)
John Gielgud (1991)
Beau Bridges (1992)
Robert Morse (1993)
Hume Cronyn (1994)
Raúl Juliá (1995)
Alan Rickman (1996)
Armand Assante (1997)
Gary Sinise (1998)
Stanley Tucci (1999)
Jack Lemmon (2000)
Kenneth Branagh (2001)
Albert Finney (2002)
William H. Macy (2003)
Al Pacino (2004)
Geoffrey Rush (2005)
Andre Braugher (2006)
Robert Duvall (2007)
Paul Giamatti (2008)
Brendan Gleeson (2009)
Al Pacino (2010)
Barry Pepper (2011)
Kevin Costner (2012)
Michael Douglas (2013)
Benedict Cumberbatch (2014)
Richard Jenkins (2015)
Courtney B. Vance (2016)
Riz Ahmed (2017)
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London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year
Alan Rickman (1991)
Daniel Day-Lewis (1992)
David Thewlis (1993)
Ralph Fiennes (1994)
Nigel Hawthorne (1995)
Ewan McGregor / Ian McKellen (1996)
Robert Carlyle (1997)
Brendan Gleeson (1998)
Jeremy Northam (1999)
Jim Broadbent (2000)
Paul Bettany (2001)
Hugh Grant (2002)
Paul Bettany (2003)
Daniel Craig (2004)
Ralph Fiennes (2005)
Toby Jones (2006)
James McAvoy (2007)
Michael Fassbender (2008)
Colin Firth (2009)
Christian Bale (2010)
Michael Fassbender (2011)
Toby Jones (2012)
James McAvoy (2013)
Timothy Spall (2014)
Tom Hardy (2015)
Andrew Garfield (2016)
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Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
Alan Rickman (1996)
Gary Sinise (1997)
Delroy Lindo (1998)
William H. Macy (1999)
James Woods (2000)
Richard Dreyfuss (2001)
William H. Macy (2002)
James Woods (2003)
Jamie Foxx (2004)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2005)
Bill Nighy (2006)
David Oyelowo (2007)
Paul Giamatti (2008)
Brendan Gleeson (2009)
Al Pacino (2010)
Jason Isaacs (2011)
Benedict Cumberbatch (2012)
Michael Douglas (2013)
Mark Ruffalo (2014)
Mark Rylance (2015)
Bryan Cranston (2016)
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George Barnes
Background information
Birth name
George Warren Barnes
Born
(1921-07-17)July 17, 1921
South Chicago Heights, Illinois, U.S.
Died
September 5, 1977(1977-09-05) (aged 56)
Concord, California
Genres
Jazz
blues
swing
pop
rock
R&B
Occupation(s)
Musician
arranger
composer
music educator
Instruments
Guitar
Years active
1931–1977
Labels
Okeh
Decca
Mercury
Concord Jazz
Associated acts
Carl Kress
Bucky Pizzarelli
Ruby Braff
Website
georgebarneslegacy.com
George Warren Barnes (July 17, 1921 – September 5, 1977) was an American swing jazz guitarist who played the first electric guitar in 1931. He made the first commercial recording of an electric guitar on March 1, 1938, in sessions with Big Bill Broonzy.
Contents
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1 Biography
2 First recording with electric guitar
3 Style and technique
4 Discography
4.1 As leader or co-leader
5 Singles
6 References
7 External links
Biography[edit]
Barnes was born in South Chicago Heights, Illinois in 1921. His father was a guitarist and taught Barnes acoustic guitar at the age of nine. A year later, in 1931, Barnes's brother made a pickup and amplifier for him. Barnes said that he was the first person to play electric guitar. From 1935–1937, he had his own band that performed in the Midwest.[1]
On March 1, 1938, he recorded the songs "Sweetheart Land" and "It's a Lowdown Dirty Shame" with blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy, and in doing so he became the first person to make a record on electric guitar, fifteen days before Eddie Durham recorded on electric guitar with the Kansas City Five. In 1938, when he was seventeen, he was hired as staff guitarist for the NBC Orchestra. He was also staff guitarist and arranger for Decca Records and recorded with Blind John Davis, Jazz Gillum, Merline Johnson, Curtis Jones, and Washboard Sam.[1]
In 1940, Barnes released his first solo recording, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" and "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" on Okeh Records. He was drafted in 1942 and served with the U.S. Army as an intercept operator in the Pentagon. After his discharge in 1946, he formed the George Barnes Octet and was given a fifteen-minute radio program on the ABC network. On January 17, 1947, he married Evelyn Lorraine Triplett in Chicago.
In 1951, he was signed to Decca Records by Milt Gabler and moved from Chicago to New York City. In 1953, he joined the orchestra for the television show Your Hit Parade. The band was conducted by Raymond Scott, and Barnes was a featured soloist. Barnes, Scott, and vocalist Dorothy Collins (Scott's wife) also recorded together.
Barnes worked often as a studio musician in New York City, playing on hundreds of albums and jingles from the early 1950s through the late 1960s. He played guitar on Patsy Cline's New York sessions in April 1957. Although he was primarily a swing jazz guitarist,[2] he participated in hundreds of pop, rock, and R&B recording sessions. He played on many hit songs by the Coasters, on "This Magic Moment" by the Drifters, on "Lonely Teardrops" by Jackie Wilson, and on "Lipstick on Your Collar" by Connie Francis. His electric guitar can be heard in the movie A Face in the Crowd.
He recorded three albums for Mercury Records: Movin' Easy (1960) with his Jazz Renaissance Quintet, Guitar Galaxies (1960), and Guitars Galore (1961). The latter two contained his orchestrations for ten guitars, known as his guitar choir, which used guitars in place of a horn section. The two albums employed a recording technique known as Perfect Presence Sound.
Barnes received the most attention as a jazz guitarist when he recorded as a duo with Carl Kress from 1961–1965.[1] He and Kress were invited to play at the White House Christmas party on December 17, 1964. For the occasion, Barnes wrote "Watusi for Luci" for First Daughter Luci Baines Johnson because she was famous for dancing the Watusi in clubs with Hollywood celebrities. The song was used as the theme for The Clay Cole Show in 1965, when the TV show was renamed Clay Cole's Discotek.
Barnes formed a duo with jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli that lasted from 1969–1972. In 1973, he and cornetist Ruby Braff formed the Ruby Braff–George Barnes Quartet.[1] The quartet recorded several albums, including Live at the New School (Chiaroscuro, 1974), To Fred Astaire with Love (RCA, 1975), and The Rodgers and Hart Songbook (1973) with singer Tony Bennett. From 1973 until 1977, Barnes recorded several well-received solo albums for Concord Jazz and with the quartet he had formed with Braff. He also recorded two albums for jazz violinist Joe Venuti.
Barnes and his wife, Evelyn, left New York City after his last European tour in 1975 to live and work in the San Francisco Bay area. He died of a heart attack in Concord, California in 1977 at the age of 56.
First recording with electric guitar[edit]
Barnes played an electric guitar on two songs, "Sweetheart Land" and "It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame", recorded by Big Bill Broonzy and produced by Lester Melrose in Chicago on March 1, 1938. Some historians attribute the first recording with electric guitar to Eddie Durham, Durham's recording in 1935 was the first to record an electrically amplified guitar[1] with Jimmie Lunceford in 'Hittin' The Bottle' that was recorded in New York for the Decca label.[2] Several recordings of an electric lap steel guitar precede both, including recordings by Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies with Bob Dunn on electric lap steel as early as January 1935. But Broonzy's 1938 session with Barnes is the first to feature an electrically amplified (non–lap steel) guitar.
Style and technique[edit]
Barnes's style took shape before the development of bebop, and he remained a swing stylist throughout his career. His lines were usually short, melodic, bluesy and "inside" (i.e., diatonic), compared to the chromaticism and long lines of bop-era guitarists. His improvisations often employed call and response phrases, and his tone was clearer, cleaner and brighter than many other jazz guitarists (such as Joe Pass or Jim Hall) and reflected his "happy" approach to music.
Not long before his death, he recorded three live albums—two produced from an April 17, 1977 concert at the San Francisco club Bimbo's 365, the other at the Willows Theatre in Concord, California. The albums are good examples of his swinging, happy and often mischievous style. The albums also include his banter with the audience and his introductions of tunes and his band, giving the listener a glimpse of his sense of humor.
In a review of the album Don't Get Around Much Anymore (material from a 1977 concert in Concord, California, recorded a little more than a month before Barnes's sudden death at the age of 56), Jim Ferguson wrote, "Often overlooked in a sea of more modern-sounding, bebop-oriented guitarists, George Barnes could swing like mad and spin out intricate, frequently bluesy phrases with awesome precision and musicality.... From start to finish, this well-recorded performance demonstrates the qualities that qualify Barnes for a position among the most elite players in the annals of jazz guitar."[3]
In 1942, Barnes wrote the first electric guitar method, The George Barnes Electric Guitar Method, published by Wm. J. Smith. In 1961, he wrote and recorded George Barnes' Living Guitar Method; The Easy Way to Learn All the Chords and Rhythms and Ten Duets for Two Guitars (recorded with his partner Carl Kress) for Music Minus One. In 1965, he wrote How to Arrange for Solo Guitar, published by Peermusic. He also produced the first guitar course offered on cassette tape, The Great George Barnes Guitar Course, published in 1970 by Prentice Hall.
Discography[edit]
By release date
As leader or co-leader[edit]
Guitar Galaxies (Mercury, 1960)
Guitars Galore (Mercury, 1962)
Town Hall Concert with Carl Kress (United Artists, 1963)
Guitars: Pure and Honest with Bucky Pizzarelli (A&R, 1971)
Swing, Guitars with Dick Hyman and Hank Jones (Famous Door, 1972)
The Ruby Braff George Barnes Quartet (Chiaroscuro, 1973)
The Ruby Braff George Barnes Quartet Plays Gershwin (Concord Jazz, 1974)
To Fred Astaire with Love, Ruby Braff George Barnes Quartet (RCA, 1975)
Gems with Joe Venuti (Concord Jazz, 1975)
Live at the Concord Summer Festival with Joe Venuti (Concord Jazz, 1976)
Guitars, Anyone? with Carl Kress (Carney, 1977)
Blues Going Up (Concord Jazz, 1977)
Live at the Concord Summer Festival with Joe Venuti (Concord Jazz, 1977)
Plays So Good (Concord Jazz, 1978)
Two Guitars and a Horn, with Carl Kress and Bud Freeman (Stash, 1983)
Guitars by George! (Decca)
Ten Duets for Two Guitars, with Carl Kress (Music Minus One)
Jazz Vignettes, with Bud Freeman (Mercury)
Salutes Rodgers and Hart, Ruby Braff George Barnes Quartet (Concord, 1990)
Live at The New School, Ruby Braff George Barnes Quartet (Chiaroscuro, 1994)
As Good As It Gets: Live in Aspen, with Ralph Sutton (Victoria, 2003)
Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Acoustic Disc, 2003)
The Uncollected George Barnes and His Orchestra (Hindsight, 2011)
Country Jazz (Sundazed, 2017)[4]
Singles[edit]
"Sweetheart Land"/"It's a Low Down Dirty Shame" – Big Bill Broonzy (March 1, 1938), with Bill Owsley (ts), BJ Davis (p), George Barnes (el/g)
"It's Too Late Now"/"Down at the Old Village Store"/"The Gal I Love" – Washboard Sam (March 14, 1938), with Big Bill (g), George Barnes (el/g), Black Bob (b)
"New Shake 'Em on Down"/"Night Time Is the Right Time" – Big Bill Broonzy (May 5, 1938), with Bill Owsley (cl, ts), Joshua Altheimer (p), George Barnes (el/g), unknown (b)
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"/"I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me" – George Barnes (g) (February 1940), with Duney Warren (ts), Bill Huntington (g), Ernie Newton (b)
"Lula from Honolulu" – Sweet Violet Boys (February 15, 1940), with Alan Crockett (vocal, fiddle), Augie Klein (accordion), George Barnes (electric guitar), Chick Hurt (mandolin), Salty Holmes (guitar), Bob Long (guitar), Jack Taylor (string bass), Vocalion
"Kilroy Is Here"/"Zebra's Derby"/"At the Jazz Band Ball"/"Starlight Interlude" – George Barnes Octet (1946), with various woodwinds
"A Good Night for Murder"/"Suite for Octette" – George Barnes Octet (1946)
"Movin' Easy"/"Pick Yourself Up" – George Barnes (g), Billy Bauer (g), Hank D'Amico (cl), Jack Lesberg (b), Cliff Leeman (d) (1959)
"Something Tender"/"The Eel's Nephew" – George Barnes (g), Carl Kress (g), Bud Freeman (ts) (1962)
"Watusi for Luci"/"The Jazzman Blues" – George Barnes (g), Carl Kress (g) (1965)
"Blue Skies"/"Eleanor Rigby"/"Here There and Everywhere"/"Rose Room"/"Love Story Theme" – George Barnes (g), Bucky Pizzarelli (g) (1971), Town Hall concert
"Blue Moon"/"The Lady Is a Tramp" – Tony Bennett (1973), with George Barnes (g), Ruby Braff (cornet), Wayne Wright (g), John Giuffrida (b)
"I Want to Be Happy"/"I'm Coming Virginia" – Joe Venuti (1975), Joe Venuti (v), George Barnes (g), Bob Gibbons (g), Herb Mickman (b), Jake Hanna (d)
"Moonglow"/"Fascinatin' Rhythm" – George Barnes (g), Duncan James (g), Dean Reilly (b), Benny Barth (d) (1977)
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d Yanow, Scott (2013). The great jazz guitarists : the ultimate guide. San Francisco: Backbeat. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-61713-023-6.
Jump up ^ "Rock-a-billy Hall". Rock-a-billy Hall. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
Jump up ^ JazzTimes review of Don't Get Around Much Anymore (George Barnes Quartet) by Jim Ferguson (retrieved 3 October 2011)
Jump up ^ "George Barnes | Album Discography | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
External links[edit]
George Barnes Legacy Collection
Five Pioneers of Electric Jazz Guitar (NPR, January 2013)
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Age of candidacy is the minimum age at which a person can legally qualify to hold certain elected government offices. In many cases, it also determines the age at which a person may be eligible to stand for an election or be granted ballot access.
The first known example of a law enforcing age of candidacy was the Lex Villia Annalis, a Roman law enacted in 180 BCE which set the minimum ages for senatorial magistrates.[1]
Contents
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1 Controversies
2 Reform efforts
3 In various countries
3.1 See also
4 Notes and references
Controversies[edit]
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. (December 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
In 1972, Linda Jenness ran for President of the United States although she was only 31 at the time.
Many youth rights groups view current age of candidacy requirements as unjustified age discrimination.[2] Occasionally people who are younger than the minimum age will run for an office in protest of the requirement or because they don't know that the requirement exists. On extremely rare occasions, young people have been elected to offices they do not qualify for and have been deemed ineligible to assume the office.
In 1934, Rush Holt of West Virginia was elected to the Senate of the United States at the age of 29. Since the U.S. Constitution requires senators to be at least 30, Holt was forced to wait until his 30th birthday, six months after the start of the session, before being sworn in.[3]
In 1954, Richard Fulton won election to the Tennessee Senate. Shortly after being sworn in, Fulton was ousted from office because he was only 27 years old at the time. The Tennessee State Constitution required that senators be at least 30.[4] Rather than hold a new election, the previous incumbent, Clifford Allen, was allowed to resume his office for another term. Fulton went on to win the next State Senate election in 1956 and was later elected to the US House of Representatives where he served for 10 years.
In South Carolina, two Senators aged 24 were elected, but were too young according to the State Constitution: Mike Laughlin in 1969 and Bryan Dorn (later a US Congressman) in 1941. They were seated anyway.[5]
On several occasions, the Socialist Workers Party (USA) has nominated candidates too young to qualify for the offices they were running for. In 1972, Linda Jenness ran as the SWP presidential candidate, although she was only 31 at the time. Since the U.S. Constitution requires that the President and Vice President be at least 35 years old, Jenness was not able to receive ballot access in several states in which she otherwise qualified.[6] Despite this handicap, Jenness still received 83,380 votes.[7] In 2004, the SWP nominated Arrin Hawkins as the party's vice-presidential candidate, although she was only 28 at the time. Hawkins was also unable to receive ballot access in several states due to her age.[8]
Reform efforts[edit]
In the United States, many groups have attempted to lower age of candidacy requirements in various states. In 1994, South Dakota voters rejected a ballot measure that would have lowered the age requirements to serve as a State Senator or State Representative from 30 to 18. In 1998, however, they approved a similar ballot measure that reduced the age requirements for those offices from 25 to 21. In 2002, Oregon voters rejected a ballot measure that would have reduced the age requirement to serve as a State Representative from 21 to 18.
During the early 2000s, the British Youth Council and other groups successfully campaigned to lower age of candidacy requirements in the United Kingdom.[9] The age of candidacy was reduced from 21 to 18 in England, Wales and Scotland on 1 January 2007,[10] when section 17 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 entered into force.[11]
In various countries[edit]
Country
Minimum required age
comments
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president
vice-president
prime minister
upper house
lower house
European Parliament
state/region governor
state/region vice-governor
regional parliament
mayor
municipal council
Australia - - 18 18 18 - 18 18
Austria 35 - 18 18 [12]
Belgium - - 21 21 21
Belize - - 18 18 18 - 18 required 30 years old to be Speaker of the House of Representatives/ Senate [13]
Brazil 35 35 35 21 - 30 30 21 21 18 [14]
Canada - - 30 - in Canada (other than Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, the Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan) a person must be aged 19 or over (18 in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, the Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan) to stand for election to public office;
member of the Senate must possess land worth at least $4,000 in the province for which he or she is appointed, and must own real and personal property worth at least $4,000, above his or her debts and liabilities
Chile 35 35 21 - [15]
China 45 45 - [16]
Cyprus 35
Czech Republic 40 40 21 21 18 18 [17]
Denmark - - 18 - 18 18 18 18
Estonia 40 - 21 18 18 [18]
France 18 24 18
Germany 40 18 18 18 18 18 the only exception is the Landtag election in Hesse where a minimum age of 21 is required [19]
Hong Kong 21 - 21 a person must be at least 40 to be candidate in the Chief Executive election, and also at least 40 to be candidate in the election for the President of the Legislative Council from among the members of the Legislative Council
India 35 35 25 30 25 - 35 35 21 21
Indonesia 35 35 21 21 - 30 30 21 25 25 years old to be Regent, Vice Regent, Mayor, or Deputy Mayor
Israel 30 - 21 - 21
Italy 50 40 25 18
Iran 21 - [20]
Iraq 40 35 - 30 - [21][22][23]
Ireland 35 30 21 21 18 [24][25][25][26][25][27][28]
Japan 30 25 - 30 25 25 25 [29]
South Korea 40 25 - 25 [30]
Malaysia 30 21 -
Mexico 35 25 21 -
Netherlands - - 18 18 18 18 18 18
New Zealand - - 18 -
Nigeria 40 40 35 30 - 35
Norway - - 18 - 18 - 18 18
Pakistan 40 25 25 - 25
Philippines 40 40 35 25 - 35 21 21
Poland 35 - 30 21 21 25 18
Portugal 35 - 18 [31][32]
Singapore 25 -
South Africa 18 - 18
Switzerland 18 -
Thailand 35 -
Turkey 40 30 30 - [33]
United Kingdom - - 18 18 18 18 in the United Kingdom, a person must be aged 18 or over in Northern Ireland, England, and Wales, and 16 or over in Scotland to stand in elections to all parliaments, assemblies, and councils at the European, UK, devolved, or local level
United States 35 35 - 30 25 - [34]
Venezuela 30 30 - 21 - 25
See also[edit]
Youth
Youth suffrage
Youth rights
Ageism
Ballot access
Electoral reform
Voting age
Notes and references[edit]
Jump up ^ Broughton, Thomas; Marcia Patterson (1951). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. American Philological Association. p. 388.
Jump up ^ "BYC Youth Manifesto" (PDF). British Youth Council. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-06. Retrieved 2008-07-28. Young people believe that the age to stand as candidates for local, regional, national and European elections should be 16, as should the age to become a trustee of a charity. Young people have significant responsibilities to society at the age of 16 and can have significant responsibilities in the private sector as company directors; this inconsistency should be rectified. Young people have lots to offer and the decision of their appointment to positions of political authority or governance of organisations should be in the hands of the electorate or membership respectfully.
Jump up ^ "Unsworn Senators". Time Magazine (January 14, 1935).
Jump up ^ Battle, Dick; Tom Flake (January 5, 1955). "Senate Vote Ousts Fulton". Nashville Banner.
Jump up ^ O'Brian, Jack (11 January 1969). "Senate To Have Ineligible Man". Spartanburg Herald. Spartanburg, SC. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
Jump up ^ Freeman, Jo (2008). We Will Be Heard: Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 91. Only 31, Linda Jenness did not meet the Constitutional age requirement to hold the office of President, but the SWP was on the ballot in 25 states — six more than in 1968.
Jump up ^ "1972 Presidential General Election Results". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
Jump up ^ "Presidency 2004". Politics1.com. Archived from the original on 2007-07-30. Retrieved 2007-10-16. Since they weren't going to be elected anyways, the Socialist Workers Party didn't care that they nominated a ticket entirely ineligible to be elected. Why? Because Róger Calero is both foreign born and also not a US citizen; and Arrin Hawkins is too young. To avoid ballot access problems for the SWP, as the constitutional ineligibility may also render them unable to be listed on the ballot in some states, the 2000 SWP ticket of James Harris for President and Margaret Trowe for Vice President are being used in states that will not permit the Calero-Hawkins slate to be listed.
Jump up ^ "How old is old enough?" (PDF) (Press release). British Youth Council. October 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2008-07-16. BYC believes that at the age of 18 a person may hold elected office. A candidate’s breadth of life experience is something that can be evaluated by the electorate... BYC strongly believes that the age of voting should be lowered to 16 and candidacy age should be lowered to 18...
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