The Wizard of the Strings is a 1985 American short documentary film about Roy Smeck, directed by Peter Friedman. It was nominated for an Academy Award...

on the banjo, guitar, and ukulele earned him the nickname "The Wizard of the Strings". Smeck was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He started on the vaudeville...

The Muppets' Wizard of Oz is a 2005 musical fantasy television film directed by Kirk R. Thatcher, and the third television film featuring the Muppets...

lead boat. He appeared briefly in the 1985 Academy Award-nominated documentary film on Roy Smeck, Wizard of the Strings. He died in Long Beach, California...

(1900–1994), American musician, the "Wizard of the Strings" Bert le Vack (1887–1931), British motorcycle racer, the "Wizard of Brooklands" Yrjö Väisälä (1891–1971)...

Interview with Bill Bay, son of Mel Bay, on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, July 2007 Roy Smeck: The Wizard of the Strings (1983). Mel Bay (guitar)...

practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year. Copies of every winning...

The 58th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 1986, at the Dorothy Chandler...

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August 9, 2024. The album features guest appearances from ADÉ, DJ Drama, Robert Ivory, Lucy Rose, T Man The Wizard, and Zelooperz. The album was initially...

The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown...

Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. The musical is told from the perspective of two witches, Elphaba and...

Rodin's Balzac, Marilyn Waterman – Stanford University Merit: The Wizard of the Strings, Alan Edelstein, Peter Friedman – New York University Dramatic:...

sympathy with the played strings. These strings are generally used to set the mood of a raga at the very beginning of a presentation. The frets, which...

author of many instructional books, and whose influential performances on many fretted instruments earned him the nickname "Wizard of the Strings", during...

1946) Hymie Shertzer, All the King's Saxes (Disneyland, 1958) Roy Smeck, The Magic Ukulele of Roy Smeck Wizard of the Strings (ABC-Paramount, 1959) Lou...

A Wizard, a True Star is the fourth studio album by American musician Todd Rundgren, released on March 2, 1973, by Bearsville Records. It marked a departure...

in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. For most of the series, he is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts. He is also the founder...

Crumb and several of his California friends. The last Blue Goose album, "Roy Smeck: Wizard of the Strings" was issued in 1980. Many of the Blue Goose releases...

The Wizard of Oz is a 1950 half-hour television adaptation with puppets of L. Frank Baum's famous 1900 novel, directed by Burr Tillstrom, best known for...

The Wizard of Oz is a musical commissioned by The Muny (St. Louis Municipal Opera) based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum...

3000 is the eighteenth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, released on 11 June 2021. It is the band's first...

category. The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to countries, not individuals. This list contains Jewish directors of nominated...

narrating the story of a powerful wizard whose attempt to fly by constructing a mystical tower to the stars leads to the enslavement of vast numbers of people...

as part of a wizard's fairy tale called The Tale of the Three Brothers, and have become mythological over time, but a small number of wizards, including...

Brian (2002). The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy. Harpercollins. 158. ISBN 0-00-713567-X. "Rings director cuts wizard scenes". BBC...

for playing Nikko, the head of the Winged Monkeys in the MGM film The Wizard of Oz (1939). He appeared in only a few films, as most of his work was in theater...

appear in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). They are Dorothy Gale's guardian aunt and uncle. They live a joyless and gray life on a small farm on the prairies...

and short films. The studio is best known for its stop-motion feature films Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link...

Johnathan's son Scotty on the F/V Time Bandit; brothers Keith and Monte Colburn of the Wizard), the stresses of life on the Bering Sea, and the high burnout rate...