title: John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane

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<mask>, 1st <mask> of Thirlestane (1537 – 3 October 1595), of Lethington, Knight (1581), was Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Life
He was the second son of Sir <mask> of Thirlestane, Berwickshire, and Lethington, Haddingtonshire, who settled the lands of Thirlestane upon him, and he was sent abroad for his education. Upon <mask>'s return, through the influence of his brother, <mask>, he received the offer of the position of Commendator of Kelso Abbey, which he shortly afterwards exchanged with Francis Stewart, later Earl of Bothwell, for the Priory of Coldingham. This transaction was ratified by Mary, Queen of Scots on 20 April 1567. Upon the death of his father, he was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, on 20 April 1567. He also supported Regent Moray and sat in his parliaments in December 1567 and August 1568. On 2 June 1568, he was created a Senator of the College of Justice as an Ordinary Lord on the spiritual side.He retained the rich endowment of Coldingham until 1570. Following the Regent Moray's assassination, Maitland joined the Lords who met on the Queen's behalf at Linlithgow and shared in the dangers of the civil war which ensued. At the end of 1570, he was denounced a rebel by the King's party, with his brothers William and Thomas, and they were all forfeited in the parliament which met in the Canongate, the so-called 'cropped parliament'. <mask> was deprived of all his offices and benefices and took refuge in Edinburgh Castle. Upon its surrender on 29 May 1573 he was sent as a prisoner to Tantallon Castle in Haddingtonshire. After nine months' confinement there he was removed to Hugh, Lord Somerville's house of Cowthallie, under house arrest with bail at £10,000 Scots. In 1574/5 a Letter of Rehabilitation in his favour, as "Commendator of Coldingham", passed the Great Seal.On 26 April 1581 he was reappointed Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland and returned to the Bench. He was shortly afterwards made a Privy Counsellor, and upon the dismissal of Robert Pitcairn, Abbot of Dunfermline, appointed Secretary of Scotland on 18 May 1584. In the parliament which met on the 22nd of that month his doom of forfeiture was reduced, and he was restored to all the honours, heritages, and offices he had formerly possessed. On 1 May 1585 plague came to Edinburgh, and the king and councillors including Maitland went to Dirleton Castle where their host James Stewart, Earl of Arran entertained them with a sumptuous banquet and a Robin Hood play. Maitland was appointed Vice-Chancellor on 31 May 1586 and was also appointed Lord Chancellor of Scotland that year, following Earl of Arran's disgrace. The following year, 1587, saw him granted the barony of Stobo. In 1589, a powerful combination, headed by the Earls of Huntly, Errol, and Bothwell, &c., was formed against Maitland.It was intended to meet at Quarryholes, between Leith and Edinburgh, to march in a body to Holyroodhouse, make themselves master of the King's person, and put the Chancellor to death. The King and Maitland were not, however, at Holyroodhouse and the plot failed. Several other plots were formed against him shortly afterwards, but they were all defeated. Maitland and Anne of Denmark
He was one of those who accompanied James VI on his matrimonial voyage to Norway and Denmark. Maitland was involved in financing and accounting for this journey. According to an English observer, Thomas Fowler, he paid for fitting out of one ship of 126 tons and half the cost of another. Lavish provisions and banqueting stuff betrayed the king's secret intention to sail to meet Anne of Denmark.Accounts of Maitland's expenses include the preparation of a ship, the James Royall of Ayr, hired from Robert Jameson, which was equipped with cannon by <mask>, painted, and supplied with new banners and red taffeta was stitched on the sails. Carpenters made new storage spaces for the food mentioned by Fowler. There were barrels of English beer and wine from the cellars at Holyrood Palace. A boatman James Lun spent eight days loading the ship and then put the king and his company aboard. In Oslo, on 27 November, some of the ladies in waiting to Anne of Denmark asked him to join with Jens Nilssøn, Bishop of Oslo to intercede with James VI for the pardon of David Cunningham of Robertland. He had been welcomed at the Danish court after fleeing Scotland in the aftermath of the murder of the Earl of Eglinton in 1586. Maitland and the Danish ladies in waiting had an audience with the king in the Old Bishop's Palace and the laird of Robertland was pardoned.On 15 December, James VI asked him to give the Danish counsellor Steno Brahe, brother of the astronomer Tycho Brahe, and the young king's lieutenant "Apill Gudlingstarre" or Axel Gyldenstierne gifts of silver plate from his cupboard, and Maitland was to keep the rest. The silver had been a gift to James VI from Queen Elizabeth, supplied by the London goldsmith Richard Martin. James VI ordered Maitland to give jewels to Christian IV and his mother Sophie of Mecklenburg and other royals. These gifts included four great table diamonds and two great rubies set in gold rings which the master of the royal wardrobe William Keith of Delny had brought to Denmark. Shortly after his return to Scotland, on 18 May 1590, Maitland was made a Lord of Parliament with the title <mask> of Thirlestane. Anne of Denmark's mother Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow had asked him to set up her daughter's household in Scotland and advise on matters of "honour and benefit." He consulted with Anne at Dunfermline Palace in July 1590 to ask her to appoint a household of ladies and gentlewomen to be about her.James VI came to Thirlestane Castle on 15 February 1591 to celebrate the marriage of his niece to the laird of Lugton. Sir Robert Ker of Cessford had married his niece <mask>, and he was able to help Maitland into the favour of Anne of Denmark. Sophie of Mecklenberg sent Maitland a letter of thanks in June 1591, after hearing good reports from Wilhelm von der Wense. James had asked him to resolve issues over pay in the royal households in April 1591 after kitchen staff deserted their posts, and discussed the subject of paying two departing members of the queen's household with either money or livery clothes, and he reminded Maitland of promises he had made to Sophie, writing "Suppose we be not wealthy, let us be proud poor bodies". A cousin of James VI, Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, was implicated in the North Berwick Witch Trials on 15 April 1591 by the confession of Richie Graham. Anne of Denmark disapproved of the pursuit of the rebel Earl, and blamed Maitland for seeking the "wrack of the king's blood". Another quarrel grew over her dowry lands.Anne of Denmark believed she was the rightful owner of Musselburgh and Inveresk, lands belonging to Maitland, which were properties of Abbey of Dunfermline south of the River Forth. These lands were transferred to her after a Danish ambassador Dr Paulus Knibbius made representations to Maitland in 1592. She came to resent Maitland's powers and in January 1593 appealed for help against him and his wife, Jean Fleming, who she believed had slandered her and accused her of being complicit with the Earl of Bothwell. In 1594 James VI appealed to her brother Christian IV of Denmark to ask her to take Maitland into her favour again. In February 1595 his relationship with the queen seems to have improved, and the courtier Roger Aston reported that he had made friends with the queen's council of advisors, men who had previously been his "unfriends". The queen's council included Alexander Seton, Walter Stewart of Blantyre, James Elphinstone and Thomas Hamilton. In July 1595 Maitland wrote to the Earl of Essex, about their future "diligent intercourse of intelligence" involving the Scottish diplomat Richard Cockburn of Clerkington and Essex's secretary Anthony Bacon.Essex replied that he wrote only with the queen's knowledge, and they would be happy to receive letters from Maitland or Cockburn. Death and legacy
<mask> died on 3 October 1595 at Thirlestane Castle, after a month's illness attended by the physician Dr Martin Schöner and the minister Robert Bruce. He was buried in a side chapel on the north side of St. Mary's, Haddington, where a splendid monument, with an epitaph, composed by King James VI, was erected to his memory. Sir <mask> of Scotstarvet, writing in the seventeenth century, had this to say of the 1st Lord Maitland:
"Mr <mask>, second brother to Secretary Maitland, after he had studied the laws in France, was preferred to be a Lord of Session by the said Earl of Arran's means, and thereafter became Chancellor. He was one of the Octavians [a name given to eight persons who managed affairs under king James VI], and was created Lord Thirlestane, and was an excellent Latin poet, as his verses inserted in Deliciae poetarum scotorum testify; and King James had such a respect to him, that he made the epitaph engraven on his tomb. Yet the conquest he made of the barony of Liddington [Lethington] from his brother's son, <mask>, was not thought lawful nor conscientious." A portrait of <mask> by Adrian Vanson at Ham House was valued at £2 in 1683.Examination by Caroline Rae in 2016 showed that it was painted over an image of Mary, Queen of Scots. Family
<mask> married Jean Fleming, daughter of James, 4th Lord Fleming and Barbara Hamilton in January 1583. Their children included:

Anne (1589–1609) who married Robert Seton, 2nd Earl of Winton (but had no issue)
<mask>, 1st Earl of Lauderdale

Brother of <mask> of Lethington, Scottish Secretary of State, and <mask>, considered a scribe of the Maitland Folio and Quarto. References

An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice of Scotland, by Sir David Dalrymple of Hailes, Bt., re-edited at Edinburgh in 1849, pps: 140–146 (who says he was "probably born in 1545"). The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, etc., by Messrs, <mask> and <mask> Burke, London, volume 1 (1848) pedigree XV, and volume 2 (1851), pedigree LXXXIV. History of the Priory of Coldingham, by William King Hunter of Stoneshiel, Edinburgh & London, 1858, pps: 72–3. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D.,F.S.A., volume 2, London, 1876, p. 206.External links
 A satirical poem on the marriage of <mask> and Jean Fleming by Hercules Rollock, Bridging the Continental Divide, University of Glasgow
 Miniature portrait of <mask> of Thirlestane, National Portrait Gallery, London
 A portrait of <mask>, painted over Mary Queen of Scots, Ham House, National Trust
 Portrait of <mask>, <mask>gal, Thirlestane Castle

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title: Ilija Vukićević

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<mask> (, 3 August 1866 – 5 March 1899) was a Serbian novelist, short story writer and playwright. During his lifetime he wrote 31 short stories, seven fairy tales and two plays. He is considered a representative of Serbian realism in the 1880s. Writing at first under the strong influence of Laza Lazarević, he later became closer to Turgenev and the Russian realist school of the time. He introduced several innovations into the narrative process. His collection of short stories is well-known in Serbia, two books were published posthumously after his early death at the age of 32. His entire work was published in two volumes between the two world wars.Early life and education
<mask> <mask> was born in Belgrade, to father <mask>, a judge, and mother Sofia. He studied elementary and secondary school in various places around Serbia as his father, a civil servant, was often transferred. They lived in Valjevo, Smederevo, Jagodina, and for a long time in Šabac. <mask> finished primary school in Šabac, passed the secondary school graduation exam in Kragujevac, and then he went to Belgrade where he enrolled in the Department of Philosophy and School of Mathematics. Career
<mask> started publishing his works as a student. The short story  (Duck) was printed on 17 May 1885 in "Beogradski dnevnik" (the Belgrade Diary), but without the author's signature. In the magazine "Stražilovo", which was edited by the writer Jovan Grčić Milenko, the short story  (Neighbors) was published in 1887, that was the first work printed under <mask>'s real name.He completed his studies of natural sciences at the Belgrade Great School in 1888. After graduation, he worked as a professor of French, geography and arithmetic. His first position was in Vranje and it is assumed that he taught the great southerner Borislav Stanković. By 1890, he had written fifteen stories. In the summer of 1890, he was appointed by Minister of Education Andra Nikolić, inspector of primary schools in Vranje and the Toplica district, areas that had just been liberated from the Ottoman Empire ten years earlier. On this tour he collected valuable material that would inspire the stories about people living on the Turkish border that made him famous. After his father's death, at his request, <mask> was transferred back to Belgrade with his mother and brother.There, he was appointed professor at the Belgrade Secondary school. In 1890 he published a collection of short stories and one of his plays was performed at the Belgrade National Theater. At the end of 1893, he became a member of the editorial board of the Belgrade Journal "Delo", a magazine for science, literature and social life, following French cultural and literary trends, committed to modernizing the young Serbian state by way of culture. During the year 1894 he stayed in Geneva, Switzerland, to study French language and literature at the expense of the State, during that period he sent contributions to "Delo", "Bosanska vila" and others. In his stories, realism begins to mix with fiction, folk tales, allegory and satire. His literary influence was exerted by Laza Lazarević, under whose influence <mask> <mask> depicted village and provincial life as well as events on the border., he was also influenced by Milovan Glišić and Janko Veselinović. In addition to fairy tales, <mask> <mask> wrote several short stories, in which he deepens the analysis of the personality of his characters, dwelling on the presentation of its unusual external physiognomy, searching for external aspects of mental disorders.With Vukićević, realism was mixed with fiction, grotesque, folk tales, allegory and satire. Naturalistic motives, injustices, hallucinations, dreams, distortions in family relations, psychological disorders and similar topics are announced by future Serbian realists: Simo Matavulj, Ivo Ćipiko, Borislav Stanković and Radoje Domanović. Upon his return to Belgrade, <mask> <mask> fell ill with a severe nervous disorder and died in 1899 at the age of 32. Bibliography
During his short lifetime, <mask> wrote 31 short stories, seven fairy tales and two plays. Short stories
 Patak (Патак); English translation: Duck
 Komšije (Комшије); English translation: Neighbors
 Sve sam znaš (Све сам знаш); English translation: You know everything yourself
 Jemac (Јемац); English translation: Jemac
 Prvo unuče (Прво унуче); English translation: First grandchild
 Pod bagrenom (Под багреном); English translation: Pod bagrenom
 Svoj greh (Свој грех); English translation: My sin
 Kad nije suđeno (Кад није суђено); English translation: "When it is not judged
 Najbolji lov (Најбољи лов); English translation: The best hunt
 Je li živ? (Је ли жив? ); English translation: Is he alive?<mask> and Jovanka had a son called Ivan. References

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title: Joseph Gerrald

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<mask> (9 February 1763 – 16 March 1796) was a political reformer, one of the "Scottish Martyrs". He worked with the London Corresponding Society and the Society for Constitutional Information and also wrote an influential letter, A Convention the Only Means of Saving Us from Ruin. He was arrested for his radical views and convicted of sedition in 1794. Subsequently, he was deported to Sydney, where he died from tuberculosis in 1796. Early and family life
<mask> was born in St. Kitts, West Indies to <mask>, a wealthy Irish planter, and Ann Rogers. In 1765, Gerrald and his family moved to London, where he attended a boarding school in Hammersmith until he was 11. Gerrald's mother died when he was very young – shortly after his family moved to England, and his father died when he was just 12 years old.After his father died in 1775, Gerrald was sent to study at Stanmore school under Dr. Samuel Parr. While at Stanmore, Gerrald performed very well in several subjects, such as Greek, Latin, and art, and became very close with Parr. Despite these successes, Parr needed to expel Gerrald because of 'extreme indiscretion'. In 1780, Gerrald moved back to the West Indies to tend to matters of the family fortune. Unfortunately, his father had been lavishly spending and had reduced the family estate considerably. During his stay, he brashly married a woman and they had a son and daughter together. Gerrald's wife died soon after the birth of the second child and he was left to raise two young children without much money.He then decided to move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he was a lawyer for several years. In 1785, he was listed in the muster roll for the City of Philadelphia, in the 3rd company 6th battalion of the Philadelphia militia. Gerrald returned to London in 1788, but in 1789 he moved to Bath due to his declining health. Political reformer
After Gerrald's return to England, he began writing anonymous letters about politics and joined the Society for Constitutional Information and the more radical London Corresponding Society. He became popular among radical reform groups due to his eloquence and pleasant demeanor. These groups were under continuous observation by royal authorities due to their promulgation of radical ideas; these ideas, in conjunction with eruption of war all over Europe during the 1790s, raised fears of a similar revolution in Britain. Gerrald was mostly concerned with parliamentary reform and was a large proponent of a national convention, alongside Thomas Paine.The convention would be democratically elected and would focus on sorting out the laws of England. Gerrald drew his ideas from the successful precedent of the Saxons' Convention, and outlined his plans in his pamphlet, A Convention the Only Means of Saving Us from Ruin (1793). A Convention the Only Means of Saving Us from Ruin
Gerrald sets the tone of the letter by discussing how legislators and the government may be offended by the criticisms he presents, but states that the government exists to represent the people and should learn from their suggestions. He draws on the trajectories and repercussions of the wars of the 18th century, including the American Revolution, to form his argument that the British should not have engaged in the current war, which Prime Minister William Pitt was carrying through. Throughout this pamphlet, Gerrald addresses the people of England on the need for common folk to be involved in politics. He believed that this was important because of the eruption of war between England and France, caused by the majority British opposition to French Revolution. He argues that even though the government declares war, it is made possible only because of the contributions of others – in the form of taxes and soldiers – and thus that people are morally obliged to understand and justify the wars.On this front, Gerrald uses the young United States, an example showing that there exists a country that doesn't go to war unless its citizens decide to. Gerrald also found civic involvement necessary because the wars themselves were not constructive. He suggests that negotiations could have made a larger impact on the people because the outcomes of the wars left civilians in a worse state than they had started with. In addition, he refers to the Society of the Friends of the People's report that many current representatives are self-elected or are tools for the aristocracy, and that the current system favors neither wealth nor population size. To overcome these issues, Gerrald suggests a plan where people can elect representatives who will follow instructions set by the general body. Plans for the convention
The convention will have 250 deputies from England and 125 from Scotland and these 375 men will speak out for the welfare of both England and Scotland. Any male can be elected to the convention unless a jury has found him to be a criminal, idiot, or lunatic.In order to determine the deputies in the convention, there will first be a primary assembly for each parish, 1250 in total. In this assembly, any males that are 21 and over and not deemed a criminal, lunatic, or idiot can vote. The members of the parish will vote for ten members to form a second assembly composed of the elected individuals from ten parishes. Each second assembly will then choose two deputies for the national convention. This process results in every deputy representing 5000 males each. <mask> argues that because the deputies are elected with the specific purpose of speaking for their constituents, the people will have more political liberty while politics will have less corruption. He also states that war will be eliminated, as people will now have a voice in the declaration of it.London Corresponding Society
On October 24, 1793, <mask> and Maurice Margarot were chosen as delegates for a convention of reformers, the British Convention of the Delegates of the People, in Edinburgh. While attending, Gerrald took a trip to the Scottish countryside to publicize the reform movement. This convention was considered incendiary because of its goals of universal suffrage and annual parliaments and Gerrald's participation in the convention is what led to his arrest. Arrest and conviction
The aims of the British Convention were moderate, but Gerrald and others were arrested and in March 1794 he was tried for sedition. It was felt that the case was prejudiced, and while out on bail Gerrald had been urged to escape by his friends such as Dr. Parr, but he considered that his honour was pledged. At his trial in Edinburgh he made an admirable speech in defence of his actions but was condemned to 14 years transportation. The apparent courtesy and consideration with which the trial was conducted could not conceal the real prejudice which ruled the proceedings.Throughout the trial, Gilbert Wakefield provided Gerrald with moral support. Gerrald was imprisoned in London until May 1795, when he was hurried on board the storeship  about to sail for Sydney. He arrived there on 5 November 1795. He was then in a poor state of health suffering from tuberculosis and was allowed to buy a small house and garden in which he lived. He died on 16 March 1796. Legacy
Gerrald was a man sustained by his belief in the rights of mankind. In the account of his death David Collins speaks of his "strong enlightened mind" and that he went to his death "glorying in being a martyr to the cause which he termed that of Freedom and considering as an honour that exile which brought him to an untimely grave".He was buried in the plot of land he had bought at Farm Cove. His son, <mask>, was cared for by Dr. Parr. Gerrald's associates included Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, William Skirving and Maurice Margarot. His name appears on the Political Martyrs' Monument (1844) on Calton Hill at Edinburgh and a similar monument at Nunhead Cemetery (1852) in London. Gerrald's son <mask> was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1800 at the age of 17. See also
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title: David Schwimmer

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<mask> (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, director and producer. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends, for which he received a Screen Actors Guild award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995. While still acting in Friends, his first leading film role was in The Pallbearer (1996), followed by roles in Kissing a Fool, Six Days, Seven Nights, Apt Pupil (all 1998), and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). He was then cast in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel. Schwimmer began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and speech. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company.For much of the late 1980s, he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling, unemployed actor, until he starred in the television movie A Deadly Silence in 1989 and appeared in a number of television roles in the early 1990s, including L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, NYPD Blue, and Monty. After the series finale of Friends in 2004, Schwimmer branched out into film and stage work. He was cast as the title character in the 2005 drama film Duane Hopwood, and voiced Melman the Giraffe in the computer-animated Madagascar film franchise, acted in the dark comedy Big Nothing (2006), and the thriller Nothing but the Truth (2008). Schwimmer made his West End stage debut in the leading role in 2005's Some Girl(s). He made his Broadway debut in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial in 2006. His feature film directorial debut followed in 2007 with the comedy Run Fatboy Run, and the following year he made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in Fault Lines. In 2016, he starred as lawyer Robert Kardashian in The People v. O. J. Simpson, for which he received his second Primetime Emmy Award nomination, this time for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.Early life
Schwimmer was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City, to attorneys Arthur (born 1941) and Arlene Coleman-Schwimmer (born 1940). His family is Jewish. He has an older sister named Ellie (born 1965). His family subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where Schwimmer, at 10, had his first acting experience when he was cast as the fairy godmother in a Jewish version of Cinderella. In 1979, Schwimmer went to a Shakespeare workshop given by English actor Sir Ian McKellen in Los Angeles. He recalls being riveted by the experience. Schwimmer then entered a contest in the Southern California Shakespeare Festival three years in a row, winning two first prizes.Following his mother's successful career as a divorce lawyer, the family moved to Beverly Hills, where Schwimmer attended Beverly Hills High School. His classmates included actor Jonathan Silverman. Schwimmer admitted to being an outsider during his time at the school, recalling, "When I was there I always felt: 'This is not me, I'm surrounded by people with a different value system. And I just wanted to get out of California.'" His best subjects were science and math and he thought he would become a doctor. Schwimmer enrolled in a drama class, where he appeared in stage productions. Encouraged by his school drama teacher to further his acting, he flew to Chicago for a summer acting program at Northwestern University.He noted that the experience was both "enlightening and exhilarating". In 1984, Schwimmer graduated from Beverly Hills High and wanted to go straight into acting, but his parents insisted he go to college first so he would have something to fall back on. Schwimmer enrolled in Northwestern University, where he had attended the summer acting program earlier. At the university, he studied theater and was in an improv group with Stephen Colbert, the No-Fun Mud Piranhas. After graduating in 1988, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company. Subsequently, he returned to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Career

1989–1994: Early work
After his supporting role debut in the ABC television movie A Deadly Silence (1989), Schwimmer followed this with roles on the legal drama L.A. Law in 1992, and the comedy-drama series The Wonder Years.He made his feature film debut in  Flight of the Intruder (1991), had a recurring role as a lawyer-turned-vigilante in NYPD Blue before auditioning, unsuccessfully, for a series pilot called Couples. He landed his first regular series role as the liberal son of a conservative talk show host (Henry Winkler) in the sitcom Monty. 1994–2004: Breakthrough

In 1994, Schwimmer was cast as Ross Geller in NBC's situation comedy Friends, a series that revolved around a group of friends who live near each other in Manhattan. He played a hopeless-romantic paleontologist who works at a museum and later becomes a professor at a university. Schwimmer initially turned down the role as Ross, but accepted later. Executive producer Kevin S. Bright said that he had previously worked with Schwimmer, the character of Ross was written with him in mind, and he was the first actor cast. The show debuted on September 22, 1994, and was watched by almost 22 million American viewers.Friends quickly developed a loyal audience, with the show and Schwimmer receiving strong reviews. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was complimentary of Schwimmer, calling him "terrific". Variety's television reviewer said: "All six of the principals, especially (Courteney) Cox and Schwimmer, appear resourceful and display sharp sitcom skills". For this performance, he earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995. Schwimmer starred in his first leading film role in the 1996 romantic comedy film, The Pallbearer with Gwyneth Paltrow. In the film, Schwimmer plays a man asked to deliver the eulogy for a high school friend he cannot remember, and begins an affair with the friend's mother. Critics dismissed The Pallbearer as a poor imitation of the 1967 film The Graduate.Variety's film reviewer complimented the actor, writing that he had enjoyed his performance, stating that he displayed "a winning, if rather deadpan, personality along with good comic timing". It also concluded that Schwimmer had a "promising bigscreen future". Janet Maslin of The New York Times cited that his first film "relegates him to a drab role". When asked why he decided to accept the role, Schwimmer admitted the decision was to "make an effort to find roles that are as far away from the character of Ross as possible." He was offered a role to star alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the 1997 science-fiction comedy Men in Black after Chris O'Donnell turned down the role, but turned it down because of a prior commitment to direct his first film with his theatre company friends starring before the role was given to Will Smith. His next film roles, in 1998, were Kissing a Fool, Six Days, Seven Nights, and Apt Pupil. In Kissing a Fool, a romantic comedy, Schwimmer played Max, a dapper, smart-mouthed ladies' man.Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Fans of the sitcom Friends may be surprised by <mask> in Kissing a Fool. [...] Take it from someone who has never seen Friends and comes at Schwimmer with no preconceptions: He does just fine. As a TV sports reporter in Kissing a Fool, he oozes the command and self-satisfaction of a young, successful man." The film was critically and financially unsuccessful. In Six Days, Seven Nights, he played the boyfriend of Anne Heche's character. In Apt Pupil, adapted from a novella of the same name by Stephen King, he had a supporting role as a school guidance counselor. "I was scared of the part", Schwimmer said, "but I wanted to be part of the movie".At the time, he noted it was a "little frustrating" that people would typecast him due to his role on Friends. He subsequently appeared opposite Woody Allen and Sharon Stone in Alfonso Arau's straight-to-cable comedy Picking Up the Pieces (2000). In 2001, Schwimmer played Captain Herbert M. Sobel in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' HBO World War II miniseries Band of Brothers. The television miniseries is based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. Although Band of Brothers was met with largely positive reception, Schwimmer's performance was criticized; the BBC News concluded, "Part of the problem ... may have been the ridiculous fact that Friends favourite <mask> plays the hard and cruel Captain Herbert Sobel. The only thing believable about Schwimmer's acting is when he cowers in the face of true battle. His puppy dog eyes make him appear even more pitiful."Later that year he portrayed Yitzhak Zuckerman in the war drama Uprising, based on the true events of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. In March 2004, Schwimmer appeared as himself on HBO's comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm. During the lengthy run of Friends, Schwimmer directed ten of the show's episodes. The show's tenth and final season ended on May 6, 2004. 2004–2010: Directing

After Friends, Schwimmer starred in the 2005 independent drama Duane Hopwood, as the title character, who is an alcoholic whose life is spiraling downward rapidly after a divorce and is looking to turn his life around. The film received ambivalent reviews. Despite the reception, Schwimmer's performance was favored by critics; Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the role was Schwimmer's "career-transforming performance."Duane Hopwood was screened at a special presentation at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Furthermore, in the same year he voiced Melman, a hypochondriac giraffe, in the computer animated film Madagascar (2005). The Washington Post noted that Schwimmer is particularly appealing as Melman. Despite the mixed response from critics, the film was a commercial success, earning US$532 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005. Schwimmer starred on the London stage in May 2005, with Catherine Tate, Lesley Manville, Sara Powell, and Saffron Burrows,

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 in Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) at the Gielgud Theatre. In the production, he plays a teacher who is ready to settle down and marry, but decides to visit four ex-girlfriends first. For his performance, Schwimmer received critical reviews.The Independent wrote that Schwimmer "is not called upon to extend his range nearly as far as one might have expected in Some Girl(s). [...] Schwimmer remains bland, competent, and boyish—though not fatally boyish in the manner that appears to have turned these women on." However, Charles Spencer of The Daily Telegraph praised Schwimmer, reporting he "proves inspired casting. He takes to the stage with ... his endearing gaucheness seems designed to ensure our continued sympathy. Schwimmer mercilessly lays bare his character's opportunism, casual cruelties, and chronic self-deception." In 2006, he made his Broadway debut in Herman Wouk's two-act play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Schwimmer played the role of Lieutenant Barney Greenwald in the production, which was directed by Jerry Zaks.In an interview with New York magazine, he revealed that he had wanted to try Broadway, however said "a couple of things came up that just never quite felt right. Either because I liked the play but wasn’t hot on the director, or there was another star attached that I wasn't jazzed about working with." He further added that when showed a copy of Wouk's novel "...I was shocked at how good the writing was." His next film role was in the 2006 black comedy Big Nothing, in which he played a bitter, unemployed scientist. Schwimmer made his directorial feature debut in the 2007 British comedy film Run Fatboy Run. The film stars Simon Pegg as an out of shape man who signs up for a marathon to convince his former fiancée and five-year-old son that he has turned his life around. When asked why he decided to direct the film, Schwimmer said: "As a director, I was struck by the challenge that I thought the script presented, which was that it was kind of three films in one.You had some great, big physical comedy, and I thought funny dialogue and characters. And then there was some real emotion to it with the relationship between the father and the son and the romance aspect." Run Fatboy Run garnered mixed reception, with the New York Daily News rating it one-and-a-half out of five stars and writing, "Most disappointing is how Schwimmer—who spent 10 seasons on a sitcom filled with hyperverbal characters—manages to bumble 'Fatboy's' tender moments." USA Today, however, was favorable towards Schwimmer, reporting he possesses filmmaking finesse "having wisely chosen strong comic material for his debut behind the camera." For his directorial work, he was nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the category of Best Debut Director. On November 8, 2007, Schwimmer made a guest appearance in the second season of the television series 30 Rock, where he played Greenzo, an NBC environmental mascot. The following year, he was part of an ensemble cast that included Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Alan Alda, Angela Bassett, and Noah Wyle in the thriller Nothing But the Truth (2008).The movie received generally favorable reviews. The success of Madagascar led Schwimmer to return to the role of Melman in the 2008 sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. The film earned US$603 million at the international box office. Schwimmer took part in directing in-studio segments for Little Britain USA, an American spin-off of the British BBC television series Little Britain. In regard to this, he commented that he had "a good time directing episodes" for the show. In October 2008, Schwimmer made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in Fault Lines at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. The production won a mixed review from the Los Angeles Times, which wrote: "Based on Fault Lines ... we can't really tell whether Schwimmer has much talent as a director.We're surprised he didn't try something more challenging for his debut. If not much else, Schwimmer has encouraged his actors to intense their energy levels and comic timing at all costs". The New York Post, however, noted that Schwimmer "knows a thing or two about freewheeling banter ... and for a good while the play crackles with terrific dialogue, expertly delivered". In February 2009, he returned to theater in a Chicago production of Thornton Wilder's three-act play Our Town as George Gibbs at the Lookingglass Theatre. "Schwimmer ... turns in a poignant, richly textured and demonstrably heartfelt performance as George Gibbs. I've seen a fair bit of Schwimmer's post-Friends stage work in London and New York, and I've never seen him better", commented the Chicago Tribune. On August 2, 2009, Schwimmer played himself in the sixth season of the HBO television series, Entourage.In the episode, Ari Gold's (Jeremy Piven) agency tries to steer his career back to television. Schwimmer directed his second feature, Trust, starring Clive Owen and Catherine Keener. The film, a drama, is about a family whose teenage daughter becomes victim of an online sexual predator. Trust premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. 2010–present: Return to television
On January 1, 2011, Schwimmer guest-starred on the British comedy series Come Fly With Me starring Matt Lucas and <mask>s, whom he directed in Little Britain USA. The following year, he returned to voice Melman the Giraffe in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. Schwimmer appeared in the cast of The Iceman in 2013 as Josh Rosenthal, a mobster who was brought up by the notorious Roy Demeo and part of the Gambino Family.The movie starred Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski. In 2014, Schwimmer was cast as the lead in the ABC comedy pilot Irreversible, playing "one half of a somewhat eccentric, self-absorbed couple". In 2016, Schwimmer played Robert Kardashian in the first season of the FX anthology series American Crime Story. He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance. In January 2016,  Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess were cast to star in the new AMC crime drama Feed the Beast. The series premiered on June 5, 2016, and aired 10 episodes through August before being canceled. In November 2016, it was announced that Schwimmer would star in his first audio series.Gimlet Media's podcast Homecoming began airing on November 16, 2016. In April 2017, Schwimmer helped adapt the films of Sigal Avin for a US audience. The six short features depict sexual harassment at work by men on women. In 2020, Schwimmer was cast as a main character in a British sitcom, Intelligence broadcast on Sky One. In May 2020, Schwimmer was a celebrity reader on CBeebies Bedtime Stories

In late 2020 Schwimmer was signed as the face of British banking chain TSB. Personal life
Schwimmer dated singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia in the late 1990s. <mask> and Jennifer Aniston admitted to having crushes on each other early on while filming Friends during HBO Max's Friends: The Reunion.Schwimmer began a relationship with British artist Zoë Buckman in 2007 and they married in June 2010. Their daughter was born in 2011. The couple announced in April 2017 that they were "taking some time apart". They divorced later that year. In June 2006, Schwimmer won a US$400,000 defamation lawsuit against Aaron Tonken, a former charity fundraiser. Tonken claimed Schwimmer had demanded Rolex watches in order to appear at his own charity event, a claim that Schwimmer had denied. Schwimmer is an active director of the Rape Treatment Center in Santa Monica, which specializes in helping victims of date rape and child rape.He has also campaigned for legislation to ban drugs such as Rohypnol and GHB. In November 2011, he gave the Scottish charity Children 1st permission to screen his film Trust to commemorate World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse and Violence against Children. In 2012, he rebutted two longstanding rumors: one that he appeared as a soldier on a train in Biloxi Blues (1988), saying, "No. I don't know why that's on IMDb, but I never was in that", and the other that he is related to dancer Lacey Schwimmer, saying, "No, not at all. Please set the record straight. I guess it's a natural assumption because we have the same last name, but no. I've never even met her".Filmography

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Awards and nominations

Schwimmer has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, one in 1995 for his performance as Ross Geller on Friends and the other as Robert Kardashian in the Ryan Murphy limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story in 2016. He also has received seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations with one win for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Friends. See also
 Back Stage West Garland Awards, for his Lookingglass Theatre Company, production of Arabian Nights

References

External links

 Lawrence, Will. "<mask>: From Central Perk to the East End." The Daily Telegraph. August 31, 2007.Accessed June 10, 2009. Greenstreet, Rosanna. "Q&A: <mask>." The Guardian. September 8, 2007. Accessed June 10, 2009. Pratt, Steve."New direction." The Northern Echo. September 8, 2007. Accessed June 10, 2009. Fanning, Evan. "Everyone wants to be his friend." Irish Independent.September 9, 2007. Accessed June 10, 2009. DiLiberto, Rebecca. "Indirect routes." The Boston Globe. March 23, 2008. Accessed June 10, 2009.1966 births
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<mask> was a writer and translator, born in Lima (Peru) in 1886, who died in San Francisco in 1953. Early years
The Peruvian <mask> grew up in Paris where he attended the lycée Janson de Sailly and also a Jesuit college. At sixteen, he started visiting the literary cafés, where he met an international company, so diverse that they spoke Latin to be understood by all. The eldest of the group was an Irishman, named James Joyce (1882–1941). In 1906, with his parents, Llona moved to the US and lived in Chicago. He remained in touch with Europe and through André Gide he had two of his short stories published in the Nouvelle revue française (1911 and 1913). <mask> came back to Paris in 1913 but when the war broke out he returned to the US and lived in New York City, where he made the acquaintance of several novelists of the new generation.He decided that he would make them known in France. Important translator
Returning to France and having gained the confidence of Parisian publishers (Payot, Stock, Plon, Fayard, Albin Michel, La Renaissance du Livre, Gallimard), he was going to translate some forty books into French, between 1920 and 1939, amongst them Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Ambrose Bierce, Ezra Pound, Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy), Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber, Willa Cather and also several works by the Argentinian- English writer William Henry Hudson (1841–1922). With the help of a native Russian he was also able to translate several Russian works, from Alexis Tolstoï, Nikolai Gogol and Elie Ilf. Llona also wrote in magazines, especially about James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. He also wrote two novels in French, one about the Ku Klux Klan, one about prohibition in the States. He also co-authored a biography of Peter the Great, with the Russian émigré Dimitri Novik. Part of the French literary scene
A few pages of Llona's Memoirs have been published, in which he speaks about his friendship with French writers, such as Pierre Benoit, Marcel Proust, Francis Carco, Henri Poulaille, Jean Galtier-Boissière, Jules Supervielle, Paul Morand, Pierre Mac Orlan, Jacques de Lacretelle, Julien Green and Roger Martin du Gard.He remained also a friend of the major NRF figures, like André Gide, Jean Schlumberger, Valéry Larbaud, André Ruyters and Jacques Rivière. Llona also had great friendship with the Belgian poet and designer Jean de Bosschère (1878–1953), who made a lithographed portrait of him. He also wrote an essay on the French writer Louis Thomas and befriended him and his opera singing wife Raymonde Delaunois. Llona remained also in contact with American writers of the 'Lost Generation', amongst them Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Nathalie Clifford Barney, Paul Bowles, Thornton Wilder and Scott Fitzgerald. He met them in the apartments of Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) or at the English library of Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), the first publisher in 1922 of James Joyce's Ulysses. In 1929 Shakespeare and Company, the bookstore and library of Sylvia Beach, published a book with twelve articles, brought together by Eugene Jolas (1894–1952), the editor of transition, defending 'Work in progress', the book by Joyce that would be published only ten years later under the title 'Finnegans wake'. In this book titled Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, Llona was one of the twelve authors and wrote under a very much 'Joycian' title: ‘I Dont Know What to Call It but Its Mighty Unlike Prose’ .In 1939 With the war approaching, Llona, remarried, left France and established himself in Lima. In 1946 he returned to the US and became a translator for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). When having heart problems, he settled in San Francisco, where he died. Bibliography
Novels
 Les pirates du whisky, novel, Paris, Baudinière, 1928. Los piratas del whisky; novela. Tr. de MANUEL PUMAREGA.Madrid, Ed. M. Aguilar (Imp. J. Pueyo), 1927. La croix de feu (Le Ku Klux Klan), roman. París, Ed. Baudiniére, 1928. La croix de feu (Le Ku Klux Klan); roman.2. ed. París, Ed. Baudiniére, 1930. [30]
 La Croix de feu (Le Ku Klux Klan), roman. 3. ed. París, Ed. du Saggitaire, 1946.Le mage de l'Archipel. París [1925? ], inédit. Hiassim ou le voyage au tendre, París [1924? ], inédit. L'Escale á Tripoli, in: Nouvelle Revue Française, Nº XXXV, pp. 585–613.París, 1911. La poursuite de la 'dancing girl, in: Nouvelle Revue Française. Nos. XLIX, París, 1913. Victor LLONA & Dimitri NOVIK, Pierre le Grand. París, Ed. J. Tallandier, 1931.2 t.Literary critic Notes sur Louis Thomas, París, 1924. Notes sur Louis Thomas, París, Ed du Siècle, 1925.TranslationsInto French Willa CATHER, Mon Antonia, Paris, 1924. --- Prochainement Aphrodite, Paris, 1925. F. Scott FITZGERALD, Gatsby le magnifique, París P. Dupont, 1926. --- Gatsby le magnifique, 2. ed. París, P. Dupont, 1952. --- Gatsby le magnifique, 3. ed.París, P. Dupont, 1959. W. H. HUDSON, W. H. Le pays pourpre, (The purple land), París, Stock, 1927. --- Vertes demeures, roman de la forêt tropicale, París, Plon et Nourrit, 1929. --- Un flâneur en Patagonie, Delamain et Boutelleau, 1929. --- Le naturaliste a la Plata, 8 ed. París, Lib. Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau, 1930.Edna FERBER, Le Navire a Mélos, (Show Boat), París, Fayard et Cie, 1931. --- Le navire a Mélos, Bruxelles, Nicholson & Watson, 1948. Theodore DREISER, Une tragédie américaine, París, A. Fayard et Cie., 1932. Isadora NEWMAN, Dans le royaume des fleurs, París, 1928. Ernest HEMINGWAY, 50.000 dollars et autres récits, Paris, 1928. Peter NEAGOE, Tempête, récits, París, A. Michel, 1935. Sherwood ANDERSON, Un conteur se raconte: je suis un homme, París, 1928.--- Un conteur se raconte: mon pére et moi, París, 1928. Elie ILF & Eugène PETROV, Un millionaire au pays des Soviets,, Tr. by  V. LLONA & P. STAVROV, París, A. Michel, 1934
 G. W. CABLE, Les Grandissimes, París, Payot, 1926. Ambrose BIERCE, Aux lisières de la mort, París Renaissance du Livre [1923?] Javier PRADO, The historical destinies of the United States, Lima, [194.?] Alexis TOLSTOY, Pierre le Grand, Tr. by P. STAVROV & V. LLONA.París, Gallimard, 1937. Nicolas GOGOL, Le Nez, Tr. by V. LLONA & P. STAVROV. París, E. Lowry [s.a.]
 Les Romanciers américains, nouvelles de S. Anderson, L. Bromfield, J. B. Cabell... [et al. ], textes choisis par V. <mask>, préf. et trad.<mask> <mask>, Bernard Fay, A. Maurois [et al. ], Paris, Denoël et Steele, 1931.Into English Pierre BENOIT, Salt Lake, Tr. in English by FLORENCE & VÍCTOR A. LLONA, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Elisabeth de GRAMONT, Years of Plenty, Tr. in English by FLORENCE & VÍCTOR A. LLONA, London, New York, J. Cape & Smith, 1931.Souvenirs'''
 Victor LLONA, Entre dos guerras, in Garcilaso, año I, Nº 1, Lima, October 1945. <mask>ONA, Days and nights in Paris with Scott Fitzgerald, in: Voyages. Vol.4, nos. 1 & 2 (winter 1971)
 Victor LLONA y Estuardo NUÑEZ, Obras narrativas y ensayos, Lima, Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, 1972. <mask>ONA, Memorias de la vida literaria en París, Unpublished

Sources
 Theodore Dreiser Papers, University of Pennsylvania. Peter Neagoe Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library
 Manuel BELTROV, Víctor M. <mask>, in: Garsilaso, Año I, Nº 1, p. 30. Lima, 1940. Estuardo NÚÑEZ (see Wikipedia Spanish), Una novela peruana sobre el Ku-Klux Klan, in: El Comercio, Lima, 2/04/1965, p. 2. Estuardo NÚÑEZ, Víctor <mask>, 1886-1953, in: Boletin de la Biblioteca Nacional, Lima, 1965, Nos.33-34, p. 3-6. Estuardo NÚÑEZ, Semblanza de Víctor <mask>, in: Alpha, Barranco, 1965, Nº 2, p. 1-10. Estuardo NÚÑEZ, James Joyce y Víctor <mask>, in: Revista peruana de cultura, Nos. 7-8, Lima, junio de 1966, p. 221-228. Ernest KROLL, A note on <mask>, in: Voyages, Vol. 4, nrs 1-2, 1971
 A. VAN DEN ABEELE, Louis Thomas'', biography, unpublished

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<mask> (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz; October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974–1982), and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven (1984–1989). <mask> appeared on the cover of TV Guide 22 times, second only to Lucille Ball. Early life
<mask> was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz on October 31, 1936 in Forest Hills, a neighborhood of Queens, New York. His parents were Peggy (née O'Neill; a dancer and comedian) and Eli Maurice Orowitz. His father was Jewish, and his mother was Roman Catholic. Eugene was the Orowitz family's second child; their daughter, Evelyn, was born three years earlier, in 1933.In 1941, when <mask> was four years old, he and his family moved to the borough of Collingswood, New Jersey, near Philadelphia. He attended, and celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at Temple Beth Sholom. His family recalls that <mask> "went through a lot of hassle studying for the big event, which included bicycling to a nearby town every day in order to learn how to read Hebrew and recite prayers." During his childhood, <mask> was constantly worrying about his mother attempting suicide. On a family beach vacation his mother tried to drown herself, but he rescued her. Shortly after the attempt, his mother acted as if nothing happened and a few minutes later, he vomited. He said that it was the worst experience of his life.Stress overload from the suicide attempts of his mother caused <mask> to battle the childhood problem of bedwetting, which was documented in the unauthorized biography <mask>: His Triumph and Tragedy. His mother put his wet sheets on display outside his window for all to see. He ran home every day and tried to remove them before his classmates could see. <mask> attended Collingswood High School and was an excellent javelin thrower, with his  toss in 1954 being the longest throw by a high schooler in the United States that year. This earned him an athletic scholarship to the University of Southern California, but he subsequently tore his shoulder ligaments, putting an end to his days as a college athlete and as a student. <mask> considered show-business and served as an attendant at a service gas station opposite the studios of Warner Bros. He was eventually noticed by Bob Raison, a local agent.Following advice, <mask> changed his surname, selecting a new one from a phone book. Career

Early work
<mask>'s first starring appearance was on the television series Telephone Time, in the episode "The Mystery of Casper Hauser" (1956) as the title character. Other parts came: movie roles in I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), Maracaibo (1958), High School Confidential (1958), the notorious God's Little Acre (1958), and The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959), as well as many roles on television, such as Crossroads (three episodes), The Restless Gun (pilot episode aired on Schlitz Playhouse of Stars), Sheriff of Cochise (in "Human Bomb"), U.S. Marshal (as Don Sayers in "The Champ"), Crusader, Frontier Doctor, The Rifleman (in "End of a Young Gun", 1958), The Adventures of Jim Bowie, Johnny Staccato, Wire Service, General Electric Theater, The Court of Last Resort, State Trooper (two episodes), Tales of Wells Fargo (three episodes), The Texan (in the 1958 episode "The Hemp Tree"), The Tall Man, Tombstone Territory (in the episodes "The Man From Brewster", with John Carradine and "Rose of the Rio Bravo", with Kathleen Nolan), Trackdown (two 1958 episodes), and Wanted Dead or Alive, starring Steve McQueen (in episodes "The Martin Poster", 1958, and "The Legend", 1959). <mask> also appeared in at least 2 episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater including "Gift from a Gunman" in 1957 and "Living is a Lonely Thing" in 1959. <mask> can be seen in an uncredited speaking role as a cavalry trooper in a 1956 episode of the ABC/Warner Bros. television series Cheyenne, an episode titled "Decision." Two years later, <mask> returned to that same series in "The White Warrior".He was then cast as White Hawk a.k.a. Alan Horn, a young white man who, like Cheyenne Bodie, was raised by Native Americans after the slaughter of his parents. White Hawk rises to the occasion to help Cheyenne as he heads a wagon train to California amid the threat of the Apaches. Bonanza

In 1959, at the age of 22, <mask> began his first starring TV role as Little Joe Cartwright on Bonanza, one of the first TV series to be broadcast in color. Also starring on the show were Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, and Dan Blocker. During Bonanzas sixth season (1964–1965), the show topped the Nielsen ratings and remained number one for three years. Receiving more fan mail than any other cast member, <mask> negotiated with executive producer David Dortort and NBC to write and direct some episodes.In 1962, <mask> wrote his first script. In 1968, <mask> directed his first episode. In 1993, TV Guide listed Little Joe's September 1972 two-hour wedding episode ("Forever") as one of TV's most memorable specials. <mask>'s script recalled Little Joe's brother, Hoss, who was initially the story's groom, before Dan Blocker's death. During the final season, the ratings declined, and NBC canceled Bonanza in November 1972. The last episode aired on January 16, 1973. Along with Lorne Greene and Victor Sen Yung, <mask> appeared in all 14 seasons of the series.<mask> was loyal to many of his Bonanza associates including producer Kent McCray, director William F. Claxton, and composer David Rose, who remained with him throughout Bonanza as well as Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven. Little House on the Prairie

The year after Bonanza was canceled, <mask> went on to star as Charles Ingalls in the pilot of what became another successful television series, Little House on the Prairie, again for NBC. The show was taken from a 1935 book written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose character in the show was played by nine-year-old actress Melissa Gilbert. In addition to Gilbert, two other unknown actresses also starred on the show: Melissa Sue Anderson, who appeared as Mary Ingalls, the oldest daughter in the Ingalls family, and Karen Grassle as Charles' wife, Caroline. <mask> served as executive producer, writer, and director of Little House. The show was nominated for several Emmy and Golden Globe awards. After eight seasons, Little House was retooled by NBC in 1982 as Little House: A New Beginning, which focused on the Wilder family and the Walnut Grove community.Though <mask> remained the show's executive producer, director and writer, A New Beginning did not feature Charles and Caroline Ingalls. A New Beginning was actually the final chapter of Little House, as the series ended in 1983. The following year, three made-for-television movies aired. Melissa Gilbert said of her on- and off-screen chemistry with <mask>, "He was very much like a 'second father' to me. My own father passed away when I was 11, so, without really officially announcing it, <mask> really stepped in." When not working on the Little House set, Gilbert spent most of the weekends visiting <mask>'s real-life family. She once said, "The house was huge.We ran like banshees through that house, and Mike would hide behind doorways and jump out and scare us." In a 2015 interview, Gilbert said of <mask>, "He gave me so much advice...the overall idea that he pounded into me, from a little girl, into my brain was that nothing's more important than 'Home & Family'; no success, no career, no achievements, no accomplishments, nothing's more important than loving the people you love and contributing to a community. Though we were working, really, really hard, we were 'Not Saving The World', one episode of television at a time, we're just entertaining people and there are more important things to do... and have fun; no matter what." Highway to Heaven
After producing both "Little House" and later the Father Murphy TV series, <mask> starred in another successful program. In Highway to Heaven, he played a probationary angel (who named himself Jonathan Smith) whose job was to help people in order to earn his wings. His co-star on the show was Victor French (who had previously co-starred on <mask>'s Little House on the Prairie) as ex-cop Mark Gordon. On Highway, <mask> served as executive producer, writer, and director.Highway to Heaven was the only show throughout his long career in television that he owned outright. By 1985, prior to hiring his son, <mask> Jr., as a member of his camera crew, he also brought real-life cancer patients and disabled people to the set. His decision to work with disabled people led him to hire a couple of adults with disabilities to write episodes for Highway to Heaven. By season four, Highway dropped out of the Nielsen top 30, and in June 1988, NBC announced that the series would return for an abbreviated fifth season, which would be its last. Its final episodes were filmed in the fall of 1988. One aired in September, two in December, one in March 1989, and the remainder aired on Fridays from June to August. French did not live to see Highway'''s series finale broadcast; he died of advanced lung cancer on June 15,  1989 two months after it was diagnosed.<mask> invited his youngest daughter, <mask>, to take part in the final episode. Other projects

In 1972, he was among the guests in David Winters' musical television special The Special London Bridge Special, starring Tom Jones, and Jennifer O'Neill. In 1973, <mask> was an episode director and writer for the short-lived NBC romantic anthology series Love Story. In 1982, he co-produced an NBC "true story" television movie, Love Is Forever, starring himself and Laura Gemser (who was credited as Moira Chen), about Australian photojournalist John Everingham's successful attempt to scuba dive under the Mekong to rescue his lover from communist-ruled Laos in 1977. The real Everingham was cast as an extra in the film.Sam's Son was a 1984 coming-of-age feature film written and directed by <mask> and loosely based on his early life. The film stars Timothy Patrick Murphy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Hallie Todd, and James Karen. Karen previously worked for <mask> in the made-for-television film Little House: The Last Farewell.He was a guest of the PBS television series The Electric Company. After the cancellation of Highway to Heaven and before his move to CBS, <mask> wrote and directed the teleplay Where Pigeons Go to Die. Based on a novel of the same name, the film starred Art Carney and was nominated for two Emmy awards. Up through the run of Highway to Heaven, all of <mask>'s television programs were broadcast on NBC, a relationship of which lasted thirty consecutive years with the network. After the cancellation of Highway and due to a fallout with those within NBC's upper management, he moved to CBS and in 1991 starred in a two-hour pilot called Us. Us was meant to be another series for <mask> but, with his diagnosis on April 5 of pancreatic cancer, the show never aired beyond the pilot. <mask> also appeared as a celebrity panelist on the premiere week of Match Game on CBS.Singing
<mask> also had a singing career, of the teen idol type. In 1957, Candlelight Records released a <mask> single "Gimme a Little Kiss (Will "Ya" Huh)"/ "Be Patient With Me" during the height of his notoriety for his role in the film I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Some copies show the artist credited as the "Teenage Werewolf" rather than as <mask>. In 1962, both the A- and B-side of the record were re-released on the Fono-Graf label that included a picture sleeve of <mask>'s then-current role on Bonanza as Little Joe Cartwright. In 1964, RCA Victor Records released another <mask> single, "Linda Is Lonesome"/"Without You". All of <mask>'s singles have since been issued on compact disc by Bear Family Records as part of a Bonanza various artists compilation. <mask> sang on television, on the Dean Martin Show, Hullabaloo, and other venues, and also sang live on stage at theatrical venues (sometimes with a holster and gun strapped to his hip).Personal life
<mask> was married three times, and father to nine children. Dodie Levy-Fraser (married 1956; divorced 1962)
 Mark Fraser <mask> (adopted; Dodie's biological son)
 Josh Fraser <mask> (adopted as infant)
 Marjorie Lynn Noe (married 1963; divorced 1982)
 Cheryl Lynn <mask> (born Cheryl Ann Pontrelli), Lynn's daughter from her first marriage; she was nine when her mother and <mask> married. Leslie Ann <mask>
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In February 1959, <mask>'s father succumbed to a heart attack. In 1973, his eldest daughter, Cheryl, was involved in a serious car collision just outside Tucson, Arizona, while a student at the University of Arizona. <mask> was the sole survivor out of four involved in the collision. She was hospitalized with serious injuries and remained in a coma for days. <mask>'s mother, Peggy, died in March 1981.<mask> admitted to being a chain smoker and heavy drinker. Illness and death

On April 2, 1991, <mask> began to suffer from a severe headache while he was on a skiing vacation in Utah. On April 5, 1991, he was diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of pancreatic cancer known as exocrine adenocarcinoma, which had begun to impact the tissues and blood vessels around the pancreas. The cancer was inoperable and terminal. On May 9, 1991, he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to speak about the cancer and condemn the tabloid press for its sensational headlines and inaccurate stories, including the claim that he and his wife were trying to have another child. During his appearance, <mask> pledged to fight the disease and asked his fans to pray for him. On May 21, 1991, he underwent successful surgery for a near-fatal blood clot in his left leg.In June 1991, he appeared on the cover of Life Magazine after granting the periodical an exclusive private interview about his life, his family, and his struggle to live. On July 1, 1991, at age 54, <mask> died in Malibu, California. <mask> was interred in a private family mausoleum at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, in Culver City, California. <mask>'s headstone reads, "He seized life with joy. He gave to life generously. He leaves a legacy of love and laughter." The remains of his son, Mark, were also interred there after his death in May 2009.Legacy

A community building at Malibu's Bluffs Park was named "The <mask> Landon Center" following the actor's death. <mask>'s son, <mask>., produced a memorial special called <mask>: Memories with Laughter and Love, featuring the actor's family, friends and co-stars: Bonanza co-star David Canary said that one word that described <mask> was "fearless" in his dealings with network brass. Melissa Gilbert, who played his daughter on Little House said that the actor made her feel "incredibly safe" and that he was "paternal". Often cited on the special was <mask>'s bizarre sense of humor, which included having toads leap from his mouth and dressing as a superhero to visit a pizza parlor. In 1991, during <mask>'s final Tonight Show appearance, Johnny Carson related how the actor took him back to a restaurant the two had dined at previously. Carson had been led to believe he accidentally ran over the owner's cat in the parking lot during their first visit. When sitting down to eat the second time, Carson discovered that <mask> had helped create a fake menu of dinner items featuring cat metaphors.A made-for-TV movie, <mask>, the Father I Knew'', co-written and directed by his son <mask>., aired on CBS in May 1999. John Schneider starred in the title role as <mask>, with Cheryl Ladd as Lynn Noe and Joel Berti as <mask> Jr. The biopic detailed, from <mask>'s point of view, the personal emotional trauma he endured during his parents' divorce and his father's premature death. The movie spanned a timeline from the 1960s through the early 1990s. A plaque and small playground referred to as the "Little Treehouse on the Prairie" was erected in Knight Park, a central park in <mask>'s hometown of Collingswood. In 2011, the plaque was removed from the park by the borough and was later given to a local newspaper by an unnamed person. According to the Collingswood, NJ website, the plaque was removed during a fall cleanup with plans to return it to a safer location.The plaque was reinstated next to a bench in a safer location the following summer.

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<mask> (born December 10, 1969) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He is the current general manager of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was originally drafted by the Kings in 1988, appearing in the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy and serving as team captain for five seasons in his initial 11-season stint with the club. In 2001, <mask> was traded to the Colorado Avalanche and was a member of their 2001 Stanley Cup championship team. It was his only Stanley Cup as a player, though he won the Cup again as a member of the Kings' front office in 2014. After a two-season return to Los Angeles, <mask> signed with the San Jose Sharks in 2008, retiring as its captain after the 2009–10 season. Four years later, in 2014, <mask> was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame.Internationally, <mask> played for Canada in three consecutive Winter Olympics in 1998, 2002 and 2006, winning gold in 2002 and becoming the 11th member of the Triple Gold Club. Playing career

Los Angeles Kings (1990–2001)
<mask> was selected 70th overall in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings. He had completed his freshman year with Bowling Green State University of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) when he was drafted and went on to play three years total in the college ranks, earning CCHA and NCAA West First All-Star Team honours in 1990. <mask> was also the first player to ever receive the CCHA Best Offensive Defenseman award. Foregoing his final season of college eligibility, <mask> joined the Kings for the final four games of the 1989–90 season before scoring 46 points in his NHL rookie campaign in 1990–91 to be named to the NHL All-Rookie Team. After a 59-point campaign in his third season, <mask> helped lead the Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, where they were defeated in five games by the Montreal Canadiens. The following season, in 1993–94, <mask> improved to a career-high 48 assists and 68 points, but the Kings failed to qualify for the playoffs.In a season where <mask> was kept to just six games due to injury, the Kings traded captain Wayne Gretzky to the St. Louis Blues at the 1995–96 trade deadline, leaving the team's captaincy vacant. <mask> was named the 11th captain in team history. He served as captain from 1996 to 2001. In 1997–98, <mask> received the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best defenceman after recording a career-high 23 goals to go with 50 points. On February 21, 2001, with <mask> about to become an unrestricted free agent in the 2001 off-season, the Kings traded him (along with Steven Reinprecht) to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Adam Deadmarsh, Aaron Miller, Jared Aulin and a first-round pick (used to select Dave Steckel). Colorado Avalanche (2001–2006)
After 11 seasons in Los Angeles, <mask> joined Colorado late in the 2000–01 season and made an immediate impact, scoring 10 points in the final 13 games of the regular season after being traded. In the 2001 playoffs, he played a second-round series against his former club, the Kings, before he won his first and only Stanley Cup with the Avalanche, adding 19 points in 23 playoff games.In totalling 59 points in 67 games in the regular season, <mask> was selected to the NHL Second All-Star Team. On July 1, 2001, <mask> re-signed with the Avalanche in the off-season to a five-year contract with an optional sixth year. As the Avalanche's top defenceman, <mask> recorded his highest total with the Avalanche in recording 56 points in 75 games, third amongst NHL defenceman, in the 2001–02 season, before falling in their defence of the Stanley Cup in the Western Conference finals to the Detroit Red Wings. For his third successive season, <mask> was selected to the NHL Second All-Star Team. In the following 2002–03 season, <mask> recorded his 500th career point against the Minnesota Wild on October 29, 2002. In finishing fifth in Norris Trophy voting, <mask> placed second amongst Avalanche defenceman with 45 points in 79 games. In each of his first three seasons with the Avalanche, he was selected to the NHL All-Star Game, and in the 2003–04 campaign, he was selected as a starter for the 2004 All-Star Game in Saint Paul, Minnesota.He finished the season with the Avalanche, placing ninth in the NHL amongst defenceman with 46 points. After losing a season to the 2004–05 NHL lockout, <mask> returned for his final season under contract with the Avalanche in 2005–06. He continued his scoring presence amongst the Avalanche in recording 51 points in 81 games, the seventh time in his career he surpassed the 50-point plateau. On April 3, 2006, against the Chicago Blackhawks, he scored his 200th career NHL goal to become just the 17th defenceman all-time to reach the mark. Return to Los Angeles (2006–2008)
After five years with Colorado, the Avalanche chose not to pick up his contract option for the 2006–07 season, making him a free agent. On July 1, 2006, he re-signed with his former team, the Los Angeles Kings, for two years at $6 million per year. Having come off a 51-point campaign with Colorado the previous year, <mask>'s production dipped upon his return to Los Angeles.He recorded 34 points in 2006–07 for his lowest total since 1996–97. Nevertheless, prior to the start of the 2007–08 season, <mask> was renamed team captain on September 28, 2007, after previous captain Mattias Norström's departure to the Dallas Stars. San Jose Sharks (2008–2010)

Becoming an unrestricted free agent once more in the 2008 off-season, on July 3, 2008, <mask> signed a one-year, US$5 million contract with the Kings' Pacific Division rival San Jose Sharks. <mask> reached the 40-point plateau once more with the Sharks, tallying 10 goals and 35 assists in his first season in San Jose. <mask> extended his contract with the Sharks, re-signing for another year at $3.5 million to avoid free agency. <mask> would be named captain of the Sharks approximately six weeks after previous captain Patrick Marleau was stripped of the role by Sharks management. Retirement
On June 18, 2010, <mask> announced his final retirement from professional hockey.On March 3, 2011, during a Los Angeles Kings telecast , <mask> discussed his post-playing career as a hockey operations manager for the NHL, based in Toronto. <mask> said, "This job kind of developed over the summer (of 2010) in talking with Brendan Shanahan. I played for a while in the NHL (20 years). As a former player, I can provide the league with some insight in various aspects of the game. I was able to stay on the West Coast (and commute to Toronto for work), so it worked out really well." {interview by LA Kings telecasters during broadcast 3/3/11} He continued, "I watch the game much differently now, just because I've been in Toronto, in the war room. Now, I watch the game and see the calls that are made as well as the ones which weren't but should have been."{interview by LA Kings telecasters during broadcast 3/3/11}

On August 11, 2014, the Los Angeles Kings announced they would be retiring <mask>'s number 4 jersey on January 17, 2015. He was later selected to the Colorado Avalanche's 20th anniversary team honoured on December 8, 2015. Executive career
Before the 2013–14 season, the Los Angeles Kings hired <mask> as assistant general manager. The Kings won the Stanley Cup in his first year. As the assistant general manager to the Kings, he also acted as the general manager for their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliates, the Manchester Monarchs (2013–2015) and the Ontario Reign (2015–). <mask> was also selected by Hockey Canada to be their general manager for the 2014 IIHF World Championship. On April 10, 2017, the Kings named <mask> the vice-president and general manager of the team.Personal life
<mask> and his wife Brandy have three children, sons Jack and Max, and daughter Brooke. His best friend is former NHL goaltender Dwayne Roloson, with whom he grew up playing hockey in Simcoe, Ontario. He is also distantly related to Hall of Famer Red Kelly. In 2008, <mask> appeared in the Mike Myers film The Love Guru as himself. A short street in his hometown of Simcoe, <mask> Way, is named after him. Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

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Awards and honours

See also
List of NHL players with 1000 games played

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Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Colorado Avalanche players
Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
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Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics
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James Norris Memorial Trophy winners
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National Hockey League All-Stars
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Olympic ice hockey players of Canada
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
San Jose Sharks players
Simcoe Composite School alumni
Sportspeople from Norfolk County, Ontario
Stanley Cup champions
Triple Gold Club
AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans

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title: Dave Herman (fighter)

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<mask> (born October 3, 1984) is a retired American mixed martial artist, who competed in the Heavyweight division of Titan FC, UFC, Bellator, EliteXC, World Victory Road, ShoXC, and Shark Fights. His nickname "Pee-Wee" is a reference of the character <mask>, created and portrayed by American comedian Paul Reubens. <mask> was born in Columbia City, Indiana and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, attending Concordia Lutheran High School. At Concordia, <mask> participated in various sports including football, track and field, and cross country. He also competed in wrestling for one month in his sophomore year before being expelled from the school. After taking his GED as a junior and spending a year at IPFW, <mask> transferred to Indiana University at Bloomington, which has a Division I wrestling program. Despite having basically no high school wrestling experience, <mask> competed for Indiana as a walk-on and excelled, competing for three full years and part of a fourth year.He red-shirted his first season which was from 2003–04 and held an impressive 28–9 record in his second season. He then claimed the exclusive starting role in his third season, holding a 28–16 record and qualifying for the NCAA tournament, in which he went 2–2. In a 2006 pre-season ranking, <mask> was placed as high as eighth in the nation. In his fourth season <mask> started off the season flawlessly, winning a tournament in November, but left a week later with no explanation for his departure, and later graduated from the university with a degree in general studies. <mask> began training in mixed martial arts after watching one of his former college teammates train in the rising sport. Mixed martial arts career

Early career
Following a 2–0 amateur career, <mask> made his professional mixed martial arts debut on December 31, 2006. He quickly amassed an undefeated 11–0 record, fighting 10 times throughout 2007, and went 13–0 before actually joining an MMA gym and officially begin training.In 2008, <mask> signed with the now defunct EliteXC organization. He debuted on the undercard of EliteXC: Street Certified, defeating Mario Rinaldi via TKO. His second bout came at EliteXC: Return of the King, where he defeated Ron Waterman via TKO. He next faced Kerry Schall in the main event of ShoXC 9, which would ultimately be the final show by the company. Following the dissolution of EliteXC, <mask> fought for a variety of promotions including Bellator Fighting Championships, Shark Fights and World Victory Road. Korean fighter Mu Bae Choi handed him his first loss in Japan on January 4, 2009, fighting in the Sengoku promotion. In his next fight <mask> defeated Jim York at Sengoku 11.In 2010, <mask> became entangled in a lawsuit with Bellator that kept him out of action in the United States for just over a year. Once the legal issues were settled, <mask> was scheduled to face Ricco Rodriguez at Bellator 31 but Rodriguez pulled out of the fight due to a knee injury. Michal Kita stepped in, and served as Rodriguez's replacement. <mask> defeated him via first round submission. <mask> received his second loss after being disqualified for illegal knees to Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou. <mask> then faced Yoshihiro Nakao at World Victory Road Presents: Soul of Fight. He won the fight via decision, the first fight in his career to go the distance.Ultimate Fighting Championship
<mask> was expected to make his promotional debut against Rob Broughton on June 11, 2011 at UFC 131. However, in late March, Broughton was replaced in the bout by Joey Beltran. When Brock Lesnar pulled out of his main event fight with Junior dos Santos, Jon Olav Einemo's original opponent, Shane Carwin, stepped up to replace Lesnar against dos Santos. <mask> instead fought fellow UFC newcomer Einemo. <mask> defeated Einemo via TKO (punches) at 3:19 of round 2 in a back and forth bout that earned Fight of the Night honors. <mask> was scheduled to face Mike Russow on October 8, 2011 at UFC 136. However, the bout was cancelled after <mask> failed his preliminary drug test in which he tested positive for marijuana.<mask> denies using the prohibited substances. <mask> fought against Stefan Struve on February 15, 2012 at UFC on Fuel TV 1. He lost the fight via TKO in the second round. <mask> replaced Gabriel Gonzaga to face Roy Nelson on May 26, 2012 at UFC 146. He was defeated via KO in 51 seconds. <mask> next faced Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira on October 13, 2012 at UFC 153. <mask> was submitted by Nogueira via armbar in the second round, receiving the first submission loss of his career.<mask> tested positive for marijuana for the second time after failing his post-fight drug test for UFC 153. He was suspended for six months and ordered to undergo treatment. The suspension was lifted in April 2013. <mask> was expected to face Shane del Rosario on July 6, 2013 at UFC 162. However, del Rosario was forced off the card due to injury and replaced by Gabriel Gonzaga. <mask> lost the fight just 17 seconds into the first round by TKO. After losing four fights in a row, <mask> was released from the UFC.Titan Fighting Championship
On January 28, 2014, it was announced that <mask> had signed a contract with Titan Fighting Championship. <mask> was expected to face Kalib Starnes at Titan FC 28 on April 25, 2014. However the event was delayed until May 16, 2014. He won the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> was expected to face Walt Harris at Titan FC 30 on September 26, 2014. However Harris was forced out of the bout with a back injury and the fight was then rescheduled to take place at Titan FC 32 on November 20, 2014. However the bout was scrapped after Harris re-signed with the UFC.<mask> was then expected to face Jon Madsen for the Titan FC heavyweight championship at the event. On November 4, 2014 it was announced that Titan FC 32 would be postponed to December 19, 2014 and would be moved from Augusta, Georgia to Lowell, Massachusetts. <mask> subsequently pulled out of the bout due to an injury. Personal life
<mask> married Madeleine Atchley in March 2014. They live on a farm and have a son, Leo. On January 19, 2015 <mask> was arrested in the early morning in Indiana, allegedly after leading police on a chase. <mask> faces three felony charges, including resisting law enforcement with a vehicle and battery against law enforcement, and a misdemeanor charge of child neglect.His infant child was in the vehicle when he pulled over in the closest safe well lit area. According to an incident report issued by the Dekalb County Sheriff Department, <mask> was speeding on I-69 with no headlights or taillights on. When officers attempted to pull him over, <mask> initially refused to pull over before stopping at a gas station, the report states. According to the report: “David exited his vehicle and approached Officers in an aggressive manner. David was given multiple warnings to get on the ground and failed to comply. David had to be tased in order to be taken into custody.

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