Barry Ptolemy Barry Ptolemy Robert Barry Ptolemy (born 1969) is an American film director, producer and writer. Ptolemy directed "Transcendent Man" (2009) a documentary film about futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. Ptolemy was born in Los Angeles, California. His father introduced him to computers at an early age, giving him a lifelong interest in technology. At the age of 12, Ptolemy worked with Steven Spielberg on the set of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) as an animal wrangler. Inspired by working with Spielberg the next year in 1983 Ptolemy directed and produced his first short film "The Holograph" which won first place in
Ptolemy Epigonos he was the last living child of the Diadochus Lysimachus. At an unknown date, perhaps during his co-regency with Ptolemy II or in his rule over Telmessos, Ptolemy married an unnamed Greek aristocratic woman by whom he had two sons: Lysimachus of Telmessos who later succeeded him as the second Ptolemaic Client King of Telmessos and Epigonos of Telmessos. The identity of Ptolemy is perhaps the most confusing and controversial of Ptolemaic genealogy. Ptolemy is also identified as the following: Ptolemy Epigonos Ptolemy Epigonos ( "Ptolemaios I Epigonos", "Epigonos" i.e. the "heir", 299/298 BC–February 240 BC) was a Greek Prince