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 was out of the ordinary for the citizens of the city and was a big shift from a complicated system of taxation and rents imposed by the Ptolemies that was elsewhere known in Asia Minor. Before he died in 240 BC, Ptolemy III honored Ptolemy by another decree in the city assuring the city still recognised the authority of the Pharaoh in Alexandria and to Ptolemy's good care of the city. When Ptolemy died an honorific surviving inscription dedicated to him reads: "Ptolemy son of Ptolemy and Arsinoe the Theoi Philadelphoi" (the sibling loving Gods). With the death of Ptolemy,