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 Keraunos Corupedium in 281 BC against Seleucus, Ptolemy Keraunos murdered Seleucus in order to gain control over the territories of his former protector. He then rushed to Lysimachia where he had himself acclaimed king by the Macedonian army. At this time he also formally relinquished his claim to the Egyptian throne. To secure his position on the throne, Ptolemy asked his half-sister Arsinoe, the widow of Lysimachus, to marry him. Later in the year, he made an alliance with Pyrrhus of Epirus. His only rival, Antigonos Gonatas, son of the ex-king of Macedon, Demetrius I Poliorcetes, was confined in the city