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Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Wambaugh (born 1937)

actor

  • California State University, Los Angeles

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Fire Lover
Echoes in the darkness
Echoes in the darkness
Echoes in the darkness
Hollywood Station
The blue knight
The onion field
The New Centurions
Hollywood moon
The secrets of Harry Bright
The Choirboys
Lines and shadows
Finnegan's week
The delta star
The black marble
The blooding
Floaters
Hollywood Crows
The golden orange
Glitter dome, The
The glitter dome
The Choirboys
Harbour Nocturne
The New centurions
Fugitive nights
Finnegan's week
The delta star
Best American Crime Writing 2004
The delta star
Floaters
Hollywood Station
Four complete novels
Lines and shadows
Hollywood Hills
The secrets of Harry Bright
Blooding, The
Hollywood Station
The Golden Orange
Choirboys,, The
Fugitive nights
Harbor nocturne
Harbour Nocturne
The Delta Star
The choirboys
Fugitive nights
Hollywood Hills
Hollywood moon
Hollywood crows
Black Marble, The
The Glitter Dome
ONION FIELD A N ED
Hollywood Hills
Nocturne
Golden Orange, The (Mono Version)
Hollywood moon
The black marble
New Centurions/Ten Cassettes
Glitter Dome
Joseph Wambaugh
Finnegan's Week (Classic Collection)
Glitter Dome, The
The New Centurions
Hollywood Station
Hollywood crows
The Blue Knight
The Onion Field
Delta Star, The
Finnegan's week
The Blue Knight by Joseph Wambaugh (1972-02-28)
Blue Knight [Advance Reader Copy]
The Blooding
Fire Lover
Corbeau Hollywood
El caballero de azul
Black Marble, The
Secrets of Harry Bright
Last Seen off Stingray Point
Harbor Nocturne
Finnegan's Week
Les nuits du fugitif (Taschenbuch)
The Onion Field First edition by Wambaugh, Joseph (1973) Hardcover
The Delta Star by Joseph Wambaugh (1983-12-01)
Lines and shadows
Joseph Wambaugh X12 S/W
Finnegan's Week Lib/E
The new centurions
Choirboys
Delta Star
Police story
Corbeau à Hollywood
Fugitive Nights
La voix du sang L'histoire de la première affaire criminelle au monde résolue par la méthode des empreintes génétiques
Golden Orange
Finnegan's Week
[ HARBOR NOCTURNE - GREENLIGHT ] By Wambaugh, Joseph ( Author) 2012 [ Hardcover ]
Hollywood Station
"Finnegan's Week" A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh
Flic Hollywood (English and French Edition)
Finnegan's Week
The Blooding Genetic Fingerprinting DNA Joseph Wambaugh 1ST/1ST
Gölge Protokol
Onion Field
Fire Lover
Finnegan's Week
Harbor nocturne
Busting the Brass Ceiling
The blue knight
Lines and Shadows
The Blue Knight by Joseph Wambaugh (2008-09-04)
Hariuddo no satsujin
Hollywood crows
Floaters
Blooding, The
The Onion Field
Golden Orange
El caballero azul
Echos in the Darkness
Choirboys
Harbor nocturne
Lines and Shadows
The Glitter Dome
The Choirboys
The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh (1989-02-04)
L'envers du décor (French Edition)
The Delta Star
Bienvenue à Hollywood
Black Marble
By Joseph Wambaugh - The Choirboys (1976-04-23) [Hardcover]
Black Marble
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)

poet, street artist, musician, pianist, film actor, record producer, singer, lyricist, drawer

  • McGill University, Columbia University

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The flame
The favourite game
Beautiful losers
Stranger music
Dance me to the end of love
Selected poems, 1956-1968
Death of a lady's man
The Spice Box of Earth
Leonard Cohen
The energy of slaves
Book of mercy
Leonard Cohen On Leonard Cohen Interviews And Encounters
God is alive
Let us compare mythologies
Cohen
Flowers for Hitler
Songs from the life of Leonard Cohen
The Leonard Cohen Collection
Ballet of Lepers
Poems, 1956-1968
The Future
Leonard Cohen
Cohen, The Selected Poetry of
Leonard Cohen for Easy Piano
Gorkemli Kaybedenler
The lyrics of Leonard Cohen
Mi-shire Leʹonard Kohen
Fingerpicking Leonard Cohen
I'm your man
Leonard Cohen Anthology (Pvg)
New skin for the old ceremony
Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah
Words of Love and Hate
Hermosos perdedores
Libro Del Anhelo
Solitude of Strength/La Solitudine Della Forza
Il tormento della bellezza
Divni gubitnici
コロナウイルス：いいえ、あなたは私を怖がらせません！
Seductive Harmonies The Poetry Of Music
Hallelujah
El libro del anhelo
Parasites of heaven
Leonard Cohen for Ukulele
Two views
Various positions
Leonard Cohen greatest hits
Live songs
Pandemic Flue : You Don't Scare Me!
Hallelujah (Sheet Music)
Hallelujah for Saxophone Quartet
Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers
New Tattoo Coloring Book
Hallelujah - Piano Solo
Hermosos Perdedores / Beautiful Losers
Hallelujah for Clarinet Quartet
La llama
Hallelujah
Memorias de un mujeriego
En Sevilen Oyun
The Essential Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Vol.2
Leonard Cohen - Sheet Music Collection
Gözde Oyun
Leonard Cohen - Strum & Sing Guitar
El libro de la misericordia
Jeux de dames
Les Perdants magnifiques
Leonard Cohen Anthology
Hallelujah per Quartetto Di Clarinetti
Choosing to work
La Caja de Especias de La Tierra
Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960- 1970.
Leonard Cohen
Songs of love and hate
Almost Young. A Tribute
A mil besos de profundidad
Greatest hits
ספר הכמיהה
Étrange musique étrangère
1957
The best of Leonard Cohen
Sheet music collection, 1967-2016
Yndlingslegen
Ke-tsipor ʻal ha-tayil
ha-Miśḥaḳ he-ahuv
Kjaerlighet og Hat
Musique d'ailleurs
ha-Shirim
Mój Cohen
Martín Kohan
Martín Kohan (born 1967)

literary theorist, actor

  • National School of Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Me acuerdo
Ciencias morales
Segundos afuera
Museo de la revolución
Una pena extraordinaria
El Informe
El país de la guerra
Dos veces junio
Los cautivos
Muero contento
Narrar a San Martín
La pérdida de Laura
Cuentas pendientes
La vanguardia permanente
Cuerpo a tierra
Ojos brujos
Bahía Blanca
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh (born 1958)

playwright, film actor

  • Heriot-Watt University

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Pimp
Days like this
Marabou Stork Nightmares
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
Crime
If You Liked School, You'll Love Work
The Sex Lives Of Siamese Twins
A decent ride
Children of Albion Rovers
Reheated cabbage
Vintage Youth Prepack (Oliver Twist / Trainspotting)
Trainspotting
Babylon Heights
T2 Trainspotting
Dead Men's Trousers
Glue
Because I am a girl
Open City #3 (Open City)
Trainspotting ; & Headstate
Seal Club
Porno
Glue
Blade Artist
La vida sexual de las gemelas siamesas
Skagboys
People's City
One City
Un polvo en condiciones
Der Durchblicker
The Acid House
Filth
Ecstacy
The Wedding
L' artista del coltello
Man with the Golden Arm
You'll have had your hole
Si te gustó la escuela, te encantará el trabajo (Compactos Anagrama) (Spanish Edition)
4 Play
Long Knives
Klebstoff
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Tutta colpa dell'acido
DOGS of Lincoln Park (Storycuts)
Rosewell Incident (Storycuts)
Trainspotting zero
The Irvine Welsh Omnibus
Éxtasis
Catholic Guilt (You Know You Love It) (Storycuts)
State of the Party (Storycuts)
Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
Düzgün Muamele
Se Gostaste da Escola, Vais Adorar o Trabalho (Portuguese Edition)
Long Knives
If You Liked School, You'll Love Work... (Storycuts)
You'll Have Had Your Hole
Éxtasis
Tutkal
Porno Superproof
Smeris
Buyuk Seflerin Yatak Sirlari
Pislik
Col recalentada
Rave
Trainspotting (Film) 36cpy Dumpbi
Crimen
Miss Arizona (Storycuts)
Morto che cammina
Kingdom of Fife (Storycuts)
Rattlesnakes (Storycuts)
Rave
Acid House
Irvine Welsh Stories
I Am Miami (Storycuts)
Fault on the Line / Elspeth's Boyfriend / Kissing and Making Up (Storycuts)
Escoria (Contrasenas)
Porr
I lunghi coltelli
Victor Spoils (Storycuts)
Seal Club 2
Trainspotting; Shallow Grave
Serpenti a sonagli
Una testa mozzata
Leonard Pepper
Past tense
Sekrety sypialni mistrzow kuchni
Weekenders
Une ordure
Lijm
Der Durchblicker
IDP
Die Bettgeschichten der Meisterköche
Il lercio
Ecstasy T-Shirt
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

comedian, journalist, stage actor, film actor, poet, actor, musician, television actor, playwright

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Mussolini
Milligan's War
Depression and How to Survive It
Monty, His Part in My Victory
"Rommel?"-"Gunner who?"
Goodbye soldier
Where have all the bullets gone?
Milligans Meaning of Life
It Ends With Magic
Milligans Meaning of Life
Goodbye Soldier (War Biography)
More Spike Milligan letters
Peace Work
The family album
Gunner Milligan, 954024
Puckoon
Adolf Hitler
Goblins
The Bible
The Essential Spike Milligan
Silly Verse for Kids
Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall
The book of the Goons
The Lost Goon Shows
Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Show scripts
Dr. Who
Box 18
Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan
The Q Annual
Milligan's ark
Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Spike Milligan letters
Badjelly the witch
Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan, a celebration
The Murphy
Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry
Black Beauty
William McGonagall, the truth at last
Startling Verse for All the Family
Spike Milligan
William McGonagall
Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan
More Goon cartoons
The Looney
A dustbin of Milligan
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Magical World of Milligan
Hidden Words
Scunthorpe revisited, added articles and instant relatives
D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane according to Spike Milligan
That's Amazing
Classic Adventures
Open Heart University
A potboiling dustbin full of bits
The Goon Show Classics
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan
Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan
Indefinite articles
William McGonagall meets George Gershwin
Condensed animals
Dip the puppy , a fairy story ; with, The terrible monster jelly
The bald twit lion
A mad medley of Milligan
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Small dreams of a scorpion
More Goon Show scripts
The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Poetry)
Sir Nobonk and the terrible, awful, dreadful, naughty, nasty dragon
Rommel? Gunner Who? ; Monty
Two Tales of Wonder
The Goon Show Classics Volume 21 "The Missing Battleship"
A book of bits or a bit of a book
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Spike Milligan at the Beeb
The 101 best and only limericks of Spike Milligan
Monty
Badjelly the witch
Dip the puppy
The Lost "Goon" Shows
Spike Milligan'sfurther transports of delight
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Spike Milligan's transports of delight
The little pot boiler
The Goon Show and More Guests, Vol. 18
There's a lot of it about!
The Compulsive Spike Milligan
The Milligan book of records
The bedside Milligan
Fleas, Knees and Hidden Elephants
The mirror running
The Goon cartoons
A book of bits
Floored masterpieces with worse verse
Values
Spike's Poems
The mini Milligan collection
Lady Chatterley According to Spike Milligan
Silly verse for kids and animals
The great McGonagall scrap book
Spike Milligan's The melting pot
Black Beauty according to Spike Milligan
Poems
Spike Milligan Cut-Out
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Ifonly I were bald
The hound of the hound of Baskervilles according to Spike Milligan
Get in the Q annual
Puckoon. Eine irische Dorfgeschichte
Chill air
Milligan's ark
The bedsitting room
Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan (Penguin Modern Authors)
Wolf Tales: Wolves, Witches & Giants
World of Beachcomber (Comedy Club S.)
There's lot of it about!
M25
A book of bits, or
"Rommel
Milligan's War and Peace Memoirs
Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan
Lady Chatterley's lover according to Spike Milligan
Theb edsitting room
Milligan Preserved
D.H.Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane
A Book of Milliganimals
Rommel? Gunner Who? (Abridged - 2 Audio Cassettes)
For Lucy Gates
Esquimau
The Bible According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Again
He's Innocent of Watergate or Dick's Last Stand
Live at Cambridge University (Comedy Club S.)
Mussolini, his part in my downfall
In a jam
Twelve poems that made December colder
Monty His Part in My Victory and Rommel? Gunner Who?
The war memoirs
Monty (War Biography)
Sunday - midnight
The Goon Show Compendium
The bedside Milligan, or, Read yourself to insomnia
Tombstone Humour
A dustbin of Millgan
The Best of Milligan's Wake (Comedy Club S.)
The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia
Teeth
My mother
Milligan's Meaning of Life
The dancer
Scunthorpe Revisited
Rommel? Gunner Who?
Help I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Tube
Open Heart University
Giant Tales
The Completely Essential Spike Milligan
Box 18:The Unpublished Spike Milligan
A book of bits or a bit of a book
A Collection of Spikes
Help, I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Spike Milligan's Peace
Vivat Milligna
Letters
Poems for Toni Savage
Witch Tales
The Goon Shows
Isabel Pisano
Isabel Pisano (born 1943)

journalist, actor

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Agua entre los dedos
Bigas Luna
Yasir Arafat
La Sospecha
Yo Terrorista (Obras Diversas)
Yo Puta / Me Whore
El Papiro de Sept
Yo Puta
El Amado Fantasma
Amar a un maldito
Trilogía de perversos
Denise
Ja, terrorysta. Rozmowy ze wspolczesnym katem
Alla ricerca di un sogno
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange (1948-2018)

actor, poet, playwright, essayist, choreographer

  • Barnard College, University of Southern California

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Coretta Scott
Float Like a Butterfly
Muhammad Ali, the man who could float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
Lost in language & sound, or, How I found my way to the arts
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can
Dance We Do
For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
The Love Space Demands
Betsey Brown
Liliane
Ellington Was Not a Street
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can
Nappy edges
A daughter's geography
Daddy says
Sassafrass
Whitewash
Freedom's a-callin me
Some Sing, Some Cry
From okra to greens
We troubled the waters
A photograph
The Beacon Best of 1999
Ridin' the moon in Texas
Three pieces
The Sweet Breath of Life
Spell 7
Betsey Brown
I live in music
See no evil
Love's fire
Plays, one
Wild beauty =
BEACON BEST OF 1999 (Beacon Anthology)
Melissa & Smith
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (Bluestreak Series)
Plays by Women: Book Two
Some men
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Some sing, some cry
For Colored Girls Who Have When the Rain
Ntozake Shange Interview
Sing a Black Girl's Song
Schwarze Schwestern
Beneath the Necessity of Talking (Audio)
Some sing, some cry
The Beacon Best of 1999
Wild Beauty
Sweet Breath of Life
Spell #7
Book of Awesome Women
For Colored Girls/Suicide
Float Like a Butterfly
lost in language and sound : or how i found my way to the arts
Betsey Brown
A Photograph Lovers in Motion (A Play)
The love space demands
A photograph
Daughter's Geography
A daugher's geography
From okra to greens
lost in language & sound
Lost in Language and Sound Lib/E
Black & white two-dimensional planes
The collected short stories of Ntozake shange
Three views of Mt. Fuji
Boogie woogie landscapes
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin (1882-1948)

comedian, playwright, film actor, stage actor, film producer, actor, film director, singer, deltiologist

  • Grundschule an der Herrnstraße

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Autobiographisches und Vermischtes
Gesammelte Werke
Szenen
Riesenblödsinn
Briefe
Die Friedenspfeife
Filme und Filmprojekte
Stücke
Der reparierte Schweinwerfer
Das alte München
Dokumente, Nachträge, Register
Kurzer Rede, langer Sinn
Couplets
Monologe und Soloszenen
Dialoge
Buchbinder Wanninger
I sag gar nix--dös wird man doch noch sagen dürfen!
Das Beste von Karl Valentin
Tingeltangel ; Das Oktoberfest
Die alten Rittersleut
Ja, so warns' di alten Rittersleut
Liesl Karlstadt: original-vorträge
Die Jugendstrieche des Knaben Karl
Alles von Karl Valentin
Valentiniaden
Anekdoten
Karl Valentin's gesammelte Werke
Sturzflüge im Zuschauerraum
Monologe
Die Raubritter von München
Brilliantfeuerwerk
Die Jugendstreiche des Knaben Karl
Gestern oder im 2. Stock
Gesammelte Werke in einem Band
Ich hätt geküsst die Spur von deinem Tritt
Der Feuerwehrtrompeter
Geschriebenes von und an Karl Valentin
Monologe, Dialoge, Couplets, Szenen
Das Bilderbuch vom Karl Valentin
Karl Valentins Panoptikum
Cabaret satirique
Buchbinder Wanniger
Mein komisches Wörterbuch
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentins Lach-Musäum
Riesenblödsinn