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Bille Burke

Bille Burke(Mary William Ethelbert Appleton)actressBorn: 8/7/1885Birthplace: Washington, D.C. The daughter of a singing clown in the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Burke began acting at a young age and…

Mitchell, William

(Encyclopedia) Mitchell, William (Billy Mitchell), 1879–1936, American army officer and pilot, b. Nice, France. He enlisted (1898) in the U.S. army in the Spanish-American War and received a…

Strayhorn, Billy

(Encyclopedia) Strayhorn, Billy (William Thomas Strayhorn), 1915–67, African-American jazz composer, arranger, lyricist, and pianist, b. Dayton, Ohio. Classically trained, he was drawn to jazz, and…

Beane, Billy

(Encyclopedia) Beane, Billy (William Lamar Beane 3d), 1962–, American baseball player and general manager, b. Orlando, Fla. An outfielder with a lifetime average of .219, he had a short, unimpressive…

Wilder, Billy

(Encyclopedia) Wilder, Billy, 1906–2002, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Sucha, Galicia (now Poland) as Samuel Wilder. He wrote for films in Berlin, fled the Nazis, and arrived in…

Paula, Luis, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Paula, Luis, Jr., 1934-2021, Latin American religious leader, b. Ingeniero Maschwitz, Argentina. Paula was born to a Spanish immigrant…

Billy Elliot

Director:Stephen DaldryWriter:Lee HallUniversal Pictures; 90 minutes; RRelease:10/00Cast:Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Waters In the middle of Thatcher-era England, a young boy named Billy (…

Brewer's: Billy

A policeman's staff, which is a little bill or billet. A pocket-handkerchief. “A blue billy” is a handkerchief with blue ground and white spots Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…

Charming Billy

Author:Alice McDermottPublisher:Farrar Straus & Giroux Any sentence troubled in its telling is telling indeed, and Alice McDermott's National Book Award winner Charming Billy is no…