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Andrey Olegovich Kavun ( Ukrainian: Андрій Олегович Кавун; Russian: Андрей Олегович Кавун; December 9, 1969) is a Russian film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin, notable for historical drama film Kandahar. In 1999 he graduated from the directing department of VGIK (workshop of Vladimir Khotinenko ). [1] [2] Filmography. References.
Walter Reed (born Walter Reed Smith, February 10, 1916 – August 20, 2001) was an American stage, film and television actor. [2] Biography. Reed was born in 1916 in Fort Ward, Washington. Following a stint as a Broadway actor, Reed broke into films in 1941.
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Walter Reed was born in Gloucester, Virginia, the fifth child of Lemuel Sutton Reed (a traveling Methodist minister) and his first wife, Pharaba White. During his youth, the family resided at Murfreesboro, North Carolina with his mother's family during his father's preaching tours. Two of his elder brothers later achieved distinction: J.C. became a...
Finding his youth limited his influence, and dissatisfied with urban life, Reed joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps. This allowed him both professional opportunities and modest financial security to establish and support a family. After Reed passed a grueling thirty-hour examination in 1875, the army medical corps enlisted him as an assistant surgeo...
Reed's breakthrough in yellow fever research is widely considered a milestone in biomedicine, opening new vistas of research and humanitarianism. It was largely an extension of Carlos J. Finlay's work, carried out during the 1870s in Cuba, which finally came to prominence in 1900. Finlay was the first to theorize, in 1881, that a mosquito was a car...
Bean, William B., "Walter Reed and Yellow Fever", JAMA250.5 (August 5, 1983): 659–62.Pierce J.R., (2005). Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered its Deadly Secrets. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-47261-1de Kruif, Paul (1926). "ch. XI Walter Reed: In the Interest of Science – and for Humanity!". Microbe Hunters. Blue Ribbon Books. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company Inc. pp. 311–333. Retrieved Octob...Video: Reed Medical Pioneers Biography on Health.mil[permanent dead link]– The Military Health System provides a look at the life and work of Walter Reed.- 1876–1902
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Aug 24, 2001 · Walter Reed, one of Hollywood’s premier character actors from the 1940s through the ‘60s who was best known for his work in movie and television westerns, has died. He was 85.
Aug 31, 2001 · Walter Reed, a character actor who appeared in dozens of westerns and war films, died on Aug. 20 at his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was 85. In a career that spanned three decades, he appeared...
Feb 12, 2010 · Feb. 12, 2010 12 AM PT. Reporting from Moscow — Andrei Kavun is the director of “Kandahar,” a Russian film about the true story of a civilian flight crew that escaped from the Taliban in 1996...
Andrey Olegovich Kavun (Ukrainian: Андрій Олегович Кавун; Russian: Андрей Олегович Кавун; () December 9, 1969) is a Russian film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin, notable for historical drama film Kandahar.