Robert Bolt (1924)
Robert Oxton Bolt was an English playwright and a screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him…
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Valentin Varlamov (1934)
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Scott Nearing (1883)
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Bert Sugar (1936)
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Ian Gould (1957)
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Aileen Wuornos (1956)
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