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Born in Los Angeles in January 1921, John Russell was an athletic youth who majored in drama in college. But with the outbreak of World War II, Russell enlisted in the Marines and returned from the war as a decorated veteran. He was discovered by a talent scout in the mid 1940s, and 20th Century-Fox eventually signed the handsome 6'3" actor to a contract. Russell began his film career with small parts in such films as Don Juan Quilligan (1945; with William Bendix) and Somewhere in the Night (1946; with John Hodiak and Richard Conte). In 1949, he left Fox for Universal-International and was cast as a featured player in a number of westerns and film noir thrillers, often in villainous roles. Some of his better films from this period include the film noir thrillers The Story of Molly X (1949; with June Havoc), The Fat Man (1951; with Julie London and Rock Hudson), and Hoodlum Empire (1952; with Brian Donlevy) and the westerns Man in the Saddle (1951; with Randolph Scott), Jubilee Trail (1954; with Vera Ralston and Joan Leslie), and The Last Command (1955; with Sterling Hayden and Richard Carlson).
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John Russell (September 7, 1772 - August 2, 1842) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Branford, Connecticut, he attended the public school, moved to New York State, studied medicine, and practiced a short time in Cooperstown, New York. He was county clerk of Otsego County from 1801 to 1804, and was elected as a Republican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1805 to March 3, 1809. He was a presidential elector on the DeWitt Clinton ticket in 1812. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and died in Cooperstown in 1842; interment was in Christ Churchyard.
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John Russell attended the Life Class at the Royal Academy School from 1770. His drawing of "Aquarius" won a silver medal, emphasising the artist’s skill in drawing anatomy. The artist was still comparatively unknown in 1777 when the St James’s Chronicle published an article describing his work as ‘all very good’ and among the best at that time. He rose to fame over the following years and became a member of the Royal Academy so that, by 1790, The World announced ‘Russell’s charming Crayons will make one of the first ornaments’ in the forthcoming Royal Academy exhibition’. Indeed, he did not have to exhibit many pictures at that exhibition ‘to maintain his character, as the first crayon painter in the country’, The World lauded. Eventually, Russell was to exhibit over 330 works at the Royal Academy in a period of 38 years, portraying the aristocracy and upper middle classes.
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John Russell, who is often referred to as John Peter Russell, is the only Australian painter who can be considered a member of the Impressionist circle. A friend of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Émile Bernard, he developed strong links to the Parisian avant-garde in the late 1880s and 1890s. His family owned a successful engineering works in Sydney, and Russell became a qualified engineer; ... on the death of his father in 1879 he came into a considerable inheritance, enabling him to pursue the study of art. He enrolled at the Slade School in London in 1880, under the distinguished French painter Alphonse Legros. In 1883 he travelled in Spain with his Melbourne-born friend Tom Roberts, and from 1884 made his home in Paris, becoming a pupil at the famous Atelier Cormon, a private school of art founded by the academic master Fernand Cormon.
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John Russell was born in 1963. He was a founder member of the artists' group BANK, taking part in ten years of exhibitions including 'Zombie Golf' (1994), 'Cocaine Orgasm' (1995), 'BANK TV' (1996) 'BANK Tabloid' (1997-98) and 'BANK Fax-Bak' (1999). Work from this period was shown in 'Protest and Survive' Whitechapel Art Gallery 2000 and 'Century City' Tate Modern 2001. Since leaving BANK he has worked both independently and in collaboration with Fabienne Audéoud. Recent exhibitions include 'Beck’s Futures II' ICA London 2001, 'Art Crazy Nation' Milton Keynes Gallery 2001 and 'The Collagist' (one-person) Trade Apartment London 2002.
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"We are very pleased that the City of Grand Rapids -- the largestcommunity we serve with electricity -- has elected to enroll in the GreenGeneration program," said John G. Russell, Consumers Energy's president andchief operating officer. "The leadership demonstrated by Grand Rapids willencourage other communities and organizations to support the development ofMichigan-based renewable energy projects."
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