John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Hook, Schindler's List, and Harry Potter. In addition, he has composed theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Nightly News, numerous television series and concert pieces. He served as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1980 to 1993, and is now the orchestra's laureate conductor.
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John Christopher Williams (born 24 April 1941) is a Grammy Award winning Australian classical guitarist.
John Williams (April 15, 1903 - May 5, 1983) was a British stage, film, and television actor.
Born in The Chalfonts in Buckinghamshire, England, he began acting on the Broadway stage in 1924 and went on to appear in thirty more Broadway plays over the next four decades. He first acted in Hollywood films in 1930, debuting in director Mack Sennett's The Chumps. In his career he appeared in more than forty movies and also made more than forty guest appearances on television shows. He was part of the regular cast for the 1967 season of the family comedy, Family Affair.
Outside of his movie career, Williams gained fame as the star of a television commercial for 120 Music Masterpieces, a four-LP set of classical music excerpts from Columbia Records. This became the longest-running nationally seen commercial in U.S. television history, for 15 years from 1969 to 1984. It began, "I'm sure you recognize this lovely melody as 'Stranger in Paradise.' But did you know that the original theme is from the Polovetsian Dance No. 2 by Borodin?" The commercial became so familiar that it was spoofed by Charles Rocket on Saturday Night Live.
In 1953 Williams was awarded a Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in "Dial M for Murder" on Broadway. When Alfred Hitchcock took over the script to make a movie of the play in 1954, he cast Williams for the same role.
Williams also played in several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV, including "The Long Shot" with Peter Lawford (November 27, 1955), "Back for Christmas" (1956) f3.gif" target="_blank">http://members.liwest.at/holzner/back_f3.gif, the 3-part episode "Whodunit" (1956), "Wet Saturday" (1956) and "Banquo’s Chair" (1959).
One of his last appearances was in _Columbo: Dagger of the Mind (1972) alongside Peter Falk.
He was educated at Lancing College.
John Williams (March 14, 1731 - October 10, 1799) was a signer of the United States' Articles of Confederation. He was one of the founders of the University of North Carolina. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a colonel in the North Carolina militia. In 1777 and 1778, Williams was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons and served as Speaker of the House. Williams was a member of the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779. He served as a superior court judge both during the colonial era and after the new state of North Carolina was established in 1776.
The town of Williamsboro, North Carolina, for which he donated the land, is named for Williams.
Williams was a first cousin and law partner of Judge Richard Henderson.
In 1817 John Williams and his wife voyaged to the Society Islands, a group of islands that included Tahiti, accompanied by William Ellis and his wife. John Williams and his wife established their first missionary post on the island of Raiatea. From there, they visited a number of the Polynesian island chains, sometimes with Mr & Mrs Ellis and other London Missionary Society representatives. Landing on Aitutaki in 1821 they used Tahitian converts to carry their message to the Cook Islanders. One island in this group, Rarotonga (said to have been discovered by the Williamses) rises out of the sea as jungle-covered mountains of orange soil ringed by coral reef and turquoise lagoon and Williams became fascinated by it. The Williams' became the first missionary family to visit Samoa. The Williamses returned to Britain in 1834 where John supervised the printing of his translation of the New Testament into the Rarotongan language. They brought back a native of Samoa, named 'Leota' who came to live as a Christian in London. At the end of his days Leota was buried in Abney Park Cemetery with a dignified headstone paid for by the London Missionary Society, recording his adventure from the South Seas island of his birth. Whilst back in London, John Williams published a "Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands", making a contribution to English understanding and popularity of the region, before returning to the Polynesian islands in 1837. Most of the Williams' missionary work, and their delivery of a cultural message, was very successful and they became famed in Congregational circles. However, whilst visiting a part of the New Hebrides in November 1839 where John Williams was unknown, he, along with fellow missionary James Harris, was killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango during an attempt to convey to them the blessings he brought. A memorial stone was erected on the island of Rarotonga in 1839 and is still there today. Mrs Williams is buried with their son (Samuel Tamatoa Williams, who was born in the New Hebrides) at the old Cedar Circle in London's Abney Park Cemetery; the name of her husband and the sad record of his death, was placed on the most prominent side of the stone monument for all to remember.
John Williams (July 7, 1740 – December 1, 1804) was an American leader from Caswell County, North Carolina during the American Revolution.
Born in Hanover County, Virginia, he served in the North Carolina House of Commons (1778-1780) and state Senate (1782, 1793-1794).
John Williams (September, 1752 – July 22, 1806) was an American physician and statesman from Salem, New York.
Born in Barnstable, England, he represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1795 to 1799 .
John Williams (January 29, 1778 – August 10, 1837) was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Born in Surry County, North Carolina (present-day Forsyth County), he represented Tennessee in the United States Senate from 1815 to 1823. He was chargé d’affaires to the Central American Federation, 1825-26, and a member of the Tennessee Senate, 1827-28.
Williams is the brother of Lewis Williams and Robert Williams, both congressman from North Carolina; and cousin of U.S. Rep. Marmaduke Williams.
John Williams (January 7, 1807 – March 26, 1875) was an American merchant and miller from Rochester, New York.
Born in Utica, New York, he served as mayor of Rochester in 1853, and represented in the United States House of Representatives in 1855 and 1856.
John Williams was a major general and served in the military both during the Civil War and the U.S. - Mexican War. He was known to have corresponded with Susan B. Anthony.
John Williams (c.1735 - ??) was a planter and an American Revolutionary from Pitt County, North Carolina. He was the son of a Welsh immigrant, and served on the county Committee of Correspondence. He represented his county in the North Carolina provisional Assembly of 1777 as well as the state's House of Commons in 1778 and 1779.
John Williams VC (Abergavenny May 24 1857 - November 25, 1932), was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Williams is an Australian scientist whose life work has been in the study of hydrology and the use of water in the landscape and farming, including land salinity.
His story was told in part on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV documentary series, Australian Story, on 6 June 2005. transcript
John Williams (born April 4, 1965) is an equestrian from the United States of America, who competed for the USA in the US Eventing team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal.
Williams was born in Mendon, New York, and attended the Rochester Institute of Technology for American Craftsman, where he graduated after studying furniture design and woodworking. Williams spent time after college in Middleburg, Virginia, and now resides in Southern Pines, North Carolina with his wife, Ellen.
Williams has trained with many great eventers, including Jack Le Goff, James C. Wofford, and David and Karen O'Connor. Williams is also a recognized AHSA "R" Combined Training course designer, and designed the 2005 American Eventing Championship courses (novice to advanced).
John Williams (July 3, 1860—1931) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1907 to 1910, and again from 1914 to 1922. Williams was a member of the Manitoba Liberal Party, and briefly served as a cabinet minister in the government of Tobias C. Norris.
Born at Yscefiog in Flintshire, Wales, Williams was educated at common schools and came to Canada in 1881 with "absolutely no capital". After living in Hamilton, Ontario for a year and a half, he moved to Manitoba in 1882 to become a farmer. He remained in this vocation for several decades, and served for a time as director of the Melita Farmers' Elevator Company.
Williams first sought election to the Manitoba legislature in the 1903 provincial election, running in the southwestern constituency of Arthur. He lost to Conservative incumbent Allan Thompson by forty-eight votes. Thompson retired at the 1907 election, and Williams defeated new Conservative candidate Amos Lyle by a margin of three votes (536 to 533). Williams served as an opposition member for the next three years.
In the provincial election of 1910, Lyle defeated Williams by 175 votes to regain Arthur for the Conservatives. Control of the riding shifted again in the 1914 campaign, when Williams defeated Lyle by sixty-six votes. He again served as an opposition member.
Early in 1915, the governing Conservative Party of Rodmond P. Roblin was forced from office amid scandal. The Liberals won a landslide victory in the 1915 provincial election, and Williams was elected by an increased margin in Arthur. After this election, he served as a backbench supporter of Norris's ministry. In the 1920 election, Williams defeated Farmer candidate Duncan Lloyd McLeod by only ten votes.
Norris's Liberals were reduced to a minority government in the 1920 election, and had difficulty passing legislative initiatives in the next two years. The government was defeated in the legislature in early 1922, and elections were called for later in the year. Williams was called on to play a prominent role in the campaign, and was promoted to cabinet on June 6, 1922 as Minister of Agriculture.
The Liberals were defeated by the United Farmers of Manitoba in the 1922 provincial election, and Williams lost his seat to McLeod by 353 votes. He resigned from cabinet with the rest of the Norris ministry on August 8, 1922.
In the 1925 federal election, Williams run for the Canadian House of Commons as the candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in Souris. He finished third against Progressive candidate James Steedsman.
John Williams (bardic name: Ab Ithel) (1811-August 27 1862), was an antiquary and Anglican priest. Born in Llangynhafal, Denbighshire Wales in 1811, he graduated from Jesus College, Oxford in 1835 to become the Anglican curate of Llanfor, Merionethshire, where he married Elizabeth Lloyd Williams. In 1843 he became perpetual curate of Nercwys, Flintshire, and rector of Llanymawddwy, Merionethshire, in 1849.
John Williams was a convict transported to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). He is best known as the man with whom Joseph Johns, later to become the bushranger Moondyne Joe, was arrested and tried for burglary.
Originally from Horsley, Gloucester, Williams was working as a canal boatman on the Brecon to Monmouth in Wales under the pseudonym William Cross when he and Johns were arrested on 15 November 1848 near Chepstow for "... illegally entering the premises of Mr Richard Price, Esquire, of Pentwyn Clydach... and from there taking three loaves of bread, one piece of bacon, several cheeses, a kettle and a quantity of salt". Arraigned at the Brecon Assizes on charges of burglary and stealing, the pair pleaded not guilty. On 23 March they were tried at the Lent Assizes before Sir William Erle. Newspaper reports of the trial suggest that the pair gave an unexpectedly spirited defence, but Johns was abrasive and "contravened the conventions of court procedure". The men were convicted and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Edgar (1990) observes that in several other cases brought before the same judge that day, guilty pleas to very similar charges resulted in sentences ranging from three weeks to three months.
Williams and Johns would have spent the next seven months working on a government work party in the local area, before being transferred to Millbank Prison. On 1 January 1850, they were transferred to Pentonville Prison to serve their mandatory six months of solitary confinement. The pair were transferred to Dartmoor Prison on 21 October 1851, but shortly afterwards Johns was transferred to a Woolwich prison hulk for disciplinary reasons. Williams remained at Dartmoor until March 1852, when he boarded the Fairlie for transportation to Van Diemen's Land.
The Fairlie arrived in Hobart on 4 July. Issued with a ticket of leave, Williams absconded several times, and had his ticket revoked on a number of occasions. On one occasion he received six months hard labour for being "upon the female premises without authority and holding communication with a female servant". He was awarded a conditional pardon on 11 December 1855 but it must have been revoked because another was later awarded to him. On 18 July 1859 he received his full pardon. No trace of his subsequent life has been found.
John Williams (1861-June 20 1922) was a Welsh Labour Party politician.
At the 1906 general election, Williams was first elected as Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Gower in West Glamorgan. He held the seat until his death in 1922, at the age of 60.
John Williams (born 1959) is a radio talk show host at WGN (AM) in Chicago, Illinois. As of August 2007, he is the host of The World of John Williams weekdays from 1 to 4 PM and Saturdays 9 AM to noon.
John McKay Williams (born October 27, 1947 in Jackson, Mississippi) was a National Football League offensive lineman from 1968 through 1979. During that span he appeared in three Super Bowls: Super Bowl III and Super Bowl V for the Baltimore Colts; and Super Bowl XIV for the Los Angeles Rams. He played college football at the University of Minnesota where he twice earned All American honors.
John is the father of three sons and a practicing dentist in Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota. He serves as a commissioner for MSP Airport, leads a prison ministry team and is currently serving as the President of the American Odontological Forensics Society of America. He continues his civic engagement with the University of Minnesota and the larger community on many fronts including economic development and won the Minneapolis Volunteer of the Year award in 1992. During his free time Williams flies small planes for fun ]].
John Williams (born 8 June 1937, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales) is a retired Welsh snooker referee.
Williams was well educated and passed his 11-plus at the age of nine and when he left school, he had obtained seven O-levels. He got a job in the local steel works and passed up the chance of becoming a professional footballer. He was invited to join Bolton Wanderers as an amateur, but declined their offer because he worked on Saturday mornings.
After nearly 20 years in the steel industry he quit and joined the civil service as an executive officer in the Department of Employment and during that time he displayed his all round sporting versatility by turning out regularly for the Wrexham civil service cricket team.
Williams then started a career in snooker refereeing during the mid 1960's and became the referee in the 1973 World Snooker Championship quarter-final match between Fred Davis and Alex Higgins at the Manchester Exhibition Hall when rain stopped play. There was no TV coverage and Granada TV cameras got an interest in this unusual event and brought fame to John Williams himself. He retired from his role at the civil service in 1981 to become a full time referee.
Williams then went on to referee 10 World Snooker Championship finals between 1976 and 2002 including the famous 1985 final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor which Taylor won at 12.20am.
He became the referee in Pot Black after Sydney Lee's retirement in 1981 and did so for the remainder of the series and the revivals from the 1990s.
He was suspended for a while in 1982 by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Referees' Association following a brief skirmish with the law. He was reinstated in time to officiate at the 1983 World Championship which he had refereed Cliff Thorburn's 147 break against Terry Griffiths.
He retired from refereeing in 2002 after the World Championship final in which Peter Ebdon beat Stephen Hendry in a 18-17 decider.
John Chester Williams (born September 12, 1953) is an archer from the United States, who was born in Cranesville, Pennsylvania. After winning the 1971 world title, he won the gold medal in the men's individual achery competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. It was the first Olympic archery medal in 52 years. He was coached by Clarence Fowkes. He wrote the book Archery for Beginners.
John Alan Williams (born October 26, 1960 in Muskegon, Michigan) is a former running back in the National Football League. Between 1985-1987, Williams played for the Dallas Cowboys, the Seattle Seahawks, the New Orleans Saints, and the Indianapolis Colts.
John Williams (1817–1899) was an American bishop of the Episcopal church. He was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard and at Trinity College, Hartford, where he graduated in 1835. He was ordained in 1841, and held the rectorship of St. George's Church, Schenectady, New York, from 1842 to 1848, after which he became president of Trinity College, and at the same time professor of history and literature. In 1851 he was elected Assistant Bishop of Connecticut, and on the death of Bishop Brownell, in 1865, succeeded him in the sole charge of the diocese. At the same time, from 1854 on, he held the office of dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, at Middletown, and was its principal instructor in Church history and theology. He succeeded Alfred Lee, of Delaware, in 1887, as presiding Bishop, and earned the reputation of a wise conservative leader in ecclesiastical affairs. Among his published works are:
John Nelson Williams (born May 11 1968 in Birmingham, England) is an English former footballer.
Known as the "flying postman" big John Williams when playing for Kidderminster Harriers scored famously against Wolves in the FA Cup 3rd round only for his goal to be equalised in the final minutes.
John Williams (died 4 September 1613) was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1602 to 1613 and also Dean of Bangor.
Born in Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, Williams entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1569, graduating with a BA in 1573/4 and an MA in 1577, before being elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1579. After his ordination, he was appointed rector of Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire in 1594, and also Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity (a position he held until his death). He was elected Fellow of Jesus College in 1590, Principal in 1602, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1604 and Dean of Bangor in 1605.
John Williams (January 5, 1985 Sydney, Australia) is a professional rugby league footballer currently playing for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League.
He also posed nude together with former teammate Heath L'Estrange for the Naked For A Cause 2008-09 calendar to raise money for the McGrath Foundation charity.
John Williams was Engineer of the Western Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, completed in 1821.
John Douglas Williams, an Australian politician, is the National Party member for Murray-Darling since March 2007.
Williams was born in Perth, where he spent the first four years of his life. He spent his next three years in Melbourne before moving to Broken Hill in 1955. He has lived there ever since.
At the 2007 New South Wales state election, Williams won the seat of Murray-Darling. His candidacy was boosted by the redistribution prior to the election, which turned the marginal Labor seat into a seat with a notional National Party majority. At the election, he increased that notional majority and defeated incumbent Labor MP, Peter Black.
Williams studied economics, accounting and financial management externally through the University of New England.
Williams is married to wife Helen. He has two children and two grandchildren.
John Williams (born July 17, 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Collingwood in the VFL.
A defender, Williams played his best football in the early 1970s with Essendon. He finished second in the club's 1971 best and fairest awards and was equal third in the 1972 Brownlow Medal count. In 1972 he also represented Victoria at the Perth Carnival and earned All Australian selection.
John Williams (born May 27, 1946 - August 1978) was a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. His best season was in 1975 when he finished in fifth place in the 500cc world championship on a Yamaha motorcycle. Williams won his only world championship race in 1976 at the 500cc Belgian Grand Prix. He was a five-time winner of the North West 200 race in Northern Ireland. Williams died from injuries suffered while competing in the 1978 Ulster Grand Prix in Northern Ireland.
John Williams is an Australian politician. He was elected to the Australian Senate as a National Party member for New South Wales at the 2007 federal election, and will take his seat when the new Senate sits in July 2008.
