I follow a little of U.S. Baseball, so wasn't too difficult
Big Gorilla said
07:56 AM Sep 14, 2023
Clue: He's an Englishman.
Big Gorilla said
08:27 AM Sep 15, 2023
He was an English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Top 40 chart, including two number one hits
Santa said
11:18 AM Sep 15, 2023
Anthony Newley?
Big Gorilla said
12:15 PM Sep 15, 2023
You got him Santa:
Anthony Newley
British actor and musician
One of the U.K.'s most successful songwriters, actors, and singers of the 1960s.
She was a singer song writer, popular in the 1940's/50's.
Santa said
09:09 AM Sep 20, 2023
Clue number two, she was European.
dorian said
10:56 AM Sep 20, 2023
Carmen Miranda? (I don't know what she looks like, so my guess might seem stupid)
Santa said
12:56 PM Sep 20, 2023
Not Carmen Miranda Dorian, thanks for the contribution.
dorian said
01:05 PM Sep 20, 2023
Edith Piaf (I don't know what she looks like, either)
Gaylehere said
01:22 PM Sep 20, 2023
As someone who hasn't a technical bone in her body, how do you download a photo off the net for this thread please?
Santa said
02:17 PM Sep 20, 2023
dorian wrote:
Edith Piaf (I don't know what she looks like, either)
Edith Piaf it is.
Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion; 19 December 1915 10 October 1963) was a French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.[1][2]
Piaf's music was often autobiographical, and she specialized in chanson réaliste and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Her most widely known songs include "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "L'Accordéoniste" (1940), and "Padam, padam..." (1951).
Piaf began her career touring with her father at the age of fourteen. Her fame increased during the German occupation of France and in 1945, Piaf's signature song, La Vie en rose ("life in pink") was published. She became France's most popular entertainer in the late 1940s, also touring Europe, the United States, and South America. Her popularity in the United States led her to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show eight times.
She continued to perform, including several series of concerts at the Paris Olympia music hall, until a few months before her death in 1963 at age 47. Her last song, L'Homme de Berlin, was recorded with her husband in April 1963.
Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. Musk is the founder, chairman, CEO and chief technology officer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect and former chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, chairman and CTO of X Corp.; founder of the Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation. He is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$226 billion as of September 2023, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $249 billion according to Forbes, primarily from his ownership stakes in both Tesla and SpaceX.
dorian said
10:08 AM Sep 21, 2023
Gaylehere wrote:
As someone who hasn't a technical bone in her body, how do you download a photo off the net for this thread please?
Right-click the image and select "Save image as". Use a destination file name that doesn't give the game away.
-- Edited by dorian on Thursday 21st of September 2023 11:01:33 AM
Gundog said
04:12 PM Sep 25, 2023
Can someone please post a photo, I'm a bit indisposed at the moment.
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. He was the founder of Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. Ford created the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, and his conversion of the automobile from an expensive luxury into an accessible conveyance profoundly impacted the landscape of the 20th century.
Ford was born on a farm in Michigan's Springwells Township, leaving home at age 16 to work in Detroit. It was a few years before this time that Ford first experienced automobiles, and throughout the later half of the 1880s, Ford began repairing and later constructing engines, and through the 1890s worked with a division of Edison Electric. He officially founded Ford Motor Company in 1903, after prior failures in business but success in constructing automobiles.
Santa said
09:58 AM Oct 1, 2023
Thanks Ken.
Who have we here, perhaps a little more difficult.
I first saw him in Love Actually (he played Sam) then in Queens Gambit (Benny)
Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 16 May 1990)[1] is an English actor. He is known for playing Sam in Love Actually (2003), Simon in Nanny McPhee (2005), Ferb in Phineas and Ferb (20072015), Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones (20132014), Newt in the Maze Runner film series (20142018), and Benny Watts in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.[2][3]
Brodie-Sangster also grew in popularity for starring in critically acclaimed cult films such as Death of a Superhero (2011), Bright Star (2009), and as Paul McCartney in Nowhere Boy (2009). He played Jake Murray in the series Accused (20102012). He also had a cameo as an officer of the First Order in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), a role as Whitey Winn in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017) and voiced John Tracy in Thunderbirds Are Go (20152020).
-- Edited by Santa on Sunday 15th of October 2023 12:54:26 PM
Derek Jeter, former U.S. Baseball Player.
Too good for me Ken, I've never heard of the man.
Thank You Graham. Let's try this one:
I follow a little of U.S. Baseball, so wasn't too difficult
Clue: He's an Englishman.
He was an English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Top 40 chart, including two number one hits
Anthony Newley?
You got him Santa:
British actor and musician
One of the U.K.'s most successful songwriters, actors, and singers of the 1960s.
-- Edited by Big Gorilla on Friday 15th of September 2023 12:15:38 PM
Thanks Ken.
Next up is????
No takers!
Time for a clue.
She was a singer song writer, popular in the 1940's/50's.
Clue number two, she was European.
Not Carmen Miranda Dorian, thanks for the contribution.
Edith Piaf it is.
Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion; 19 December 1915 10 October 1963) was a French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.[1][2]
Piaf's music was often autobiographical, and she specialized in chanson réaliste and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Her most widely known songs include "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "L'Accordéoniste" (1940), and "Padam, padam..." (1951).
Piaf began her career touring with her father at the age of fourteen. Her fame increased during the German occupation of France and in 1945, Piaf's signature song, La Vie en rose ("life in pink") was published. She became France's most popular entertainer in the late 1940s, also touring Europe, the United States, and South America. Her popularity in the United States led her to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show eight times.
She continued to perform, including several series of concerts at the Paris Olympia music hall, until a few months before her death in 1963 at age 47. Her last song, L'Homme de Berlin, was recorded with her husband in April 1963.
This is a modern twist on this subject.
Who might this guy have become?
Looks like a very young Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. Musk is the founder, chairman, CEO and chief technology officer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect and former chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, chairman and CTO of X Corp.; founder of the Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation. He is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$226 billion as of September 2023, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $249 billion according to Forbes, primarily from his ownership stakes in both Tesla and SpaceX.
Right-click the image and select "Save image as". Use a destination file name that doesn't give the game away.
-- Edited by dorian on Thursday 21st of September 2023 11:01:33 AM
Can someone please post a photo, I'm a bit indisposed at the moment.
OK, who is this guy ?
Henry Ford.
You have it Santa..
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. He was the founder of Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. Ford created the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, and his conversion of the automobile from an expensive luxury into an accessible conveyance profoundly impacted the landscape of the 20th century.
Ford was born on a farm in Michigan's Springwells Township, leaving home at age 16 to work in Detroit. It was a few years before this time that Ford first experienced automobiles, and throughout the later half of the 1880s, Ford began repairing and later constructing engines, and through the 1890s worked with a division of Edison Electric. He officially founded Ford Motor Company in 1903, after prior failures in business but success in constructing automobiles.
Thanks Ken.
Who have we here, perhaps a little more difficult.
Clue time!
He's a British actor, still active.
Is anybody there?
Hi Santa is he Thomas Brodie-Sangster
He is Sandy, you know the drill.
I first saw him in Love Actually (he played Sam) then in Queens Gambit (Benny)
Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 16 May 1990)[1] is an English actor. He is known for playing Sam in Love Actually (2003), Simon in Nanny McPhee (2005), Ferb in Phineas and Ferb (20072015), Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones (20132014), Newt in the Maze Runner film series (20142018), and Benny Watts in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.[2][3]
Brodie-Sangster also grew in popularity for starring in critically acclaimed cult films such as Death of a Superhero (2011), Bright Star (2009), and as Paul McCartney in Nowhere Boy (2009). He played Jake Murray in the series Accused (20102012). He also had a cameo as an officer of the First Order in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), a role as Whitey Winn in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017) and voiced John Tracy in Thunderbirds Are Go (20152020).
-- Edited by Santa on Sunday 15th of October 2023 12:54:26 PM