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Theodore St John (1906–1956) was an American writer, actor and director of films, radio and theatre. In 1953 he won a Best Motion Picture Story Oscar for 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth. His win was shared with Fredric M. Frank and Frank Cavett.
Theodore St. John was born on 27 September 1906 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Fort Algiers (1953) and Front Page Detective (1951). He died on 9 January 1956 in Northhampton, Massachusetts, USA.
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Theodoret wrote brief treatises in the form of questions and answers on special passages of the Octateuch, four Books of Kings, and two Books of Paralipomenon (P.G., LXXX, 75-858). He wrote commentaries covering the whole books on: The Psalms (P.G., LXXX, 857-1998, and LXXXIV, 19-32), written before 436 (Epist. lxxxi); Canticles (P.G., LXXXI, 27-21...
"Græcarum affectionum curatio" (Remedy for the diseases of the Greeks), twelve books, written before 437, "the last and probably also the most complete of the numerous apologies which Greek antiquity has produced" (Bardenhewer, "Patrologie", 3rd ed., 1910, p. 327). "De divina Providentia", ten sermons, probably his best work, in which he proves the...
"Refutatio duodecim Anathematum", against St. Cyril; it has been preserved in Cyril's answer (P.G., LXXVI, 392 sqq.; Latin by Marius Mercator, P.L., XLVIII, 972 sqq.). "De Sancta et vivifica Trinitate" (P.G., LXXV, 1147-90), and "De Incarnatione Domini" (ib., 1419-78); these two last mentioned treatises have been proved by A. Ehrhard to have been w...
"Historia Ecclesiastica" (P.G., LXXXII, 881-1280) treats in five books the period from Arius up to 429. In this work Theodoret used Eusebius, Rufinus, Socrates, Sozomenus, Philostorgius, as well as documents long since lost. As an ecclesiastical historian, however, he is inferior to his predecessors. "Historia religiosa" (ib., 1283-1522) contains t...
Theodoret's lettersare of much value, both for his personal history and for that of his era. Cf. P.G., LXXXIII, 1173-1494, and Sakkelion, "Forty-eight Letters of Theodoret of Cyrus" (Athens, 1885).
"Opus mysticum", in twelve books; "Responsiones ad quæstiones magorum persarum" (Epist. lxxxii and cxiii), five "Sermones in laudem S. Johannis Chrysostomi", of which the fragments are to be found in Photius, "Bibl.", 273; and other "Sermones". Von Harnack ("Texte und Untersuchungen", N. F. 6, IV, 1901) assigned the "Responsiones ad quæstiones" to ...
Theodore St. John . Active - 1942 - 1953 | Genres - Drama, Action, Romance Filmography ↓ Awards ↓
At the end of the Presanctified Liturgy on Friday evening (since, liturgically, the day begins at sunset) a special canon to St. Theodore, composed by St. John of Damascus, is chanted. Then the priest blesses kolyva (boiled wheat with honey and raisins) which is distributed to the faithful in commemoration of the following miracle ...
writer. 49 years biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, awards, news, birthday and age, Date of Death. «Fort Algiers» (1953), «The Ford Television Theatre» (1952 – 1957), «The Greatest Show on Earth» (1951), «Front Page Detective» (1951 – 1953), «Reap the Wild Wind» (1942)...
