David Robinson (film critic)

David Robinson (born 6 August 1930 in Lincoln) is an English film critic and author. He is living in Bath, Somerset.

Life

He began to write for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin during the 1950s, becoming Assistant Editor of Sight and Sound and Editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin in 1957-1958. He was film critic of The Financial Times from 1958 to 1973, before taking up the same post at The Times in 1973. He remained the paper's main film reviewer until around 1990 and a regular contributor until around 1996.

From 1997 until 2015 he was the Director of the Giornate del cinema muto silent film festival, which takes place in Pordenone, northern Italy every October. Robinson is also a supporter of the UK based silent film society Bristol Silents and the Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival, also based in Bristol every January. He played a part in the creation of the award winning Museum of the Moving Image on London's South Bank which opened in 1988 and closed in 1999.

David Robinson (priest)

William David Robinson (15 March 1931 - 12 June 2003) was Archdeacon of Blackburn from 1986 to 1996.

He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn and Durham University and ordained in 1958.Standish and Lancaster Priory He was Vicar of St James, Blackburn from 1963 to 1973; and priest in charge of St James, Shireshead from 1973 to his appointment as an Archdeacon.

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David Robinson (rugby league)

David "Dave" Robinson is an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, England and Lancashire, and at club level for Folly Lane ARLFC (in Pendlebury), Swinton and Wigan, as a second-row or loose forward, i.e. numbers 11, 12 or 13 during the era of contested scrums. Dave attended Moorside Secondary Modern School in his hometown of Swinton, near Manchester.

PPlaying career

International honours

Dave Robinson won a cap for England while at Swinton in 1969 against Wales, and won caps for Great Britain while at Swinton in 1965 against New Zealand, in 1966 against France (2 matches), Australia (3 matches), New Zealand (2 matches), in 1967 against France (2 matches), Australia (2 matches), and while at Wigan in 1970 against Australia. He was one of four Swinton players (plus Ken Gowers, Alan Buckley and John Stopford) who went on the 1966 Great Britain tour to Australasia.

County Cup final appearances

David Robinson (photographer)

David Robinson (born 31 December 1973) is a British photographer, artist, and author.

Biography

Robinson was born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. He attended Enniskillen High School and Portora Royal School.

Preoccupied with the landscape of leisure he is best known as the creator of Golfers (published by Glass 2000), Wonderland (GenerationYacht 2003), and Lee Valley Leisure (GenerationYacht 2005). He has worked commercially throughout his career, creating images for Penguin books, Polydor, EMI, Sony, Adobe, Pfizer, and editorially, working for The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph. Robinson was commissioned by Penguin to photograph the dub-reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson for the cover of his 2001 modern classics book Mi Revalueshanary Fren. Robinson has also created images of The Divine Comedy for their album Regeneration and for recent releases by Guillemots.

In 2007 he featured in BBC series Britain in Pictures in which he was filmed whilst photographing ballrooms and other inspirational buildings in the province where he grew up. Also in 2007 he contributed landscape images to the BBC Culture Show illustrating an interview with US singer Gwen Stefani.

David of Bulgaria

David (Bulgarian: Давид) (died 976) was a Bulgarian noble, brother of Emperor Samuel and eldest son of komes Nicholas. After the disastrous invasion of Rus' armies and the fall of North-eastern Bulgaria under Byzantine occupation in 971, he and his three younger brothers took the lead of the defence of the country. They executed their power together and each of them governed and defended a separate region. He ruled the southern-most parts of the realm from Prespa and Kastoria and was responsible for the defence the dangerous borders with Thessalonica and Thessaly. In 976 he participated in the major assault against the Byzantine Empire but was killed by vagrant Vlachs between Prespa and Kostur.

Family tree

Another theory

However, there's also another version about David’s origin. David gains the title "comes" during his service in the Byzantine army which recruited many Armenians from the Eastern region of the empire. The 11th-century historian Stepanos Asoghik wrote that Samuel had one brother, and they were Armenians from the district Derjan. This version is supported by the historians Nicholas Adontz, Jordan Ivanov, and Samuil's Inscription where it’s said that Samuel’s brother is David. Also, the historians Yahya and Al Makin clearly distinguish the race of Samuel and David (the Comitopouli) from the one of Moses and Aaron (the royal race):

David, Chiriquí

David (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈβið]) officially San José de David is a city and corregimiento located in the west of Panama. It is the capital of the province of Chiriquí and has an estimated population of 144,858 inhabitants as confirmed in 2013. It is a relatively affluent city with a firmly established, dominant middle class and a very low unemployment and poverty index. The Pan-American Highway is a popular route to David.

The development of the banking sector, public construction works such as the expansion of the airport and the David-Boquete highway alongside the growth of commercial activity in the city have increased its prominence as one of the fastest growing regions in the country. The city is currently the economic center of the Chiriqui province and produces more than half the gross domestic product of the province, which totals 2.1 billion. It is known for being the third-largest city in the country both in population and by GDP and for being the largest city in Western Panama.

David (1988 film)

David is a 1988 American television movie, the true story of a child named David Rothenberg, who was burned by his father. This made-for-television film co-starred Matthew Lawrence as David, Bernadette Peters as his mother, and John Glover as his father. It aired on ABC.

Plot

The film is based on a book written by Marie Rothenberg and Mel White and relates the true story of David, a child who was burned over 90 percent of his body by his father. The parents were estranged and the non-custodial father, Charles Rothenberg, fled with David in tow to California, but quickly decided that he could not care for David alone. However, rather than return David to his mother's care, the elder Rothenberg used kerosene to set fire to his son while the boy slept in a hotel room. The movie shows how his mother, Marie Rothenberg, coped with the crisis, and the courage and determination of David.

Cast

Source: AllMovie