Daniel Day-Lewis - Actor: Family History

Tamasin Day Lewis makes pancakes - YouTube

Jill Balcon (Daniel's mother) - The C Day-Lewis Site

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Some Lewis Family History: The Guardian - April 2010: Great dynasties of the world: The Day-Lewises -- Poets, actors, authors all under one roof

Cecil Day-Lewis - His father

Cecil Writing as Nicholas Blake

Day-Lewis's early mystery novels are full of literary references, from Shakespeare to Blake, Keats, Arthur Hugh Clough and A.E. Housman. A Question of Proof was set in similar preparatory school milieu, where he was teaching at the time. After starting his relationship Rosamond Lehmann, Day Lewis dedicated HEAD OF A TRAVELER (1949) to her children. Among Day-Lewis's best mysteries are THE BEAST MUST DIE (1938), a story of a father seeking revenge on the hit and run driver who killed his child, THE CASE OF THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (1941), A TANGLED WEB (1956), based on a real murder case, and END OF CHAPTER (1957). The critic and award-winning mystery writer H.R.F. Keating included in 1987 The Beast Must Die among the 100 best crime and mystery books ever published. Day Lewis's own son was almost run over in a circumstance similar to that which the story describes. It begins with the promise: "I am going to kill a man... I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him."

Another biography of Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes

Arthur Miller - His father in law

Arthur Miller Quotes

Oscar Speech 2013

I really don't know how any of this happened. I do know that I've received so much more than my fair share of good fortune in my life and I'm so grateful to the Academy for this beautiful honor. It's a strange thing because three years ago before we decided to do a straight swap, I had actually been committed to play Margaret Thatcher. [Laughs] And Meryl was Steven's first choice for Lincoln. And I'd like to see that version. And Steven didn't have to persuade me to play Lincoln but I had to persuade him that perhaps if I was going to do it that Lincoln shouldn't be a musical. My fellow nominees, my equals, my betters, I'm so proud to have been included as one amongst you. When we got married 16 years ago, or since we got married 16 years ago, my wife Rebecca has lived with some very strange men. I mean they were strange as individuals and probably even stranger if taken as a group. But luckily she's the versatile one in the family and she's been the perfect companion to all of them. I'd like to thank Kathy Kennedy, our producer.... At the apex of that human pyramid there are three men to whom I owe this and a great deal more: Tony Kushner, our beloved skipper Steven Spielberg and the mysteriously beautiful mind, body and spirit of Abraham Lincoln. For my mother, thank you so much.

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