Thomas Stearns Eliot Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
T.S. Eliot ranks with William Butler Yeats as the greatest English language poet of the 20th Century and was certainly the most influential. He was born Thomas Stearns Eliot into the bosom of a respectable middle class family on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. The family had roots in New England, and Eliot spent summers in Gloucester, ...
January 4, 1965, Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Place Of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Height
5' 11" (1.8 m)
Profession
Writer, Soundtrack, Actor
Education
Harvard University, Merton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Milton Academy
Nationality
British
Spouse
Valerie Eliot, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
Parents
Henry Ware Eliot, Charlotte Champe Stearns
Siblings
Margaret Dawes Eliot, Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., Marian Cushing Eliot, Theodora Sterling Eliot, Charlotte Smith, Ada Sheffield
Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature, Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Award for Best Original Score, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Mastercard Best New Musical, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for...
Nominations
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical
Movies
Cats, Murder in the Cathedral, The Waste Land
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
1
Mankind cannot bear very much reality.
2
The journey, not the arrival.
3
Montaigne is a fog, a gas, a fluid, insidious element. He does not reason, he insinuates, charms, and influences; or, if he reasons, you must be prepared for his having some other design upon you than to convince you by his argument.
4
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.
5
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression pf personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to escape from these things.
6
The kind of poetry that I needed, to teach me the use of my own voice, did not exist in English at all; it was only found in French.
7
[in 1945] A poet must take as his material his own language as it is actually spoken around him.
8
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
9
It was I who introduced my wife to The Marx Brothers films and she is now as keen a fan as I am.
10
I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival of culture. One needs the enemy.
11
The years between 50 and 70are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
12
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
13
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
14
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Fact
1
Tony Wilson considered Ian Curtis to be continuing in the tradition of T.S. Eliot.
2
Buried at Westminster Abbey.
3
His second wife was 38 years younger than he. She was his personal secretary for seven years before they married.
4
His first wife, a Cambridge governess, was named Vivienne, but she preferred to spell her name Vivien. They separated in 1933. In 1938 she was committed to a mental hospital, where she lived until her death in 1947. Eliot never visited her there.
5
Won four Tony Awards: two in 1950 for "The Cocktail Party," as Best Author (Dramatic) and as author of Best Play winner; and two. posthumously. in 1983 for "Cats," as Best Book (Musical) and Best Score, his lyrics with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
6
Most famous as the author of two rather difficult poems which have become literary classics, "The Waste Land" (1922) and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917).
7
One of the most famous and celebrated poets of the twentieth century.
8
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
9
Appointed a Member of the Order of Merit in 1948.
10
Became a British subject in 1927.
11
Pictured on a 22¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 26 September 1986 (98th anniversary of his birth).
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Was awarded the 1948 Nobel prize in literature.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Hollow Men
2015/I
Short based on the poem by
The Wasteland
2015/I
Short poem
Till Human Voices Wake Us
2015
Short poem by
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2013
Short
Hollow Men
2012
Video short
New in November 2011
2012
Going to Seed
2009
Short poem
Terra desolata
2008
Short novel
The Sunday Programme
2004-2005
TV Series poem - 2 episodes
The Waste Land
1999
Short inspired by
Great Performances
1998
TV Series book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" - 1 episode
The Waste Land
1995
Short poem
The Waste Land
1981
TV Movie
Der Privatsekretär
1977
TV Movie novel
Ashes
1975
Solo
1970
TV Series poem - 1 episode
Koktel
1967
TV Movie play "The Cocktail Party"
Cocktailparty
1967
TV Movie
Conflict
1967
TV Series 1 episode
Il canto d'amore di Prufrock
1967
Short text
Der Familientag
1965
TV Movie play
Thursday Theatre
1964
TV Series play - 1 episode
Die Cocktailparty
1964
TV Movie play "The Cocktail Party"
Festival
1964
TV Series play - 1 episode
Der Privatsekretär
1963
TV Movie play: The Confidential Clerk
Mord im Dom
1962
TV Movie play
Coctail party
1960
TV Movie play
BBC Sunday-Night Play
1960
TV Mini-Series play - 1 episode
Startime
1960
TV Series 1 episode
The Family Reunion
1959
TV Movie play
The Cocktail Party
1957
TV Movie play
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
TV Series 1 episode, 1953 play - 2 episodes, 1950 - 1955
The Cocktail Party
1952
TV Movie play
Murder in the Cathedral
1951
play / screenplay
Murder in the Cathedral
1947
TV Movie play
The White Chateau
1938
TV Movie verse
Theatre Parade
1936
TV Series play - 1 episode
Cats
poetry collection "Old Possum's Books of Practical Cats" announced
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
BoJack Horseman
2014
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Glee
2014
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Rio 2
2014
writer: "Memory"
Raphael: Mi gran noche
2013
TV Movie lyrics: "Memory"
Animal Practice
2012
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2011
writer: "MEMORY"
The Simpsons
2011
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
No me la puc treure del cap
2010
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Post Grad
2009
writer: "Memory"
Funny People
2009
writer: "Memory"
Diva
2006
Video lyrics: "Recuerdos"
Connie and Carla
2004
writer: "Memory"
School of Rock
2003
"Memory"
Great Performances
TV Series lyrics - 3 episodes, 1998 - 2003 writer - 1 episode, 1998
Deutschland sucht den Superstar
2003
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar
2002
Video lyrics: "Memory"
Birthday Girl
2001
"Memory"
Broadway on Broadway
2000
TV Movie lyrics: "Memory"
The 52nd Annual Tony Awards
1998
TV Special lyrics: "Memory"
The 51st Annual Tony Awards
1997
TV Special lyrics: "Jellicle Cats"
Total Eclipse
1995
writer: "Memory"
The 43rd Annual Tony Awards
1989
TV Special lyrics: "Memory"
The 40th Annual Tony Awards
1986
TV Special lyrics: "Memory"
The 39th Annual Tony Awards
1985
TV Special lyrics: "Gus: The Theatre Cat", "Memory"
The 37th Annual Tony Awards
1983
TV Special lyrics: "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats", "Memory"
The Magic of David Copperfield V
1983
TV Special writer: "Memory"
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Murder in the Cathedral
1951
4th Tempter (voice)
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Apocalypse Now
1979
poem: The Hollow Men"
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hollow Men
2012
Video short grateful acknowledgment
The Debridement of Rome
2012
Short acknowledgment
The Reader
2008
acknowledgment: East Coker, Four Quartets by
Logan's Run
1976
"Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" is quoted by permission
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself, Archive
Cover to Cover
1936
Documentary short
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Melvyn Bragg on Class & Culture
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
Arena
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself
Timeshift
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself - Author
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World
1988
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Thames Film
1987
Documentary
Narrator #1
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1948
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize
"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"
$850,000
