John Brandon (writer)
John Brandon is an American novelist and educator.
Biography
Brandon grew up in Bradenton, Florida, attended elementary school in Elfers, and attended Bayonet Middle School and River Ridge High School in New Port Richey. He later attended the University of Florida, where he received a degree in English, and Brandon also received a Master's degree in fiction writing from Washington University in St. Louis. After writing Arkansas Brandon gained the attention of Barry Hannah, who nominated him for the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence program at the University of Mississippi. He then went on to work a series of warehouse and factory jobs before holding a one year fellowship at the Gilman School and teaching at Hamline University in Minnesota.
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John Brandon
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John Brandon (actor)
John Edward Barandon (June 21, 1929 - August 25, 2014) was an American character actor who has appeared in movies and on television. He played Captain William Handler on the television series Dynasty and Detective John Walsh on Hill Street Blues.
Using the stage name John Brandon he played in three iconic productions. He played an American Sgt, who became the first victim of the Cybermen in the first episode of The Tenth Planet (1966), the final story of William Hartnell as Doctor Who. Brandon also played an immigration officer (who spoke the line "Where'd you you get that scar from, Tony (expletive deleted)?") in the first scene of Brian De Palma's Scarface. And, he was a corrupt police Captain, William Handler, in the last nine episodes of the final season of Dynasty (1989).
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John Brandon (divine)
John Brandon (fl. 1687), was an English divine.
Life
Brandon was the son of Charles Brandon, a doctor of Maidenhead, was apparently born at Bray, near that town, about 1644.
He entered Oriel College, Oxford, as a commoner on 15 Feb. 1661-2, and proceeded B.A. on 11 November 1665. Anthony Wood says that "he entertained for some time certain heterodox opinions, but afterwards being orthodox", took holy orders. He became rector of Finchampstead, and for some years preached a weekly lecture on Tuesdays at Reading.
Writings
He was the author of Το πύρ το αίώνιον, or Everlasting Fire no Fancy; being an answer to a late pamphlet entit. "The Foundations of Hell-Torments shaken and removed (1678). The book was dedicated to Henry, earl of Starlin, from "Wargrave [in Berkshire], 20 July 1676". It was written in reply to a pamphlet called The Torments of Hell (1658), by Samuel Richardson. Brandon also published, besides a number of sermons, Happiness at Hand, or a plain and practical discourse of the Joy of just men's souls in the State of Separation from the Body (1687). This was dedicated to Dr. Robert Woodward, chancellor of the bishop of Salisbury's court.
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