Nonviolence Great Players
by TigerPanache | created - 28 Nov 2016 | updated - 28 Nov 2016 | PublicNot on IMDB: Marshall Rosenberg
1. Mohandas K. Gandhi
Music_department | Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) was born on October 2, 1869, into a Hindu Modh family in Porbanadar, Gujarat, India. His father, named Karamchand Gandhi, was the Chief Minister (diwan) of the city of Porbanadar. His mother, named Putlibai, was the fourth wife; the previous three wives ...
2. Martin Luther King
Soundtrack | Freedom Writers
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Alberta Christine (Williams), a schoolteacher, and Martin Luther King Sr. a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. For Martin the civil rights movement began one summer in 1935 when he was six ...
3. Jane Goodall
Writer | Jane
After her school education, she initially attended a school for secretaries, but in 1957, at the invitation of a former schoolmate, she realized her long-held dream of getting to know Africa and traveled to Kenya. She found a job at the Kenya National Museum and came into contact with its director ...
4. Ingrid Newkirk
Writer | Valerie X
Ingrid Newkirk was born on June 11, 1949 in England, UK. She is a director and writer, known for Valerie X, I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA (2007) and Unnecessary Fuss (1984).
5. David Korten
Self | Gold Fever
7. Paul Hawken
Actor | Care More Be Better: Social Impact, Sustainability + Regeneration Now
Paul Hawken is known for Care More Be Better: Social Impact, Sustainability + Regeneration Now (2021), Planetary (2015) and So Right So Smart (2009).
8. John Seymour
9. Naomi Aldort
Self | Être et devenir
Naomi Aldort is an American author of the best seller, Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, (published in 18 languages). In the documentary film, Being and Becoming, (2014), Aldort appears as herself responding to questions and sharing her expert views as well as personal parenting experiences....
10. John Bergman
Little People: Big Discoveries
John Bergman is known for Little People: Big Discoveries (1999).
11. Walter Block
Actor | Baking Up Love
Walter Block is known for Baking Up Love (2021), The Monopoly on Violence (2020) and Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano (2009).
12. Roslyn Ross
Actress | Getting Lost
Roslyn Ross is known for Getting Lost (2004) and Tequila Flavored Cigarettes (2019).
13. T. Colin Campbell
Self | Healing America
14. Gary Chapman
Self | WGN Morning News
15. Frederick Douglass
Writer | Frederick Douglass - My Path to Freedom
Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland, USA. He was a writer, known for Frederick Douglass - My Path to Freedom (2024) and What to the American Slave Is the 4th of July? (2013). He was married to Helen Pitts and Anna Murray. He died on February 20, 1895 in Washington, ...
16. Aldous Huxley
Writer | A Woman's Vengeance
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, at Laleham in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the third of four children. His brother Julian Huxley was a biologist known for his theories of evolution. His grandfather, named Thomas Henry Huxley, was a naturalist known as "Darwin's Bulldog." His ...
17. Ken Kesey
Writer | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kesey burst into the literary scene with the "Cuckoo's Nest" in 1962 which he wrote from his experiences working at a veterans hospital. During this period, he volunteered for the testing on the drug LSD. After writing his second novel, "Sometimes A Great Notion," he bought an old school bus dubbed...
18. Jack LaLanne
Actor | Peter Gunn
LaLanne was addicted to sugar as a child, causing him to commit acts of violence, including setting his parents' house on fire and attacking his brother with an axe. He was so weak his family physician recommended he be removed from school to rest and regain his strength. Around this time, he and ...
19. Jean Liedloff
Actress | Città di notte
Jean Liedloff is known for Città di notte (1957), The World About Us (1967) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962).
20. John Taylor Gatto
Self | Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century
John Taylor Gatto was born on December 15, 1935 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Janet MacAdam. He died on October 25, 2018 in New York City, New York, USA.
22. Maxwell Anderson
Writer | All Quiet on the Western Front
James Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1888 to William Lincoln Anderson and Charlotte Perrimela (Stephenson) Anderson. The second child born to the couple, Anderson spent his formative years on his maternal grandmother's farm in Atlantic before the family moved ...
23. Michael Greger
Michael Greger is known for The Game Changers (2018), Prescription: Nutrition (2017) and Seaspiracy (2021).
24. Maria Montessori
Writer | Le maître est l'enfant
Maria Montessori was born on August 31, 1870 in Chiaravalle, Marche, Italy. She was a writer, known for Let the Child Be the Guide (2017) and The Children's House (1915). She died on May 6, 1952 in Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
25. Fred Rogers
Actor | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Fred Rogers was the host of the popular long-running public television children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The show debuted in Pittsburgh in 1967 and was picked up by PBS the next year, becoming a staple of public TV stations around the United States. Rogers' mild manner, cardigan sweaters...
26. Shinichi Suzuki
27. Nikola Tesla
Self | Return of Tesla
Nikola Tesla (28 June 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied ...
28. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Self | The Singularity
29. J.K. Rowling
Writer | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley ("Harry Potter"'s Muggle-family). Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce in Bristol at this time. Her mother, Anne, was half-French and half-Scottish. They met on a train as it left King's ...
30. Albert Camus
Writer | Bajo la metralla
Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in Mondovi, Algeria. His parents were Spanish-French-Algerian (pied noir) colonists. His father, Lucien, died in the Battle of Marne (1914) during WWI. His mother, named Catherine Helene Sintes was of Spanish origin, she was a deaf mute due to a stroke, ...
32. Milton Mills
Milton Mills is known for Eden Good (2006), Vegucated (2011) and Vegan 2017 (2017).
33. John Kellogg
Producer | Cicada Song
John Kellogg was born in Glendale, California, USA in the summer of 1994. His love of films throughout his adolescent years led him to pursue a career in film production starting in high school and college. Although working on a couple smaller features throughout college, his first major role on a ...
34. John McDougall
Self | Eating You Alive
35. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr.
Self | Forks Over Knives
36. Rip Esselstyn
Self | Forks Over Knives
Rip Esselstyn is known for Forks Over Knives (2011), The Game Changers (2018) and Forks Over Knives Presents: The Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue (2011).
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