Records of BGEA's World Wide Pictures, 1951-[ongoing]

Graham, Billy, 1918-2018

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Evangelist, radio preacher, and author; born William Franklin Graham on November 18, 1918 in Charlotte, N.C.; graduated from Florida Bible Institute (1940 and Wheaton College (1943); ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, 1940; achieved national prominence in 1949 through his evangelistic meetings in Los Angeles; founded Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1952; had extensive evangelistic ministry throughout the world, 1949- ; authored many books and received many awards and honors; organiz...

Cash, Johnny, 1932-2003

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Johnny Cash was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the train-like chugging guitar rhythms, free prison concerts, and a trademark all-black stage wardrobe which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". Born to poor cotton farmers in Kingsland, Arkansas, Cash rose to fame in the burgeoning rockabilly scene in Memphis, Tennessee, after four years in the Air Force. Cash is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, ...

Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977

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Ethel Waters (born October 31, 1896, Chester, Pennsylvania–d. September 1, 1977, Chatsworth, California) was a musician and actress. She got her start in the 1920s in Baltimore, Maryland and also toured on the black vaudeville circuit. She began her singing career in Atlanta and then Harlem in the 1920s. She starred in many films and was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African-American to star on her own television show and the first African-Am...

Ten Boom, Corrie

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Evangelical Dutch Christian worker, evangelist and author; born Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom on April 15, 1892 in Amsterdam; along with her entire family was active in Protestant church work in the Netherlands where she started a nationwide Christian girls club; during World War II she and other members of her family helped to hide Jews and other refugees from Nazis; arrested along with her father and sister in 1944 and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp; only family member to survive; ...

Shea, George Beverly, 1909-2013

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Collier, James F.

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Billy Graham Greater London Crusade (1954 : London, England)

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Great Commission Films

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World Wide Pictures, Inc.

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Religious film production company; formed in 1951 as a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association subsidiary to produce and distribute films, most of which would combine a fictional or true story of a person's conversion with scenes from an actual BGEA crusade; most films were available for distribution to churches, but occasionally to the general public through release in commercial theaters; WWP's presidents were Dick Ross and William Brown; until 1988, production was done in WWP's Burbank, CA, off...

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

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Evangelistic organization, founded in 1950 to: operate Billy Graham's ministry in a business-like way; provide a non-profit entity to receive donations for crusades and related ministries; plan and coordinate evangelistic meetings throughout the world; and with its agents and subsidiaries produce radio and television programs, films DECISION magazine, and books and records. The BGEA was instrumental in: founding the magazine, CHRISTIANITY TODAY, and Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center; sponsor...

Barrows, Cliff

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Evangelist and song leader; born April 6, 1923, in California; graduated from Bob Jones College with a degree in music in 1944; songleader for evangelist Jack Shuler and for Youth for Christ in the 1940s; from 1945 on was a colleague of Billy Graham's and served as music director of Graham's crusades; also was involved in the BGEA's film and radio work. From the description of Oral history interview with Cliff Barrows, 1992 [sound recording]. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 41...

Richard, Cliff

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Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. World Wide Pictures, Inc.

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Evangelistic organization, founded in 1950 to: operate Billy Graham's ministry in a business-like way; provide a non-profit entity to receive donations for crusades and related ministries; plan and coordinate evangelistic meetings throughout the world; and with its agents and subsidiaries produce radio and television programs, films, DECISION magazine, and books and records. The BGEA was instrumental in: founding the magazine, CHRISTIANITY TODAY, and Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center; sponso...

Ross, Dick

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Harper, Redd, 1903-1992

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Gospel singer, songwriter, musician, radio broadcaster; born September 29, 1903; played in a dance band, wrote and produced radio programs for the Mutual Network, and originated and produced REDD HARPER'S HOLLYWOOD ROUNDUP; began writing evangelistic music after his conversion (ca. 1950); received the ASCAP award for song writing, 1954; appeared in several films including the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's MR. TEXAS (1951) AND OILTOWN, USA (1953) and afterward used the character name, M...

Tada, Joni Eareckson

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