Busby Berkeley

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1895

Active to

1976

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Listeners

284

Total plays

1,546

Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976), born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. Berkeley's quintessential works used legions of showgirls and props as fantastic elements in kaleidoscopic on-screen performances. He started as a theatrical director, just as many other movie director

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. BUSCO Update: Novel and Streamlined Workflows along with Broader and Deeper Phylogenetic Coverage for Scoring of Eukaryotic, Prokaryotic, and Viral Genomes

   · 2021 · cited 5,495x

2. Burden and aetiology of diarrhoeal disease in infants and young children in developing countries (the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, GEMS): a prospective, case-control study

   · 2013 · cited 3,113x

3. Algorithm aversion: People erroneously avoid algorithms after seeing them err.

   · 2015 · cited 2,144x

4. Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

   · 2004 · cited 1,746x

5. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

   · 2014 · cited 1,317x

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Key facts

Born

Berkeley William Enos , ( 1895-11-29 ) November 29, 1895, Los Angeles, California , U.S.

Died

March 14, 1976 (1976-03-14) (aged 80), Palm Desert, California , U.S.

Resting place

Desert Memorial Park , Cathedral City, California

Occupations

Film director choreographer

Years active

1927–1971

Mother

Gertrude Berkeley

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Wikidata facts

Image

Busby Berkeley Portrait.jpg

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