Researching George Morrison
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The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
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George Morrison (ice hockey)
George Harold Morrison (December 24, 1948 – November 12, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 361 games in the World Hockey Association and 115 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the St. Louis Blues, Minnesota Fighting Saints and Calgary Cowboys. Morrison was born in Toronto, Ontario.
In the last game of the 73-74 WHA season, Morrison set a WHA record for the fastest hat trick in league history—scoring three goals within 43 seconds. He later scored his fourth goal of the game allowing him to reach the 40 goal milestone for the season.
He was also an NCAA Champion player at the University of Denver. He was inducted into the Denver University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012. As a youth, Morrison played in the 1961 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Scarboro Lions.
He died in Schenectady, New York in 2008 at the age of 59 from brain cancer.
Source: George Morrison (ice hockey), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeorge Morrison (documentary maker)
George Edward Morrison (born 1922) is an Irish director of film documentaries. His works include Mise Éire and Saoirse?.
Morrison was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford. His mother was an actress at Dublin's Gate Theatre, while his father worked as a neurological anaesthetist. Morrison studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin but dropped out in order to pursue his ambition to work in films.
Early in his career he assisted director Hilton Edwards in two of the latter's films: From Time to Time and Hamlet of Elsinore.
For Mise Éire, Morrison painstakingly assembled historical footage of the events surrounding the 1916 Rising from archives across Europe. The result, released by Gael Linn to great acclaim at the 1959 Cork Film Festival, was the first feature-length Irish language film. Morrison later revealed that he was paid £375 for his work on Mise Éire and received no further royalties. The film was permitted to be screened only in the Irish language, which reduced its audience outside Ireland. The sequel, Saoirse?, was not as popular with the Irish public, perhaps due to its focus on the Irish Civil War, a subject that remained divisive for many years after peace was established.
In 2007, Morrison released Dublin Day, his documentary on James Joyce's Ulysses. In September 2008, Morrison was the subject of a film documentary entitled Waiting for the Light, which received its première in Dublin. In February 2009, he received the Industry Lifetime Contribution Award at the annual Irish Film and Television Awards ceremony held in Dublin.
Morrison was elected to Aosdána in 2005. In March 2017, the title of Saoi of Aosdána was bestowed upon him by President Higgins.
Morrison married the late Theodora FitzGibbon on 17 September 1960.
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