Duke Ellington
Composer ("It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing", "Sophisticated Lady", "Mood Indigo", "Solitude", "In a Mellotone", "Satin Doll"), pianist and conductor, holder of an honorary music degree from Wilberforce University and an LHD from Milton College, Duke Ellington led his own orchestra by 1918, and came to New York in 1923, appearing at the Cotton Club between 1927 and 1932. Making his first European tour in 1933, he followed with his annual Carnegie Hall concerts between 1943 and 1950, and then a Middle East tour (under the auspices of the State Department), including an appearance at the International Fair in Damascus in 1963. His stage scores include "Jump for Joy" and "Beggars Holiday" (Broadway). He made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his chief musical collaborators included Billy Strayhorn, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish, Mann Curtis, Barney Bigard, Henry Nemo , Bob Russell, Don George, Lee Gaines , Paul Francis Webster, Edgar De Lange, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Juan Tizol and his own son, Mercer Ellington. His other popular song and instrumental compositions include "Blind Man's Buff", "Creole Love Call", "Black and Tan Fantasy", "I Let a Song Go Out of my Heart", "Rockin' in Rhythm", "Caravan", "Pyramid", "Creole Rhapsody", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good", "I'm Beginning to See the Light", "In a Sentimental Mood", "East St. Louis Toodle-oo", "Birmingham Breakdown", "Black Beauty", "Flaming Youth", "Awful Sad", "The Duke Steps Out", "Saturday Night Function", "Old Man Blues", "Ring Dem Bells", "Drop Me Off in Harlem", "Daybreak Express", "Delta Serenade", "Reminiscing in Tempo", "In a Jam", "Clarinet Lament", "Echoes of Harlem", "Dusk on the Desert", "Lost in Meditation", "Blue Reverie", "I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter", "Please Forgive Me", "Chatterbox", "Harmony in Harlem", "If You Were in My Place", "Skronch", "Braggin' in Brass", "Blue Light", "Buffet Flat", "The Gal from Joe's", "Subtle Lament", "Old King Dooji", "Boy Meets Horn", "Stevedore's Serenade", "You Gave Me the Gate and I'm Swinging", "Grievin'", "The Sergeant Was Shy", "Tootin' Through the Roof", "Rumpus in Richmond", "Jack the Bear", "Me and You", "Flaming Sword", "Harlem Air Shaft", "Bojangles", "Portrait of Bert Williams", "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Concerto for Cootie), "Kind of Moody" (Serenade to Sweden), "Morning Glory", "Blue Goose", "Cotton Tail", "Conga Brava", "Chocolate Shake", "Rocks in My Bed", "San Juan Hill", "Crescendo in Blue", "Diminuendo in Blue", "Dusk", "C Jam Blues", "Main Stem", "I Didn't Know About You", "Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin'", "Jazz Convulsions", "I'm Just a Lucky So and So", "The Blues", "Come Sunday", "Magenta Haze", "Just Squeeze Me", "Happy-Go-Lucky Local", "Takle Love Easy", "Tomorrow Mountain", "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'", "Money Jungle", "Prelude to a Kiss", "Jump for Joy", "I'm Checking Out, Goom-Bye", "The Mooche", "Warm Valley", "Blue Serge", "I Wish I Was Back in My Baby's Arms", "Lament for a Lost Love", "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream", "Afro-Bosso", "In the Beginning, God" and "Christmas Surprise".
Duke Fishman
Duke Fishman was born on July 15, 1906 in Manila, Philippines. He is known for his work on The Doris Day Show (1968). He died on December 22, 1977 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
Duke Garone
Duke Garone is known for Ghost Source Zero (2017).
Duke Gator
Duke Gator is an actor, known for Voodoo Possession (2014).
Duke George Brady
Duke George Brady is an American/Canadian Biologist, Wilderness Guide, Artist and Actor based in California and Alaska. Duke was raised in Hawaii, California, and Arizona by his Latin/Spanish/Irish father, Swedish/Welsh mother, and stepfather, whom instilled in him a reverence and love for nature and the arts. From an early age, Duke was near-feral and mostly barefoot growing up in Maui, Hawaii. His mother said that he cried on the first day of school when we was forced to wear flip flops to class. By his teen years, he was assisting on private whitewater excursions in the Canyonlands area of the Southwest United States and going on multi-day, self-supported backpacking trips. Around this time Duke also gained an interest in the visual arts, skateboarding, and music. Having learned to DJ vinyl records, breakdance, and about music/lyrics production, Duke attended college in the Pacific Northwest with an interest in combining his passions of art and nature. In his first year his professor received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, and recruited Duke to perform a nature-themed song during her keynote address at a tropical biology conference in Panama City, Panama. This and subsequent performances went on to be included in TED talks and mentioned in the New York Times as well as other publications. After earning his Bachelor of Arts in the study of film, visual arts, and Latin American Politics, Duke earned a second Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, focusing on graduate level studies in ecology. During his last semester, he landed the lead role of Bob in a student production of "Moon Children", and was one of four students chosen to work under a National Geographic grant to study insects in Chiapas, Mexico. After university, Duke traveled to Alaska where he was a researcher for the Department of the Interior and a Backcountry Wilderness Guide. Although Duke studied documentary filmmaking in college and has had recent roles in student film projects in Los Angeles, his TV and film career was not very active until a former participant recommended him for Discovery Channel's Naked and Afraid series. He participated in the challenge alongside his partner in the Premiere Episode of Season 9, completing the 21 day challenge in a Florida swamp, and again successfully for season 5 of Naked and Afraid XL, Philippines. Duke continues to work and live in California and Alaska, doing conservation biology and backcountry guiding, as well as performing various roles in TV and film production.
Duke Givens
Duke Givens is known for Death Row Chronicles (2018).
Duke Green
Duke Green was born on November 30, 1900 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945), Haunted Harbor (1944) and The Masked Marvel (1943). He died on November 20, 1984 in North Hollywood, California.
Duke Jackson
Duke Jackson is known for Captain America: Civil War (2016), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Office Christmas Party (2016).
Duke Johnson
Duke Johnson was born on March 20, 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Anomalisa (2015), Community (2009) and Marrying God (2006).
Duke Kieran Burns
Duke Kieran Burns is an actor, known for Hidden Peaks (2018), Never Innocent and The Truth Was Supposed to Be Out Here (2013).