Vincent DeVeau
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Vincent DeVeau is an American writer and editor living in Dublin, Ireland.
He was born in New York City in 1952, and later moved to Los Angeles where he worked in the Hollywood film industry for a number of years. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America
.
Between films, he spent an increasing amount of his time in Ireland, moving there in 1989 and beginning a second career as a journalist. He served as editor of Cara magazine from 1995 to 2001, and as editorial director of Smurfit Communications, then Ireland's largest consumer periodical publishing house, until the company was sold in 2004. He is the author of short stories and hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines in Ireland and the U.S. A number of his radio broadcasts for Radio Telefís Éireann have been collected in A Living Word, and an edited version of his interviews with film director Fred Zinnemann
has been published in Fred Zinnemann, Conversations with Filmmakers
. He is currently an editor with the Irish Daily Mail
.
DeVeau is a direct descendant of James Gerahty, a Dublin city councillor and barrister, and author of several influential pamphlets published during the crisis leading up to the Act of Union 1800
which created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
, including The Present State of Ireland, and the Only Means of Preserving Her to the Empire, in a letter to the Marquis Cornwallis. James Gerahty's law offices were located at 31 Holles Street in Dublin, the present location of the Holles Street Maternity Hospital where DeVeau's son was born almost 200 years later.
His grandfather, George DeVeau lent his name to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, DeVeau v. Braisted, in which Mr Justice Felix Frankfurter
wrote the unanimous opinion. The case is still frequently cited as a precedent in various actions involving state's rights and the regulation of interstate commerce.
His maternal grandfather, James Digby Gerahty, held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange
, and was at various times a director of such companies as the DuMont Television Network
and the First Colony Corporation.
He is also a grand nephew of Digby George Gerahty
(1898–1981), who, under the pen name Robert Standish
, was a frequent contributor to the Saturday Evening Post and the author of many novels, including Elephant Walk
(1949), http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CC5AJ2 which was made into a 1954 Paramount Pictures film http://imdb.com/title/tt0046951/, directed by William Dieterle
, starring Elizabeth Taylor
, Dana Andrews
and Peter Finch
.
He was born in New York City in 1952, and later moved to Los Angeles where he worked in the Hollywood film industry for a number of years. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America is an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry...
.
Between films, he spent an increasing amount of his time in Ireland, moving there in 1989 and beginning a second career as a journalist. He served as editor of Cara magazine from 1995 to 2001, and as editorial director of Smurfit Communications, then Ireland's largest consumer periodical publishing house, until the company was sold in 2004. He is the author of short stories and hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines in Ireland and the U.S. A number of his radio broadcasts for Radio Telefís Éireann have been collected in A Living Word, and an edited version of his interviews with film director Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed films like High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.-Life and career:...
has been published in Fred Zinnemann, Conversations with Filmmakers
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
The Conversations with Filmmakers Series is part of the University Press of Mississippi which is sponsored by Mississippi's eight state universities. The mission of the Series is to publish collected interviews with world-famous directors. The current Filmmakers Series editor is Gerald Peary, a...
. He is currently an editor with the Irish Daily Mail
Irish Daily Mail
The Irish Daily Mail is a newspaper published in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland by Associated Newspapers. The paper was launched in February 2006 with a launch strategy that included giving away free copies on the first day of circulation and low pricing subsequently....
.
DeVeau is a direct descendant of James Gerahty, a Dublin city councillor and barrister, and author of several influential pamphlets published during the crisis leading up to the Act of Union 1800
Act of Union 1800
The Acts of Union 1800 describe two complementary Acts, namely:* the Union with Ireland Act 1800 , an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and...
which created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
, including The Present State of Ireland, and the Only Means of Preserving Her to the Empire, in a letter to the Marquis Cornwallis. James Gerahty's law offices were located at 31 Holles Street in Dublin, the present location of the Holles Street Maternity Hospital where DeVeau's son was born almost 200 years later.
His grandfather, George DeVeau lent his name to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, DeVeau v. Braisted, in which Mr Justice Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.-Early life:Frankfurter was born into a Jewish family on November 15, 1882, in Vienna, Austria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Europe. He was the third of six children of Leopold and Emma Frankfurter...
wrote the unanimous opinion. The case is still frequently cited as a precedent in various actions involving state's rights and the regulation of interstate commerce.
His maternal grandfather, James Digby Gerahty, held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...
, and was at various times a director of such companies as the DuMont Television Network
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC for the distinction of being first overall. It began operation in the United States in 1946. It was owned by DuMont...
and the First Colony Corporation.
He is also a grand nephew of Digby George Gerahty
Digby George Gerahty
Digby George Gerahty , who wrote under the pen-names of Robert Standish and Stephen Lister, was an English novelist and short story writer most productive during the 1940s and 1950s. He was also a featured contributor to the Saturday Evening Post...
(1898–1981), who, under the pen name Robert Standish
Robert Standish
Robert Standish may refer to:* Robert Standish, pseudonym of the English novelist Digby George Gerahty* Robert Standish , from Los Angeles, California...
, was a frequent contributor to the Saturday Evening Post and the author of many novels, including Elephant Walk
Elephant Walk
Elephant Walk is a 1954 Paramount Pictures film, directed by William Dieterle, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer....
(1949), http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CC5AJ2 which was made into a 1954 Paramount Pictures film http://imdb.com/title/tt0046951/, directed by William Dieterle
William Dieterle
William Dieterle was a German actor and film director, who worked in Hollywood for much of his career. His best known films include The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
, starring Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
, Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews was an American film actor. He was one of Hollywood's major stars of the 1940s, and continued acting, though generally in less prestigious roles, into the 1980s.-Early life:...
and Peter Finch
Peter Finch
Peter Finch was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a...
.
External links
- Financial Times, 12 April 2002, eCommerce Web Interfaces: If It Ain't Useful, It Ain't Valuable http://www.ftpress.com/articles/article.aspx?p=26344
- Sunday Business Post, 14 March 2004, Battle lines drawn in magazine price war http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/03/14/story315095743.asp
- A Living Word (Townhouse, Dublin 2001) http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1860591469
- Fred Zinnemann: Interviews University Press of Mississippi, 2005) http://www.ecampus.com/book/1578066980
- Michael Apted interview http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-A-Ba/Apted-Michael.html
- DeVeau v. Braisted, 363 U.S. 144, 160 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=363&invol=144