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June 17, 1941 (age 83) Toronto, Ontario. Occupation. Actress (1956-present) Roberta Farnham Maxwell (born June 17, 1941) [1] is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress.
- The Poor Czech Boy with A Big Dream
- Tragedy Strikes The Maxwells
- Maxwell's Rivalry with Rupert Murdoch
- Mogul's Big Spending Spree
- House of Cards Collapses
- Like Father, Like Daughter
He was the poor boy from Czechoslovakia who escaped the Nazis, built a vast business empire and went on to become one of the biggest names in the United Kingdom. Born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch to impoverished Yiddish-speaking parents, Maxwell was selling trinkets on the streets of Bratislava in 1939 when the Nazis marched in. Almost every memb...
Together, they had nine children, though only seven made it to adulthood. By the time baby Ghislaine was born in 1961, her doting father had gone from impoverished refugee, to war hero, to self-made millionaire. However, not long after her birth, tragedy struck the young family. Her older brother, Michael, was crushed in a car accident that would l...
Nearly 20 years before he bought the yacht that would play a role in his downfall, Maxwell was set on becoming England's Prime Minister. The self-described socialist joined the Labour party in 1959, winning the seat of Buckingham five years later. His political career seemed all but assured until Harold Wilson lost in 1970. By then, Maxwell's busin...
The competition between Murdoch and Maxwell was in full swing by the latter half of the 1980s. "[Maxwell] picked up journalism quite quickly … he began to know what good front pages were," former editor of The People, Bill Haggarty, told the BBC's Witness program. It was the era of rampant capitalism, excess consumption and the belief that "greed i...
Weeks after Maxwell's body was fished out of the Atlantic, his secrets began to surface. First came revelations that he had plundered hundreds of millions of dollars from the Mirror Group's pension fund. Vast sums of cash had reportedly been funnelled to the family's trusts in Liechtenstein. All up, he was more than $1.8 billion in debt. Days befor...
With their patriarch dead, the House of Maxwell began to crumble. "He is always painted as a saviour, coming from the skies," Jim Boumelha, the former head of the Pergamon Press chapter of the National Union of Journalists in Britain, told the New York Times. "But it always ends in tears." Kevin, the anointed heir to the Mirror Group, became Britai...
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak -born British media proprietor, politician and fraudster. [1][2] After escaping the Nazi occupation of his native country, Maxwell joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II and was decorated after active service in ...
Roberta Maxwell was born on June 17, 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Popeye (1980), The Postman (1997) and Brokeback Mountain (2005).
- June 17, 1941
Roberta Farnham Maxwell (born June 17, 1941)[1] is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress. Maxwell began studying for the stage in her early teens. She joined John Clark for two years as the child co-host of his Junior Magazine series for CBC Television.
Dec 30, 2021 · One detail on which there is agreement about his demise in November 1991, as he faced the music over massive mounting debts and had skipped a meeting with creditors at the Bank of England,...
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Roberta Maxwell (born 1942) is a Canadian actress. She began studying for the stage at the age of 12.
