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Robert Ruark (December 29, 1915 in Wilmington, North Carolina – July 1, 1965 in London, England) [1] was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter.
The film, based on the book of the same name by Robert Ruark, portrays the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. It shows the colonial and native African conflict caused by colonialism and differing views on how life should be lived. It stars Rock Hudson as the colonial and Sidney Poitier as the native Kenyan.
In 1955 Ruark wrote a subsequent book called Something of Value, a fictional novel influenced by Harry's colonial Kenyan childhood and his Professional Hunter exploits. The attention placed great pressure on Harry, who later commented that creating his reputation was easy – maintaining it for 40 years was the hard part.
Robert Roark was an actor who appeared in TV and movies, most notably the movie "Mister Roberts" (1955). Some sources have his birth as December 29,1915 in Wilmington, NC, and death on July 1,1965. These dates and birthplace match Robert Ruark's biography exactly. The images of Roark I have found show more than a passing resemblance to Ruark.
Cheryl Ruth Hines [3] was born in Miami Beach, Florida on September 21, 1965, to James and Rosemary Hines. [4] According to her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., she grew up very poor, not even having her own bed until after high school. [5]
Farmer Roger Ruck, his wife Esme and six-year-old son Michael, along with one of their African servants, were killed by Mau Mau, [1] one of whom allegedly worked for the family. [2] The killing shocked the European community in Kenya and was widely reported in the Kenyan and British press, [3] with many including graphic photographs of the dead ...
It was there that in June 1949, Dalton was interviewed by journalist Robert C. Ruark, who then published a three-article account of this interview. Dalton, claiming to be 102 years old, told Ruark that the man shot and killed in 1882 and identified as Jesse James was actually a similar-looking houseguest of James named Charlie Bigelow.
Ruark is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Ruark (1899–1979), American physicist; Davis R. Ruark (born 1955), former State's Attorney for Wicomico County, Maryland; Gibbons Ruark (born 1941), contemporary American poet; Jeanne Ruark Hoff, former college basketball player; Rebecca T. Ruark, Chesapeake Bay skipjack