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The Wizard of the Strings


The Wizard of the Strings is a 1985 American short documentary film about Roy Smeck, directed by Peter Friedman. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Summary

The former vaudeville star, nicknamed for his virtuoso talents on guitar, ukelele, banjo and Hawaiian guitar, was shown active in his 80s teaching students and occasionally giving public performances.

Cast

  • Roy Smeck as himself

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  • 7 Hamlet 7,090
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Films

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  • 4 C++ 2,263
  • 5 JavaScript 2,167
  • 6 Rust (programming language) 2,041
  • 7 YAML 1,620
  • 8 Java (programming language) 1,614
  • 9 R (programming language) 1,588
  • 10 Go (programming language) 1,457

TV Series

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Video Games

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