Will Payne | |
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Born | William Owens Payne March 9, 1974 Anniston, Alabama, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Documentary/TV/Film director producer |
Years active | 1997–present |
William "Will" Payne (born March 9, 1974, in Anniston, Alabama) is a producer, writer, and director for television and documentary film. His creative credits include Ten Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective, an expansive look at one of the most successful franchises in videogame history, shot in a dozen cities across five countries.
Payne grew up in Heflin in Cleburne County, Alabama. [1]
While attending Columbia University, Payne played American football and was a teammate of Marcellus Wiley, who went on to become a Pro Bowl defensive end in the NFL. [2]
Cleburne County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,056. Its county seat is Heflin. Its name is in honor of Patrick R. Cleburne of Arkansas who rose to the rank of major general in the Confederate States Army. The eastern side of the county borders the state of Georgia.
Heflin is a city and the county seat of Cleburne County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 3,431. It is located approximately halfway between Birmingham and Atlanta along Interstate 20.
Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was a senior officer in the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
The Talladega National Forest is located in the U.S. state of Alabama and covers 392,567 acres at the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Battle of Ringgold Gap was fought November 27, 1863, outside the town of Ringgold, Georgia, by the Confederate and Union armies during the American Civil War. Part of the Chattanooga Campaign, it followed a heavy Confederate loss at the Battle of Missionary Ridge from which General Braxton Bragg's artillery and wagon trains were forced to retreat south. The five hour Battle of Ringgold Gap resulted in the Confederate victory of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne and gave the Army of Tennessee safe passage to retreat through the Ringgold Gap mountain pass.
Area codes 256 and 938 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for North Alabama, as well as some eastern portions of the state. The two area codes form an overlay plan for the same numbering plan area. Area code 256 was created in 1998, and 938 was added in 2010.
State Route 49 (SR 49) is an 82.684-mile-long (133.067 km) state highway in the central and eastern parts of the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at an interchange with Interstate 85 (I-85) at Franklin in Macon County. The northern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with SR 281 east of Cheaha State Park in southern Cleburne County.
USS Cleburne (APA-73) was a Gilliam-class attack transport that served with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1965.
Hopewell is an unincorporated community in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States. It lies at an elevation of 1060 feet.
Cleburne County Courthouse may refer to:
Liberty Hill is an unincorporated community in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States. Liberty Hill is located on County Route 55, 5.7 miles (9.2 km) south-southeast of Piedmont, near the headwaters of the Choccolocco Creek.
Cleburne County School District is a school district in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States. The mission of the Cleburne County School System is to provide education of the highest quality, that motivates all students to excel, meets their individual needs, and prepares them for the future.
The 1976 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The 33rd Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry unit from Alabama that served in the Confederate States Army during the U.S. Civil War. Recruited from the southeastern counties of Butler, Dale, Coffee, Covington, Russell and Montgomery, it saw extensive service with the Confederate Army of Tennessee before being nearly annihilated at the Battle of Franklin in 1864. Survivors from the regiment continued to serve until the final capitulation of General Joseph Johnston in North Carolina in 1865.
Arbacoochee is an unincorporated community in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States.
John Harold Merrill is an American politician who served as the 53rd secretary of state of Alabama from 2015 to 2023. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 2010 to 2014. Merrill is a member of the Republican Party.
Abel is an unincorporated community in Cleburne County, in the U.S. state of Alabama.
Trickem is an unincorporated community in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States.
Abernathy is an unincorporated community in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States
Cleburne County High School is a public school in Heflin, Alabama, United States, serving students in grades 8 to 12 in Cleburne County, Alabama. It has about 280 students. Old Cleburne County High School is a historic school building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tigers are the school mascot and the school colors red and white.