"Bowie in press interviews during this period. Soon after making the comments, Bowie claimed that they were ""theatrical"" remarks made in character and did not reflect his actual views. In later years, he blamed his erratic behaviour during his mid-1970s Duke era on an ""astronomical"" use of hard drugs (particularly cocaine) while living in Los Angeles. Bowie left California for Europe in 1976 to improve his mental and physical well-being. He settled in West Berlin in early 1977, at which point he quietly retired the Thin White Duke persona. David Bowie, who had experience performing in experimental theatre before becoming"
"The Duke (1998 film) The Duke is a 1998 British short film written and directed by John McArdle, produced by Sarah Proudfoot Clinch and starring Tony Booth, Lee Gilbert, and Nicola Stephenson. Set in 1955 Liverpool, it tells the story of a young boy who believes that his grandfather is John Wayne. While watching a Western at the cinema with his mother, 7-year-old Jack (Gilbert) discovers that his grandfather Tom (Booth) looks like John Wayne. Upon returning home, he excitedly informs his grandfather, who asks him whether he can keep a secret. At school Jack reveals the secret to his"
"is believed to be descended from a now-extinct rough-coated, black-and-tan working terrier of Wales, Derbyshire, and Durham. The breed was also thought to have been bred to chase foxes into their underground burrows; the dogs' short, strong, usually docked tails were used as handles by the hunter to pull them back out. Although it is said Queen Victoria owned one, and her son and heir, King Edward VII, did own a wire fox terrier named Caesar, the breed was not popular as a family pet until the 1930s, when ""The Thin Man"" series of feature films was created. Asta, the"
"Irwin the Disco Duck Irwin the Disco Duck, a.k.a. Irwin the Dynamic Duck, is a fictional character who was featured on a series of children's records from Peter Pan Records. He's depicted as an anthropomorphic white duck with a head of brown hair, usually dressed in 1970s-style clothes (platform shoes, bell-bottoms, et cetera). Despite the similarity in both sound and appearance to Donald Duck, Irwin the Disco Duck had no affiliation to the more widely known character of The Walt Disney Company. Inspired by the novelty song ""Disco Duck"", Peter Pan put out a series of children's records starting in"
"The Thin Man (film) The Thin Man is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles; Nick is a hard-drinking, retired private detective, and Nora is a wealthy heiress. Their wire-haired fox terrier Asta is played by canine actor Skippy. The film's screenplay was written by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, a married couple. In 1934, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The titular ""Thin Man"""
"amount from his pockets and bought the restaurant. Donald then was forced to wash the dishes to pay the bill. It's never said when Flintheart became richer than the Duke or if the two ever met. Flintheart Glomgold Flintheart Glomgold is a fictional character in Disney comic books, created by Carl Barks in 1956. He is a South African white duck and the archenemy of Scrooge McDuck, usually portrayed as an ambitious, ruthless, and manipulative businessman who shares many of the same qualities as Scrooge—the drive for massive wealth, and the and creativity to obtain the same—but he lacks any"
"Sony's getTV in March 2016. The Thin Man (TV series) The Thin Man is a half-hour weekly television series based on the mystery novel ""The Thin Man"" (1933) by Dashiell Hammett. The 72 episodes were produced by MGM Television and broadcast by NBC for two seasons from 1957–1959 on Friday evening. It was the first TV series produced by MGM. The series starred Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Nora Charles. The dog, Asta, was played by three identical wire-hair terriers. Jack Albertson, Patricia Donahue, and Nita Talbot had recurring roles during the show's second season. Albertson played"
"del Consiglio Regionale del la Compagnia"" at the Giffoni Film Festival and ""Best Short"" at the Kodak Emerging New European Talent festival. It also was screened at the 1999 BBC Short Film Festival The Duke (1998 film) The Duke is a 1998 British short film written and directed by John McArdle, produced by Sarah Proudfoot Clinch and starring Tony Booth, Lee Gilbert, and Nicola Stephenson. Set in 1955 Liverpool, it tells the story of a young boy who believes that his grandfather is John Wayne. While watching a Western at the cinema with his mother, 7-year-old Jack (Gilbert) discovers that"
"(2007), he was played by Henry Czerny. David Morrissey played the Duke in the film ""The Other Boleyn Girl"". Bernard Hill played the Duke in the acclaimed 2015 BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's ""Wolf Hall"". D. L. Bogdan's novels ""Rivals in the Tudor Court"" and ""Secrets of the Tudor Court"" (published in the UK under the name of Darcey Bonnette) feature Norfolk as one of the central characters. Norfolk is also one of the characters in the Philippa Gregory novels ""The Other Boleyn Girl"" and ""The Boleyn Inheritance"". He is an important character in ""The Man on a Donkey"" by"
"The Thin Man (TV series) The Thin Man is a half-hour weekly television series based on the mystery novel ""The Thin Man"" (1933) by Dashiell Hammett. The 72 episodes were produced by MGM Television and broadcast by NBC for two seasons from 1957–1959 on Friday evening. It was the first TV series produced by MGM. The series starred Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Nora Charles. The dog, Asta, was played by three identical wire-hair terriers. Jack Albertson, Patricia Donahue, and Nita Talbot had recurring roles during the show's second season. Albertson played Lieutenant Harry Evans of the"
"to explain to Vance that his latest case revolves around a ""tall, thin man"" (referring to Clyde Wynant), just before clips of the film are shown. ""The Thin Man"" was dramatized as a radio play on an hour-long broadcast of ""Lux Radio Theater"" on June 8, 1936. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, William Henry, and Thomas Jackson reprised their film roles, and W. S. Van Dyke was host. The Thin Man (film) The Thin Man is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name"
"is also the voice of Nev the Bear on CBBC's ""Bear Behaving Badly"". As of 2018 he is teaching animation at University for the Creative Arts, in Farnham. Ross Mullan Ross Mullan, (born 5 January 1967) is a Canadian-British actor and puppeteer. He is mostly known for his work portraying the White Walker on HBO's ""Game of Thrones"" in its second through fourth seasons. He has appeared in episodes of ""Doctor Who"" and in the 2010 film ""Clash of the Titans"". Mullan grew up in Montreal and attended Children’s Theater in the West End of Montreal. Later he did the"
"Ian Richardson (""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" and ""The Silver Chair""), Claire Bloom (""Prince Caspian"" and ""The Magician's Nephew""), Anthony Quayle (""The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"" and ""The Horse and his Boy"") and Michael York (""The Last Battle""). HarperAudio published the series on audiobook, read by British and Irish actors Michael York (""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe""), Lynn Redgrave (""Prince Caspian""), Derek Jacobi (""The Voyage of the Dawn Treader""), Jeremy Northam (""The Silver Chair""), Alex Jennings (""The Horse and his Boy""), Kenneth Branagh (""The Magician's Nephew"") and Patrick Stewart (""The Last Battle""). Collins Audio also"
"John Wayne Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed ""The Duke"", was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for ""True Grit"" (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades. Born in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne grew up in Southern California. He was president of Glendale High class of 1925. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film"
"an enraged Duke. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $164,000 domestically and $60,000 foreihn. Ride Him, Cowboy Ride Him, Cowboy is a 1932 pre-Code Western film directed by Fred Allen starring 25-year-old John Wayne. Based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Kenneth Taylor Perkins, the film is a remake of ""The Unknown Cavalier"", a 1926 Western starring Ken Maynard, with lots of stock footage from the original. The film was titled ""The Hawk"" in the UK. John Drury (John Wayne) is passing through when townsfolk are about to kill Duke, a horse they believe to"
"Thinner (film) Thinner (marketed as Stephen King's Thinner) is a 1996 American body horror film directed by Tom Holland and written by Michael McDowell and Holland. The film is based on Stephen King’s 1984 novel of the same name and stars Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wührer and Bethany Joy Lenz. The film screened alongside Michael Jackson's short film ""Michael Jackson's Ghosts"" in select theaters around the world. Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) is an obese, upper-class lawyer living with his wife Heidi (Lucinda Jenney) and their daughter Linda (Bethany Joy Lenz). Billy recently defended"
"Ross Mullan Ross Mullan, (born 5 January 1967) is a Canadian-British actor and puppeteer. He is mostly known for his work portraying the White Walker on HBO's ""Game of Thrones"" in its second through fourth seasons. He has appeared in episodes of ""Doctor Who"" and in the 2010 film ""Clash of the Titans"". Mullan grew up in Montreal and attended Children’s Theater in the West End of Montreal. Later he did the theater program at John Abbott College and then Ryerson University for their Theater program. After completing University he moved to Ottawa and worked at the Oddyssey theater developing"
"Alan Tudyk Alan Wray Tudyk ( ; born March 16, 1971) is an American actor. His roles include Hoban ""Wash"" Washburne in the space western series ""Firefly"" and the film ""Serenity"". He played Tucker McGee in ""Tucker & Dale vs. Evil"" and has also appeared in the films """", ""I, Robot"", ""A Knight's Tale"", ""42"", """" and ""Rogue One"". He has also voiced characters in every Walt Disney Animation Studios feaure film since ""Wreck-It Ralph"" in 2012. He appeared on the 2011–2014 ABC sitcom ""Suburgatory"", and has had guest roles on many other series. Earlier in his career, he appeared"
"not go unnoticed when he is reported by the columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell (here caricatured as ""Walter Snitchall""), which then leads to a wide variety of characters, including police officers, Boy Scouts, Tarzan, wild animals, and native Zulu tribesmen, joining the chase. ""The Thin Man"" (a caricature of William Powell, who received an Academy Award nomination for playing the role) uses Asta from the cover of ""Dog World"" to detect the criminal on the cover of ""Better Babies"", and the criminal gives chase on the carriage, only to be assailed by everyone from Navy battleships to Greta Garbo"
"Flintheart Glomgold Flintheart Glomgold is a fictional character in Disney comic books, created by Carl Barks in 1956. He is a South African white duck and the archenemy of Scrooge McDuck, usually portrayed as an ambitious, ruthless, and manipulative businessman who shares many of the same qualities as Scrooge—the drive for massive wealth, and the and creativity to obtain the same—but he lacks any of Scrooge's tendencies towards generosity and compassion. In Don Rosa's ""The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck"" he is said to be a Boer. Glomgold is one of Scrooge's main rivals along with the Beagle Boys,"
"caused Atwell to make the change from being a dramatic actor to becoming a comedian. Roy Atwell John Leroy ""Roy"" Atwell (May 2, 1878 – February 6, 1962) was an American actor, comedian and composer. Born in 1878, Atwell was educated at the Sargent School of Acting, and appeared in 34 films between 1914 and 1947. He is probably most famous for his voice performance as Doc the Head Dwarf in Disney's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". As well as his film work, he appeared in several Broadway productions, including ""The Little Missus,"" ""The Mimic World,"" ""Oh, My Dear!,"""
"W. S. Van Dyke Woodbridge Strong ""W. S."" Van Dyke II (Woody) (March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943) was an American film director and writer who made several successful early sound films, including ""Tarzan the Ape Man"" in 1932, ""The Thin Man"" in 1934, ""San Francisco"" in 1936, and six popular musicals with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Director for ""The Thin Man"" and ""San Francisco"", and directed four actors to Oscar nominations: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Norma Shearer, and Robert Morley. Known as a reliable craftsman who made his films"
"fame, whose Irwin-voice later became the one for Scooby-Doo's nephew Scrappy. Irwin's hair, wardrobe and DJ persona are all reflections of American radio personality Rick Dees, who wrote and recorded the ""Disco Duck"" song on which this series was based. Irwin the Disco Duck Irwin the Disco Duck, a.k.a. Irwin the Dynamic Duck, is a fictional character who was featured on a series of children's records from Peter Pan Records. He's depicted as an anthropomorphic white duck with a head of brown hair, usually dressed in 1970s-style clothes (platform shoes, bell-bottoms, et cetera). Despite the similarity in both sound and"
"the Duke of Windsor, actor Warren Mitchell in his role as Alf Garnett, and group leader Jeff Lynne as an eight-year-old schoolboy. In the U.S. the cover art was different with a rather psychedelic-styled paisley pattern behind the band. While warmly received by critics, the record failed to chart in the U.K. or the U.S. The album was re-issued in 1976 by Liberty on their budget-price label Sunset, although in a non-gatefold sleeve with different design, to capitalise on Electric Light Orchestra's success. A further re-issue came in 2014 by Parlophone, as the Liberty back catalogue had long since been"
"Donald Duck Donald Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and temperamental personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in ""TV Guide""s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character, and is"
"The Thin Man The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the December 1933 issue of ""Redbook"". It appeared in book form the following month. Hammett never wrote a sequel but the book became the basis for a successful six-part film series, which also began in 1934 with ""The Thin Man"" and starred William Powell and Myrna Loy. ""The Thin Man"" television series aired on NBC from 1957-59, and starred Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk . In 1999, Knopf published a collection of Hammett's early works, including an early draft of ""The Thin Man""."
"Darkwing Duck Darkwing Duck is an American animated action-adventure comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation that first ran from 1991 to 1992 on both the syndicated programming block ""The Disney Afternoon"" and Saturday mornings on ABC. It featured the adventures of Darkwing Duck, who is the superheroic alter-ego of an ordinary suburban person named ""Drake Mallard"". On April 2, 2015, a rumor surfaced that Disney would be rebooting the series for a 2018 premiere. This has since been debunked, instead it has returned as a comic book published by Joe Books, which premiered on April 27, 2016."
"Thin Ice (2011 film) Thin Ice (formerly The Convincer) is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Jill Sprecher and starring Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Billy Crudup. Wisconsin insurance salesman Mickey Prohaska is in desperate financial straits. His wife JoAnn has thrown him out of the house, and he is willing to do or say practically anything to sell anybody a policy. Mickey accompanies another insurance agent he has just met, Bob Egan, to the farm of an elderly man named Gorvy Hauer. The house is a mess and Gorvy is absent-minded, perhaps a tad senile. He does not"
"Duke character has been portrayed in three films: Though it is not clear when the tapes themselves were transferred, the name Raoul Duke starts appearing, in general along with that of Matt Vernon, under the transfer credits for some of the early tapes for the Grateful Dead starting with studio sessions from an unknown date in June 1966 and then from a concert in Vancouver, British Columbia in late July 1966. Garry Trudeau's ""Doonesbury"" character Uncle Duke is based on Thompson's Raoul Duke. Although the ""Doonesbury"" character is usually referred to only as ""Duke"", various other names for him have"
"Barnard starred as Prince Boris Drubetskoy in Andrew Davies's television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"", broadcast on BBC One, and as Tim Hobson in the BBC 5 part drama ""Thirteen"". Aneurin Barnard Aneurin Barnard (; born 8 May 1987) is a Welsh stage and screen actor. He is best known for his roles as Davey in ""Hunky Dory"", Claude in ""The Truth About Emanuel"", Robert ""Bobby"" Willis Jr. in ""Cilla"" and King Richard III in ""The White Queen"". He played the French soldier Gibson in Christopher Nolan's action-thriller ""Dunkirk"" (2017). Barnard was born in the former borough of"
"what would become The Duke Endowment of Trinity College. After the indenture for the $40,000,000 Duke Endowment was signed in December 1924 by Washington's youngest son, James B. Duke, Trinity College renamed itself to Duke University in honor of Washington Duke. Today, a statue of Washington Duke sits on Duke University's East Campus. Washington Duke George Washington Duke (December 18, 1820 – May 8, 1905) was an American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist who fought in the American Civil War. Washington Duke was born on December 18, 1820 in eastern Orange County, North Carolina, in what is today the township of"
"failure was based on the fact that the ""mean-spirited film did not have one single likable character."" Thinner (film) Thinner (marketed as Stephen King's Thinner) is a 1996 American body horror film directed by Tom Holland and written by Michael McDowell and Holland. The film is based on Stephen King’s 1984 novel of the same name and stars Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wührer and Bethany Joy Lenz. The film screened alongside Michael Jackson's short film ""Michael Jackson's Ghosts"" in select theaters around the world. Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) is an obese, upper-class lawyer"
"Luke Duke Lucas K. ""Luke"" Duke was born on November 6, 1951, Luke is a fictional character in the American television series ""The Dukes of Hazzard"" which ran from 1979 to 1985. Luke was played by Tom Wopat. Luke, and his younger cousin Bo Duke live in an unincorporated area of the fictional Hazzard County, in Georgia. Luke and Bo own a 1969 Dodge Charger, nicknamed ""The General Lee"", which is painted orange, with the Confederate Flag on top, and ""01"" painted on the sides. Luke and Bo evade the corrupt politicians of Hazzard County, such as Boss Hogg and"