"Pennyworth (TV series) Pennyworth is an upcoming American drama television series, based on characters published by DC Comics and created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, that is set to premiere in 2019 on Epix. The series is executive produced by Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon and will star Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Paloma Faith, and Jason Flemyng. ""Pennyworth"" follows ""Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne, Bruce's billionaire father, in 1960s London."" On May 16, 2018, it was"
"Ian Abercrombie Ian Abercrombie (11 September 1934 – 26 January 2012) was an English actor. He played Alfred Pennyworth on ""Birds of Prey"", Justin Pitt (Elaine Benes's boss) during the sixth season of ""Seinfeld"", Rupert Cavanaugh (Ian Hainsworth's butler) on ""Desperate Housewives"", Professor Crumbs on ""Wizards of Waverly Place"", and Palpatine on """". Abercrombie was born on 11 September 1934 in Grays, Essex, England. He began his theatrical career during the Blitz in World War II. After his footwork years during which he earned Bronze, Silver and Gold medals in stage dancing, he performed in London, Scotland, Ireland, and the"
"Pertwee was cast in Fox's TV series ""Gotham"", a series presenting an origin for the characters of the Batman franchise. Pertwee portrays Alfred Pennyworth, a tough-as-nails ex-special forces from east London who works as the Wayne family's loyal butler. After Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered, he becomes guardian and mentor to their young son Bruce – the boy who will one day become Batman. Pertwee is the brother of actress Dariel Pertwee, son of actor Jon Pertwee (of Doctor Who fame), grandson of actor and screenwriter Roland Pertwee, and is more distantly related to actor Bill Pertwee. He married"
"I love you. God bless. Michael (Mr Wayne) Keaton."" Gough was added in ""In Memoriam"" at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Michael Gough Francis Michael Gough ( ; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher ""Batman"" tetralogy. Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) on 23 November 1916, the son of English"
"Penwith Society of Arts The Penwith Society of Arts is an art group formed in St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK, in early 1949 by abstract artists who broke away from the more conservative St Ives School. It was originally led by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, and included members of the Crypt Group of the St Ives Society, including Peter Lanyon and Sven Berlin. Other early members included: Leonard Fuller, Isobel Heath, Alexander Mackenzie, John Wells, Bryan Wynter, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, David Haughton, Denis Mitchell, and the printer Guido Morris. Herbert Read was invited to be the first president. The group"
"electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, and biotechnology as he singlehandedly builds, programs, and maintains much of Batman's next-generational technology such as the Batcomputer. was not introduced in the comics until after the series had ended production. Alfred Pennyworth is a supporting character in the """" franchise where he is voiced by Martin Jarvis and Hugh Fraser. Alfred Pennyworth appears in both """" and its sequel """", voiced by Enn Reitel. Alfred Pennyworth is featured in the ""Smallville Season 11"" digital comic based on the TV series. Alfred Pennyworth Alfred, most commonly (but not originally) named in full as"
"Alan Napier Alan William Napier-Clavering (7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988), better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatres, he had a long film career in Britain and later, in Hollywood. Napier is best known today for portraying Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler in the 1960s live-action ""Batman"" television series. Napier was the son of Claude Gerald Napier-Clavering (1869–1938) and Mary Millicent Kenrick (1871–1932), sister of Wilfred Byng Kenrick, and a first cousin-once removed of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940. He was educated at Packwood Haugh School"
"Los Angeles, California on 26 January 2012, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, twenty days after the ""Wizards of Waverly Place"" finale, from kidney failure. He was 77. ""Star Wars"" Celebration VI included the panel ""Vocal Stars of ""The Clone Wars"""", hosted by James Arnold Taylor and featuring cast members Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, Dee Bradley Baker and Tom Kane. The cast dedicated the panel to Abercrombie. Additionally, ""The Clone Wars"" episode ""The Lawless"" includes a dedication to Abercrombie in the opening titles. Ian Abercrombie Ian Abercrombie (11 September 1934 – 26 January 2012) was an English actor. He played Alfred Pennyworth"
"Michael Gough Francis Michael Gough ( ; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher ""Batman"" tetralogy. Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) on 23 November 1916, the son of English parents Francis Berkeley Gough and Frances Atkins (née Bailie). Gough was educated at Rose Hill School, Tunbridge Wells, and at Durham School."
"to reject Alfred. (The name ""Pennyworth"" was first used for Alfred in 1969 and thereafter it has been assumed that his father was named Jarvis Pennyworth; as it is customary for British domestic servants to be called by surname it might have been implied on Alfred's introduction that Jarvis was the surname he shared with his father; the surname ""Beagle"" was explicitly used for Alfred starting in 1945 and on the introduction of ""Pennyworth"" this is treated as having always been their name by retcon). Initially, Alfred discovered their identities by accident; while fighting a burglar in ""Batman"" #16 (Alfred's"
"practising management, and demonstrate the plurality and diversity of management thought... Alfred John Liversedge Alfred John Liversedge (Huddersfield, 1854 – Croydon, 20 August 1934) was a British engineer, manager, and author, known from the 1889 publication ""Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts,"" written under the pseudonym ""A general manager."" This work was one of the seminal works in the field of cost accounting. Liversedge came into prominence with the publication of ""Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts."" in 1889, which he wrote under the pseudonym ""A general manager."" Late 19th century he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He"
"Alfred John Liversedge Alfred John Liversedge (Huddersfield, 1854 – Croydon, 20 August 1934) was a British engineer, manager, and author, known from the 1889 publication ""Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts,"" written under the pseudonym ""A general manager."" This work was one of the seminal works in the field of cost accounting. Liversedge came into prominence with the publication of ""Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts."" in 1889, which he wrote under the pseudonym ""A general manager."" Late 19th century he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He became editor of ""The Engineering Supplement"" of the ""Daily Mail"" Overseas"
"voice of Admiral Zaal'Koris vas Qwib Qwib in ""Mass Effect 2"" (2010) and ""Mass Effect 3"" (2012). Also in 2011, Jarvis also performed a voice-over part for the MMORPG """". Jarvis also voiced Alfred Pennyworth in the """" series of video games. He first voiced the character in the 2011 video game """" and would reprise for the 2013 video game """" and the 2014 DC Universe animated movie """", and the 2015 video game """". Jarvis married Rosalind Ayres on 23 November 1974 in Ealing; he has two sons by a previous marriage. He met Ayres when they played"
"Dunmow Flitch Trials, in turn, were the basis for the 1952 film ""Made in Heaven"" starring Petula Clark. Ainsworth also appears as a character in the historical novel Shark Alley: The Memoirs of a Penny-a-Liner by Stephen Carver (2016), in which the Newgate Controversy is dramatized. Citations William Harrison Ainsworth William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that"
"Alfred Nicholson Leeds Alfred Nicholson Leeds (9 March 184725 August 1917) was an English amateur palaeontologist. He was born at Eyebury, Peterborough, the youngest of the eight children of Edward Thurlow Leeds (180251) and Eliza Mary Leeds (née Nicholson). He was educated at Warwick School. He had wanted to become a doctor, but circumstances meant that from 1868 he had to take on the management of Eyebury Farm (in The Fens, and historically attached to Peterborough Abbey) as a gentleman farmer. His elder brother Charles, a student at Oxford University, had been encouraged by Professor John Phillips to persevere in"
"John Reeves (activist) John Reeves (20 November 1752 – 7 August 1829), was a legal historian, civil servant, British magistrate, conservative activist, and the first Chief Justice of Newfoundland. In 1792 he founded the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, for the purpose suppressing the ""seditious publications"" authored by British supporters of the French Revolution—most famously, Thomas Paine's ""Rights of Man"". Because of his counter-revolutionary actions he was regarded by many of his contemporaries as ""the saviour of the British state""; in the years after his death, he was warmly remembered as the saviour of ultra-Toryism."
"named John Weaver in St James Church, Clerkenwell, in 1614; Anne Panting, who married a John Weaver in the same church in 1617; or neither of these. John Weever John Weever (1576–1632) was an English antiquary and poet. He is best known for his ""Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion"" (1599), containing epigrams on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other poets of his day, and for his ""Ancient Funerall Monuments"", the first full-length book to be dedicated to the topic of English church monuments and epitaphs, which was published in 1631, the year before his death. Weever was a"
"now marked with an English Heritage blue plaque. Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922) was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the ""Daily Mail"" and the ""Daily Mirror"", he was an early developer of popular journalism, and he exercised vast influence over British popular opinion during the Edwardian era. Lord Beaverbrook said he was ""the greatest figure who ever strode down Fleet Street."" About the beginning of the 20th century there were increasing attempts to develop popular journalism intended for the working class and"
"Alfred Harmsworth (barrister) Alfred Harmsworth (3 July 1837 – 16 July 1889) was a British barrister, and the father of several of the United Kingdom's leading newspaper proprietors, five of whom were honoured with hereditary titles – two viscounts, one baron and two baronets. Another son designed the iconic bulbous Perrier mineral water bottle. Alfred Harmsworth was born on 3 July 1837 in Marylebone, London, the only son of Charles Harmsworth and Hannah Carter. On 21 September 1864, at St Stephen's Church, Dublin, he married Geraldine Mary Maffett (1838–1925), one of the eight children of William Maffett, a land agent"
"Church and state. John Reeves (activist) John Reeves (20 November 1752 – 7 August 1829), was a legal historian, civil servant, British magistrate, conservative activist, and the first Chief Justice of Newfoundland. In 1792 he founded the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, for the purpose suppressing the ""seditious publications"" authored by British supporters of the French Revolution—most famously, Thomas Paine's ""Rights of Man"". Because of his counter-revolutionary actions he was regarded by many of his contemporaries as ""the saviour of the British state""; in the years after his death, he was warmly remembered as the"
"Johnny Vegas Michael Pennington (born 5 September 1970), known professionally as Johnny Vegas, is an English actor and comedian, known for his formerly portly figure and his alter-egos angry rants, surreal humour and high husky voice. His television roles have included playing Al in the ITV Digital and PG Tips adverts, drug dealer Moz in the BBC black comedy ""Ideal"", Geoff Maltby in the ITV comedy series ""Benidorm"" and Eric Agnew in the BBC sitcom ""Still Open All Hours"". Vegas was born in Thatto Heath, St Helens, Lancashire, the youngest of four children of Laurence and Patricia Pennington. He and"
"""Gentleman's"" diaries, and was a writer for the ""Penny Magazine,"" and for Britton and Brayley's ""Graphic and Historical Illustrator."" He also wrote Peak Rhapsody a moving tribute to the land where the purple heather the thyme & bilberry grow together. Arthur Jewitt Arthur Jewitt (1772–1852) was an English topographer. Jewitt as the eldest son of Arthur and Mary Jewitt. His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Priestley of Dronfield and she gave birth to Arthur in Sheffield on 7 March 1772. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to his father, a cutler. At the end of his apprenticeship"
"Alfred Wainwright Alfred Wainwright (""A.W."") MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991) was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume ""Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells"", published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District. Among his 40-odd other books is the first guide to the Coast to Coast Walk, a 192-mile long-distance footpath devised by Wainwright which remains popular today. Alfred Wainwright was born in Blackburn, Lancashire into a family which was relatively poor, mostly because"
"of its older publications in print, except those which have been superseded by subsequent editions. Volumes are now published on behalf of the Society by Oxford University Press. The Society emblem is a modified representation of the Anglo-Saxon Alfred Jewel, incorporating a scroll bearing the name of the Society. Notable members of the society when it was formed in 1864 included Furnivall himself, Alfred Tennyson (poet laureate), Warren de la Rue (inventor of the lightbulb), Richard Chenevix Trench (Irish ecclesiastic), the Rev. Richard Morris (the editor of 12 volumes between 1862 and 1880), and others. Anne Hudson was the director"
"Matt Reeves Matthew George Reeves (born April 27, 1966) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Reeves began his career as a screenwriter for the films """" (1995) and ""The Pallbearer"" (1996), the latter of which marked his feature-length directorial debut. He then transitioned into television as a director and co-creator of the drama series ""Felicity"" (1998–2002), alongside J. J. Abrams. Reeves has since gone on to direct the found-footage horror film ""Cloverfield"" (2008), the romantic horror film ""Let Me In"" (2010), and the critically acclaimed science fiction sequels ""Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"" (2014) and ""War for"
"Alfred Denville Alfred Arthur Hinchcliffe Denville (27 January 1876 – 23 March 1955) was an English actor, theatre impresario and Conservative Party politician. Denville, an actor by trade, ran one of the UK's leading repertory companies. In 1924 Denville founded Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in Northwood, London that is still in operation. As a politician Denville was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central seat from Sir Charles Trevelyan in the 1931 general election and held the seat until he was defeated in 1945. For a time he was associated with the"
"John Weever John Weever (1576–1632) was an English antiquary and poet. He is best known for his ""Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion"" (1599), containing epigrams on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other poets of his day, and for his ""Ancient Funerall Monuments"", the first full-length book to be dedicated to the topic of English church monuments and epitaphs, which was published in 1631, the year before his death. Weever was a native of Preston, Lancashire. Little is known of his early life, and his parentage is not certain. He may be the son of the John Weever who"
"Alfred Perceval Graves Alfred Perceval Graves (22 July 184627 December 1931), was an Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter and folklorist. He was the father of British poet and critic Robert Graves. He was born in Dublin and was the son of Charles Graves, Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, and his wife Selina, the daughter of John Cheyne (1777–1836), the Physician-General to the British Forces in Ireland. His paternal grandmother Helena was a Perceval, and the granddaughter of the Earl of Egmont. His grandfather, John Crosbie Graves, was a first cousin of ""Ireland's most celebrated surgeon"", Robert James Graves. Alfred was educated"
"Alfred Thompson (librettist) Alfred Thompson (pseudonym: Thompson E. Jones, 7 October 1831 – 31 August 1895) was a British musical theatre librettist, set designer, costume designer, theatre manager, journalist and artist, contributing to ""Punch"" and ""Vanity Fair"" (signed ""Ἀτη""). Thompson was born in London. He was educated at Rugby and Brighton. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1850 and graduated B.A. in 1855. He served as a cavalry officer in the 6th Dragoons from 1855 until he sold his commission in 1857; he started as cornet and rose to captain. In 1854 he sold his first drawing to ""Diogenes"""
"shots of a cavern, with Alfred Pennyworth as the narrator, telling all in flashback. Alfred bails soon to be 17-year-old Bruce Wayne from a London police station, after Bruce has gotten himself into another fight. Alfred informs Bruce that the trustees from his family's company need to see him, and though he'd rather stay where he is, Bruce nods when Alfred tells him he has no choice. After having a nightmare about his parents' murder, Bruce wakes up in his private jet and turns on the TV to see every show talking about him, including one hosted by Vicki Vale."
"Jevons to comment that “there are few pleasures more satisfying than seeing one's own paperback in a book rack at an airport newsstand”. The name Marshall Jevons derives from the surnames of two 19th-century English economists, Alfred Marshall and William Stanley Jevons. A blog about economics called ""The Bayesian Heresy"" has also adopted the pseudonym. ""The Fatal Equilibrium"" is a ""British traditional"" within the mystery genre. It has no explicit sex or violence. British traditionals are written as cerebral works of the mind, rather than adrenaline (e.g., Emma Lathen, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie). The Fatal"
"possible stage name. In the 2012 film ""The Dark Knight Rises"", Bruce Wayne leaves the residue of his estate to Alfred, listing him in the will as Alfred J. Pennyworth. A highly intelligent and resourceful man, Alfred runs the day-to-day operations of Wayne Manor and maintains much of the equipment of the Batcave beneath it. A former actor, he can use his acting and disguise skills to help Batman in the field when necessary, and is even capable of impersonating Bruce Wayne on the telephone convincingly, as well as giving Bruce various lessons that help him maintain his covers. He"
"Julian Roberston, and Bruce Kovner. Alfred Winslow Jones Alfred Winslow Jones (9 September 1900 – 2 June 1989) was an Australian investor, hedge fund manager, and sociologist. He is credited with forming the first modern hedge fund and is widely regarded as the ""father of the hedge fund industry."" Jones was born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of Arthur Winslow Jones (an executive of General Electric) and his wife, Elizabeth Huntington. He moved to the United States with his family when he was 4. He graduated from Harvard University in 1923, and, after working as purser on a tramp steamer"