"John Nevison John Nevison (1639 – 4 May 1684), also known as William Nevison or Nevinson, was one of Britain's most notorious highwaymen, a gentleman rogue supposedly nicknamed ""Swift Nick"" by King Charles II after a renowned dash from Kent to York to establish an alibi for a robbery he had committed earlier that day. The story inspired William Harrison Ainsworth to include a modified version in his novel ""Rookwood"", in which he attributed the feat to Dick Turpin. There are suggestions that the feat was actually undertaken by Samuel Nicks. Nevison was born in 1639, probably in Wortley in"
"films, television series, and theater. He starred in the short-lived NBC series ""Conviction"" as Nick Potter, a lawyer from an ""old money"" family of prominence, who leaves his job at a private law firm to join the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. He is also known for his starring role in the 2002 film ""New Suit"", the 2004 film """", and the 2009 ""Love Comes Softly"" movie series films ""Love Takes Wing"" and ""Love Finds a Home"", as well as a recurring role on the TV series ""Dawson's Creek"". He also had a guest role in season four of the series"
"radio shows nationally from 2014 to 2016. His most popular television shows were CVN's 'SoldOutrageous' where Cremeans and his late night band of characters took to the airwaves to sell anything from gold to electronics and HSN's Sunrise Morning Show where he cohosted with Lynn Murphy. His moniker ""The Doctor of Shopology"" was given to him by a caller during his early days as a host. His broadcast career started while he was a senior in high school when he worked at a local radio station - WIXK & WIXK-FM in New Richmond, Wisconsin doing part-time night and weekend announcing."
"in 1997 as Tom Sergeant, a restaurant entrepreneur, in David Hare's ""Skylight"", which had premiered in 1995 and was moved to the Vaudeville Theatre. Nighy received some recognition by American audiences for his acclaimed portrayal of overaged rock star Ray Simms in the 1998 film ""Still Crazy"". In 1999 he gained further prominence in the UK with the starring role in ""The Photographer"", an episode of the award-winning BBC-TV mockumentary comedy series ""People Like Us"", playing Will Rushmore, a middle aged man who has abandoned his career and family in the deluded belief that he can achieve success as a"
"Henry Willson Henry Leroy Willson (July 31, 1911 – November 2, 1978) was an American Hollywood talent agent who played a large role in popularizing the beefcake craze of the 1950s. He was known for his stable of young, attractive clients, including Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Chad Everett, Robert Wagner, Nick Adams, Guy Madison, Troy Donahue, Mike Connors, Rory Calhoun, John Saxon, Yale Summers, Clint Walker, Doug McClure, Dack Rambo, Ty Hardin, and John Derek. He noticed Rhonda Fleming as she was walking to Beverly Hills High School, brought her to the attention of David O. Selznick, and helped groom"
"to the rank of sergeant before he was dishonorably discharged for drunkenness. Judson's first publication was an adventure story in ""The Knickerbocker"" in 1838. He spent several years in the East starting up newspapers and story papers, only to have most of them fail. An early success that helped launch his fame was ""The Mysteries and Miseries of New York"", a gritty serial story of the Bowery and slums of New York City. He was an opinionated man and strongly advocated nativism and temperance; he also became a leader in the Know Nothing movement. In 1844, he adopted the pen"
"of Rutherford Grammar School, actors Charlie Hunnam and James Scott, entertainers Ant & Dec and international footballers Michael Carrick and Alan Shearer were born in Newcastle. Multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Nobel Prize winning physicist Peter Higgs, who researched the mass of subatomic particles, and Neville were born in the city. John Dunn, inventor of the keyed Northumbrian smallpipes, lived and worked in the city. Kathryn Tickell OBE, the celebrated Northumbrian piper and composer, has longstanding associations with Newcastle as a resident, frequent performer at Sage Gateshead and teacher at Newcastle University. Marc Smith (palaeographer) (born 1963), French palaeographer, was"
"""Celebrity Talent Scouts"", and his career went into overdrive. In the 1960s, Jackie occasionally worked as the opening act for both Dean Martin and Judy Garland and was a regular fixture on ""The Merv Griffin Show"", where he informed the host that his original stage name had been ""Nosmo King,"" which he had seen on a sign (i.e. ""no smoking""). He would take up a topic like prisons in a monologue and begin with, ""Hello, prison fans."" Vernon was also known to perform unique and darker sketches, such as his ultimately tragic attempt to turn a watermelon into a housepet."
"with his novel ""Neuromancer"" (1984) is arguably the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk. He emphasized style, a fascination with surfaces, and atmosphere over traditional science-fiction tropes. Regarded as ground-breaking and sometimes as ""the archetypal cyberpunk work,"" ""Neuromancer"" was awarded the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards. ""Count Zero"" (1986) and ""Mona Lisa Overdrive"" (1988) followed after Gibson's popular debut novel. According to the Jargon File, ""Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both"
"Ropes, Triva Challenge, Sonnee's Seniors, Chalk Talk (The Whine Line), and the Post 4:30 Blues Show. The most famous alumni to pass through the halls of Newton Cable was Ed the Sock a.k.a. Steven Joel Kerzner, who first dipped his covered toe on the airwaves at Newton Cable. Steve Jacobs (Program Director) went on to be a weatherman at the Weather Network, CFTO-CTV and Chief Meteorologist at KIII TV (ABC) in Texas. He is currently the Chair of CMOS -Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society - Southern Ontario Chapter. He appears on TV Shopping Channels worldwide representing Medical, Health and Wellness"
"exceed 10 million. Nick grew up in Suffolk, Nottinghamshire and Manchester, and was trained in graphic design at St. Martin's School of Art. He takes his inspiration from the pop and graphic art of the 1960s, which he experienced as a child. His work is split between illustrating for other writers, most notably Jacqueline Wilson and Jeremy Strong as well as Kes Gray, Giles Andreae, Julia Donaldson and Michael Rosen, and producing his own picture books for a younger audience. His books include Shark in the Park, Ketchup on your Cornflakes?, What's In the Witch's Kitchen?, Don't Put Your Finger"
"releases such as ""Brighton Rock"" (1947), ""The Dam Busters"" (1955), ""The Great Escape"" (1963), ""The Lion in Winter"" and ""The Lost Continent"" (both 1968), and ""Russian Roulette"" (1975). Between 1964 and 1968, Nigel Stock became a household name in the UK for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas for BBC television. Later in life, he portrayed the mentor of Sherlock Holmes in ""Young Sherlock Holmes"". His other numerous television credits included ""Danger Man"" (1965), ""The Avengers"" (1964 & 1966), ""The Prisoner"" (1967), ""The Doctors"" (1969-71), ""Owen, M.D."" (1971–73), ""Quiller"" (1975), ""Van der Valk"" (1977),"
"other TV pilots but was reluctant to play a detective again. Around this time he had become well known as an entertaining talk show guest, starting with an appearance on ""The Merv Griffin Show"". He made jokes at his own expense, calling himself America's most ""well-known unknown"" who only made the kind of movies ""they show in airplanes or prisons or anywhere else the people can't get out."" He proved enormously popular and was frequently asked back by Griffin, then Johnny Carson; he even guest hosted. He was so popular as a guest he was offered his own talk show"
"program, before joining WCKY in Cincinnati in January 1946. It was at WCKY that he was asked to choose a radio name, which he picked from a telephone book. (He later legally changed his name to Nelson King.) He hosted several programs, but it was ""Hillbilly Jamboree"" which made him famous. Launched in 1946, the nightly show fueled the growing popularity of country music. The 4½ hour program garnered a national audience and was also heard in Canada, Mexico, and parts of South America. King was courted by record companies and stars such as Gene Autry and Eddy Arnold. He"
"as a guest in 1970 on Derek Nimmo’s BBC Saturday night chat show, ""If it’s Saturday, it must be Nimmo"". In the 1920s, he created the Shilling Lightening Feeder chain of inexpensive restaurants in London. Afterwards, he admitted that his first restaurant was a huge success, his second a success, his third broke even but by his seventh, the venture was a disaster. In the 1930s, he set up Great Scott Records to produce recordings on vinyl discs, and he enlisted various local singers and musicians. In the 1950s, he made amateur movies and would put on plays at Megginch."
"steady success through the 1960s. He first came to national media attention after a successful appearance at the Royal Variety Command Performance in 1971. Though occasionally appearing on television thereafter, he made his main reputation on the northern club circuit, and was highly regarded by many fellow comics (notably Frank Carson, Les Dawson, and Little and Large, who were regular house guests). Jimmy Tarbuck dubbed him 'the comedian's comedian' To casual television viewers, he was best known for two routines: one in the guise of a northern club compere whose microphone is working intermittently; another adopting the noises, gestures and"
"worker. For his performance in ""Jane White Is Sick & Twisted"" (2002) he received the Best Actor award at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Wheaton has worked as a voice actor in animation, video games and audiobooks, beginning with the role of Martin Brisby in ""The Secret of NIMH"" at age 10. His most noteworthy credits include the roles of Aqualad in the cartoons ""Teen Titans"" and ""Teen Titans Go!"", the voice of radio journalist Richard Burns in """", Kyle in the Nickelodeon cartoon, ""Kyle + Rosemary"" as well as himself and various other characters on both ""Family Guy"" and"
"Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor and film-maker who has performed for over sixty years. He is known for playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance, and dark portrayals of anti-heroes and villainous characters. In many of his films, he has played the ""eternal outsider, the sardonic drifter"", someone who rebels against the social structure. His most known and celebrated films include the road drama ""Easy Rider"" (1969); the dramas ""Five Easy Pieces"" (1970) and ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975); the comedy-dramas ""The Last Detail"""
"Arm"", ""The Stalin Account"", ""Fall-Out"", ""10,000 Days"" and ""Channel Assault""), and three as Jacks. His best known works were his novels featuring semi-reformed cat burglar William 'Spider' Scott, an XYY Man, whose extra 'Y' chromosome (in the erroneous-but-conventional wisdom of the time) gave him a pre-disposition towards criminality. After attempting to 'go straight', he finds his talents are in demand not only from the criminal underworld, but also the secret service, and he is co-opted into dangerous undercover work (usually through blackmail, the temptations of money, or through his interest being piqued). A television series of ""The XYY Man"" in"
"1969, at the age of 26. He is credited with making the magazine successful through the 1970s and popularizing the comparison test format. In addition to being a journalist, he was also a successful motorcycle racer, best known for a much celebrated 1977 Daytona Superbike win on a Phil Schilling-tuned Ducati 750 Supersport nicknamed ""Old Blue"" and ""the California Hot Rod."" Neilson was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2006. Schilling, who worked for ""Cycle"" for nearly 20 years, is best known for his exceptional race-tuning expertise and for connecting his readers to the heart of the"
"asked to host BattleFrog, and be an analyst, analyzing the obstacles and strategies to overcome them. Evan Dollard Evan ""The Rocket"" Dollard is a U.S. athlete and rock climber. He came to prominence during Season 1 of the rebooted American Gladiators, as the season 1 men's champion. He earned his nickname ""Rocket"" from his speed in Gladiator competition, taking it as his gladiator name, becoming a Gladiator for season 2 of the rebooted American Gladiators. He has since appeared prominently in the Ninja Warrior franchise; in American Ninja Warrior (and hence US TV specials for Sasuke called ""Ninja Warrior"") and"
"John A. Davis John Alexander Davis (born October 26, 1961) is an American film director, writer, animator, voice actor and composer known for his work both in stop-motion animation as well as computer animation, live action and live-action/CGI hybrids. Davis is best known for his creation of Nickelodeon's ""Jimmy Neutron"" franchise, which enjoyed popularity in the early-mid 2000s. Davis began animating as a child using his parent's 8 mm camera to film action figures in stop motion. His interest in animation began when watched a stop motion film called ""Icharus"" at a film festival. He worked on the stop motion"
"satire ""The Madness of George Dubya"" and ""Ghost Stories"", both of which transferred to London's West End, Penelope Skinner's ""The Village Bike"" at the Royal Court, ""The Recruiting Officer"" at the Donmar Warehouse and Pinero's ""The Magistrate"" at the Royal National Theatre, a production included in Season 4 of National Theatre Live. In April 2013 it was announced that he would be returning to ""Benidorm"" as Martin Wheedon for series 6 of the show in 2013. Nicholas Burns (actor) Nicholas Burns (born 1977, Derbyshire) is an English actor, best known for his comic performance as the title character in ""Nathan"
"waned, a valuable sports fishery developed, attracting ""sports"" initially from adjacent New England, and subsequently from all parts of the world. The 1952 discovery of base metal deposits and the development of Heath Steele Mines, 60 km northwest of Newcastle, allowed the economy to diversify and strengthen through the 1960s. The mine closed in 1999 as metal prices declined and the ore bodies were depleted. The famous British newspaper owner and Minister of Aircraft Production during World War II, Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), moved to Newcastle at an early age and considered it home. A noted philanthropist, Lord Beaverbrook, contributed"
"Hotel near Chipping on 16 September 2016. Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI (born 6 December 1958), is an English animator, director and writer best known as the creator of ""Wallace and Gromit"" and ""Shaun the Sheep"". Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with ""Creature Comforts"" (1989), ""The Wrong Trousers"" (1993), ""A Close Shave"" (1995) and """" (2005). He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for ""A Matter of Loaf and Death"", which was also the most watched television programme in the"
"eventually shifted his focus to film direction. His first feature-length project was ""The Man in the Iron Mask"" (1977), a made-for-television film. His first critically acclaimed movie was ""Bad Blood"" (1981), concerning the 1941 manhunt for the New Zealand mass-killer, Stan Graham, played by Jack Thompson. This was followed by ""Dance with a Stranger"" (1985), a biographical drama starring Miranda Richardson as Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Great Britain. For his directorial efforts, Newell won the Award of the Youth at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. Newell continued his successes in the film industry with ""Enchanted"
"Jonathan Harden Jonathan Harden is a Northern Irish actor, director and mental health advocate. Born in Belfast in 1979 to an American mother and an Irish father, he is best known as series regular Sean Rawlins in ITV crime drama ""Unforgotten"", Gregory in the final series of ""Peep Show"", Walter Hill in """", as Newman Noggs in ""Nick Nickleby"" - a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens novel, ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" (which he also narrated) – and for his cameo in """". Over his career as an actor, Harden has been cast by some of the industry's"
"Nick of Time (film) Nick of Time is a 1995 American neo noir political thriller film, directed by John Badham, and starring Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton and Courtney Chase. It is noteworthy for taking place in real time. It inspired the movie Baadshah. The film opens with Gene Watson (Johnny Depp), a mild-mannered, widowed accountant arriving with his daughter Lynn at the Union Station in Los Angeles. As Watson makes a pay phone call informing an unidentified person that his train was late, two mysterious strangers in suits, known only as Mr. Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms."
"Nick Dimitri Nick Dimitri (born December 27, 1932), is a stuntman and actor best known as Charles Bronson's black leather blazer wearing opponent in the climax of ""Hard Times"". In addition to fisticuffs, his speciality was dying violently on screen. He was a regular stuntman on the World War II TV series ""The Rat Patrol"" and a double for action actors Sean Connery and William Smith. He helped set up the great fights in ""Darker than Amber"" and ""Any Which Way You Can"". Dimitri was also memorable playing Angie Dickinson's undead husband in the 1973 cult TV Movie ""The Norliss"
"still ... you can still detect me as a stammerer."" He first took to calling himself ""Sam"" at school because there were several other students named Nigel, and because he felt the name Nigel was ""a little effete for ... a New Zealand playground"". After working at the New Zealand National Film Unit as a director, Neill was cast for the lead role in the 1977 New Zealand film ""Sleeping Dogs"". Following this, he appeared in Australian romance ""My Brilliant Career"" (1979), opposite Judy Davis. In the late 1970s, his mentor was James Mason. In 1981 he won his first"
"services to yachting and business. <nowiki>†</nowiki> Not registered for series & points Neville Crichton Neville Alexander Crichton is a New Zealand businessman who was also a competitor in Australasian motor and yacht racing. Born in New Zealand in 1945, Crichton left school aged 14 and entered the automotive industry. In 1972, he opened a used car dealership. In 1978, at the age of 29, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Crichton underwent 30 operations and eventually had his voice-box and oesophagus removed. Doctors told him it was unlikely he would ever speak again, but he became one of the first"
"Tapes"". He later became a fixture in many of Arnold Schwarzenegger's films, stood up to Steven Seagal in ""Out for Justice"", and doubled for the one arm man in the big screen version of ""The Fugitive"". Nick Dimitri Nick Dimitri (born December 27, 1932), is a stuntman and actor best known as Charles Bronson's black leather blazer wearing opponent in the climax of ""Hard Times"". In addition to fisticuffs, his speciality was dying violently on screen. He was a regular stuntman on the World War II TV series ""The Rat Patrol"" and a double for action actors Sean Connery and"
"attention of Hollywood studios – ""Dead Calm"" (1988) which launched the career of Nicole Kidman. Moving with his young family to the United States in 1991, Noyce directed five films over the following eight years, of which ""Clear and Present Danger"", starring Harrison Ford, was the most successful, critically and commercially, grossing $216 million. After 1999's ""Bone Collector"" starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington, Noyce decided to return to his native Australia for Stolen Generations saga"" Rabbit-Proof Fence"", which won the AFI Award for Best Film in 2002. He has described ""Rabbit-Proof Fence"" as ""easily"" his proudest moment as a"