VVhich author created the character Dr Tony Hill in the 1995 novel The Mermaids Singing?
"The Mermaids Singing The Mermaids Singing (1995) is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid. The first featuring her recurring protagonist, Dr. Tony Hill, it was adapted into the pilot episode of ITV1's television series based on McDermid's work, ""Wire in the Blood"", starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris. The title is part of the fifth line from the poem ""Song"" by John Donne, that was referenced in a poem by T. S. Eliot, ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"". It was referenced in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. In the fictional English city"
"Andy Hill (American music producer) Andy Hill (born 1951) is an American music supervisor, record producer, and music educator. Under the name A.W. Hill, Hill has written three novels, ""Nowhere-Land"", ""The Last Days of Madame Rey"", and ""Enoch's Portal"", and a screenplay based on the life of Nikola Tesla. Andy Hill was born in Chicago and educated at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. From 1987-1996, during the period now referred to as the Disney Renaissance, he served as vice-president of music production for The Walt Disney Studios (division), overseeing music production on a roster of films which"
"Stockport and Edinburgh. In 2016, McDermid captained a team of crime writer challengers on the TV quiz ""Eggheads"", beating the Eggheads and winning £14,000. On 23 October 2016 McDermid, who is gay, married Jo Sharp, a professor of geography at the University of Glasgow and McDermid's partner of two years. McDermid is a radical feminist and socialist. McDermid has incorporated feminism into some of her novels. Val McDermid Val McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill. McDermid comes from a working-class family in Fife. She"
"Tony Lee Tony Lee is a British comics writer, screenwriter, audio playwright, and novelist. Born in 1970, Tony Lee attended Hayes Manor School, now Rosedale College. A #1 ""New York Times"" bestselling writer, Lee has written for various UK and US comic publishers including ""2000 AD"", IDW Publishing, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Del Rey and Walker Books; and he has worked on such licenses as ""X-Men Unlimited"", ""Doctor Who"", ""Superboy"", ""Star Trek,"" ""Starship Troopers,"" ""Sherlock Holmes"" and ""Spider-Man"". In addition to this he has also written audio plays for Big Finish and ITV, novels aimed at reluctant readers and screenplays"
"a priest on ""The Secret Storm"" from 1972-74, and as double-agent gangster Beau Richardson on ""The Edge of Night"" from 1976-77. David Gale (actor) David Quentin Gale (2 October 1936 – 18 August 1991) was a British actor. He is primarily known for his role as the evil, treacherous (and re-animated) neurosurgeon Dr. Carl Hill in the 1985 cult classic film ""Re-Animator"", and its 1990 sequel ""Bride of Re-Animator"". After ""Re-Animator's"" success, he was cast as a villain in a number of other science fiction and horror films such as ""The Guyver"", ""The First Power"", ""Syngenor"", and ""The Brain"", before"
"the 1977 Annie Christmas special. The booklet is made up of original drawings by Philo Barnhart, who is the creator of Ariel and Ursula in ""The Little Mermaid"", and is presented in a comic book style. In 1980, Macmillan Books published Meehan's novelisation of his script for the musical, later reprinted by Puffin Books in 2014. Several of the lyrics from songs from the show were adapted into dialogue and monologue for the novelisation, not least ""Tomorrow"" whose main lyric is depicted as being Annie's personal motto. Meehan used the novel to restore material cut from his original storyline and"
"David Gale (actor) David Quentin Gale (2 October 1936 – 18 August 1991) was a British actor. He is primarily known for his role as the evil, treacherous (and re-animated) neurosurgeon Dr. Carl Hill in the 1985 cult classic film ""Re-Animator"", and its 1990 sequel ""Bride of Re-Animator"". After ""Re-Animator's"" success, he was cast as a villain in a number of other science fiction and horror films such as ""The Guyver"", ""The First Power"", ""Syngenor"", and ""The Brain"", before his death during open heart surgery in 1991. David Gale was also a soap opera actor in the 1970s, appearing as"
"Tony Jay Tony Jay (2 February 1933 – 13 August 2006) was an English actor, voice artist, and singer. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was known for his voice work in radio, animation, film, and video games. Jay was particularly well known for his distinctive baritone voice, which often led to him being cast in villainous roles. He was best known as the voice of Judge Claude Frollo in Disney's ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1996), Megabyte in ""ReBoot"" (1994–2001), Shere Khan in ""The Jungle Book 2"" and the TV series ""TaleSpin"", and the Elder God"
"Val McDermid Val McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill. McDermid comes from a working-class family in Fife. She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was the first student to be admitted from a Scottish state school. After graduation she became a journalist and worked briefly as a dramatist. Her first success as a novelist, ""Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery"" occurred in 1987. McDermid was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sunderland in 2011. She is co-founder"
"Robert Preston (actor) Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor best remembered for originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical ""The Music Man"" and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in ""S.O.B."" (1981) and again in ""Victor/Victoria"" (1982). For portraying Carroll ""Toddy"" Todd in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awards. Preston was born Robert Preston Meservey"
"NYC.” In 2008, she married Michael Hill, a journalist. She has one son and two stepsons. Patty Dann Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer, perhaps best known for ""Mermaids"", a coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl which was published in 1986. In 1990, it was made into a movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins and Christina Ricci. Her most recent novel is ""Starfish, ""which is a sequel to ""Mermaids."" Her newest book is ""The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir,"" which has been chosen by Poets & Writers as One of the"
"fighters, as well as the chimerical CIA agent Philby Greenstreet, who provides critical assistance to Raszer's mission. Andy Hill (American music producer) Andy Hill (born 1951) is an American music supervisor, record producer, and music educator. Under the name A.W. Hill, Hill has written three novels, ""Nowhere-Land"", ""The Last Days of Madame Rey"", and ""Enoch's Portal"", and a screenplay based on the life of Nikola Tesla. Andy Hill was born in Chicago and educated at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. From 1987-1996, during the period now referred to as the Disney Renaissance, he served as vice-president of"
"Tony Ross Anthony Lee ""Tony"" Ross (born 10 August 1938) is a British illustrator and author of children's picture books. In Britain he may be known best for illustrating the Horrid Henry series by Francesca Simon and the works of David Walliams. He has also illustrated the Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger, the ""Dr. Xargle"" series by Jeanne Willis, and the Harry The Poisonous Centipede series by Lynne Reid Banks. Ross was born in London. He studied at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. Ross has had many jobs, including a cartoonist, graphic designer, then art director at"
"Andrew Hilton Andrew Piers Marsden Hilton (born 21 October 1947) is an English actor, theatre director, and author best known for the creation of the Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory company in Bristol in 1999. Hilton was born in Bolton, Lancashire, and educated at Bolton School. He read English at Churchill College, Cambridge, studying under George Steiner and Michael Long. He worked as a student actor for Jonathan Miller (in the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company's ""Hamlet"" and ""Julius Caesar"") and via that connection entered the professional theatre as a trainee director at Bernard Miles' Mermaid Theatre in London. There"
"Joss Whedon Joseph Hill Whedon (; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series, including ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"" (1997–2003), ""Angel"" (1999–2004), ""Firefly"" (2002), ""Dollhouse"" (2009–10), and ""Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."" (2013–present). Whedon co-wrote the Pixar animated film ""Toy Story"" (1995), wrote and directed the ""Firefly"" film continuation ""Serenity"" (2005), co-wrote and directed the Internet miniseries ""Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"" (2008), and co-wrote and produced the horror comedy film ""The"
"and the television movies ""Portrait of a Showgirl"" (1982) and ""The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1998). Among Merrill's television credits were two holiday specials, ""Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol"" and ""The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood"", written specifically for Liza Minnelli. Merrill became ill with various ailments in the mid-1990s and suffering from depression, he took his own life on February 17, 1998. Bob Merrill Bob Merrill (born Henry Robert Merrill Levan, May 17, 1921 – February 17, 1998) was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He was the most successful songwriter of the 1950s on the"
"The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery is a 2012 science fiction/mystery novella by Justin Richards, writing as Melody Malone, which is in turn a pseudonym for River Song, a fictional character from the UK TV series ""Doctor Who"". The novella is an expansion of a book featured within the narrative of the 2012 ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Angels Take Manhattan"" in which it refers to events taking place just prior to the episode, and events within. The character of The Eleventh Doctor is shown reading the book, which is said to have"
"friend Kevin. The show's other favourite characters during this period were Gonch and Hollo, played by John Holmes and Bradley Sheppard. During his time at the school (1985–89) Gonch took part in many moneymaking schemes, most of which were unsuccessful. There was a comedic element to the duo's relationship that worked well with viewers. Script editor Anthony Minghella, who worked on the series for several years during the 1980s, later won an Academy Award for Best Director for the film ""The English Patient"" in 1996. During the 1990s, ""Grange Hill"" did not receive the same media attention that it had"
"Kevin Hood Kevin Hood is a playwright and screenwriter who is perhaps best known for contributing scripts to the BBC television series ""Grange Hill"" and the 2007 film ""Becoming Jane"". A successful playwright from 1987 to 1998, Hood wrote the plays ""Beached"", ""Astronomer's Garden"", ""Sugar Hill Blues"", ""Hammett's Apprentice"", and ""So Special"". During this period, Hood delved into television. He wrote episodes of ""Medics"" and ""Grange Hill"", a popular school drama for BBC. Later he co-devised the crime drama ""Silent Witness"", writing four episode scripts. Hood also penned the screenplay for the 1998 television film ""The Echo"", a thriller starring"
"Toni Hill Toni Hill is a Spanish author. His first novel, ""El verano de los juguetes muertos"" (""The summer of the dead toys""), has had a great success and it has received many excellent reviews. Toni Hill was born in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology. He has worked for over ten years as a literary translator with Random House Mondadori, S.A., a leading Spanish language publisher. Some of the authors he has translated are David Sedaris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Glenway Wescott, Rosie Alison, Peter May, Rabih Alameddine and A. L. Kennedy. His work as"
"March 21, 1987, at the age of 68. He was survived by his wife, Catherine, and father, Frank. The 'Music Man' --and His Song Robert Preston (actor) Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor best remembered for originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical ""The Music Man"" and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in ""S.O.B."" (1981) and again in ""Victor/Victoria"" (1982). For portraying Carroll ""Toddy"" Todd in"
"Henry Hamilton (playwright) Henry Hamilton (c. 1854 – 4 September 1918) was an English playwright, lyricist and actor. He is best remembered for his musical theatre libretti, including ""The Duchess of Dantzic"" (1903), ""The School Girl"" (1903), ""Véronique"" (1905) and ""The Little Michus"" (1907), often adapting foreign works for the British stage. He began as an actor in 1873 but turned to writing plays in 1881 and was especially successful in the first decade of the 20th century. He was also the author of the popular song ""Private Tommy Atkins"" (1893). Away from his professional life, Hamilton studied theosophy. Hamilton"
"2012 Tony Award nomination, Best Revival of a Play. Master Class Master Class is a 1995 play by American playwright Terrence McNally, presented as a fictional master class by opera singer Maria Callas near the end of her life, in the 1970s. As such, the play features incidental vocal music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini. The play opened on Broadway in 1995, with stars Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald winning Tony Awards. The opera diva Maria Callas, a glamorous, commanding, larger-than-life, caustic, and surprisingly funny pedagogue is holding a singing master class. Alternately dismayed and impressed by"
"Stellan Skarsgård Stellan John Skarsgård (; born 13 June 1951) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his roles as Jan Nyman in ""Breaking the Waves"" (1996), Captain Tupolev in ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1990), Prof. Gerald Lambeau in ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997), Bootstrap Bill Turner in """" (2006) and """" (2007), Bill Anderson in ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008) and the sequel ""Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again"" (2018), Commander Maximilian Richter in ""Angels and Demons"" (2009), Martin Vanger in ""The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"" (2011), Dr. Erik Selvig in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films ""Thor"" (2011), ""The"
"times in the production of various network news broadcasts during coverage of the 9/11 events. Over 500 other artists have recorded Hiller's songs including Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, Andy Williams, Ray Stevens, The Miracles, The Hollies, Sonny and Cher, The Osmonds, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Anne Murray, Ed Bruce, and The Fortunes. He won three Ivor Novello Awards and a Gold Badge Award for his services to the British music industry. Tony Hiller Anthony Toby Hiller (30 July 1927 – 26 August 2018) was an English songwriter and record producer. He was best known for writing and/or producing hits for"
"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 2008 musical comedy-drama miniseries in three acts, produced exclusively for Internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of Dr. Horrible (played by Neil Patrick Harris), an aspiring supervillain; Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), his nemesis; and Penny (Felicia Day), a charity worker and their shared love interest. The series was written by writer/director Joss Whedon, his brothers Zack Whedon (a television writer) and Jed Whedon (a composer), and writer/actress Maurissa Tancharoen. The team wrote the musical during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The"
"I've Heard the Mermaids Singing I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 feature film, directed by Patricia Rozema. The title is taken from ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" by T. S. Eliot. The film stars Sheila McCarthy as Polly, a worker for a temporary secretarial agency. Polly serves as the narrator for the film, and there are frequent sequences portraying her whimsical fantasies. Polly lives alone, seems to have no friends and enjoys solitary bicycle rides to undertake her hobby of photography. Despite her clumsiness, lack of education, social awkwardness and inclination to take others' statements literally,"
"have the technology. We can rebuild it."" Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 2008 musical comedy-drama miniseries in three acts, produced exclusively for Internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of Dr. Horrible (played by Neil Patrick Harris), an aspiring supervillain; Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), his nemesis; and Penny (Felicia Day), a charity worker and their shared love interest. The series was written by writer/director Joss Whedon, his brothers Zack Whedon (a television writer) and Jed Whedon (a composer), and writer/actress Maurissa Tancharoen. The team wrote the musical during the"
"Hans Christian Andersen's original story were coincidentally the same as the changes made by Disney writers in the 1980s. That year Clements and Musker expanded the two-page idea into a 20-page rough script, eliminating the role of the mermaid's grandmother and expanding the roles of the Merman King and the sea witch. However, the film's plans were momentarily shelved as Disney focused its attention on ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" and ""Oliver & Company"" as more immediate releases. In 1987, songwriter Howard Ashman became involved with the writing and development of ""Mermaid"" after he was asked to contribute a song to"
"Terry Hall of The Specials). She has worked with the French-British artist Alice Anderson, writing about her work, interviewing her, and composing and performing music for her film, ""The Night I Became a Doll"". She also plays lap steel guitar with Martin Creed's band. ""Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes"", Terry, Blair & Anouchka, Chrysalis Records1990 Anouchka Grose Anouchka Grose (born 1970 in Sydney, Australia) is a British-Australian Lacanian psychoanalyst and writer. She is a member of The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, where she lectures. Her journalism has been published by ""The Guardian"", ""and The Independent"". She also discusses psychoanalysis"
"the Strings"" (released by BiziB Music (2007) Tony Gillam Tony Gillam (born 1961) is a mental health nurse, writer and musician. A long-standing regular contributor to nursing and mental health journals, he has written more than 80 articles and two mental health related books, ""Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing"" (2002) and ""Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice"" (2018). He founded the Music Workshop Project (which won a MIND Millennium Award in 1997, earning him lifetime membership of the Millennium Awards Fellowship). In 1998, he achieved international recognition as the only UK winner of the Lilly Schizophrenia Reintegration Award and, in"
"Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the ""greatest living poet in the English language."" From 2010 to 2015 he held the position of Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. Following his receiving the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2009 for his ""Collected Critical Writings"", and the publication of ""Broken Hierarchies"
"too late. The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery is a 2012 science fiction/mystery novella by Justin Richards, writing as Melody Malone, which is in turn a pseudonym for River Song, a fictional character from the UK TV series ""Doctor Who"". The novella is an expansion of a book featured within the narrative of the 2012 ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Angels Take Manhattan"" in which it refers to events taking place just prior to the episode, and events within. The character of The Eleventh Doctor is shown reading the book, which is said"