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Kingdom of Gwynedd
Gwynedd (pronounced [ˈɡwɪnɛð]) was one petty kingdom of several Welsh successor states which emerged in 5th-century post-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages, and later evolved into a principality during the High Middle Ages. It was based on the former Brythonic tribal lands of the Ordovices, Gangani, and the Deceangli which were collectively known as Venedotia in late Romano-British documents. Between the 5th and 13th centuries Gwynedd grew to include Ynys Môn (Anglesey) and all of north Wales between the River Dyfi in the south and River Dee (Welsh Dyfrdwy) in the northeast. The Irish sea (Môr Iwerddon) washes the coast of Gwynedd to the west and north and lands formerly part of the Kingdom of Powys border Gwynedd in the south-east.
Gwynedd's strength lay in part due to the region's mountainous geography which made it difficult for foreign invaders to campaign in the country and impose their will effectively.
Popular tradition attributed to Nennius, a 10th-century Welsh chronicler, traced Gwynedd's foundation to Cunedda. According to Nennius, Cunedda migrated with his sons and followers from Brythonic Lothian, in southern Scotland, in the 5th century.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba ([ˈalˠ̪apə]
listen (help·info))) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland constitutes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.
Edinburgh, the country's capital and second largest city, is one of Europe's largest financial centres. Edinburgh was the hub of the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, which transformed Scotland into one of the commercial, intellectual and industrial powerhouses of Europe. Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, was once one of the world's leading industrial cities and now lies at the centre of the Greater Glasgow conurbation. Scottish waters consist of a large sector of the North Atlantic and the North Sea, containing the largest oil reserves in the European Union. This has given Aberdeen, the third largest city in Scotland, the title of Europe's oil capital.
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Cainnech of Aghaboe
Saint Cainnech of Aghaboe (515/16–600), also known as Saint Canice in Ireland, Saint Kenneth in Scotland, Saint Kenny and in Latin Saint Canicus, was a gaelic abbot, monastic founder, priest and missionary during the early medieval period. Cainnech is one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and preached Christianity across Ireland and to the Picts in Scotland. He wrote a commentary on the Gospels, which for centuries was known as the Glas-Choinnigh or the Chain of Cainnech.
Most of what is written about Cainnech's life is based on tradition, however he was considered a man of virtue, great eloquence and learning. His feast day is commemorated on 11 October in the Roman Catholic Church and on the 1 or 14 August in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
A lot of what we know of Cainnech comes from legend. However, he is documented by Saint Adomnán (also known as Eunan), the ninth the abbot of Iona who died in 704. Adomnán was a hagiographer and his greatest work Vita Columbae or Life of St. Columba contains references to Cainnech. His commentary on the Gospels, was known for centuries as the Glas-Choinnigh or the Chain of Cainnech.
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Cenydd
Cenydd (also known as Keneth, modern Welsh Cennydd, modern English Kenneth, French Kinède) was a Christian hermit saint who lived in Britain in Gower and in France in Brittany, probably in the 6th century. He should not be confused with Saint Kenneth (Saint Canice), the Irish saint popular in Scotland.
According to the unreliable Iolo Morganwg, Cenydd was a son of Gildas, and married and had a son before entering Llanilltud Fawr as a monk under Saint Illtud. But place-name evidence indicates only that he was the founder of the church of Llangennith on the Gower Peninsula and travelled to Brittany, where his cultus is centred around Languidic. He also had a chapel at Ploumelin.
Cenydd's unusual legend was collected in the 15th century by John Capgrave from Welsh sources, and is found in the Nova Legenda Angliae. According to this, the saint was a Breton prince, the son of King 'Dihoc' (presumably Deroch II of Domnonée) born of incest apparently at Loughor in Glamorgan while his father was attending King Arthur. As an unwanted cripple, Cenydd was placed in a cradle made of osiers, cast into the estuary of the River Loughor and eventually landed on 'Ynys Weryn' or Worm's Head island. Here seagulls and angelic interventions, involving a miraculous breast-shaped bell, ensured that he survived, and that he was educated as a Christian. He became a hermit, his only companion being an untrustworthy servant, whose dishonesty was revealed when he stole a spear from one of a group of robbers who had been hospitably received by his master. According to the legend Saint David later cured Cenydd of his deformity while travelling to the Synod of Brefi in 545 but the hermit preferred to remain as he was born and prayed for his previous condition to be restored. The story breaks off abruptly at this point.
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Cunedda
Cunedda ap Edern, fl. 5th century; also known as Cunedda Wledig ("holder of lands"), was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd.
The name Cunedda derives from the Brythonic word kunodagos, meaning good hound. His genealogy is traced back to Padarn Beisrudd, which literally translates as Paternus of the Scarlet Robe. One traditional interpretation identifies Padarn as a Roman (or Romano-British) official of reasonably high rank who had been placed in command of Votadini troops stationed in the Clackmannanshire region of Scotland in the 380s or earlier by the Emperor Magnus Maximus. Alternatively, he may have been a frontier chieftain who was granted Roman military rank, a practice attested elsewhere along the empire's borders at the time. In all likelihood, Padarn's command in Scotland was assumed after his death by his son, Edern (Latin: Æturnus), and then passed to Edern's son, Cunedda.
Cunedda and his forebears led the Votadini against Pictish and Irish incursions south of Hadrian's Wall. Sometime after this, the Votadini troops under Cunedda relocated to North Wales in order to defend the region from Irish invasion, specifically the Uí Liatháin, as mentioned in the Historia Brittonum. Cunedda established himself in Wales, in the territory of the Venedoti, which would become the centre of the kingdom of Gwynedd. Two explanations for these actions have been suggested: either Cunedda was acting under the orders of Maximus (or Maximus's successors) or Vortigern, the high king of the British in the immediate post-Roman era. The range of dates (suggested by Peter Bartrum) runs from the late 370s, which would favor Maximus, to the late 440s, which would favor Vortigern.
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Jonathan King
Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King, 6 December 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, impresario and record producer. He is also the author of three novels, Bible Two (1982), The Booker Prize Winner (1997), and Beware the Monkey Man (2010, using the pen name Rex Kenny), and an autobiography, 65 My Life So Far (2009).
King first came to prominence as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in 1965 when he wrote and sang "Everyone's Gone to the Moon," an international best seller. He went on to become a media entrepreneur, discovering and producing material for a number of artists, including Genesis, whom he signed up in 1967, giving them their name and producing their first album, From Genesis to Revelation. He ran Decca Records twice and created his own record label, UK Records, reported as the most successful independent label in the business, and worked with 10cc and the Bay City Rollers.
He also became known for a string of 1970s hits, such as "Una Paloma Blanca," "Sugar Sugar", "It Only Takes A Minute", "Johnny Reggae", "Lick A Smurp For Christmas" and "Loop di Love." Billboard reported in September 1972 that he had produced 10 of the Top 30 singles in the UK in the previous 12 months.Rod Liddle described him in 2010 as truly talented and fabulously cynical, someone who could "storm the pop charts at will, under a hundred different disguises ..."
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Kenneth Amis
Kenneth Amis (born 1970) is the tuba player with the Empire Brass. He is also the assistant conductor of the MIT Wind Ensemble, a group he has been involved with since its creation in 1999. In addition, as of 2005, Amis is an Affiliated Artist of MIT.
He was born and raised in Bermuda. He began studying at Boston University at age 16. After that, he earned a Masters Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. Amis held the International Brass Chair at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He teaches at Lynn University.
Amis is the first known person to transcribe Bach's Art of Fugue for wind ensemble (all of the fugues and canons).
He currently resides in Norwood, Massachusetts.
At many Empire Brass concerts, Amis performs the piano solo from the third movement of Mozart's Sonata in A on his tuba. In addition to his work with the Empire Brass, Amis has performed on tuba for:
His first published work was A Suite for Bass Tuba, composed when he was fifteen years old. He has been commissioned to write music for many groups including:
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Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author of two controversial Hollywood Babylon books. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle", and form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle." Anger himself has been described as "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner", and his "role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate", with several being released prior to the legalisation of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a follower of Crowley's religion, Thelema.
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Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51.
In economics, he is considered an important figure in post-World War II neo-classical economic theory. Many of his former graduate students have gone on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize themselves. Arrow's impact on the economics profession has been tremendous. For more than fifty years he has been one of the most influential of all practising economists.
His most significant works are his contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis. He has also provided foundational work in many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and the economics of information.
Arrow was born on August 23, 1921, in New York City to parents of Romanian Jewish origins. His family was very supportive of his education.
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Kenneth Benton
Kenneth Benton, CMG (1909–1999) was an English MI6 officer and diplomat from 1937-68. Following retirement, Benton began a second career as writer of spy and crime thrillers.
Benton attended Wolverhampton School, and was first employed teaching French in an English prep school, then teaching English in Florence and Vienna. During this time, he earned a degree in French, German and Italian as an external student at London University.
In 1937, in Vienna, Benton was offered a job by Captain Thomas Kendrick, the British Passport Control Officer for Vienna, who he had met initially through his future wife, Peggie Lambert. He was subsequently interviewed by Maurice Jeffes and Admiral Hugh Sinclair, then chief of MI6. Benton quickly realised that his role in the Passport Control Office was in fact a cover for intelligence work for MI6.
After the Annexation of Austria in 1938, Kenneth and Peggie (married in March of that year) were posted to Riga, he as acting vice consul; after the Soviet occupation of Latvia two years later, he returned to England and after briefing at Bletchley Park was subsequently posted to Madrid as head of MI6's Section V, dealing with intercepted intelligence traffic and identifying German spies travelling through Spain.
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Kenneth Bianchi
Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951) is an American serial killer. Bianchi and his cousin Angelo Buono, Jr., together are known as the Hillside Stranglers. He is serving a term of life imprisonment in Washington. Bianchi is also a suspect in the Alphabet murders, three unsolved murders in his home city of Rochester.
Bianchi was born in Rochester, New York, to a prostitute who gave him up for adoption two weeks after he was born. He was adopted at three months by Frances Scioliono and her husband Nicholas Bianchi in Rochester.
Bianchi was deeply troubled from a young age, and his adoptive mother described him as being "a compulsive liar who had risen from the cradle dissembling". He often worried her with his penchant for trance-like daydreams. Despite having above-average intelligence, he was an underachiever who was quick to lose his temper. He was diagnosed with petit mal seizures when he was five years old and passive-aggressive disorder when he was 10. After Nicholas' death from pneumonia in 1964, Frances had to work while her son attended high school. Frances is known for keeping Bianchi home from school for long periods of time. Bianchi would make frequent trips to the doctors because of a urination problem. Frances would make the doctors poke and prod his private parts. This caused him more mental pain then anything else that happened in his childhood.
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Kenneth Bigley
Kenneth John Bigley (22 April 1942 – 7 October 2004) was an English civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, on 16 September 2004, along with his colleagues Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens. The three men were working for Gulf Supplies and Commercial Services, a Kuwaiti company working on reconstruction projects in Iraq. They knew their house was being watched and that they were in grave danger because their Iraqi house guard told them he was quitting because he had been threatened by militias that knew he was protecting Americans and British workers, but Bigley and the two Americans decided it was worth it to live with the danger. All were subsequently beheaded.
On 18 September, the Tawhid and Jihad ("Oneness of God and Jihad") Islamic extremist group, led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, released a video of the three men kneeling in front of a Tawhid and Jihad banner. The kidnappers said they would kill the men within 48 hours if their demands for the release of Iraqi women prisoners held by coalition forces were not met.
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Kenneth Box
Kenneth James Box (born 1 December 1930) is a retired track and field sprinter, who represented Great Britain in the men's 100m and men's 4x100m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
He won the silver medal at the 1954 European Championships in Berne, Switzerland in the men's 4x100 metres relay, alongside George Ellis, Kenneth Jones and Brian Shenton.
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Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello, Hamlet (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006).
He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War (1987), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Conspiracy (TV) (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (TV) (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Wallander (TV series) (2008–present), and My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Laurence Olivier (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor); and directed such notable films as Dead Again (1991) (also starring), Swan Song (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) (also starring), The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), and the blockbuster action film Thor (2011).
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Kenneth Bruffee
Kenneth Bruffee is an American Writing Center administrator and a professor emeritus in the department of English at Brooklyn College.
He published the first peer tutoring handbook, A Short Course in Writing, in 1972. He established the field of Writing Centers and peer tutoring's place in university administration at Brooklyn College in conjunction with administrators at other New York colleges. The rise of Writing Centers were necessitated by a growing population of students who were unprepared for college writing. In 1979, Bruffee and colleagues founded the Brooklyn College Institute for Training Peer Tutors, which trained peer tutors and encouraged the development of Writing Centers and Writing Labs.
In 2007, Bruffee gave the keynote address at the 25th National Conference on Peer Tutoring and Writing. In 2008, the Writing Center Journal issued a special issue on Kenneth Bruffee and the Brooklyn Plan.
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Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics.
He was born on May 5 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and graduated from Peabody High School, where his friend Malcolm Cowley was also a student. Burke attended Ohio State University for only a semester, then studied at Columbia University in 1916-1917 before dropping out to be a writer. In Greenwich Village he kept company with avant-garde writers such as Hart Crane, Malcolm Cowley, Gorham Munson, and later Allen Tate. Raised Roman Catholic, Burke later became an avowed agnostic.
In 1919 he married Lily Mary Batterham, with whom he had three daughters: the late feminist, Marxist anthropologist Eleanor Leacock (1922–1987); musician (Jeanne) Elspeth Chapin Hart (b. 1920); and writer and poet France Burke (b. ~1925). He would later marry her sister Elizabeth Batterham in 1933 and have two sons, Michael and Anthony. Burke served as the editor of the modernist literary magazine The Dial in 1923, and as its music critic from 1927-1929. Kenneth himself was an avid player of the saxophone and flute. He received the Dial Award in 1928 for distinguished service to American literature. He was the music critic of The Nation from 1934–1936, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935.
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Kenneth Calman
Sir Kenneth Charles Calman, KCB, DL, FRSE (born 25 December 1941) is a Scottish cancer researcher and former Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, and then England. He was Warden and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1998 to 2006, before becoming Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He has held the position of Chair of National Cancer Research Institute since April 2008. From 2008 to 2009, he was convener of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution.
Kenneth Calman was born on Christmas Day 1941 to Arthur McIntosh Calman and Grace Douglas Don. He was educated at the independent Allan Glen's School and the University of Glasgow. He began medical training, and took an intercalated BSc in Biochemistry, whilst studying for his MB ChB, the general medical degree. He undertook a PhD in Dermatology and also received an MD.
He became Lecturer in Surgery at the University in 1969, and between 1972-74 was as a clinical research fellow at the Chester Beatty Research Institute in London, funded by the Medical Research Council. In 1974, he was appointed to the Chair of Clinical Oncology, and became Dean of Postgraduate Medicine in 1984.
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Kenneth Carpenter
Kenneth Carpenter (born September 21, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan) is a paleontologist. He is the museum director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of a number of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life. His main research interests are armored dinosaurs (Ankylosauria and Stegosauria), as well as the Early Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Cedar Mountain Formation in eastern Utah.
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Kenneth Clark
Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation. In 1969, he achieved an international popular presence as the writer, producer, and presenter of the BBC Television series, Civilisation.
Clark was born in London, the only child of Kenneth MacKenzie Clark and Margaret Alice McArthur. The Clarks were a wealthy Scottish family with roots in the textile trade (the "Clark" in Coats & Clark threading). His great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool. Kenneth Clark the elder had retired in 1909 at the age of 41 to become a member of the 'idle rich' (as described by W. D. Rubinstein in The Biographical Dictionary of Life Peers).
Clark was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied the history of art. In 1927 he married a fellow Oxford student, Elizabeth Jane Martin, who was Irish. The couple had three children: Alan, in 1928, and twins Colette (known as Celly) and Colin in 1932.
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Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke, PC, QC, MP (born 2 July 1940) is a British Conservative politician, currently Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He was first elected to Parliament in 1970; and appointed a minister in Edward Heath's government in 1972. One of Britain's best-known politicians, his past government roles include Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Since 1997 he has been President of the Tory Reform Group.
Clarke was a minister throughout the 18 years of successive Conservative governments from 1979 to 1997, serving in the cabinets of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. After the Conservative defeat in the 1997 general election Clarke became a backbencher. He has contested the Conservative Party leadership three times—in 1997, 2001 and 2005—and was defeated each time. Although he is considered popular with the general public, his pro-European integration views conflict with the modern Conservative Party's EU-sceptic stance. Notably, he is President of the Conservative Europe Group and Vice-President of the European Movement UK. Despite this conflict, and his involvement with the tobacco industry, Conservative leader David Cameron returned Clarke to the Shadow Cabinet in March 2009 as Shadow Business Secretary. When Cameron became Prime Minister in May 2010 he appointed Clarke Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.
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Kenneth Colley
Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Unlike the other ill-fated officers who appeared alongside him in The Empire Strikes Back, Colley was the only actor to play an Imperial officer more than 1 Star Wars film.
Colley was born in Manchester, Lancashire. He played Jesus (very briefly indeed) in The Life of Brian, having also appeared in the earlier Monty Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure in 1979.
Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood film Firefox, where he played a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets.
Colley went on to play SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. His character was charged with hiding the evidence of the Holocaust, and putting dead victims through "Economic Processing".
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Kenneth Connor
Kenneth Connor MBE (6 June 1918 – 28 November 1993) was an English comedy stage, radio, film and TV actor, best known for his appearances in the Carry On films.
Born in Islington, London, the son of a naval petty officer who organised concert parties Connor first appeared on the stage at the age of 2 as an organ-grinder's monkey in one of his father's shows, in Portsmouth. By 11 years old, he had his own act. He attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he was a Gold Medal winner. Connor made his professional debut in J.M. Barrie's The Boy David, at His Majesty's Theatre, London in December 1936. During World War II he served as an infantry gunner with the Middlesex Regiment but continued acting by touring Italy and the Middle East with the Stars in Battledress concert party and ENSA. While waiting to be demobbed in Cairo, Connor received a telegram from William Devlin asking him to join the newly formed Bristol Old Vic, where he gained a solid grounding in the classics. He moved on to the London Old Vic Company for a 1947–48 season at the New Theatre. His most notable performances there were as Chaplain de Stogumber in Saint Joan and Dobchinsky in The Government Inspector, which starred Alec Guinness. Realising he was not a ``tall, impressive juvenile lead or a young lover type`` he decided to specialise in comedy.
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Kenneth Cope
Kenneth Cope (born 14 April 1931) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Jed Stone in Coronation Street and Ray Hilton in Brookside.
Kenneth Cope was born in 1931 in Liverpool, England.
He is most famous for his leading role in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969–1970) as the late private eye Marty Hopkirk opposite Mike Pratt's very much alive Jeff Randall. He had previously starred in Coronation Street as the shady Jed Stone (between 1961 and 1966, and in 2008), and had a regular role in the influential satirical series That Was The Week That Was (1962–1963). He also appeared in two episodes of Minder (Bury my Half at Waltham Green) as newly released prisoner Arthur Stubbs, and as 'Scooter' in Waiting For Goddard. Cope's appearance in Coronation Street led to the recording of a novelty pop single Hands Off, Stop Mucking About with Tony Hatch. Although the song was not a hit it lead in turn to Cope being given a regular slot as a disc jockey with Radio Luxembourg.
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Kenneth Darling
General Sir Kenneth Thomas Darling GBE KCB DSO (17 September 1909 – 31 October 1998) was a senior British Army officer who was Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1967 to 1969.
Darling was born in India, the eldest son of George Kenneth Darling (1879–1964) of the Indian Civil Service and his wife Mabel Eleanor, née Burgess (d. 1952). His younger brother Maj.-Gen. Douglas Lyall Darling (1914–1978) was also a distinguished soldier.
Educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Darling was commissioned into the 7th Royal Fusiliers in 1929. He served in North West Europe during 1944 and 1945 and was awarded the DSO in 1945. He became Commander of the 5th Parachute Brigade in 1946, of the Airborne Forces Depot in 1948 and of 16th Independent Parachute Brigade in 1950. He was Chief of Staff of I (British) Corps from 1955, General Officer Commanding II Corps from 1956 and then Deputy Director, Staff Duties at the War Office from 1957. He went on to be General Officer Commanding Cyprus District in 1958, Director of Infantry in 1960 and General Officer Commanding I (British) Corps in 1962. His last appointments were as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Southern Command in 1964 and Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1967 until his retirement in 1969.
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Kenneth Dover
Sir Kenneth James Dover, FRSE, FBA (11 March 1920 – 7 March 2010) was a distinguished British Classical scholar and academic, who was head of an Oxford college and from 1981 until his retirement in December 2005 was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. He was the author of Greek Homosexuality, a key text on the subject.
Kenneth Dover was born in London, the only child of Percy Dover and Dorothy Healey. He was educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford. He served with the Royal Artillery during the Second World War and was mentioned in dispatches for his service in Italy.
After military service, Dover returned to Oxford and became Fellow and tutor at his old college in 1948. In 1955, Dover was appointed Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, and was twice Dean of the university's Faculty of Arts during his twenty-one years there.
He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1975. Dover received a knighthood two years later for services to Greek scholarship. In 1976, Dover became President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a post he held for ten years. During this tenure a fellow of the College, Trevor Henry Aston (1925–1985), who suffered from manic depression, committed suicide with pills and alcohol. In Marginal Comment, his autobiography, Dover wrote: "it was clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one which I feel compelled to define with brutal candour: how to kill him without getting into trouble...I had no qualms about causing the death of a fellow from whose nonexistence the college would benefit, but I balked at the prospect of misleading a coroner's jury...consulting a lawyer to see if [I] would be legally at risk if [I] ignored a suicide call."
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Kenneth Erskine
Kenneth Erskine (born July 1963) is an English serial killer who became known as the Stockwell Strangler.
Erskine was born in July 1963 to an English mother and Antiguan father. He was abandoned by both parents during childhood and attended various special schools.
Erskine's criminal career began with a number of burglaries, and he was able to open ten separate bank accounts with the proceeds of his crimes.
During 1986, Erskine murdered at least seven elderly people, breaking into their homes and strangling them; most often they were sexually assaulted. The crimes took place in London.
His first victim was Mrs Eileen Emms (78), of Wandsworth, who died on 9 April 1986. Her death was originally not believed to have been murder, and it was only established that she had been murdered when a television set was detected missing from her flat. A post mortem examination revealed that she had been raped and strangled.
His second victim was Mrs Janet Cockett (67), who died on 9 June 1986 after being strangled in her flat on the Wandsworth housing estate on which she was chairwoman of the tenants association. Erskine's palm print was found on a window at Mrs Cockett's flat.
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Kenneth Fearing
Kenneth Fearing (July 28, 1902 - June 26, 1961) was an American poet, novelist, and founding editor of the Partisan Review. Literary critic Macha Rosenthal called him "the chief poet of the American Depression."
Fearing was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Harry Lester Fearing, a successful Chicago attorney, and Olive Flexner Fearing. His parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was raised mainly by his aunt, Eva Fearing Scholl. He went to school at Oak Park and River Forest High School, and was editor of the student paper, as was his predecessor Ernest Hemingway. After studying at the University of Illinois in Urbana and the University of Wisconsin, Fearing moved to New York City where he began a career as a poet and was active in leftist politics.
In the 1920s and 1930s, he published regularly in The New Yorker and helped found The Partisan Review, while also working as an editor, journalist, and speechwriter and turning out a good deal of pulp fiction. Some of Fearing's pulp fiction was soft-core pornography, often published under the pseudonym Kirk Wolff.
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Kenneth Feinberg
Kenneth Feinberg (born October 23, 1945, Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American attorney, specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. Feinberg was appointed Special Master of the U.S. government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and currently serves as the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation, popularly called the "pay czar." Additionally, Feinberg most recently served as the government-appointed administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund. He is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, New York University School of Law, the University of Virginia School of Law and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Originally from Brockton, Massachusetts, he received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1967 and a law degree from the New York University School of Law in 1970. He worked for five years as an administrative assistant and chief of staff for U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney General. Before founding his own firm The Feinberg Group (now Feinberg Rozen, LLP) in 1993, he was a founding partner at the Washington office of Kaye Scholer LLP.
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Kenneth Frampton
Kenneth Frampton (born 1930, Woking, UK), is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.
Frampton studied architecture at Guildford School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Subsequently he worked in Israel, with Middlesex County Council and Douglas Stephen and Partners (1961–66), during which time he was also a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art (1961–64), tutor at the Architectural Association (1961–63) and Technical Editor of the journal Architectural Design (AD) (1962–65).
Frampton has also taught at Princeton University (1966–71) and the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, (1980). He has been a member of the faculty at Columbia University since 1972, and that same year he became a fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York -- (whose members also included Peter Eisenman, Manfredo Tafuri and Rem Koolhaas) -- and a co-founding editor of its magazine Oppositions.
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Kenneth Halliwell
Kenneth Halliwell (23 June 1926 – 9 August 1967) was a British actor and writer. He was the mentor, boyfriend and eventual murderer of playwright Joe Orton.
Halliwell was born in Bebington. When he was 11, he witnessed the death of his mother, to whom he was very close, at the family home from a wasp sting.
Halliwell was a classics scholar at Wirral Grammar School, where he gained his Higher School Certificate in 1943. Becoming liable for military service in 1944, he registered as a conscientious objector, and was exempted conditional upon becoming a coal miner. After discharge in 1946, he acted for a time in Scotland and then returned home to act in Birkenhead. His father committed suicide in 1949 by putting his head in an oven; Halliwell was the first to find the body the following morning. Afterward, Halliwell moved to London to study drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), having inherited the family fortune.
In 1951, he met Joe Orton, a fellow RADA student. Both men were struggling actors who became struggling writers. However, their common interests led to a lengthy romantic relationship. Halliwell, in the early years, seems to have been something of a tutor to Orton, who had had a rather cursory education, and helped to mould the writing style that would later be called "Ortonesque". The two men collaborated on several novels, including The Boy Hairdresser, which were not published until after their deaths.
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Kenneth Ham
Kenneth "Hock" Todd Ham (born December 12, 1964 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is an American astronaut and a Captain in the United States Navy. Ham was selected for NASA's astronaut program in August 1998, while serving as the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet lead carrier suitability test pilot. Ham's aviator call sign is "Hock".
Ham is married to the former Michelle Lucas of Hobart, Indiana, and has two children, Ryan and Randy, from a previous marriage to Linda Hautzinger Ham. Ham's parents are Ed and Marion Ham. Ham's recreational interests include baseball, running, weight lifting, general aviation, snow skiing and water skiing, skydiving and scuba diving.
Ham graduated from Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, New Jersey in 1983, where he had started taking flying lessons at the suggestion of a high school guidance counselor. He then went on to the United States Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1987 with a bachelors degree in aerospace engineering. In 1996, he earned a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. A Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Ham is also a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association.
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Kenneth Horne
Kenneth Horne (27 February 1907 – 14 February 1969) was an English comedian and businessman. The son of a clergyman and politician, he combined a successful business career with regular broadcasting for the BBC. His first hit series, Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, written with his co-star Richard Murdoch, arose out of his wartime service as an officer in the Royal Air Force. Ill health forced him to choose between commerce and show business after 1958, and, choosing the latter, he made two further popular radio series, Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964) and Round the Horne (1965–1968)
Charles Kenneth Horne was the seventh and youngest child of Charles Silvester Horne and his wife, the Hon. Katherine neé Cozens-Hardy. Silvester Horne was a Congregationalist minister, Liberal MP for Ipswich, and powerful orator. His maternal grandfather was Herbert Cozens-Hardy, the Liberal MP for North Norfolk who became both the Master of the Rolls and Baron Cozens-Hardy on 1 July 1914.
Horne was educated at a preparatory school in Shrewsbury, followed by St George's School, Harpenden and the London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included Hugh Dalton and Stephen Leacock. Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generosity of an uncle, Austin Pilkington of the Pilkington glassmaking family of St Helens, he was enabled to go instead to Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented the university at tennis, partnering Bunny Austin, but was academically undistinguished and so neglectful of his studies that he was sent down in 1927.
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Kenneth Irons
Kenneth Irons is a fictional comic book supervillain. He is a criminal mastermind who is depicted as the person behind nearly every evil deed in the Top Cow series Witchblade.
Head of Irons International, business man of the year of the Fortune magazine and one of the ten richest men of the world, but that is not the focus of his life. Nor is the focus the way he made that money: drug trafficking, prostitution, slavery, and the arms industry. Kenneth's true passion, his one obsession, his very reason for living, is The Witchblade.
Irons was born in the mid-to-late 1100ds during the reign of King Richard I and served as a leader of the Templar Knights in the Third Crusade. He and his son Garard Irons, along with a group of other Knights made their way into a holy place were they found and drank from the Holy Grail, making them immortal.
This all began in the late 19th century when, while on an archaeological dig in Greece, Kenneth Irons discovered The Witchblade gauntlet. Curiosity about the mystical artifact soon led to a quest for knowledge, which would later become a true obsession with the Witchblade, and controlling the power it holds. Kenneth Irons has researched every bearer of The Witchblade, read every ancient tome that might refer to its capabilities,and attempted to find that one person whom it would accept, and reveal its secrets to. Since Sara Pezzini has been revealed to be that person, Irons has turned his obsession onto her. His dreams to control the bearer of The Witchblade have not yet come true, but with all the money and power behind him, Kenneth Irons is confident that victory will soon be in his grasp. For him it is not a matter of if; but just a question of when. His ambition came to an end though at the end of Witchblade #75 where he was shot by Sara's captain after being turned mortal by Ian Nottingham and his Excalibur. Kenneth Irons was the second to be killed in the Dead Pool.
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Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth David Kaunda (born April 28, 1924), also known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991.
Kaunda is the youngest of eight children. He was born at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali, Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. His father was the Reverend David Kaunda, an ordained Church of Scotland missionary and teacher, who was born in Malawi and had moved to Chinsali to work at Lubwa Mission. He attended Munali Training Centre in Lusaka (August 1941–1943).
Kaunda was a teacher at the Upper Primary School and Boarding Master at Lubwa and then Headmaster at Lubwa from 1943 to 1945. He was for a time working at the Salisbury and Bindura Mine. In early 1948, he became a teacher in Mufulira for the United Missions to the Copperbelt (UMCB). He was then assistant at an African Welfare Centre and Boarding Master of a Mine School in Mufulira. In this period, he was leading a Pathfinder Scout Group and was Choirmaster at a Church of Central Africa Congregation. He was also for a time Vice-Secretary of the Nchanga Branch of Congress.
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Kenneth Keating
Kenneth Barnard Keating (May 18, 1900 – May 5, 1975), was a United States Representative and a U.S. Senator from New York, and in later life, an appellate judge and a diplomat representing the United States as ambassador to India and later to Israel.
He attended public school and was graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in 1915. He then attended the University of Rochester, which he was graduated from in 1919, while there he joined The Delta Upsilon Fraternity, and from Harvard Law School in 1923. He was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Rochester. During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the United States Army and during the Second World War served overseas and was promoted to brigadier general in 1948. On returning to the United States he resumed his law practice.
Keating was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican to the 80th, 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th and 85th United States Congresses, and served from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959. In 1958 he defeated New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan for the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Irving M. Ives, and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1965. Before the Cuban Missile Crisis, Senator Keating accused the Soviets and Cuba of building IRBMs in Cuba, and urged President John F. Kennedy to take action. Keating was a moderate, like many prominent New York Republicans of his era. When he was running for re-election in 1964 Keating refused to endorse his party's Presidential nominee, the conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, who was highly unpopular in New York. Keating did run far ahead of Goldwater in New York, but was still defeated for re-election in 1964 by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, after a campaign in which Keating labelled Kennedy, who had only spent part of his childhood in New York, as a "carpetbagger." Keating's campaign slogan was "Keep Keating."
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Kenneth Kendall
Kenneth Kendall (born 7 August 1924) is a retired British broadcaster. He was a contemporary of Richard Baker and Robert Dougall. Although he worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, he is perhaps better remembered as the host of the game show Treasure Hunt (1982–89).
Kendall was born in India, where his father, Frederic William Kendall (d. 30 May 1945) worked, and was brought up in Cornwall.
Kendall was educated at Felsted School, an independent school in the village of Felsted near Great Dunmow in Essex, followed by Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages.
Kendall served as a schoolmaster and later as a Captain in the Coldstream Guards during World War II and was injured on D-Day. He joined the BBC in 1948 as a radio newsreader and transferred to television in 1954. Though he was not the first person to read the news on BBC television, Kendall was the first newsreader to appear in vision (1955). As he was employed on a freelance basis by the BBC, he also worked as an actor for a repertory company based in Crewe, and briefly at Austin Reed in Regent Street, where he met actor John Inman and offered him a job in the Crewe company.
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Kenneth Kitchen
Kenneth Anderson Kitchen (born 1932) is Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, England. He is one of the leading experts on Biblical History and the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, having written over 250 books and journal articles on these and other subjects since the mid-1950s. He has been described by The Times as "the very architect of Egyptian chronology".
His book, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC), is regarded by historians as the standard and most comprehensive treatment on this era. It noted a hitherto unknown period of coregency between Psusennes I with Amenemope and Osorkon III with Takelot III, and established that Shebitku of the 25th Dynasty was already king of Egypt by 702 BC, among other revelations.
Some of its points are now slightly dated. It stated that Takelot II succeeded Osorkon II at Tanis, whereas most Egyptologists today accept it was Shoshenq III. Secondly, the book presented King Shoshenq II as the High Priest of Amun Shoshenq C, a son of Osorkon I who predeceased his father. However, this interpretation is weakened by the fact that no objects from Shoshenq II's intact burial at Tanis bears Osorkon I's name. Finally, contra Kitchen, most Egyptologists today such as Rolf Krauss, Aidan Dodson and Jürgen von Beckerath accept David Aston's argument that the Crown Prince Osorkon B, Takelot II's son, assumed power as Osorkon III, a king of the 'Theban Twenty-Third Dynasty' in Upper Egypt.
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Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch (27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel, painting, and music.
Koch (pronounced coke) was born Jay Kenneth Koch in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began writing poetry at an early age, discovering the work of Shelley and Keats in his teenage years. At the age of 18, he served in WWII as a U.S. Army infantryman in the Philippines.
After his service, he attended Harvard University, where he met future New York School poet John Ashbery. After graduating from Harvard in 1948, and moving to New York City, Koch studied for and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
In 1951 he met his first wife, Janice Elwood, at UC Berkeley; they married in 1954 and lived in France and Italy for over a year. Their daughter, Katherine, was born in Rome in 1955. In 1959 he joined the faculty in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, and he taught classes at Columbia for over forty years.
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Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001. Lay was the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1985 until his resignation on January 23, 2002, except for a few months in 2000 when he was chairman and Jeffrey Skilling was chief executive officer (CEO).
On July 7, 2004, Lay was indicted by a grand jury on 11 counts of securities fraud and related charges. On January 31, 2006, following four and a half years of preparation by government prosecutors, Lay's and Skilling's trial began in Houston. Lay was found guilty on May 25, 2006, of 10 counts against him; the judge dismissed the 11th. Because each count carried a maximum 5- to 10-year sentence, legal experts said Lay could have faced 20 to 30 years in prison. However, he died while vacationing in Snowmass, Colorado, on July 5, 2006, about three and a half months before his scheduled October 23 sentencing. Preliminary autopsy reports state that he died of a heart attack caused by coronary artery disease. As a result of his death, on October 17, 2006, the federal district court judge who presided over the case vacated Lay's conviction. There have been conspiracy theories surrounding his death.
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Kenneth Lee Boyd
Kenneth Lee Boyd (January 19, 1948 – December 2, 2005) was a murderer who was executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina. He was convicted of the March 4, 1988 murder in Stoneville of his wife, Julie Curry Boyd and her father Thomas Dillard Curry. He was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. EST on December 2, 2005 at the North Carolina Central Prison in Raleigh by lethal injection.
Boyd was the 1,000th person executed since the United States Supreme Court lifted a ban on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia.
After leaving school in the ninth grade, Boyd later joined the United States Army and volunteered for a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1967. Two years later he received an honorable discharge. After his first marriage had ended in divorce, he married Julie. This second marriage, which resulted in three boys, had a series of arguments, separations, and reconciliations.
On March 4, 1988 he went to the house of her father, where she and their children were living, while Boyd and Julie were separated once again. He told police that he found the door unlocked and entered with a .357 Magnum pistol. Seeing a silhouette that he thought was Thomas, he fired and hit him. He continued firing as he moved through the house, finding Julie in the kitchen. While reloading he heard her moan and so shot her again. He fired at anything that moved and then rang 9-1-1 and told police to "come and get me". When they arrived, Boyd emerged from nearby woods and surrendered. He gave a full confession after being read his Miranda warning. Boyd was arrested and sentenced to death row.
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Kenneth Lee Pike
Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912–December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics and coiner of the terms "emic" and "etic".
Pike was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, and studied theology at Gordon College, graduating with a B.A. in 1933. He initially wanted to do missionary work in China; when this was denied him, went on in 1935 to study linguistics with Summer Institute of Linguistics (S.I.L.). He went to Mexico with SIL, learning Mixtec from native speakers there.
In 1937 Pike went to the University of Michigan, where he worked for his doctorate in linguistics under Edward Sapir. His research involved living among the Mixtecs, and he and his wife Evelyn developed a written system for the Mixtec language. After gaining his Ph. D. In 1942, Pike became president of Summer Institute in Linguistics (SIL). The Institute's main function was to produce translations of the Bible into unwritten languages, and in 1951 Pike published the Mixtec New Testament. He was the President of SIL International from 1942 to 1979.
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Kenneth Ma
Kenneth Ma Kwok-ming (born 13 February 1974) is a Chinese Canadian actor from Hong Kong. He graduated from University of British Columbia majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Although he initially intended to pursue a career in engineering, he decided the industry did not suit his personality and enrolled in acting classes at TVB instead despite the better pay and more stable prospects of the former. Initially in his career Kenneth often played supporting roles, however in recent years TVB has started to promote him. He won the 'Most improved actor award' at the 39th TVB Awards in 2006. He was recently handed his first leading role in the drama serial Survivor's Law II opposite Hong Kong singer Ella Koon. The drama aired in 2008 and achieved credible ratings of 31 points in the second half of its broadcast as well as a favourable reception.
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Kenneth MacAlpin
Cináed mac Ailpín (Modern Gaelic: Coinneach mac Ailpein), commonly Anglicised as Kenneth MacAlpin and known in most modern regnal lists as Kenneth I (died 13 February 858) was king of the Picts and, according to national myth, first king of Scots, earning him the posthumous nickname of An Ferbasach, "The Conqueror". Kenneth's undisputed legacy was to produce a dynasty of rulers who claimed descent from him and was the founder of the dynasty which ruled Scotland for much of the medieval period.
The Kenneth of myth, conqueror of the Picts and founder of the Kingdom of Alba, was born in the centuries after the real Kenneth died. In the reign of Kenneth II (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim), when the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba was compiled, the annalist wrote:
In the 15th century Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, a history in verse, added little to the account in the Chronicle:
When humanist scholar George Buchanan wrote his history Rerum Scoticarum Historia in the 1570s, a great deal of lurid detail had been added to the story. Buchanan included an account of how Kenneth's father had been murdered by the Picts, and a detailed, and entirely unsupported, account of how Kenneth avenged him and conquered the Picts. Buchanan was not as credulous as many, and he did not include the tale of MacAlpin's treason, a story from Giraldus Cambrensis, who reused a tale of Saxon treachery at a feast in Geoffrey of Monmouth's inventive Historia Regum Britanniae.
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Kenneth McKellar
Kenneth Douglas McKellar (January 29, 1869 – October 25, 1957) was an American politician from Tennessee who served as a United States Representative from 1911 until 1917 and as a United States Senator from 1917 until 1953. A Democrat, he served longer in both houses of Congress than anyone else in Tennessee history, and only a few others in American history have served longer in both houses.
McKellar was a native of Dallas County, Alabama and was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1891 and its law school in 1892. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and was admitted to the bar the same year. McKellar was first elected to the House in a special election in November 1911 to succeed George W. Gordon in the 10th Congressional District, which included Memphis. He won the seat in his own right in 1912 and was reelected in 1914 serving until his election to the United States Senate.
McKellar ran for the Senate in 1916, defeating incumbent Senator Luke Lea in the Democratic primary and winning the general election against former Republican Governor Ben W. Hooper. He was reelected to the Senate in 1922 (defeating former Senator Newell Sanders), 1928 (defeating former U.S. Assistant Attorney General James Alexander Fowler), 1934, 1940 (against Howard Baker, Sr., father of future Senator Howard Baker), and 1946.
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Kenneth More
Kenneth Gilbert More CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman. As More himself described it, "I seem fated to be either the stiff-upper-lip war hero or the hearty back-slapping idiot".
Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Charles Gilbert More, a Royal Naval Air Service pilot, and Edith Winifred Watkins, the daughter of a Cardiff solicitor. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey. He spent part of his childhood in the Channel Islands, where his father was general manager of the Jersey Eastern Railway. After he left school, he followed the family tradition by training as a civil engineer. He gave up his training and worked for a while in Sainsbury's.
When More was 17 his father died, and he applied to join the RAF, but failed the medical test for equilibrium. He went to Canada, intending to work as a fur trapper, but was sent back for lacking immigration papers.
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Kenneth Perez
Kenneth Pérez Dahl Jensen (born 29 August 1974) is a Danish former professional football player. Perez scored two goals in 24 matches for the Danish national team from 2003 to 2006, and he was chosen to compete at the 2004 European Championship.
Perez's mother is from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Perez started his career for Danish club Akademisk Boldklub, where he reached the 1995 Danish Cup final. The final was lost to F.C. Copenhagen, with whom Perez signed a two-year contract in autumn that year. He played two years for F.C. Copenhagen, and Perez was a part of the team which won the 1997 Danish Cup. With months left of his contract, he moved abroad in August 1997, to play for Dutch Eredivisie side MVV. Perez scored goals frequently for MVV, and his dribbling ability was regarded as one of the best in the Eredivisie. With his contract nearing expiry, he looked to leave the club in winter 1999. Dutch clubs Roda JC and AZ wanted to buy Perez, and he eventually penned a 5½-year contract with AZ starting from January 2000.
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Kenneth Peters
Kenneth Peters (born December 4, 1980) is a Danish handballer, currently playing for Danish Handball League side Fredericia HK.
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Kenneth Platts
Kenneth Platts (1946—1989) was a British composer.
He studied composition at the London College of Music with W. R. Pasfield and Lennox Berkeley. He is often classed as a composer of 'light music'. He wrote in an accessible style, and produced many works suitable for children and amateurs. His better-known compositions include a Concerto for Brass Band (?1978), a Sonatina (1979) for guitar, Delta Dances (1980) for wind band and a Divertimento for string orchestra.
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Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth (December 22, 1905–June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, and disliked the association, he was one of the major influences on the Beat generation, and was once dubbed "Father of the Beats" by Time. He was among the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku.
Rexroth had two daughters, Mary (who later changed her name to Mariana) and Katharine, by his third wife, Marthe Larsen.
Rexroth was born Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth in South Bend, Indiana, the son of Charles Rexroth, a pharmaceuticals salesman, and Delia Reed. His childhood was troubled by his father's alcoholism and his mother's chronic illness. Rexroth was homeschooled by his mother, and by age four he was reading widely in the Classics.[citation needed] His mother died in 1916 and his father in 1918, after which he went to live with his aunt in Chicago and enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Kenneth Robinson
Sir Kenneth Robinson PC (19 March 1911 – 16 February 1996) was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.
The son of Dr Clarence Robinson and a nurse, Ethel Marion Linell, Kenneth Robinson was born on 19 March 1911 in Warrington, north west England and educated at Oundle School up to the point of his father dying when he was just 15 years old. After his mother pulled him from the school on cost grounds he later worked as a writer, insurance broker and company secretary. He joined the Royal Navy during World War II as an ordinary seaman, was commissioned in 1942 and promoted to lieutenant-commander in 1944. He served on the HMS King George V. Robinson's education was remarkable in that he received no further education after the age of 15 and was entirely self-taught.
[1] Obituary in Independent 21 February 1996
Robinson was a St Pancras borough councillor 1945-1949. He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for St. Pancras North in a by-election in 1949. He was a government assistant whip from 1950 until 1951. He joined the cabinet and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1964. Reforms he oversaw include the banning on cigarette television advertising and the reintroduction of prescription charges. When his position of Minister of Health was abolished in 1968, Robinson was appointed Minister for Planning and Land, only for this position to be abolished a year later. Robinson left Parliament in 1970.
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Kenneth Searight
Kenneth Searight (born Arthur Kenneth Searight) (December, 1883–1957) was the creator of the international auxiliary language Sona. His book Sona; an auxiliary neutral language outlines the language's grammar and vocabulary. Encounters with Searight also influenced English author E.M. Forster's world-view, particularly with regard to soldiers.
Searight was born in Kensington, England in December 1883. He attended Charterhouse School (a boarding school) for his childhood and teenage years. In 1904 he received a commission into the Queen's Own Western Kent Regiment, and was stationed for several years in India. It was here that he befriended English author E.M. Forster (A Passage to India) and Cambridge don G.L. Dickinson. His regiment was later reassigned to Iraq, and then to Egypt. Searight also enjoyed leave time around the Mediterranean Sea—especially in Italy.
It was during this extensive travel that Searight developed his interest in linguistics and his familiarity with Middle Eastern and Far Eastern languages and cultures.
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Kenneth Shaw
Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw was the 10th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University. One of the more popular chancellors in Syracuse University history, Shaw was very visible on campus and in the community, making himself available for student meetings and media interviews. He liked to portray himself as a fun-loving and easy-going person.[citation needed] However, his tenure was not without controversy, for example his support of licensed S.U. apparel manufacturers that reportedly used sweatshops.[citation needed] After the Syracuse Orangemen won the 2003 NCAA Men's Division One Basketball Tournament he was frequently spotted wearing a large, orange hat while walking around campus. He also donned this hat while speaking at Syracuse University's opening convocations and commencements. Shaw retired as Chancellor and President at the end of the 2003-04 school year and was replaced by Nancy Cantor. He currently is a University Professor, teaching courses in leadership. Prior to becoming Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, Shaw served as Chancellor of Southern Illinois University and President of the University of Wisconsin System. Shaw attended Illinois State University and played on the varsity basketball team.
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Kenneth Tigar
Kenneth Tigar (born September 24, 1942 in Chelsea, Massachusetts) is an American actor and translator.
He received his Ph.D. in German literature from Harvard University. He spent a year at the University of Göttingen, and performed in Vienna and other European cities. He speaks fluent German, and has translated a number of German plays into English.
He starred in numerous television series such as The West Wing, Boardwalk Empire and Fringe, as well as in motion pictures like The Avengers, where his language skills are used to portray a German character.
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Kenneth Tolon II
Kenneth Tolon II (born December 16, 1981 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a former running back for the Stanford Cardinal. He played for Stanford from 2000 to 2004.
While playing for Valley High School of Albuquerque, Tolon received first team all state honors. He was also an academic all-state honoree.
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Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer.
Making his initial impact as a critic at The Observer (1954-1958, 1960-63), he praised Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956), and encouraged the emerging wave of British theatrical talent. In 1963, Tynan was appointed as the new National Theatre Company's literary manager. An opponent of theatre censorship, he was the first person to say 'fuck' on British television, which was very controversial at the time. Later in his life he settled in California where he resumed his writing career.
He was born in Birmingham to Letitia Rose Tynan and (as he was led to believe) "Peter Tynan" (though see below). As a child, he stammered but possessed early on a high degree of articulate intelligence. By the age of six, he was already keeping a diary. At King Edward's School, Birmingham, he was a brilliant student of whom one of his masters said, "He was the only boy I could never teach anything." He played the lead as Doctor Parpalaid in an English translation of Jules Romains' farce Knock. While at school he began smoking, which became a lifelong habit.
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Kenneth Welsh
Kenneth Welsh, CM (born March 30, 1942) is a Canadian film and television actor (sometimes credited as Ken Welsh). He is known to Twin Peaks fans as the multi-faceted villain Windom Earle, and has more recently played the father of Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett) in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.
In 1984 he was nominated for a Genie Award as Best Actor for his portrayal of Reno Colt in the film "Reno and the Doc", written and directed by Charles Dennis. In 1997 Welsh directed Dennis in the latter's play "SoHo Duo" at the West Bank Theatre in New York City.
Welsh was born in Edmonton, Alberta to a father who worked for the Canadian National Railway. He grew up in Alberta and studied drama at school. He later moved to Montreal and attended the National Theatre School. Following graduation, he auditioned for the Stratford Festival in Ontario and then spent the first seven years of his career on stage.
Welsh has portrayed historical figures including Thomas E. Dewey, Colin Thatcher, Harry S. Truman (twice), Thomas Edison, James "Scotty" Reston, General Harry Crerar and James Baker.
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Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.
Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Bingfield Street, King's Cross, London, the son of Louisa ("Lou" or "Louie") and Charles Williams, a barber. Williams had a half-sister, Alice Patricia, born before Louie had met Charlie Williams. He was educated at Lyulph Stanley School, later becoming apprenticed as a draughtsman to a mapmaker. He joined the Army in 1944 at 18. As part of the Royal Engineers survey section in Bombay, he first performed on stage in the Combined Services Entertainment alongside Stanley Baxter and Peter Nichols. He was a voracious reader able to quote poems or literary extracts from memory. Excerpts from the diaries he kept as an adult show he adored his supportive, theatrical mother but despised his homophobic, morose and selfish father.
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Kenny G
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (born June 5, 1956), better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986. Kenny G is the biggest-selling instrumental musician of the modern era, with global sales totaling more than 75 million albums.
Kenny G was born in Seattle, Washington to a Jewish family and grew up in the city's Seward Park neighborhood, which is a center of the city's Jewish community. He came into contact with a saxophone when he heard someone performing with one on The Ed Sullivan Show. He started playing the saxophone in 1966 when he was 10 years old. He learned how to play under the direction of local trumpeter Gerald Pfister and by practicing along with records (mostly of Grover Washington, Jr.), trying to emulate the sounds that he was hearing. His first saxophone was a Buffet Crampon alto.
Kenny G attended Whitworth Elementary School, Sharples Junior High School, Franklin High School, and the University of Washington, all in his home town of Seattle. When he entered high school, he failed on his first try to get into the jazz band, but tried again the following year and earned first chair. In addition to his studies while in high school, he took private lessons on the saxophone and clarinet from Johnny Jessen, once a week for a year.
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Picts
The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland. There is an association with the geographical distribution of brochs, Brythonic place name elements, and Pictish stones. Picts are recorded from before the Roman conquest of Britain until the 10th century, when they merged with the Gaels. They lived to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde, and spoke the extinct Pictish language, thought to have been related to the Brythonic languages spoken by the Britons to the south. They are assumed to have been the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes named by Roman historians or found on the world map of Ptolemy. Pictland, also known as Pictavia, gradually merged with the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata to form the Kingdom of Alba (Scotland). Alba expanded, absorbing the Brythonic kingdom of Strathclyde and Bernician Lothian, and by the 11th century the Pictish identity had been subsumed into the "Scots" amalgamation of peoples.
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Welsh people
The Welsh people (Welsh: Cymry) are an ethnic group and nation native to Wales and associated with the Welsh language. Welsh people historically spoke the Welsh language; however, in recent years English has predominated in most of Wales.
John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have been spoken in Wales far longer. The term Welsh people applies to people from Wales and people of Welsh ancestry perceiving themselves or being perceived as sharing a cultural heritage and shared ancestral origins. Today Wales is a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of people living in Wales are British citizens.
An analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people, or nearly 35% of the Welsh population, have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States, with an estimated 16.3 million people in the countries studied having Welsh ancestry.
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More, Kenneth Filmography
- A Real Summer (2007)
- The Very Best of Sid James (1996)
- The Making of 'A Night to Remember' (1993)
- Alma Cogan: The Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice (1991)
- This Is Your Life (Highlights from the 1950's and 1960's) (1991)
- The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988)
- The Golden Gong (1985)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
- The Pump (1980)
- Night of One Hundred Stars (1980)
- The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979)
- The Silent Witness (1978)
- Leopard in the Snow (1978)
- The Rocking Horse Winner (1977)
- Night of 100 Stars (1977)
- Two Stars for Comfort (1977)
- Viaje al centro de la Tierra (1977)
- The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)
- Goose with Pepper (1975)
- The Blind Shall Read (1975)
- Scrooge (1970)
- If It Moves It's Rude: The Story of the Windmill Theatre (1969)
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- Fräulein Doktor (1969)
- Battle of Britain (1969)
- The Mercenaries (1968)
- The Collector (1965)
- The Comedy Man (1964)
- The Largest Theatre in the World: Heart to Heart (1962)
- Some People (1962)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- We Joined the Navy (1962)
- The Greengage Summer (1961)
- Survival (1961)
- Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
- Man in the Moon (1960)
- North West Frontier (1959)
- The 39 Steps (1959)
- A Night to Remember (1958)
- The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
- Next to No Time (1958)
- The Admirable Crichton (1957)
- Reach for the Sky (1956)
- The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
- Playing Fields Association: Cricket (1955)
- Raising a Riot (1955)
- The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
- Doctor in the House (1954)
- Never Let Me Go (1953)
- The Yellow Balloon (1953)
- Our Girl Friday (1953)
- Genevieve (1953)
- Brandy for the Parson (1952)
- Appointment with Venus (1951)
- No Highway (1951)
- The Franchise Affair (1951)
- The Galloping Major (1951)
- The Clouded Yellow (1950)
- Morning Departure (1950)
- Chance of a Lifetime (1950)
- Man on the Run (1949)
- Now Barabbas (1949)
- Macbeth (1949)
- Stop Press Girl (1949)
- Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
- Power Without Glory (1947)
- The Silence of the Sea (1946)
- The Web (1946)
- They Flew Through Sand (1946)
- They Flew Through Sand (1946)
- School for Secrets (1946)
- Toad of Toad Hall (1946)
- Carry on London (1937)
- Windmill Revels (1937)
- Look Up and Laugh (1935)
Just, Kenneth Filmography
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
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Kenneth Moen Hillclimb Drift Lillehammer
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Kenneth Moen Hillclimb Drift Lysgardsbakken Lillehammer 2011 Produced By Espen Wilhelmsen BlackBoxMedia.no Music by phonic
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Kenneth Faried's Ferocious Slam
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Ty Lawson sends a sweet pass down the middle to Kenneth Faried for the slam. Visit www.nba.com for more highlights.
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Ty Lawson sends a sweet pass down the middle to Kenneth Faried for the slam. Visit www.nba.com for more highlights.
- published: 12 Jan 2013
- views: 38417
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Kenneth Faried Finishes Strong
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Kenneth Faried takes the pass and finishes with a powerful slam. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
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Kenneth Faried takes the pass and finishes with a powerful slam. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
- published: 14 Jan 2013
- views: 24528
- author: NBA
Henry V - Band of Brothers
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Branagh Version
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Kenneth Kaniff
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- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
If this video gets 5000 thumbs up and or 1337 favorites I'll post another 2 hour live high roller session :)
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If this video gets 5000 thumbs up and or 1337 favorites I'll post another 2 hour live high roller session :)
- published: 13 Jan 2011
- views: 208558
- author: WhiteBoy7thst
Kenneth Williams Interview 1974 Part 1 - Hilarious
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An Interview with Kenneth Williams in 1974 with Russell Harty, where he was on his best form ever - a truly amazing and very funny performance. Sadly, ten years later he was interviewed on various chat shows and he had visibly aged by illness and depression.
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An Interview with Kenneth Williams in 1974 with Russell Harty, where he was on his best form ever - a truly amazing and very funny performance. Sadly, ten years later he was interviewed on various chat shows and he had visibly aged by illness and depression.
- published: 05 Mar 2012
- views: 42265
- author: THEORTONCOLLECTIVE
The oddities of the first American election - Kenneth C. Davis
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- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
View full lesson: ed.ted.com How did George Washington become the first president of the United States in 1789? Who got to decide--or vote--who would become president, and how did they decide the winner? Kenneth C. Davis unveils the surprising story behind America's first presidential election. Lesson by Kenneth C. Davis, animation by Buzzco Associates, inc.
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View full lesson: ed.ted.com How did George Washington become the first president of the United States in 1789? Who got to decide--or vote--who would become president, and how did they decide the winner? Kenneth C. Davis unveils the surprising story behind America's first presidential election. Lesson by Kenneth C. Davis, animation by Buzzco Associates, inc.
- published: 05 Nov 2012
- views: 22735
- author: TEDEducation
Kenneth Williams...Excellent Chat Show Appearance From 1980
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- Duration: 9:16
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Kenneth appears in an episode of Parkinson from 1980. This is a masterclass in anecdote telling. Everything about this performance is perfect. The versatility of the voice, the timing, the material, and most of all...the man. Behold, a comedy genius at his very peak. "Seven guineas for a bra?...cheaper to have your tits off!!..." .
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Kenneth appears in an episode of Parkinson from 1980. This is a masterclass in anecdote telling. Everything about this performance is perfect. The versatility of the voice, the timing, the material, and most of all...the man. Behold, a comedy genius at his very peak. "Seven guineas for a bra?...cheaper to have your tits off!!..." .
- published: 05 May 2007
- views: 137596
- author: 25thNovember1970
Kenneth Ma Exclusive Interview about Pageant, Beauty, and more
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Hong Kong celebrity Kenneth Ma performed in Mohegan Sun Ballroom on August 12th during the 2012 Miss NY Chinese Beauty Pageant. Before the show, he talked exclusively to Mohegan Sun about what he thinks of the Miss NY Chinese Beauty pageant, what kind of girls are pretty to him, and his suggestions to the girls.
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Hong Kong celebrity Kenneth Ma performed in Mohegan Sun Ballroom on August 12th during the 2012 Miss NY Chinese Beauty Pageant. Before the show, he talked exclusively to Mohegan Sun about what he thinks of the Miss NY Chinese Beauty pageant, what kind of girls are pretty to him, and his suggestions to the girls.
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 2860
- author: Mohegan Sun
The Graham Norton Show S10x13 Kenneth Branagh, Zach Braff, Frank Skinner Part 1
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- Duration: 15:03
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The Graham Norton Show - 2012 - S10x13 Kenneth Branagh, Zach Braff, Frank Skinner, Taio Cruz Part 1
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The Graham Norton Show - 2012 - S10x13 Kenneth Branagh, Zach Braff, Frank Skinner, Taio Cruz Part 1
- published: 03 Feb 2012
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Titanic: A Night to Remember (1958) Kenneth More, Ronald Allen and Robert Ayres FULL MOVIE
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- Duration: 117:24
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama film adaptation of Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955), recounting the final night of the RMS Titanic. It was adapted by Eric Ambler, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and filmed in the United Kingdom. The production team, supervised by producer William MacQuitty, used blueprints of the ship to create the sets accurately, while Titanic fourth officer Joseph Boxhall and ex-Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge both worked as technical advisors on the film. The film premiered in the United Kingdom on Tuesday 1 July 1958. Titanic survivor Elizabeth Dowdell attended the American premiere in New York on Tuesday 16 December 1958.[1] Among the many films about the Titanic, A Night to Remember has long been regarded as a high point by Titanic historians and survivors alike for its accuracy,[2] despite its modest production values[3] when compared with the 1997 Oscar-winning film Titanic.[2][4]
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A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama film adaptation of Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955), recounting the final night of the RMS Titanic. It was adapted by Eric Ambler, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and filmed in the United Kingdom. The production team, supervised by producer William MacQuitty, used blueprints of the ship to create the sets accurately, while Titanic fourth officer Joseph Boxhall and ex-Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge both worked as technical advisors on the film. The film premiered in the United Kingdom on Tuesday 1 July 1958. Titanic survivor Elizabeth Dowdell attended the American premiere in New York on Tuesday 16 December 1958.[1] Among the many films about the Titanic, A Night to Remember has long been regarded as a high point by Titanic historians and survivors alike for its accuracy,[2] despite its modest production values[3] when compared with the 1997 Oscar-winning film Titanic.[2][4]
- published: 18 Dec 2012
- views: 31223
- author: TheCinemaVampire
Kenneth Faried Vomiting
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Kenneth Faried pukes and his teammates Ty Lawson & Kosta Koufos run for the hills. nbatrades.tumblr.com
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Kenneth Faried pukes and his teammates Ty Lawson & Kosta Koufos run for the hills. nbatrades.tumblr.com
- published: 19 Dec 2012
- views: 139551
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Kenneth E Hagin 1978 Five Rules to a Successful Prayer Life
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Decode the Scene GAME - Kenneth Branagh Leonardo DiCaprio Gretchen Mol MOVIE CLIPS
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Kenneth Branagh Leonardo DiCaprio Gretchen Mol MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp Despite being part of an orgy with Brandon (Leonardo DiCaprio), Vicky (Gretchen Mol), and Gina (Lorri Bagley), Lee (Kenneth Branagh) continually re-directs the conversation towards his screenplay. TM & ©...
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Kenneth Branagh Leonardo DiCaprio Gretchen Mol MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp Despite being part of an orgy with Brandon (Leonardo DiCaprio), Vicky (Gretchen Mol), and Gina (Lorri Bagley), Lee (Kenneth Branagh) continually re-directs the conversation towards his screenplay. TM & ©...
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 93
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Kenneth E Hagin The Believer's Authority 03 Reigning with Our Authority 110288
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Kenneth Roman at Duke's Hartman Center (March 20, 2012)
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Presented by the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History at Duke University The Hartman Center's 20th Anniversary Lecture Series featuring Ken Roman, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather and author of The King of Madison Avenue "David Ogilvy: The Original Mad Man"
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Presented by the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History at Duke University The Hartman Center's 20th Anniversary Lecture Series featuring Ken Roman, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather and author of The King of Madison Avenue "David Ogilvy: The Original Mad Man"
- published: 25 Jun 2012
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Dwight Howard Ejected for Flagrant Foul on Kenneth Faried | Lakers vs Nuggets | Dec 26, 2012
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Decode the Scene GAME - Laura Dern Kenneth Mars Kathleen Noone MOVIE CLIPS
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Laura Dern Kenneth Mars Kathleen Noone MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp Ruth (Laura Dern) grows impatient when Dr. Rollins (Kenneth Mars) tries to convince her to have her baby. TM & © Miramax Films (2012) Cast: Kenneth Mars, Laura Dern, Kathleen Noone Director: Alexander Payne MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Cathy Konrad, Andrew Stone, Cary Woods, Michael Zimbrich Screenwriter: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Film Description: The divisive issue of abortion is at the center of Citizen Ruth, a political satire that attempts to subject both pro-choice and pro-life forces to equal ridicule. Laura Dern portrays Ruth Stoops, an irresponsible, unemployed woman who's addicted to inhaling household chemicals and has becomes pregnant, for the fifth time. After she is arrested for substance abuse, the judge offers to lessen her sentence if Ruth chooses to abort her child. Ruth agrees, but that night she encounters a group of pro-life activists. They take her under their wing, promising to help her, while secretly planning to make her case public as a symbol for the pro-life movement . When Ruth discovers the deception, she takes refuge with a pro-choice group, sparking a media frenzy. Yet Ruth soon finds her new friends are also only interested in her value as a media icon. Realizing she has been used as a pawn in the abortion rights battle, the apolitical Ruth turns the tables, offering to join ...
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Laura Dern Kenneth Mars Kathleen Noone MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp Ruth (Laura Dern) grows impatient when Dr. Rollins (Kenneth Mars) tries to convince her to have her baby. TM & © Miramax Films (2012) Cast: Kenneth Mars, Laura Dern, Kathleen Noone Director: Alexander Payne MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Cathy Konrad, Andrew Stone, Cary Woods, Michael Zimbrich Screenwriter: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Film Description: The divisive issue of abortion is at the center of Citizen Ruth, a political satire that attempts to subject both pro-choice and pro-life forces to equal ridicule. Laura Dern portrays Ruth Stoops, an irresponsible, unemployed woman who's addicted to inhaling household chemicals and has becomes pregnant, for the fifth time. After she is arrested for substance abuse, the judge offers to lessen her sentence if Ruth chooses to abort her child. Ruth agrees, but that night she encounters a group of pro-life activists. They take her under their wing, promising to help her, while secretly planning to make her case public as a symbol for the pro-life movement . When Ruth discovers the deception, she takes refuge with a pro-choice group, sparking a media frenzy. Yet Ruth soon finds her new friends are also only interested in her value as a media icon. Realizing she has been used as a pawn in the abortion rights battle, the apolitical Ruth turns the tables, offering to join ...
- published: 10 Jul 2012
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Kenneth Faried, Adorable, Says "Shit"
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Complete post-game interview, "shit" occurs at :53 in. Sorry about the min pin noises in the background.
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Complete post-game interview, "shit" occurs at :53 in. Sorry about the min pin noises in the background.
- published: 10 Jan 2013
- views: 27882
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Harry Giles Workout Top 5 Freshman in the Country - Kenneth Bates LAAB Work
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Harry Giles is a 6'9 freshman from the class of 2016. This workout with Kenneth Bates of LAAB Work shows the potential Harry possesses. YouTube Channel: www.YouTube.com Website: www.CityLeagueHoops.net Twitter @CityLeagueHoops CityLeagueHoops strives to bring the best coverage possible coverage of high school basketball to YouTube. Past videos include Jashaun Agosto, Damon Harge, Jaylin Fleming, Andrew Wiggins, Bol Bol, Thon Maker, Nerlens Noel, Jabari Parker, Harry Giles, Ben Coupet, Allen Iverson, Paul White, Marquis Teague, Enes Kanter, John Wall, Tyler Lewis, Jerron Love, Harrison Twins, Kentucky Recruiting Videos, JP Tokoto, Emmanuel Mudiay, Josh Jackson, Trevell Beck, Willie Jackson, Mickey Mitchell, Julius Randle, and many more.
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Harry Giles is a 6'9 freshman from the class of 2016. This workout with Kenneth Bates of LAAB Work shows the potential Harry possesses. YouTube Channel: www.YouTube.com Website: www.CityLeagueHoops.net Twitter @CityLeagueHoops CityLeagueHoops strives to bring the best coverage possible coverage of high school basketball to YouTube. Past videos include Jashaun Agosto, Damon Harge, Jaylin Fleming, Andrew Wiggins, Bol Bol, Thon Maker, Nerlens Noel, Jabari Parker, Harry Giles, Ben Coupet, Allen Iverson, Paul White, Marquis Teague, Enes Kanter, John Wall, Tyler Lewis, Jerron Love, Harrison Twins, Kentucky Recruiting Videos, JP Tokoto, Emmanuel Mudiay, Josh Jackson, Trevell Beck, Willie Jackson, Mickey Mitchell, Julius Randle, and many more.
- published: 06 Jan 2013
- views: 11868
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Decode the Scene GAME - Joe Mantegna Kenneth Branagh Famke Janssen MOVIE CLIPS
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Joe Mantegna Kenneth Branagh Famke Janssen MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp At a movie premiere, Robin (Judy Davis) has a public meltdown in front of her date Tony (Joe Mantegna) when she encounters her ex-husband Lee (Kenneth Branagh) and his new girlfriend Bonnie (Famke Janssen). TM...
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Joe Mantegna Kenneth Branagh Famke Janssen MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp At a movie premiere, Robin (Judy Davis) has a public meltdown in front of her date Tony (Joe Mantegna) when she encounters her ex-husband Lee (Kenneth Branagh) and his new girlfriend Bonnie (Famke Janssen). TM...
- published: 28 Sep 2012
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Decode the Scene GAME - Kenneth Branagh Daniel Radcliffe Rupert Grint MOVIE CLIPS
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Kenneth Branagh Daniel Radcliffe Rupert Grint MOVIE CLIPS click to subscribe j.mp Professor Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh) foolishly unleashes pixies onto his students. TM & © Warner Bros. (2012) Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Rupert Grint, Devon Murray, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson Director: Chris Columbus MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Paula DuPré Pesman, David Heyman, Tanya Seghatchian Screenwriter: Steve Kloves, JK Rowling Film Description: Youthful wizard Harry Potter returns to the screen in this, the second film adaptation of JK Rowling's wildly popular series of novels for young people. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) return for a second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where Headmaster Dumbledore (Richard Harris), Professor Snape (Alan Rickman), Professor McGonagall (Maggie Smith), and Hagrid the Giant (Robbie Coltrane) are joined by new faculty members Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh), a self-centered expert in Defense against the Dark Arts, and Sprout (Miriam Margolyes), who teaches Herbology. However, it isn't long before Harry and company discover something is amiss at Hogwarts: Students are petrified like statues, threats are written in blood on the walls, and a deadly monster is on the loose. It seems that someone has opened the mysterious Chamber of ...
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14 Jan 2013
Bamako/Paris - French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital, Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north ... Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said France’s intervention on Friday prevented the advancing rebels from seizing Bamako and vowed air strikes would continue ... – ... Doubt....(size: 6.6Kb)
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14 Jan 2013
Allahabad. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings ... "I am ecstatic ... Agence France-Presse ....(size: 4.2Kb)
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15 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON. Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic ... Last year’s total is the highest since the Pentagon began closely tracking suicides in 2001 ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
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15 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Desperate times call for desperate measures. In the case regarding Pakistani Shias, a minority population in Pakistan, some are refusing to bury their dead until the government deepens its commitment to protect them and the army provides better security. This comes on the heels of another suicide terrorist attack that killed 92 people and wounded more than 100 ... (1) Crilly, Rob ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
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14 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to use it as a bargaining chip. "To even entertain the idea of the United States of America not paying our bills is irresponsible. It's absurd," Obama said in a press conference ... "They will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the economy," Obama said ... Also on HuffPost ... ....(size: 10.3Kb)
The Gleaner
16 Jan 2013
By Dr Kenneth Gardner. At this time of the year, many of us could still have some energy stored in our body from the excess calories that were ingested during the holiday season. If this extra energy is not utilised quickly, it will be converted to fat very soon. At that point, we will find it more challenging to convert the fat to energy ... Dr Kenneth Gardner is an exercise physiologist at Holiday Hills Research Center; email ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
The Guardian
16 Jan 2013
Kenneth Clarke, seen here arriving at Downing Street for a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, has intervened in the Europe debate. Photograph. Rex Features. The challenge facing David Cameron over Europe has been highlighted by Kenneth Clarke's description of a referendum as a "gamble" and calls from Eurosceptic Conservatives for a complete repatriation of social and employment laws ... "All referenda are a bit of a gamble," he said ... He said ... ....(size: 5.5Kb)
Austin American Statesman
16 Jan 2013
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16 Jan 2013
Ty Lawson poured in 24 points to go with 12 assists, Kenneth Faried dropped in 21 points and pulled down 11 boards, and Danilo Gallinari finished with 25 points for the Nuggets, who improved to 15-2 ......(size: 1.0Kb)
Sacramento Bee
16 Jan 2013
Ty Lawson poured in 24 points to go with 12 assists, Kenneth Faried dropped in 21 points and pulled down 11 boards, and Danilo Gallinari finished with 25 points for the Nuggets, who improved to 15-2 at home ......(size: 1.0Kb)
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16 Jan 2013
Tampa Bay Online
16 Jan 2013
ZEPHYRHILLS --. The Zephyrhills City Council agreed to table a proposal to change the terms of council members from the current two years to three ... Council President Kenneth Compton and council members Lance Smith and Proctor face re-election bids in April ... The matter was tabled until the Jan. 28 meeting ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
Tampa Bay Online
16 Jan 2013
ZEPHYRHILLS --. Danny Burgess, the youngest person ever elected to the City Council, has picked up paperwork to run for mayor. Burgess was elected to the council in 2005, becoming council president and in 2008 resigning to attend law school ... Others who have picked up petitions are Kenneth Compton, the council president, and council members Charlie Proctor and Lance Smith ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
Detroit Free Press
16 Jan 2013
It was one doggone elusive terrier pup that dashed away from a customs agent at the Ambassador Bridge last month and almost broke the heart of a 9-year-old boy from Canada. But Joseph Wilcken of Waterloo, Ontario, is smiling again, now that he has a new dog, delivered Sunday by agents of U.S ... "I have a terrier mix myself -- I'd feel terrible if our family dog got away like that," Chief Kenneth Hammond Sr ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)
Austin American Statesman
16 Jan 2013
The hot water is back on at Anderson Oaks Apartments. Residents of the Northwest Austin apartment complex, who had only cold and lukewarm water since Thanksgiving, now have hot water to bathe in and to wash dishes and clothes ... 183 and Anderson Mill, to fix the problem. They turned to Statesman Watch for help. And help came quickly ... Kenneth Nettle, an inspector for the city, confirmed the problem in buildings 7 and 8 at the complex ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
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16 Jan 2013
(Source. Scottish Parliament). 05/12/2012. Home-buyers across Scotland will be among those paying close attention to a call for evidence issued today by the Finance Committee. A wide range of mortgage, tax, land and housing bodies are asked to submit their views along with the general public on the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) Bill ... Committee Convener Kenneth Gibson MSP said. ... distributed by ... (noodl. 17211828) ....(size: 3.7Kb)
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(Source. State of New York). Cabinet Members Will Take Governor's Agenda Directly to Communities Across the State For more information on the 2013 State of the State message visit. www.NYGetInvolved.com. Albany, NY (January 15, 2013). Wednesday, January 16 ... Lockport Town Hall. 6560 Dysinger Road ... OPEN PRESS ... 12.00 PM Kenneth Adams, President and CEO, Empire State Development, Delivers Regional State of the State Message in Ulster County....(size: 3.5Kb)
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Kenneth is a given name.
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Origin[link]
It is an anglicized (Scots) form of either the Pictish name Ciniod or the Goidelic name Cináed, often thought to mean "fire-head" or "born of fire" (see Áed), but ultimately derives from a shared prototype with Kennedy; Cunedagius, originally Cornish (then indistinct from other Brythonic languages)--after which was carried north to Valentia and borne by Cunedda (Latin Cunetacius), founder of Gwynedd. Its popularity among the Britons also led to another form in Welsh Cenydd or Cennydd (the name of a Welsh hermit saint who traditionally lived in the 6th century).
Similar names have also been anglicized as Kenneth, including the Gaelic Coinneach ("handsome one"; e.g. Cainnech of Aghaboe) and the Old English Cyneath may mean "royal oath", used as a non-Celtic alternative etymology.
English nicknames include Kenny,Km,[MS - Km], Kenn and Ken, the latter also being a Japanese name.
People[link]
- (see also Ken (name) and Kenny)
- Cainnech of Aghaboe, Saint Canice or Saint Kenneth
- Saint Cenydd or (Welsh Saint Keneth, a separate individual from above)
- Kenneth MacAlpin, Kenneth I of Scotland
- Kenneth II of Scotland
- Kenneth III of Scotland
- Kenneth Alford, composer
- Kenneth Amis, tuba player
- Kenneth Anger, avant-garde-film director
- Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Peace Prize winner for Economics, 1972
- Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, UK Home Secretary
- Kenneth Benton, (1909–1999) British MI6 officer and author
- Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers
- Kenneth Bigley, contractor, beheaded on television in Iraq
- Kenneth E. Boulding, economist
- Kenneth Box, British track and field sprinter
- Kenneth Lee Boyd, murderer
- Kenneth Branagh, Shakespearean and film actor
- Kenneth Bruffee, Professor emeritus at Brooklyn College
- Kenneth Burke, American literary theorist and philosopher
- Kenneth Calman, English chief medical officer
- Kenneth Carpenter, paleontologist
- Kenneth Arnold Chesney, country singer
- Kenneth Clark, English art historian
- Kenneth Clark (psychologist)
- Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Kenneth Cole (designer), clothing designer
- Kenneth Colley, actor
- Kenneth R. Conklin, activist
- Kenneth Connor, British comedic actor
- Kenneth Cope, actor
- Kenneth Cope (musician), Mormon music composer
- Kenneth Darling, British general
- Kenneth C. Davis, author
- Kenneth Dover (1920–2010), British academic
- Kenneth K. K. Downing, guitarist
- Kenneth Edmonds ("Babyface"), American R&B singer
- Kenneth Erskine, serial killer
- Kenneth Fearing, American poet
- Kenneth Feinberg, attorney
- Kenneth Frampton, architect and architecture critic
- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
- Kenneth Gamble, songwriter and producer
- Kenneth J. Gergen, American psychologist
- Kenneth R. Giddens, broadcaster
- Kenneth Gorelick (Kenny G), smooth jazz professional saxophonist
- Kenneth C. Griffin, billionaire
- Kenneth E. Hagin, Pentecostal minister
- Kenneth L. Hale, linguist
- Kenneth Halliwell, lover and murderer of Joe Orton
- Kenneth Ham, astronaut
- Kenneth Horne, actor and comedian
- Kenneth Gardner Hughes, Canadian politician
- Kenneth Irons, comic book character in Witchblade
- Kenneth E. Iverson, computer scientist, developed the APL programming language
- Kenneth Kaunda, first President of Zambia
- Kenneth Keating, US Senator
- Kenneth Kendall, newsreader
- Kenneth Kennedy (speed skater), Australian Winter Olympian
- Jonathan King, born Kenneth George King, pop music mogul
- Kenneth Kitchen, Egyptologist
- Kenneth Koch, poet
- Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron
- Kenneth Ma, Hong Kong actor
- Kenneth Matt, nascar driver
- Kenneth McKellar, American politician
- Kenneth McKellar (singer), Scottish singer
- Kenneth More, actor (Genevieve, Reach for the Sky)
- Kenneth O'Keefe, activist
- Kenneth Perez, Danish footballer
- Kenneth Peters, Danish handballer
- Kenneth Lee Pike, linguist and anthropologist
- Kenneth Platts, British composer
- Kenneth Rexroth, American poet
- Kenneth Robinson, politician and broadcaster
- Kenneth Rose, royal biographer
- Kenneth Ross, Scottish-American screenwriter of the films The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, etc.
- Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright, and screenwriter of the film Breaker Morant
- Kenneth Searight, linguist
- Kenneth Shaw ("Buzz" Shaw), college chancellor
- Kenneth Starr, special investigator in Monica Lewinsky scandal
- Kenneth M. Taylor, American WWII pilot
- Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman, billionaire
- Kenneth Tigar, American actor
- Kenneth Tolon II (b. 1981), college football player
- Kenneth Tynan, critic
- Kenneth Welsh, actor
- Kenneth Williams, comedian and actor
- Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1982
- Kenneth M. Fersht, Renowned Multimedia Artist from Canada, a.k.a. Kmax
- Kenneth D. Barroga, a youth pastor
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Other[link]
- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?", a song by R.E.M.
- Hurricane Kenneth (2011)
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| Born | (1989-11-19) November 19, 1989 (age 22) Newark, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| High school | Technology High School, Newark, New Jersey |
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Listed weight | 228 lb (103 kg) |
| Career information | |
| College | Morehead State |
| NBA Draft | 2011 / Round: 1 / Pick: 22nd overall |
| Selected by the Denver Nuggets | |
| Pro career | 2011–present |
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Kenneth Bernard Faried Lewis[1] (born November 19, 1989), nicknamed the "Manimal", is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the NBA. He was a power forward at Morehead State University, where he was named Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year and an All-American in 2010.
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High school career[link]
Faried attended Technology High School in Newark, New Jersey.[2] He received recruiting interest from Marist and Iona colleges in New York, but chose to attend Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky.[2]
College career[link]
Faried, a 6'8 (2.03 m) post player, came to Morehead State in 2007 and became one of the best players in school and conference history. Faried led the Ohio Valley Conference in rebounding as both a sophomore and a junior (13.0 rebounds per game in each season) – ranking him third in the NCAA in 2008–09 and second in 2009–10. Faried also chipped in double-digit scoring in each of his three varsity seasons.[3]
Faried also led the Eagles to team success, as Morehead claimed a berth in the 2009 NCAA tournament by winning the Ohio Valley conference tournament. Faried led the way, scoring 15 points and grabbing 17 rebounds in the final against Austin Peay, and was named tournament Most Valuable Player. In his junior year, Faried again led the Eagles to the post-season as they advanced to the second round of the College Basketball Invitational. At the end of the season, Faried was named OVC player and defensive player of the year and an AP honorable mention All-American.[4] He also passed 1000 rebounds for his career.
After his junior season, Faried declared himself eligible for the 2010 NBA Draft. However, he elected to return for his senior season, pulling out on May 7, 2010.[5]
Faried broke Tim Duncan's modern-era (post-1973) Division I career rebounding mark of 1,570 rebounds (which had stood since 1997) with 12 rebounds in the Eagles' 71–65 victory over Indiana State on February 19, 2011. Morehead State again won the Ohio Valley conference tournament, earning a 13 seed in the 2011 NCAA tournament. Led by the play of Faried, Morehead State pulled off a huge upset in the first round of the tournament, upsetting the 4 seed Louisville Cardinals. Faried ended his collegiate career with 1,673 rebounds.
In his senior season, Faried was named a second-team All-American by the United States Basketball Writers Association and by Fox Sports.[6][7]
On April 1, 2011, Faried was named the most valuable player of the Reese's college all-star game.[8]
On June 23, 2011, Faried was selected 22nd overall in the 2011 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets.
College statistics[link]
| College | Year | GP | MIN | FG% | 3FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| Morehead State | 2007–08 | 30 | 605 | .516 | .000 | .580 | 8.0 | .3 | 1.2 | .8 | 10.5 |
| Morehead State | 2008–09 | 36 | 1083 | .556 | .400 | .577 | 13.0 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 13.9 |
| Morehead State | 2009–10 | 35 | 1060 | .564 | .250 | .595 | 13.0 | .5 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 16.9 |
| Morehead State | 2010–11 | 35 | 1261 | .623 | .000 | .577 | 14.5 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 17.3 |
Professional career[link]
2011–2012 season[link]
In the beginning of his time with the Nuggets, he acclimated to being an NBA player, but got little playing time behind Nenê. He started to pick up playing time later in the season, and impressed team managers and coaches of the Nuggets organization. On March 15, 2012, Nenê was traded to the Washington Wizards. This deal was made in part because of Faried's outstanding production over the previous few weeks.[citation needed] Since then, Faried has become the starting power forward of the Nuggets. In his first game after the trade of Nenê, Faried had 18 points and a career high 16 rebounds. However, he surpassed both those marks when he had career highs in points and rebounds, with 27 and 17, respectively, on April 9, 2012, in 24 minutes of play. His physical and fearless style of play earned him the nickname "Manimal."[9] He finished 3rd in NBA Rookie of the Year voting for the 2011/12 NBA season.
NBA career statistics[link]
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| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Regular season[link]
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 2011–12 | Denver | 46 | 39 | 22.5 | .586 | .000 | .665 | 7.7 | .8 | .7 | 1.0 | 10.2 |
| Career | 46 | 39 | 22.5 | .586 | .000 | .665 | 7.7 | .8 | .7 | 1.0 | 10.2 |
Playoffs[link]
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 2012 | Denver | 7 | 7 | 27.4 | .533 | .000 | .750 | 10.0 | .6 | .7 | 1.1 | 10.4 |
| Career | 7 | 7 | 27.4 | .533 | .000 | .750 | 10.0 | .6 | .7 | 1.1 | 10.4 |
Personal life[link]
Faried is Muslim.[1] His father, Kenneth Lewis, lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. His mother, Waudda Faried, lives with her wife in Newark, New Jersey; the couple entered into a civil union in 2007.[2]. He has a young daughter.
See also[link]
- List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season rebounding leaders
- List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career rebounding leaders
- List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 2000 points and 1000 rebounds
References[link]
- ^ a b Branch, John (March 16, 2011). "A Star Rebounder Leaves Trouble Behind". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/sports/ncaabasketball/17morehead.html. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ a b c O'Neil, Dana (February 9, 2011). "Kenneth Faried adapts and thrives". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=6101092. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ [1], accessed October 15, 2010
- ^ Faried Named AP All-America Honorable Mention, accessed October 15, 2010
- ^ Morehead State's Faried to Return For Senior Season, accessed October 15, 2010]
- ^ Goodman, Jeff (Mar 7, 2011). "Goodman's 2010-11 All-America teams". Fox Sports (Fox Sports Interactive Media). http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/duke-blue-devils-notre-dame-fighting-irish-represented-postseason-honors-030711. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
- ^ USBWA names 2010-11 All-Americans, accessed March 17, 2011
- ^ "Kenneth Faried boosts West all-stars". ESPN. Associated Press. 1 April 2011. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6282141. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^ http://www.denverpost.com/fanmail/ci_19547324
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| Kenneth Williams | |
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| 180px Publicity photo of Williams in the 1960s |
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| Born | Kenneth Charles Williams (1926-02-22)22 February 1926 Islington, London, England |
| Died | 15 April 1988(1988-04-15) (aged 62) Camden, London, England |
| Cause of death | Barbiturate overdose |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, broadcaster, raconteur |
| Years active | 1952–1988 |
Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.
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Life and career[link]
Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Bingfield Street, King's Cross, London,[1] the son of Louisa ("Lou" or "Louie") and Charles Williams, a barber. Williams had a half-sister, Alice Patricia, born before Louie had met Charlie Williams. He was educated at Lyulph Stanley School, later becoming apprenticed as a draughtsman to a mapmaker. He joined the Army in 1944 at 18. As part of the Royal Engineers survey section in Bombay, he first performed on stage in the Combined Services Entertainment alongside Stanley Baxter and Peter Nichols.[2] He was a voracious reader able to quote poems or literary extracts from memory. Excerpts from the diaries he kept as an adult show he adored his supportive, theatrical mother but despised his homophobic, morose and selfish father.
Comic performer[link]
His professional career began in 1948 in repertory theatre. Failure to become a serious dramatic actor disappointed him, but his potential as a comic performer gave him his break when he was spotted playing the Dauphin in George Bernard Shaw's St Joan in 1954 by radio producer Dennis Main Wilson. Main Wilson was casting Hancock's Half Hour, a radio series starring Tony Hancock. Playing mostly funny voice roles, Williams stayed in the series almost to the end, five years later.[3] His nasal, whiny, camp-cockney inflections (epitomised in his "Stop messing about...!" catchphrase) became popular with listeners.[4] Despite the success and recognition the show brought him, Williams thought theatre, film and television were superior forms of entertainment.
When Hancock moved the show away from what he considered gimmicks and silly voices, Williams had less to do on the programme. Tiring of his reduced status, he joined Kenneth Horne in Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964), and its sequel, Round the Horne (1965–1968). His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric folk singer; Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA (failed), Oriental criminal mastermind; J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, telephone heavy breather and dirty old man; and Sandy of the camp couple Julian and Sandy (Julian was played by Hugh Paddick). Their double act was notable for double entendres and Polari, the homosexual slang.
Williams appeared in West End revues including Share My Lettuce with Maggie Smith, written by Bamber Gascoigne, and Pieces of Eight with Fenella Fielding. The latter included material written by Peter Cook, then a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Cook's One Leg Too Few and Interesting Facts were part of the show and became routines in Cook's own performances. Williams's last revue was One over the Eight, with Sheila Hancock. In 1972, Williams starred opposite Jennie Linden in My Fat Friend. He also appeared with Ingrid Bergman in a stage production of George Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion in 1971.
[edit] Carry On
Williams worked regularly in British film during the 1960s and 1970s, mainly in the Carry On series (1958–1978) with its British double entendre-laced humour. He appeared in the series more than any other actor.[5] The films were commercially successful but Williams and the rest of the cast were poorly paid. In his diaries, Williams wrote that he earned more in a British Gas commercial than for any Carry On film. He often criticised Carry On films, his own performances and those of others, considering them beneath him. This was the case with many of the films, television programmes, stage plays and radio shows in which he appeared. He was quick to find fault with his own work. Despite this, he spoke fondly of the Carry On films in interviews. Peter Rogers, producer of the series, recollected, "Kenneth was worth taking care of because, while he cost very little – £5,000 a film, he made a great deal of money for the franchise."[6]
Radio and television shows[link]
Williams was a regular on the BBC radio panel game Just a Minute from its second season in 1968 until his death. From 1972, when he felt he wasn't being appreciated, he would scream, "I've come all the way from Great Portland Street." (It was a short distance to the studio from his home.) He also talked for almost a minute[7] about a supposed Austrian psychiatrist called Heinrich Swartzberg, guessing that show creator Ian Messiter had just made the name up.[8]
On television he was a frequent contributor to the 1973-1974 revival of What's My Line?, hosted the weekly entertainment show International Cabaret and was a reader for the children's story-reading series Jackanory on BBC1. He appeared on Michael Parkinson's chat show on eight occasions, during which he told anecdotes from his career. Williams was a stand-in host on the Wogan talk show in 1986.
Personal life and death[link]
On 14 October 1962, Williams's father, Charlie, was taken to hospital after drinking carbon tetrachloride that had been stored in a cough mixture bottle. Williams refused to visit him, and the following day went out for lunch and then to the cinema. Charlie died that afternoon and, an hour after being informed, Williams went on stage in the West End. The coroner's court recorded a verdict of accidental death due to corrosive poisoning by carbon tetrachloride.[9]
Several years later Williams turned down work with Orson Welles in America because he did not like the country and had no desire to work there. Many years after his death, The Mail on Sunday, quoting Wes Butters, co-writer of the book Kenneth Williams Unseen: The Private Notes, Scripts And Photographs, claimed Williams had been denied a visa because Scotland Yard considered him a suspect in his father's death.[10]
Williams insisted that he was celibate, and his diaries substantiate his claims – at least from his early 40s onwards. He lived alone all his adult life and had few close companions apart from his mother, and no romantic relationships of significance. His diaries contain references to unconsummated or barely consummated homosexual dalliances, which he describes as "traditional matters" or "tradiola" (since male homosexual activity was a criminal offence in the UK before 1967, outright admission would have been held against him if anyone had read the diaries). He befriended gay playwright Joe Orton, who wrote the role of Inspector Truscott in Loot (1966) for him, and had holidays with Orton and his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in Morocco. Other friends included Stanley Baxter, Gordon Jackson and his wife Rona Anderson, Sheila Hancock, Maggie Smith and her playwright husband, Beverley Cross.[11]
Williams lived in a succession of small rented flats in North London from the mid-1950s. After his father died, his mother, Louisa, lived close by him and, finally, in the flat next to his. His last home was a flat on Osnaburgh Street, now demolished. Williams was fond of fellow Carry On regulars Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims (whom he once proposed marriage to but she rejected it) and Bernard Bresslaw.[citation needed]
Williams rarely revealed details of his private life, though he spoke openly to Owen Spencer-Thomas about his loneliness, despondency and sense of underachievement in two half-hour documentary programmes entitled Carry On Kenneth on BBC Radio London.[12] In later years his health declined, along with that of his elderly mother, and his depression deepened. He died on 15 April 1988 in his flat;[13] the cause of death was an overdose of barbiturates.[14] An inquest recorded an open verdict, as it was not possible to establish whether his death was a suicide or an accident.[15] His diaries reveal he had often had suicidal thoughts and as far back as his earliest diaries he noted there were times when he could not see any point in existence. His authorised biography argues that Williams did not take his own life but died of an accidental overdose. The actor had doubled his dosage of antacid without discussing this with his doctor, which, combined with the aforementioned mixture of medication, is the widely accepted cause of death. He had a stock of painkilling tablets and it is argued that he would have taken more of them if he had been intending suicide.[16]
His mother died in July 1991 and his half-sister, Pat, died in 1994.[citation needed]
Legacy[link]
Diaries and biographies[link]
Posthumous publication of his diaries and letters, edited by Russell Davies, caused controversy—particularly Williams's caustic remarks about fellow professionals—and revealed bouts of despair, often primed by feelings of personal isolation and professional failure. Williams wrote his diaries from the age of 14 in 1940 until his death 48 years later, although the earliest to survive to publication was for 1942 when he reached 16. Williams kept pocket-sized diaries for 1942 and 1947 (he kept no diaries for 1943 to 1946 as he was touring the Far East in the army); a desk diary for 1948; pocket-sized diaries for 1949 and 1950; desk diaries for 1951 to 1965; standard edition desk diaries for 1966 to 1971, and finally A4-sized executive desk diaries for 1972 to 1988. He claimed that writing in his diaries eased the loneliness he often felt.
In April 2008, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the two-part The Pain of Laughter: The Last Days of Kenneth Williams.[17] The programmes were researched and written by Wes Butters and narrated by Rob Brydon. Butters purchased a collection of Williams's personal belongings from the actor's godson, Robert Chidell, to whom they had been bequeathed.[18]
The first of the programmes said that, towards the end of his life and struggling with depression and ill health, Williams abandoned Christian faith following discussions with the poet Philip Larkin. Williams had been a Methodist, though he spent much of his life struggling with Christianity's teachings on homosexuality.[17]
Kenneth Williams Unseen by Wes Butters and Russell Davies, the first Williams biography in 15 years, was published in October 2008.[19]
An authorised biography, Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams, by Christopher Stevens,[20] was published in October 2010. This drew for the first time on the full Williams archive of diaries and letters, which had been stored in a London bank for 15 years following publication of edited extracts.[21] The biography said Williams used a variety of handwriting styles and colours in his journals, switching between different hands on the page.[22]
Portrayals[link]
Williams has been portrayed in two made-for-television films. In 2000, Adam Godley played him in the story of Sid James and Barbara Windsor's love affair, Cor, Blimey! (Godley had originated the role in the 1998 National Theatre play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick on which Cor Blimey! was based). Subsequently in 2006, Michael Sheen played him in the BBC Four drama Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!.
David Benson's 1996 Edinburgh Fringe show, Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams, saw Benson playing Williams; after touring, the show ran in London's West End. Benson reprised his performance at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe and continues to tour.[23]
From 2003 to 2005, Robin Sebastian took on Williams in the West End stage show Round the Horne... Revisited, recreating his performance in 2008 for a production called Round the Horne: Unseen and Uncut.
Recognition[link]
The flat Williams had lived in on Osnaburgh Street from 1972 until his death was bought by Rob Brydon and Julia Davis for the writing of their comedy series Human Remains. The building was demolished in May 2007.[24]
The English singer-songwriter John Howard's song "Who's Listening? (For Kenneth Williams)" appeared on Howard's 2007 album Barefoot with Angels.[25] In 2011, Howard wrote:
This wasn't written about Kenneth Williams per se, but, after I'd composed it and was playing it through, I realised the lyric sort of summed Kenneth up − I think I'd recently been reading his published Diaries and I had ended the song with the same words Williams had written in his diary before he died. The dichotomy of the man was fascinating, how he was everyone's camp comedic hero but yearned to be taken seriously as an actor; hated the Carry Ons but couldn't escape them; had a kind of self-loathing but also found himself beautiful. His friendship with the louche Joe Orton also seemed out of step with his image of every housewife's favourite funny man. The character in the lyric of "Who's Listening?" is similarly hard to weigh up, so I decided to dedicate the song to Kenneth. My partner was in a play with him in the '70s and said he was a lovely man, very generous with friends and generous with fellow actors on stage as well. But a very complex character.[26]
Williams is commemorated by a blue plaque at the address of his father's barber shop in Marchmont Street, London, where he lived from 1935 to 1956. The plaque was unveiled on 11 October 2009 by Bill Pertwee and Nicholas Parsons, with whom Williams performed.[27]
In September 2010, a plaque commissioned by the British Comedy Society was unveiled in the foyer of the New Diorama Theatre by the Mayor of Camden accompanied by David Benson, the actor known for his performances of his own work dedicated to Williams, Think No Evil of Us - My Life With Kenneth Williams. The theatre stands in the Regents Place development, site of the demolished Osnaburgh Street.
Performances[link]
Films[link]
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Books[link]
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Albums[link]
- Kenneth Williams on Pleasure Bent 1967, Decca LK 4856. Music by Ted Dicks, lyrics by Myles Rudge. Arrangements and musical direction by Barry Booth, sound supervision by Roger Cameron.
- The World of Kenneth Williams 1970, Decca SPA 64. Stereo edition of recordings from the 1950s and 1960s.
Footnotes[link]
- ^ GRO Register of Births: MAR 1926 1b 408 ISLINGTON - Kenneth C. Williams
- ^ Army http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/Kenneth-Williams Retrieved 08/10/07
- ^ Hancock's Half Hour http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/w/004.html Retrieved 08/10/07
- ^ Stop messing about.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thekennethwilliamsshow/ Retrieved 8 October 2007
- ^ http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/w/004.html Retrieved 08/10/07
- ^ Kenneth Williams Unseen by Wes Butters and Russell Davies, HarperCollins 2008, p224
- ^ "JAM:KWilliams,DNimmo,CFreud,AMelly". Just-a-minute.info. 1971-02-09. http://just-a-minute.info/jam279.html. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ My Life and Other Games, Ian Messiter, 1990 ISBN 1-872180-61-2
- ^ Geoffrey Wansell (30 November 2005). "Did Kenneth Kill Himself?". Daily Mail (London): p. 32. "...in October 1962, Charlie Williams died after drinking a bottle of carbon tetrachloride in mysterious circumstances — a death that has eerie echoes of Kenneth Williams's own. He drank from a bottle labelled Gees Linctus but which actually contained poison, and the coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure, due to bronchial pneumonia and carbon tetrachloride poisoning, self-administered, by accident. Many, perhaps Kenneth included, believed it was suicide."
- ^ "Did Kenneth Williams poison his father?" Daily Mail, 31 October 2008
- ^ Davies, Russell (1993). The Kenneth Williams diaries. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255023-7.
- ^ Radio Times (London edition) 23–29 July 1977
- ^ GRO Register of Deaths: JUN 1988 14 1873 CAMDEN - Kenneth Charles Williams, DoB = 22 Feb 1926 aged 62
- ^ Overdose http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/w/004.html Retrieved 08/10/07
- ^ "Open verdict recorded on Williams". The Guardian (London). 17 June 1988. "Dr John Elliott, deputy coroner for inner north London said: The cause of death was a barbiturate overdose. Where Mr Williams would have got these from we would not be able to establish. There is no indication given as to why he should have taken this overdose and therefore I record an open verdict."
- ^ Stevens, Christopher (2010). Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams. John Murray. ISBN 1-84854-195-3.
- ^ a b "The Pain of Laughter; The Last Days of Kenneth Williams". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/painoflaughter/pip/om8uw/. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
- ^ "The truth behind that famous smile", Radio Times 5–11 April 2008
- ^ HarperCollins http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Content/Title/Default.aspx?id=40926
- ^ "Author's information page". Bornbrilliant.info. 2011-09-01. http://www.bornbrilliant.info. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Publisher's information page[dead link]
- ^ "Kenneth Williams: The Secret Loves", The Observer, Sunday 10 October 2010
- ^ "David Benson - JAMES SEABRIGHT". Seabright.info. http://www.seabright.info/davidbenson.html#tneou. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ "Kenneth Williams lived here". Shady Old Lady's Guide to London. 3 March 2010. http://www.shadyoldlady.com/location.php?loc=831. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
- ^ Video of "Who's Listening? (For Kenneth Williams)" at John Howard YouTube channel
- ^ Artist note on video of "Who's Listening? (For Kenneth Williams)" at John Howard YouTube channel
- ^ "Plaque for Carry On star Williams". BBC News Online. 11 October 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8301366.stm. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "Kenneth Williams Appreciation Society" British Comedy and Drama Website, 16 January 2011
References[link]
- Williams, Kenneth (1993), Russell Davies, ed. The Kenneth Williams Diaries. London: HarperCollins.
External links[link]
- Kenneth Williams at the Internet Movie Database
- Kenneth Williams at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- Kenneth Williams at Find a Grave
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| Short description | English actor and comedian |
| Date of birth | 22 February 1926 |
| Place of birth | Islington, London, England |
| Date of death | 15 April 1988 |
| Place of death | Camden, London, England |
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| Kenneth Ma | |
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| Chinese name | 馬國明 (Traditional) |
| Chinese name | 马国明 (Simplified) |
| Pinyin | Mǎ Guómíng (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Maa5 Gwok3 Ming4 (Cantonese) |
| Ancestry | Chaozhou, Guangdong, China |
| Born | (1974-02-13) 13 February 1974 (age 38) Hong Kong |
| Other name(s) | Ma Ming (馬明) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1999–present |
Kenneth Ma Kwok-ming (born 13 February 1974) is a Chinese Canadian actor from Hong Kong. He graduated from University of British Columbia majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Although he initially intended to pursue a career in engineering, he decided the industry did not suit his personality and enrolled in acting classes at TVB instead despite the better pay and more stable prospects of the former. Initially in his career Kenneth often played supporting roles, however in recent years TVB has started to promote him. He won the 'Most improved actor award' at the 39th TVB Awards in 2006. He was recently handed his first leading role in the drama serial Survivor's Law II opposite Hong Kong singer Ella Koon. The drama aired in 2008 and achieved credible ratings of 31 points in the second half of its broadcast as well as a favourable reception.
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2004 | The Healing Spirit | Angel (extra) | TV movie |
| Life in the Balance | Sit-in student (extra) | TV movie | |
| 親密殺機 | Cop (extra) | TV movie | |
| 2010 | 72 Tenants of Prosperity | Firefighter | Cameo |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1999 | A Witness to a Prosecution | Prince (extra) | |
| At the Threshold of an Era | Stanley | ||
| 2000 | At the Threshold of an Era II | Doctor (extra) | |
| Ups and Downs | extra | ||
| When Dreams Come True | Real estate manager | ||
| War of the Genders | Franco | Episode 14 | |
| Return of the Cuckoo | Chuk Kwan-ho's classmate | ||
| The Legendary Four Aces | Suzhou citizen | ||
| Healing Hands II | extra | ||
| Colourful Life | extra | Episodes 2–4 | |
| 2001 | Gods of Honour | extra | |
| Armed Reaction III | EODB crew member (extra) | Episode 9 | |
| The Heaven Sword & the Dragon Sabre 2000 | Yee Kwan | ||
| Virtues of Harmony | Yat Yeung Chi / Beggar / Hawker / Ma On-shan | ||
| A Step into the Past | Kam Ching's deceased husband (extra) | Episode 34 | |
| Law Enforcers | extra | ||
| 2002 | Good Against Evil | Sam | Episode 11-15 |
| Invisible Journey | extra | ||
| Love is Beautiful | Prison guard / Scholar / Soldier (extra) | ||
| The White Flame | Doctor (extra) | ||
| Treasure Raiders | Chow Chi-kong | ||
| Police Station No. 7 | Cop (extra) | ||
| Burning Flame II | Billy | ||
| Eternal Happiness | Lai Ming-tong | ||
| Slim Chances | Peter | ||
| Golden Faith | Doctor | ||
| Take My Word for It | SDU team leader | ||
| Love and Again | Manager A | ||
| Whatever It Takes | Servant/Guard (extra) | ||
| 2003 | The King of Yesterday and Tomorrow | Party Guest (extra) | Episode 8 |
| The Threat of Love II | extra | ||
| Better Halves | Tai Hon | ||
| Survivor's Law | Joe Chan | ||
| Not Just a Pretty Face | Ma Siu-tung | ||
| The Driving Power | Ko Wai-lei | ||
| Triumph in the Skies | Roy Ko | ||
| Point of No Return | extra | ||
| 2004 | Net Deception | David | |
| The Vigilante in the Mask | Au-yeung Hing | ||
| Armed Reaction IV | Andy | ||
| Dream of Colours | Lui Siu-lung | ||
| The Last Breakthrough | Doctor Shek | ||
| 2005 | Strike At Heart | Patient | Episode 2 |
| Wong Fei Hung – Master of Kung Fu | Kan Kin | ||
| Lost in the Chamber of Love | Emperor Tak-chung | ||
| Scavengers' Paradise | Tang King-chan | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Most Improved Male Artiste (Top 5) | |
| Into Thin Air | Koon Ching-wan | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor (Top 5) | |
| Misleading Track | Vincent | ||
| Life Made Simple | Jason | Episode 28 | |
| The Herbalist's Manual | Pong Hin | TVB Anniversary Award for Most Improved Male Artiste | |
| 2006 | La Femme Desperado | Ko Chi-lik | TVB Anniversary Award for Most Improved Male Artiste Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor (Top 20) |
| Love Guaranteed | Tim Kwok Fu-kan | TVB Anniversary Award for Most Improved Male Artiste Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor (Top 20) |
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| To Grow With Love | Mak Kar-fai | TVB Anniversary Award for Most Improved Male Artiste | |
| 2007 | The Brink of Law | Yan Heung-ming | Episode 1-8 |
| The Family Link | Kam Shing-chun | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor (Top 20) | |
| 2007–08 | Survivor's Law II | Sun Man-kwan (MK Sun) | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor (Top 10) Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for My Favourite Male Character (Top 5) |
| 2008 | The Master of Tai Chi | Mai Fung-nin | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor (Top 10) |
| D.I.E. | Senior Inspector Hugo Shing Ka-chun | ||
| The Money-Maker Recipe | Sun Man-kwan (MK Sun) | Episode 3 | |
| Speech of Silence | Leung Kai-yin (OK Jai) | ||
| Your Class or Mine | Sun Man-kwan (MK Sun) | Episodes 18–19 | |
| The Four | Iron Fist / Tit Yau-ha | ||
| 2009 | Man in Charge | Chow Bing | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for My Favourite Male Character (Top 15) Nominated — Asian Television Award for Best Comedy Performance by an Actor/Actress |
| In the Chamber of Bliss | Yue Yam-kwok | ||
| Born Rich | Sha Po-loi | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor (Top 5) | |
| 2010 | Don Juan DeMercado | Himself | Episode 6 |
| A Fistful of Stances | Koo Yue-tong | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for My Favourite Male Character (Top 5) | |
| The Mysteries of Love | Senior Inspector Gordon Lo Tin-hang | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor (Top 15) | |
| Can't Buy Me Love | Ting Yau-wai | ||
| 2011 | Grace Under Fire | Yau Sam-shui | |
| Yes, Sir. Sorry, Sir! | Jack | Episode 30 | |
| The Other Truth | Alex Kong Lok-man | Episodes 20–25 | |
| The Life and Times of a Sentinel | Fuk-tsuen, the Second Imperial Prince | Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor (Top 15) | |
| 2012 | The Hippocratic Crush | Dr. Cheung Yat-kin | |
| Tiger Cubs | Mak Wan-tik | Episodes 1, 13 Post-production |
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| Three Kingdoms RPG | Szema Shun / Szema Yee | Post-production | |
| Silver Spoon, Sterling Shackles | Charles Chung Kai-san | Post-production | |
| 2013 | Season of Love | TBA | Pre-production |
| Triumph in the Skies II | TBA | Pre-production | |
| The Hippocratic Crush II | Dr. Cheung Yat-kin | Announced |
External links[link]
- Kenneth Ma at TVB
- Kenneth Ma at HKADB
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| TVB Anniversary Awards | ||
| Preceded by Bosco Wong for Wars of In-laws |
Most Improved Actor 2006 for The Herbalist's Manual ; La Femme Desperado ; Love Guaranteed ; To Grow With Love |
Succeeded by Amigo Choi for Sccop ; E-Buzz ; Jade Solid Gold ; Enjoy Yourself Tonight 2007 |
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| Name | Ma, Kenneth |
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| Date of birth | February 13, 1974 |
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| Place of death | |
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This article is about the entertainer and comedian. For the former rugby league footballer, see Graeme Norton.
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| Birth name | Graham William Walker |
| Born | (1963-04-04) 4 April 1963 (age 49) Clondalkin, Dublin, Ireland |
| Medium | Television, radio, stand-up |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy |
| Subject(s) | Everyday life, pop culture, current events, celebrities, sex |
| Notable works and roles | So Graham Norton V Graham Norton The Graham Norton Effect Graham Norton's Bigger Picture The Graham Norton Show |
Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton, (born 4 April 1963)[1] is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist. He is the host of comedy chat programme The Graham Norton Show on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US. Hot Press has described him as "the 21st century's answer to Terry Wogan", with both men sharing an Irish background and the common link of being a BBC Radio 2 presenter and the BBC television commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest.[2] Norton has won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Entertainment Performance on five occassions.
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Early life and career[link]
Norton was born in Clondalkin, a suburb of Dublin, but grew up in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland to a Protestant family. He was educated at Bandon Grammar School, in County Cork and then University College Cork but did not complete his studies.
In 1992 his stand-up comedy drag act in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a tea-towel clad Mother Teresa of Calcutta made the press when Scottish Television's religious affairs department mistakenly thought he represented the real Mother Teresa.[3]
His first appearances in broadcasting were in his spot as a regular comedian and panellist on the BBC Radio 4 show Loose Ends, when the show ran on Saturday mornings, in the early 1990s. His rise to fame began as one of the early successes of Channel 5, when he won an award for his performance as the stand-in host of a late-night TV talk show usually presented by Jack Docherty.[4][5] This was followed by a comic quiz show on Channel 5 called Bring Me the Head of Light Entertainment, which was not well received as a programme, but did further enhance Norton's individual reputation as a comic and TV host. In 1996, Norton co-hosted the late-night quiz show Carnal Knowledge on ITV with Maria McErlane.
In 1996, Norton played the part of Father Noel Furlong in three episodes ("Hell", "Flight Into Terror", "The Mainland") of the Channel 4 series Father Ted. Father Noel Furlong was often seen taking charge of a small youth folk-group.
Channel 4[link]
After this early success, Norton moved to Channel 4 to host his own chat shows including So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton. As a performer who is not only openly gay,[6] but also camp and flamboyant, it was here that Norton's act was fully honed as a cheeky, innuendo-laden joker.
In 2003, he was the subject of controversy when, on his show on Channel 4, he made a comedic reference to the recent death of Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb. The Independent Television Commission investigated after complaints about this insensitivity were forwarded to it and eventually Channel 4 had to make two apologies: one in the form of a caption slide before the show, another from Norton in person.
Also in 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. (Though Norton is Irish, the bulk of his television career has been in the UK.)
In the summer of 2004, Norton moved across the Atlantic to start a new venture in American television. The Graham Norton Effect debuted on 24 June 2004 on Comedy Central, and was also broadcast in the UK on BBC Three. In the midst of controversy surrounding Janet Jackson's Super Bowl performance, Norton was wary of moving into the market.[7]
BBC[link]
In 2005, Norton moved to the BBC and began hosting the Saturday evening reality TV series Strictly Dance Fever on BBC One, as well as a new comedy chat show, Graham Norton's Bigger Picture. He also read stories some nights on the BBC children's channel CBeebies as part of Bedtime Hour.
In 2006, Norton hosted the BBC One series How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? in which Andrew Lloyd Webber tried to find a lead actress for his West End version of The Sound of Music. Norton has subsequently presented the 3 follow-up series: Any Dream Will Do in 2007, in which a group of males competed to win the role of Joseph in the West End production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; I'd Do Anything in 2008, in which Andrew Lloyd Webber seeks to find the part of Nancy and Oliver for Sir Cameron Mackintosh's production of Lionel Bart's Oliver!; and Over the Rainbow in 2010, following a similar format to find a new Dorothy for a Wizard of Oz West end Production.
Norton hosted various other shows for the BBC during this time, including When Will I Be Famous? (2007), The One and Only (2008) and Totally Saturday (2009). Since 2007, Norton has also been a regular host of The British Academy Television Awards. On 7 July 2007, Norton presented at Live Earth and undertook a trip to Ethiopia with the Born Free Foundation to highlight the plight of the Ethiopian wolf – the rarest canid in the world. In the same year, he was the subject of an episode of the BBC1 genealogy documentary Who Do You Think You Are?.
Norton's chat show, The Graham Norton Show, began on 22 February 2007 on BBC Two. Although in a format that he had not been involved in for 4 years, it is very similar to his previous Channel 4 shows. On 6 October 2009, the show moved to BBC One, in a new one-hour format.
In May 2010, he stood in for Chris Evans' breakfast show on BBC Radio 2. Later that month, it was confirmed that he would be replacing Jonathan Ross's Saturday morning slot on the same station.
In December 2011, the panel show Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton premiered on BBC America in the time slot immediately following The Graham Norton Show. Recorded in New York, it is one of BBC America's earliest efforts at producing original programming, and is also the first panel game the channel has shown, either of British or American origin.
In January 2012, he called on listeners to his Radio 2 show to help find his car hours after it was stolen. He called it "The Great Car Hunt" and told listeners to “Keep your eyes out for it. It was filthy by the way."
Eurovision[link]
Norton hosted the first annual Eurovision Dance Contest alongside Claudia Winkleman which was held on 1 September 2007 in London, England. The format was based on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and the EBU's Eurovision Song Contest. Norton and Winkleman also hosted the 2008 Contest in Glasgow, Scotland.
In October 2008, it was confirmed by the BBC that Norton would replace Terry Wogan as the BBC's presenter for the UK heats of the Eurovision Song Contest, in a show to be called Your Country Needs You.
On 5 December 2008 it was announced that Norton would also take over from Wogan as the presenter of the main Eurovision Song Contest.[8] The 54th Eurovision Song Contest was held in the Olimpiyskiy (Olympic) Stadium, Moscow on 16 May 2009.
Norton's jokes during his debut received some positive reviews from the British media. The Guardian noted his comments on Iceland's entry, which finished in second place, had "rooted around in a cupboard and found an old bridesmaid dress from 1987" and the Armenian singers, who finished in tenth place, were sporting traditional dress, "which would be true if you come from the village where Liberace is the mayor."[9] The Times noted his highlighting of the arrest of thirty gay rights protesters in Moscow – "heavy-handed policing has really marred what has been a fantastic Eurovision."[9]
His comment “The bad news is you’re about to watch Albania. She’s only 17 so please bear that in mind. Where was her mother? Why didn’t she step in and say no?” which was made just before Albanian singer Kejsi Tola was set to take the stage dubbed an insult by many, sent ripples of outrage through not only Albania, but also the Albanian population in Britain. He then announced that Albania should get no points and that he didn't care what anybody else thought. There was a petition circling the net calling for a formal apology from Norton. The petition, which called his comment “very rude and insulting,” had drawn over 1,000 signatures. He never responded.[10]
In 2011, he snarked that if Jedward's entry into the competition that year won, the twins would never sleep again. In the end, they were eighth. Earlier in that year's televote, he joked "Quick, someone take a picture", when The British entry that year went temporarily in the lead early on after high votes from Russia(4), Bulgaria(12) and Italy(10). In the end, the song dropped down the 11th, earning 100 points. Very annoyed, Norton claimed 'We were better than Jedward'.
In 2012, Norton joked about the Spanish singer Pastora Soler and the economic situation of Spain. This statements unleashed many bad reviews on the internet. Norton joked about Rona Nishliu (the singer of Albania) too. He said that Rona was a singer that "she shout a lot".
Other[link]
In July 2000 Graham was one of three judges of the Miss Lesbian Beauty Contest 2000 held at The Talk of London, Drury Lane. The contest was won by 42 year old Carol Hutchins who wowed the audience with her sit-down comedy routine from a wheelchair. Graham described Carol as a "very bright, funny lady."
Graham Norton played Mr. Puckov in the 2006 American comedy spoof film Another Gay Movie. In 2007, Norton played Taylor in the romantic comedy film I Could Never Be Your Woman.
Norton was involved in a high-publicity advertising campaign for the UK National Lottery as an animated unicorn, the stooge to a character based on Lady Luck (played by Fay Ripley). He has also advertised McVitie's biscuits.
In 2007, Norton featured in Girls Aloud and Sugababes' Comic Relief video for the single "Walk This Way."
In January 2009, Norton made his West End stage debut in a revival of La Cage Aux Folles at the Playhouse Theatre.
Since 2009, Norton has been the host of the comedy game-show Most Popular on US cable television channel WE tv.[11]
Norton currently writes an advice column in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. In October 2010, these columns were made into a book entitled Ask Graham, published by John Blake Publishing.
Personal life[link]
Norton has stated that he felt "out of place" growing up in Ireland; his family are Protestant yet the Republic of Ireland is overwhelmingly Catholic. Norton took part in the TV programme, Who Do You Think You Are?, to trace his ancestry. It was discovered that his family were originally planters sent over from England to take over Irish land. Some members of his family had fought for the British Monarchy during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and taken part in a massacre of Catholics in Carnew Castle. Another member of his family was later killed in battle by the United Irishmen. Norton said he was comforted to find out that his family had resided in Ireland for generations.[12]
In 1989 while living in London, Norton was mugged, beaten and stabbed by a group of attackers on the street. He says he lost half his blood and nearly died, and he was hospitalised for two and a half weeks.[13][14]
Norton is openly gay.[6][15][16]
Norton owns a holiday home in Ahakista, County Cork, which is near to where he grew up, in Bandon. The house has a private beach and overlooks Dunmanus Bay.
TV appearances[link]
Main presenting credits[link]
- Carnal Knowledge (TV series, co-presenter) (1996, 27 one hour shows)
- Bring Me the Head of Light Entertainment
- So Graham Norton (1998–2002)
- V Graham Norton (2002–2003)
- NY Graham Norton (2004)
- The Graham Norton Effect (2004–2005)
- Graham Norton's Bigger Picture (2005–2006)
- Strictly Dance Fever (2005–2006)
- BBC/Andrew Lloyd Webber musical theater talent searches (2006–present)
- How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? (2006)
- Any Dream Will Do (2007)
- I'd Do Anything (2008)
- Over the Rainbow (2010)
- The Big Finish (2006–)
- When Will I Be Famous? (2007)
- The Graham Norton Show (2007–present)
- The British Academy Television Awards (2007)
- Live Earth (2007)
- Eurovision Dance Contest (2007)
- The One and Only (2008)
- Eurovision Dance Contest (2008)
- Eurovision: Your Country Needs You (2009–present)
- Eurovision Song Contest (UK commentator, 2009–present)
- Totally Saturday (2009)
- Most Popular (2009–present)
- Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton (BBC America, 2011–present)
Other television credits[link]
| Year | Title | Character | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996–98 | Father Ted:
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Father Noel Furlong | Channel 4 |
| 2001 | Rex the Runt: A Crap Day Out | The Plants voice | BBC |
| Rex the Runt: Patio | Osvalde Halitosis voice | BBC | |
| The Kumars at No. 42 | Himself | BBC | |
| 2002 | Absolutely Fabulous: Gay | Himself | BBC |
| 2007 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Himself | BBC |
Saving Planet Earth
|
Himself | BBC | |
| Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List | Himself | Bravo | |
| Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind | Computer voice | BBC |
Radio[link]
Sitting in for Steve Wright August 2009 BBC Radio 2
Sitting in for Chris Evans May /July 2010 BBC Radio 2
On 2 October 2010, he began his weekly BBC Radio 2 Saturday show taking over from Jonathan Ross. The show airs from 10.00am-1.00pm and combines a mixture of music, chat and celebrity guests.
2011/12 Radio 2 Saturday mornings
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Character | Production |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Stargay | Graham Solex | Canal+ |
| 2006 | Another Gay Movie | Mr. Puckov | Luna Pictures |
| 2007 | I Could Never Be Your Woman | Taylor | The Weinstein Company |
Stand-Up videos[link]
- Live At The Roundhouse (19 November 2001)
Awards[link]
- 1999 : Gaytime Award for Gay Entertainer of the Year
- 2000 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance – So Graham Norton
- 2001 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance - So Graham Norton
- 2001 : RTS Television Award for Best Presenter – So Graham Norton
- 2001 : TRIC Award TV Personality of the Year
- 2002 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Perfromance - So Graham Norton
- 2011 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance – The Graham Norton Show [17]
- 2012 : BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance - The Graham Norton Show
References[link]
- ^ Norton, Graham. So Me. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 4. ISBN 0-340-83348-3.
- ^ Bootboy (20 June 2007). "Reasons to be cheerful". Hot Press. http://hotpress.com/archive/2931306.html. Retrieved 20 June 2007.
- ^ Turpin, Adrian (20 August 1992). "Festival Eye". The Independent: p. 24.
- ^ "Graham Norton: Naughty but nice". BBC News (BBC). 15 December 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3322069.stm. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ Robinson, James (14 August 2005). "Summer stand-ins steal the limelight". The Observer (Guardian Media Group). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/aug/14/broadcasting.business. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ a b Cohen, Benjamin (27 April 2006)."Graham Norton: “I’m too old to be attractive to gay men”. Pink News. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
- ^ Norton, Graham. So Me. Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 326–333. ISBN 0-340-83348-3.
- ^ "Eurovision: Norton to replace Wogan". BBC Press Release (BBC). 12 December 2008. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/12_december/05/eurovision.shtml. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
- ^ a b "Norton's Eurovision debut reviewed". BBC News (BBC). 09:44 GMT, Sunday, 17 May 2009 10:44 UK.
- ^ "Graham Norton Albanian Eurovision Insult".
- ^ "Most Popular". WE tv.
- ^ "Graham Norton". Who Do You Think You Are?
- ^ Norton, Graham (2 October 2010). "Graham Norton: agony uncle". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8034256/Graham-Norton-agony-uncle.html. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ Jones, Liz (3 September 2004). "Graham's growing pains". This is London. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-12964948-grahams-growing-pains.do. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ "Lynn Barber interviews Graham Norton". The Observer (Guardian Media Group). 28 October 2001. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2001/oct/28/features.magazine7. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
- ^ Ellen, Barbara (18 November 2007). "Barbara Ellen interviews Graham Norton". The Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/18/bbc.television. Retrieved 9 January 2008.
- ^ "Graham Norton Nabs BAFTA TV Award". IFTN (Irish Film and Television Network). http://iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4283916&tpl=archnews&force=1. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
External links[link]
- Graham Norton Radio 2 at BBC Programmes
- The Graham Norton Show at BBC Programmes
- Graham Norton at the Internet Movie Database
- Graham Norton at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
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| Preceded by Terry Wogan |
Eurovision Song Contest UK Commentator 2009–present |
Incumbent |
| Preceded by N/A |
Eurovision Dance Contest presenter (with Claudia Winkleman) 2007, 2008 |
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| Name | Norton, Graham |
| Alternative names | Walker, Graham William |
| Short description | Actor, comedian, television presenter |
| Date of birth | 1963-4-4 |
| Place of birth | County Cork, Ireland |
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