Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, best known for holding the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941. It has a capacity (depending on configuration of the event) of up to 5,272 seats. The Hall is a registered charity held in trust for the nation and receives no public or government funding.

Since its opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage and it has become one of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings. Each year it hosts more than 390 shows in the main auditorium, including classical, rock and pop concerts, ballet, opera, film screenings with live orchestra, sports, award ceremonies, school and community events, charity performances and banquets. A further 400 events are held each year in the non-auditorium spaces.

The Hall was originally supposed to have been called the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences, but the name was changed to the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences by Queen Victoria upon laying the Hall's foundation stone in 1867, in memory of her late husband consort, Prince Albert who had died six years earlier. It forms the practical part of a national memorial to the Prince Consort – the decorative part is the Albert Memorial directly to the north in Kensington Gardens, now separated from the Hall by the road Kensington Gore.

Albert Hall (footballer, born 1882)

Albert Edward Hall born 21 January 1882 in Wordsley, near Stourbridge, was an England International football player and he is most well known for his 10-year playing career for Aston Villa. He died in Stourbridge on 17 October 1957.

Career

Aston Villa signed Hall from Stourbridge in 1903. He scored six goals in his nine league outings in the 1903–04 season. He is noted as being a hard working outside left player who teamed up well with Joe Bache between 1904 and 1910. Hall was a consistent goalscorer, scoring 61 goals in 214 league and cup appearances. In 1913 Hall left Villa to join Millwall and he retired in 1916.

Honours

With Villa Hall won an FA Cup in 1905 and the First Division championship medal in 1910, the year when he won his first, and only, England cap in a game against Ireland.

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Albert Hall (actor)

Albert W. Hall (born November 10, 1937) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Chief Phillips in the 1979 war film, Apocalypse Now and Judge Seymore Walsh in Ally McBeal and The Practice.

Early life and education

Hall was born on November 10, 1937 in Boothton, Alabama. He graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Career

Early work

After portraying Pointer in Willie Dynamite (1974), Hall made his film debut in the 1976 biopic, Leadbelly. He also played a co-pilot in the 1978 film, The Bermuda Triangle. Hall had a small role in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations.

Apocalypse Now

Hall gained mainstream attention for his role as Chief Phillips in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 war classic, Apocalypse Now, in which his character leads the rest of crew upriver from Vietnam to Cambodia so that Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) can complete his mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Chief eventually gets killed by a Vietcong soldier who throws a spear that impales him. To prepare for the role, Hall did some research in attempt to convey an accurate portrayal of experiencing the Vietnam War first hand. The actor has since then described his experience shooting the film in the Philippines as "exotic" and added that "it was all fun."

Albert Hall (athlete)

Albert William "Al" Hall (August 2, 1934 – October 9, 2008) was an American hammer throw champion, who competed in the Olympics on four occasions.

Hall grew up on the family's farm in Hanson, Massachusetts, where he built up his physique using a set of weights he had constructed from concrete cylinders.

Hall attended Whitman High School (now part of Whitman-Hanson Regional High School), where he was a running back on the school's football team and became an active participant on the track team during his senior year. Hall graduated from the school in 1952.

He appeared on the August 14th, 1960 broadcast of What's My Line where the guests were associated with the Olympics, including Jesse Owens as the "mystery guest".

Track and field competition

He attended Cornell University where he was the intercollegiate heptagonal track and field champion on three occasions. He set multiple meet records at major events and was captain of the 1955–56 Cornell team, winning recognition as Athlete of the Year that season by The Cornell Daily Sun. He was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society.

Royal Albert

Royal Albert may refer to several places named in memory of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha:

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