* Mark Mendoza ( born 1955 ), American bass player nicknamed " The Animal "

In 1955, the Congress of the People officially adopted the Freedom Charter, stating the core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress and its allies the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats ( COD ) and the Coloured People's Congress.

* A. Walsh ( 1955 ), The application of atomic absorption spectra to chemical analysis, Spectrochim.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

In addition, they toured pre-independence Namibia ( then South West Africa ), in 1955, 1962, 1968, and 1974.

* Knollenberg, Bernhard, " General Amherst and Germ Warfare ," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 41 ( 1954 – 1955 ), 489 – 494.

His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Another of his tunes, " Matchbox Blues ", was recorded more than 30 years later by The Beatles, albeit in a rockabilly version credited to Carl Perkins, who himself did not credit Jefferson on his 1955 recording.

The Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

In the reworked version of the book in 1955, Philip Hershkovitz and Hartley Jackson led him to drop Thos both as an available scientific term and as a viable subgenus of Canis.

( Heavily revised version of Greenberg 1955.

A 1955 film version of Ordet was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion in the 1955 Venice Film Festival and the 1956 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The best-known version in French is the free verse edition by Franz Toussaint ( 1879 – 1955 ) published in 1924.

Perhaps the best-known film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Richard III is the 1955 version directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role.

makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a 3-hour Thanksgiving special.

* Paul Huson in the 1955 film version, alongside Laurence Olivier as Richard.

After an eight-year absence from films, he starred in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts opposite James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen.

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Fonda in a live 1955 TV version of The Petrified Forest

In the 1955 film of " Richard III ", after he is clubbed over the head into unconsciousness by the murderers, the drowning is shown, but in the 1995 version his throat is slit while in the bath.

* Pierre Boulez: Le marteau sans maître, for contralto and six instrumentalists, with prominent part for vibraphone ( 1955 ), "… explosante-fixe …", version for vibraphone and electronics ( 1986 )

From October 15, 1955 to September 1956, ABC-TV aired a live, hour-long television version once a month on Saturday nights ( sponsored by Ralston-Purina ), pre-empting one hour of the then-90-minute Ozark Jubilee.

For example, in China in 1955, in order to respond to illiteracy among people, the government introduced a Romanized version of Chinese script, called Pinyin.

Refusing to sign a seven-year studio contract, Steiger later turned down the role in the film version in 1955.

* GAZ-M73-prototype truck version of GAZ-M72 ( 1955 )

In the first week of January 1955, Siegel, Wanger and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring visited Finney to talk about the film version and to take a look at Mill Valley.

Thornton Wilder wrote A Life in The Sun ( 1955 ) based on Euripides ' play, later producing an operatic version called The Alcestiad ( 1962 ).

In 1964, the play enjoyed yet another incarnation when David Merrick, who had produced the 1955 Broadway production, mounted a hugely successful, Tony Award-winning musical version entitled Hello, Dolly !, with a score by Jerry Herman and starring Carol Channing.

A daily newspaper comic strip version of Dragnet distributed by the Los Angeles Mirror Syndicate ran in newspapers from June 23, 1952 to May 21, 1955 ( with a preview week that ran in many papers promoting its impending start ).

In 1955 Ferrer directed himself in the film version of The Shrike, with June Allyson.

* The Sun Valley, a version of the Mercury Montclair line of automobiles in 1954 and 1955

* The 1955 film Oklahoma !, an adaptation of the famed Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is re-released.

The world's first purpose-built container ship was the Clifford J. Rodgers, built in Montreal in 1955 and owned by the White Pass and Yukon Route.

In 1955 she released her first ( and only ) solo album, Songs I Taught My Mother, which featured " silly, sinful, and satirical " songs by Sheldon Harnick, Vernon Duke, John La Touche, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, and Marc Blitzstein ( who reportedly wrote the song " Modest Maid " especially for Rae ), among others.

* The Trapp Family Singers, whose life story provided some inspiration for Rodgers and Hammerstein in their musical The Sound of Music, recorded a song titled " Carol of the Drum " ( identified on the Decca record jacket as a " Czech carol ") prior to their 1955 retirement.

* Gaby Rodgers in Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 )

The film's adaptation of two of Steinbeck's novels was also a strategy used by creators of the " book " for the musical Pipe Dream ( 1955 ), by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

In 1955, the 15 minute Perry Como Show moved back to NBC and became an hour-long program ; Charles had an opportunity to work with and write special material for some of the great entertainers of the age: Ethel Merman, Kay Thompson, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, as well as composers Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren and others.

The brief 1955 production, directed by William Hammerstein and choreographed by Onna White, starred Helen Gallagher, Merv Griffin, and Will Mahoney, who was nominated for a Tony as Best Featured Actor in a Musical.

David Hammerstein Mintz ( born on 23 September 1955 in Los Angeles ) is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Los Verdes, part of the European Greens.

Arthur Hammerstein ( December 21, 1872-October 12, 1955 ), was the son of Oscar Hammerstein I.