* In the Tales of Old Dartmoor episode ( recorded in 1956 ) of The Goons radio comedy series, Grytpype-Thynne arranges for the prison to put to sea to visit the Château d ' If in France as part of a plan to find the treasure of the Count of Monte Cristo hid there.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

* The Adventures of Robin Hood – Episode " Friar Tuck " as Sir William of Marmsbury, " Checkmate " as Count De Waldern ( series 1: 1955 ), " A Village Wooing " as Wat Longfellow ( series 2: 1956 ) and " The Reluctant Rebel " as Herbert ( series 4: 1958 ).

In the " Tales of Old Dartmoor " episode ( recorded in 1956 ) of The Goon Show radio comedy series, Grytpype-Thynne arranges for Dartmoor Prison to put to sea to visit the Château d ' If as part of a plan to find the treasure of the Count of Monte Cristo hidden there.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

Williams played in several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV, including " The Long Shot " ( 1955 ), " Back for Christmas " ( 1956 ), " Whodunit " ( 1956 ), " Wet Saturday " ( 1956 ), " The Rose Garden " ( 1956 ), the 3-part episode " I Killed the Count " ( 1957 ), and " Banquo ’ s Chair " ( 1959 ).

Joe Williams recorded it in 1952 for Checker ; his remake from 1956 ( included in Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings ) was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1992.

A 1944 Band graduate of New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, he wrote jazz compositions like " Not Really the Blues " for Woody Herman in 1949, " Hershey Bar " ( 1950 ) and " Pot Luck " ( 1953 ) for Stan Getz, " Straight Life " ( 1953 ) and " Low Life " ( 1956 ) for Count Basie as well as " Tommyhawk " ( 1954 ) for Chet Baker.

* The Count of Monte Cristo ( TV series ), a 1956 television series starring George Dolenz

* FESTETICS, Sándor, Count ( 1882 – 1956 ) Hungarian National Socialist Party politician.

His debut at the Teatro alla Scala was in 1956 as Count Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.

James " Jimmy " Hibbert ( born 23 November 1956 ) is an English television writer and voice actor best known for his work for Cosgrove Hall, mainly voicing Ruffles, Dr Von Goosewing and many other characters in Count Duckula and Bella, Harry Slime and Poodle Stink in Avenger Penguins.

In 1956 she toured the United States with the NBC Opera Company as Countess Almaviva with Walter Cassel as the Count, Adelaide Bishop as Sussana, Ralph Herbert as Figaro, and Frances Bible as Cherubino.

* Lady Charlotte-Anne ( born 9 January 1956 ), married Count Bernard de Castellane, and had issue

* Count Sándor Festetics de Tolna ( 1882 – 1956 ), Hungarian politician

Another famous owner is John Surtees, who was given a 507 by Count Agusta for winning the 1956 500cc World Motorcycle Championship on a MV Agusta.

Monford Merrill " Monte " Irvin ( born February 25, 1919 in Haleburg, Alabama ) is a former left fielder and right-handed batter in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played with the Newark Eagles ( 1938 – 42, 46-48 ), New York Giants ( 1949 – 55 ) and Chicago Cubs ( 1956 ).

Models produced had been: 1900, 1903, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1924 High Velocity Sporting Rifle, 1950, 1952, 1956 Monte Carlo, 1961 Monte Carlo All-Purpose, Magnum.

In 1956 Manoel de Mello started his own church, the Igreja Pentecostal Brasil para Cristo ( IBPC ) (" Brazil for Christ " Church ).

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

* 1956: I Love Lucy Christmas Show ( TV ) .... Ricky Ricardo

* 1956: I Love Lucy Christmas Show ( TV ) ( producer )

* 1952: I Love Lucy ( 3 episodes, 1952 – 1956 ) ... aka " Lucy in Connecticut "-USA ( rerun title ) ... aka " The Sunday Lucy Show "-USA ( rerun title ) ... aka " The Top Ten Lucy Show " – USA ( rerun title ) – Lucy and Bob Hope ( 1956 ) TV episode ( performer: " Nobody Loves the Ump " ( uncredited )) – Ricky's European Booking ( 1955 ) TV episode ( performer: " Forever, Darling " ( uncredited )) – Cuban Pals ( 1952 ) TV episode ( performer: " The Lady in Red ", " Similau ")

After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957.

They married in 1956 and had two children, Christopher John Hall ( TV producer ) in 1957 and Jennifer Caron Hall, a writer, painter and actress, in 1958.

* 1956 – Helen Rollason, English sports journalist and TV presenter ( d. 1999 )

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d ( 1956 ) starring Peter Sellers was the first attempt to translate Goons humour to TV ; it was followed by A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred, both made during 1956 and directed by Richard Lester, who went on to work with The Beatles.

His other TV appearances included Down You Go, What's My Line ?, Camera One, Ken's Column, Trader Horne ( a weekly advertising magazine for the Tyne Tees region ), Let's Imagine, Call My Bluff ( as team captain ), and various specials with Richard Murdoch such as Free and Easy ( 1953 ) and Show for the Telly ( 1956 ).

* The Good Fairy ( 1956 TV movie )

* 28 April 1956 internet Archive Grand Ole Opry on TV.

In 1956 Sykes performed, wrote scripts, and acted as script editor for the pioneering Rediffusion TV comedy The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d, the first attempt to translate the humour of the Goons to television.

Very little programming survives from the earliest years of Australian TV ( 1956 – 1960 ) as kinescope recording to film was expensive, and most of what was recorded in this way has since been lost or destroyed.

The first production was staged as a live adaptation screened on 28 March 1956 by NBC TV and sponsored by Kraft Foods as part of the Kraft Television Theatre strand.

Serling then wrote Requiem for a Heavyweight for the Playhouse 90 TV series in 1956, again gaining praise from critics.

* The Honeymooners ( October 1, 1955 – September 22, 1956 ) TV Series

* The Jackie Gleason Show ( September 29, 1956 – June 22, 1957 ) TV Series

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten: off-spinner Jim Laker's monumental effort at Old Trafford when he bowled 68 of 191 overs to take 19 out of 20 possible Australian wickets in the Fourth Test.

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

In 1956, he and Peter Breck appeared in John Bromfield's syndicated series Sheriff of Cochise in the episode " The Turkey Farmers ".

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

In 1956, the government of Afghanistan promulgated the first in a long series of ambitious development plans.

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

Gammell began making plans to execute the pictorial sequence during World War II and completed the series in 1956.

In 1956, Cotten left film for years for a string of successful television ventures, such as the NBC series On Trial ( renamed at mid-season The Joseph Cotten Show ).

They then became known for a series of satirical comedy films, such as Private's Progress ( 1956 ), Lucky Jim ( 1957 ) and I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).

had a good supporting role in the Western Seven Men from Now ( 1956 ) and starred in The Missouri Traveler ( 1958 ) but it took over one hundred episodes as Chicago cop Frank Ballinger in the successful 1957-1960 television series M Squad to actually give him name recognition.

The representations and naming of these signs has been standardized by a series of international colloquia starting with the first in Paris in 1956.

After a series of setbacks that includes a severe frost in 1956 and several vintages in the 1960s lost to rot, French authorities in Bordeaux banned new plantings of Merlot vines between 1970 and 1975.

In 1956 the United Kingdom selected Malden as the " instrumentation site " for its first series of thermonuclear ( H-bomb ) weapons tests, based at Kiritimati ( Christmas Island ).

The series ran on ABC Television for an hour each weekday in the 1955 – 1956 and 1956 – 1957 seasons ( from 5: 00 to 6: 00 pm ET ), and only a half-hour weekdays ( 5: 30 to 6: 00 pm ET ) in 1957 – 1958, the final season to feature new programming.

In June 1956, a protest by workers at the city's Cegielski locomotive factory developed into a series of strikes and popular protests against the policies of the government.

In 1956, Rickenbacker introduced two instruments with the " neck through body " construction that was to become a standard feature of many of the company's products, including the Combo 400 guitar, the model 4000 bass, and, later, the 600 series.

Fabian of the Yard was a television series filmed and transmitted by the BBC between 1954 and 1956, based upon the career of the by then retired Detective Inspector Robert Fabian.

* This Is Show Business, television series from 1949 to 1956

* OSS 117 n ' est pas mort, aka OSS 117 is not dead ( 1956 ), first in long-running series of adaptations from the novels.

After returning from his nature trip, in June 1956, Fleming became involved in a project with Henry Morgenthau, III to collaborate on a television series Commander Jamaica, centred in the Caribbean with the main character of James Gunn.

' Urban design ' was first used as a distinctive term when Harvard University hosted a series of Urban Design Conferences from 1956.