Branagh achieved some early measure of success in his native Northern Ireland for his role as the title character in the BBC's Play for Today trilogy known as the Billy Plays ( 1982 – 84 ), written by Graham Reid and set in Belfast.

Bonham's cousin Billy Bonham ( born 1950 ), also played keyboards for Terry Reid and Ace Kefford.

In the ' 80s and ' 90s, he worked with Kenny Barron, Rufus Reid, Buck Clayton, Benny Carter, Billy Taylor, Harry Edison, Mel Tormé, Ernestine Anderson, Louie Bellson, John Pizzarelli, Howard Alden, Dick Hyman, Byron Stripling, Jane Jarvis, Frank Vignola and was a featured member of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra.

Manager Billy Reid was voted as the PFA Scotland Manager of the Year.

In May, James McCarthy won the SPFA Young Player of the Year, ahead of James McArthur, while Billy Reid narrowly missed out on the manager's prize.

Junior Campbell joined on his fourteenth birthday on 31 May 1961, replacing McGovern, and Rodgers was then replaced, initially by two new lead vocalists, Billy Reid and Tommy Scott, although Reid soon departed, leaving Scott as the new frontman.

He studied Mechanical Engineering at Reid Kerr College Paisley, during which time he was inspired by Billy Connolly.

Savarese is trained by Jesse Reid, who survived a shooting in 1984 when another of his boxers, former WBC world Jr. Welterweight champion Bruce Curry shot him two days after losing to Billy Costello.

During his professional career as a pianist, he has played with and for musicians such as Ravi Coltrane, Billy Higgins, Marlena Shaw, Gerald Wilson, James Newton, Billy Hart, Anthony Cox, Greg Osby, Robin Eubanks, Lonnie Plaxico, Jack DeJohnette, Ralph Peterson, Dave Holland, Bobby McFerrin, Meshell Ndegeocello, Carlos Ward, Ray Anderson, Charles Neville, Hassan Hakmoun, Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Mýa, Kip Hanrahan, Noreaga, Cindy Blackman, Joshua Redman, Victor Bailey, Bobby Previte, Frank Lacy, Bennie Maupin, Pheeroan Aklaff, Eric Person, Gary Thomas, Vernon Reid, Marty Ehrlich, Gene Jackson, James Genus, Steve Swallow, Andrew Cyrille, Steve Coleman, John Scofield, Jeff " Tain " Watts, Stanley Turrentine, Don Alias, and many others.

* Billy Reid

" I'm Walking Behind You " is a popular song written by Billy Reid and published in 1953.

The original version was probably Dorothy Squires ', recorded in the United Kingdom, with the orchestra of Billy Reid, the author of the song.

Category: Songs written by Billy Reid

William Reid ( Billy ) Clubb ( October 7, 1884 — August 11, 1962 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

In October 1979 a meeting took place in the East End of Glasgow with the Three flute bands that existed in the city at that time: The James Connolly RFB, The Billy Reid RFB and The Kevin Barry RFB.

This made his name as a composer and arranger, and he went on to record a number of big-band albums, as well as working as an arranger for Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Johnny Hodges, Wes Montgomery, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Smith, Billy Taylor, Stanley Turrentine, Irene Reid, Gene Ammons and many others.

The Irish Catholic supporters of James II referred to these northern Protestant supporters of " King Billy ", as " Billy Boys ".

* 1935 – Billy McCullough, Irish footballer

** Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer

The Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ) leader Billy Wright was shot dead in December 1997 by two Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) prisoners.

In Scorsese's The Departed he played the role of Billy Costigan, a state trooper working undercover in an Irish Mob in Boston.

It has also recently been claimed by some in the Republican Socialist Movement that one of their members killed in 1975, Brendan McNamee ( who was involved in the killing of Billy McMillen ), was actually killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army members.

* Billy McMillan, former Belfast Celtic and dual IFA and FAI Irish international footballer lived his entire life in Carrickfergus.

* Billy Hamilton ( footballer ) ( born 1957 ), Northern Irish footballer

It featured concert performances by Rude Awakening, Billy Sheehan, Rudy Sarzo, John Norum, Carmine Appice, Phantom Blue, Soma, producer Roy Z and his band the Tribe of Gypsies, Mark Ferrari, Oslo, Bang Tango, Stash, Iron Cross and Irish singer-songwriter Mark Dignam.

Ireland ’ s boxing head coach and former Irish Olympian Billy Walsh is a native of Wexford town and has contributed greatly to the success of underage level boxers with local club St. Ibars / Joseph ’ s.

* Irish Derby Stakes – Billy Pitt

Contemporary poets associated with Irish modernism include those associated with New Writers Press and The Beau magazine ; these include Trevor Joyce, Michael Smith, Geoffrey Squires, Randolph Healy, Billy Mills, Catherine Walsh, and Maurice Scully.

* Billy Mills ( poet ), Irish poet

* Billy Burke ( hurler ) ( 1912 – 1995 ), Irish hurler

Borrowing from other traditions and instruments has continued-in the early-to-mid 20th century, Billy Pigg, and Jack Armstrong ( The Duke of Northumberland's Piper ) for instance, adapted many tunes from the Scottish and Irish pipe and fiddle repertoires to smallpipes, as well as composing tunes in various styles for the instrument.

Among the significant Irish poets to have emerged in recent years are: Pat Boran, Mairéad Byrne, Ciarán Carson, Patrick Chapman, Harry Clifton, Tony Curtis, Padraig J. Daly, Colin Dardis, Gerald Dawe, Greg Delanty, Séan Dunne, Paul Durcan, Eamon Grennan, Vona Groarke, Kerry Hardie, Randolph Healy, Seamus Heaney, John Hughes, Pat Ingoldsby, Trevor Joyce, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Thomas McCarthy, Hugh McFadden, Paula Meehan, Billy Mills, Sinéad Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Gerry Murphy, Bernard O ' Donoghue, Conor O ' Callaghan, Caitriona O ' Reilly, Justin Quinn, Maurice Riordan, Maurice Scully, Michael Smith, Geoffrey Squires, William Wall, Catherine Walsh.

* Billy King ( cricketer ) ( 1902 – 1987 ), Irish cricketer

* Billy Williams ( rugby union ) ( born 1929 ), Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player

* Billy Murray ( singer ) ( 1877 – 1954 ), Irish American singer

* Saturday 27 December 1997: Inside the Maze Prison, members of the Irish National Liberation Army shot and killed Billy Wright, the Loyalist Volunteer Force leader.

* Billy Marshall ( 1936 – 2007 ), Northern Irish footballer

In The Rising Generation, Irish-American bricklayer Martin McShayne ( played by the fat Irish comedian Billy Barry in the stage production McManus saw ) becomes a wealthy contractor, yet his society-minded wife and daughter were ashamed of him and his lowbrow buddies, prompting McShayne to sneak out to join his pals for poker.

* Billy Wright ( loyalist ) ( 1960 – 1997 ), Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader

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* 1939 – Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1939 – Billy " Crash " Craddock, American singer

He co-starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose's Aquacade during the NEW YORK World's Fair, 1939 – 41, pursuing her throughout a span of two years.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

Australia entered the Second World War on 3 September 1939 and a special War Cabinet was created after war was declared – initially composed of Prime Minister Menzies and five senior ministers including Billy Hughes.

* 1939 ( 1 ) Walter Hagen 25th Anniversary ( with Billy Burke )

At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Billy Rose's Aquacade starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called " a brilliant girl show of spectacular size and content ".

* Billy the Kid ( 1939 )-ballet to the music of Aaron Copland-dancer

Although he continued to occasionally play leads – notably when he was a playboy in Billy Wilder's Midnight with Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore in 1939 – in the late 1930s Lederer began to expand his film acting repertoire with offbeat character parts, even playing villains.

The return of Billy Southworth in 1939 brought another league championship to Rochester.

A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today George Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot, the original Scarface ( 1932 ), and Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ), and as a dancer in Bolero ( 1934 ) and a truck driver in They Drive by Night ( 1940 ).

Butlin had several children from his three marriages: Shirley ( born 1931 to Dolly ), Robert ( born to Nora in 1934 as Robert F. Reeves ), Cherie ( also known as Cherry ) ( born to Nora in 1939 ), Sandra ( born 1941 ), William Jr ( also known as Billy ) ( born 1960 to Sheila ), and Jacquie ( born to Sheila ).

* Billy Robinson ( born 1939 ), British professional wrestler and trainer

* Billy Ellis ( 1895 – 1939 ), English footballer

Adnan Bin Abdulkareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie ( born March 1, 1939 ), better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, is a former Iraqi professional wrestler and manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissy, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan.

Midnight is a 1939 romantic comedy ( with some elements of screwball comedy ) directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz.