* Bryan Talbot's graphic novel Grandville is set in an alternate history in which France won the Napoleonic War, invaded Britain and guillotined the British Royal Family.

Bryan is the birthplace of 2006 Indianapolis 500 champion — and current NASCAR driver -- Sam Hornish, Jr., Bob Hartman, founder of the Christian rock pioneer group " Petra ", and of Mark Winegardner, chosen to be the author of the novel The Godfather Returns.

The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1959 film featuring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Fred Astaire, and a 2000 television film starring Bryan Brown, Armand Assante and Rachel Ward.

* The Winner of Sorrow: a novel / Bryan Lynch.

Swagmen have been the subject of numerous books including the 1955 novel The Shiralee by D ' Arcy Niland, which was made into a 1957 film, starring Peter Finch ( who himself lived as a swagman during early adulthood ), and a 1987 TV mini-series, starring Bryan Brown.

In the novel, Dorothy, the Scarecrow ( the American farmer ), Tin Woodman ( the industrial worker ), and Cowardly Lion ( William Jennings Bryan ), march on the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, the Capital ( or Washington, D. C .), demanding relief from the Wizard, who is interpreted to be the President.

It was based on the 1958 novel by John Boland and adapted by Bryan Forbes, who also starred in the film.

The movie was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks.

Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the novel by Mark McShane, in which an unstable medium convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and achieve renown for her abilities.

The book was adapted as a film ( produced and directed by Bryan Forbes ) in 1966, thought by many to be as successful as the highly successful novel, which has hardly ever been out of print.

It was written by Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield, based on Garfield's novel of the same name.

Following the success of his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dicken's 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris.

Once again, the graphic novel was met with a hugely positive critical response, and later that year Quitely took over from Bryan Hitch as artist on The Authority, with Mark Millar as writer.

Originally published in the UK as Two Hours to Doom – with George using the pseudonym " Peter Bryant " ( Bryan Peters for the French translation, 120 minutes pour sauver le monde ) – the novel deals with the apocalyptic threat of nuclear war and the almost absurd ease with which it can be triggered.

The graphic novel Grandville by Bryan Talbot was greatly inspired by Grandville's illustrations.

Peter Bryan George ( 24 March 1924 – 1 June 1966 ) was a British author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, also known as Two Hours to Doom, written under the pen name Peter Bryant.

His best-known novel, Red Alert was written while a serving RAF officer, ( hence the original use of a pseudonym: Peter Bryant – the Bryan being taken from his middle name ).

Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne, John Gielgud, and Frank Welker, with the singing voices of Céline Dion, Bryan White, and Andrea Corr.

In 1983 the novel was adapted as a film directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Roger Moore and Rod Steiger.

Bryan Michael Stoller and Michael Jackson were scheduled to co-direct the motion picture They Cage the Animals at Night, based on the best-selling novel by Jennings Michael Burch.

Lost at Sea is a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O ' Malley.

It was produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.

The other major departure is at the end, where Miss Marple unambiguously opines that Lucy Eyelesbarrow will marry Bryan Eastley, merely one of the possibilities Miss Marple suggests in the novel.

It is based on the novel of the same name by Bryan Fair Berkey.

* Bryan Autoplane – 1953, a series of folding wing roadable aircraft based on the Erco Ercoupe.

Lex's story continues in the comic book continuation Smallville Season Eleven, written by Bryan Q. Miller, who also wrote for the television series.

The series, which Phoenix won in six games for their first playoff series win since the days of the old Winnipeg Jets, saw five of the six games going to overtime, with Bryan Bickell ( Game 2 ) and Jonathan Toews ( Game 5 ) scoring the only Blackhawk overtime winners of the series.

Whitman played evil ex Roxy Richter in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a film adaptation of the Bryan Lee O ' Malley indie comic series Scott Pilgrim.

In February 2012, NBC gave a series order to Hannibal, a television adaptation of Red Dragon to be written and executive-produced by Bryan Fuller.

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright was a limited series comic book written and drawn by Bryan Talbot.

Between 1987 and 1989 Bryan Talbot completed the story, which was published as a series of nine standard comic books by Valkyrie Press, followed, at readers ' request, by a tenth issue containing articles about the history and production of the comic and some extended back story and character information.

Bryan was first hired for the new Great Gildersleeve series, to play the part of one of Gildersleeve's cronies, Floyd Munson, the barber.

His work on the series ( in Bryan's natural voice ) so impressed the Quinn and Leslie, that Bryan was added to the cast of their main show, Fibber McGee and Molly, in 1943.

Bryan continued as the Fibber show's secondary male lead, even after Thompson and ( for a time ) Gordon returned to the show, and he stayed as Dr. Gamble all the way through its final incarnation on the NBC Monitor series in 1959, as well as playing Floyd on " Gildersleeve " through its conclusion in 1954.

The Quantocks were also the setting for the final episode of the third series ( 2006 ) of Peep Show, while the video to the Bryan Adams hit ( Everything I Do ) I Do It for You was filmed in the landscape of Holford and Kilve.

Notable guest stars in the series included Patrick Troughton, Peter Jeffrey, Brian Blessed, George Baker, Philip Madoc, Bryan Pringle, Iain Cuthbertson and Peter Bowles.

In the light of initially poor viewing figures, management at Thames were intent on scrapping the show but managing director Bryan Cowgill persuaded them to commission one further series and repeat the first.

Les Zaitz, Jeff Kosseff and Bryan Denson were finalists for the Pulitzer for National Reporting for the same series that also won the George Polk Award noted above.

Captain Bryan Robson, however, was now 36 years old and in the final stages of his playing career, and a series of injuries which had kept him out of action for most of the 1992 – 93 season continued into 1993 – 94.

The artwork was praised with the reviewer stating that Bryan Hitch's " artwork has definitely been one of the main elements that will make this series memorable.

In the past decade, Guilford's Bryan Series has brought many notable speakers to the campus and city for an annual public lecture series.

* Naamah is an antagonist in the Dragons In Our Midst series by Bryan Davis ( author )

Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, co-creators of the Avatar: The Last Airbender animated television series, stated in an interview that " Shaolin Soccer is one of our favorite movies.

A series of eye injuries, most notably that to Bryan Berard, have led to a call from many to enforce their wearing.

In the opening game of the Stars ' first-round series against the San Jose Sharks, he suffered a torn ACL as a result of a check by Bryan Marchment.

Heart of Empire, or the Legacy of Luther Arkwright is a limited series by Bryan Talbot, published in nine monthly parts in 1999 by Dark Horse Comics.