Stephen King's 1985 novel " The Tommyknockers " also makes reference to Altair 4, as a desolate wasteland.

In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.

* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

* The protagonist of Stephen King's novel Duma Key exhibited symptoms of a condition similar to receptive aphasia after suffering brain damage in an industrial accident.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie ( 1974 ) is written in an epistolary structure, through newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie includes many excerpts from a fictional committee's findings on the events in the novel, as well as excerpts from a book on the events in the novel titled The Shadow Exploded.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

* William Harrison-Wallace in the Dollar Baby screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Death of Jack Hamilton ( 2012 ).

He has also signed on to direct, produce, and write an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel 11 / 22 / 63 that centers around an attempt to go back in time and stop the Kennedy Assassination.

* Lud ( city ), a city in Stephen King's Dark Tower series

At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was such that an author was limited to a book every year, since publishing more would not be acceptable to the public.

Richard Bachman was also referred to in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books.

* Rhea of the Cöos, a character in Stephen King's Dark Tower novels

In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies.

* Stephen King's Official Web Site

At one time, prominent science fiction authors were frequently recruited to write episodes of various series, such as William Gibson's and Stephen King's work on The X-Files.

* Maximum Overdrive, Stephen King's 1986 film, featured big rigs as its primary homicidal villains

The plot of Stephen King's 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla is loosely based on The Magnificent Seven ( Or, rather Seven Samurai ).

In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.

Some of which include Annie ( 1982 ), Clue ( 1985 ), and most notably, the 1990 horror miniseries Stephen King's It in which he stars as " Pennywise the Dancing Clown ", an alternate physical appearance of the titular antagonist, It.

Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels.

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

However, the following year she played Connie in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, noting it was " truly a dreadful film but I had a great part in it.

* Selected Stories ( 1980 ) edited by Stephen Gray ISBN 0-7981-1031-7 Human & Rousseau

* 1980 – Stephen Milne, Australian rules footballer

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner ( vocals, guitars, synthesisers ), Peter Hook ( bass, synthesisers ) and Stephen Morris ( drums, electronic drums, synthesisers ) – the remaining members of Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis – with the addition of Gillian Gilbert ( keyboards, guitars, synthesizers ).

Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner were members of the post-punk band Joy Division, often featuring heavy production input from producer Martin Hannett.

One of his grandsons ( by adoption ), Stephen Reinhardt, is a labor lawyer who has served notably on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since his appointment by Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Campbell has also edited a number of anthologies, including New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos ( 1980 ), New Terrors ( 1980 ) and ( with Stephen Jones ) the first five volumes of the annual Best New Horror series ( 1990 – 1994 ).

Sarah was the sister-in-law of Stephen J. Cannell and had previously been married to Randy Stonehill from 1975 to 1980.

* Stephen Moore ( cricketer ) ( born 1980 ), English cricketer

His children from the first marriage were John Stephen Chennault ( 1913 – 1977 ), Max Thompson Chennault ( 1914 – 2001 ), Charles Lee Chennault ( 1918 – 1967 ), Peggy Sue Chennault Lee ( born 1919 ), Claire Patterson Chennault ( November 24, 1920 – October 3, 2011 ), David Wallace Chennault ( 1923 – 1980 ), Robert Kenneth Chennault ( 1925 – 2006 ), and Rosemary Louise Chennault Simrall ( born 1928 ).

Terence Stephen " Steve " McQueen ( March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980 ) was an American movie actor.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

) Janus was observed by Dan Pascu on February 19, 1980 (,) and then by John W. Fountain, Stephen M. Larson, Harold J. Reitsema and Bradford A. Smith on the 23rd (.

Their rock-musical István, a király ( Stephen I of Hungary ), released in 1980 contains strong folk-influences and traditional folk songs as well.

* Stephen Fry – Queens ' College, Cambridge, 1980

Although inspired by The Stanley Hotel in Colorado, the 1980 movie The Shining, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, used aerial shots of the Timberline Lodge as part of its opening scene.

In 1980, she portrayed French chanteuse Edith Piaf in Stephen Barry's production of the Pam Gems play Piaf at the Perth Playhouse.

* Me Bandy, You Cissie-1979 ( Winner of the 1980 Stephen Leacock Award )

Pelzer is the son of a San Francisco fireman, Stephen Joseph Pelzer ( 1923 – 1980 ), who was of Austrian descent, and Catherine Roerva Christen Pelzer ( 1929 – 1992 ).

In 1980, he played the title role in Stephen Sondheim's Grand Guignol musical Sweeney Todd and in 1982 he played Terri Dennis in Peter Nichols ' play, Privates on Parade ( he appeared in the film version of Privates on Parade as well ).

Shortly after noon on August 14, 1980, Snider and Stratten met at Snider's house, where the two had once lived as a couple, and which Snider was by then sharing with its owner, their mutual friend, Dr. Stephen Cushner.

In 1980, Loudon replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.

Taylor re-entered Parliament at a 1980 by-election for Southend East following the death of Sir Stephen McAdden then, from 1997, representing Rochford and Southend East.

Doherty became only the third player from outside the United Kingdom ( After Australian Horace Lindrum in 1952 and Canadian Cliff Thorburn in 1980 ) to win the World Championship when he beat Stephen Hendry 18 – 12 in the 1997 final.