Gosden voiced the characters " Amos ", " George ' Kingfish ' Stevens ", " Lightning ", " Brother Crawford ", and some dozen other characters.

One episode of the 1940s radio sitcom Amos ' n ' Andy featured Iturbi unexpectedly getting a piano lesson from Andy Brown ( who received a certificate from a correspondence school ) and George " Kingfish " Stevens.

Williams was joined in the cast by New York theater actor Alvin Childress, who was cast as Amos, and vaudeville comedian Tim Moore, who was cast as their friend George " Kingfish " Stevens.

Their daughter first received notice for her radio work in the 1940s playing Millicent Carstairs on Fibber McGee & Molly, telephone operator Gertrude Gearshift ( and many other roles ) on The Jack Benny Program, school principal Eve Goodwin on The Great Gildersleeve, and appeared on the occasional Amos ' n Andy radio show, usually as a store clerk attempting to assist Andy and Kingfish in a purchase.

The series was an animated remake of Amos ' n ' Andy more or less, " Andy and The Kingfish " and featured the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll from the radio series ( in fact, several of the original radio scripts by Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher were adapted for this series ).

* Costello has been portrayed in several movies by actors James Andronica in Gangster Wars ( 1981 ), Carmine Caridi in Bugsy ( 1991 ), Costas Mandylor in Mobsters ( 1991 ), and by Kirk Baltz in the television movie Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long ( 1995 ).

The Stingrays set the league postseason record for most goals by one team in a two-game series with 11 goals in their two game shutout of the Baton Rouge Kingfish in the preliminary round of the playoffs.

One of Long's followers dubbed him " the Kingfish " after the master of the Mystic Knights of the Sea lodge to which the fictional Amos and Andy belonged.

Show spotlights the Kings -- George Worth, Bill Kay, Frank Ciciulla and Gene Wilson, flanked by Dave Grossman and Ron Stevens.

George Stevens, Jr., served as director from the institute's founding until 1980.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

After the war ended, Capra, along with directors William Wyler and George Stevens, founded Liberty Films.

* Vivacious Lady ( 1938 ), d. George Stevens

* The More the Merrier ( 1943 ), d. George Stevens

* December 18 – George Stevens, American film director ( d. 1975 )

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He explained to director and producer George Stevens, Jr. that he felt that " big stars are barely trained or not very well trained.

When Kazan received an Honorary Academy Award in 1999, the audience was noticeably divided in their reaction, with some including Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Ian McKellen and Amy Madigan refusing to applaud, and many others, such as actors Kathy Bates, Meryl Streep and Warren Beatty and producer George Stevens, Jr. standing and applauding.

Ford managed to secure other roles in movies, such as A Time for Killing ( The Long Ride Home ), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton and Inger Stevens.

On 27 May 2009, David Leveaux as director opened the latest London production of Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre with Samantha Bond, Nancy Carroll, Jessie Cave, Trevor Cooper, Sam Cox, Lucy Griffiths, Tom Hodgkins, Hugh Mitchell, Neil Pearson, George Potts, Dan Stevens and Ed Stoppard.

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In addition, Lean directed some scenes of The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ) while George Stevens was doing location work in Nevada.

Due to the film's perceived failure, Hawks was released early from his two-film contract with RKO and Gunga Din was eventually directed by George Stevens.

* George Stevens – 5 wins ( Freetrader ( 1856 ), Emblem ( 1863 ), Emblematic ( 1864 ), The Colonel ( 1869, 1870 ))

It was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B.

Director George Stevens originally cast Montgomery Clift as Shane, William Holden as Joe Starrett ; when they both proved unavailable, the film was nearly abandoned.

Even though she had not made a picture in five years, Arthur accepted the part at the request of George Stevens with whom she had worked in two earlier films, The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) and The More the Merrier ( 1943 ) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.

Director George Stevens also used a small cannon and fired it into a garbage can to create the loud report of the pistol for maximum effect.

It was directed by George Stevens, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin ( his brother Garson Kanin thought up the original idea and worked with Katharine Hepburn along with brother Michael and Lardner on the early drafts, without credit.

These changes were made by Louis B Mayer, producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz and director George Stevens.

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and George Washington Harris, whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in literature.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George

In the 1950s George Reeves series, Clark Kent is portrayed as a cerebral character who is the crime reporter for the Daily Planet and who as Kent uses his intelligence and powers of deduction to solve crimes ( often before Inspector Henderson does ) before catching the villain as Superman.

The two main contributors to the alphabet's character development were Pratt and George D. Watt, a local expert on shorthand systems.

A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

After finding the quantized character of charge, in 1891 George Stoney proposed the unit ' electron ' for this fundamental unit of electrical charge.

ELIZA was named after Eliza Doolittle, a working-class character in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, who is taught to speak with an upper-class accent.

George Lucas said that he based the Han Solo character in Star Wars on Coppola.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's novel set in a totalitarian London, main character Winston Smith initially dislikes Julia, the woman he comes to love, because of " the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her.

King George III called Washington " the greatest character of the age " because of this.

* JK Rowling Interview with Daniel Radcliffe cites George Eliot's real name as inspiration for character Lily Evans's name.

George Lindsey ( reprising his " Goober " character from The Andy Griffith Show ),

Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part.

* Eduige is a character in the opera Rodelinda by George Frederick Handel.

Author George Sand was portrayed as a character in several works in the 19th century ; writer Mario Praz credited the popularity of lesbianism as a theme to Sand's appearance in Paris society in the 1830s.

The logo is possibly a reference to the ending of George Lucas ' first film, THX 1138, in which the main character stands silhouetted with his arms raised during a sunset.

* Napoleon ( Animal Farm ), a character in George Orwell's novel

* In the novelization of the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, written by Peter George, an explanation is given that the title character, " Dr. Strangelove ", had been wounded, and these wounds had left him with only one hand, and wheelchair-bound, because of the bombings of Peenemünde while he worked there for Nazi Germany.

* 1865: In George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen, the character Annie Anderson is raised by her stingy relative Robert Bruce.