* D ' banj, Nigerian musician, known for his 2012 single Oliver Twist

David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

* Monks ( Oliver Twist ), a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Prostitutes were often presented as victims in sentimental literature such as Thomas Hood's poem The Bridge of Sighs, Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton, and Dickens ' novel Oliver Twist.

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

* July 30 – David Lean's Oliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut.

** David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK.

* The first U. S. feature film, Oliver Twist, was released in 1912.

* Charles Dickens publishes his first novel The Pickwick Papers followed by Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby

* February – Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London.

The dish became popular in wider circles in London and South East England in the middle of the 19th century ( Charles Dickens mentions a " fried fish warehouse " in Oliver Twist, first published in 1838 ), while in the north of England a trade in deep-fried chipped potatoes developed.

uses chunks of dialogue from Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, although it bills itself as a " free adaptation " of the novel.

Oliver Twist finishes in the slums and rookeries along its south bank.

* The titular character in Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist spends his first years in a " baby farm.

Tree often starred in the theatre's dramatizations of popular nineteenth-century novels, such as Sydney Grundy's adaptation of Dumas's Musketeers ( 1898 ); Tolstoy's Resurrection ( 1903 ); Dickens's Oliver Twist ( 1905 ), The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1908 ) and David Copperfield ( 1914 ); and Morton's dramatization of Thackeray's The Newcomes, called Colonel Newcome ( 1906 ), among others.

Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and A Passage to India ( 1984 ); for bringing Charles Dickens ' novels to the silver screen with films such as Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ); and for the renowned romantic drama Brief Encounter ( 1945 ).

Two celebrated Charles Dickens adaptations followed – Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ).

In the end, Lean decided to write the film himself with the assistance of Maggie Unsworth, with whom he had worked on the scripts for Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and The Passionate Friends.

* The prison appears in a number of novels by Charles Dickens, including Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty and Great Expectations, and is the subject of an entire essay in his work Sketches by Boz.

1947 saw two subsequently-outstanding films in production, Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean and Powell and Pressburger's Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, a landmark in British film-making, in part largely due to the creative cinematography of Jack Cardiff and his innovative use of the new technique of Technicolor.

In 1974, Moon struck up a friendship with actor Oliver Reed, while working on the movie version of Tommy.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

* 1974 – Oliver Palotai, German keyboard player ( Doro, Kamelot, and Sons of Seasons )

Oliver F. Atkins ' photo of Nixon leaving the White House shortly before his resignation became effective, August 9, 1974

Oliver F. Atkins ' photo of Nixon leaving the White House shortly before his resignation became effective, August 9, 1974

File: Ernest McCarty Oliver House LaFayette Alabama. JPG | The Ernest McCarty Oliver House was added to the National Register of Historic Places January 21, 1974.

He appeared in various films, including The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 ), The Black Windmill ( 1974 ), Richard Loncraine's 1995 version of Richard III, The Scarlet Letter ( 1995 ), Shadowlands ( 1993 ), Elizabeth ( 1998 ), Enigma ( 2001 ), The Gathering Storm ( 2002 ), Love Actually ( 2003 ) and Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist ( 2005 ).

" This was due in large part to research by Oliver Gillie ( 1976 ) and Leon Kamin ( 1974 ).

* Oliver Driver ( born 1974 ), New Zealand actor and director

* Oliver Reed, in The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ), The Four Musketeers ( 1974 ), and The Return of the Musketeers ( 1989 )

The General Oliver Otis Howard House, located on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D. C., was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.

The syndicated series ' orchestras were conducted by Bob Alberti ( 1974 – 1975 ), Tommy Oliver ( 1975 – 1978, 1984 – 1985 ), and Stan Worth ( 1978 – 1981 ).

( From the first page of the 1974 Printing ) It was one of the first tell-all books about the inner workings of the CIA and was an important influence on the Oliver Stone movie JFK.

1973 saw the release of Jacky Ickx's Ferrari 312 B2 ( 152 ) and the John Player Special Lotus 72 ( 154 ) of World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi, and in 1974 the Shadow F1 car was issued in both UOP livery ( 155 ) driven by Jackie Oliver, and as Graham Hill's Embassy Shadow ( 156 ).

* The Sy Oliver Story, Part 1, an interview with Les Tompkins, 1974.

On 11 June 1974, the pier caught fire and was badly damaged while the production was filming there ; according to Russell, the fire started during the filming of the scene of Ann-Margret and Oliver Reed dancing together during the " Bernie's Holiday Camp " sequence, and smoke from the fire can in fact be seen drifting in front of the camera in several shots ; Russell also used a brief exterior shot of the building fully ablaze during the scenes of the destruction of Tommy's Holiday Camp by his disillusioned followers.

1974 saw Oliver concentrate on CanAm, taking the series title for Shadow.

Denevan became a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, in turn, produced the majority of the third generation: Daniel Gade ( 1967 ), Bernard Nietschmann ( 1970 ), Roger Byrne ( 1972 ), Roland Bergmann ( 1974 ), Billie Lee Turner II ( 1974 ), Gregory Knapp ( 1984 ), Kent Mathewson ( 1987 ), John M. Treacy ( 1989 ), and Oliver Coomes ( 1992 ).

As an actress her television work has included Three Sisters ( 1970 ), A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1971 ), The Lady from the Sea ( 1974 ), Electra ( 1974 ), the villainess " Vanity Fair " in Dornford Yates ' She Fell Among Thieves ( 1977 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1981 ), Oliver Twist ( 1982 ), Smiley's People ( 1982 ), Titus Andronicus ( 1985 ), The Burston Rebellion ( 1985 ), A Better Class of Person ( 1985 ), Roman Holiday ( 1987 ), The Lost Language of Cranes ( 1991 ), Cold Comfort Farm ( 1995 ), Talking Heads ( 1998 ), Madame Bovary ( 2000 ), David Copperfield ( 2000 ), Wit ( 2001 ) and Bertie and Elizabeth ( 2002 ).

On April 1, 1974, a local prankster named Oliver ( Porky ) Bickar flew in and ignited 100 old tires in the crater, convincing nearby residents of Sitka, Alaska that the volcano was erupting.