He wrote the forewords to Paul Taylor's Private Domain: An Autobiography ( 1999, University of Pittsburgh Press ), Elaine Dundy's The Dud Avocado ( 2007, New York Review Books Classics ), William Bailey's William Bailey on Canvas ( 2007, Betty Cuningham Gallery ), and Richard Stark's Flashfire and Firebreak ( 2011, University of Chicago Press ) and contributed to The Oxford Companion to Jazz ( 2000, Oxford University Press ), Field-Tested Books ( 2008, Coudal Partners ), and Robert Gottlieb's Reading Dance ( 2008, Pantheon ).

Darwyn Cooke is an Eisner Award-winning comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator, known for his work on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier, The Spirit and Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter.

In July 2009, IDW Publishing published Cooke's Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter, an adaptation of the Donald Westlake novel, The Hunter.

* Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter ( IDW Comics, July 2009 ) Adapted from the novel by Richard Stark, illustrated by Cooke.

* Richard Stark's Parker: The Man With the Getaway Face-A Prelude to The Outfit ( IDW Comics, July 2010 ) Oversized ( 8 " x 12 ") one-shot adapted from the novel by Richard Stark, illustrated by Cooke.

Later republished as the first chapter in Richard Stark's Parker: The Outfit.

* Richard Stark's Parker: The Outfit ( IDW Comics, October 2010 ) Adapted from the novel by Richard Stark, illustrated by Cooke.

* Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground ( IDW Comics, TBA ) Adapted from the novel by Richard Stark, illustrated by Cooke.

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

The special sounds for Blake's 7 were provided by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Richard Yeoman-Clark and Elizabeth Parker.

* Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Ned Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker ( eds.

The sessions are perhaps most famous for the three duets Dolphy performs with Richard Davis on " Alone Together ", " Ode To Charlie Parker ", and " Come Sunday ".

Captured in the Fort Parker massacre were Elizabeth Kellogg, Rachel Plummer and her son James Pratt Plummer, John Richard Parker and his sister Cynthia Ann Parker, who later became mother of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker.

In 1797 the body of the sailor Richard Parker, hanged for his leading role in the Nore mutiny, was given a Christian burial at Whitechapel after his wife exhumed it from the unconsecrated burial ground to which it was originally consigned.

Among other notorious deeds, he was responsible for the deaths of Richard Parker and Mary Fitzpatrick-Parker, the parents of Peter Parker ( a. k. a. Spider-Man ), tipped off by the super-criminal Gustav " The Gentleman " Fiers.

Parker County has been represented in the Texas State House since 1985 by two Republicans, Richard F. " Ric " Williamson ( 1952 – 2007 ) and Phillip Stephen King.

At that moment, a man who seemed to be Richard Parker, Peter's father, appeared.

Peter learned that May had known this ' Richard Parker ,' in truth a clone of Peter who'd been artificially aged, had been alive for months and had kept the secret from Peter to " protect him ," believing that if Richard had deliberately kept his survival secret from his own family for years then he was not worth knowing and that the revelation that Peter had been abandoned, not orphaned, would be too much for the boy.

When Ben's younger brother Richard Parker and his wife Mary were killed in a plane crash, Ben and May took in their orphaned son Peter and raised him as their own.

Other guests included Maceo Parker and Little Richard.

The film stars Ronald Reagan as the American, Patricia Neal as the harried nurse, Sister Margaret Parker, Richard Todd as Lachie, the Scot, Anthony Nicholls as the hospital commander, Howard Marion-Crawford as the British soldier, John Sherman as the Australian, and Orlando Martins as the African ( affectionately known as " Blossom ").

* A 1969 NBC made-for-television musical film, called simply Hans Brinker, starring Robin Askwith as Hans, Richard Basehart as Dr. Boekman, Eleanor Parker as Dame Brinker and Cyril Ritchard as Mynheer Kleef the Innkeeper.

By contrast, the same author's Parker stories ( published under the name Richard Stark ) are grimly straightforward accounts of mundane crime — the criminal equivalent of the police procedural.

* Moore, Brooke Noel and Parker, Richard.

** Richard E. Parker ( J ), from December 12, 1836

Richard E. Parker ( D ), until March 4, 1837

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

In 2008, The Nation editorial board was composed of Deepak Bhargava, Norman Birnbaum, Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Falk, Frances FitzGerald, Eric Foner, Philip Green, Lani Guinier, Tom Hayden, Randall Kennedy, Tony Kushner, Elinor Langer, Deborah Meier, Toni Morrison, Victor Navasky, Pedro Antonio Noguera, Richard Parker, Michael Pertschuk, Elizabeth Pochoda, Marcus G. Raskin, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, David Weir, and Roger Wilkins.

* Academy Awards: Oscar ; Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Gregg Toland ; Best Special Effects, R. T. Layton ( photographic ), Ray Binger ( photographic ) and Thomas T. Moulton ( sound ); Best Film Editing, Sherman Todd ; Best Original Score, Richard Hageman ; Best Picture, John Ford ; Best Screenplay Writing, Dudley Nichols ; 1941.

Other awards were Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ( Mel Bourne, Cindy Carr ), Best Music, Original Score ( George Fenton ) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Richard LaGravenese ).

The film was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Sissy Spacek ), Best Cinematography, Best Music, Original Score and Best Sound ( Nick Alphin, Robert Thirlwell, Richard Portman and David M. Ronne ).

His transition from television to film scoring began in 1982 with Richard Attenborough's biopic Gandhi for which he was nominated — with his collaborator, Ravi Shankar — for the Original Music Score Academy Award.

In 1987, Maurice received a Silver Lion Award for Best director at the Venice Film Festival as well as Best Film Score for Richard Robbins and Best Actor Awards for co-stars James Wilby and Hugh Grant.

Among the composers who worked for Score Productions are Charles Fox, Walt Levinsky, Ken Bichel, Jonathan L. Segal, Arthur B. Rubinstein, Dick Lieb, Michel Camilo, Chuck Loeb, Billy Barber, Steve Siler, Deborah Hurwitz, Jim McHugh, Irving " Benny " Robbin, Bob Cobert, Charles Gross, Glen Daum, Herb Harris, Paul Epstein, Birch Johnson, Richard Sussman, Doug Cuomo, Greg Reitan, Les Fradkin and Gary M. Anderson.

Shaft's Big Score, released in 1972, is the second film in the trilogy in which actor Richard Roundtree starred as the private-eye, John Shaft.

* Last Score, or the Private Life of Sir Richard Ormston ( 1961 )

* The 1969 Donald E. Westlake ( as Richard Stark ) Parker novel The Sour Lemon Score features a newly-notified widow complaining about not expecting to receive an official notification of her criminal-husband's death in a gangland slaying, saying, " So now I have to wait seven years for an Enoch Arden.

** Nominated: Best Original Film Score ( Richard Yuen, Johnny Njo )

* Richard Matheson's Hell House ( with Simon Fraser, IDW, 2004-2005, 4 issue mini-series, tpb, 200 pages, October 2008, ISBN 1-60010-263-8 )

In 2005 he drew a four-part adaptation of Richard Matheson's Hell House, scripted by Ian Edginton and published by IDW Publishing.

* Richard Matheson's Hell House ( with Ian Edginton, 4-issue mini-series, IDW Publishing, 2004 – 2005, tpb, 200 pages, October 2008, ISBN 1-60010-263-8 )

This project has produced two works to date: The Nail ( with Nat Jones ) through Dark Horse Comics, and Bigfoot ( with Richard Corben ) through IDW Publishing.