* 1950 – Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-born American bassist ( Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne's band, Whitesnake, Dio, Blue Öyster Cult )

* 1955 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer ( Quiet Riot ) ( d. 2007 )

As a genre, spy fiction is thematically related to the novel of adventure ( The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905 ), the thriller ( such as the works of Edgar Wallace ) and the politico – military thriller ( The Schirmer Inheritance, 1953, The Quiet American, 1955 ).

* 1965 – Sean McNabb, American singer, bass player, and actor ( Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords, and Dokken )

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

Although glam rock went into a steep decline in popularity in the second half of the 1970s it was a direct influence on acts that rose to prominence later, including Kiss and American glam metal acts like Quiet Riot, W. A. S. P., Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe.

* The character Pyle in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American has a dog named Prince after The Black Prince.

In the 2000s, Caine appeared in Miss Congeniality ( 2000 ), Last Orders ( 2001 ), The Quiet American ( 2002 ), for which he was Oscar-nominated, and others that helped rehabilitate his reputation.

First person narrators are often unreliable narrators since a narrator might be impaired such as Benjy in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury ), lie ( as in The Quiet American by Graham Greene, or The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe ), or manipulate his or her own memories intentionally or not ( as in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, or in Ken Keasey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ).

The 1950s also saw Redgrave in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ), The Dambusters ( 1954 ), 1984 ( 1956 ), and The Quiet American ( 1958 ).

* The Quiet American ( 1958 )

* The Quiet American, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave

Towards the end of the year, American glam metal band Quiet Riot released a cover version of " Cum On Feel the Noize " on CBS Records.

* Graham Greene-The Quiet American

The Quiet American: A Biography of George R. Wackenhut.

Randall William Rhoads ( December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982 ) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot.

Has also appeared in numerous dramatic roles, including Crash ( 2004 ) and The Quiet American ( 2002 ).

Kevin Mark DuBrow ( October 29, 1955 – November 25, 2007 ) was an American rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until his death in 2007.

* The Quiet American ( 2002 ) — directed by Phillip Noyce

His biography, The Unquiet American, was written by Cecil Currey and published in 1988 ; the title refers to the common, but incorrect belief, that the eponymous character in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American was based on Lansdale.

* The Quiet American

Frankie Banali ( born November 14, 1951 ) is an American rock drummer, best known for his work with multi-platinum heavy metal band Quiet Riot.

*** Quiet American ( 1986 )

Arrowsmith ( 1931 / 32 ), Lady for a Day ( 1933 ), It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), You Can't Take It with You ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ), The Quiet Man ( 1952 ) and Mister Roberts ( 1955 ).

His performance in Julian Claman's A Quiet Place, staged at the National Theater, Washington, at the end of 1955 was warmly received by the critics.

His other scores include The Gladiator, Golden Boy ( 1939 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ), Love Letters ( 1945 ), So Evil My Love ( 1948 ), Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ), Our Very Own ( 1950 ), My Favorite Spy ( 1951 ), Payment on Demand ( 1951 ), The Quiet Man ( 1952 ), Scaramouche ( 1952 ), Something to Live For ( 1952 ), Shane ( 1953 ), A Man Alone ( 1955 ), and Written on the Wind ( 1956 ).

* The Quiet American ( 1955 )

Graduating to top billing, Tucker starred in numerous action films during the 1950s, including Rock Island Trail ( 1950 ), California Passage ( 1950 ), Rage at Dawn ( 1955, where he played Frank Reno ), The Abominable Snowman ( 1957 ), The Quiet Gun ( 1957 ), and The Crawling Eye ( 1958 ).

* The Quiet American, a 1955 anti-war novel by British author Graham Greene

Bobby Rondinelli ( born July 27, 1955, Brooklyn, New York ) is a rock drummer best known for his work with the hard rock / heavy metal bands like Blue Öyster Cult, Rainbow, Quiet Riot, Black Sabbath, The Lizards, and Rondinelli.

* " Alien ", a song by Japan on the album Quiet Life

All Quiet on the Western Front () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I.

The 1929 English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen gives the title as All Quiet on the Western Front.

Remarque comments in the preface that " Quiet on the Western Front will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

features the song, " All Quiet On The Western Front " ( written by Elton and Bernie Taupin ).

Bovril continued to function as a " war food " in World War I and was frequently mentioned in the 1930 account Not So Quiet ... Stepdaughters of War by Helen Zenna Smith ( Evadne Price ).

* " Free ", by Quiet Riot from Rehab

* And Quiet Flows the Don ( 1957-8 ) by Sergei Gerasimov-an adaptation of the Nobel prize winning novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

* The Quiet Isle, a location in the fictional series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, has many traits resembling Lindisfarne, including tidal based access and a monastic community.

Finally, the immensely traumatic nature of the experience dashed basic assumptions: realism seemed bankrupt when faced with the fundamentally fantastic nature of trench warfare, as exemplified by books such as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1929 ).

In more extreme cases paradox can cause Quiet ( madness that may leak into reality ), Paradox Spirits ( nebulous, often powerful beings which purposefully set about resolving the contradiction, usually by directly punishing the mage ), or even the removal of the Mage to a paradox realm, a pocket dimension from which it may be difficult to escape.

Marauders are insane mages whose Avatars have been warped by their mental instability, and who exist in a state of permanent Quiet.

Until the Quiet Revolution of the early 1960s, Tremblay saw Quebec as a poor, working-class province dominated by an English-speaking elite and the Roman Catholic Church.

" A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment " a study commissioned by the U. S. State Department and conducted by Intermedia and released May 10, 2012 shows that despite extremely strict regulations and draconian penalties North Koreans, particularly elite elements, have increasing access to news and other media outside the state-controlled media authorized by the government.

* " Pavane, the Girl with the Flaxen Hair ," a dramatic script written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, inspired in part by Ravel's composition, for the old-time radio series Quiet Please.

A major seller was All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

* January 29 – All Quiet on the Western Front ( Im Westen nichts Neues ), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form.

The merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University was recommended in 1969 by the Parent Commission, as part of the secularization of Quebec's educational system ( see Quiet Revolution ).

These coffee-house clubs soon became hotbeds of political scandal-mongering and intriguing, and in 1675 King Charles II issued a proclamation which ran: “ His Majesty hath thought fit and necessary that coffee houses be ( for the future ) put down and suppressed ,” because “ in such houses divers false, malitious and scandalous reports are devised and spread abroad to the Defamation of his Majesty ’ s Government and to the Disturbance of Peace and Quiet of the Realm .” So unpopular was this proclamation that it was almost instantly found necessary to withdraw it, and by Anne ’ s reign the coffee-house club was a feature of England ’ s social life.

The film's critique of the romantic idealization of duty is comparable to that in the earlier film All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ), based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque.