In 1960, Groucho, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Koko the Lord High Executioner in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour.

He attended Townsend Harris High School, where he and Ira Gershwin, who met over a shared fondness for Gilbert and Sullivan, worked on the school paper and became lifelong friends.

Rae, a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was married to Gilbert Shawn ( 1921 — 2005 ) from September 2, 1955 until her death.

As lifelong companions Sullivan and Keller continually lived, worked, and traveled together.

The members were baseball figures, not historians: Spalding's friend Abraham G. Mills, a former National League president ; two United States Senators, former NL president Morgan Bulkeley and former Washington club president Arthur Gorman ; former NL president and lifelong secretary-treasurer Nick Young ; two other star players turned sporting goods entrepreneurs ( George Wright and Alfred Reach ); and AAU president James E. Sullivan.

Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher was raised in such a facility during the 19th century before leaving it for the Perkins School for the Blind and afterwards to become Helen Keller's teacher and later lifelong companion.

His other friends include lifelong friend, subway toll booth collector Spence Olchin ( Patton Oswalt ), a firefighter named Richie Ianucchi ( Larry Romano ), cousin Danny ( Gary Valentine ); dog walker Holly ( Nicole Sullivan ); and next door neighbour bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno ( played by himself ).

Peplau ’ s lifelong work was largely focused on extending Sullivan ’ s interpersonal theory for use in nursing practice.

Despite being a lifelong West Ham United fan, in 1993 Sullivan bought into Birmingham City F. C.

Beginning in 1859, he studied at the Conservatorium at Leipzig ( where he met and became lifelong friends with Arthur Sullivan ) and, in 1862, in Paris.

Prior to that, the lifelong fan of the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers recorded a song called " The D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song ( Oh really?

A lifelong fan of science fiction " B-movies ", Ackerman had cameos in over 210 films, including bit parts in many monster movies and science fiction films ( The Howling, Innocent Blood, Return of the Living Dead Part II ), more traditional " imagi-movies " The Time Travelers, Future War, spoofs and comedies ( Amazon Women on the Moon, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, The Wizard of Speed and Time ), and at least one major music video ( Michael Jackson's Thriller ).

A lifelong baseball fan, Landis often slipped away from the courthouse for a White Sox or Cubs game.

Smith is a lifelong fan of Rolls Royce cars, buying his first Silver Shadow at Brighton Racecourse from an advert in Sporting Life for £ 5, 000.

He became a lifelong fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers from his time in the region.

Giamatti had a lifelong interest in baseball ( he was a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan ).

As a lifelong genuine fan he is hugely popular with fellow Stokies who respect his unwavering support for the club through many a lean year.

Hunt's hometown is Chicago and she is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, having not missed an Opening Day at Wrigley Field since 1977.

Most notably it is the theme song for Red Sox Nation, the fans of the Boston Red Sox, although Diamond noted that he has been a lifelong fan of the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers.

A lifelong fan of the Cubs, he is an occasional commentator on that team for WXRT DJ Lin Brehmer, and sporadically in interviews.

He is a lifelong fan of professional wrestling and self-described " wrestlemaniac ", and appeared at an Extreme Championship Wrestling event wielding an acoustic guitar as a weapon.

Gallagher is a fan of football, being a lifelong supporter of Manchester City F. C.

A lifelong fan of " hard-boiled " fiction, Zevon was friendly with several well-known writers who also collaborated on his songwriting during this period, including Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Mitch Albom.

Following retirement from playing in league football in 1994, Blissett created a huge stir in the Eastern Counties Football League by agreeing to play for Fakenham Town in Norfolk, whose chairman was a lifelong Watford fan, and big crowds turned out wherever he played.

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He also did narration for a segment of the Ken Burns series Baseball in which O ' Neill, a lifelong Red Sox fan, read the Boston Globe from the day the Red Sox won the 1918 World Series.

A talented soccer player and lifelong fan of English soccer team Manchester United, Luger considered changing sports for some time but eventually decided his skills would be better suited to football.

Since 2002, he has written the column at Eppie Lederer's desk, which he, a " lifelong fan " of her Ann Landers column, bought at auction after the noted advice columnist died.

Sheen, a lifelong fan of the Cincinnati Reds, announced in August 2012 that he would donate $ 50, 000 to the team's community fund, which supports various charities.

Prior to the show, Norm was born in Chicago, and moved to Boston to become an accountant, although he was a childhood friend of Cliff Clavin, and is a lifelong Boston Celtics fan who went to Boston Garden as a child.

In the aftermath of the incident, Bartman, a lifelong Cubs fan, had to be escorted from the stadium by security guards, and received police protection for a time when his name and address were made public on MLB message boards.

He is also a lifelong Manchester City fan.

A lifelong fan of blues music, Anderson has also opened the Blue Gator, a blues bar in Athens, Ohio which draws regional and national acts, from Cincinnati's Greg Schaber to Delta blues legend Big Jack Johnson.

A lifelong sports fan, McChesney writes about professional basketball for the RealGM website under the name Elrod Enchilada.

Between 1973 and 1975 Bonewits was employed as editor of Gnostica magazine in Minnesota ( published by Llewellyn Publications ), established an offshoot group of the RDNA called the Schismatic Druids of North America, and helped create a group called the Hasidic Druids of North America ( despite his lifelong status as a " gentile ").

Charles Higham has stated that this was the near final straw for what became a lifelong feud, but the sisters did not completely stop speaking to each other until 1975.

Higham has stated that this was the near final straw for what would become a lifelong feud, but the sisters did not completely stop speaking until 1975.

Alfred Lee Loomis ( November 4, 1887 – August 11, 1975 ) was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist / physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research.

His credits, many with lifelong friend and collaborator Willis Hall, include satires such as That Was The Week That Was, BBC-3 and The Frost Report during the 1960s, the book for the 1975 musical The Card, Budgie, Worzel Gummidge, and Andy Capp ( an adaptation of the comic strip ).

A lifelong professional jazz bassist, Smith has appeared on numerous releases throughout his career including the 1975 Pat Britt album entitled Jazzman ( Vee-Jay International ) and the 1987 Alan Broadbent Trio album entitled Another Time ( Trend Records ).

It was as a fresh-faced youngster in 1975 that Willie Tait began his lifelong association with the island.

In 1975 Robert Hunter led the Greenpeace expedition against the Soviet Whaling fleet, along with lifelong friend and activist, Paul Watson and Patrick Moore.

In 1975 he joined The Sun, where he struck up a lifelong friendship with Royal photographer Arthur Edwards.