Paul Abbott was a story editor on the programme in the 1980s and began writing episodes in 1989, but left in 1993 to produce Cracker, for which he later wrote, before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as Touching Evil and Shameless.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor, appearing in The Jack Benny Program, as well as the 1953 films Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Robe.

In 2007, Abbott began learning the piano under the tutelage of Paul Roberts, Professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, for the TV programme ' Play It Again '.

She was 43 and he was 81 when they began their affair, then ten years later Abbott left her for a younger woman.

Bud Abbott dropped out of school as a child and began working in Coney Island.

Eventually, Abbott began arranging burlesque show tours.

Abbott and his new wife soon began producing a vaudeville " tab show " called Broadway Flashes, which toured on the Gus Sun Vaudeville Circuit.

Around 1924, Abbott began performing as a straight man in an comedy act with Betty.

As his reputation grew, Abbott began working with veteran comedians like Harry Steppe and Harry Evanson.

In 1960, Abbott began performing with a new partner, Candy Candido to good reviews.

Abbott and Costello began honing the routine shortly after teaming up in 1936 and performed it in vaudeville in 1937 and 1938.

Roger Abbott and Luba Goy began the show with a brief history of the show, closing with " the scariest three words on television: AIR FARCE LIVE!

Prince began work in the theatre as an assistant stage manager to theatrical producer and director George Abbott.

She began her progress up the political ladder when she was nominated to the Treasury Select Committee in 1997, replacing Diane Abbott.

Abbott began practising on the Oxford Circuit ; while travelling there he had a fall from his horse, which broke his leg in two places and left him permanently lame.

Abbott first began to grow ill in May 1832, when he wrote to Sir Egerton Brydges that " My spirit is so depressed, that when I am not strongly excited by some present object that admits of no delay, I sink into something very nearly approaching torpidity ".

Abbott began his career in behind-the-scene jobs in radio.

Following his departure from the seminary, Abbott met and married Margaret Aitken, worked in journalism, briefly ran a concrete plant and began to get involved in national politics.

" This is what gave Abbott the idea, and he began work on it soon after.

Production of the auto began in Detroit, Michigan and was moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1916 at which time the automobile name was shortened to Abbott.

He began attending the University of Illinois and studied under William Abbott Oldfather.

In storyline, Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial artist Tank Abbott became an avid fan of 3 Count, and he began protecting them during their performances, attacking anyone who disrupted them, eventually acting as their talent manager and occasional inserting himself as a back-up dancer.

He began using his given name, Abbott, and vowed to never again do a Kennedy impersonation.

Around 1890, he moved to Chicago and began working at the Abbott Buggy Co. factory in Auburn, Illinois .< ref >

Abbott was a religious figure of some public note and was called upon on October 30, 1897, to deliver an address in New York at the funeral of economist, Henry George.

Abbott is a frequent public speaker, newspaper contributor and TV performer, appearing on programmes such as Have I Got News For You, Celebrity Come Dine with Me and Cash in the Celebrity Attic.

The rumours, denials and public comments became almost comical leading the opposition leader Kim Beazley to comment in an ABC interview, " We've now apparently got on our hands the Abbott and Costello Show.

" The public responded by frequently referring to Abbott and Costello as " Abbott and Costello ".

John Abbott College is an English-language public college located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, near the western tip of the Island of Montreal.

John Abbott College is one of eight English public colleges in Quebec.

Early theories of motive suggested that Gale might have turned to violence in response to the breakup of Pantera, or the public dispute between Abbott and Pantera singer Phil Anselmo, but these were later ruled out by investigators.

Unknown to journalists at the time, Abbott has a lesbian sister, for whom he has subsequently voiced public support.

Abbott also appeared for public questioning on the ABC's Q & A program on 16 August.

Historian Richard H. Abbott wrote, " No Ohio chief executive Dennison had ever exercised such powers and fulfilled such duties with a greater sense of public responsibility and determination.

" In her writing, Abbott stressed the importance and the essential need of a public welfare administration, the need for a more humane social welfare system, the responsibility of the state in relation to social problems, and the social aspects of legislation.

Liberal leader Tony Abbott effectively made his vote for Stockdale public when he was recorded on camera showing his vote to Stockdale and Julie Bishop.

He saw his role as one of communication — to introduce his congregation and the wider public to the ideas of Lyman Abbott, Richard Ely, George Herron, and Rauschenbusch.

In In the Case of NORVIR, the NIH received a request from Essential Inventions, supported by the public and members of the United States Congress, to exercise march-in rights for patents owned by Abbott Labs covering the drug ritonavir, sold under the trade name Norvir, a prescription drug used in the treatment of AIDS.

It has been suggested that the first step Abbott took to achieve this end was to create a necessary sense of oppression and discontentment in southern life, accomplished through the exposés of southern crimes against blacks.

Abbott suffered from epilepsy throughout his life.

Starring Harvey Korman as Bud Abbott and Buddy Hackett as Lou Costello, the film told the duo's life story, focusing on Costello and portraying him as volatile and petty.

Before he stepped down as Harvard's president in 1933 and with Nazi rumblings overseas in Germany, Abbott Lawrence Lowell wished to break the stronghold of the German Ph. D. degree on American academic life, believing it stifled creativity with its overlong list of formal requirements.

In early 2004, Channel 4 screened Shameless, a new Abbott series very loosely based on his experiences and family life growing up in Burnley, although the action of the programme itself was changed to Manchester in the present day.

Bless This House centres around life in Birch Avenue, Putney, where travelling stationery salesman Sid Abbott ( note: the spelling of their surname varies ; the opening credits of early series one episodes spell it " Abbot " while in the closing credits it is spelt " Abbott ") and his wife Jean live with their teenage children, Mike, who is fresh from art college and more preoccupied with protests than finding a job, and Sally, a trendy schoolgirl.

The killings coincide with the marriage of Sickert's close friend and mentor, the famous painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who later distanced himself from Sickert, even suing Sickert later in life.

Paul Abbott was scheduled to write an episode which would have revealed that Rose's entire life had been manipulated by the Doctor in order to mold her into an ideal companion.

According to Abbott, his mistreatment by the school guards left him scarred for life.

Abbott wrote to Mailer, alleging that Gilmore was largely embellishing his experiences, and offered to write about his time behind bars in order to provide a more factual depiction of life in prison.

In a 1992 interview in The Buffalo News, Mailer said that his involvement with Abbott was " another episode in my life in which I can find nothing to cheer about or nothing to take pride in.

Abbott was eventually arrested, convicted of manslaughter, and returned to prison for the rest of his life until his suicide in 2002.

Despite his apparent death in the 1931 film, the Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: House of Frankenstein ( 1944 ) and House of Dracula ( 1945 )— both starring John Carradine — and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ).

Their father, a reckless risk-taker, has lost his life via a bet with Lloyd Abbott ( Will Patton ), his business partner.

Because of a misunderstanding of the circumstances surrounding his father's death ( a supposed bet with Abbott that took the elder Holt's life ), Jacey ( Billy Crudup ) seeks revenge on the Abbotts through the calculated seduction of the Abbott daughters.

At first, Jacey cannot wait to escape the suffocating life in Haley ; later in the film, however, he is pulled back as he idolizes the Abbott family, and obsesses about the oldest daughter, Alice ( Joanna Going ), thus seeking to jockey his way into the Abbott family.

During the last third of his life, he worked together with his son, Gerald Handerson Thayer, on a major book about protective coloration in nature, titled Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern ; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer ’ s Disclosures.

Abbott was captured two months later, convicted of the murder, and spent the rest of his life in prison until hanging himself in 2002.

Despite his apparent death in the 1931 film, the Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: 1944's House of Frankenstein, 1945's House of Dracula and 1948's Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.