Hurst was immediately jumped on by Alan Ball, the only other player upfield at the time Moore played the pass.

Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.

Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist Clive Barker, prolific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, and artist H. R. Giger.

Since its publishing, Little Nemo has had an influence on other artists, including Alan Moore, in Miracleman # 4, when the Miracleman family end up in a palace called " Sleepy Town ," which has imagery similar to Little Nemo's.

* Alan Moore

* Watchmen ( 1985 ) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

* In the Watchmen comic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Dr. Manhattan character tours Mars and visits Olympus Mons, admiring its features.

* 1953 – Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

* 2006 – Alan Moore ( author ) and David Lloyd ( illustrator ), V for Vendetta graphic novel

* Alan Moore and Marc Miller, eds., ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery ( 1985 ) ( Colab, i. e. Collaborative Projects, NY, NY )

A tribute show to Wilson, organized by Coldcut and Mixmaster Morris and performed in London as a part of the " Ether 07 Festival " held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on March 18, 2007, also included Ken Campbell, Bill Drummond and Alan Moore.

* Alan Moore

There were also interviews with Alan Grant, Frazer Irving and Alan Moore, as well as an extensive article on breaking into comics as a writer.

Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

* Irish international footballers: Ronnie Whelan, Frank Stapleton, David O ' Leary, Mark Kinsella, Stephen Kelly and Alan Moore.

From Hell is a comic book series by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell, originally published from 1991 to 1996, speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper.

* Alan Moore interview at Guardian Unlimited

* Alan Moore interview at Comic Book Resources

Category: Comics by Alan Moore

The comic book character Orlando is a blend of several fictional characters with the name Orlando as well as being known during the mid-sixties as O while engaged in sexual games with the descendants of the Silling Castle survivors, according to Alan Moore and Kevin O ' Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.

Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller.

John Bassett, Wadham College, Oxford graduate and assistant to Ponsonby, recommended jazz band mate and rising cabaret talent Dudley Moore, who in turn recommended Alan Bennett, who had been a hit at Edinburgh a few years before.

Appropriately, the comedy drama had a sellout run at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London's West End at The Venue, in 2006, in a version starring Kevin Bishop as Moore, Tom Goodman-Hill as Cook, Fergus Craig as Alan Bennett and Colin Hoult as Jonathan Miller.

In 1989 HOTOL co-creator Alan Bond formed Reaction Engines Limited which has since been working on the Reaction Engines Skylon vehicle intended to solve the problems of HOTOL.

Kevin O ' Neill is an English comic book illustrator best known as the co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law ( with writer Pat Mills ), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( with Alan Moore ).

She took over editorship of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run from Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein in 1984, and in 1986 " became DC's British liaison ," bringing to DC's pre-Vertigo titles the individuals who would be instrumental in the creation and evolution of Vertigo seven years later.

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau ( who reviewed the book for the New York Times ), and was called “ one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written ” by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

More interested in horror comics, she soon became editor of House of Mystery, and was instrumental in nurturing Alan Moore's Swamp Thing book, taking over the editing from co-creator Len Wein.

Mick is currently working on Tank Girl-Carioca, a six part mini series with Tank Girl co-creator to Alan Martin for Titan Books.

* Alan Martin ( writer ), co-creator of " Tank Girl "

Dayglo has drawn 6 complete series of Tank Girl with co-creator Alan Martin, for Titan Books (' Bad Wind Rising ' mini series ), Image Comics ( Image Tank Girl quarterly one shots ), and IDW Comics (' The Royal Escape ' mini series ).

The co-creator of EastEnders, Tony Holland, was impressed with composer Simon May and graphic-designer Alan Jeapes for their work on the titles and music for the spy thriller Cold Warrior.

The most prominent and most prolific modern-day suppliers of professional ventriloquial dummies include Steve Axtell, Tim Selberg, Alan Semok, Ray Guyll, Conrad Hartz, Geoffrey Felix, Jerry Layne, Mike Brose, and Albert Alfaro.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* British mathematician Alan Turing created a theoretical model for a machine, now called a universal Turing machine, that could carry out calculations from inputs,

In the 1970s and 80s, The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock group which specialized entirely in concept albums.

* 2003 – Alan Davidson, British author ( b. 1924 )

Notable US radio disc jockeys of the period include Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack, Kasey Kasem, and their British counterparts such as the BBC's Brian Matthew, Radio London's John Peel, and later in the 60s, Radio Caroline's Tony Blackburn.

* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

* 1914 – Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

* Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Field Marshal, British Army

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.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

* 1944 – Alan Parker, British film director and writer

* 1940 – Alan Caddy, British musician ( The Tornados ), arranger and record producer ( d. 2000 )

In early August, Winston Churchill and General Alan Brooke — the British Chief of the Imperial General Staff — visited Cairo on their way to meet Joseph Stalin in Moscow.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

The fundamental properties of currents mediated by ion channels were analyzed by the British biophysicists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley as part of their Nobel Prize-winning research on the action potential, published in 1952.

The resulting promotion meant that Blackburn were back in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1966. In the 1992 close season, Dalglish signed Southampton's Alan Shearer for a British record fee of £ 3. 5 million.

British author Alan D. Millington revived the Chinese classical game of the 1920s with his book The Complete Book of Mah-jongg ( 1977 ).

* 1966 – Alan Davies, British comedian and actor

* 1951 – Dougie Thomson, British bassist ( Supertramp and The Alan Bown Set )

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

* 1957 – Alan Duncan, British politician

* 1904 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, British politician ( d. 1983 )

* 27-Sir Alan Bates, 69, British actor, pancreatic cancer.

* Thomas Alan Stephenson ( 1898 – 1961 ), British zoologist