Lean also wanted Alec Guinness to play Doctor Monyghan, but the aged actor turned him down in a letter from 1989: " I believe I would be disastrous casting.

Initially called Bookworm, the script was turned down by Harrison Ford and Dustin Hoffman before Alec Baldwin settled on the role of Green.

Alec Guinness turned down the role of Father Collins: it had been written with him in mind, but Guinness, as a devout Roman Catholic, objected to what he felt was an inaccurate portrayal of a Catholic priest.

In 2004, Modine appeared in Funky Monkey as ex-football star turned spy Alec McCall, who teams up with super-chimp Clemens and his friend Michael Dean ( Seth Adkins ) to take down the villainous Flick ( Taylor Negron ).

Scheuer stated that his unit, codename ' Alec ,' had provided information that could have led to the capture and or killing of Osama bin Laden on ten different occasions, only to have his recommendations for action turned down by senior intelligence officials, including Clarke.

In the story, believing the creature to be dead, a scientist super-villain performs an autopsy on the Swamp Thing and discovers that it is not scientist Alec Holland turned into a plant mutant, but swamp vegetation that after digesting the mortal remains of Holland, had absorbed his mind, knowledge, memories, and skills and created a new sentient being that believed itself to be Alec Holland.

This successful collaboration with Cartier and Kneale resulted, four years later, in him once again being offered the role of Professor Bernard Quatermass for the pair's third serial in the series, Quatermass and the Pit, although on this occasion another actor – Alec Clunes – had already turned them down.

Despite his age ( he turned 40 on tour ) Brown had the most successful series of any England captain in Australia ; Taking 18 wickets ( 21. 61 ) and making 210 runs ( 26. 25 ), third in the batting averages ( behind Len Hutton and Reg Simpson ) and in the bowling averages ( behind Trevor Bailey and Alec Bedser ).

In Alan Moore's relaunch of the Swamp Thing in Saga of the Swamp Thing # 21 ( February 1984 ), Woodrue is hired by General Averly Sunderland to discover how scientist Alec Holland had been turned into the Swamp Thing.

* According to an article in the New York Times Alec Guinness wanted to play the role of Barrow, and John Mills wanted to play Sinclair – both initially turned down the film for those reasons.

Alec gave him a tip and let him go.

His lips were bruised and swollen where Alec had hit him.

One Klingon speaker, d ' Armond Speers raised his son Alec to speak Klingon as a first language, whilst the boy's mother communicated with him in English.

Alec Douglas-Home resigned from his peerages days after becoming Prime Minister in 1963, and the last Prime Minister before him from the Lords left in 1902 ( the Marquess of Salisbury ).

Alec Guinness had previously played Lawrence in the play Ross, and was briefly considered for the part, but David Lean and Sam Spiegel thought him too old.

Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: he won the role of Han Solo while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, and took the role of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, although Baldwin disputes this ( Baldwin had previously played the role in The Hunt for Red October ).

Alec Waugh, who met him through Harold Monro, described him as embittered by the war, and offered Douglas Goldring as comparison ; but took it that he worked off his spleen in novels like The Colonel's Daughter ( 1931 ), rather than letting it poison his life.

Sir Alec Guinness presented him with a lifetime achievement honour at the inaugural British Comedy Awards in 1990, while he received another such honour at the BBC Centenary Programme in 1996.

Tess dislikes Alec and repels him verbally but endures his persistent unwanted attention, feeling she has no choice, as she must earn enough to replace her family's only means of support, the dead horse.

The threat that Alec presents to Tess's virtue is obscured for Tess by her inexperience and almost daily commonplace interactions with him.

When she hears this story, Tess feels sure that Angel will forgive her own history, and finally tells him about what Alec did to her.

Alec and Tess are each shaken by their encounter, and Alec begs Tess never to tempt him again as they stand beside an ill-omened stone monument called the Cross-in-Hand.

However, Alec soon comes to Flintcomb-Ash to ask Tess to marry him.

He tenderly asks her forgiveness, but Tess, in anguish, tells him he has come too late ; thinking he would never return, she yielded at last to Alec d ' Urberville's persuasion and has become his mistress.

Angel, totally disheartened, has left Sandbourne ; Tess hurries after him and tells him that she has killed Alec, saying that she hopes she has won his forgiveness by murdering the man who ruined both their lives.

Meanwhile, in England, George Smiley and Peter Guillam appear at Liz Gold's apartment claiming to be friends of Alec, question her about him, and offer her financial help.

Although not wanting to testify against Alec Leamas, she admits that George Smiley paid for her apartment lease after visiting her and that she had promised Leamas to not look for him when he disappeared.

From the Western side of the Wall, Leamas hears a Western agent calling to him, " Jump, Alec!

Alec gives chase but finally loses track of him.

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS ( born 9 January 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.

The new Swamp Thing ( a resurrected Alec Holland ) has not only been given the full Elemental powers his predecessor once had, but also a White Lantern Power Ring with full control over its power.

The fourth, in 1988, is Little Dorrit, a UK feature film starring Alec Guinness and Derek Jacobi amongst a large cast of over 300 British actors directed by Christine Edzard.

Henry Holland ( Alec Guinness ) is a timid London bank clerk who has been in charge of gold bullion deliveries for over 20 years.

In the 1960s, some reviewers criticized Alec Leamas ’ s resultant defeatism ; The Times said, “ the hero must triumph over his enemies, as surely as Jack must kill the giant in the nursery tale.

Rab Butler held the post in 1962 / 63 under Harold Macmillan, but was passed over for the premiership in favour of Alec Douglas-Home.

On July 15, 2006, Nashville pitchers Carlos Villanueva, Mike Meyers, and Alec Zumwalt combined to pitch the fifth no-hitter in team history, a 2 – 0 win over the Memphis Redbirds.

She also resents that he was promoted over her ( Jaye, in fact, trained Alec when he first started working at the store ).

Leslie goes over to her apartment to pick up her possessions, and is surprised to find Alec there, not at work.

Enraged, Alec attacks Kevin again, dangling him over the edge of the fire escape, but with Leslie ’ s intervention, he calms down.

LaMarche has appeared in many films, including dubbing the voice of Orson Welles over Vincent D ' Onofrio's on-camera performance in Ed Wood ; Pepe Le Pew in Space Jam ; supplying the voice of the Alec Baldwin puppet in Team America: World Police, and reprising his roles from Queer Duck and Futurama in the direct-to-video films Queer Duck: The Movie and Futurama: Bender's Big Score, respectively.

During the final years, one storyline centered around a woman over 60 years old who impersonated her daughter Adrienne Hunt ( Nancy Stafford ) by taking a special serum that would keep the old woman younger, but caused the death of Billy Aldrich ( Alec Baldwin ) in the process.

Mike Watkinson was appointed cricket manager, and Stuart Law and Alec Swann both scored over 1, 000 first-class runs and Peter Martin and Glen Chapple both took more than 50 wickets ; the find of the season was that of James Anderson, who bust onto the scene with 50 wickets in the second half of the season, earning him a promotion to the England side.

Alec Sneath took over the reins of Richmond College.

His widow, June, took over his role in the company and later admitted to pushing Alec in a volcano.

With Alec Bedser, and later Fred Trueman, Brian Statham and Frank Tyson providing England's with penetrating pace bowling, Shackleton had no opportunities in Test cricket for over a decade.

He was frequently being passed over in favour of Alec Stewart on account of the latter's superior batting ability.

Key completed a miserable debut as he was caught at mid-wicket off Bichel for 1 in the third over of the morning, and though Vaughan and Alec Stewart looked to stabilise the innings their partnership was broken when McGrath took an impressive catch to dismiss Vaughan off the bowling of Warne.

He was Secretary of State for Scotland from 1962 to 1964 in the governments of Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home, taking over from John Maclay after the Night of the Long Knives.

He was also selected for the Fourth Test against South Africa at Headingley in August 2003, taking a wicket in his first over ( Neil McKenzie, caught behind by Alec Stewart off Kabir's fifth ball ).

The most recent no-hit effort at Greer took place on July 15, 2006, when Nashville pitchers Carlos Villanueva ( 6 IP ), Mike Meyers ( 2 IP ), and Alec Zumwalt ( 1 IP ) combined on a 2 – 0 win over the Memphis Redbirds.

Alec goes over some old bills and finds a bill for wire fence that is very overpriced.

* In 1962, a Scottish newspaper, the Aberdeen Evening Express, accidentally used a picture of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home over a caption naming a Scottish Baillie called Vass.