* Alf Tupper, comic strip character

* The Rover, a story paper featuring the character Alf Tupper

Alf Tupper was 18 years of age when he first appeared in Rover in 1949 and he continued his adventures in Victor in the early 1960s.

UK punk rock band The Boys used the name of Alf Tupper whenever they talked about their producer, as a tribute to their hero.

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: The land governed by King Alf was called Alfheim, and all his offspring are related to the elves.

Although Walter Winterbottom was appointed as England's first ever full-time manager in 1946, the team was still picked by a committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.

The 1966 World Cup was hosted in England and Alf Ramsey guided England to victory with a 4 – 2 win against West Germany after extra time in the final, during which Geoff Hurst famously scored a hat-trick.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

At the time, Ron Springett was the goalkeeper for England, but after the 1962 World Cup in Chile, a new coach was appointed in former England right back Alf Ramsey.

The following season he was in the West Ham side which lost the League Cup final on aggregate to West Bromwich Albion, and in February 1966 he was given his debut for England by manager Alf Ramsey.

When he was awarded the Alf Henrikson Prize in 2004, the jury's motivation spoke of his renditions of the " existence of the everyday human between ideals and matter ".

After the competition, Walter Winterbottom was succeeded by Alf Ramsey, who was less enamoured of the cocksure, free-spirited Haynes and never once picked him.

The first kit Moon owned was a blue Premier kit bought on hire purchase ( credit ) and co-signed by his father, Alf.

Newton Heath's first league match at Bank Street was played against Burnley on 1 September 1893, when 10, 000 people saw Alf Farman score a hat-trick, Newton Heath's only goals in a 3 – 2 win.

After precursors such as Johnny Alf, João Donato, and musicians like Luis Bonfá and Garoto, this sub-genre was inaugurated by João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, and Vinicius de Moraes.

According to Swedish historian and professor, Gunnar Richardson, this myth was first presented in Swedish textbooks and promoted by Swedish authors such as Alf Henrikson.

In 1965, he was cast as Alf Garnett in a play for the BBC Comedy Playhouse series, broadcast on 22 July 1965.

Mitchell was voted TV Actor of the Year in 1965 for his portrayal of Alf Garnett in Till Death Do Us Part.

Alf was portrayed as the archetypal working-class Conservative.

In a demonstration of Speight's satirical skills-after a successful libel action brought against Speight by Mary Whitehouse-he created an episode where Alf Garnett was seen as a fan of Whitehouse first broadcast on 27 February 1967.

Alf was an admirer of Enoch Powell, a right-wing Conservative politician known particularly for strong opposition to the immigration of non-white races into the United Kingdom.

Alf was also a supporter of West Ham United ( a football club based in the East End ) and known to make derogatory remarks about " the Jews up at Spurs " ( referring to Tottenham Hotspur, a North London club with a sizeable Jewish following ).

In interviews, Speight explained he had originally based Alf on his father, an East End docker who was staunchly reactionary and held " unenlightened " attitudes toward black people.

Among the prominent British personalities he portrayed were Eddie Waring, the famously impossible to understand rugby league commentator ; Brian Clough, the controversial football manager ; Robin Day, the then top political interviewer on the BBC ; Magnus Pyke, the eccentric TV science presenter ; Alf Garnett, the star from Till Death Us Do Part ; the fictional American detective Columbo ; Frank Spencer, the comic creation of sitcom actor Michael Crawford ; and Wilson's Conservative Party rival Ted Heath.

Detective Sergeant George Bulman was a fictional detective created by Kenneth Royce in his series of books about The XYY Man ( semi-reformed cat burglar Spider Scott ), where the character's name was initially Alf Bulman.

Alf Wit ( tagline: The Ancient Brit ) is a fictional character in a defunct comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, starting in 1947.

Alfred Sidney " Alf " Roberts, OBE was a fictional character in the British ITV soap Coronation Street.

Alf Garnett is a fictional character in the British sitcoms Till Death Us Do Part, Till Death ... and In Sickness and in Health, and chat show The Thoughts of Chairman Alf.

The 1968 version of Alf, ( in The Victor Book for Boys ) is a self-employed welder-" Welding done here "-and is still located under the railway arches in fictional Greystone, a drab town with cobbled streets where heavy industry employs thousands of manual workers.

The development of bossa nova is largely credited to artists working in the 1950s including Johnny Alf, Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto.

In 1965, Speight wrote a BBC TV pilot which became the 1966 series Till Death Us Do Part featuring Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett, a reactionary Conservative-voting working class man with a chip on his shoulder and an angry word on everything.

He also wrote that " one of Alf Clausen's other great talents besides working well along great lyricists is his ability to parody without sounding like an exact knock-off.

After working with other Swedish directors, including Alf Sjöberg on The Judge ( 1960 ) and Mai Zetterling on Loving Couples ( 1964 ), he then worked in the United States and elsewhere, on: Richard Fleischer's The Last Run ( 1971 ); Louis Malle's Black Moon ( 1975 ) and Pretty Baby ( 1978 ); Roman Polanski's The Tenant ( 1976 ); Jan Troell's Hurricane ( 1979 ); Bob Rafelson's version of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1981 ); Agnes of God ( 1985 ); Woody Allen's Another Woman ( 1988 ) and Crimes and Misdemeanors ( 1989 ); Richard Attenborough's Chaplin ( 1992 ); Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993 ); and Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1993 ).

Nicholls moved from 3KZ to 3UZ ( where Kennedy was working ), bringing with him his teenage panel operators Alf " Alfie Boy " Thesinger and Russell Archer.

Alf was a working class man, forever complaining that he worked and worked and yet lived somewhere near the poverty line, and was a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party, although he didn't support one-time leader Margaret Thatcher, because he believed that a woman's place was at home " chained to the bloody kitchen sink!

Members of the first graduating class to receive degrees included Alf Clausen, Stephen Gould and Michael Rendish.

Alf Engen quickly gained a reputation for his world class skiing skills.

Two feature films were made based on the series-the first was Till Death Us Do Part ( 1969 ), whose first half dealt with the younger Alf and Else during World War II, and whose second half dealt with all the Garnetts in the present day being moved from their East End slum to the New town of Hemel Hempstead, and the adjustments and changes that brought on the family.

Alf Bretteville-Jensen is a popular singer / songwriter whose intense, somewhat noir-flavored music incorporates elements of country, folk, and rock, using instruments such as acoustic and electric guitar, as well as pedal steel guitar.

Alf Svensson, whose leadership of the Christian Democrats spanned four decades ( 1973 – 2004 ), is a firm supporter of the European Union and the Economic and Monetary Union, unlike many of his voters who are in general more skeptical to an introduction of the euro.

It is said that the King, her father, had arranged a marriage for her to Alf, the crown prince of Denmark, whose father was King Sygarus of Denmark.

Harington ward, whose councillors are Gillian Cuthbertson, Alf Doran, and Denise Dutton, all members of the Conservative Party, and Ravenmeols ward, whose councillors are Barry Griffiths, Anne Ibbs, David Mcivor, again all members of the Conservative Party.

Melmotte, who by this time has also become an MP and the purchaser of a grand country estate belonging to Mr Longestaffe ( whose daughter Georgiana is the heroine of a lengthy satirical subplot ), also knows that his own game is nearly up, particularly after his shenanigans are exposed by Paul to Mr Alf, a journal editor and political rival.