David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.

Friedrich Christian Anton " Fritz " Lang ( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

It was used as both a plot device and as a means to allow Superman's actor, Bud Collyer, to take occasional time off.

Robert Peter " Robbie " Williams ( born 13 February 1974 ) is an English singer-songwriter, and occasional actor.

When he returned to New York that spring, he met and fell in love with Frank Phillip Merlo ( 1922 – 1963 ), an occasional actor of Sicilian heritage who had served in the U. S. Navy in World War II.

He also did occasional work as a voice actor in animated feature films, including the character of Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie in 1986.

Jeffrey Leon " Jeff " Bridges ( born December 4, 1949 ) is an American actor, musician, producer, photographer, cartoonist, storyteller, and occasional vintner.

Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, ( born 25 April 1958, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland ) is a Scottish singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion.

Joshua Scott " JC " Chasez ( born August 8, 1976 ) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, entertainer, record producer, and occasional actor, best known as one of the lead vocalists in the former pop group ' N Sync.

Billie Joe Armstrong ( born February 17, 1972 ) is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter, and guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt.

He is an occasional actor and voice actor, having appeared in television shows, films, and other artists ' music videos.

An occasional advantage is the fact that through voice acting, an actor can reprise a role that he has played in live action but would be otherwise too aged to portray.

* Lionel Richie, born & raised in Tuskegee, then graduated from Tuskegee University, R & B singer, songwriter, composer, producer and occasional actor.

* John Carpenter, American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor.

Robert Florey ( 14 September 1900, Paris-16 May 1979, Santa Monica, California ) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and occasional actor.

Shawn Corey Carter ( born December 4, 1969 ), better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur and occasional actor.

Clinton Patrick " Clint " Black ( born February 4, 1962 ) is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor.

Throughout the rest of the 1970s and the early 1980s, he worked primarily as a theater actor, taking occasional parts in movies.

Richard Donald Crenna ( November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003 ) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director.

* Bob Geldof, Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist

Every actor provided multiple voices, although the distinctive baritone of Earle Hyman ( Panthro ) left the actor providing only very occasional guest voices in comparison with his fellow performers.

Originally, country music singer and occasional actor John Denver was signed to play Zack Mayo.

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

One consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.

It was a district of small factories and loft buildings and occasional tenements, and he could see the police radio car as he rounded the corner and slammed on the brakes.

The intense vomiting and occasional diarrhea it induces can clear the body of worms and other tropical parasites, and harmala alkaloids themselves have been shown to be anthelmintic Thus, this action is twofold ; a direct action on the parasites by these harmala alkaloids ( particularly harmine in ayahuasca ) works to kill the parasites, and parasites are expelled through the increased intestinal motility that is caused by these alkaloids.

* Graeme Fowler, cricketer, former England batsman, cricket coach and occasional pundit on BBC Radio's Test Match Special

Goliath eventually stopped close to the bow of Conquérant, opening fire on the new opponent and using the unengaged starboard guns to exchange occasional shots with the frigate Sérieuse and bomb vessel Hercule which were anchored inshore of the battle line.

The relations between Croatia and Italy have been largely cordial and friendly, although occasional incidents do arise on issues such as the Istrian exodus or the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as television news relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long " storylines " ( with six consecutive ( mostly unrelated ) strips following a same subject ), with longer storylines being used mainly on adventure-based and dramatic strips.

As well as starring in Coronation Street and occasional Red Dwarf series, Charles continues to host his Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio, and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals nationally.

Although secondary to its hack and slash gameplay, Castle of the Winds has a plot loosely based on Norse mythology, told with setting changes, unique items, and occasional passages of text.

There have been occasional reports of the tawny frogmouth ( Podargus strigoides ) and the Papuan frogmouth ( Podargus papuensis ) feeding on cane toads.

** Dean Cain in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman showed Clark as a normal and shy everyman demonstrating occasional touches of clumsiness ( e. g., pretending to burn his mouth on coffee ), but still a highly skilled journalist, much like the current post-Crisis portrayal.

The player is kept on guard by the grunts and growls of monsters, and receives occasional clues to finding secret areas in the form of sounds of hidden doors opening remotely.

While bassists such as Jack Cook slap bass on the occasional faster " Clinch Mountain Boys song ," bassists such as Gene Libbea, Missy Raines, Jenny Keel, and Barry Bales slap bass.

Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Its migration routes and wintering grounds are poorly known, the only recent information being from occasional records on both the eastern and western coasts of Japan and along the Chinese coast.

Here and there would be a Company post where Company agents seemed imprisoned, captive by the business of ivory ; now and then on shore an occasional native village would be seen, with a frenzied uproar by the natives.

This may result in an occasional variation of a maximum of one day, depending on the inability to observe the new moon.

Reloading may not be cost effective for occasional shooters, as it takes time to recoup the cost of the required equipment, but those who shoot on a regular basis will see benefit as the brass case ( the most expensive component ) can be reused many times ( with proper maintenance ).

Other than the occasional sea plane landing on the pond, the nearest airport is in neighboring Chatham ; the nearest regional service is at Barnstable Municipal Airport ; and the nearest national and international air service is at Logan International Airport in Boston.

They made occasional public appearances together between their breakup and 1961 but were not seen together until a surprise appearance by Martin on Lewis's Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon in 1976 arranged by Frank Sinatra.

" Sperm whales, on the other hand, while having demonstrated the ability and occasional behavior to swallow more than a grown man whole, have not yet been observed to demonstrate the inclination to swallow humans and generally are known to use their teeth to tear their food to pieces rather than swallow whole.