** Roy Dennis, disabled American boy ( d. 1978 )

University of North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams spent the early years of his life as a resident of Spruce Pine ( he was born in Marion, North Carolina August 1, 1950 ), but moved to Asheville as a young boy.

There are a lot of references that are hard to miss, such as the fact that the little boy winds up being Charlie Chaplin, the detective is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who goes on to writing the Sherlock Holmes mysteries and Roy talks about Zeppelins " taking off " and being a successful invention despite what will happen to the Hindenburg in 1937.

A mock Paul Harvey radio broadcast in The Simpsons episode " Homer's Barbershop Quartet " reports " that little boy that nobody liked grew up to be ... Roy Cohn.

The film is based on the life and early death of Roy L. " Rocky " Dennis, a boy who suffered from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare disorder known commonly as lionitis due to the disfiguring cranial enlargements that it causes.

This included appearances on six episodes of The Roy Rogers Show, a guest-starring role in an episode of the American science fiction anthology series Science Fiction Theatre, and an appearance as a delivery boy on an episode of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.

Other roles were gormless denim-clad bovver boy Gaylord ( in a double act with his long suffering father, played by several actors including Roy Kinnear ) where, each week, he would mess up and utter the catchphrase " Dad, I think I got it wrong again ", the crusty pensioner James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick, and Mandy, a busty peroxide blonde whose catchphrase, " Ooh, you are awful ... but I like you!

" Like Richie, Roy was surrounded by wealth and luxury, but wasn't spoiled by it ; in many ways, he was just like any other young boy.

McLean's fights with rival Roy " pretty boy " Shaw, a former patient of Broadmoor Hospital, were described by critics as among the bloodiest of the century.

In a later storyline, Roy and Hayley foster a couple of children ( including Fiz Brown ( Jennie McAlpine ), who later returns to the Street after moving out of Roy and Hayley's home ), but have not had any children placed with them after they fled with a young boy, Wayne Hayes, attempting to protect him from his abusive stepfather.

Born Dan Waren Folger in San Rafael, California, while he was a small boy his family moved to Midland, Texas, where he would make friends with future Roy Orbison collaborator Joe Melson.

But the boy later lets his father, Roy ( James Caan ), into the house to commit a robbery.

When they are discovered, Roy brutally murders the family members, which the boy witnesses.

* The Anteater – Roy, a spoiled boy who lives " somewhere near San Francisco Bay ", is pondering what to get next ( he was getting bored of his usual supplys of toys and shoes ); he decides on an exotic pet, choosing a giant anteater.

However, the anteater finds him and decides Roy is his afters ( presumably in revenge for being malnourished by the boy ).

* Roy, the boy who first touched the enchanted wall, played by Bryan Cuprill, was also one of the students who turned into a caveman in the episode " Beer Bad ".

`` Send out a pickup on Mrs. Mason and the boy when you've got enough to go on '', Bill said.

In late-1836, President Andrew Jackson, who disliked the Michigan Territory's “ boy governor ” Stevens T. Mason, intervened on behalf of Ohio and gave the Toledo Strip to Ohio in exchange for Michigan getting the Upper Peninsula — then considered a wasteland — when it became a state on January 26, 1837.

She starts acting differently: she chokes her best friend, Sabrina Mason, throws apples at a house and steals a bag of candy from a boy.

The boy found a kindred spirit in one of Eton's music teachers, the cellist Edward Mason, a keen advocate of the composer.

As a boy, he moved with his family to Mason, New Hampshire.

In 1901, he landed a job as an office boy for the Detroit firm of Rogers and MacFarlane, quickly moving on to the prestigious George D. Mason firm.

Katherine saw what she thought was a boy getting off the train, but it was really Mason.

Shaw gave birth to a boy, Mason Evan Smith, on October 9, 2011.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

Linnaeus ' father began teaching him Latin, religion, and geography at an early age ; one account says that due to family use of Latin for conversation, the boy learned Latin before he learned Swedish.

They had passed Samos, Delos and Lebynthos by the time the boy, forgetting himself, began to soar upward toward the sun.

" Kenesaw began his off-farm career at age ten as a news delivery boy.

Upon his debut, Roger sported the usual school boy shorts, however he began wearing trousers during the 1970s.

Upon meeting a young boy named Sentaro, who taught her how to ride a bike, Skuld became determined to never quit and began to practice with her powers more, learning how to levitate small objects.

Encouraged by his father, the boy began exercising and boxing to combat his poor physical condition.

Stravinsky began piano lessons as a young boy, studying music theory and attempting composition.

The police broke through the crowd and began beating the boy, while the crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, and chunks of concrete.

After moving to Lausanne with his parents as a boy, he returned to England at the age of 11 without them ; three years later, at " the somewhat advanced age of 14 ," he began attending Malvern College and, later, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 1897 to 1898.

In the mid 1960s, corruption scandals began to arise among many of the city's officials, who were mainly elected through the traditional old boy network.

When a boy was born, Wladyslaw began building churches in his honor.

As a young boy, Walter attended a Jewish non-profit sleepaway camp, Tranquillity Camp, where he first began acting in the shows the camp would stage on Saturday nights.

O ' Neill began working for the publishing company IPC at the age of 16 as an office boy for Buster, which was a children's humour title.

Once partisan feelings became tense and hostilities began, Frederick Russell Burnham, who later became a celebrated scout and the inspiration for the boy scouts, was drawn into the conflict on the losing side.

" I have known Miguel Hernandez since he was a boy ", the letter began.

When the guests began to rebuke Alcibiades, Anytus excused him, saying that he loved the boy so much that he would have suffered Alcibiades to take the other half of the dishes, too.

Whitman then began to fire upon people walking upon Guadalupe Street, where he first shot and injured a 17-year-old newspaper delivery boy named Alex Hernandez, before fatally wounding a 17-year-old girl named Karen Griffith with a shot to the shoulder which destroyed Griffith's right lung.

A boy began preaching in either France or Germany claiming that he had been visited by Jesus and told to lead a Crusade to peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity.

* Benjamin C. Bradlee, Washington Post editor ; summer resident ; began his newspaper career as a copy boy for the Beverly Evening Times in 1937

Kamprad began to develop a business as a young boy, selling matches to neighbors from his bicycle.

As a boy in Vilnius he received piano lessons, studied Chopin's works, and began composing little pieces at fourteen years of age.

Following the failure of " Wyatt Earp ", Gaye began working, first as a stock boy, and then as a dishwasher, jobs Gaye found demeaning.