Sociologist Eileen Barker wrote in Watching for Violence:

Prior to working in the film industry, the Wachowskis wrote comic books for Marvel Comics ' Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid ( created by horror novelist Clive Barker ) in 1993 as well as writing for Epic Comics ' Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Clive Barker's Nightbreed comic series.

" Idle originally wrote " Nudge, Nudge " for Ronnie Barker, but it was rejected because there was ' no joke in the words '.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

Mary Violet Clayton Calthrop, wife of author Dion Clayton Calthrop, wrote in April 1925 about Barker and Flower Fairies of the Spring: " She has such exquisite taste, besides draughtsmanship.

Hellraiser ( also known as Clive Barker's Hellraiser ) is a 1987 English horror film based upon the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, who also wrote the screenplay and directed the film.

Barker began using the pseudonym Gerald Wiley when writing sketches because he wished the pieces to be accepted on merit and not just because he, as a star of the programme, had written them ; he continued this tradition with the material he wrote later in his career.

In 1969 Barker was able to produce the film Futtocks End which featured no dialogue and only " grumble and grunt "; Barker played General Futtock in the film and also wrote it.

The character returned for the 1969-1970 series Hark at Barker as the main character ; Barker wrote for the show under the name Jonathan Cobbald.

As Wiley he wrote the 1971 series Six Dates with Barker.

Barker wrote all seven episodes, again with the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald.

Corbett explained that Barker was a " perfectionist " and " as he wrote it Ronnie knew how he wanted every shot to look.

Barker wrote the show himself, again using a pseudonym, this time as " Bob Ferris ".

He wrote the play Mum for his daughter Charlotte Barker in 1998, which was performed at The King's Head Theatre, but garnered a negative response, with Barker stating it got " the worst notices of any play in the history of the theatre.

The BBC wrote he was " able to deliver the great tongue-twisting speeches required of his characters, Barker pronounced himself ' completely boring ' without a script.

Christopher Barker writing in the Guardian about this period: “ On many occasions through the early Sixties, writers and painters such as David Gascoyne, Paddy Kavanagh, Roberts MacBryde and Colquhoun and Paddy Swift lived downstairs from Smart and his wife, Agnes, wrote cookbooks with Smart would gather at Westbourne Terrace in Paddington, our family home at that time.

James N. Barker wrote a variation of Little Red Riding Hood in 1827 as an approximately 1000-word story.

Other admirers of Eddison's work included James Stephens, who wrote the introduction to the 1922 edition ; Robert Silverberg, who described The Worm Ouroboros as " the greatest high fantasy of them all "; and Clive Barker.

In June 2009, Barker wrote Chief Michell Hicks of the Cherokee asking that their reservation's bear exhibit be closed.

Les Barker wrote the poem " Maybe Then I'll Be A Rose " as what he called a " sensible version " of the song, with the lovers seizing the day rather than waiting until death to embrace one another.

In her journal, Nin wrote, " Harvey Breit, Robert Duncan, George Barker, Caresse Crosby, all of us concentrating our skills in a tour de force, supplying the old man with such an abundance of perverse felicities, that now he begged for more.

Barker tapped into this tradition and the setting he had developed from his childhood fantasies ( much as H. G. Wells had done for his Floor Games leading into the better-known follow-up, Little Wars ) to further explore and develop Tékumel.

That Barker and Beban are able to create so much sympathy for Beppo, despite their own, occasionally quite obvious condescension to the character, is a mark of emerging maturity in the movie business ; no longer are films dealing in one-dimensional ' types.

" They concluded " it says much about the decline of the British television industry that Ronnie Barker, one of its most creative comic talents, should have turned his back on it long before he died at the age of 76.

He resigned before much was done, and James M. Barker was named his successor.

After performing with Box Car Racer for much of 2002, DeLonge and Barker rejoined the band to record their eponymous fifth studio album, released in November 2003.

After the match Henman told Sue Barker in an interview on BBC Television and in front of the Court 1 crowd, " It's occasions like this and fans like this that I will miss so much ".

However, Barker has revealed that FremantleMedia, the company that owns the show, had been looking for a successor in the last two to three years, and also that he had considered retirement for a while, but he had so much fun that he continued to do the show.

Overweight for much of his adult life, the program resulted in Roddy's loss of close to 200 pounds, an accomplishment often hailed by Barker on camera, but also subject to some mild teasing as camera technicians distorted their lenses to show an elongated and overly-skinny Roddy intentionally distorted in the manner of a funhouse mirror when Barker would ask how much weight he has lost.

The sketches often involved complex word-play, much of it written by Barker, who also liked to parody officialdom and establishment figures, as well as eccentrics.

" Responding to Barker and Howell, Simon and Schouten noted, " Our own analysis suggests that the standardization and faking issues, as well as other problems not addressed in the Barker and Howell paper, warrant much more guarded conclusions about the use of the plethysmograph in legal and clinical settings.

This is much more debatable ; it may be something of a flag of convenience for those such as the followers of Dylan Thomas and George Barker whose style clearly marked them off, or on the other hand a tag for those addressed polemically and retrospectively by the Robert Conquest introduction to the New Lines anthology.

Among the writers was one Gerald Wiley, which was a pseudonym used by Ronnie Barker to submit material without using his own name, so as to find out whether the producer genuinely thought his material was good enough to use-and much of it was.

A special issue, " Non-Plan: an experiment in freedom ," 20 March 1969, in which the design historian Reyner Banham, the urban geographer Peter Hall, the architect Cedric Price and Paul Barker argued jointly that much town and country planning was misguided and counter-productive and should be scrapped.

It was also said that Billy Barker smoked as much as 30 cigarettes a day, finding it hard to deal with the stress of having that much gold, and his Parkinson's disease progressing.

From what Clive Barker stated, the film will cover a much larger scope and reveal more of Tortured Souls ' world, rather than the limited story that was initially released with the first series of figures.

Realising what he had done, and too afraid to face the consequences, Barker took his own life — and much of the Harchester team's-by driving into the team coach with all the players on board.

While filming on location Barker and Corbett would look through all of the potential material for the studio recording of the rest of the show's content and decide on the running order.

However, Barker was replaced in the lead role by the show's creator, Ajay Sahgal, and the show never aired.

Curling, who is black, also alleged that the show's producers ( including Barker ) created a hostile work environment in which black employees and contestants were discriminated against.

In a similar manner to the 18-second tribute, Roddy is mentioned a single time in Barker's autobiography, " Priceless Memories ", when Barker lists the show's announcers since 1972.

In March 1998, on the 5000th episode of The Price Is Right ( actually number 5133 ), CBS named Studio 33 as the Bob Barker Studio in honor of the show's longtime host and executive producer.

Bob Barker would often ask Dobkowitz when the last time an unusual event in the show's history took place, which became such a frequent occurrence toward the end of Barker's tenure that one Showcase skit had Dobkowitz reading from a fake book entitled " Roger, when was the last time that happened?