The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

Only a select few got chuckles from young Chapman including Frankie Howerd, the team of Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, It's That Man Again, Educating Archie, Take It From Here and Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.

* 1940 – Ben Chapman, English politician and civil servant

* 1605 – The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".

In 2011, BBC Two broadcast, DOUBLE AGENT: The Eddie Chapman Story, a documentary presented by Ben Macintyre based on his book.

Rollo is the subject of the 17th century play Rollo Duke of Normandy written by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman.

His friendship with Thomas Dekker brought him into conflict with Ben Jonson and George Chapman in the War of the Theatres.

The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes.

* Ben Chapman as Gill-man ( land )

Ben Chapman introduced the creature in costume with Abbott and Costello on live television on an episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour.

* The Reel Gill-man – Official site of Ben Chapman, who played the Gill-man

He moved into movies in 1954, playing the underwater role of the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon ( while Ben Chapman played the monster on land ), a feat he repeated in two sequels.

With John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman (?

)-John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman ( The drinking song )

* George Chapman, Ben Jonson & John Marston – Eastward Hoe ( performed & published )

* 1 May 1998 to 21 November 2003, updated, drum and bass version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love " by Ben Chapman.

They enroll their child, Ben, in Chapman Academy, a very academic pre-school headed by Miss Harridan.

Kenelm was sufficiently in favour with James I to be proposed as a member of Edmund Bolton's projected Royal Academy ( with George Chapman, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, John Selden, and Sir Henry Wotton ).

He variously commissioned, bought and produced plays by, or made loans to Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, Robert Greene, Henry Chettle, George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Anthony Munday, Henry Porter, John Day, John Marston and Michael Drayton.

Further, following extreme, race-based jeering at Robinson by the Philadelphia Phillies and their manager, Ben Chapman, Chandler threatened both the team and Chapman personally with disciplinary action for any future incidents of race-based taunting.

: Ben Chapman, 3 ( 1931 – 1933 )

Cecil is also portrayed by Ben Willbond in the BAFTA award winning children's comedy television series Horrible Histories.

In 2008, he portrayed a version of Uncle Ben for Superhero Movie, a spoof of superhero films.

In an episode of the television series Bonanza ( Look to the Stars, broadcast March 18, 1962 ), Ben Cartwright ( Lorne Greene ) helps the 16-year-old Albert Abraham Michelson ( portrayed by 25-year-old Douglas Lambert ( 1936 – 1986 )) obtain an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, despite the opposition of the bigoted town schoolteacher ( played by William Schallert ).

In 2010, she portrayed Ben Hur's sister Tirzah in the TV movie Ben Hur, which aired in Canada and later on ABC in the United States.

" ( Dunning, 210 ) Friday's first partner was Sergeant Ben Romero, portrayed by Barton Yarborough, a longtime radio actor.

* Martin Sheen portrayed Uncle Ben in the 2012 reboot film The Amazing Spider-Man.

Ben Cross portrayed Sarek in the 2009 motion picture Star Trek.

He portrayed most of the great figures of the Enlightenment, and travelled to America to produce a statue of George Washington, as well as busts of Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and other luminaries of the new republic.

Actor Peter Strauss portrayed " Ben Jacobs ," a fictionalized representation of Michael Schwerner.

* Warren Worthington III appears in the 2006 feature film X-Men: The Last Stand portrayed by Ben Foster.

Ben Price portrayed Lambert in Series 3 of Showtime's hit show The Tudors.

In 1976 he portrayed Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee in the film All the President's Men, based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.

Martin made many guest appearances on Gunsmoke, including the two-part episode " Island in the Desert ," in which he portrayed a crazy desert hermit named Ben Snow.

Hollywoodland ( 2006 ) explores the mysterious 1959 death of actor George Reeves, who is portrayed by Ben Affleck.

* Evans is also portrayed ( more briefly ) by Ben McKay in the 2005 film Pierrepoint.

" The Star Trek Show " spoofed William Shatner and Bono and the inevitable demise of the red-shirted security officers beamed down to an alien planet, portrayed by Ben and Jeff's characters " Howie and Jordo ," two college-age underachievers that were constantly in trouble.

In the 2007 film Jump !, Halsman was portrayed by Ben Silverstone.

In the 2001 HBO film Conspiracy, which portrayed the Wannsee Conference, Bühler was played by the British actor Ben Daniels.

Carey appeared in CBS's Appointment with Adventure and later portrayed Brother Ben in " The Incident of the Golden Calf " episdode of CBS's Rawhide.

** In 1998, Ben Affleck portrayed actor Edward Alleyn in the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love.

Ben Unwin portrayed the character Jesse McGregor on the Australian television drama Home and Away from 1995 to 2005.

Cardinal Casaroli was portrayed by veteran character actor Ben Gazzara in the 2005 miniseries, Pope John Paul II.

* In the movie Tropic Thunder, Tugg Speedman, portrayed by Ben Stiller, can be seen watching the fight between Captain Kirk and the Gorn on his iPod.