Baker told Caine to meet the director, Cy Endfield, who informed him that he already had given the part that Baker had tipped Caine for to James Booth, a fellow Cockney who was Caine's friend, because he looked more Cockney than Caine did.

As he had already admitted his involvement in the assassination conspiracy, the only defense his lawyer Frederick Stone ( February 7, 1820 – October 17, 1899 ) could offer was that David was feeble-minded and under undue influence from Booth.

Booth, incorporated under the name McLaughlin Realty Company, acquired property from several owners in the already established areas of Scottish Heights and Yesler Village.

Arthur Morris and Bill Watson had to withdraw at late notice and Booth was asked to play, having already started his day's work as a teacher at Hurlstone Agricultural College.

Booth invested some of his growing wealth in various enterprises during the early 1860s, including land speculation in Boston's Back Bay section.

Though the early years were lean ones, with the need of money to help the needy an ever growing issue, Booth and The Salvation Army persevered.

Granada hurried to update the programme, with the hope of introducing more issue-driven stories, including Lucille Hewitt becoming addicted to drugs, Jerry Booth being in a storyline about homosexuality, Emily Nugent having an out of wedlock child, and introducing a black family, but all of these ideas were dropped for fear of upsetting viewers.

The Philadelphia Press drama critic said, " Without having brother Edwin's culture and grace, Mr. Booth has far more action, more life, and, we are inclined to think, more natural genius.

" As the Confederacy's defeat became more certain in 1865, Booth decried the end of slavery and Lincoln's election to a second term, " making himself a king ", the actor fumed, in " wild tirades ", his sister recalled.

Booth watched a demonstration of the device which blew dust off the chairs, and thought it would be much more useful to have one that sucked dust.

Booth insists on going, though he doesn't care any more as long as he has something to do, and admits he can't remember when he ever loved his current wife.

Although he was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films as The Man in the Glass Booth ; Counterpoint ( 1968 ); A Bridge Too Far ; Cross of Iron ; The Odessa File ; Julia ; and Judgment at Nuremberg, he also played more diverse characters in Krakatoa, East of Java ; The Black Hole ; The Freshman ; John Carpenter's Vampires ; Topkapi ; Stalin ; Candles in the Dark ; Erste Liebe ; Deep Impact ; and the television miniseries, Peter the Great ( 1986 ), which co-starred Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.

The views of the white male character ( Eddie Booth, played by Smethurst ) were presented in such a way as to make him appear stupid and bigoted, and were contrasted with the more tolerant attitude of his wife.

When his apprenticeship ended in 1848, Booth spent a year looking in vain for more suitable work than pawnbroking, which he disliked and considered ungodly.

He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business from 1961 until his retirement in 1993, although he continued teaching at the school for several more years.

Concern over phossy jaw contributed to the London matchgirls strike of 1888, and although this strike did not end the use of white phosphorus, William Booth and the Salvation Army opened a match-making factory in 1891 which used the much safer, though more expensive, red phosphorus.

Two key members of the James organisation resigned — guitarist and key composer Larry Gott ( who left the group in order to spend more time with his family ) and manager Martine McDonagh ( who had had a sometimes fraught romantic relationship with Booth, resulting in a son called Ben ).

Booth argues that beginning roughly with Henry James, critics began to emphasize the difference between " showing " and " telling " in fiction and have placed more and more of a dogmatic premium on " showing.

These new articles covered the previously undocumented Counter-Strike: Source bot ( added by the bot's author, Mike Booth ), Valve's NPC AI, advice for mod teams on setting up source control, and more.

* Clare Booth Luce employed a variation of it in a tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt, " Mrs. Roosevelt has done more good deeds on a bigger scale for a longer time than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene.

Atzerodt said that Booth really wanted David Herold to assassinate Vice President Johnson because he thought that Herold had " more pluck " than Atzerodt did.

Atzerodt said Booth wanted him to " back up " Herold and " give him more courage.

These include singers including Dame Margaret Price, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Sir Thomas Allen, Jill Gomez, Sir Geraint Evans and more recently Claire Booth, Helen Field, Gail Pearson and Jeremy Huw Williams.

Booth stated that their film was " much more irreverent and strange " compared to other behind-the-scenes documentaries of the film trilogy, which were " very much driven around the production and the cast and Tolkien ".

Booth's rule # 2, coined by skydiving pioneer Bill Booth, states that " The safer skydiving gear becomes, the more chances skydivers will take, in order to keep the fatality rate constant ".

With Confield, Sean Booth and Rob Brown largely abandoned the warm ambient sounds of their earlier works such as Amber and Tri Repetae in favour of the more chaotic feel that they had been pursuing with LP5, EP7, and Peel Session.

In the film, a murderous and morally bankrupt psychopath named Frank Booth ( played by Dennis Hopper ) is obsessed with the song and demands it be played over and over, calling it " Candy Colored Clown ".

At that point, Corbett shot Booth with his Colt revolver despite Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton's orders that Booth should be taken alive.

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

Author Jim Bishop wrote that Booth " developed into an outrageous scene stealer, but he played his parts with such heightened enthusiasm that the audiences idolized him.

Later that year, Booth played the part of an Indian, Uncas, in a play staged in Petersburg, Virginia, and then became a stock company actor at the Richmond Theatre in Virginia, where he became increasingly popular with audiences for his energetic performances.

On October 5, 1858, Booth played the part of Horatio in Hamlet, with his older brother Edwin having the title role.

Historian Benjamin Platt Thomas wrote that Booth " won celebrity with theater-goers by his romantic personal attraction ", but that he was " too impatient for hard study " and his " brilliant talents had failed of full development.

L-to-r: Booth with brothers Edwin and Junius in Julius Caesar ( play ) | Julius Caesar

On November 25, 1864, Booth performed for the only time with his two brothers, Edwin and Junius, in a single engagement production of Julius Caesar at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.

The Fuller Farm Oil company was selling shares with a prospectus featuring the well-known actor's celebrity status as " Mr. J. Wilkes Booth, a successful and intelligent operator in oil lands ", it said.

When Brown was hanged without incident, Booth stood in uniform near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.

Although Maryland remained in the Union, newspaper editorials and many Marylanders, including Booth, agreed with Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision in Ex parte Merryman that Lincoln's actions were unconstitutional.

As the Civil War went on, Booth increasingly quarreled with his brother Edwin, who declined to make stage appearances in the South and refused to listen to John Wilkes ' fiercely partisan denunciations of the North and Lincoln.

In February 1865, Booth became infatuated with Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of U. S. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire, and they became secretly engaged when Booth received his mother's blessing for their marriage plans.

The likelihood of Lincoln's re-election filled Booth with rage towards the President, whom Booth blamed for the war and all the South's troubles.

By this time, Booth was arguing so vehemently with his older, pro-Union brother Edwin about Lincoln and the war that Edwin finally told him he was no longer welcome at his New York home.

Booth also railed against Lincoln in conversations with his sister Asia, saying, " That man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his policy are a disgrace to the seat he holds.

McVeigh wore a printed T-shirt with the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Sic semper tyrannis (" Thus always to tyrants ", which was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ) and " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants " ( from Thomas Jefferson ).

In 1918, Gordon played Lola Pratt in the Broadway adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen opposite actor Gregory Kelly, who later acted with her in North American tours of Frank Craven's The First Year and Tarkington's Clarence and Tweedles.