His television films include John Brown's Raid, Family Reunion, with Bette Davis, the 1985 version of Noon Wine, Murder in the Heartland and Balloon Farm, which was his final role as an actor.

Reports have appeared stating Jones has written scripts for feature films, including a Vietnam screenplay for Cheyenne Enterprises, and an adaptation of Larry Brown's novel, The Rabbit Factory, for Ithaka Films.

He also travelled to Brown's hometown of Kirkcaldy and immersed himself in numerous biographies of the man, including Ross Wilson's documentary films on New Labour in the year surrounding the 1997 election.

performances in such films as Mary Poppins ( as Ellen, the maidservant ), The Belles of St Trinian's, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Passport to Pimlico, The Pickwick Papers, Tom Brown's Schooldays and A Christmas Carol, although she first began making films back in the 1920s.

The group also protests against films and plays that it views as blasphemous, including Jean-Luc Godard's 1985 film Hail Mary, Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ, McNally's 1998 play Corpus Christi, the 1999 movie Dogma, and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

According to the entry in Les Brown's Encyclopedia of Television, the Nielsen ratings for the special were supposedly not as high as expected, possibly because both films had already aired ( albeit separately ) on NBC in previous years.

After World War II, Langley worked on many British films including the film noir They Made Me a Fugitive ( 1947 ), the remake of Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 ), the Alastair Sim Scrooge ( 1951 ), The Pickwick Papers ( 1952 ), Ivanhoe ( 1952 ) and the Technicolor The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1952 ).

Garbo was so impressed with Clarence Brown's direction and William Daniels's cinematography that she continued to work with both of them in her subsequent films at MGM.

However, as Sidney Poitier's films appealed to the white masses and the black bourgeoisie, Jim Brown's films were popular among the younger, vigilant, and politically oriented black audiences.

" Love Fire " gained wide recognition when it was used as the backing rhythm for Dennis Brown's " Promised Land ".

It was only as recently as in the ephemerides for 1984 that Brown's work was superseded: it was replaced by results gained from more modern observational data ( including data from lunar laser ranging ) and by altogether new computational methods for calculating the Moon's ephemeris.

By this point, Groening's shorts had gained much more popularity and the producers saw no reason to continue Brown's shorts.

Republicans gained a one-vote majority in 1995, threatening longtime Democratic Speaker Willie Brown's 15 year hold on power.

In 2007-08, Brown's mortgage interest repayments totalled £ 6, 600, but he also claimed a total of £ 23, 068, just £ 15 below the maximum allowable amount for the year.

Nonetheless, Drummond insisted that Lundy's Lane was a total victory for the British, and tried to smash Brown's army into the ground by chasing them to Fort Erie.

He ended his major league career with the Reds in 1902, batting. 290 and breaking Brown's record of 4461 career total chances in the outfield, and played for Los Angeles in the Pacific Coast League in 1903.

Brown's form started to deteriorate in 1937 – 38 ; scoring only 400 runs at 36. 36 for the season.

Although there were as many as ninety stories set in British boarding schools published between Sarah Fielding's The Governess, or The Little Female Academy in 1749 and 1857, Tom Brown's School Days was responsible for bringing the school story genre to much wider attention.

He also portrayed disciplinarians such as Inspector Javert in the 1952 Les Misérables, Dr. Arnold in the 1951 film version of Tom Brown's Schooldays, and Inspector Fix in his last film, Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for Thunderbolt, played the title role in The Wolf of Wall Street ( 1929, released just prior to the Wall Street Crash ), and appeared in Paramount's all-star revue Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ) and Rowland Brown's Blood Money ( 1933 ), condemned by the censors because they feared the film would " incite law-abiding citizens to crime.

The film reunited him with Jimmy Lydon, with whom he had starred in Tom Brown's School Days, Naval Academy, and Cadets on Parade.

Brown's defensive mentality would carry on into his coaching career, which began in 1955 at St. Mary Academy in Little Falls, New York where he coached both basketball and baseball.

Established in 1871, the Academy of Arts early on bought some large works from Europe such as Ford Madox Brown's Chaucer at the Court of Edward III.

He was a candidate for Leader again in 2010 following Gordon Brown's resignation but withdrew in favour of Diane Abbott, feeling that he would be unable to secure enough nominations.

Brown's place was taken in Game 5 by rookie pitcher Liván Hernández, who had earned a spot in the rotation in the second half of the season, but was not in the rotation during the postseason.

Brown's victories in the Independence War, the Cisplatine War, and the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata earned the respect and appreciation of the Argentine people, and today he is regarded as one of Argentina's national heroes.

During his first season, Brown earned the ire of Don Bradman, who was displeased with Brown's poor communication with batting partners when running between the wickets, with the ensuing risk of falling foul of run outs.

On July 4, Houston and Brown's first child together was conceived, nine months later on March 4, their only child together, daughter Bobbi Kristina Houston-Brown, nicknamed " Krissy ", was born.

Brown's daughter, Sam Brown, is also a singer and his son, Pete Brown, is a record producer, who produced all but one of Brown's nine most recent albums and also tours with Joe.

His credits as a child actor include the title role at the age of nine in David Lean's production Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), followed by The Rocking Horse Winner ( 1949 ), Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 ) and a few episodes of the television series William Tell ( 1958 ).

A long-standing friend of former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, Lord Levy spent nine years from 1998 to 2007 Tony Blair's special envoy to the Middle East, being replaced by Gordon Brown's appointee, Michael Williams from September 2007.

A 1979 People magazine article recounts that the elder Brown's nine unsuccessful political races – for either governor or the U. S. Senate – took a toll on his family and left his mother resentful of all the money spent on campaigns.

On New Year's Eve, Alfred Harcourt drove him up the Hudson to Bill Brown's Training Camp, a well-known establishment for the speedy if temporary rehabilitation of drunkards who could no longer help themselves.

Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.

That's Brown's trouble.

The turret screw machine, now known as the Brown & Sharpe hand screw machine, takes its ancestry directly from Mr. Brown's efforts to introduce equipment to simplify the manufacture of the sewing machine.

In 1861, Mr. Brown's attention was called to yet another basic production problem -- the manufacture of twist drills.

This process neither satisfied the urgent production schedules nor Mr. Brown's imagination of the possibilities in the situation.

The child of this problem was Mr. Brown's famous Serial No. 1 Universal Milling Machine, the archtype from which is descended today's universal knee-type milling machine used throughout the world.

Mr. Brown's invention achieved this and, as a byproduct, formed the cornerstone of Brown & Sharpe's position of leadership in the gear making equipment field which lasted until the 1920's when superceded by other methods.

The final achievement of Mr. Brown's long and interesting mechanical career runs a close second in importance to his development of the universal milling machine.

Along with J. R. Brown's other major developments, the universal grinding machine was profoundly influential in setting the course of Brown & Sharpe for many years to come.

Following Mr. Brown's death, there came forward in the Brown & Sharpe organization many other men who contributed greatly to the development of the company.

Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.

Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

In the eastern section of the state the newspapers' reaction to Brown's trial and sentence were basically identical.

Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.

In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.

During the latter days of November to the day of Brown's execution, it seems that most Rhode Islanders did not concur in `` E. B.'s '' suggestion.

On November 22, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal stated that although Brown's `` pluck '' and honest fanaticism must be admired, any honor paid to Brown would only induce other fanatics to imitate his actions.

Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.

Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body comes immediately to mind in this connection, as does John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath and Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

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