Charlton held the record for most appearances for Manchester United ( 758 ), but this was surpassed by Ryan Giggs on 21 May 2008 ( the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final ).

Charlton also held the club record for most league appearances ( 606 ) until this too was overtaken by Giggs on 6 March 2011.

In January 2011 Charlton was voted the 4th greatest Manchester United player of all time by the readers of Inside United and ManUtd. com, behind Ryan Giggs ( who topped the poll ), Eric Cantona and George Best.

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

He worked his way through the pecking order of teams, scoring regularly for the youth and reserve sides before he was handed his first team debut against Charlton Athletic in October 1956.

Charlton, still only 19, was selected for the game, which saw United goalkeeper Ray Wood carried off with a broken cheekbone after a clash with Villa centre forward Peter McParland.

Though Charlton was a candidate to go in goal to replace Wood ( in the days before substitutes, and certainly before goalkeeping substitutes ), it was teammate Jackie Blanchflower who ended up between the posts.

Charlton was an established player by the time the next season was fully underway, which saw United, as current League champions, become the first English team to compete in the European Cup.

Charlton, strapped into his seat, had fallen out of the cabin and when United goalkeeper Harry Gregg ( who had somehow got through a hole in the plane unscathed and begun a one-man rescue mission ) found him, he thought he was dead.

Gregg returned to the plane to try to help the appallingly injured Busby and Blanchflower, and when he turned around again, he was relieved to see that Charlton and Viollet, both of whom he had presumed to be dead, had got out of their detached seats and were looking into the wreckage.

Charlton suffered cuts to his head and severe shock and was in hospital for a week.

Charlton was the first injured survivor to leave hospital, Harry Gregg and Bill Foulkes were not hospitalized since they escaped uninjured.

Charlton was handed his debut as England romped home 4 – 0, with the new player gaining even more admirers after scoring a magnificent thumping volley dispatched with authority after a cross by the left winger Tom Finney.

In between, there was the pressing matter for Charlton of the 1966 World Cup for which England, as hosts, had not needed to qualify.

England defeated Argentina 1 – 0 – the game was the only one in which Charlton received a caution – and faced Portugal in the semi finals.

Charlton opened the scoring with a crisp side-footed finish after a run by Roger Hunt had forced the Portuguese goalkeeper out of his net ; his second was a sweetly struck shot after a run and pull-back from Geoff Hurst.

Charlton's next England game was his 75th as England beat Northern Ireland ; 2 caps later and he had become England's second most-capped player, behind the veteran Billy Wright, who was approaching his 100th appearance when Charlton was starting out and ended with 105 caps.

In 1969, Charlton was awarded the OBE for services to football.

Shortly before the World Cup Charlton was involved in the Bogotá Bracelet incident in which he and Bobby Moore were accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery store.

Charlton went on to play for England schoolboys, and despite offers that followed from several other clubs, the 15-year-old signed with United on 1 January 1953, along with Wilf McGuinness, also aged 15.

Newlyweds Miguel " Mike " Vargas ( Charlton Heston ) and Susie ( Janet Leigh ) pass the car several times on foot.

In the mid-1950s, Charlton briefly published a Blue Beetle title with new and reprinted stories, and in 1956, several short-lived titles written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, such as Mr. Muscles and Nature Boy ( the latter with artist Mastroserio ), and the Joe Gill-created Zaza the Mystic.

He would produce several reprint titles under the company name of Avalon Communications and its imprint America's Comics Group ( ACG for short, Broughton having also purchased the rights to the defunct American Comics Group properties ), and announced plans to restart Charlton Comics.

Charlton Comics published several issues of an Emergency!

Charlton is also home to several parks of varying features, namely Maryon Park, Maryon Wilson Park, Hornfair Park, named in reference to the old Horn Fair, held in October, for which Charlton was renowned in previous centuries, and Charlton Park, which is largely made up of sports pitches or playing fields.

The main campus has been expanded several times, including the Cedar Dell residences ( begun 1987 ), the Dion Science & Engineering Building in 1989, the Charlton College of Business in 2004, the new apartment-style residence halls in 2005, and the Research Building in 2007.

During the 1950s, she participated in several Hollywood productions such as Arrowhead ( 1953, with Charlton Heston ), Broken Lance ( 1954, with Spencer Tracy for which she received an Academy Award nomination ), Trapeze ( 1955, with Burt Lancaster ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1959, directed by Marlon Brando ), Barabbas, Stay Away, Joe ( 1968, opposite Elvis Presley ), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ), and others.

While that film featured a larger " all star " cast ( in fact, Universal had approached several, including Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, to star in Earthquake-but they had already been signed for Inferno ), Universal was able to land Charlton Heston in the lead role, along with Ava Gardner ( who signed at the proverbial " 11th hour " simply because she wanted to spend the summer in Los Angeles ), George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold ( who agreed to a part in the film to head off an impending lawsuit by Universal over a prior project ), Richard Roundtree ( riding a wave of success from the Shaft film series ), former evangelical Marjoe Gortner as an antagonist, and newcomer Victoria Principal.

With the rest of the Charlton line-up, he was sold to DC Comics in 1983 and appeared with several superhero groups, including the Justice League.

At Northwestern she met several unknown stars and producers, including Agnes Nixon, Charlton Heston, Paul Lynde, and songwriter Sheldon Harnick.

Anna Maria Leighton and her husband Sir Charlton Leighton were to have the manor, house, and lands of Shelvock, and the furniture there, along with several freehold tenements.

Watford see in the New Year being bottom of the Premiership and ten points adrift of safety, with West Ham United and Charlton Athletic also several points behind fellow strugglers Sheffield United, Wigan Athletic and Middlesbrough.

Over the years, it lost several properties, including the King Features Syndicate characters ( Popeye, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, etc., to Charlton Comics ) in 1966, numerous ( but not all ) Hanna-Barbera characters ( also to Charlton Comics ) in 1970, and Star Trek ( to Marvel Comics ) in 1979.

Parker, who had been consistently linked with moves away from Charlton for several years, finally left the Valley on 30 January 2004 to join Chelsea on a four-and-a-half-year contract for a fee of £ 10 million after a protracted and acrimonious transfer saga.

This release included several featurettes, including a commentary by Charlton Heston, a making-of documentary ( made for a laserdisc release in 1993 ), screen tests, and a photo gallery.

Rommedahl had been linked with several moves away from Charlton.

This trademark process led to a delay of several months in the release of Firefox 0. 8 when the foundation discovered that Firefox had already been registered as a trademark in the UK for Charlton Company software.

He has previously played for several clubs in England including Leeds United, Charlton Athletic, West Ham United, Newcastle United and Birmingham City.

:" By his will he gives the following directions relating to this school: that it shall be for the education of thirty-one boys, five of whom shall be of the parish of Lewisham ; ten of Greenwich, eight of Deptford, one of Lee, one of Charlton, three of Eltham, and three of Woolwich, to be chosen in the several parishes at a public meeting of the chief parishioners.

His stay only lasted for two years but in his short spell there he gained many friends and admirers and scored several spectacular goals including ones against Sheffield Wednesday, Charlton Athletic and Chelsea.

Charlton turned professional in 1920 and first entered the Football League in 1921.

Charlton then lifted the League One trophy on 5 May 2012, having been in the top position since 15 September 2011, and after recording a 3 – 2 victory over Hartlepool United, recorded their highest ever league points score of 101, the highest in any professional European league that year.

He started his playing career as a centre-half at Charlton Athletic in 1960, turning professional at Frank Hill's Second Division side in 1964.

Virgo turned professional in 1976, at a time when players such as Ray Reardon, John Spencer and Eddie Charlton were at the forefront of the sport.

The snooker playing fraternity was represented by Alex Higgins, John Pulman, Jackie Rea, Graham Miles, John Spencer, Eddie Charlton, Cliff Thorburn and female professional Joyce Gardner.

Edward Francis (" Eddie ") Charlton AM ( 31 October 1929 – 7 November 2004 ) was an Australian professional snooker and English billiards player.

* Michael Smith ( footballer born 1991 ), English professional footballer who plays for Charlton Athletic

Bates resigned from the War Reserve and went to work at the Folland Aircraft factory at Hamble, who also had a very good works football team which, as well as Bates, included other professional players such as Bill Dodgin ( Southampton ), Harold Pond ( Carlisle United ), Bert Tann ( Charlton ), Dick Foss ( Chelsea ), Bill Bushby, Cliff Parker and Bill Rochford ( all Portsmouth ).

Born in Forest Gate, England, to Caribbean-born parents, Primus began his professional career at Charlton Athletic ; where he made four league appearances.

Breen began his professional career as a youth player at Charlton Athletic but never made a first-team appearance for the club.

* John Dunn ( footballer ) ( born 1944 ), English professional footballer for Aston Villa and Charlton Athletic

Two years later, he took the controversial decision, aged 16, to turn professional with West Ham United, following which Charlton were subsequently awarded a compensation package rising to £ 1. 4 million depending on Premiership and international appearances.

His final Charlton story, " The Second Trojan War " in Son of Vulcan # 50 ( Jan. 1966, the last issue ), was the first professional work of writer and future Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas, with the previous issue having seen the character being given a new and more ornate costume designed by a young, cover-credited Dave Cockrum.

He scored his first ever professional career goal in a 2 – 1 defeat at home to Charlton Athletic on 23 November.

He began his football career as a scholar with Charlton, and earned a professional contract in 2003, which was extended in 2004.