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The character of Zefram Cochrane had first appeared in the Original Series episode " Metamorphosis ", played by Glenn Corbett.
Veteran character actor Noah Beery, Jr. played Rockford's father, Joseph " Rocky " Rockford, while Gretchen Corbett portrayed Rockford's lawyer and sometime lover, Beth Davenport, until she left the series over a salary dispute with the studio.
Created by writer Gene L. Coon, the character first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode " Metamorphosis ", in which he was played by Glenn Corbett.
In " Metamorphosis ", Cochrane was played by Glenn Corbett, who was 37 at the time of that episode's airing.
Harry Corbett of Sooty fame was a nephew of Harry Ramsden and played the piano in his uncle's original restaurant.
The park — named for the hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment — was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park.
The new name honours the well-known author and wildlife conservationist Jim Corbett, who played a key role in creating the reserve by using his influence to persuade the provincial government to establish it.
As early as 1991, the Corbett National Park played host to 3237 tourist vehicles carrying 45, 215 visitors during the main tourist seasons between 15 November and 15 June.
Quilley played in the first London production of the musical The Boys from Syracuse ( Antipholus of Ephesus ) in 1963 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, alongside Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Corbett.
In 1997, Corbett played Reggie Sea Lions in the film Fierce Creatures, which also starred his former comedy teammate John Cleese.
Corbett is remembered for accidentally falling over in the video, however he found the fall funny when played back, and it was kept in the final version.
Corbett is a golfer and appears in celebrity and pro – am events ; in 2009 he made a documentary with Colin Montgomerie in which they played at Gleneagles.
Barker and Corbett also made a number of advertisements that appeared on ITV, most notably for British Leyland ( Austin / Morris ) in 1979 where Corbett played a villain on the run and, " needing some wheels ", gets salesman Barker to show him round the Austin Morris range.
In Carry on Screaming he played Detective Constable Slowbotham, the assistant for Detective Sergeant Bung played by Harry H Corbett, or as Citizen Bidet in " Carry On Don ’ t Lose Your Head " where he was the assistant to Citizen Camembert played by Kenneth Williams.
The first was the 1997 sci-fi series, The Visitor, in which Corbett played Adam MacArthur, a man abducted by aliens, only to find his way home 50 years later and endowed with unearthly powers.
Corbett played a Hospital Administrator, Board Member at Salem ( MA ) University Hospital on the NBC Television Series, Days Of Our Lives in a special guest starring role appearing for 2 episodes in late-December 1995, and reprised the role for 2 episodes in a cameo guest appearance in early March 1996.
Corbett appeared in Serendipity with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, and he played the role of a music teacher in Raise Your Voice, which starred Hilary Duff.
While on a helicopter tour over downtown Toronto, Tod Stiles and Linc Case ( Martin Milner and Glenn Corbett, respectively ) spot a quintet of girl musicians ( two were played by Lynda Day and Jessica Walter ), who were stranded in the city, sleeping on the benches in the covered north grandstand.
It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett ( played by Bill Bixby ), who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie ( played by Brandon Cruz ), who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in.
It was this ability to play old men that led to his casting in his most famous role, as Albert Steptoe, the irascible father in Steptoe and Son ( his son Harold being played by Harry H. Corbett ).
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The sketch's humour derives from similarities in word pronunciation, leading to confusion on the part of the store owner ( Corbett ).
Corbett became known as one of the Royal Navy ’ s leading intellectuals, and from 1901 to 1922 was writing regularly on naval history and strategy.
The first Chief Justice to be appointed in post-apartheid South Africa was Ismail Mahomed, a leading South African jurist of Indian descent, who was selected to succeed Corbett in 1997 and eventually took office in 1998.
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In 1969, Bixby starred in his second high-profile television role, as Tom Corbett in The Courtship of Eddie's Father a comedy-drama on ABC.
Barker and Corbett had a greater role on the show than on The Frost Report and Corbett felt " more aware of what were doing.
Corbett, writing in the Alberta Law Quarterly, notes that with Hale's popularity at the time ( Parliamentary constituencies " fought over the privilege of returning him ") he could have been just as successful as Coke if he had chosen to take an active role in public affairs.
In 2009, he was nominated at the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor for his role as Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe.
He had a continuing role as Cadet Eric Rattison, the great rival of the " Polaris Unit " manned by the series ' heroes, in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet from 1950 to 1955.
William Brady, who managed both Jim Jeffries and Jim Corbett, remarked about Jeffries: " There was never a man fitted anatomically, physically, and tempermentally for the role of World's Heavyweight Champion.
Later on in life, Corbett spoke out for the need to protect India's wildlife from extermination and played a key role in creating a national reserve for the endangered Bengal tiger by using his influence to persuade the provincial government to establish it.
In 1986, the BBC produced a docudrama titled Man-Eaters of India with Frederick Treves in the role of Jim Corbett.
Brandon Edwin Cruz ( born May 28, 1962 ) is an American actor best known for his role as Eddie Corbett, son of widower Tom Corbett ( played by Bill Bixby ) on the comedy-drama The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
At age five he auditioned for, and won, his breakthrough role as Eddie Corbett in the television series The Courtship of Eddie's Father, which aired on ABC from 1969 to 1972.
Corbett also starred with John Wayne in the 1970 film Chisum, as sheriff Pat Garrett, opposite Wayne's role as Lincoln County rancher John Chisum.
* Ronnie Corbett, British comedian, known for his role as the other half of The Two Ronnies
Danny Slavin is an American actor best known for playing the role of Leo Corbett in the television show Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy, as well as related series.
His role was reprised by actor Glenn Corbett in the Hollywood movie Midway.
In 1986, the BBC produced a docudrama titled Man-Eaters of India with Frederick Treves in the role of Jim Corbett.
with amongst others Ron Moody, the last time he reprised his role ; The Two Ronnies with Messrs Barker and Corbett ; and Irene with Jon Pertwee.
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Within eight months of Captain Video's debut, two other landmark series were launched-Tom Corbett, Space Cadet ( 8 / 50-6 / 55 ) and Space Patrol ( 3 / 50-2 / 55 ).
The show starred David Frost, John Cleese and Barker's future comedy partner Ronnie Corbett, whom he had met in 1963 when Corbett was the barman at the Buckstone Club near the Haymarket Theatre, and the two became friends.
Corbett stated in his autobiography that the two had gravitated towards each other because of their similar backgrounds ; neither had attended university, while many of the other Frost Report cast and writers had.
Holyoake became Prime Minister two months before the 1957 election, when outgoing Prime Minister Sidney Holland retired due to ill-health, and also became Minister of Māori Affairs on the retirement of Ernest Corbett.
The Indian hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett described an incident in which two tigers fought and killed a large bull elephant.
Corbett said he and Barker were drawn together as two grammar school boys who had not gone to university.
Corbett married actress and dancer Anne Hart in 1965 ; they have two daughters, actresses Emma and Sophie Corbett.
This argument was accepted by the judge, and the legal test for gender in the UK had been since been based on the judgement in Corbett v Corbett ; it had even led to the curiosity of a legal marriage between two lesbians since one had been born male.
Fighting under the name James J. Braddock ( ostensibly to follow the pattern set by two prior world boxing champions, James J. Corbett and James J. Jeffries ), he was known for his powerful right hand, granite chin and an amazing comeback from a floundering career.
Corbett spent two months in Ireland from August to October 2009 helping ( behind the scenes ) the " Yes " campaign in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, which resulted in an overwhelming 67 % in favour.
On May 21, 1891, Corbett fought Peter " Black Prince " Jackson, a much-heralded bout between cross-town rivals, since Corbett and Jackson were boxing instructors at San Francisco's two most prestigious athletic clubs.
Corbett treasured his title and viewed it as the ultimate promotional tool for his two main sources of income, theatrical performances and boxing exhibitions.
The Thak man-eating tigress, when skinned by Corbett, revealed two old gunshot wounds ; one in her shoulder had become septic, and as Corbett suggested, could have been the reason for the tigress's having turned man-eater.
In 1950, owner Jack Corbett sold the team in August to Dick Saunders and Tom Love, two young El Paso building contractors.
Corbett defined the two fundamental methods of obtaining control of the lines of communication as the actual physical destruction or capture of enemy warships and merchants, and or a naval blockade.
Darrell is said to haunt the site of his death, known as Darrell's stile ( or Style, as well as the church at Ramsbury, two miles away ), although one famed clairvoyant, Tom Corbett, detected nothing of the sort.
A contemporary of heavyweight champion " Gentleman Jim " ( James J. Corbett ), the two fought professionally three times.
Through the next two years she performed various parts in Bubbling Brown Sugar and television appearances in Seaside Special ( on Saturday, June 25, 1977 ), Supersonic ( on Saturday, March 5, 1977-show 40 ), The Ronnie Corbett Show, Jack Parnell's Show, Vince Hill's Musical Time Machine and Bruce Forsyth's Bring on the Girls.
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