He cites Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster and Roy Crane as early inspirations.

Mac cites his early production influences as David Foster, Walter Afanasieff, Clivillés and Cole.

The original production featured Kenneth Cranham as Inspector Goole ( later played by Barry Foster and Philip Whitchurch ), Richard Pasco as Arthur Birling ( later played by Julian Glover, Edward Peel and William Gaunt ), Barbara Leigh Hunt as Sybil Birling ( later played by Judy Parfitt, Margaret Tyzack and Marjorie Yates ), Diana Kent as Sheila Birling ( later played by Sylvestra Le Touzel ) and Louis Hillyer as Gerald Croft.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

The Royal Conservatory has been involved in the training of many notable artists such as Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, David Foster, Sarah McLachlan, Angela Hewitt, Lawrence Gowan, and Diana Krall.

During its three-season run, many familiar or up-and-coming actors who guest-starred on the show went on to become successful stars, among those appearing in Courtship episodes: Jodie Foster, Sally Struthers, Bruce Kirby, Pat Harrington, Jr., Diana Muldaur, Willie Aames, Warren Berlinger, Suzanne Pleshette, Yvonne Craig, Cicely Tyson, Richard X. Slattery, Tippi Hedren, Trisha Noble, John Fiedler, Alan Oppenheimer, Lou Jacobi, Will Geer, Bill Dana, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Ronny Graham, Ann Prentiss, Ron Ely, Carol Lawrence, and George Takei.

Honored guests included science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster, fantasy writer Diana L. Paxson, artist Richard Hescox, fan Linda " Kitty " VonBraskat-Crowe, special guest Ctein, and toastmaster Seanan McGuire.

Gayle and partner Harry Maule reached the semi-finals, but were knocked out in the dance-off by Diana Morgan-Hill and Olympic swimmer Mark Foster.

Originally sung by Ethel Merman, it has been covered by performers including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster, Marlene Dietrich, Cesare Siepi, Dinah Washington, Bobby Short, Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Mary Martin, Anita O ` Day, Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Django Reinhardt, Gary Shearston, Jamie Cullum, The Living End, Dolly Parton, Joan Morris, Max Roach, Shirley Bassey, Rod Stewart, The Gutter Twins, Lisa Ekdahl, Nana Mouskouri and Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

Written by John Prebble and directed by Clive Donner, the 85-minute television film The Three Hostages starred Barry Foster as Hannay, Diana Quick as Mary, Peter Blythe as Sandy Arbuthnot and John Castle as Medina.

* Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy ( editor ) ( 2006 ) ( includes Francesca Lia Block, Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Pamela Dean, Charles de Lint, Carol Emshwiller, Alan Dean Foster, Alison Goodman, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Diana Wynne Jones, Ellen Klages, Tanith Lee, Kelly Link, Patricia A. McKillip, Sharon Shinn, Tamora Pierce )

In addition to Sappho's accomplishments, literary historian Jeannette Howard Foster includes the Book of Ruth, and ancient mythological tradition as examples of lesbianism in classical literature.

In terms of classification of the individual examples, these fall into a number of distinct groups including: truisms such as " Stronsay is an island surrounded by sea " and Coleman's own " He's 31 this year-last year he was 30 "; unintentional juxtapositions where the viewer / listener knows what is meant such as " Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20, 000 people ", or " I am not a man of faith, but my wife is "; and complete nonsense such as " Here they come, every colour of the rainbow: black, white, brown ".

Prominent examples include Bacardi Ltd., ACE Ltd., Intelsat Ltd., XL Capital Ltd., Bunge Ltd., Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd., Global Crossing Ltd., Foster Wheeler Ltd., and Royall Lyme Bermuda Ltd.

Birket Foster, sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work ( A.

In 1932, Ronald M. Foster began collecting examples of cubic symmetric graphs, forming the start of the Foster census.

Foster then initiated the hiring of Rodham at Rose Law Firm, where she became its first ever female associate ( and later partner ); Foster and fellow partner Webster Hubbell were instrumental in overcoming the reluctance of other partners to hire a woman.

* In a Fractured Fairy Tales segment of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show Aladdin finds a lamp with a female Genie with Light Brown Hair who immediately asks " Are you Stephen Foster?

Well aware that Daly and Foster received much notice for their ultra-feminist, masculine portrayals of the female detectives, Rosenzweig believed that perhaps another attempt to hire Sharon Gless for the role of Cagney would cause CBS to recant their action.

The St. Louis chapter of the Midwest Clergy Conference on Negro Welfare arranged in 1943 for Webster College to admit a black female student, Mary Aloyse Foster, which would make it the city's first Catholic college to integrate.

On March 18, 2011, during Screeching Weasel's South by Southwest Festival performance at the Scoot Inn in Austin, Texas, Foster punched the face of a female audience member who had thrown a beer and ice cubes at him, and also spit in his face.

In a discussion with country songwriter Fred Foster, Dolly Parton famously said, " You know, there's really only three female singers in the world: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith.

She continued to play the romantic female lead in an adventure film set in the 1906 Philippines, The Real Glory, opposite Gary Cooper and David Niven, and opposite Don Ameche in the first Technicolor biography of Stephen Foster, Swanee River ( 1939 ).

She also supervised Caltech's first female Ph. D. in Math, Lorraine Foster.

Years later Billy Ray took over the script, taking out the terrorists from the story and putting more emphasis on the protagonist, who became a female as Grazer thought it would be a good role for Jodie Foster.

Stroughter's often strange and obsessive lyrics cover such subjects as stalking Jodie Foster (" No. 1 Fan "), torture (" Boyfriend "), heroin (" Horse "), a female cashier at an adult book store (" Sunni Pie "), actresses (" Uma "), tennis stars (" Seles ") and Italian porn stars (" Cicciolina ").

Once Danny Weed, Killa P & Little Dee left the group, Wiley replaced them with female R & B singer Tania Foster.

The historical and mythological elements of Prince Valiant were initially chaotic, but soon Foster attempted to bring the facts into order.

The primary figures in the original Iowa organization were Jim Foster, the inventor of Arena Football, and Kurt Warner, the quarterback who went on to play for the St. Louis Rams and win both the NFL MVP and Super Bowl XXXIV MVP.

With Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Nicholas Grimshaw, Hopkins was one of the leading figures in the introduction of ' high tech ' Modern architecture into Britain.

RollerCoaster Tycoon was developed by designer and programmer Chris Sawyer, artist Simon Foster and composer Allister Brimble, with assistance from various leading figures from the real-world roller coaster and theme park industry.

Foster also tempered his politics at this time: he not only did not publicly oppose the United States ' entry into the war, as Eugene V. Debs, Victor Berger and figures associated with the IWW had done, but helped sell war bonds in 1918.

He was replaced on a provisional basis by a five person secretariat which included former Lovestone associate Max Bedacht as " Acting Secretary " and well as opposition factional leader and trade union chief Bill Foster ; two relatively independent figures in the persons of cartoonist-turned-functionary Robert Minor and former Executive Secretary of the underground party Will Weinstone ; and Comintern Representative Boris Mikhailov ( pseudonym " G. Williams ") as the unpublicized power behind the throne.

Crawley's major set-piece interviews with leading cultural figures before live audiences include: the Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Amartya Sen, the political activist Noam Chomsky, the last Irish President Mary McAleese, her predecessor Mary Robinson, politicians Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, the writers John Banville, Edna O ' Brien, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Longley and Ian Rankin, the film-maker Ken Russell, former hostage and writer Brian Keenan, musicians Phil Coulter and Brian Kennedy, the historian Roy Foster, and the rugby legend Jack Kyle.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

* Foster, G. Allen, Impeached: The President who almost lost his job ( New York, 1964 ).

2011 also saw the arrival of Frank Foster who was a sexual predator, the first flash of malevolence we see is when Maria Connor visits his home to finalise a deal.

Foster was approached by a friend who worked in a theatre in the West End of London during casting for the musical Oliver !.

Also in October 1991 he starred in Little Man Tate, directed by Jodie Foster, playing the friend of a child prodigy who goes to college.

The first European to visit Kabul was the 18th century English traveller George Foster, who described it as " the best and cleanest city in Asia ".

Jardine also visited Frank Foster who had toured Australia in 1911 – 12 to discuss field-placing in Australia.

Foster currently sits on the Board of Trustees at architectural charity Article 25 who design, construct and manage innovative, safe, sustainable buildings in some of the most inhospitable and unstable regions of the world.

Foster married business partner Wendy Cheesman who died from cancer in 1989, leaving him with four sons.

One of these was Richard Rogers, who played a part in the development after all ( his great British rival, Norman Foster, was putting the new dome on the Reichstag at about the same time ).

As Sally M. Foster noted, " Much ink has been spilt over what the ancient writers meant by Picts, but it seems to be a generic term for people living north of the Forth-Clyde isthmus who raided the Roman Empire.

It was later revealed that Soltysik and Emily Harris were the two who shot Marcus Foster according to Patty Hearst's sworn testimony.

The Nashville Sound was developed by producers Atkins, Owen Bradley — who worked closely with Patsy Cline — Sam Phillips, and Fred Foster.

According to musician and author Albin Zak, the combination of the studio — engineered by Bill Porter, who experimented with close miking the doo-wop backup singers — production by Foster, and accompanying musicians, gave Orbison's music a " polished, professional sound ... finally allow ( ing ) Orbison's stylistic inclinations free rein ".

" Hokusai: the man who painted a mountain " Frances Foster Books, New York.

Among them were Herbert Brownell, who would become Eisenhower's Attorney General, James Hagerty, who would become White House Press Secretary, and John Foster Dulles, who would become Eisenhower's Secretary of State.

Accuracy in Media has received a substantial amount of funding from Richard Mellon Scaife who paid Christopher W. Ruddy to investigate allegations that President Bill Clinton was connected to the suicide of Vincent Foster.

Over the years, the Tribune has endorsed Democrats for lesser offices, including recent endorsements of Bill Foster, Barack Obama for the Senate and Democrat Melissa Bean, who defeated Philip Crane, the House of Representatives ' longest-serving Republican.

In 1928, Colbert married Norman Foster, an actor and director, who appeared with Colbert in the Broadway show The Barker.

Earlier in 1893, Professor McKendrick, of Glasgow, had examined subject and reported unfavourably on the scant knowledge of the special senses displayed by the candidates ; it was in reaction to this that Sir Michael Foster, who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed Rivers as a lecturer and he became Fellow Commoner at St John's College forthwith.

Clydia Mae Richardson, who led the effort to put the seal on display, and John Foster Dulles imprint a document during the 1955 ceremony

Blake is approached by a group of political dissidents who take him outside the city to meet their leader, Bran Foster.