`` The actor had had much to drink and apparently became very violent.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.

He became a highly regarded character actor and guest-starred in many 1960s TV series including Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. Kildare and Hennesey.

Afterwards it became the only Godzilla film to receive a television premiere on a major U. S network, as NBC aired it on prime time television in the summer of 1977, where it was hosted by actor John Belushi dressed in a Godzilla costume.

Spencer Tracy was a serious Broadway actor whom Bogart liked and admired, and they became good friends and drinking buddies.

He became a favorite actor of director Billy Wilder, starring in his films Some Like It Hot ( for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti !, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy.

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.

" 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.

Some of the extras on set actually became terrified of the actor because of his violent portrayal.

Following his release at the end of the war he became an actor, set designer and director.

While imprisoned, he became actively involved, as an actor, writer, producer, and set-designer, in the amateur theatrical productions which took place in the camp, finding them " a source of great pleasure and amusement ".

Their elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and stage producer as Peter Cotes ; he was the original director of The Mousetrap.

After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man, Tarzan, a role he played in twelve motion pictures.

Spacey's father was unconvinced that Spacey could make a career for himself as an actor, and did not change his mind until Spacey became well-known.

Audiences frequently became rowdy, and brawls occasionally broke out, sometimes over the favors of a particularly handsome young actor, leading the shogunate to ban first onnagata and then wakashū roles.

He went on to study law at Prague University ; during that time he also became involved in theatre ( as an actor he first appeared in Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek's play Czech and German in July 1832 in Benešov ), where he met Eleonora Šomková, with whom he had a son out of wedlock.

In New York City, Sennett became an actor, singer, dancer, clown, set designer and director for Biograph.

He argued that the child was given the name William Hughes, who became an actor under the stage-name " William Shakespeare ".

The album includes a tribute song to actor Richard Harris, who became Crowe's friend during the making of Gladiator.

In 1989, Wright became involved with actor Sean Penn following his divorce from Madonna.

The director's health became a continuing problem, so friend and actor James Coburn was brought in to serve as second unit director, and he filmed many of the scenes while Peckinpah remained in his on-location trailer.

In order to complete four Shemp-era shorts, film actor Joe Palma was used as a temporary body double before Joe Besser became the long-term replacement as the third Stooge.

After a short stint as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, in 1951, Mitchell became a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television.

He became a full Professor at Cornell in 1971, and he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies there.

In 1950, he became the first African-American instructor at the Art Students League, where he remained on faculty until 1971.

The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B ( popularly referred to as The Bowmar Brain ), measuring 5. 2 × 3. 0 × 1. 5 in ( 131 × 77 × 37 mm ), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for $ 240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first slimline pocket calculator measuring 5. 4 × 2. 2 × 0. 35 in ( 138 × 56 × 9 mm ) and weighing 2. 5 oz ( 70g ).

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

In 1971 they delivered their standard, which generally became known as the " Codasyl approach ", and soon a number of commercial products based on this approach were made available.

Use of the proposed symbol became so prevalent that there was little debate when official adoption was considered at the 1971 General Assembly.

As he passed his 81st birthday in October 1971, however, Groucho became increasingly frail physically and mentally as a result of several minor strokes he suffered.

In 1971, when physical science materials were transferred to the new Sciences Library, the John Hay Library became exclusively a repository for the library's Special Collections.

Kain became a principal dancer in 1971, dancing central roles in a wide array of ballets, eventually becoming a well-known dancer in Canada, with the help of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

After the breakdown of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971, a basket of currencies became the new reference.

On May 1, 2004, Malta became a full member of the European Union, with which it had an associationship agreement since 1971.

Its identical sister craft, Mariner 9, was launched in May 1971 and became the first artificial satellite of Mars.

Manama was declared a free port in 1958, and in 1971 it became the capital of independent Bahrain.

When the surface at Tulane Stadium switched from natural grass to PolyTurf in 1971, field temperatures became hotter still.

After a civil war, the Bengal region of East Pakistan, separated at a considerable distance from the rest of Pakistan, became the independent state of Bangladesh in 1971.

Devoting his full energies to his work, Picasso became more daring, his works more colorful and expressive, and from 1968 through 1971 he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings.

Accordingly, Qatar declared independence as a separate entity and became the fully independent State of Qatar on September 3, 1971.

Qatar became an independent state on September 3, 1971.

On January 29, 1971, Clemente became the 10th recipient of the Tris Speaker Award.

The 20th century saw a gradual movement to fiat currency, with most of the world monetary system losing its link to precious metals after Richard Nixon took the United States dollar off the gold standard in 1971 ; the last currency backed by gold was the Swiss franc, which became a pure fiat currency on 1 May 2000.

In 1971, with the opening of the international airport, tourism became the dominant industry.

In April 1971, a new republican constitution was adopted under which Stevens became President.

On 19 April 1971, when Sierra Leone became a republic, the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force was renamed as the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Force ( RSLMF ).

In 1971, the Senate was abolished, and the following year, Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka, and became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with the last Governor General becoming the first President of Sri Lanka.

In 1968, the college became independent from the Catholic Church, and coeducational in 1971.