In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.

Here, in an atmosphere of forthrightness and mutual criticism, each sought to bring his particular insights to bear upon the question of discrimination in housing and the part each man present played in it.

Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.

The violinist and composer Louis Spohr wrote: " In forte passages the poor deaf man pounded on the keys until the strings jangled and in piano he played so softly that whole groups of notes were omitted.

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

He played a lawyer turned bounty hunter who was trying to hunt down John Bly, the man who killed his father.

Wisdom's films, in which he usually played a family man worker who outsmarts his boss, were some of the few Western films considered acceptable by the country's communist rulers, thus Albanians grew familiar and attached to Wisdom.

* The Monologue Man ( played by Chris Morris ): Short stories, often up to 10 minutes in length, written from the perspective of a lonely and socially inept man.

* Mr. Ventham ( played by Mark Heap ): An extremely awkward man who requires one-to-one consultations with what seems to be his psychologist for the most banal of matters.

Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

In contrast to his own diminutive stature, his personal assistant and secretary Eduard Hedvicek, who later played a significant role in the unsuccessful attempt to save his life was a very large and tall man ( 200 cm

It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold ( played by Bud Cort ) intrigued with death.

In the 1920 version, Asta Nielsen played Hamlet as a woman who spends her life disguised as a man.

St Albans played a role in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381: the peasants, led by a local man William Grindcobbe and Jack Straw, forced their way into the Abbey and demanded a charter for the freedom of St Albans from the Abbot (' Charter of freedom of the villeins of St Alban's forcibly obtained from the Abbot and Convent ', 16 June 1381 ).

In Black Legion ( 1937 ), for a change, he played a good man caught up and destroyed by a racist organization, a movie Graham Greene called " intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest ".

Spiegel sent Katharine Hepburn the book and she suggested Bogart for the male lead, firmly believing that " he was the only man who could have played that part ".

He was a one-club man, spending his entire first class career at Fulham, where he played a club-record 658 games and scored 158 goals between 1952 and 1970.

In mid-1940 filming began on Citizen Kane, portraying the life of a press magnate ( played by Welles ) who starts out as an idealist but eventually turns into a corrupt, lonely old man.

He next re-teamed with director Ashby in 1982's Lookin ' to Get Out, in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off.

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.

The Knights are led by a man who is approximately 12 feet tall with disproportionately short arms and reindeer antlers inserted into his helmet ( played by Michael Palin standing on a ladder ; the original screenplay suggested that he be played by " Mike standing on John's shoulders ").

He hasn't played too much, because Richards has been working on him furiously in batting practice.

He played basketball there while working toward a law degree.

In the mid-1970s, while touring Germany, Korner established an intensive working relationship with bassist Colin Hodgkinson who played for the support act Back Door.

Even as these intrigues played out, Disraeli was working with the Bentinck family to secure the necessary financing to purchase Hughenden Manor, in Buckinghamshire.

* Doctor ( played by David Cann ): " The Doctor " is a seemingly " normal " physician working in a standard British medical practice.

While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, producers working behind the scenes played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the " disco sound.

In the 1920s, the Italian Fascist government's Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro ( OND ) allowed working women to attend various entertainment and recreation events, including sports that in the past had traditionally been played by men.

During the Civil War, Southern women played a major role as volunteer nurses working in makeshift hospitals.

Among other changes, its young hero was given a newly-invented aristocratic mentor ( played by Granger ), while the role of the working class Elzevir Block was minimized.

A few critics go as far as to call Walkin the album that created hard bop, but the point is debatable, given the number of musicians who were working along similar lines at the same time ( and of course many of them recorded or played with Davis ).

Many of the people working in these institutes were competent scientists with a proficient knowledge of political science, and some of them, through their works, had played an important role in reforming the Communist Party and had helped to bring about the radical changes in 1989.

Orbison attempted to sell to RCA Victor songs he recorded that were written by other writers as well, working with and being completely in awe of Chet Atkins who had played guitar with Presley.

It has played a significant role in developing international environmental conventions, promoting environmental science and information and illustrating the way those can be implemented in conjunction with policy, working on the development and implementation of policy with national governments, regional institutions in conjunction with environmental Non-Governmental Organizations ( NGOs ).

* Willie Conway ( played by Timothy Hutton ) — The only one of the group to move away to New York City, working as a semi-successful pianist.

Metaphysics led Marshall to ethics, specifically a Sidgwickian version of utilitarianism ; ethics, in turn, led him to economics, because economics played an essential role in providing the preconditions for the improvement of the working class.

When Simon moved to England in 1964 he met Kathleen Mary " Kathy " Chitty ( born 1947 ) on 12 April 1964 at the very first English folk club he played, the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex, where Chitty was working part-time selling tickets.

In Scorsese's The Departed he played the role of Billy Costigan, a state trooper working undercover in an Irish Mob in Boston.

Downes ( who was working on a project with Greg Lake ) was not available at this time, so keyboards were played by John Young.

After working on The Italian Job with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain ( both 1969 ), Caine played the lead in Get Carter ( 1971 ), a British gangster film.

Laughton played a cowardly schoolmaster in occupied France in This Land is Mine ( 1943 ), by Jean Renoir, in which he engaged himself most actively ; in fact, while Renoir was still working on an early script, Laughton would talk about Alphonse Daudet's story " The Last Lesson ", which suggested to Renoir a relevant scene for the film.

* David Gideon: Young legal assistant working with Mason and played by Karl Held.

In an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on 11 January 2007, O ' Toole said that the actor he most enjoyed working with was Katharine Hepburn, his close friend ; he played Henry II to her Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter.

Lon Chaney, who was not working that day and who had previously played the Monster in Ghost of Frankenstein, took over the role of the Monster for that scene as well as the scene where the monster is throwing barrels and crates at Wilbur and Chick while they are trying to escape in a rowboat at the pier.

Meanwhile, Bell Labs — the new name for the AT & T research operation — was working at a furious pace on sophisticated sound amplification technology that would allow recordings to be played back over loudspeakers at theater-filling volume.

He came along as assistant production manager working with Polly Platt on location scouting and played a small part as the student who is smacked on the backside by Coach Popper during basketball practice.