It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

His minor league playing career lasted through 1895.

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He set goalscoring records for both the England team and Manchester United, with both records remaining intact some 35 years after the end of his playing career.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

His sportscasting career started while attending Syracuse University, as an announcer for the Syracuse Blazers minor-league hockey team playing in the Eastern Hockey League and North American Hockey League.

Inspired by a concert where he saw John Lee Hooker perform, he supplemented his work as a carpenter and mechanic with a developing career playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green ( c. 1934 – 1973 ), in a band called The Hipsters ( later The Langley Avenue Jive Cats ).

Coleman's time as coach turned out to be much like his playing career: highly successful but cut short when he had to stand down due to health problems in 1967.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

The signal film in this vein was Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder ; setting the mold was Barbara Stanwyck's unforgettable femme fatale, Phyllis Dietrichson — an apparent nod to Marlene Dietrich, who had built her extraordinary career playing such characters for Sternberg.

He began his career playing the role of the unsophisticated love-stricken young man.

Later that year, Brooks began his professional music career, singing and playing guitar in Oklahoma clubs and bars, particularly the Tumbleweed in Stillwater.

He started his career playing for the youth teams of Farul Constanța in the 1970s, before being selected by the Romanian Football Federation to join the squad of Luceafărul București in 1980 for two years.

He considered trying to resume his career as a goalkeeper but even he had to accept that the loss of binocular vision was an obvious barrier to maintaining his goalkeeping livelihood, and announced his retirement from playing on 8 August 1973.

Lineker still helped out on the stall at the height of his playing career during the late 1980s and early 1990s, though usually only in the closed season.

By 1936 Goren had begun his own bridge career and published the first of his many books on playing bridge, Winning Bridge Made Easy.

1976 saw the end of Larry Dierker's playing career as an Astro, but before it was all over he would throw a no-hitter and win the 1, 000th game in the Astrodome.

Early in his career, while playing double roles in the play Drifting at the Playhouse Theatre in 1922, Bogart met actress Helen Menken.

Aaron spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves in the National League ( NL ) before playing for the Milwaukee Brewers of the American League ( AL ) for the final two years of his career.

After playing with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League and in the minor leagues, Aaron started his major league career in 1954.

In the first 5 years of Botham's Test career, when not playing as captain, he scored 2557 runs at an average of 49. 17 including 11 centuries and a highest score of 208, took 196 wickets at an average of 21. 28 including nineteen 5 wicket hauls and held 50 catches.

For the remainder of his cricket-playing career, Botham refused to acknowledge MCC members in the pavilion when playing at Lord's.

Guitarist Al Di Meola, who started his career with Return to Forever in 1974, was one of the first guitarists to perform in a " shred " style, a technique later used in rock and heavy metal playing.

After playing his rookie season at first base, Robinson spent most of his career as a second baseman.

His theatre career took off in January 1965, playing Rodolfo in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge in an Off-Broadway revival.

His professional playing career as an inside-forward spanned nearly 20 years, during which he played for three clubs: Fulham, West Bromwich Albion, and, briefly, Vancouver Royals.

Dr John King, whose headmastership spanned the war years, had little scope for building after 1914, but he did oversee the development of the playing fields at Beggar's Bush, the building of the Memorial Arch, the neo-classical cricket pavilion and the opening of the new Sanitorium in Worcester Road.

David Clarence Boon MBE ( born 29 December 1960 ), nicknamed Boonie, is a former Australian cricketer whose international playing career spanned the years 1984 – 1995.

Warden appeared in over one hundred movies, typically playing gruff cops, sports coaches, trusted friends or similar roles, during a career which spanned six decades.

Her career began as a child actress in radio and television, and has spanned virtually all forms of stage and screen ( large and small ) dramatic and comic entertainment --- including, as a teenager, playing the daughter of a lawyer and a former fashion buyer ( Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy ) on the short lived NBC radio comedy-drama, The Marriage ( 1953 – 1954 ).

His professional playing career spanned 19 years, where he made 610 league appearances and scored 159 league goals, most prolifically at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City.

Wainwright is perhaps best known for the 1972 novelty song Dead Skunk ( in the Middle of the Road ) and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding ( the " singing surgeon ") on the American television show, M * A * S * H. His appearances spanned three episodes in its third season ( 1974 – 1975 ), including the episode " Rainbow Bridge ".

Ebert's playing career spanned a total of 452 senior games for Port Adelaide, North Melbourne and South Australian representative.

His playing career spanned 23 years, including 14 seasons with Kansas City.

In a playing career that spanned eighteen years, Sohail played in 195 first-class and 261 List A Limited Overs matches, including 47 Test matches and 156 One Day Internationals for Pakistani.

The club was managed by 33-year old player / manager Oceola Guy Lacy of Cleveland, Tenn., whose playing career spanned a quarter-century, 1916-1941.

He was an outstanding right-arm medium-fast bowler for Surrey and England in a first-class playing career that spanned twenty-one years.

His first class career spanned 1953-53 to 1967-68 playing for Bombay, Bengal and Railways.

Louise Le Nay is an Australian actress, best known for playing Sandy Edwards in Prisoner in a role which spanned the end of 1981 and the beginning of 1982 on screen.

His playing career spanned eight years on defence, beginning when he turned pro with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1974.

Holloway's playing career spanned 18 years from 1981 to 1999.

Overall his league playing career spanned 14 years, in which he scored more than 80 goals across more than 310 league appearances.