* The last direct descendant of Pieter Stuyvesant to bear his surname was Augustus van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr., who died a bachelor in 1953 at the age of 83 in his mansion at 2 East 79th Street.

O ' Rourke was married to Amy Lumet, a daughter of movie director Sidney Lumet and a granddaughter of Lena Horne, from 1990 to 1993.

He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films and appeared in numerous British television shows and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.

His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric folk singer ; Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA ( failed ), Oriental criminal mastermind ; J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, telephone heavy breather and dirty old man ; and Sandy of the camp couple Julian and Sandy ( Julian was played by Hugh Paddick ).

It was popularised in the 1960s by camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.

A good example was Horne attempting to use Polari himself:

The sketches also often had Horne drawing out of Julian and Sandy more about their personal lives than Horne was seeking, as the two would misunderstand his meaning.

Kenneth Horne ( 27 February 1907 – 14 February 1969 ) was an English comedian and businessman.

Charles Kenneth Horne was the seventh and youngest child of Charles Silvester Horne and his wife, the Hon.

Silvester Horne was a Congregationalist minister, Liberal MP for Ipswich, and powerful orator.

Horne was educated at a preparatory school in Shrewsbury, followed by St George's School, Harpenden and the London School of Economics.

Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generosity of an uncle, Austin Pilkington of the Pilkington glassmaking family of St Helens, he was enabled to go instead to Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Within a year, Horne was promoted to Squadron Leader, and in 1943 he was posted to the Air Ministry in London with the rank of Wing Commander.

With Barry Took as script editor ( and later producer ), this was an attempt to translate the spirit of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: Graham Stark, for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Betty Marsden.

Presenting the awards was Earl Mountbatten of Burma ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman ( writers of Round the Horne ) for their TV series Marty, and Horne had just urged viewers to tune into the fifth series of Round the Horne ( due to start on 16 March ) when he fell from the podium.

The televised version of the event omitted the incident, bridging the gap with announcer Michael Aspel saying, " Mr Horne was taken ill at this point and has since died.

After his death, Horne was eulogised in The Times as " a master of the scandalous double-meaning delivered with shining innocence ," while The Sunday Mirror called him " one of the few personalities who bridged the generation gap " and " perhaps the last of the truly great radio comics.

In The Sunday Times for 16 February 1969, Paul Jennings wrote of him: " If I ever knew a gentleman, it was Kenneth Horne.

Mark Bortz holds the record for most Bear playoff appearances, with 13 between 1983 and 1994, and is followed by Kevin Butler, Dennis Gentry, Dan Hampton, Jay Hilgenberg, Steve McMichael, Ron Rivera, Mike Singletary, and Keith Van Horne, who have each played in 12 playoff games.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Julian and Sandy were characters on the BBC radio comedy programme Round the Horne from 1965 to 1968 and were played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams respectively, with scripts written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

In the 2003-5 stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited ( filmed for BBC Four ), Paddick and Williams ( and therefore Julian and Sandy ) were played by Nigel Harrison and Robin Sebastian.

Around the imperturbable establishment figure of Horne the other performers played a gallery of grotesque characters, including the exaggeratedly upper class Rodney and Charles, the genteel pensioners Ambrose and Felicity, the cook Fanny Haddock, and the gardener Arthur Fallowfield.

In the touring version of Round the Horne ... Revisited ( 2004-5 ), Horne was played by Stephen Critchlow, who also played him in the BBC television drama Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

Round the Horne played an important role in establishing gay culture within the public consciousness.

In the radio series Round the Horne, she played a similar role ( Daphne Whitethigh ), as well as Lady Counterblast ( née Clissold ), Buttercup Gruntfuttock ( wife of J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, personified by Kenneth Williams ), Dame Celia Molestrangler, Judy Coolibar, Dame Bella Goatcabin, and others.

Rambling Syd Rumpo was a folk singer character, played by the English comedian and actor, Kenneth Williams, originally in the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series, Round the Horne.

Williams and Paddick also played a couple of camp men-about-town, Rodney and Charles, in many ways ( although not as extreme ) precursors of Julian and Sandy in Round The Horne.

The delegation included Kenneth Clark, a sociologist who had played a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision ; actor Harry Belafonte, singer Lena Horne, writer Lorraine Hansberry, and activists from civil rights organizations.

In her early years on television Fanny Cradock's husky voice and larger-than-life personality lent themselves to mimicry, for example on two BBC Radio comedy shows in the 1960s, Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, in which Betty Marsden played Fanny Haddock.

Horne wanted to be considered for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's 1951 version of Show Boat ( having already played the role when a segment of Show Boat was performed in Till the Clouds Roll By ) but lost the part to Ava Gardner, a personal friend in real life, due to the Production Code's ban on interracial relationships in films.

Additionally, Horne played herself on television programs such as The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Sanford and Son in the 1970s, as well as a 1985 performance on The Cosby Show and a 1993 appearance on A Different World.

In 1981, she received a Special Tony Award for her one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which also played to acclaim at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1984.

This draws upon the stereotype of the young attractive black woman as an " exotic " sexual being, a stereotype present in roles that African-American actresses such as Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne played in American cinema.

As mentioned above, he is not an expert on Oz, but this statement made by Guph once again foreshadows a much later cinematic rendition of Glinda, in the film version of the Broadway musical The Wiz in which Glinda ( played by Lena Horne ) is responsible for the twister that brings Dorothy's house to Oz and sets all subsequent events into motion.

In the film version, she is played by Lena Horne, and she causes the snowstorm that brings Dorothy to Oz.

* The programme was often a ' target ' ( albeit an affectionate one ) on the BBC Radio comedy Round The Horne, referred to as " Mrs Dire's Dreary " with the part of Mrs Dire being played by Kenneth Williams

Generally known as the " operatic version " of West Side Story, it stars Kiri Te Kanawa as Maria, José Carreras as Tony, Tatiana Troyanos as Anita, Kurt Ollmann as Riff, and Marilyn Horne as the offstage voice who sings " Somewhere ".

From 2003 to 2005, Robin Sebastian took on Williams in the West End stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited, recreating his performance in 2008 for a production called Round the Horne: Unseen and Uncut.

A stage version, Round the Horne … Revisited, was first produced in October 2003 prior to opening in the West End in January 2004.

Horne left the show after only six months to headline a nightclub revue on the West Coast at Slapsy Maxie's, and was replaced by actress Betty Keene of the Keene sisters.

In May 1981, The Nederlander Organization, Michael Frazier, and Fred Walker went on to book Horne for a four-week engagement at the newly named Nederlander Theatre ( formerly the Trafalgar, the Billy Rose, and the National ) on West 41st Street in New York City.

Over the years, the club have produced players of the highest calibre more than once, including Graham Williams ( West Bromwich Albion ), Barry Horne ( Everton ), Andy Jones ( Charlton Athletic ), Andy Holden ( Oldham Athletic ) and most recently Lee Trundle ( Bristol City ) after seeing his career revitalised in his short spell with Rhyl in 2000 – 01.

Horne has directed the Voice Program at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, since 1997.

It has two additional interchanges, Bellevue / West View and Camp Horne Road.

The oldest buildings on the site were originally part of Hall Place ( later known as Shackleford House ), built for Edgar Horne, a wealthy company director who was the Member of Parliament MP for South West Surrey from 1910 to 1922 and made a Baronet in 1929.

His role in Casablanca was by far his most famous, but his other films included My Favorite Blonde ( 1942, with Bob Hope ), Stormy Weather ( 1943, with Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers ), and the 1951 western Passage West.

The book's protagonist is Andrew Horne ( nicknamed " Bear "), a Russian-born U. S. scientist, who works at " West Wing " on Project Beta, a secret government mind-control project, which aims to perfect the art of brainwashing until it is possible to completely re-make a person's mind and soul.

Over his career, Riley has interviewed former President Bill Clinton, South African President Nelson Mandela, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former New York mayor David Dinkins, current New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, Lena Horne, Spike Lee, Max Roach, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Muhammad Ali, Cornel West, and Don King.

George Richard Beymer, Jr. ( born February 20, 1938 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing the role of Tony in the 1961 film version of West Side Story and Ben Horne on the 1990 television series Twin Peaks.

Horne's Laurel and Hardy comedies Big Business ( credited to " J. Wesley Horne ") and Way Out West are acclaimed as classics.

He played several other historical characters as well, among them Davy Crockett in Man of Conquest, Zachary Taylor in Distant Drums, Abraham Lincoln in Trailin ' West, Cornelius Van Horne in Canadian Pacific and General Douglas MacArthur in American Guerrilla in the Philippines.

In his parallel career as an actor, Rigby played Kenneth Horne throughout the eighteen-month run of the West End hit Round the Horne ... Revisited ( 2003-5 ); the production also led to a BBC Four film and an appearance at the 2004 Royal Variety Performance.

Towards the 1980s, authors who referred to mucusless foods, included Marc Ams, Morris Krok, Johnny Lovewisdom, George Fathman, John Christopher, Robert Gray, Bernard Jensen, Corwyn Samuel West, Daniel Reid, Viktoras Kulvinskas, Ann Wigmore, Gary Null, Ross Horne, Essie Honiball, David Fastiggi, Joe Alexander, John Lust and Fred S. Hirsch.