* 1884 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-American writer and publisher ( d. 1967 )

Wollheim was a member of the New York Science Fiction League, one of the clubs established by Hugo Gernsback to promote science fiction.

Publisher Hugo Gernsback eventually settled with Wollheim and the other authors out of court for $ 75, but when Wollheim submitted another story to Gernsback under the pseudonym " Millard Verne Gordon ," he was again not paid.

When Hugo Gernsback published the first scientifiction magazine, Amazing Stories in 1926, he allowed for a large letter column which printed reader's addresses.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as " The Father of Science Fiction ".

Hugo Gernsback ( August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967 ), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine.

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After watching the duo perform at a high school talent show, Teddy Riley, a musician and producer, signed Williams and Hugo in 1992.

In 1925, Hugo founded radio station WRNY which broadcast from the 18th floor of The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and was involved in the first television broadcasts.

Editors using Lightworks have produced numerous internationally renowned and Oscar and Emmy Award award-winning feature films and television programs, including The King's Speech, Martin Scorsese's Hugo and The Departed, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart and Batman.

Perhaps the best known television show internationally is however President Hugo Chávez ' weekly talkshow Aló Presidente, which began in 1999.

In May 2007, Pilger co-signed and put forward a letter supporting the refusal of the government of Venezuela under Hugo Chavez to renew the broadcasting licence of Venezuela's largest television network Radio Caracas Televisión ( RCTV ), as they openly supported a 2002 coup attempt against the democratically elected government.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

* In 1977, in the case of Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co., the U. S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment did not immunize a television station from liability for broadcasting Hugo Zacchini's human cannonball act without his consent.

'” Perhaps the best-known work partaking of the " collage technique " found in U. S. A. is science fiction writer John Brunner's Hugo Award-winning 1968 " non-novel " Stand on Zanzibar, in which Brunner makes use of fictitious newspaper clippings, television announcements, and other " samples " taken from the news and entertainment media of the year 2010.

It also contains the novelette " Paladin of the Lost Hour ", which won a Hugo award for best novelette and was later converted by Ellison into an episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.

On April 26, 2011, it was announced that 36-year-old Daniel McKeague, a television advertising sales manager from Hugo, Minnesota, would be the new voice of the Aflac duck.

He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.

In May 2007, he wrote in The Guardian in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his government's controversial refusal to renew the broadcasting license of a television station that had been critical of Chávez.

" The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation was given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year.

The film was nominated for Hugo, Nebula and Golden Scroll ( a. k. a. Saturn ) awards, and was followed by a sequel film, Futureworld, and a short-lived television series, Beyond Westworld.

Other commercial appearances came in television spots for Hugo Boss in 2011.

His concept for a fully electronic television system was later popularized by Hugo Gernsback as the " Campbell-Swinton Electronic Scanning System " in the August 1915 issue of the popular magazine Electrical Experimenter.

She began performing on stage, and has since appeared in several film and television roles, including 30 Rock, Scream 3, Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, Hugo, Cars 2, Shutter Island, Harry Brown and The Newsroom.

Dune won the 1966 Hugo Award and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was later adapted into a 1984 film as well as a 2000 television miniseries.

He first came to public attention with his performance as Hector Lopez on the television show Becker and later for his portrayal of Hugo " Hurley " Reyes in the television series Lost.

In 2003, the episode won the award for " Best visual effects in a television series " from Visual Effects Society, and was nominated for a Hugo Award in 2003 for " Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form ".

* Hugo " Hurley " Reyes, a character from the television show Lost

When groups of young people protested the closure of Venezuela's RCTV television station in June 2007, president Hugo Chávez said that he believed the protests were organised by the West in an attempt to promote a " soft coup " like the revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia.

" Angel " was featured in a 2010 Hugo Boss fragrance advert, and in the 2011 pilot episode of the television series Person of Interest.

In 2004, executives of GMA Network and Hugo Yonzon, current license holder of Darna and head of Mango Comics, signed a licensing agreement for a new Darna television series.