* 1944 – Dick Dees, Dutch politician

The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.

* 1944 – Dick Smith, Australian entrepreneur and adventurer

* Dick Bong: Pacific Ace ( 1944, B & W, 4: 00 ) This short documentary film pays tribute to Richard " Dick " Bong, the leading American P-38 ace of World War II.

* Dick Zimmer ( born 1944 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives, Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1996 and 2008.

* Dick Zimmer ( born 1944 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives, Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1996 and 2008.

* Dick Zimmer ( born 1944 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives.

* Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ) — ( adaptation of released in the UK as Farewell My Lovely ) Dick Powell as Marlowe.

* Lux Radio Theater, Murder My Sweet, adapted from the 1944 film, CBS Radio, 11 June 1945 ( Dick Powell as Marlowe )

* Hollywood Star Time, Murder My Sweet, adapted from the 1944 film, CBS Radio, 8 June 1948 ( Dick Powell as Marlowe )

Richard Joseph " Dick " Durbin ( born November 21, 1944 ) is the senior United States Senator from Illinois and the Senate Majority Whip, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate.

* Dick Harris ( born 1944 ), Canadian politician

Dick Powell also made an indelible impression as Marlowe in the classic Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), adapted from Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

Prime examples include Ella Raines in Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), Lucille Ball in both The Dark Corner ( 1946 ) and Lured ( 1947 ), Alan Ladd in the aforementioned The Blue Dahlia, George Raft in Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), June Vincent and Dan Duryea in Black Angel ( 1946 ), Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ), and Dick Powell in Cry Danger ( 1951 ).

* Dick Gordon ( American football ) ( born 1944 ), American football player

The other was on June 15, 1944, when Red Barrett of the Boston Braves and Dick Barrett of the Philadelphia Phillies each had 19 career wins.

Marlow's hallucinations are not far from the Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, the 1944 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, with Dick Powell as Marlowe.

To accomplish the latter, three special mission C-46 squadrons were created in early 1944 under the code name " Moby Dick " to carry out fuel operations for XX Bomber Command.

* Dick Zimmer ( New Jersey politician ) ( born 1944 ), member of U. S. House of Representatives

* Dick Bosman ( born 1944 ), American baseball player

Richard Davies was born in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1944 to Betty and Dick Davies.

Richard Alan " Dick " Zimmer ( born August 16, 1944 ) is an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and in the United States House of Representatives.

Richard O ' Sullivan ( born 7 May 1944, Chiswick, Middlesex ) is an English comedy actor who is probably best known to British, Canadian and Australian audiences for his role as Robin Tripp in the 1970s sitcoms Man About the House ( 1973 – 1976 ) and Robin's Nest and as the title character in the period family adventure series Dick Turpin.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

* 1944 – Robert Powell, English actor

The film was adapted for Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater aired on January 3, 1944 with its original leading actress and William Powell as Uncle Charlie.

Robert Powell ( born 1 June 1944 ) is a British television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay.

Powell was the pianist on a handful of Williams's recording dates in 1944, the last of which included the first-ever recording of Monk's "' Round Midnight ".

During the mid-20th century, partly as a result of cases such as Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45 ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright, 321 U. S. 649 ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U. S. 1 ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U. S. 629 ( 1950 ); McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U. S. 637 ( 1950 ); NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U. S. 449 ( 1958 ); Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U. S. 454 ( 1960 ) and probably the most famous, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 ( 1954 ), the tide against segregation began to turn.

A Canterbury Tale is a 1944 British film by the film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

The original members were Reg King ( lead vocals ) ( born Reginald King, 5 February 1945, Paddington, West London, died, 8 October 2010, Belvedere, Kent ), Alan ' Bam ' King ( lead guitar, vocals ) ( born Alan King, 18 September 1945, Muswell Hill, North London ), Mike " Ace " Evans ( bass guitar, vocals ) ( born Michael Evans, 10 July 1944, Henley, Berkshire, died 15 January 2010, London ) and Roger Powell ( drums ) ( born 4 July 1945, Camden Town, North West London ).

) Later, Powell was the first actor to play Marlowe on radio, in 1944 and 1945, and on television, in a 1954 episode of Climax!

In November 1944, Powell acted as assistant escorting officer to a group of fourteen Allied military attachés taken to France and Belgium to see something of the campaign.

This led to a further re-flowering-in the Depression and war years between 1930 and 1955-and this can be seen in the work of: artists such as John Piper ; John Tunnard, David Jones ; Graham Sutherland ; John Craxton ; John Minton ; Stanley Spencer ; Eric Ravilious ; Robin Tanner ; Bettina Shaw-Lawrence ; writers such as John Cowper Powys ; J. R. R. Tolkien ; Mervyn Peake ; C. S. Lewis ; Arthur Machen ; T. H. White ; Dylan Thomas ; Geoffrey Grigson ; and Herbert Read ; film-makers such as Humphrey Jennings ; Powell and Pressburger ( e. g.: A Canterbury Tale, 1944 and Gone to Earth, 1950 ); and photographers such as Edwin Smith ; Roger Mayne ; and John Deakin.

The U. S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ); Powell v. Alabama ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ); and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents ( 1950 ) led to a shift in tactics, and from 1955 to 1965, " direct action " was the strategy — primarily bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and social movements.

In 1944, Powell ran on a platform of civil rights for African Americans: support for " fair employment practices, and a ban on poll taxes and lynching ," and was elected as a Democrat to represent the Congressional District that included Harlem in the U. S. House of Representatives.

* Richard Powell ( rugby player ) ( 1864 – 1944 ), Welsh rugby union player

Powell of Balarat, who served at the church between 1905 and 1944 before the church became part of a house.

When the Orioles were the St. Louis Browns, they played in only one World Series, the 1944 matchup against their Sportsman's Park tenants, the Cardinals.

An early bluegrass bassist to rise to prominence was Howard Watts ( also known as Cedric Rainwater ), who played with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys beginning in 1944.

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

Despite the often fierce rivalry with the SS, the Foreign Office played a key role in arranging the deportations of Jews to the death camps from France ( 1942 – 44 ), Hungary ( 1944 – 45 ), Slovakia, Italy ( after 1943 ), and the Balkans.

Konoe played a role in the fall of the Tōjō government in 1944.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

This was Operation Overlord, and Pujol played a leading role in the deception and misinformation campaign Operation Fortitude, sending over 500 radio messages between January 1944 and D-Day, at times more than twenty messages per day.

* In Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir Double Indemnity, the character of Mr. Jackson, played by Porter Hall, is from Medford, Oregon, but mentions Corvallis in this line to Walter Neff ( Fred MacMurray ): " It's the name!

Hartnell usually played comic characters, until 1944 when he was cast in the robust role of Sergeant Ned Fletcher in The Way Ahead.

Keitel played an important role in foiling the July 20 plot in 1944.

The last of the great actor-managers, Donald Wolfit, played Lear on a Stonehenge-like set in 1944 and was praised by James Agate as " the greatest piece of Shakespearean acting since I have been privileged to write for the Sunday Times ".

In football, Dole played at the end position, earning varsity letters in 1942 and 1944.

Laughton played a henpecked husband who eventually murders his wife in The Suspect ( 1944 ), directed by Robert Siodmak, who would become a good friend.

He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost in 1944.

Karloff would revisit the Frankenstein mythos in several later films as well, starring with the role of the villainous Dr. Niemann in House of Frankenstein ( 1944 ), in which the Monster was played by Glenn Strange.

He had previously portrayed vampires in Mark of the Vampire ( 1935 ), The Return of the Vampire ( 1944 ) and Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire ( 1952 ), and made a gag cameo as Dracula in a 1933 Hollywood on Parade short, but this was the only time he again played Dracula as a sustained role on film.

The Flood Control Act of 1944 also gave the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authority over flood control and irrigation projects and thus played a major role in disaster recovery from flooding.

In 1944 the club was promoted into First Division for the first time, and played thereafter in both the first and second divisions, achieving greatest success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, competing for league and national cup titles and laying the groundwork for a 21-year continuous stretch in La Liga.

In 1944 he directed Going My Way, a story about an enterprising priest, the youthful Father Chuck O ' Malley, played by Bing Crosby, for which he won his second Best Director Oscar.

The French Resistance played a significant role in facilitating the Allies ' rapid advance through France following the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, and the lesser-known invasion of Provence on 15 August, by providing military intelligence on the German defenses known as the Atlantic Wall and on Wehrmacht deployments and orders of battle.

In 1944, he played the role of Walter Neff, an insurance salesman ( numerous other actors had turned the role down ) who plots with a greedy wife Barbara Stanwyck to murder her husband in Double Indemnity ( 1944 ).