* 1956 – Peter Robbins, American actor

* 1956 – Peter Buck, American guitarist ( R. E. M.

* 1956 – Peter Holsapple, American musician ( The dBs and The Continental Drifters )

* 1956 – Peter Pagel, German footballer ( d. 2010 )

* 1956 – Peter Hook, English bassist ( Joy Division and New Order )

* 1956: Gigi, by Anita Loos, director Sir Peter Hall, New Theatre, London

In 1956 he co-starred with Peter Graves in the B-grade science fiction movie It Conquered the World.

* 1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

* 1956 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor

* 1956 – Peter David, American author

* 1956 – Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d ( 1956 ) starring Peter Sellers was the first attempt to translate Goons humour to TV ; it was followed by A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred, both made during 1956 and directed by Richard Lester, who went on to work with The Beatles.

* November 14 – Peter R. de Vries, Dutch crime reporter ( b. 1956 )

" In 1955 and 1956, she received, first, a Tony Award for Peter Pan, and then an Emmy for appearing in the same role on television.

* Producers ' Showcase: Peter Pan ( twice, in 1955 and 1956 )

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

* Peter Dengate Thrush ( born 1956 ), New Zealand barrister

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Peter Michael Ainsworth ( born 16 November 1956 ) is a former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.

" Pop art " as a moniker was then used in discussons by IG members in the Second Session of the IG in 1955, and the specific term " pop art " first appeared in published print in an article by IG members Alison and Peter Smithson in Arc, 1956.

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He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ) and Giant ( 1956 ).

The first manual for FORTRAN appeared in October 1956, with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957.

" During Kurtzman's final two-plus years at EC, Mad appeared erratically ( ten issues appeared in 1954, followed by eight issues in 1955 and four issues in 1956 ).

In the same year he also appeared in Lady Godiva Rides Again and The Galloping Major ; in 1956 he had a non-comic supporting role as a journalist in the science-fiction film Quatermass 2.

The character was created by Romano Scarpa, and first appeared in a story published on February 10, 1956.

After October 1956 four books written by Gombrowicz appeared in Poland and they brought him great renown despite the fact that the authorities did not allow the publication of Dziennik ( Diary ).

The idea of a gas sculpture also appeared in the book Gog, by Giovanni Papini ( 1881 – 1956 ).

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).

After her role in RKO's Sudden Fear, Crawford appeared in films ranging from the camp western film Johnny Guitar ( 1954 ) to the drama Autumn Leaves ( 1956 ), opposite a young Cliff Robertson, a movie which showed Crawford in a great many kissing scenes which shocked some audiences.

In 1956 the group appeared in two of the earliest full-length rock and roll movies: Rock Around the Clock, and Don't Knock the Rock.

Although the nationalist movement appeared less fervent in Cape Verde than in Portugal's other African holdings, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC, acronym for the Portuguese Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde ) was founded in 1956 by Amílcar Cabral and other pan-Africanists, and many Cape Verdeans fought for independence in Guinea-Bissau.

This algorithm first appeared in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, pp. 48 – 50 in 1956, and was written by Joseph Kruskal.

In 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared.

His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956.

From 1954 to 1960, she appeared in the television adaptations of Blithe Spirit in 1956 and The Bells of St. Mary's in 1959.

She appeared in many notable films in France during the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin ( 1953 ), directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques ( 1954 ), and The Crucible ( Les Sorcières de Salem ; 1956 ), based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

On 4 October 1956, Garson appeared with Reginald Gardiner as the first two guest stars in the series premiere of NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Two stories by Hrabal ( Hovory lidí ) appeared in 1956 as a supplement in the annual Zprávy spolku českých bibliofilů ( Report of the Association of Czech Bibliophiles ).

Flynn starred in a 1956 anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre that was filmed in England, where he presented the episodes and sometimes appeared in them.

Glomgold was created by Carl Barks and first appeared in The Second-Richest Duck, first published in September 1956.

In 1956 excavations at Isthmia by the University of Chicago under the direction of Oscar Broneer uncovered the small sanctuary of Palaimon, which eventually had a tiny Roman round temple in the Corinthian order, which appeared on coins of Corinth in the 2nd century CE ; it was the successor to two previous more modest architectural phases of the sanctuary.

* 1956 Gunsmoke ( appeared in various episodes )

* Shirley Bassey recorded the song in 1956 and it appeared on the B-side of her first single " Burn My Candle ( At Both Ends )" released on the Philips record label.