In 1961 Dave Brubeck appeared in a few scenes of the British Jazz / Beat film All Night Long, which starred Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough.

During a 1961 lecture for undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman, a celebrated physics teacher and Nobel Laureate, said this about the concept of energy:

* 1961 – Richard Tyson, American actor

* 1961 – Richard Garriott, English video game designer

1935 ); abridged one-volume edition, edited by Richard Harwell ( 1961 ); the standard biography

On the night of September 19, 1961 ,( this date is from " The Judgment Part 1 ") Richard returned home to find Helen murdered and a one-armed man fleeing the scene.

However, this concept of an electronic spreadsheet was outlined in the 1961 paper " Budgeting Models and System Simulation " by Richard Mattessich.

A novelization of the film was written by Lee Sheridan adapted from Richard Matheson's screenplay in 1961 and published by Lancer Books in paperback.

At the beginning of 1961, it fell to Richard Nixon to preside over this process, which officially announced the election of his 1960 opponent, John F. Kennedy.

The play spawned an innovative 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn.

* July 25 – Richard Ernest Turner, Canadian soldier ( d. 1961 )

Henry Richard " Harry " Enfield ( born 30 May 1961 ) is a BAFTA award-winning English comedian, actor, writer and director.

In the 1960s the BBC produced the earliest of Richard Waring's domestic comedies, Marriage Lines ( 1961 – 66 ), with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales, and a then-rare workplace comedy with The Rag Trade ( 1961 – 63, 1977 – 78 ).

* The Young Ones ( film ), a 1961 musical starring Cliff Richard.

He was twice a castaway on Desert Island Discs – first in April 1954 in tandem with Richard Murdoch and then on his own in January 1961.

As both actors had been reluctant to make romantic films similar to Titanic, it was Winslet who suggested that both should work with her on a film adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates after reading the script by Justin Haythe, knowing that plot had little in common with the 1997 blockbuster.

Richard Armour's book It All Started With Columbus ( 1953, revised 1961 ) treats the history of the United States, from 1492 to the JFK presidency, in a manner that owes a great deal to Sellar and Yeatman (" Ferdinand and Isabella refused to believe the world was round, even when Columbus showed them an egg ").

* Carey Lowell ( born 1961 ), actress and wife of actor Richard Gere

* Richard Woodbury ( born 1961 ), American politician and economist

Various improvements took place over the years, including the 1952 opening of an air traffic control tower, the 1961 opening of a new terminal building ( dedicated by Richard J. Daley ), runway lengthening, and the late 1990s charting of two FAA instrument approaches allowing landings in poor weather conditions.

Sam Peckinpah's first two choices for the role of Deke Thornton were Richard Harris ( who had co-starred in Major Dundee ) and Brian Keith ( who had worked with Peckinpah on The Westerner ( 1960 ) and The Deadly Companions ( 1961 )).

From June 1960 until March 1961 he contributed a weekly strip, “ Brimstone Belcher ”, following the exploits of the titular journo ( a fore-runner of Private Eye ’ s Lunchtime O ’ Booze ), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies ( where the squaddies holding back the politicised rabble bear a strong resemblance to privates Rushton and Ingrams ), travelogues through the USA, and the hazards of by-electioneering as the independent candidate for the constituency of Gumboot North.

With fellow Salopians Richard Ingrams and Willie Rushton he founded Private Eye in 1961, and was its first editor.

He directed his last movie in 1961.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

In addition, John Frankenheimer directed five films with Lancaster: The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Train ( 1964 ), and The Gypsy Moths ( 1969 ).

In 1961 Dino Risi directed Una vita difficile ( A Difficult Life ), then Il sorpasso ( The Easy Life ), now a cult-movie, followed by: I Mostri ( The Monsters, also known as 15 From Rome ), In nome del Popolo Italiano ( In the Name of the Italian People ) and Profumo di donna ( Scent of a Woman ).

Akira Kurosawa directed the 1961 classic Yojimbo.

* 1961: La Princesse de Clèves directed by Jean Delannoy

* 1961: La Princesse de Clèves directed by Jean Delannoy

* 1961: La Belle Américaine, directed by Robert Dhéry

Adapted by Harry Kurnitz and directed by Harold Clurman, it racked up an impressive 389 performances, opening at the Booth Theatre on 18 October 1961 and closing on 22 September 1962.

Brando directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks that was released in 1961, after which he delivered a series of box office failures beginning with the non-success of the 1962 film adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty.

In the 1960s, Brando starred in films such as One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ), a western that was the only film he ever directed ; Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Chase ( 1966 ), and Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ), portraying a repressed gay army officer.

* The 1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum directed by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price and Barbara Steele, like the other installments in the Corman / Price " Poe Cycle ", bears minimal resemblance to the Poe story: the torture apparatus of the title makes its appearance only in the final 10 minutes of the film.

* The 2009 horror film directed by David DeCoteau bears little resemblance to the original story but, like the 1961 version, utilizes the large swinging pendulum in the penultimate scene.

Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy ( 1961 – 63 ), directed a very extensive and historic redecoration of the house.

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

* La Fayette ( film ), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French / Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret

For example, the 1961 Russian adaptation Ukroshchenie stroptivoy directed by Sergei Kolosov ; the 1964 French adaptation La mégère apprivoisée, directed by Pierre Badel, which aired on RTF ; the 1971 Polish adaptation Poskromienie złośnicy, directed by Zygmunt Hübner, which aired on TVP1 ; the 1974 German adaptation Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, directed by Otto Schenk, which aired on Das Erste ; the 1975 Dutch adaptation De getemde feeks, directed by Robert Lussac and Senne Rouffaer, which aired on KRO ; another Dutch production, from 1990, under the same name, directed by Berend Boudewijn and Dirk Tanghe, which also aired on KRO ; and the 1990 Polish adaptation Poskromienie złośnicy, directed by Michał Kwieciński, which aired on TVP1.