Gerry Anderson made science fiction series for ITV using the puppet based ' Supermarionation ' technique including Fireball XL5 ( 1962 – 63 ), Thunderbirds ( 1965 – 66 ), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 & 68 ), and Stingray ( 1964 – 65 ) which all retain a following.

He retired from the Royal Navy in 1962 as Surgeon Captain, having finished his naval career as Director of Medical Research at the RN Medical School

He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

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 ).

He began appearing in theater during the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962 ) ( as Boo Radley ) and Captain Newman, M. D.

Curtis, a James Bond fan, based the appearance of Captain Grey on Sean Connery and Destiny Angel on Ursula Andress, Connery's co-star in the 1962 Bond film Dr No. Meanwhile, the character of Lieutenant Green was sculpted on its voice actor, Cy Grant ; Rhapsody Angel on model and actress Jean Shrimpton ; Melody Angel on singer and actress Eartha Kitt ; and Harmony Angel on actress Tsai Chin.

His film roles include Roman emperor Nero in Quo Vadis ( 1951 ), Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus ( 1960 ), Captain Vere in Billy Budd ( 1962 ), an old man surviving a totalitarian future in Logan's Run ( 1976 ), and, in half a dozen films, Hercule Poirot, a part he first played in Death on the Nile ( 1978 ).

The approach of this century inspired many forward-looking 20th century events and company and product names, such as the Century 21 Exposition ( another name for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair ), Century 21 Real Estate, and Century 21 Television ( producers of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson Supermarionation shows like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ).

* Son of Captain Blood ( 1962 )

* Captain of Iron, The ( 1962 ) a. k. a. Revenge of the Mercenaries, Barbara Steele

* Son of Captain Blood ( 1962 )

Reed got his first significant roles in Hammer Films ' Sword of Sherwood Forest ( 1960 ), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll ( 1960 ), Captain Clegg ( 1962 ), Pirates of Blood River ( 1962 ), and The Curse of the Werewolf ( 1961 ).

* Captain Clegg ( 1962 )

Coverdell joined the Army in 1962 and served as a Captain in Okinawa, Taiwan, and Korea.

) In 1961, at the age of 20 ( and after his father's death ), Flynn accepted a contract to appear in a sequel to his father's hit film Captain Blood, The Son of Captain Blood ( 1964 — year of U. S. release ), also known as Il Figlio del Capitano Blood ( 1962, year of initial European release ), a European production.

He also starred in the TV adaptations of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story ( 1959 ), Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion ( 1960 ), Jean Anouilh's Time Remembered ( playing the role of Prince Albert originated by Richard Burton on Broadway ), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1962 ).

Subsequent films in this period included El Cid ( 1961 ), Mysterious Island ( also 1961 ), playing Captain Nemo, and Hammer Films ' remake of The Phantom of the Opera ( 1962 ).

* The Nottingham Captain, 1962

Captain Mike Campbell-Lamerton, Army, London Scottish, Scotland ( 23 Caps ), British Lions in South Africa in 1962, Captain of the British Lions in Australia & New Zealand in 1966.

Robert Lee Curbeam, Jr. ( born March 5, 1962 ) is a former NASA astronaut and Captain in the United States Navy.

* The character Frederick Clegg in the novel The Collector ( 1962 ) by John Fowles, also made into a film ( 1965 ) directed by William Wyler.

* Captain Clegg ( film ), a 1962 film by Hammer Films

* Captain Clegg ( 1962 )

* Captain Clegg ( 1962 )

* Captain Clegg ( 1962 )

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of the aerial defoliation program known as Operation Ranch Hand.

The-6a was also selected to arm the Air Force's F-110A Spectre ( F-4 Phantom ) fighters in 1962, known to them as the AIM-101.

His best known films are La jetée ( 1962 ), A Grin Without a Cat ( 1977 ), Sans Soleil ( 1983 ) and AK ( 1985 ), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Marker became known internationally for the short film La jetée ( The Pier ) in 1962.

The Cuban missile crisis — known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis () in the USSR — was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other ; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War.

Carbamazepine was first marketed as a drug to treat trigeminal neuralgia ( formerly known as tic douloureux ) in 1962.

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (; born 26 October 1962 ), known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and voice actor.

Starting in 1962 with a four-team knockout competition known as the Midlands Knock-Out Cup, and continuing with the inaugural Gillette Cup in 1963, one-day cricket grew in popularity in England.

The site is publicly accessible. Alos known as Although one of the largest kofun monuments in Japan, archaeological investigations in 1962 – 1963 indicate that it was constructed in the early 5th century, and that portions of it were destroyed during the construction of Heijo-kyō, calling into question the designation by the Imperial Household Agency.

Fifteen of the missing twenty-four minutes can be found in 35mm prints of the US version, while the remaining nine are only known to exist in badly faded 16mm prints of the 1962 uncut version.

* Independence Day in the Philippines until 1962 ; now known as Filipino-American Friendship Day July 4

This was rigorously proved and extended by Vladimir Arnold ( in 1963 for analytic Hamiltonian systems ) and Jürgen Moser ( in 1962 for smooth twist maps ), and the general result is known as the KAM theorem.

Caron is best known for the musical films An American in Paris ( 1951 ), Lili ( 1953 ), Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ), Gigi ( 1958 ), and for the non-musical films Fanny ( 1961 ), The L-Shaped Room ( 1962 ), and Father Goose ( 1964 ).

The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau ( LNPIB ) was a UK-based society formed in 1962 by Norman Collins, R. S. R. Fitter, David James, MP, Peter Scott and Constance Whyte " to study Loch Ness to identify the creature known as the Loch Ness Monster or determine the causes of reports of it.

The greatest popularity, however, was achieved by a 1957 comedy about a testy, ill-tempered character nicknamed Patate and a 1962 comic mystery L ' Idiote Idiot, best known in America as the basis for the play and film A Shot in the Dark.

Marlon Williams ( born September 30, 1962 ), better known as Marley Marl, is an American DJ and record producer, who is considered one of the most important and influential hip-hop producers in the history of hip hop.

After neighbouring Algeria's 1962 independence from France, border skirmishes in the Tindouf area of south-western Algeria, escalated in 1963 into what is known as the Sand War.

In 1962, Bernard Katz modeled neurotransmission across the space between neurons known as synapses.

This form of the Mass remained essentially unchanged for 400 years until Pope Paul VI's revision of the Roman Missal in 1969 – 70, after which it has become widely known as the Tridentine Mass ; use of the last pre-1969 edition of the Missal, that by Pope John XXIII in 1962, is permitted without limitation for private celebration of the Mass and, since July 2007, is allowed also, under certain conditions, for public use, as laid down in the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI.

At least PM can tell the reader how these fictitious objects behave, because " A class is wholly determinate when its membership is known, that is, there cannot be two different classes having he same membership " ( PM 1962: 26 ).

Perth became known worldwide as the " City of Light " when city residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the earth on Friendship 7 in 1962.

Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 ( six Eon Productions films and the non-canonical Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again ).

The Sino-Indian War (), also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict (), was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962.

Before the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 required US television receivers to be able to tune the entire VHF and UHF range ( which in North America was NTSC-M channels 2 through 83 on 54 to 890 MHz ), a set-top box known as a UHF converter would be installed at the receiver to shift a portion of the UHF-TV spectrum onto low-VHF channels for viewing.