Two of the earliest English comedies, Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle are thought to parody Terence's plays.

The most famous example of the morality play, Everyman, and the two candidates for the earliest comedy in English Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister and the anonymous Gammer Gurton's Needle, all belong to the 16th century.

**( about 1553 ) – Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language

*( about 1553 ) – Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language

Nicholas Udall ( 1504 – 23 December 1556 ) was an English playwright, cleric, and schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language.

His most famous work, the play Ralph Roister Doister, was probably presented to Queen Mary as an entertainment around 1553, but not published until 1566.

" Ralph Roister Doister.

Ralph Roister Doister is a comic play by Nicholas Udall, generally regarded as the first comedy to be written in the English language.

Ralph Roister Doister is prompted by a friend to woo Christian Custance but his pompous attempts do not succeed.

* Ralph Roister Doister: The First Regular English Comedy

* Ralph Roister Doister online ( Project Gutenberg )

Flytings also appear in the Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister and John Still ' Gammer Gurton's Needle from the same era.

Though less overt in its use of Latin comedic conventions than its contemporary Ralph Roister Doister, a number of scholars have noted the play's parodic treatment of Terentian comedy.

Furthermore, Rogers states that Markstein had wanted the character to be a continuation of Drake, but that doing so would have meant paying royalties to Ralph Smart, creator of Danger Man.

The character Ralph Garcy ( stage name for Raul Garcia ) played by Barry Miller speaks often of growing up with Prinze and seeing him as the local neighborhood hero.

Some of the characters also have prototypes in the ballads: Dick Deadeye is based on a character in " Woman's Gratitude " ( 1869 ); an early version of Ralph Rackstraw can be seen in " Joe Go-Lightly " ( 1867 ), with its sailor madly in love with the daughter of someone who far outranks him ; and Little Buttercup is taken almost wholesale from " The Bumboat Woman's Story " ( 1870 ).

Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show ; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall ; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live ; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums.

Hans Moleman is the retconned name of an earlier character named " Ralph Melish.

The character Ralph joked that Doris should audition for the title role in I was a Teen-Age Fag Hag, a mythical movie in the story's context.

John of Marmoutier describes Geoffrey as handsome, red-headed, jovial, and a great warrior ; however, Ralph of Diceto alleges that his charm camouflaged a cold and selfish character.

Grant's character describes Bellamy's character by saying " He looks like that fellow in the movies, you know ... Ralph Bellamy!

Another favourite was Kenneth Williams ' country character, Arthur Fallowfield, who was based on Dorset farmer Ralph Wightman, a regular contributor to the BBC radio programme " Any Questions?

The character went through two later revivals, once by Filmation Studios in 1979, and again in 1987 at the hands of animation director Ralph Bakshi, who had worked at the Terrytoons studio during his early career.

Ralph Wiggum had originally been voiced by Jo Ann Harris, but Cartwright was assigned to voice the character in " Bart the Murderer " ( season three, 1991 ).

He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, exemplified by his character Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners.

Frank Morgan entered show business on the coattails of his older brother, Ralph Morgan ( July 6, 1883 – June 11, 1956 ), who was a Hollywood film, stage and character actor.

Goodman's character is a failed lounge singer named Ralph Jones whose grandmother had an affair with the fictional Duke of Warren, in the line of succession of the " House of Windam ", a not too subtle play on the House of Windsor, the current royal house of the sitting monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Fonzie, Richie Cunningham and Ralph Malph starred in a Saturday morning cartoon spin-off, The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, where the characters, with a female character named Cupcake and a " Fonz dog " ( an anthropomorphic dog named Mr. Cool that imitated the Fonz's thumbs-up " Aaay " catchphrase ), traveled through time.

In the 1983 film A Christmas Story, the main character Ralph is a fan of the Little Orphan Annie radio drama, listening to the show religiously while waiting for his Ovaltine decoder pin.

The earlier episodes revolve around Richie and his friends, Warren " Potsie " Weber ( Anson Williams ) and Ralph Malph ( Donny Most ), with Fonzarelli as a secondary character.

In later seasons, his character evolves to increasingly emphasize his dimwitted side, and Ralph would often say to him " You're such a Potsie ".

* The character Ralph Spoilsport recites the end of the soliloquy as the last lines of the Firesign Theatre's album " How Can You Be In Two Places At Once ( When You're Not Anywhere At All )"

In Ralph Bakshi's animated movie The Lord of the Rings, filmed in 1978, Crosbie voiced the character of Galadriel, Lady of the Elves.

Ralph Wiggum is a recurring fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Nancy Cartwright.

The creator of the show, Matt Groening, has cited Ralph as his favorite character.

The inconclusive nature of his character seems to be one of his only consistencies, and has even been used as a joke in itself a few times such as Ralph being poached by the Chicago Tribune.

Gabriele and Teresa had nine children: Alphonse " Scarface Al " Capone, James Capone ( also known as Richard Two-Gun Hart ), Raffaele Capone ( also known as Ralph " Bottles " Capone, who took charge of his brother's beverage industry ), Salvatore " Frank " Capone, John Capone, Albert Capone, Matthew Capone, Rose Capone, and Mafalda Capone ( who married John J. Maritote ).

Other recipients included US Army generals Omar Bradley and Matthew Ridgeway, J. C. Penney, Johnny Olsen and Ralph Story.

* 1995: Young Ivanhoe, a 1995 television series directed by Ralph L. Thomas and starring Kristen Holden-Ried as Ivanhoe, Rachel Blanchard as Rowena, Stacy Keach as Pembrooke, Margot Kidder as Lady Margarite, Nick Mancuso as De Bourget, and Matthew Daniels as Tuck.

Council President Donna Taylor, Councilman-At-Large Matthew Levinson, Elliot Beinfest, Stacy DeDomenicis, Alexander C. Marino, Ralph Paolone ( Ward 2, 2014 ) and Timothy Tighe ( Ward 1, 2014 ).

Besides some of the London group ( Goddard, Wallis, Ward, Wren who was a young protégé of Scarburgh ), it included ( in the account of Thomas Sprat ) Ralph Bathurst, Robert Boyle, William Petty, Lawrence Rooke, Thomas Willis, and Matthew Wren.

His pupils included Jack Behrens, Herbert Brün, Morton Feldman, Matthew Greenbaum, M. William Karlins, Robert D. Levin, Boyd McDonald, Ralph Shapey, David Tudor, and Charles Wuorinen.

He also became very distinguished in works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, including A Sea Symphony, Dona Nobis Pacem, Sancta Civitas and Five Tudor Portraits ; in those of Edward Elgar, especially The Dream of Gerontius, The Kingdom, and The Apostles ; in Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion ; and in Mendelssohn's Elijah.

In the 1970s, he also co-wrote an unproduced screenplay with his frequent co-worker Matthew Robbins called Star Dancing, for which Ralph McQuarrie was contracted to do a series of conceptual paintings.

* Ralph Matthew Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas and 8th Lord Dingwall ( b. 1951 )

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix she had a central role where her character sets firmly in the limelight, with hints of Ginny's greater importance to the overall plot by joining a secret student organisation called Dumbledore's Army that was founded by Harry, Ron and Hermione ( played by Emma Watson ) and eventually goes along with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville ( played by Matthew Lewis ) and Luna ( played by Evanna Lynch ) on a mission to rescue Sirius Black ( played by Gary Oldman ) that leads to the climactic battle between Dumbledore's Army and the Order of the Phoenix, Lord Voldemort ( played by Ralph Fiennes ) and the Death Eaters.

* Ralph Matthew Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall

Dr. Ralph Wyman ( Matthew Modine ) and his wife, Marian ( Julianne Moore ), meet another couple, Stuart and Claire Kane ( Fred Ward and Anne Archer ) at a concert and make a spontaneous Sunday dinner date, but both marriages show their cracks over the weekend.

* Matthew Modine as Dr. Ralph Wyman

The contemporary chronicler Matthew of Edessa reports a pursuit of two days while Ralph of Caen reports three days.

It was created by Ralph Heaton II, using second-hand coin presses bought from the estate of Matthew Boulton.

Transition stories, a 1929 selection by E. Jolas and R. Sage from the first thirteen numbers featured: Gottfried Benn, Kay Boyle ( Polar Bears and Others ), Robert M. Coates ( Conversations No. 7 ), Emily Holmes Coleman ( The Wren's Nest ), Robert Desnos, William Closson Emory ( Love in the West ), Léon-Paul Fargue, Konstantin Fedin, Murray Goodwin, ( A Day in the Life of a Robot ), Leigh Hoffman ( Catastrophe ), Eugene Jolas ( Walk through Cosmopolis ), Matthew Josephson ( Lionel and Camilla ), James Joyce ( A Muster from Work in Progress ), Franz Kafka ( The Sentence ), Vladimir Lidin, Ralph Manheim ( Lustgarten and Christkind ), Peter Negoe ( Kaleidoscope ), Elliot Paul ( States of Sea ), Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Robert Sage ( Spectral Moorings ), Kurt Schwitters ( Revolution ), Philippe Soupault, Gertrude Stein ( As a Wife Has a Cow a Love Story )

Matthew Tannin and Ralph R. Cioffi, both former managers of hedge funds at Bear Stearns Companies, were arrested June 19, 2008.

Contemporaries in this field include Wendell Berry, Jane Goodall, Matthew Fox ( priest ), Stephanie Kaza, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Satish Kumar, Winona LaDuke, Barry Lopez, James Lovelock, Joanna Macy, Peter Matthiessen, Ralph Metzner, Arne Naess, Theodore Roszak, Gary Snyder, Michael Soule, Brian Swimme, Edward O. Wilson, and Paul Winter.

The Arnold family were seated at Meopham Court, lately represented by Major Ralph Arnold, son of the eight-times Mayor of Gravesend and County Alderman George Matthew Arnold JP DL FSA and whose relations include the solicitor, George Arnold, of Milton Hall, Kent, Sir Arthur Arnold and Sir Edwin Arnold.

At the Gielgud Theatre in March 2008, she co-starred with Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott in the UK premiere of Yasmina Reza's The God of Carnage ( Le Dieu du carnage ) translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Matthew Warchus.

By his second marriage to Anne Philipson he had three sons, Matthew, Thomas and Frederick, and six daughters: Katherine ( wife of Ralph Eure ), Mary, Anne, Frances ( wife of John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury ), Margaret ( wife of John Fortescue ), and Clare ( wife of Humphrey Weld ).

Jack Clarke Medallists: ( 4 total ) 1985: Mark Amaranti, 1989: Graham Ralph, 2000: Matthew Cremin, 2001: Andrew Green

Under the direction of Gareth Neame and Sally Woodward Gentle, Carnival has produced series such as Material Girl, Midnight Man, and The Philanthropist ; hit returning series Hotel Babylon and Whitechapel ; the critically acclaimed television films Enid starring Helena Bonham Carter and Matthew Macfadyen ; ‘’ Page Eight ’’ starring Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon and Ralph Fiennes ; and landmark four part drama Any Human Heart starring Jim Broadbent, Matthew MacFadyen, Hayley Atwell and Kim Cattrall.