Roddy Doyle's 2010 novel " The Dead Republic " deals tangentially with this film.

He has also had a significant career in motion pictures, appearing in the British sports film The Damned United and all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy.

He was the only actor to appear in all three film adaptations of Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy wherein he played the father of the Rabbitte family ; however due to rights issues the family name changed from film to film.

* Roddy Doyle's novel The Van, last of The Barrytown Trilogy, is published.

* Roddy Doyle's novel The Snapper, second of The Barrytown Trilogy, is published.

The ' second wave ' bands were young proponents of a rock, blues and soul style wave celebrated in Roddy Doyle's book The Commitments.

In Roddy Doyle's 1987 novel The Commitments and its 1991 film adaptation, the character Jimmy Rabbitte removes any doubt in his band's eyes about their ability to sing soul music due to the colour of their skin by getting them to say " I'm black and I'm proud ".

* Booker Prize: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Other best selling authors who have written extensively about the Northside include Dermot Bolger and Booker Prize winning author Roddy Doyle, who set several novels in the fictional Northside area of Barrytown.

* Roddy Doyle is awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

In 1943, the novel was adapted into a feature film, Lassie Come Home, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) that starred Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor.

The Commitments ( 1987 ) ( Originally called The Partitions ) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, and is the first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy.

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha ( 1993 ) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.

* Roddy Doyle publishes his first novel, The Commitments, first of The Barrytown Trilogy, about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin who start a soul band.

His first opera, created in collaboration with director Guy Cassiers was The Woman Who Walked into Doors, after the novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle.

In 1973 the novel was made into a film, The Legend of Hell House, starring Pamela Franklin and Roddy McDowall.

A cover version was featured in the 1991 film The Commitments ( based upon the Roddy Doyle novel of the same name ) as performed by Niamh Kavanagh.

A Star Called Henry ( 1999 ) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.

The Snapper ( 1990 ) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle and the second novel in The Barrytown Trilogy.

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors ( 1996 ) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, adapted from the 1994 RTÉ / BBC miniseries Family.

This novel describes the weblike interrelations of an entire community, from the alcoholic Lance Squire, whose wife dies after falling asleep with a lit cigarette, to a romance between the resort owner's daughter Suzy Chizek and maintenance worker Roddy Jacobs.

* Roddy Doyle-Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

( Originally the storyline match was set for OJ Simpson to face Roddy, but the creative team thought that was a bad idea ).

Told in flashback in the early 21st century, with a wraparound sequence by the Lawgiver ( John Huston ) ( set in " North America-2670 A. D ."), this sequel follows the ape leader, Caesar ( Roddy McDowall ), at least twelve years after he led the revolution in the previous film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

On June 6, 2010, the world premiere of " Heartsongs " took place at Carnegie Hall, NY, featuring Mattie's message and poetry set to music by composer Joseph Martin, and performed by a 200 voice combined Children's Choir ( many of them from Houston and one, the Mississippi Girl Choir, from Jackson, MS ) and other members of the Distinguished Concerts Singers International under the direction of conductor Stephen Roddy.

Rita and Roddy build the Jammy Dodger Mark Two and set off in her with Rita's entire brood.

Jones made an appearance in Ireland for Carlisle United, coming on as a second-half substitute in 2001 against Shelbourne, teaming up with friend Roddy Collins who was manager at the time.

In Ireland, songs like " Roddy McCorley ," " Kevin Barry " and " Brennan on the Moor " were slow, depressing songs full of melancholy, but the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem had transformed those songs ( the disgruntled purists in Ireland said " commercialized ") and made them lively.

Roddy Mooney is extremely good at fishing ; thus, he is the All Ireland Champion Fisherman, but he is lazy and does not help his mother to take care of the house and themselves ( he lives with his mother ).

Roddy was also noted for wearing brightly colored and sequined sport jackets, a practice he first adopted as a trademark when making personal appearances emceeing teen dances and concerts for WKBW in Buffalo in the 1960s.

; Dr. Jonathan Willaway ( Roddy McDowall ): " Rebel scientist from the 1960s ", who has a mastery of computers, robotics and scientific knowledge which is quite useful to the group.

Several actors who had played villains in the 1960s Batman television series also guest-starred, including Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin, Roddy McDowell, and Julie Newmar.

The success of the show made Downey a pop culture celebrity, leading to an appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1988, WrestleMania V in 1989 in which he traded insults with Roddy Piper and Brother Love on Piper's Pit, and later roles in movies such as Predator 2 and Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation.

Gary Owens ( announcer ), Eileen Brennan, Roddy Maude-Roxby, and Goldie Hawn came on in the show.

He also acted as wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper's trainer in a WWF show.

After graduating from Texas Christian University ( TCU ), Roddy was a disc jockey and talk show host on KLIF and KNUS-FM ( Dallas, Texas ).

Overweight for much of his adult life, the program resulted in Roddy's loss of close to 200 pounds, an accomplishment often hailed by Barker on camera, but also subject to some mild teasing as camera technicians distorted their lenses to show an elongated and overly-skinny Roddy intentionally distorted in the manner of a funhouse mirror when Barker would ask how much weight he has lost.

The policy was later claimed to be a fabrication in a 2009 interview by series model Holly Hallstrom, who was dismissed from the show in 1995 but remained friends with Roddy.

Craig Kilborn, then in his final season as host of The Late Late Show, paid tribute to Roddy ( a frequent guest and friend of Kilborn's ) in a lengthy clip montage to end the October 28, 2003 show.

To celebrate, a special edition of the KALW radio show West Coast Live was broadcast from the College Prep campus, with guests, journalist Anna Quindlen and novelist Roddy Doyle.

After the 1985 death of the original announcer Johnny Olson on the Bob Barker version of The Price Is Right, Wood was one of four interim announcers on that show, until Rod Roddy was chosen as Olson's successor.

In 2000 the show moved to Broadway for a year at the Gershwin Theatre with an all-new show, featuring dance leads Pat Roddy and Eileen Martin and singers Brian Kennedy and Tsidii Le Loka.

Then, one day, while catering a party at Roddy McDowall's house, George Schlatter from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, offered Jiminy a pilot episode deal for a daytime talk show that Jiminy accepted and started at the Beverly Garland ' Motel ' ( as opposed to the Beverly-Garland Hotel ).

The series featured appearances from two other Lassie veterans, Roddy McDowall, who had starred in the first movie Lassie Come Home ( 1943 ) and June Lockhart, who had starred in the 1945 movie Son of Lassie, and the television series ( as Timmy's mother in the years after Rettig left the show ).

In 2004, he auditioned for the announcer's spot on television's longest running game show, The Price is Right, after the death of Rod Roddy.

Back home, Roddy pays Rita the promised ruby and an emerald, then proceeds to show her around his house.

The audience knows – but she does not – that Roddy is, in fact, a senior NTV cameraman who has undergone an experimental surgical procedure which implants cameras and transmitters behind his eyes, so that everything he sees is relayed back to NTV, who use it as the basis for their reality show.

Roddy Piper replaced Heenan briefly in the summer of 1989, during the period Heenan " took over " the last half-hour of the Prime Time program for his own talk show ; after Heenan returned to the main program, Piper was retained for the remainder of 1989 as a second co-host.

Known variously as " Colorful KQV ," " Audio 14 ," " Groovy QV ," and " The Big 14 " over the years, KQV premiered its top 40 format on January 13, 1958, and is remembered for its high-profile, high-energy personalities, such as Chuck Brinkman, Hal Murray, Dave Scott, Steve Rizen, Dex Allen, Jim Quinn, future game show announcer Rod Roddy, and their large-scale promotion of a Beatles concert at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena ( now the Mellon Arena ) in 1964, and its former showcase studios at the Chamber of Commerce Building (" on the corner of Walk and Don't Walk ," as the DJs would say ) in downtown Pittsburgh, where the disk jockeys could be watched through a large window.