A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

The original cast starred Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt and, in her Broadway debut, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree.

Kimble in this version was portrayed by actor Timothy Daly, whose father James had guest starred in two segments (" Running Scared " and " The Evil Men Do ") of the original series.

In 1988, Charlton Heston starred and directed in a made-for-television film that followed Bolt's original play almost verbatim, restoring for example the commentaries of " the common man ".

In 1959, he was in the original Broadway production of Sweet Bird of Youth with Geraldine Page and three years later starred with Page in the film version.

The original version was also featured in the 1978 film Superman, heard playing on a car radio just prior to Glenn Ford's final scene in the film ; Ford, as noted earlier, had starred in Blackboard Jungle.

He also guest starred as Sire Uri in the pilot episode of the original Battlestar Galactica television series.

After the original Star Trek series, Nimoy starred in Mission: Impossible for two seasons, hosted the documentary series In Search of ..., and narrated Civilization IV, as well as making several well-received stage appearances.

The series was created by Donald Bellisario, and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist from six years in the future ( during the series ' original run ) who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to " put right what once went wrong ".

It starred Mary Preston ( who then returned to England to take over the role of Anita in the original London production of West Side Story ).

Barry Humphries starred in the original performance as Sinon.

The original Broadway production starred Muriel Smith ( alternating with Muriel Rahn ) in the title role.

The film also starred Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Hank Worden, Noah Beery Jr. and Harry Carey, Jr. Borden Chase wrote the script with Charles Schnee, based on Chase's original story ( which was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1946 as " Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail ").

He also starred in the short-lived but critically lauded 1976 period detective series City of Angels and the 1979 – 1982 CBS series House Calls, first with Lynn Redgrave, and then later with actress Sharon Gless, who went on to co-star in the CBS-TV crime drama series Cagney and Lacey with actress Tyne Daly ( coincidentally, one of the House Calls co-stars was Roger Bowen who played the original Colonel Henry Blake in the MASH movie ).

In the fall of 1980, after all original SNL cast members departed from the show, Radner starred opposite Sam Waterston in the Jean Kerr play, Lunch Hour, as a pair whose spouses are having an affair, and in response invent one of their own, consisting of trysts on their lunch hour.

The original Broadway production starred Rosalind Russell in the title role.

The original Broadway production, which opened in 1955, was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie ; Ben Gazzara as Brick ; Burl Ives as Big Daddy ; Mildred Dunnock as Big Mama ; Pat Hingle as Gooper ; and Madeleine Sherwood as Mae.

The original run starred Paul Scofield as Thomas More, as well as Keith Baxter as Henry VIII, George Rose as the Common Man, Leo McKern as the Common Man in the West End production and Thomas Cromwell in the Broadway show ( a role originated in London by Andrew Keir and later taken over by Thomas Gomez ), and Albert Dekker as the Duke of Norfolk.

The best-known example of this is its animated adaptation Star Trek: The Animated Series, which included scripts contributed by well-known science fiction writers and starred most of the original cast.

In 2008, she co-wrote and appeared in the Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock, which starred The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato.

* Khigh Dheigh ( 1910 – 1991 ), actor, starred in the original film version of The Manchurian Candidate.

A 1964 film remake was directed by Karel Reisz from a script by Clive Exton, and starred Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, and Sheila Hancock, but was not as successful as the original film.

The 1991 German film called Sisi / Last Minute ( original Sisi und der Kaiserkuß, ( Sisi and the emperor's kiss ) starred French actress Vanessa Wagner as Sisi, Nils Tavernier as Emperor Franz Joseph and Sonja Kirchberger as Helene.

* Rick Lyon-He created the puppets for the Tony-award winning musical Avenue Q and starred in the original Broadway cast.

This production starred Victor Spinetti as Fagin.

With a brand new set and brand new direction, it starred Neil Morrissey and Brian Conley who will share the role of Fagin, with Samantha Barks as Nancy for the first six months ( Samantha came third in reality TV show I'd Do Anything, which was won by Jodie Prenger ).

It starred Philip Cox as Fagin and Lucy Hunter-James as Nancy.

In the 1980s Roy Hudd starred as Fagin in the revival of Lionel Bart's musical Oliver!

In 1967 he starred as Fagin in the Piccadilly Theatre's revival of Oliver!

One of the lesser known film versions of the book, it starred veteran Richard Dreyfuss as Fagin, Elijah Wood as the Artful Dodger, and Alex Trench as Oliver Twist.

In 2009, he starred in Sunday in the Park with George at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle and most recently appeared as Fagin in " Oliver!

Designer Isaac Mizrahi directed and designed the production, with a cast that starred Amy Irving, Siân Phillips, and Ron Raines.

She also appeared in a 1988 remake of Roger Vadim's provocative And God Created Woman, Ron Howard's Backdraft ( 1991 ) and in 1993, starred as a defense lawyer in Sidney Lumet's murder drama Guilty as Sin.

Hamilton next starred opposite Ron Perlman in the TV series Beauty and the Beast.

It was produced by Ben Arbeid, directed by Berny Stringle, musically directed by John Burrows, and starred Angela Richards ( best known as a regular in the BBC's Secret Army ) in the title role, Patricia Hayes, Ron Pember, Michael Robbins and Eric Shilling, among others.

Costner then starred in the golf comedy Tin Cup ( 1996 ) for Ron Shelton, who had previously directed him in Bull Durham.

The original stage production, which starred Ron Moody and Georgia Brown, contained such song hits as " As Long As He Needs Me " and " Consider Yourself " and is also notable for featuring Australian satirist Barry Humphries in his first major stage role as Mr Sowerberry and future rock stars Steve Marriott ( later the lead singer of The Small Faces and Humble Pie ) and Phil Collins ( of Genesis fame ) as The Artful Dodger.

The BBC Television Shakespeare version, first broadcast in 1983, starred Ron Cook as Richard.

He starred in the TNT movie, The Ron Clark Story which premiered August 13, 2006.

He also starred in Ian Wright's Excellent Adventure in which he travels to Greenland with a friend, ' Mrs C ' ( Novello Noades, wife of former Crystal Palace chairman Ron Noades ), to scale the highest mountain in the Arctic, Gunnbjørn.

Moving the action from a lifeboat to a spaceship's escape capsule in the year 2169, the remake starred Ron Silver, who also directed, Robert Loggia and CCH Pounder.

This revival starred Bernadette Peters as Annie and Tom Wopat as Frank, and Ron Holgate as Buffalo Bill.

Written by Jon Favreau and directed by Doug Liman, the movie starred Favreau and Vince Vaughn, and also featured performances by Ron Livingston and Heather Graham.

In 1986 she starred alongside Michael Keaton in Ron Howard's comedy, Gung Ho.

Wilson later starred as divorcé Raymond Ellis in the short-lived CBS-TV comedy series Baby, I'm Back and as Oscar Madison, opposite actor Ron Glass ( who co-starred as Felix Unger ) in the ABC TV sitcom The New Odd Couple, a revamped black version of the original 1970-75 series on the same network which starred Jack Klugman and Tony Randall.

Other famous footballers who are from Flint include Ron Hewitt who starred in Wales ' only FIFA World Cup appearance and his nephew Andy Holden.

During his decade on Happy Days, Winkler also starred in a number of movies, including The Lords of Flatbush ( 1974 ), playing a troubled Vietnam veteran in Heroes ( 1977 ), The One and Only ( 1978 ), An American Christmas Carol ( TV movie, 1979 ) and a morgue attendant in Night Shift ( 1982 ), which was directed by Happy Days co-star Ron Howard.

" The principal cast starred Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines and Danny Burstein.

Jeremy Irons starred as Claus von Bülow ( a performance which won him both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actor ), Ron Silver as Dershowitz, and Glenn Close as Sunny von Bülow.

In 2003, she starred in the black comedy Paradise Grove alongside Ron Moody.

Cast of season 2The second season aired in early 2004 starred Traci Bingham, Trishelle Cannatella, Erik Estrada, Tammy Faye Messner, Ron Jeremy, and Vanilla Ice.

The series starred Gregor Fisher, Andy Gray, Elaine C. Smith, Tony Roper, Jonathan Watson, John Sparkes, Kate Donnelly, Louise Beattie, Ron Bain, and Helen Lederer ( although Lederer and Sparkes were not part of the radio version ).

He also starred with Ron Harper in the 1974 television series cult-classic Planet of the Apes, a spin-off of the original movie.

Returning to the U. S. she starred in Ron Howard's blockbuster Cocoon and its sequel, Cocoon: The Return, in which she portrayed a beautiful alien.