Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 and is a Director of Creative Development for computer game developer Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996.

Meier eventually left MicroProse and in 1996 founded Firaxis Games along with veteran designer and gaming executive Jeff Briggs.

Sid Meier's Civilization II is a turn-based strategy video game designed by Brian Reynolds, Douglas Caspian-Kaufman and Jeff Briggs.

The concept of a newspaper strip featuring recurring characters in multiple panels on a six-day-a-week schedule had previously been pioneered through the short-lived A. Piker Clerk by Clare Briggs, but it was Mutt and Jeff as the first successful daily comic strip that staked out the direction of the future trend.

* Eleven Major League Baseball players were born in Poughkeepsie: Frank Bahret ( 1858 ), Frank Beck ( 1860 ), Bill Daley ( 1868 ), Buttons Briggs ( 1875 ), Elmer Steele ( 1886 ), Mickey McDermott ( 1929 ), Fred Lasher ( 1941 ), Tommy Boggs ( 1955 ), Ricky Horton ( 1959 ), Frank Cimorelli ( 1968 ), Jeff Pierce ( 1969 ), and Dan Gallagher ( 1982 ).

Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs departed the company after the staff cut, forming a new company called Firaxis Games.

Firaxis Games is an American video game developer founded in 1996 by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Brian Reynolds upon leaving MicroProse.

Unlike the original game, Civ III was not designed by Sid Meier, but by Jeff Briggs, a game designer, and Soren Johnson, a game programmer.

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* Jeff Briggs, American composer and former computer games executive

* The game's soundtrack features compositions of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Minimalist origin, and contemporary by Jeff Briggs.

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Van Vliet had also begun assigning nicknames to his band members, so Harkleroad became " Zoot Horn Rollo ", and Boston became " Rockette Morton ", while John French assumed the name " Drumbo ", and Jeff Cotton became " Antennae Jimmy Semens ".

In 1995 journalist Jeff Sharlet assumed the editorship and transformed the " Book Peddler " into a serious journal of Jewish culture.

Jeff Waters is reported to have written many " hit " songs for other artists, under an assumed name, in the country ballad and pop ballad genre.

Randolph assumed the position of bench coach replacing Jeff Datz.

Titans coach Jeff Fisher had not assumed that the Kicking Team would make such a critical error, he was concerned that as Dyson closed on the Bill ’ s end-zone, he would be tackled by the Bill ’ s defensive backs near the goal line ; but, after time had expired, as Dyson had used it up, during the “ long ” run to the end-zone.

Knowing that he only has a small fraction of the assumed amount, Jeff enters a nearby bank to withdraw what little money he has.

Onsale CEO Jeff Sheahan and president Jerry Kaplan assumed the same roles for the merged company, and Orban was named chairman of the board.

For the first time, band leader Jeff Waters assumed lead vocals duties.

Jeff Waters is reported to have written many " hit " songs for other artists, under an assumed name, in the country ballad and pop ballad genre.

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

Ultimately it was Jeff Bridges who played the role of Preston Tucker.

Jeff Bridges ' role as Max Klein is widely regarded as one of the best performances of his career.

In The Big Lebowski we did write for John and Steve, but we didn't know who was getting the Jeff Bridges role ".

David Brooks reprised his role of Tommy in the Summertime Light Opera's production in Houston, Texas in 1950, with Gregg Juarez as Jeff and Dorothy MacNeil of the New York City Opera as Fiona.

The cast includes Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Joseph Cotten, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Terry O ' Quinn, Mickey Rourke, and Willem Dafoe, in his first film role.

Louie's laid-back assistant, Jeff Bennett, is rarely heard from at first, but his role increases in later seasons.

Jeffrey Preston " Jeff " Bezos (; born January 12, 1964 ) is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon. com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products.

Other appearances included The Twilight Zone episodes " A Hundred Yards Over the Rim " ( 1961 ) and " The Dummy " ( 1962 ) followed by guest-starring roles in such series as the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour ( 1963 ) in the role of Jeff Dillon, " The Man Who Came Home Late ".

Senators Jeff Merkley ( D-OR ) and Carl Levin ( D-MI ) have written that “ proprietary trading losses ” played “ a central role in bringing the financial system to its knees .” They wrote that the Volcker Rule ’ s proprietary trading ban contained in statutory language they proposed is a “ modern Glass-Steagall ” because Glass-Steagall was both “ over-inclusive ” ( in prohibiting some “ truly client-oriented activities that could be managed by developments in securities and banking law ”) and “ under-inclusive ” in failing to cover derivatives trading.

Richard Coyle quit his role as Jeff before the fourth series.

Oscar-winning writer-director Robert Benton cast her in the title role for the film Nadine ( 1987 ) with Jeff Bridges.

He also took a supporting role as Tommy Sweet in Crazy Heart, alongside Academy Award-winning Jeff Bridges.

" When Jeff Torborg replaced Frank Robinson as manager of the Indians in June 1977, he placed Fosse in a platoon role alongside catcher Fred Kendall, and in September of that year, Fosse was traded to the Seattle Mariners.

Back in Britain most of her roles were " bit parts ", although she played the starring role of Holly Turner in Crime Traveller ( 1997 ) alongside Michael French, who played Jeff Slade.

She played the title role in Jeanne Eagels with Jeff Chandler.

Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges were considered for the role of Sonny Crockett, but since it was not lucrative for film stars to venture into television at the time, other candidates were looked at.

These interests led him to leading-man cowboy roles in Western films, starting with his role as cowboy and frontier marshal Orrin Sackett in the 1979 film The Sacketts, opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, and Western legends Glenn Ford and Ben Johnson.

She took a recurring role on Desperate Housewives – for which she received an Emmy ( also in the category Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series ) and a Satellite Award nomination – and also appeared alongside her ex-husband Jeff Perry in an episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Actors Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi and Jeff Goldblum were the most likely candidates for the role, and would have appeared alongside Harley Quinn, who would have been portrayed by singer Madonna.

Chamberlain is a key character in Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel about Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, and the movie based on that novel, Gettysburg ( in which Chamberlain was played by actor Jeff Daniels, who repeated that role in the Gods and Generals prequel ).

In 1970 he directed ( as well as co-writing and playing a supporting role in ) The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, an espionage caper starring James Mason as a Hong Kong crime lord and Jeff Bridges as an ambitious amoral draft dodging novelist.

Several actors made their name in show business by being the understudy of a leading actor and taking the role over for several performances, including: Anthony Hopkins for Laurence Olivier, when Olivier became ill with cancer during the run of the National Theater's The Dance of Death, 1967 ; Ted Neeley for Jeff Fenholt during the 1971 Broadway run of Jesus Christ Superstar when Neeley was asked to star in the 1973 film version and subsequent tours ; and more Edward Bennett for David Tennant as Hamlet in the RSC's 2008 production.

Jeff MacKay had recurring roles on Magnum, P. I., and later JAG ( 1995 – 2005 ), and Marta DuBois played the role of Magnum's estranged wife Michelle, long presumed dead, in a story arc that spanned most of that's show's run.