The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

Just three players – Mark Johnson, Brent Stanton and Scott Lucas played all 22 matches that season, the latter winning Essendon's best and fairest award, as well as being Essendon's leading goalkicker that season.

As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson enjoyed little commercial success or public recognition in his lifetime.

Richard Johnson played Posthumus, and Robert Harris Cymbeline.

Birch played as ' tomboy ' Billie Pike in the movie Paradise, which also starred Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, and Elijah Wood.

They started doing separate ventures ; Louis Johnson played bass on Michael Jackson's Thriller and recorded a gospel music album in 1981 with his own group Passage, which included his then-wife Valerie Johnson and former Brothers Johnson percussionist / singer, Richard Heath.

Language considerations figure prominently in general semantics, and three language and communications specialists who embraced general semantics, university professors and authors Hayakawa, Wendell Johnson and Neil Postman, played major roles in framing general semantics, especially for non-readers of Science and Sanity.

The Johnson Mountain Boys were one of the decade's most popular touring groups, and played strictly traditional bluegrass.

In Game Six, rookie Magic Johnson played center for the Lakers in place of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( who was out because of a sprained ankle sustained in Game Five ) and scored 42 points.

Indeed, scholars looking at the evolution of the NSC from its inception to the 1970s contend that the National Security Adviser and his White House centered staff increasingly assumed a more prominent role than the official National Security Council and that Johnson, like Kennedy before him, played a key role in this development.

The CIAA's legacy dates back to 1892 when Livingstone College and Biddle University ( now Johnson C. Smith University ) played in the first football game between two African-American colleges.

They also supported The Prefects and The Slits ( later Clarke's band ), and also played a gig with Holly Johnson.

Robert Strange McNamara ( June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009 ) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

In season five she got a puppy named Daisy and married Jimmy's archenemy Johnny Johnson ( played by Patrick Warburton ).

Lovitz played Mike Johnson, a disgruntled former employee that had been fired and was threatening to commit suicide by jumping from the ledge outside Dave's office.

He played a crucial role in all of the major foreign policy and defense decisions of the Kennedy and part of the Johnson administration.

Herschel Walker, a Johnson County native, played on the county's only state championship football team in 1979.

Anne-Marie Johnson, who played Virgil's wife Althea, summed up what it was like to film the show in the little town of Hammond: " My high school was bigger than this town.

Unlike the characters played by Rollins and Johnson, Thorne's character simply vanished with no explanation for why he was absent from the show.

However, none of the performers actually played musical instruments with the exception of Haylie Johnson who as of 1997 played guitar.

Johnson departed from his southern allies supporting slavery when he maintained that slavery was essential to the very preservation of the Union.

* 1963 – Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.

** Vietnam War: New U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.

" Confessions of a Republican ", another Johnson ad, features a monologue from a man who tells us that he had previously voted for Eisenhower and Nixon, but now worries about the " men with strange ideas ", " weird groups " and " the head of the Ku Klux Klan " who were supporting Goldwater: he concludes that " either they're not Republicans, or I'm not ".

The film gained eight Academy Awards nominations, including Best Director, and won two statues, for Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson in the supporting acting categories.

Grant opposed President Johnson by supporting the Reconstruction Acts passed by the Radicals.

That attention helped Johnson, who was supporting himself as a bus driver in St. Louis at the time, return to music.

After his initial 1948 plan to expand the Army and modernize its equipment was rejected by the Truman Administration, Bradley reacted to the increasingly severe postwar defense department budget cutbacks imposed by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson by publicly supporting Johnson's decisions, going so far as to tell Congress that he would be doing a " disservice to the nation " if he asked for a larger military force.

The supporting cast included Rick Hall, Andrew Hawkes, Sherman Howard, Karl Johnson, John Kapelos, Ron Le Paz, Joe Liss, Paul Mercier, Steven Petrarca, Jonathan Penner, Gil Segel, Nia Vardalos and Ron West.

President Johnson realized that supporting this bill would risk losing the South's overwhelming support of the Democratic Party.

Johnson has a supporting role in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film, Django Unchained, as a southern plantation owner named Spencer ' Big Daddy ' Bennett.

Johnson had a major supporting role in The Harrad Experiment ( released 1973 ), whose female lead was Tippi Hedren.

Most of the male supporting cast ( Peter the Purser, Johnson the bartender, Dick the guardrobe attendant, Wang the galley server, Bob Bitt the artist ) are named after popular euphemisms for the male reproductive organ or are in some way related to it ( Bob Bitt, for instance, is named after John Wayne Bobbitt ; the character also shares the same first name and bears a passing resemblance to fellow artist Bob Ross ).

Tin Cup is a 1996 romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Ron Shelton, and starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo with Cheech Marin and Don Johnson in major supporting roles.

Johnson, however, was forced to flee to Nigeria to avoid capture by rebel forces supporting Taylor, and was not involved in the Second Liberian Civil War.

Accompanying the Master Chief is the Pillar of Autumn < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s feminine artificial intelligence construct, Cortana, who resides in a neural implant connected to his battle armor, codenamed MJOLNIR Mark V. The Pillar of Autumn < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s captain, Jacob Keyes, is also a major character, with Staff Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson as a supporting character.

" During the tour supporting the album, Eric Johnson missed several dates due to his day job's work schedule.

In 1868, Brownlow revived his old rivalry with Andrew Johnson by supporting Johnson's impeachment.

There they challenged the right of the Mississippi Democratic Party's delegation to participate in the convention, claiming that the regulars had been illegally elected in a completely segregated process that violated both party regulations and federal law, and that furthermore the regulars had no intention of supporting Lyndon B. Johnson, the party's presidential candidate, in the November election.

During his first two seasons in the NBA, Nash played a supporting role behind NBA star point guards Kevin Johnson, Sam Cassell, and later, Jason Kidd.

Parliamentary colleagues supporting him initially included Boris Johnson, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, then Shadow Defence Secretary and deputy leader of the party Michael Ancram, Oliver Letwin and former party leader William Hague.

Johnson requested approval of a resolution " expressing the unity and determination of the United States in supporting freedom and in protecting peace in southeast Asia ", stating that the resolution should express support " for all necessary action to protect our Armed Forces ", but repeated previous assurances that " the United States ... seeks no wider war ".

He returned to supporting roles, as in The Great Mike of 1944, including a short stint as B-western sidekick called " Alfalfa Johnson.

When the trio came to an end, Johnson made a radical departure from everything he had done previously by taking on a major supporting role in the off-Broadway production of " Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.