He wanted to play the Chorus in Olivier's Henry V, but the role went to Leslie Banks, and he longed desperately to be cast against type as Bill Sikes in David Lean's Oliver Twist, but Lean thought him wrong for the part and cast Robert Newton instead.

Having spent most of 1942 in the Reserve he managed to direct Lifeline ( Norman Armstrong ) starring Frank Pettingell at the Duchess Theatre in July ; and The Duke in Darkness ( Patrick Hamilton ) starring Leslie Banks at the St James's Theatre in October, also taking the role of Gribaux.

* The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 film ), a film by Alfred Hitchcock starring Leslie Banks and Edna Best ( unrelated to the 1922 Chesterton book )

Banks achieved a distinctive sound by running all of his keyboards ( as well as his 12-string guitar ) into a mixing board and then running the signal output of the board into a Leslie speaker ( both the mixer and the rotary speaker were homemade ).

After 1977, Banks ditched the Leslie for another MXR Phase 100 and a Boss CE-1 Chorus effects pedals on his organ.

Directed by Gene Frankel with choreography by Louis Johnson, the cast featured Rod Perry as Leader, Brock Peters as Stephen Kumalo, Leslie Banks as James Jarvis, and Rosetta LeNoire as Grace Kumalo.

* James Jarvis – Leslie Banks

" There was no romantic relationship ," said Lisa Banks, the attorney for Leslie Hagen, " but the rumors were pernicious and grew legs, and it cost her the job.

The programme featured Banks, Lucas, Shearsmith, Benton, Reeves, Mortimer and Coogan, plus a wide array of further guests including Fiona Allen, Ronni Ancona, Leslie Ash, Lynda Bellingham, Ronnie Corbett, Tim Healy, Jane Horrocks, Neil Morrissey, Griff Rhys Jones, John Simm, Meera Syal, Ricky Tomlinson and Richard Wilson.

Well known residents of West Derby have been ; Shakespearian actor Leslie Banks, the Beatles ' first drummer Pete Best, who lived in Haymans Green-the home of the Casbah Club where the group first practised ; Bill Shankly the iconic Liverpool F. C.

* Leslie Banks, The Elstree Story: Twenty-One Years of Film-Making.

The movie starred Joel McCrea as Rainsford ( renamed " Robert " instead of " Sanger ") and Leslie Banks as Zaroff, and added two other principal characters: brother and sister pair Eve Trowbridge ( Fay Wray ) and Martin Trowbridge ( Robert Armstrong ).

In 1929 she returned to Europe and the next year acted in her first film, Why Sailors Leave Home, a British comedy directed by Monty Banks, starring Leslie Fuller.

Rudd has become one of the most popular and marketable stars of Apatow films and the like, often starring with other regulars like Seth Rogen ( four films ), Jonah Hill ( three films ), Leslie Mann ( three films ), Kristen Wiig ( three films ), Jason Segel ( three films ), Steve Carell ( four films ), Elizabeth Banks ( five films ), and Joe Lo Truglio ( seven films ).

Debt of Honour is a 1936 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Leslie Banks, Will Fyffe, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Garry Marsh.

* Leslie Banks as Colonel A. K.

For the next Broadway production, Eliza Comes to Stay, Esmond travelled to New York to appear alongside his wife and the popular actor Leslie Banks.

Leslie Banks was born in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, to George and Emily ( née Dalby ) Banks.

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Leslie Samuel Phillips, CBE ( born 20 April 1924 ) is an English actor with a highly recognisable upper class accent.

Sir Jimmy Young CBE ( born Leslie Ronald Young, 21 September 1921 ) is a British singer, disc jockey and radio interviewer.

People born in Newport include film director Peter Greenaway CBE, author Leslie Thomas OBE, actors Michael Sheen OBE, Desmond Llewelyn, and musicians Grant Nicholas and Jon Lee of the rock band Feeder.

Barry Leslie Norman, CBE ( born 21 August 1933 in London ) is a British film critic, writer and media personality.

* 1947 – 1970 Harold Leslie White CBE, National Librarian

Leslie (" Les ") Ethelbert George Ames, CBE ( 3 December 1905 in Elham, Kent – 27 February 1990 in Canterbury, Kent ) was an outstanding wicket-keeper and batsman for the England cricket team and Kent County Cricket Club.

* Prof David Leslie Hawksworth CBE, mycologist and lichenologist, Research Professor since 2001 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid ( Complutense University of Madrid ), President from 1986-7 of the British Lichen Society, from 1990-1 of the British Mycological Society and from 1994-7 of the International Union of Biological Sciences, and Editor from 200-8 of Mycological Research

Leslie Douglas Sargent Crowther CBE ( 6 February 1933 – 29 September 1996 ) was an English comedian, actor and gameshow host.

Leslie Poles Hartley CBE ( 30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972 ), known as L. P. Hartley, was a British novelist and short story writer.

* Rear Admiral Sir Leslie Townsend, KCVO CBE 1979 – 1982

O ' Brien, 35th Simcoe Foresters, Commanding Officer York-Simcoe Battalion, Riel Rebellion, Captain the Honourable Leslie Frost, 157th Battalion ( Simcoe Foresters ), CEF, 20th Battalion CEF, Premier of Ontario, Major the Honourable Sir Daniel Hunter McMillan, 35th Simcoe Foresters, 95th Battalion, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, Private Thomas William Holmes, VC 147th ( Grey ) Battalion, CEF, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, Brigadier Thomas Rutherford, CBE, ED, 147th ( Grey ) Battalion, CEF, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, The Grey and Simcoe Foresters, Colonel the Honourable Mr. Justice Robert C. Rutherford, MBE, CD, The Grey and Simcoe Foresters, Governor General's Horse Guards

Sir Harold Leslie White CBE ( 1905 – 1992 ) was the Parliamentary Librarian of Australia from 1947 to 1960, and National Librarian from 1960 until his retirement in 1970, when he was knighted.

In 1957 he had the first solo exhibition of his paintings in New York at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and he had the final solo exhibition of his lifetime-Kenneth Noland Shaped Paintings 1981-82, which opened Oct 29 2009 at the Leslie Feely Fine Art Gallery on E. 68th St. in New York City and was scheduled to close January 9, 2010, though, the closing date was later extended to January 16.

* Edmund Leslie Newcombe ( September 16, 1924 – December 9, 1931 )

During the Brain Salad Surgery tour of 1974 ( one show of which was documented on the 3-LP set, Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ), Emerson's keyboard setup included the Hammond C-3 organ, run through multiple Leslie speakers driven by HiWatt guitar amplifiers, the Moog 3C modular synthesiser ( modified by addition of various modules and an oscilloscope ) with ribbon controller, a Steinway concert grand piano with a Moog Minimoog synthesiser on top of it ( used for the steel drum part on Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression ), an upright acoustic-electric piano that was used for honky-tonk piano sounds, a Hohner Clavinet and another Moog Minimoog synthesiser.

Gen. Thomas Farrell watched from the South bunker 9. 1 km ( 5. 7 miles ) from the detonation, while Gen. Leslie Groves watched from the base camp 16 km ( 10 miles ) away.

Mauchly's proposal for building an electronic digital computer using vacuum tubes, many times faster and more accurate than the differential analyzer for computing ballistics tables for artillery, caught the interest of the Moore School's Army liaison, Lieutenant Herman Goldstine, and on April 9, 1943 was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others.

The name Wiley's Cove was changed to Leslie by the Postal Department on November 9, 1887.

Leslie also scored the second dunk in WNBA history on July 9, 2005.

Lisa Leslie returned to the team, and on April 9, 2008, the team used its number-one draft pick to select Candace Parker, the college player of the year, the morning after Parker had led the University of Tennessee Lady Vols to their second-straight NCAA championship.

* J. M. Rigg, " Leslie, Thomas Edward Cliffe ", Dictionary of National Biography, v. XXXIII ( 1893 ), pp. 108 – 9.

* R. D. Collison Black, " The political economy of Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie ( 1826-82 ): a re-assessment ", European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 9, Number 1, pp. 17 – 41 ( March 1, 2002 )

* June 9 – Ontario general election, 1955: Leslie Frost's PCs win a fourth consecutive majority

He successfully defended what was then the longest civil jury trial in Australian legal history, when he appeared as leading counsel for Channel 9 in a 13 week defamation trial, in which Sir Leslie Thiess sought damages from Channel 9 following a report broadcast on that network that he had bribed the Premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

Ronald Leslie Doyle " Ron " Boswell ( born 9 December 1940 ), Australian politician, has been a National Party member of the Australian Senate since 5 March 1983, representing Queensland.

At the time of her abduction and subsequent murder in mid-June 1991, just a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday, Leslie Mahaffy was a Grade 9 student at M. M.

* Trevor Oakes ( born Trevor Leslie Oakes, 9 September 1946, Leicester — guitar ;

James Leslie Tuck OBE, ( January 9, 1910 – December 15, 1980 ) was a British physicist.

Leslie Kong ( 1933 – August 9, 1971 ) was an influential Chinese-Jamaican reggae producer.

Taylor, alias ' Leslie Grout ', was sentenced to 9 months ' imprisonment with hard labour.

Leslie played guitar and harmonica and began teaching Jimmy to play the guitar at 9 years old.

Arthur Leslie Norman English ( 9 May 1919 – 16 April 1995 ) was an English actor and comedian from the music hall tradition.

* Lead vocalist Les Gray ( born Thomas Leslie Gray, 9 April 1946, Carshalton, Surrey.

Freddie Starr ( born Frederick Leslie Fowell on 9 January 1943 ) is an English comedian who became famous in the early 1970s.

Neways, originally named " Images and Attitudes ", was founded on June 9, 1987 by founders Thomas and Leslie D. Mower.