There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

She played Lady Macbeth on Broadway opposite Maurice Evans in a production directed by Margaret Webster that ran for 131 performances in 1941, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.

* Maurice Ravel is played as a " bit role " by actor Oscar Loraine in the 1945 Gershwin film biography Rhapsody in Blue.

Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.

Maurice Denham played Chief Inspector Maigret in a series of half-hour dramatizations of the novels on BBC Radio 4 from 1992 to 2002, with Michael Gough playing Georges Simenon.

Shortly after the season ended, O ' Brien was fired and replaced by the popular Maurice Cheeks, who played for the team from 1978 – 89, and was the starting point guard for the 1983 NBA Champions.

Joseph Henri Maurice " The Rocket " Richard, (; ; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) from 1942 to 1960.

Maurice Richard played minor ice hockey at all levels in the Montreal area before playing junior in Verdun, starting in 1938.

In the two TV mini-series inspired by Maurice Druon's novels, he was played, in 1972, by Georges Ser, and in 2005 by Guillaume Depardieu.

In 1936 when the lead in touring company of Orson Welles ' Voodoo Macbeth ( Maurice Evans ) fell ill, Welles stepped temporarily into the part and played the role in blackface.

" Sarducci has appeared in four cold openings in the 1979 – 1980 season ( on episodes hosted by Steve Martin, Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, and Rodney Dangerfield ), two commercial parodies (" MX-5 Tampons " on the 1981 – 1982 Christmas episode hosted by Bill Murray and " Bocce Ball My Way " on the last episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin ), and two monologues on the 1985 – 1986 season ( the first hosted by Madonna in a pretaped sketch showing Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) and the second on the Christmas episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Garr as Sarducci's alter ego, Pope Maurice ).

Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat ( Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too ).

* In a 1960 television production of The Tempest, Prospero was played by Maurice Evans.

These plots often featured Guy Caballero ( Joe Flaherty ), the cheap, tyrannical owner and president of SCTV, who was in a wheelchair only so that people would " respect " him ; weaselly, sweating station manager Maurice " Moe " Green ( Harold Ramis ), who was succeeded by flamboyant, leopard-skin clad station manager Mrs. Edith Prickley ( Andrea Martin ); vain variety star Johnny La Rue ( John Candy ); washed-up entertainers like singer Lola Heatherton ( Catherine O ' Hara ) and " funnyman " Bobby Bittman ( Eugene Levy ); news anchors Floyd Robertson ( Flaherty ) and Earl Camembert ( Levy ), talk-show host Sammy Maudlin ( Flaherty ), beer-addled brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie ( Moranis and Thomas ), plus many other characters, all played by the SCTV cast.

Leonard Bernstein conducted the orchestra, and also played the piano solos, in Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

* Buddy Sorrell ( Maurice Sorrell ; played by Morey Amsterdam ) – an energetic ( and at times facetious ) " human joke machine ", one of the comedy writers.

In 2001, West played the older Maurice in Iris, while his actor son, Samuel West, played young Maurice.

He played drums on Lulu's 1971 song " Everybody Clap ," written by Maurice Gibb and Billy Lawrie.

In 1972 he played drums on a Maurice Gibb produced album by Jimmy Stevens called Don't Freak Me Out in the UK and Paid My Dues in the US, credited as Gemini ( given his star sign ).

All of the band's original members from the 1973 — 80 " classic period ", namely Maurice White, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Larry Dunn, Andrew Woofolk, Fred White and Johnny Graham, attended the ceremony, at which the nine of them played together for the first time in 20 years, performing " Shining Star " and " That's The Way Of the World ".

On stage he usually played bass guitar, with an additional musician taking bass when Maurice switched to piano.

Another precedent to the prepared piano was an experiment by the French composer Maurice Delage ( 1879 – 1961 ): his Ragamalika ( 1912 – 22 ), based on the classical music of India, calls for a piece of cardboard to be placed under the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian drum.

Paterson stayed with Rowland, who added Billy Adams ( guitar / banjo ), Seb Shelton ( drums, formerly of Secret Affair ), Micky Billingham ( keyboard ), Brian Maurice ( alto saxophone ), Paul Speare ( tenor saxophone ) and Steve Wynne ( bass ), releasing a handful of singles in 1980 and 1981, and adopting a new look that included hooded tops, boxing boots, and pony tails.

Ironically, Herrmann had composed some jazz for the " picnic " scene in Citizen Kane and he later used some jazz elements ( much in the vein of Maurice Ravel's two piano concertos ) for The Wrong Man when he scored the nightclub scenes showing Henry Fonda as a double bass player in a jazz band, and for Taxi Drivers saxophone-driven theme which recalls Charlie Parker's rendition of " Laura.

Bee Gees records from 1967 to 1972 are dominated by Maurice playing piano and bass guitar, along with mellotron (" Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You " and " Kilburn Towers "), rhythm guitar ( along with Barry ), and other parts.

Maurice was less influential in the disco Bee Gees sound of 1975 to 1979, when he played mostly bass guitar.

In 1971, he produced Lulu's 1971 song " Everybody Clap " consist of Maurice on guitar, Leslie Harvey on guitar, Jack Bruce on bass, and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin on drums.

* Maurice Gibb-vocals, bass, piano, guitar, mellotron, drums

* Verdine White ( born 1951 ), American musician and younger brother of Maurice White ; bass guitarist for Earth, Wind & Fire

" Beck's Bolero " is a short, rock-based instrumental piece heavily influenced by Maurice Ravel's Boléro, recorded in May 1966 by Jeff Beck with Jimmy Page ( then a prolific session musician ) on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, and Keith Moon on drums.

The Whirlwinds – comprising Gouldman ( vocals, guitar ), Bernard Basso ( bass ), Stephen Jacobson ( guitar, bongos ), Malcolm Wagner, Maurice Spering and Phil Cohen – secured a recording contract with HMV, releasing a recording of the Buddy Holly song " Look At Me ", backed with " Baby Not Like You ", written by Lol Creme, in June 1964.

Maurice ( mbira ) held further auditions in L. A. adding Michael Beale on guitar, Chester Washington on reeds, and Leslie Drayton on trumpet ; Drayton also served as the group's musical arranger.

After that time for the last 20 years of his life he played primarily electronic keyboard instruments on stage and in the studio, but occasional lead guitar ( including the acoustic guitar given to him by John Lennon, with Maurice used on " This Is Where I Came In ", 2001 ).

Away from the Bee Gees, Maurice recorded an unreleased solo album The Loner, Stone the Crows guitarist Leslie Harvey plays guitar on that album.

* Maurice Starr-bass, guitar, vocals, background vocals

* Maurice Cook ( 1960 ) — guitar

Herbert Maurice William ' Bert ' Weedon, OBE ( 10 May 1920 – 20 April 2012 ) was an English guitarist whose style of guitar playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s.

* Maurice Ohana ( 1913 – 1992 ): composed a Tiento for guitar ( 1957 )

They made more use of Alan Kendall's electric lead guitar and added a keyboard player, which resulted in less recording for Maurice, who had long overdubbed many instrumental and backing vocal parts.

W. Averell Harriman of the United States, Malcolm MacDonald of Britain, Maurice Couve De Murville, France's Foreign Minister, and Howard C. Green, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, concluded, meanwhile, a round of consultations here on future tactics in the conference.

With loud huzzahs for the artistic success of the Presbyterian-St. Luke's Fashion show still ringing in her ears, its director, Helen Tieken Geraghty ( Mrs. Maurice P. Geraghty ) is taking off tomorrow on a 56 day world trip which should earn her even greater acclaim as director of entertainment for next summer's International Trade fair.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, conquered the Portuguese possessions of Saint George del Mina, Saint Thomas, and Luanda, Angola, on the west coast of Africa.

The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.

Reopened at Trent on 1 May 1551 by convocation of Pope Julius III ( 1550 – 5 ), it was broken up by the sudden victory of Maurice, Elector of Saxony over the Emperor Charles V and his march into surrounding state of Tirol on 28 April 1552.

First was the suggestion of Harry Kalven, Jr. and Maurice Rosenfeld in 1941 that class action litigation by individual shareholders on behalf of all shareholders of a company could effectively supplement direct government regulation of securities markets and other similar markets.

With business partner Les Goldman, Jones started an independent animation studio Sib Tower 12 Productions, bringing on most of his unit from Warner Bros., including Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese.

* 1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is influenced by Edmund Husserl's work on perception and temporality, including Husserl's theory of retention and protention.

The heroine's father, Maurice Malherb, is based on Thomas Windeatt.

The machine, having been inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England.

An early example is in Maurice Tourneur's The Pride of the Clan ( 1917 ), in which there is a series of shots of waves beating on a rocky shore which are shown when the locale of the story, which is about the harsh lives of fisher folk, is being introduced.

Furthermore, it has been established that a substantial portion of it was taken, without citation, from a 1864 satire on Napoleon III by one Maurice Joly ( his French language work, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu )-so that it also constitutes plagiarism.

To assist him in the work he took on several people who were to play important roles in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate of the Zurich Polytechnikum, who was engaged to undertake calculations and make drawings, and Emile Nouguier, who had previously worked for Eiffel on the construction of the Douro bridge.

Cukor was then assigned to One Hour With You ( 1932 ), an operetta with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, when original director Ernst Lubitsch opted to concentrate on producing the film instead.

Based on these descriptions and the Byzantine sources, John Haldon and Maurice Byrne reconstructed the entire apparatus as consisting of three main components: a bronze pump ( the σίφων, siphōn proper ), which was used to pressurize the oil ; a brazier, used to heat the oil ( πρόπυρον, propyron, " pre-heater "); and the nozzle, which was covered in bronze and mounted on a swivel ( στρεπτόν, strepton ).

New Zealand writer Maurice Shadbolt produced a play, Once on Chunuk Bair, in 1982.

Mayhew's work was embraced by and was an influence on the Christian Socialists, such as Thomas Hughes, Charles Kingsley, and F. D. Maurice.

In 1938, G. E. Taylor, a South African tourist, filmed something in the loch for three minutes on 16 mm colour film, which was in the possession of Maurice Burton.