* May 6 – Monty Woolley, American actor ( b. 1888 )

It stars Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall and Anne Baxter.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Monty Woolley ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White and Best Picture.

* Monty Woolley as Howard

* Monty Woolley as Colonel William G. Smollett

Since You Went Away won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( Max Steiner ) and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Claudette Colbert ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Jennifer Jones ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Monty Woolley ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( Lee Garmes ), Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ( Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin ), and Best Effects, Special Effects.

Everyone, except for Henry, is charmed by the newcomer, even the non-religious Professor Wutheridge ( Monty Woolley ).

* Monty Woolley as Professor Wutheridge

Monty Woolley ( August 17, 1888May 6, 1963 ) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor.

* Monty Woolley as Dr. Jaffe

* Holy Matrimony ( 1943 film ), a 1943 comedy starring Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields

This was actually a rewrite of his earlier Fox film, As Young as You Feel ( 1951 ) with Monty Woolley and Marilyn Monroe.

* Allan Corduner as Monty Woolley

This was also the first musical directed by Monty Woolley.

Directed by Monty Woolley with choreography by Larry Ceballos and scenic design by Norman Bel Geddes, the cast featured William Gaxton as Peter Forbes, Genevieve Tobin as Looloo Carroll, Betty Compton as Joyce Wheeler, and Lester Crawford as Billy Baxter.

The production was supervised by Hassard Short, who also was the lighting designer, directed by Monty Woolley, choreographed by Albertina Rasch and Tony De Marco, and with set design by Jo Mielziner.

* Monty Woolley as Dr. Lane-Porteus

One of her first roles was in The Man Who Came to Dinner as the young daughter of the Ohio couple forced to put up with Monty Woolley, who tells her to follow her heart to the man she loves, a trade unionist in her father's company, regardless of her father's feelings.

* Died: Monty Woolley, 75, US actor

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

With his busy schedule of radio broadcasts and lectures, he declined, and Monty Woolley played the part.

* Sheridan Whiteside ........... Monty Woolley

The film featured Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Billie Burke, Jimmy Durante, Mary Wickes and Richard Travis.

* The Pied Piper ( 1942 film ), starring Monty Woolley, based on the 1942 novel by Nevil Shute

The film is so off the beaten track that it makes Monty Python seem mainstream.

* Monty Hall problem, in which an seemingly-unrelated piece of information makes a difference to a choice

When Cyrus hosts a yachting excursion, Betty Lou makes Monty take her along, masquerading as " Miss Van Cortland ".

* Monty Python's Flying Circus had a sketch called " Travel Agent ", which aired November 16, 1972, that makes a reference to Torremolinos in the context of visiting British package tourists.

He frequently makes errors, for example failing to identify players correctly ( one example was calling the England spinner Monty Panesar " Monty Python ", and paceman Ryan Sidebottom " Ryan Stringfellow "), and is quite often lost for words in the more exciting passages of play.

Bruce makes his debut in this book, and Uncle Monty makes his only appearance in the series.

Courtney appreciates the new, gentler Monty and Everett makes a deal with Simon to fix the van in exchange for wine.

Taking his friend's advice, Monty pursues Courtney and makes his true feelings known with a spontaneous kiss, which Courtney returns.

Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones makes a cameo as a drunken vicar and comedy duo Hale & Pace appear as a pair of gravediggers that the lads tell their story to.

* Monty Mole, a video game character

* Mongomery ' Monty ' Brewster, the lead character played by Richard Pryor in the 1985 film Brewster's Millions.

Robinson says that he based the lecherous character of Uncle Monty in the film Withnail and I on Zeffirelli.

Its influence on the Monty Python team can be gauged by the fact that Goosecreature was used more than once by the Pythons for character names ( Mrs. Yeti-Goosecreature, Dr. Louis Yeti-Goosecreature ).

Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show ; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall ; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live ; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums.

* In the first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a surrealist-comic courtroom scene featured Michael Palin playing Cardinal Richelieu as a character witness for the defendant ; the character was subsequently shown to be a Cardinal Richelieu impersonator.

* Tim the Enchanter, a character from the 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail

* The short-lived 2003 series Keen Eddie featured a character Monty Pippin who, along with a female friend, pretended to be married in order to gain access to a swingers ' club for recreational sex.

During contract negotiations, the syndicate approached Meddick with a request to change the name of the strip to Monty and to de-emphasize and remove the Robotman character from the strip.

* Monty Montahue is the protagonist and titular character.

* After assuring Monty that he would be unaffected by the Y2k bug, Robotman became a Theodore Roosevelt-like character.

Meddick did not own the Robotman property, whereas he created and owns the Monty character.

The Black Knight is a fictional character who appears in a scene of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The novel opens with a prologue by Padre Monty, a character from the second half of the novel.

His ability to answer questions on many varied subjects led to an offhand reference in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus where one character states that " He knows everything.

Cosmopolitan magazine is featured prominently in a scene where the character Monty reads Glyn's story and introduces it to the audience.

* In Spike Lee's 2002 film 25th Hour, Rosario Dawson's character Naturelle snaps at Edward Norton's character Monty, " What, I can't be from Riverdale?

* Zoot, a character in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail

As an actor, he has worked with Franco Zeffirelli ( on whom he based the character of Uncle Monty in Withnail and I ), Ken Russell and François Truffaut.

Another common feature of the show is " The Catching Game ", a game show hosted by Monty Swell ( a character based on Monty Hall ) where the Letter People must form words by positioning themselves correctly side-by-side.

The unpopularity of the Bill Eckert character led to ABC's firing Monty, killing off Bill, and bringing Luke and Laura back, played by Geary and Francis.