It also stars Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll.

Johnnie's good-natured, if scatterbrained, friend Beaky ( Nigel Bruce ) tries to reassure her that her husband is a good sort, but without much success.

During the 1940s, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, famous for playing Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in films, repeated their characterizations on radio on The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which featured both original stories and episodes directly adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.

The film marked the first pairing of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

He later tells Dr. Watson ( Nigel Bruce ) that Lestrade is on the train " giving an excellent imitation of Izaak Walton ".

Other supporting cast were Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray.

In her efforts to advance herself, she manages to link up with a number of gentlemen: the Marquis of Steyne ( Cedric Hardwicke ), Joseph Sedley ( Nigel Bruce ), Rawdon Crawley ( Alan Mowbray ), and George Osborne ( G. P. Huntley Jr ).

* Nigel Bruce as Joseph Sedley

It stars Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and Nigel Bruce.

The series was a spin-off of American Idol, but with younger contestants, and had the same production team as American Idol: it was created by Simon Fuller and 19 Entertainment, along with FremantleMedia, and directed by Bruce Gowers, and produced by Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick.

Unlike Rathbone, voice clips of Nigel Bruce were not used for the cameo part of Watson.

A decade later another cinematic version of the novel was released, featuring Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott and Nigel Bruce.

In the 1939 film series starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson, a number of films borrow elements from " The Final Problem ".

Elements of " The Adventure of the Empty House " were used in the 1939-1946 Sherlock Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

With respect to his scripting of the Sherlock Holmes radio dramas, Nigel Bruce, who played Dr. Watson, said that Boucher " had a sound knowledge of Conan Doyle and a great affection for the two characters of Holmes and Watson.

* Downloadable episodes of the radio program Sherlock Holmes ( starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce ) in the public domain

Originally, the show starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

Once he did, the sponsor did as well, and Tom Conway took the starring role, though Nigel Bruce got top billing and was always announced first.

* A Tribute to Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The victors hanged, drew and quartered Nigel Bruce, along with all the men from the castle.

In addition, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, who played Holmes and Watson in the film, did the story for their radio series, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Although he may appear at first to resemble the bumbling Nigel Bruce version of the character, he soon shows his level head and scientific and medical training to be valuable assets.

The series featured many high-profile guest stars, including Fred Allen, Mel Allen, Nigel Bruce, Billie Burke, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Boris Karloff, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Peter Lorre, Tony Martin, Marie McDonald, Gene Tierney, Arthur Treacher and Shelley Winters.

First, starring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce in 1948.

An accompanying music video, directed by Nigel Dick, portrays Spears as a student from a Catholic high school, who starts to daydream that she is singing and dancing around the school, while watching her love interest from afar.

Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “ mail ”, however “ chain-mail ” has become a commonly-used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott ’ s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel.

* Sir Nigel Gresley No. 4498

* April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer ( Flying Scotsman and Mallard ) ( b. 1876 )

* June 19 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer ( Flying Scotsman & Mallard ) ( d. 1941 )

* Edward makes appearances in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novels The White Company and Sir Nigel

His various struggles to formulate and enact legislation or effect departmental changes are opposed by the British Home Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne.

Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB, KBE, MVO, MA ( Oxon ) ( Nigel Hawthorne ) serves throughout the series as Permanent Secretary under his Minister, Jim Hacker at the Department of Administrative Affairs.

Earlier Prime Ministerial advisers had appeared from time to time in episodes of Yes Minister, including Daniel Moynihan as Daniel Hughes in " The Writing on the Wall " ( 1980 ) and Nigel Stock as Sir Mark Spencer in " Bed of Nails " ( 1982 ).

Nigel Hawthorne's portrayal of Sir Humphrey Appleby won the BAFTA Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance four times ( in 1981, 1982, 1986 and 1987 ).

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE ( 5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001 ) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.

Many of the roads in the area have aviation-related names: Alcock Road ( Alcock and Brown ), Brabazon Road ( Brabazon ), Bleriot Road ( Louis Blériot ), Cobham Road ( Sir Alan Cobham ), De Havilland Road ( de Havilland ), Norman Crescent ( Nigel Norman ), Phoenix Way ( Heston Phoenix ), Sopwith Road ( Thomas Sopwith ), Spitfire Way ( Supermarine Spitfire ), Whittle Road ( Frank Whittle ), and Wright Road ( the Wright brothers ).

However, during his tenure as Chief of the General Staff ( 1985 – 89 ) General Sir Nigel Bagnall directed that British Military Doctrine was to be prepared, and tasked Colonel ( later General ) Timothy Granville-Chapman ( an artillery officer who had been his Military Assistant in Headquarters 1st British Corps ) to prepare it.

Smith was named as Parliamentarian of the year twice ; the first time in November 1986 for his performances during the Westland controversy, during which Leon Brittan resigned and the second was in November 1989 for taking Nigel Lawson to task over the state of the economy and over his difficult relationship with Sir Alan Walters, the Prime Minister's Economic Adviser.

" Sir Alan Walters, whose opposition to the ERM as Mrs Thatcher's economic adviser triggered Nigel Lawson's resignation as chancellor, wrote on the buoyant state of the British economy in 2001 that " all the difficult and correct decisions that produced this happy state of affairs were taken and implemented by Norman Lamont, who thus showed himself, in his Mark 2 post ERM version, to be not only the most effective but also the bravest Chancellor since the War.

As a result many prestigious locomotives, such as Flying Scotsman, Sir Nigel Gresley, and Mallard which ran on the East Coast Main Line, were also frequent visitors to the line.

In 2008, there were performances by Elaine Paige, All Angels, and Alfie Boe ; in 2009, performances by Barbara Dickson, Sir Willard White, Blake, and Natasha Marsh, with a James Bond 007 spectacular, featuring the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, as the Sunday finale ; 2010 saw performances by Katherine Jenkins and Nigel Kennedy.

* Nigel Lambert as Sir Thomas Lovell

* Sir Nigel Gresley

In the film Cromwell, Clarendon ( called only Sir Edward Hyde in the movie ), is portrayed by Nigel Stock as a sympathetic, conflicted man torn between Parliament and the King.

Newcastle was on the national canal network, but the canal, running from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Stoke-on-Trent to Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal has been disused since 1935 and most of it filled in.

Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside such future-names as Nigel Sheinwald ( now, as Sir Nigel, British ambassador to Washington ), Michael Portillo and Clive Anderson, with whom he ran the debating society.