He met friend Peter Nolan, who later gave evidence at the inquest that Orton told him that he had another boyfriend and wanted to end his relationship with Halliwell, but did not know how to go about it.

Edge and Orton met in a match at May's Over the Limit pay-per-view, with the match resulting in a double countout.

In 1951, he met Joe Orton, a fellow RADA student.

Codron had manoeuvred Orton into meeting his colleague Kenneth Williams in August 1964.

On 9 August 1967, Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned 34-year-old Orton to death at his home in Islington, London, with nine hammer blows to the head, and then committed suicide with an overdose of 22 Nembutal tablets washed down with the juice from canned grapefruit.

Joe Orton was played by the actor Kenny Doughty in the 2006 BBC film Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa !, starring Michael Sheen as Kenneth Williams.

He befriended gay playwright Joe Orton, who wrote the role of Inspector Truscott in Loot ( 1966 ) for him, and had holidays with Orton and his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in Morocco.

A copy of Clouds of Witness was one of the volumes modified by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell in their adulterations of library books from the Islington and Hampstead libraries in the early 1960s.

* August 9 – Joe Orton, dramatist, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell

* The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, is rejected.

* Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books.

The most influential theologians within the Church of the Nazarene have been Edgar P. Ellyson, author of Theological Compend ( 1908 ); A. M. Hills, author of Fundamental Christian Theology ( 1931 ); H. Orton Wiley, author of the three-volume Christian Theology ( 1940 – 1943 ); Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, author of A Theology of Love ( 1972 ) and Foundations of Wesleyan-Arminian Theology ( 1972 ); Richard S. Taylor, author of A Right Conception of Sin ( 1945 ) and Exploring Christian Holiness, Vol. 3: The Theological Formulation ( 1985 ); H. Ray Dunning, author of Grace, Faith & Holiness ( 1988 ); and J. Kenneth Grider, author of A Wesleyan-Holiness Theology ( 1994 ).

Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell.

* Heard on television coverage of the coronation of Elizabeth II in the film Prick Up Your Ears, coinciding with the first sexual encounter between playwright Joe Orton ( played by Gary Oldman ) and his lover Kenneth Halliwell ( Alfred Molina ).

Matt Lucas played Kenneth Halliwell and Chris New plays John Orton.

* Kenneth Halliwell, lover and murderer of Joe Orton

She also appeared with Kenneth Williams in the original 1965 production of Loot by Joe Orton, which closed at the Wimbledon Theatre before reaching London.

It was based on The Boy Hairdresser, a novel by Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell.

Chefchaouen was visited by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell in 1967.

* Orton, Thomas, and Watkinson, Patricia Grieve, Kenneth Callahan, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner WA ; University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2000

She was acquainted with many of the leading figures in the British theatre, including Joe Orton, and he recounts in his dairies how he asked her advice on how best to end his relationship with his lover Kenneth Halliwell.

Halliwell was seven years older than Orton and of independent means, having a substantial inheritance.

After graduating, both Orton and Halliwell went into regional repertory work: Orton spent four months in Ipswich as an assistant stage manager ; Halliwell in Llandudno, Wales.

Confident of their " specialness ", Orton and Halliwell refused to work for long periods.

Orton and Halliwell felt that that sentence was unduly harsh " because we were queers ".

However, prison would be a crucial formative experience for Orton ; the isolation from Halliwell would allow him to break free of him creatively ; and he would clearly see what he considered the corruptness, priggishness, and double standards of a purportedly liberal country.

The book covers that Orton and Halliwell vandalised have since become a valued part of the Islington Local History Centre collection.

Discouraged, Orton and Halliwell went on an 80-day holiday in Tangier, Morocco.

In March 1967 Orton and Halliwell had intended another extended holiday in Libya, but they returned home after one day because the only hotel accommodation they could find was a boat that had been converted into a hotel / nightclub.

Orton was working hard, energised and happy ; Halliwell was increasingly depressed, argumentative, and plagued with mystery ailments.

" According to Dennis Dewsnap's memoir, What's Sex Got To Do With It ( The Syden Press, 2004 ), Orton and Halliwell had their ashes mixed and were buried together.

Directed by Stephen Frears, it starred Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay.

The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell, Wallace Shawn as Lahr and Vanessa Redgrave as Margaret " Peggy " Ramsay.

Orton was born at Causeway Lane Maternity Hospital, Leicester, to William A Orton and Elsie M Orton ( nėe Bentley ).

Orton attended Marriot Road Primary School, but failed the eleven-plus exam after extended bouts of asthma, and so took a secretarial course at Clark's College in Leicester from 1945 to 1947.

The first draft was written between June and October 1964 and entitled Funeral Games, a title Orton would drop at Halliwell's suggestion but would later reuse.

Orton, at odds with director Peter Wood over the plot, produced 133 pages of new material to replace, or add to, the original 90.

Orton was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, his maroon cloth-draped coffin being brought into the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song " A Day in the Life ".

For example, The Ultimate Warrior would run at high speed down the entrance ramp and into the ring while Randy Orton would slowly and darkly walk to the ring.

However, she was unhappy with this job as well and, after one year, left to teach English in Pasadena at the Orton School for Girls.

The summer after her first year teaching at the Orton School she returned home to the Shattuck ’ s farm to spend some time in thought and peace.

Peter Orton, working at T. I. E., developed the Muppet Show and a couple of decades later Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder.

On April 7, 1986 Liddy appeared at WrestleMania II as a guest judge for a boxing match between Mr. T ( with Joe Frazier, The Haiti Kid ) versus Roddy Piper ( with Bob Orton and Lou Duva ).

Orton urged him to put the title shot at stake in a match at No Way Out.

Orton won at No Way Out, earning Mysterio's title shot for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 22.

Professional wrestling | Professional wrestler Randy Orton, shown here at a World Wrestling Entertainment | WWE house show in 2005, typifies common attributes of contemporary beefcake ideals-developed musculature and minimum costuming.

The rivalry between Orton and The Legacy against Triple H and the McMahons continued at WrestleMania XXV, where Triple H defended the WWE Championship against Orton.

The following month, Orton won the championship at Backlash.

Van Dam lost the Intercontinental title to Orton at Armageddon after interference from Ric Flair.

They continued a close partnership even after losing the title, but it was disbanded when Edge won the Intercontinental championship at Vengeance from Randy Orton.