He collaborated with many of the big name entertainers visiting Portland, among the most recent being Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers.

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

In 1972 there was a critically well-received Broadway revival, directed by co-author Burt Shevelove and starring Phil Silvers as Pseudolus ( followed later by Tom Poston in the role ), Lew Parker as Senex and Reginald Owen as Erronius.

The production ran 156 performances, but had to close soon after Phil Silvers suffered a stroke.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

After filming Lucky Me with Phil Silvers and Young at Heart ( both 1954 ) with Frank Sinatra, Day chose not to renew her contract with Warner Brothers.

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In 1967, James was intending to play Sergeant Nocker in Follow That Camel, but suffered a massive heart attack and was replaced by the American comic actor Phil Silvers.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

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* Judy and her guests, Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet ( 1963 ) ( TV )

Over the years, Lynde made regular appearances on sitcoms such as The Phil Silvers Show, The Munsters, and I Dream of Jeannie, and variety shows such as The Perry Como Show and The Dean Martin Show.

As a result, in 1955, Gwynne made a memorable appearance on The Phil Silvers Show, in the episode " The Eating Contest " as the character Private Honigan, whose depressive eating binges are exploited by Sgt.

Bilko ( Phil Silvers ), who seeks prize money by entering Honigan in an eating contest.

Gwynne's second appearance on The Phil Silvers Show ( in the episode " For The Birds " in 1956 ) and many other shows led writer-producer Nat Hiken to cast him in the sitcom Car 54, Where Are You?

* Harold Hecuba, a character in the Gilligan's Island episode " The Producer " ( played by Phil Silvers )

Top Cat and his gang were inspired by characters from the popular situation comedy You'll Never Get Rich ( later called The Phil Silvers Show ).

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 ).

Even Arnold Stang's voicing of Top Cat strongly resembled Phil Silvers ' voice.

Another possible source material was Hokey Wolf, a segment on The Huckleberry Hound Show, which also had parallels to The Phil Silvers Show.

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Jenny's father appeared in one episode, played by Silvers ' real-life father Phil Silvers.

And when the stranger found out that Phil was on the way to one of his favorite bars, he insisted on offering to buy drinks for both of them.

Phil was like that.

In a low voice, almost whispering, the man had asked Phil if he was happy with the way the landlord had been taken off his back.

After the game, Phil was taking off his sweatshirt in the dressing room when Mike Deegan came in.

Phil turned and left the room, hearing Eddie say: `` Someday you'll see I was right ''.

Phil was very quiet.

Between June and August 2007, the first east-west crossing of the full new Asian Highway was achieved by Britons Richard Meredith and Phil Colley driving a V8 Vantage.

A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC ( and later PKZIP, using the same ". zip " algorithm that WinZip and other popular archivers now use ); also other concepts of software distribution like freeware, postcardware like JPEGview and donationware like Red Ryder for the Macintosh first appeared on BBS sites.

" ( now more commonly " BASE ") was coined by filmmaker Carl Boenish, his wife Jean Boenish, Phil Smith, and Phil Mayfield.

Consulting and design engineer Phil Irving ( of Vincent Motorcycle fame ) was the project engineer responsible for producing the initial version of the engine.

According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

He was with the station at its launch, and while it was being tested during the previous year, under the name Network Y. Charles has also hosted the stations Breakfast Show ( 2004 ) and has sat in for Andrew Collins, Phil Wilding, Phill Jupitus and Radcliffe & Maconie.

Longtime infielder / manager Phil Cavarretta, who had been a key player during the ' 45 season, was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the team was unlikely to finish above fifth place.

They then went on to beat Crystal Palace 1 – 0 at the Valley on 27 January to achieve their first league win under Phil Parkinson, whose contract was made permanent despite the lack of progress in the league.

Reports stated that series producer Phil Collinson was distributing alternative scripts, that much loved characters would be killed, and that none of the cast would be told which characters would die.

The current Executive Producer is Kieran Roberts who was once a Producer of " Emmerdale " and the Producer is ex-Doctor Who producer Phil Collinson, who took over from Kim Crowther in summer 2010.

In 1954, he was awarded a D. Phil.

Malevolent Creation guitarist Phil Fasciana recalls an early Carnage show: " It was like Slayer intensified a thousand times.

It was written in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann and was purchased by Symantec in 2010.