" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

* 1938 – Ralph Bakshi, American cartoonist

As of May 2009, Rodriguez plans to produce a live-action remake of Fire and Ice, a 1983 film collaboration between painter Frank Frazetta and animator Ralph Bakshi.

* Daffy's head can be seen on a building two times in the 1992 Ralph Bakshi live action / animated film Cool World.

William Squire voiced Gandalf in the animated film The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 ) directed by Ralph Bakshi.

Filmmakers Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson stated that the reason the characters were omitted from their films was because, in their view, he ( Bombadil ) does little to advance the story, and would make their films unnecessarily long.

His later film appearances included the role of a wizened fable-telling convict in the extremely controversial Ralph Bakshi animated film Coonskin ( 1975 ), as a train porter in Silver Streak ( 1976 ), as a liveryman in The Shootist ( 1976 ), as a ringmaster of a struggling wild west show in Bronco Billy ( 1980 ), the Baseball coach and school teacher in Zapped!

Ralph Bakshi ( born October 29, 1938 ) is an American director of animated and live-action films.

Ralph Bakshi was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine ( now Israel ), as a Krymchak Jew.

Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi, a hardcover book of Bakshi's art, was released on April 1, 2008.

Gore Verbinski commented about Ralph Bakshi and showed that he was inspired by him during an interview in The Hollywood Reporter for his first animated movie, Rango.

The documentary also included a making-of the upcoming Fritz movie with production background interviews of Ralph Bakshi.

The character went through two later revivals, once by Filmation Studios in 1979, and again in 1987 at the hands of animation director Ralph Bakshi, who had worked at the Terrytoons studio during his early career.

* Ralph Bakshi, Animator, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor, Painter

Ralph Bakshi tried to establish an alternative to mainstream animation through independent animation | independent and adult animation | adult-oriented productions in the 1970s.

In 1968, Ralph Bakshi, along with producer Steve Krantz, founded Bakshi Productions, establishing the studio as an alternative to mainstream animation by producing animation his own way and accelerating the advancement of female and minority animators.

A number of memorable animated videos were produced during the heyday of MTV, including " Take on Me " by a-ha ; " Sledgehammer " by Peter Gabriel ; " Money for Nothing " by Dire Straits ; and " The Harlem Shuffle " by The Rolling Stones ( the animated sequences in this video were directed by Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi ).

Ralph Bakshi, director of ground-breaking animated films like Fritz the Cat and the original Lord of the Rings film, returned to animation after taking a short break in the mid-1980s.

The series ' creator, John Kricfalusi — a Ralph Bakshi protege — was largely influenced by the classic works of Bob Clampett.

The " New Terrytoons " period of the late 1950s and 60s brought us Sidney, Hector Heathcote, Hashimoto and Deputy Dawg as well as The Mighty Heroes and Ralph Bakshi.

The most notable talent at Terrytoons in the 1960s was animator / director / producer Ralph Bakshi, who got his start with Terrytoons in the 1950s and later helmed the Mighty Heroes series.

Later in 1987, Ralph Bakshi produced Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures which lasted for two seasons.

" ( New World Order ) features samples of George H. W. Bush and was used in the Ralph Bakshi live-action / animated film Cool World.

* 1956 Ralph Bakshi, animator, filmmaker

In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.

The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth ( 1617 – 88 ).

Also in 1951, while developing television technologies for New York based electronics company Loral, inventor Ralph Baer came up with the idea of using the lights and patterns he used in his work as more than just calibration equipment.

In the early 14th century, a geography encyclopedia called Geographica Universalis was compiled at Malmesbury Abbey in England, which was in turn used as a source for one of the most widely-circulated medieval English educational works, Polychronicon by Ralph Higden, a few years later.

* May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture ( wrecked at Bermuda ) arrive at Jamestown ; they find that 60 have survived the " starving time " ( winter ), the fort palizadoes and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.

Water skiing was invented in 1922 when Ralph Samuelson used a pair of boards as skis and a clothesline as a tow rope on Lake Pepin in Lake City, Minnesota.

The term and metaphor were first used by E. F. Schumacher in his book Small Is Beautiful and are closely identified with Herman Daly, Robert Costanza, the Biosphere 2 project, and the Natural Capitalism economic model of Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins until recently, when it began to be used by politicians, notably Ralph Nader, Paul Martin Jr., and agencies of the UK government including the London Health Observatory.

The Spanish name which is still used is San Rafael which means Saint Ralph.

The house was also used in The Duchess ( 2008 ), featuring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, and The Wolfman ( 2010 ), with Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.

* " In the Dreamtime ", a song written by Ralph McTell, was used in Billy Connoly's ' World Tour of Australia '

British animation also used big names, most notably Chicken Run ( Mel Gibson, Timothy Spall, Jane Horrocks and Miranda Richardson ) and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit ( Ralph Fiennes, Liz Smith, Peter Kay and Helena Bonham Carter ).

The studio was used for the filming of Bob Hope's last feature film, Cancel My Reservation, with Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy, and Forrest Tucker.

Although some terms in academia do go out of style, such as " Dark Ages ", the term Barbarian is in full common currency among all mainstream medieval scholars and is not out of style or outdated, though a disclaimer is often felt to be needed, as when Ralph W. Mathisen prefaces a discussion of barbarian bishops in Late Antiquity, " It should also be noted that the word " barbarian " will be used here as a convenient, nonpejorative term to refer to all the non-Latin and non-Greek speaking exterae gentes who dwelt around, and even eventually settled within, the Roman Empire during late antiquity ".

As a temporary measure, the AIA purchased the ice rink structure that was used in the 2008 NHL Winter Classic at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.

He grew up nearby, at 328 Chauncey ( an address he later used for Ralph and Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners ).

The idea had been pioneered by Ralph Edwards on the game show Truth or Consequences, and had subsequently been used on Amos ' n ' Andy as a way to save money, though Amos n ' Andy did not use an audience.

Other composers who have used the organ prominently in orchestral music include Gustav Holst, Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

He also donated the modified 1921 Oldsmobile truck used as the vehicle in the series to the College of the Ozarks where it is on display in the Ralph Foster Museum.

Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, Ralph Foliot, Richard Barre, William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Hervey, had mostly already served as justices prior to Walter's term of office, it was Walter who used them extensively.

Inspired by a scene in Ben-Hur, matte supervisor Craig Barron used two hundred commercially available Worf dolls sent by Ralph Winter.

In the twentieth century, the concerto grosso has been used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jean Françaix and Philip Glass.

Ralph Bagnold, who went on to help found the LRDG, greatly extended the knowledge of the area ( as well as developing techniques still used today for driving cars in sand ) with many journeys in the 1920s and ' 30s using Ford Model Ts.

* Ralph Dickerson Jr., a former CEO of United Way of New York City, was found to have used United Way funds for personal expenses during 2002 and 2003.

He learns she used to live in Atlantic City, used to be involved with a trainer for Russian martial arts, and screams at someone named Ralph in her sleep.