Scott's novels were certainly influential in the making of the Victorian craze for all things Scottish among British royalty, who were anxious to claim legitimacy through their rather attenuated historical connection with the royal house of Stuart.

Scott's six Academy Awards were for the elaborate reconstruction of Ancient Rome in both The Robe ( 1953 ) and the big-budget Cleopatra ( 1963 ), for his equally elaborate recreation of the Siamese royal household for The King and I in 1956, for a much starker portrayal of the tiny cramped spaces occupied by a Dutch Jewish family in wartime Holland in The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), for the futuristic settings of Fantastic Voyage in 1966, and for a rich tapestry of turn-of-the-century colour in Hello, Dolly!

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

* King Philip also appears in the Ridley Scott's 2010 movie Robin Hood.

Scott's orchestration of King George IV's visit to Scotland, in 1822 was a pivotal event intended to inspire a view of his home country that, in his view, accentuated the positive aspects of the past while allowing the age of quasi-mediaeval blood-letting to be put to rest and the envisioning of a more useful, hopefully peaceful future.

* William Marshal is a major character in Sir Ridley Scott's Robin Hood epic who tries to convince King John to agree to the Magna Carta.

Scott's more than 30 years as a motion picture actor resulted in his working with many acclaimed screen directors, including Henry King, Rouben Mamoulian, Michael Curtiz, John Cromwell, King Vidor, Alan Dwan, Fritz Lang, and Sam Peckinpah.

Scott's films at Paramount include the aforementioned Go West, Young Man ( 1936 ), which reunited him with director Henry Hathaway and is Mae West's adaptation of Lawrence Riley's Broadway hit comedy Personal Appearance ; So Red the Rose ( 1936 ), directed by King Vidor and starring Margaret Sullavan ; and High, Wide, and Handsome.

By 1979, Phil Gould and Mark King were both based in London and became involved in Robin Scott's pop project M ( Gould played on the US number one single ' Pop Muzik ').

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

The last page is a splash page showing Captain Comet and various other Silver Age heroes such as King Faraday, Martian Manhunter, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Doom Patrol, Green Arrow, Elongated Man, Aquaman and Adam Strange, as well as successors such as Hal Jordan, ( Alan Scott's successor as Green Lantern ) Ray Palmer, ( Al Pratt's successor as The Atom ) Cliff Steele ( Robert Crane's successor as Robotman and a member of the Doom Patrol.

* Pete King ( saxophonist ) ( 1929 – 2009 ), English jazz musician ( tenor sax ) and manager of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

: Coeur de Lion is the nickname of King Richard I of England, who appears in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Talisman.

In Scott's poem the character Ellen Douglas, the " Lady " of " the Lake " ( Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands ) has gone with her exiled father to stay in the " Goblin's cave " as he has declined to join their previous host, Roderick Dhu, in rebellion against King James.

The Steiners appeared very sparingly after that and they eventually left the promotion in mid-1994 .. One of Scott's last TV appearances was a King of the Ring qualifier loss to IRS.

In the late 1970s a revival of the horror movie genre was based on the success of Stephen King and Brian De Palma's Carrie ; John Carpenter's the Thing ; and Dan O ' Bannon and Ridley Scott's Alien.

Most recently, he played the Tin Man in Leigh Scott's " The Witches of Oz " in a fight scene against the Nome King, portrayed by fellow wrestler Al Snow.

Scott's home from the age of 4 to 26 in George Square, Edinburgh

In Glasgow, Walter Scott's Monument dominates the centre of George Square, the main public square in the city.

The opening title music with the car on the road had been used in a 1961 episode of the TV series " Ben Casey " entitled " I Remember a Lemon Tree ," that piece of music accompanying each time that George C. Scott's character, a doctor who is secretly a drug addict, is injecting himself with morphine.

It is not a replica, being of an ornate Victorian Gothic design based on George Gilbert Scott's Oxford Martyrs ' Memorial ( 1838 ).

John Oldrid Scott ( d. 1913 ) ( George Gilbert Scott's son ), despite frequent clashes with Grimthorpe, had continued working within the cathedral.

George C. Scott's unmarked grave

As such, it stands as one of George Gilbert Scott's very early churches, executed in the style of Gothic Revival, and consists of masoned white limestone and gault brickwork, with flint-rubble and mortar panels.

One notable 1968 production starred George C. Scott as John Proctor, Colleen Dewhurst ( Scott's wife at the time ) as Elizabeth Proctor, Melvyn Douglas as Thomas Danforth, and Tuesday Weld as Abigail Williams.

His life also inspired a range of " Lemurian " novels, starting with George Firth Scott's book The Last Lemurian ( 1898 ).

The area continued to be a major centre for freestone quarrying during the 19th Century, supplying many major municipal building projects in Glasgow, such as Sir George Gilbert Scott's new Glasgow University main building ( the second largest Gothic Revival building in Britain ).

In January 2012, Martha held court at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club with a sold out six-show stand that drew celebrity friends like Phil Collins and Boy George.

George P. Burdell and equally fictitious Agnes Scott College student Ramona Cartwright announced their engagement in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1958, a prank by Agnes Scott's senior class.

In 1870, the Hunterian collections were transferred to the University ’ s present site and assigned halls in Sir George Gilbert Scott's neo-Gothic building.

Housed in large halls in George Gilbert Scott's University buildings on Gilmorehill, the museum features extensive displays relating to William Hunter and his collections, Roman Scotland ( especially the Antonine Wall, geology, ethnography, ancient Egypt, scientific instruments, coins and medals, and much more.

* George Simpson ( meteorologist ) ( 1878 – 1965 ), meteorologist for Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition

Crittenden's sons, George and Thomas, both served in the war ; Thomas Crittenden served on Scott's staff.

His Tony Award winning performance as Big Daddy in the 1989 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Matthew Harrison Brady to George C. Scott's Henry Drummond in the Tony Randall produced revival of Inherit the Wind in 1997, and Charley in the 1980 revival of Death of a Salesman also starring Dustin Hoffman and Kate Reid.

Scott's renovation did not extend beyond introducing a new stone porch at the north side of the church, the major restructuring of the church fell to Scott's son, George Gilbert Scott Junior.

With John Birnie Philip, he worked on the external sculptural decorations of Scott's colonial office in Whitehall, Armstead also sculpted the large fountain at King's College, Cambridge ( 1874 – 9 ), incoporating a statue of its founder, Henry IV, and numerous effigies, such as Bishop Wilberforce at Winchester, and Lord John Thynne at Westminster Abbey.

* T ' Mir's sale of the patent rights to hook-and-loop closure is analogous to Montgomery Scott's sale of the patent rights to transparent aluminum in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

In the 1820s, as part of the Romantic revival, tartan and the kilt were adopted by members of the social elite, not just in Scotland, but across Europe, prompted by the popularity of Macpherson's Ossian cycle and then Walter Scott's Waverley novels.

A copy of Scott's Minstrelsy in the National Museum of Scotland

Scott's background as a lawyer also informed his perspective, for at the time of the novel, which takes place before the Act of Union of 1707, English law did not apply in Scotland, and even afterward Scotland continued to have its own hybrid legal system.

Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) set in twelfth-century England, marked a move away from Scott's focus on the local history of Scotland.

It is a testament to Scott's contribution in creating a unified identity for Scotland that Edinburgh's central railway station, opened in 1854 by the North British Railway, is called Waverley.

Scott's novels set in Scotland also popularised several northern castles, including Tantallon which was featured in Marmion.

By later criticism, stimulated in some measure by Scott's eulogy that he is " unrivalled by any which Scotland has produced ," he has held the highest place among the makars.

Sir Walter Scott's romance The Heart of Midlothian ( 1818 ) recounts the heroine waylaid by highwaymen while travelling from Scotland to London.

Among his collaborators in experimental industrialism were the PRR vice president Thomas A. Scott, and Scott's assistant, Andrew Carnegie, an immigrant from Scotland one year older than Palmer.

David of Scotland pictured in Sir Walter Scott's 1832 crusader novel The Talisman ( Scott novel ) | The Talisman.

The exception was the " Grand Ball " held by the peers of Scotland to entertain the king: Scott's " Hints " called this a " Highland Ball ", reminded readers that the king had ordered a kilt and set the condition that, unless in uniform, " no Gentleman is to be allowed to appear in any thing but the ancient Highland costume ".

Redgauntlet ( 1824 ) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfries, Scotland in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson ( a point first made by Andrew Lang ) as " in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels.