David Hampton ( April 28, 1964 – July 18, 2003 ) was an American con artist who gained infamy in the 1980s after milking a group of wealthy Manhattanites out of thousands of dollars by convincing them he was Sir Sidney Poitier's son.

Unable to gain entry, Hampton's friend decided to pose as Gregory Peck's son, while Hampton assumed the identity of Sir Sidney Poitier's son.

Sidney Poitier's children went to school in Kinderhook

In the reporter's opinion: " Someone with Sidney Poitier's deep chocolate complexion would be considered white if his hair were straight and he made a living in a profession.

She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Sidney Poitier's mother in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Later films for other studios included Bob Hope's Call Me Bwana, Frank Sinatra's The Detective, Sidney Poitier's They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!

However, as Sidney Poitier's films appealed to the white masses and the black bourgeoisie, Jim Brown's films were popular among the younger, vigilant, and politically oriented black audiences.

) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

Along with his siblings Sidney and Lawrence, Harrison received his initial education at home before attending a day school in St John's Wood.

Following an expedition to Scotland in search of reinforcements, Sorley Boy landed at Cushendun in January 1585 with a substantial army, but after initial successes he was driven back to Scotland, where he offered to accept the terms formerly put to him by Sidney ; Perrot declined, whereupon Sorley Boy returned and regained possession of Dunluce Castle.

The final product was edited down from an initial cut of seventeen hours to two hours for the PBS show American Odyssey The final project, narrated by Sidney Poitier, sought to bring the name of Ralph Bunche back into the public lexicon as Greaves felt he was an important, yet forgotten, political figure, one important to African American history and the Civil Rights movement.

The school was commanded by Wing Commander Sidney ‘ Crasher ’ Smith DSO AFC, so named because of his habit of landing his aircraft rather more robustly than they were designed for ; including three aircraft in a single day.

They were five British crews: Hubert Broad, Alan Butler ( both DH-60G ), Sidney Thorn ( Avro Avian ), John Carberry ( Monocoupe 110 ) and H. Andrews ( receiving penalty points for landing after closure ), three Germans ( Fritz Morzik, Willy Polte-both BFW M. 23c, Reinhold Poss-Klemm L. 25E ) and two Frenchmen ( François Arrachart, Maurice Finat-both C. 193s ).

Stephen Gosson and Sir Philip Sidney from renaissance England ; ;

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

" My intentions ", wrote the Duke from The Hague on 29 April to his governmental confidant, Sidney Godolphin, " are to march with the English to Coblenz and declare that I intend to campaign on the Moselle.

Bacardi acquired the Cazadores blue agave tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $ 2 billion.

Christopher Hatton and Sidney's friend Hubert Languet also tried to dissuade Sidney from pursuing the matter, and it was eventually dropped.

Later, he attended the Actors Studio from its inception ; there, he would study acting with founding member Robert Lewis, alongside, among others, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Herbert Berghof, and Sidney Lumet, not to mention his soon-to-be wife, Anne Jackson.

Sidney Parker is a British egoist individualist anarchist who wrote articles and edited anarchist journals from 1963 to 1993 such as Minus One, Egoist, and Ego.

PR Watch's original reporting and investigations have garnered journalism awards, including the Izzy, the Sidney, and most recently an award from the Milwaukee Press Club for one of the Best Investigative Stories or Series of 2011.

A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from The Strand Magazine, 1891 in " The Man with the Twisted Lip ".

His Sidney Balmoral James from Hancock's Half Hour also appeared in his own Citizen James series.

* Washington State Ferries serves Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, and San Juan Island from terminals in Anacortes, Washington and Sidney, British Columbia.

O ' Rourke was married to Amy Lumet, a daughter of movie director Sidney Lumet and a granddaughter of Lena Horne, from 1990 to 1993.

Later in New York he took advice from Will Marion Cook, Fats Waller, and Sidney Bechet.

Sidney Gottlieb, who had retired from the CIA two years previously, was interviewed by the committee but claimed to have very little recollection of the activities of MKUltra.

Byrd set three of the songs from Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, as well as poems by other members of the Sidney circle, and also included two elegies on Sidney's death in the Battle of Zutphen in 1586.

Sherman had dismissed the intelligence reports received from militia officers, refusing to believe that Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston would leave his base at Corinth.

The two champions from those years competed against teams from the UK for the " College Bowl World Championship ," which were also televised ; in 1978, Stanford University played a team of UK all-stars under College Bowl rules, and in 1979, Davidson College played Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University under University Challenge rules.

Before her birth, her father Sidney had legally shortened the surname from Bronstein to Bron as an effort to enhance his newly-founded commercial enterprise, Bron's Orchestral Service.

Sidney Altman was later to look back on his parents ' lives as an illustration of the value of the work ethic: " It was from them I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

Sidney also has a love for animals, often seen in strips to have a large array of pets ranging from elephants to mice.

Joseph Smith, Jr. and Frederick G. Williams, two of the Presiding Elders on the committee, were absent, but Oliver Cowdery and Sidney Rigdon were present.

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

Oxford was sympathetic to the proposed marriage, Leicester and his nephew Philip Sidney were adamantly opposed to it.

Essanay specialized in Westerns featuring " Broncho Billy " Anderson, and Kalem sent Sidney Olcott off with a film crew and a troupe of actors to various places in America and abroad to make film stories in the actual places they were supposed to have happened.

Many of his films were noted for creating " psychological dilemmas " for his male protagonists along with having a strong " sense of environment ," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director.

Andrewes liked to move among the people, yet found time to join a society of antiquaries, of which Walter Raleigh, Sir Philip Sidney, Burleigh, Arundel, the Herberts, Saville, Stow and Camden were members.

These were Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Leighton.

The photochemical mechanisms that give rise to the ozone layer were discovered by the British physicist Sidney Chapman in 1930.

Consequently, her chief ministers Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley, who were called " Prime Minister " by some, had difficulty executing policy in the face of a hostile Parliament.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

Catalytic RNA molecules ( ribozymes ) were discovered in the early 1980s, leading to a 1989 Nobel award to Thomas Cech and Sidney Altman.

Lee said that Lew Wasserman, Sidney Sheinberg or Tom Pollock, the Jewish heads of MCA and Universal Studios, were unlikely to allow antisemitic content in a film they produced.

The characters he portrayed in the films were usually very similar to the wise-cracking, sly, lecherous Cockney he was famed for playing on television, and in six cases bore the name Sid or Sidney: Sidney Fiddler, Sid Carter, Sid Plummer, Sidney Bliss, Sidney Boggle and Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond.

There were Carry On films in which James played characters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry ( a parody of Henry VIII ) and Carry On Dick ( a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin ), in both of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played Mark Antony.

The CIA's own internal investigation concluded that the head of MK ULTRA, CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, had conducted the LSD experiment with Olson's prior knowledge, although neither Olson nor the other men taking part in the experiment were informed as to the exact nature of the drug until some 20 minutes after its ingestion.

His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter ( 1825 – 1888 ), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter ( 1833 – 1865 ).

The surviving brothers were released in the autumn ; working for their release, their mother ( who died in January 1555 ) and their brother-in-law, Henry Sidney, had befriended the Spanish nobles around the new king consort, Philip of Spain.