* 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian ( d. 2002 )

The name is mainly associated with Morton who has been credited as an influence by Spike Milligan amongst others.

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

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The film, which starred Chapman as the eponymous pirate, also featured appearances from Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Cleese, Idle, Spike Milligan, and Cheech & Chong.

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In his published Diary, Michael Palin recalls that during the filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian in Tunisia, Spike Milligan ( who happened to be there on holiday ) regaled the Pythons with his own version of the Dead Parrot sketch, but changed " Norwegian Blue " to " Arctic Grey ".

The supporting cast included Olga Sosnovska, Stephen Fry and Eric Sykes and the series is also notable as the last screen performance by comedy legend Spike Milligan ( as the Headmaster ).

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

* Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Patrick Seán " Spike " Milligan KBE ( 16 April 191827 February 2002 ) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of English and Irish parentage.

In 1961, Milligan co-wrote two episodes of the popular sitcom Sykes and A ..., co-starring Sykes and Hattie Jacques, and the one-off " Spike Milligan Offers A Series Of Unrelated Incidents At Market Value ".

Director John Goldschmidt's film The Other Spike dramatised Milligan's nervous breakdown in a film for Granada Television, for which Milligan wrote the screenplay and in which he played himself.

Four of his children collaborated with documentary makers on a new multi-platform programme called I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan ( 2005 ), which includes an accompanying website.

Lynsey De Paul is a patron of the Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund.

There is a plaque and bench located at the Wadestown Library, Wellington New Zealand in an area called " Spike Milligan Corner ".

In a 2008 stage play, Surviving Spike, Milligan was played by the entertainer Michael Barrymore.

Spike Milligan plays an inventor, Mr. Pym, and acts as a butcher in a sketch.

* Badjelly's Bad Christmas A play created and performed by the Chickenshed Theatre Company using the works of Spike Milligan and his characters.

The role of the young Spike Milligan was played by Jim Dale.

* The Bible — the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan ( 1993 )

* Lady Chatterley's Lover According to Spike Milligan ( 1994 )

* In the BBC Radio show The Goon Show, Spike Milligan plays a character called Count Jim Moriarty.

The Roots have been featured in four movies: Dave Chappelle's Block Party, both performing album songs and playing as a backing band for other artists ; Spike Lee's Bamboozled ; Marc Levin's Brooklyn Babylon, in which Black Thought plays the protagonist, Solomon, and former band member Rahzel narrates ; and Chasing Liberty, starring Mandy Moore.

( Meltem John and Magnus Spike are plays on Elton John and Magnus Pyke.

He then meets Buffy, Giles, and Spike in a playground where Spike tells him that Giles " is going to teach me to be a Watcher " while Buffy plays in a sandbox.

In 2006 Negativ made ​​ his film debut, he plays the main character Spike in the movie Bolletjes Blues.

* Spike plays a role in saving the world, marking his first alliance with Buffy.

He plays the lead in Spike Milligan's film " Puckoon ".

At the end, Toodles Galore watches Spike strum Tom, who has replaced the strings on his bass, while Jerry plays a quick riff on Tom's whiskers.

James Marsters, who plays Spike, portrayed Piccolo in " Dragonball Evolution and is an open fan of the anime.

Spike takes Dawn to a Ghora demon nest, where he plays interference with the three-headed demon while Dawn gets an egg, which she drops in her haste.

Spike is also rare among vampires because he does not fear Slayers ; he seeks them out and has killed two by the time he arrives in Sunnydale.

Spike also retains something of his literary intellect from his human side, routinely referencing poetry, songs, and literature ; on occasion he even waxes poetic on the nature of love, life, and unlife as being driven by blood, reasoning that blood is more powerful than any supernatural force because it is what separates the living from the dead.

Originally, Giles was to appear in " A Hole in the World " as the one whom Angel and Spike approached in an attempt to save Fred, because Whedon needed a character who would be instantly believed ( by the characters and by the audience ) when he said there was no way to save Fred.

The ceremony to drive in the Last Spike was originally to be held on May 8, but was postponed two days because of bad weather and a labor dispute on the Union Pacific side.

Six episodes were originally meant to air during the summer of 2003, but were delayed for a year along with the rest of Spike TV's " Strip ", mainly because of the risque " Naked Beach Frenzy " episode.

She was noted for her hats, considered her trademark, mostly because of her taste for large, flamboyant ones ; and her hats were so famous that, in the 1946 movie, Breakfast in Hollywood, Del Porter, backed by Spike Jones and his City Slickers, sang a novelty song, " A Hat for Hedda Hopper " while Hopper was sitting in the audience wearing an extraordinary milliner's creation.

Smithson was reportedly attracted to the Rozel Point site because of the stark anti-pastoral beauty and industrial remnants from nearby Golden Spike National Historic Site, as well as an old pier and a few unused oil rigs.

When he was compared to Spike Lee because the film was being compared to Lee's Do the Right Thing, he noted the irony:

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen .< ref >

According to an interview in the Transformers Collectors Club magazine Gilvezan auditioned for both the parts of Spike Witwicky and Bumblebee in " The Transformers ", but, was only given the role of Bumblebee because the produces did not want the two characters to be voiced by the same person.

Lah himself then left MGM, but returned in 1955 to direct CinemaScope Droopy cartoons costarring either Spike, now called Butch because of the same-named bulldog in Hanna and Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoons, or the " Kingdom Coming "- whistling wolf.

Spike suspects Giles is his father ( because they're both British and Giles feels a gut-wrenching disappointment towards him ), Anya assumes she is getting married to Giles ( because she is wearing an engagement ring and they jointly own the magic shop ) and Willow and Xander think they are a couple ( because they woke up next to each other and Willow is wearing his jacket ).

Spike assumes his name is " Randy " because of the label inside his stolen coat, and Buffy, with no evidence to her identity, names herself " Joan ".

He then invites Drusilla out to feed, demeaning Spike and forcing him to stay behind because he is in a wheelchair.

It is not known whether the animated television series was contiguous with the feature-films ; but if it was it may take place before them because the only one of his pets to appear in the series is his capuchin monkey, Spike.

Spike says he doesn't want Buffy downstairs with him, because he still has his pride and she has " Angel Breath ".

This decision was controversial because Paul Heyman, the owner of ECW, had " given " the men ( including Spike ) the rights to the gimmick out of loyalty when ECW folded, but never actually transferred the rights in any official manner.

Spike Milligan's Q5 was missed ... when we first saw Q5 we were very depressed because we thought it was what we wanted to do and Milligan was doing it brilliantly.

Tara is supportive, first asking Buffy if she loves Spike because if she does, it's okay, since Spike did a lot of good the previous summer, and Tara ( unlike the other Scoobies ) believes he truly loves Buffy.

Then Tara tells Buffy that if it isn't love that Buffy feels, that's okay too, but Buffy states that she does not agree with Tara on that point because that would mean that she is just using Spike.