In 1957, Connery played Spike, a minor gangster with a speech impediment in Montgomery Tully's No Road Back alongside Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton and Norman Wooland.

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.

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

* Penny Points to Paradise ( 1951 ) played Spike Donnelly.

Spike played the part of his father.

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

Spike is a vampire and played various roles on the shows, ranging from villain to anti-hero.

After his retirement at the end of the 1999 season, Hill devoted more time to music and played with celebrity bands including Spike Edney's SAS band, and Pat Cash's Wild Colonial Boys.

This same musical phrase had been used as a " signature " at the end of many pieces played by Spike Jones and his City Slickers.

Sylvester, who for the most part always played the antagonist role, is featured playing the protagonist role in a couple of cartoons while having to deal with the canine duo of Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier after being chased around.

He was in the silent short 1967 film The Plank, and played the young Spike Milligan in the film version of Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall.

One month before the album's release, the group played a memorable performance on Saturday Night Live of " Sunless Saturday " ( a song which later featured an MTV video directed by Spike Lee ).

Characters of somewhat lesser importance include the Pickles family dog, Spike, who has played important roles in some episodes, even starring in them at some instances, and Angelica's pet cat Fluffy.

His other film roles during this period included Spike Milligan's surreal The Bed Sitting Room ( 1969 ), in which he mutates into a parrot, a drunken butler in The Ruling Class ( 1972 ) with Peter O ' Toole, and Theatre of Blood ( 1973 ), a horror movie starring Vincent Price, with Lowe as one of the critics murdered by the deranged actor played by Price.

He played a sergeant in the Highland Regiment in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall ( 1972 ) with Jim Dale and Spike Milligan.

Elijah Muhammad was notably portrayed by Al Freeman, Jr. in Spike Lee's 1992 motion picture, Malcolm X. Co-star Albert Hall, who played the composite character " Baines " in the film, later played Muhammad in Michael Mann's 2001 film, Ali.

* Spike Shannon – former professional baseball player who played with the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates.

He also played Dr. Lester in Spike Jonze's 1999 film, Being John Malkovich.

Joe series, played Spike the Dog in Tom and Jerry Kids, and he was also narrator for Discovery Channel's Search for Adventure.

Other key roles for Jones include Stay Tuned, where he played Mr. Spike, and the 1992 comedy Mom and Dad Save the World, where he played Dick Nelson.

Dawson starred as Naturelle Rivera, the love interest of a convicted drug dealer played by Edward Norton, in the 2002 Spike Lee film drama, 25th Hour.

He also portrayed the voice of Chomper in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, Spike and Rinkus in The Land Before Time sequels and Spike in the TV series, but Spike was played anonymously in the original The Land Before Time.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

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

Like Spike, he too is haunted by the memory of a woman, Alisa, his longtime girlfriend who left him without reason.

Her gambling, cheating, and competitive skills are unrivaled except by Spike.

In ‘ Stray Dog Strut ’ the final fight between Spike and Hakim is influenced by Bruce Lee ’ s Game of Death while in ‘ Waltz for Venus ’, Spike ’ s kung fu lesson is eerily similar to a scene from Lee ’ s Enter the Dragon.

Other visual and aural cues are also taken from film noir, in ‘ Pierrot Le Fou ’ for instance, Spike battles an enraged homicidal clown across a fairground, accompanied by lighting and camera angles any film noir would be proud of.

The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill ( painter ) | Thomas Hill, ( 1881 )

Later that year he returned to the theater to play in Spike Heels, directed by Michael Greif.

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 ).

New enemies include Centroids, large cybernetic scorpions with nailguns, Gremlins, small goblins that can steal weapons and multiply by feeding on enemy corpses, and Spike Mines, floating orbs that detonate when near the player.

The series was written by Ed Welch, who had featured in the " Q " series and had collaborated with Spike on several audio productions and produced and directed by Simon & Sara Bor.

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

TMBG also contributed a track to the 2004 Future Soundtrack For America compilation, a project compiled by John Flansburgh with the help of Spike Jonze and Barsuk Records.

* The memory of McGonagall was resurrected by comedian Spike Milligan.

The Last Spike by Thomas Hill ( 1881 ) Six years after the groundbreaking, laborers of the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad from the east met at Promontory Summit, Utah.

The Stone Roses ' outdoor concert at Spike Island in Widnes on 27 May 1990 was attended by some 27, 000 people.

A typical example of their approach with dealing with the press is the Spike Island press conference ( attended by the world's media ) in 1990.

Spike testing is done by suddenly increasing the number of or load generated by, users by a very large amount and observing the behaviour of the system.

Hanks is producer of the Spike Jonze film Where The Wild Things Are, based on the children's book by Maurice Sendak.