Portrayed by Steve Reeves, he was the main character in the 1961 sword-and-sandal peplum Guerra di Troia ( The Trojan War ).

With the release of 1958's Hercules, starring American bodybuilder Steve Reeves, the Italian film industry gained entree to the American film market.

The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus ( billed as Rock Stevens ) and Michael Lane.

Ferrigno started weight training at age 13, citing body builder and Hercules star Steve Reeves as one of his role models.

* Steve Reeves

* January 21 – Steve Reeves, American actor ( d. 2000 )

When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic The Last Days of Pompeii ( Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei ), starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film.

After the classic Hercules ( 1958 ) became a blockbuster sensation in the film industry, a 1959 Steve Reeves film Terrore dei Barbari ( Terror of the Barbarians ) was retitled Goliath and the Barbarians in the United States, ( after Joseph E. Levine claimed the sole right to the name of Hercules ); the film was so successful at the box office, it inspired Italian filmmakers to do a series of four more films featuring a beefcake hero named Goliath, although the films were not really related to each other.

* Romolo e Remo: a 1961 film starring Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott as the two brothers.

The 1924 film was directly remade in Europe in 1961 with Steve Reeves in the lead, while a 1978 made-for-television film combined plot elements of these with others from the Sabu version.

* Steve Reeves, Hercules Actor

* Steve Reeves – bodybuilder and actor.

Since his youth, O ' Brien had developed a passion for science fiction and B horror movies ; he wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle flicks and fifties rock and roll into The Rocky Horror Show.

* Steve Reeves played Pheidippides in the 1959 film The Giant of Marathon.

Then decades later, ( following on the heels of the success of the two 1950s Steve Reeves " Hercules " films ) Maciste was revived for a series of 25 sound films ( all made between 1960 – 1965 ).

In 1958, Steve Reeves ' Hercules, an Italian production, created a minor boom in Italian dramas featuring American bodybuilders in vaguely mythological or classical historical subjects.

* Steve Reeves

* Steve Reeves

His daughter spotted American bodybuilder Steve Reeves in the American film Athena and he was hired to play the mighty demigod.

This spawned the 1959 Steve Reeves sequel Hercules Unchained, the 1959 re-release of Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah ( 1951 ), and literally dozens of imitations that followed in their wake.

The films were all sequels to the first film in the series, the fantastically successful Steve Reeves Hercules ( 1957 ).

The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus ( billed as Rock Stevens ) and Michael Lane.

* Hercules ( Le Fatiche di Ercole / The Labors of Hercules, 1957 ) starring Steve Reeves

* Hercules Unchained ( Ercole e la regina di Lidia / Hercules and the Queen of Lydia, 1959 ) starring Steve Reeves

By 1960, seeing how well the two Steve Reeves Hercules films were doing at the box office, Italian producers decided to revive the 1920s silent film character Maciste in a new series of color / sound films.

Other notable film comedians who appeared later in the decade were Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Burt Reynolds.

In 2011, Hackman appeared on the Fox Sports Radio show, The Loose Cannons, where he discussed his career and novels with Pat O ' Brien, Steve Hartman and Vic " The Brick " Jacobs.

In 1949 he provided film footage for, and appeared in, the first full-length comedy compilation, Down Memory Lane ( 1949 ), which was written and narrated by Steve Allen.

In 1961, Moore appeared in several big parts in movies and on television, including Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Steve Canyon, Hawaiian Eye, Thriller and Lock-Up.

The Marvel Comics company itself exists within the Marvel Universe, and versions of people such as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby have appeared in some of the stories, whereas characters like Steve Rogers, ( Captain America's alter ego ), have worked for Marvel.

Along with the four main characters, some of Seinfelds supporting actors such as Wayne Knight, Estelle Harris and Steve Hytner also appeared in the ninth episode at a table read for the reunion show.

He also appeared alongside Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich, and Jamie Lee Curtis in Steve Rash's Queens Logic, and opposite Tom Berenger and Kathy Bates in Hector Babenco's film At Play in the Fields of the Lord, adapted from Peter Matthiessen's 1965 novel.

Garth appeared on the band ’ s first Radio 1 Peel Session, in September 1977, but due to his alcoholism he was quickly replaced with Steve Garvey, joining Dirty Looks in New York.

1 ), Steve Jolliffe ( wind instruments and vocals on Cyclone and the following tour ; he was also part of a short-lived 1969 line-up ), Ralf Wadephul ( in collaboration with Edgar Froese recorded album Blue Dawn, but it was released only in 2006 ; also credited for one track on Optical Race ( 1988 ) and toured with the band in support of this album ), and Linda Spa ( saxophonist who appeared on numerous albums and concerts between 1990 and 1996, as well as 2005 onwards ).

Steve Peace co-wrote and produced the 1988 film Return of the Killer Tomatoes ; Condit appeared as unbilled, unspeaking pizzeria patron during a fight sequence wearing a trucker cap who smashes a bottle on the head of a cowboy.

Steve Kramer has appeared as a sound effects man on the show multiple times.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

* Sir Blunderbrain ( performed by Steve Whitmire )-A brave Fraggle who appeared in a legend told in the Fraggle Rock episode " The Terrible Tunnel.

Others who were influenced by Norman include American CCM musician Steve Camp, who co-wrote " If I Were a Singer " with Norman, which appeared on Camp's 1978 debut album, Sayin ' It with Love, who describes Norman as his mentor, and with whom he lived for several months learning the craft of songwriting ; Canadian CCM musician Carolyn Arends.

" Sarducci has appeared in four cold openings in the 1979 – 1980 season ( on episodes hosted by Steve Martin, Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, and Rodney Dangerfield ), two commercial parodies (" MX-5 Tampons " on the 1981 – 1982 Christmas episode hosted by Bill Murray and " Bocce Ball My Way " on the last episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin ), and two monologues on the 1985 – 1986 season ( the first hosted by Madonna in a pretaped sketch showing Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) and the second on the Christmas episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Garr as Sarducci's alter ego, Pope Maurice ).

He appeared several times on Steve Allen's television show, but most often in variations of his old routines, with Louis Nye or Tom Poston taking on the straight man role.

Quinn did commercials for Pepsi and Ray-Ban, appeared in the music video for the Richard Marx song " Satisfied ," and had his first speaking line in the pilot of Beverly Hills, 90210 after having endured eight separate auditions for the roles of both " Brandon Walsh " and then " Steve Sanders.

Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, she first appeared as May Parker in Amazing Fantasy # 15 ( August 1962 ).

At the same time, Capitol signed the Steve Miller Band, with whom Quicksilver Messenger Service had appeared on the movie and soundtrack album Revolution, together with the group Mother Earth.

Tatum appeared on Steve Allen's Tonight Show in the early 1950s, and on other television shows from this era.

In 2004, he appeared in five films, including Wes Anderson's quirky comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ; the British gangster flick Layer Cake ; theatrical drama Being Julia ; and CGI action fantasy Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Along for the Ride appeared in 2001, credited to John Mayall and Friends with twenty names listed on the cover, including some Bluesbreakers, old and new, and also Gary Moore, Jonny Lang, Steve Cropper, Steve Miller, Otis Rush, Billy Gibbons, Chris Rea, Jeff Healey, Shannon Curfman and a few others.

Over his long career, Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, and critic Steve Leggett describes him as " an expert cornet player, a solid improviser, and apparently a workaholic, since he is rumored to have appeared on over 4, 000 recordings during the 1920s alone.

He also appeared as mad scientist Dr. Alfred Necessiter in the film The Man with Two Brains in 1983 alongside Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.