His first regular TV role came in 1962 as Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy ; leaving after two seasons to appear in The Sand Pebbles.

* Robert Wise's The Sand Pebbles ( Hollywood studio, filmed in Taipei, Keelung, Tamsui and Hong Kong ) ( drama )

He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles ( 1966 ).

The Sound of Music was an interim film for Wise, produced to mollify the studio while he developed the difficult film The Sand Pebbles, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and Candice Bergen.

Wise would later speak of The Sand Pebbles as the film he most wanted to direct, though he had earlier explored such anti-war themes in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

He also oversaw the DVD commentaries of The Sand Pebbles, Executive Suite.

* Richard McKenna-novelist, The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American period war film directed by Robert Wise.

( The ship is nicknamed the " Sand Pebble " and its sailors refer to themselves as " Sand Pebbles.

For years, Robert Wise had wanted to make The Sand Pebbles, but the film companies were reluctant to finance it.

The Sand Pebbles was eventually paid for, but because its production required extensive location scouting and pre-production work, as well as being due to monsoons in Taipei, its producer and director Robert Wise realized that it would be over a year before principal photography could begin.

A seaworthy vessel that was actually powered by Cummins diesel engines, the San Pablo made the voyage from Hong Kong to Taiwan and back under her own power during shooting of the Sand Pebbles.

The Sand Pebbles was filmed both in Taiwan and in Hong Kong.

Afterwards, Steve McQueen did not do any film work for about a year due to exhaustion, saying that whatever sins that he had committed in his life had been paid for when he made The Sand Pebbles.

He was not seen on film again until two movies of 1968, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt ( which included his fellow The Sand Pebbles actor Simon Oakland as Bullitt's boss ).

The Sand Pebbles was nominated for eight Academy Awards, but failed to win any: Best Picture for Robert Wise, Best Actor for Steve McQueen, Best Supporting Actor for Mako, Best Art Direction / Set Decoration-Color, Best Cinematography-Color, Best Film Editing, Best Sound ( James Corcoran ) and Best Original Music Score for Jerry Goldsmith.

* Website devoted exclusively to The Sand Pebbles

es: The Sand Pebbles

pt: The Sand Pebbles

McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles.

McQueen also earned his only Academy Award nomination in 1966 for his role as an engine room sailor in The Sand Pebbles, in which he starred opposite Richard Attenborough and Candice Bergen.

He was busy with the delayed The Sand Pebbles, though.

He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots!

Johnston and Sand islands are both enlarged natural features, while North ( Akau ) and East ( Hikina ) are two artificial islands formed by coral dredging.

The bottleneck near Santa Cruz Avenue was widened in 2006 and features a high faux rock wall at the junction of Sand Hill Road and Santa Cruz Avenue.

Other minor communities and geographic features in the town are: Between the Rivers, Black Hall Pond, Brighton Beach, Ferry Road, Flat Rock Hill, Four Mile River, Griswold Point, Hall's Corners, Hawk's Nest Beach, Homestead Circle, Johnnycake Hill, Miami Beach, Mile Creek, Neck Road, Old Colony Beach, Old Lyme Estates, Old Lyme Shores, Rogers Lake, Sill Lane, Smith's Neck, Tantummaheag, Tuttles Sandy Beach, Whippoorwill, White Sand Beach.

Zimmerman is also near the Sand Dunes State Forest, which features many miles of horse and snowmobile trails for one's enjoyment.

Dream, After Dream features a full vocal on three of its nine tracks, " Destiny ", " Sand Castles " and " Little Girl ".

* Andrucha Waddington's The House of Sand ( Casa de Areia, 2005 ) prominently features the sand dunes of Maranhão.

The Nima Sand Museum museum features a large hourglass mechanism that automatically rotates from December 31 to January 1.

One of the most valued features of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is one that can't be seen.

On March 13, 2012 Arsis release a new demo song entitled " Choking on Sand ", which features James Malone on all guitars and vocals, and Noah Martin on bass.

Sand dunes are not prominent features in these deserts, but snow dunes occur commonly in areas where precipitation is locally more abundant.

The Gillette Sand Dune Visitor Center features interactive exhibits related to the sand dune ecosystem within the park.

Don Peris has recorded three solo albums, Ten Silver Slide Trombones in 2001, the mostly instrumental Go When the Morning Shineth in 2006, which features a vocal contribution from Karen Peris on " North Atlantic Sand ," and an instrumental solo guitar Christmas album, Brighter Visions Beam Afar, which was released in 2007.

His first solo album, Kerosene Man, included a duet with Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, backing work by bassist Fernando Saunders ( a frequent sideman of Lou Reed, to whom Wynn was often compared early in his career ), drummer D. J. Bonebrake from the L. A. punk band X, Howe Gelb of Giant Sand and saxophonist Steve Berlin from Los Lobos.

* Steve McQueen as Max Sand ( as Nevada Smith )

* Paul Sand as Steve Waits

The Sand Sharks have played at the Richard Gray Baseball Complex since 2008 and will continue games at the facility until a new facility is built on the USCB's south campus in Beaufort County.

The University of South Carolina Beaufort Sand Shark softball team also plays home games at the Richard Gray Baseball Complex, holding their inaugural season in 2012.

* Richard McKenna-The Sand Pebbles

Both the Sand Shark Baseball and Softball teams currently practice and play all home games at the City of Hardeeville's Recreation Complex ( The Richard Gray Baseball Complex ).

Tool & Die with Bob Blount and Richard Locke, The Other Side of Aspen with Al Parker and Dick Fisk, Boys in the Sand II and Inevitable Love, with Jon King and Jamie Wingo.

The USS San Pablo described in Richard McKenna's The Sand Pebbles is an example of this class of vessel, serving on the US Navy's Yangtze Patrol.

* 1997-Where is Kabuki ?, Don Druick2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Ted Dykstra and Richard GreenblattHere Lies Henry, Daniel MacIvor and Daniel BrooksA Line in the Sand, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef

USS San Pablo, the vessel in Richard McKenna's well-known novel The Sand Pebbles ( 1962 ), set in 1926, was modeled on the, a 31-year old vessel originally captured from Spain.

Verses of the song are played intermittently throughout the 1974 movie The Second Coming of Suzanne, starring Sondra Locke, Paul Sand, Jared Martin and Richard Dreyfuss.

Modern-day makers of oboes da caccia include Sand Dalton of Lopez Island, Washington, United States ; Richard Earle in the UK ; Marcel Ponseele in France ; Henri Gohin in France ; and Joel Robinson in New York City.

While working for The Star, he wrote his first novel, A Twist of Sand ( 1959 ), which was subsequently translated into 23 languages and became a motion picture in 1968 starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman.

A Twist of Sand ( 1968 ) co-starred Honor Blackman and Richard Johnson, director Terence Young's original choice for James Bond.

Richard Bulliet, Professor of History at the Middle East Institute of Columbia University, wrote that Empires of the Sand is " a tendentious and unreliable piece of scholarship that should have been vetted more thoroughly by the publisher " and asserts that the authors failed to " contribute a dimension of sense and scholarship that raises the debatein question to a higher level.

Achievement: “ Sand Dance ”, Richard Quade --- University of California, Los Angeles.

A song based on the poem, called " Footprints in the Sand ", was written by Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Richard Page and Simon Cowell and recorded by Leona Lewis.

* McCaffree, Mary Jane, Pauline Innis, and Richard M. Sand, Esquire.

The original cast included Linda Lavin, Jo Anne Worley, Paul Sand, Richard Libertini, and MacIntyre Dixon.