* Will Hay, the famous comedian and actor, who discovered a white spot on Saturn.

According to Suetonius, Domitia Longina was exiled in 83 because of an affair with a famous actor named Paris.

Hayashi was influenced by the famous kung-fu actor Bruce Lee.

* Matt LeBlanc portrays Joey Tribbiani, a struggling actor and food lover who becomes famous for his role on Days of our Lives as Dr. Drake Ramoray.

French actor Gérard Depardieu was involved in a famous row with American feminists because he mistakenly said he " assisted " a rape in his tumultuous teenage years, while what he really meant was that he had " witnessed " one such event.

Producers at HBO asked Busey to play a " character " on the show who was the self-named actor who is also a famous painter and sculptor.

Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

Based on a true story of a teacher arrested for teaching his students evolution also known as the " Scopes Monkey Trial ," Spacey played defense lawyer Henry Drummond, a role that was made famous by actor Spencer Tracy in the 1960 film of the same name.

The Knights ' new name changes almost nightly, improvised by the actor playing the lead Knight ( originally Hank Azaria ), but always starting with " Ecky Ecky Ecky F ' tang F ' tang Olé Biscuitbarrel ..." which itself references several famous sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Election Night Special.

* Roger Smith ( actor ), American actor famous for his role in " 77 Sunset Strip " and as the husband of actress Ann-Margret.

One of Raimi's most famous sequences involves a POV shot of actor Bruce Campbell being chased through a cabin by an unseen evil force.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

His first film productions were for German television, and it was during his work on the popular German Tatort ( Crime Scene ) TV series that he first met and worked with the actor Jürgen Prochnow — who would later appear as the U-boat captain in Petersen's famous Das Boot.

* Bob Denver ( 1935 – 2005 ), actor most famous for playing the title character of Gilligan's Island

It soon became famous for promoting " Method ," a style of theater and acting involving " total immersion of actor into character ," writes film author Ian Freer.

Burton returned to Hollywood to star in Prince of Players, another historical Cinemascope film, this time concerning Edwin Booth, famous American actor and brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth.

* Tony Dow ( born 1945 ), actor most famous as the older brother, Wally, in the Leave it to Beaver TV series

Another famous actor born in Hereford is David Garrick ( 1717 – 1779 ).

* Robert Blake ( actor ) ( born 1933 ), actor famous for later Our Gang shorts and the Baretta television series, and being accused of murdering his wife.

The biography of famous actor and avant-garde comic Andy Kaufman ( Jim Carrey, who won a Golden Globe for his performance ) premiered on December 22, 1999.

In 1953 he became the first actor to play the famous folk hero Robin Hood on television, starring in six half-hour episodes broadcast from 17 March to 21 April on the BBC, and titled simply Robin Hood ( Vahimagi, 42 ).

Gedeon Burkhard was born in Munich, Germany, the son of German actress Elisabeth von Molo ( then Burkhard ) and Wolfgang Burkhard, a great-grandson of Alexander Moissi, a famous Italo-Austro-Albanian actor of the 20th century.

In September '76 Thomas Huxley, Darwin's famous disciple, came from England to speak in a crowded auditorium at the formal opening of the University ; ;

We have only to think of Lady Macbeth or the policeman-murderer in Thomas Burke's famous story, `` The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole '', to realize that hands often call up ideas of crime and punishment.

Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

The famous literary opium addicts Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wilkie Collins also took it for its pleasurable effects.

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

( Thomas Cochrane, the 10th Earl of Dundonald and famous Royal Navy officer, was sentenced to the pillory but was excused for fear his popularity would cause a riot.

Some deists rejected the claim of Jesus ' divinity but continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher ( see, for example, Thomas Jefferson's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ).

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Among numerous writers of the order in this period are: Cardinals Thomas Zigliara ( d. 1893 ) and Zephirin González ( d. 1894 ), two esteemed philosophers ; Father Alberto Guillelmotti ( d. 1893 ), historian of the Pontifical Navy, and Father Heinrich Denifle, one of the most famous writers on medieval history ( d. 1905 ).

Probably the two most famous declarations of a right to revolution against tyranny in the English language are John Locke's Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government and Thomas Jefferson's formulation in the United States Declaration of Independence that " all men are created equal ".

Fick's work was inspired by the earlier experiments of Thomas Graham, which fell short of proposing the fundamental laws for which Fick would become famous.

Some of the other famous guests who lived there include: Augustus St. Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Lowell, Horton Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and many others.

In 1951 Alfred Deller, the famous counter-tenor ( 1912-1979 ), recorded songs by Dowland, Thomas Campion, and Philip Rosseter with the label HMV ( His Master's Voice ) HMV C. 4178 and another HMV C. 4236 of Dowland's " Flow my Tears ".

Though he met Thomas Sully, one of the most famous portrait painters of the time and a valuable ally, Audubon was rebuffed for publication.

After Napoleon's Hundred Days following his escape from Elba, Landau, which had remained French, was granted to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 and became the capital of one of the thirteen Bezirksämter ( counties ) of the Bavarian Rheinpfalz. In 1840 famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast was born in Landau.

:* Drosophila, usually the species Drosophila melanogaster-a kind of fruit fly, famous as the subject of genetics experiments by Thomas Hunt Morgan and others.

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

In fact, Nazareth was described negatively by the evangelists ; the Gospel of Mark argues that Nazareth did not believe in Jesus and therefore he could " do no mighty work there "; in the Gospel of Luke, the Nazarenes are portrayed as attempting to kill Jesus by throwing him off a cliff ; in the Gospel of Thomas, and in all four canonical gospels, we read the famous saying that " a prophet is not without honor except in his own country.

This in fact occurred first using the reproduction of images without a camera when Thomas Wedgwood, from the famous family of potters, obtained copies of paintings on leather using silver salts.

Gallery of famous 17th-century Puritan theologians: Thomas Gouge, William Bridge, Thomas Manton, John Flavel, Richard Sibbes, Stephen Charnock, William Bates ( Puritan ) | William Bates, John Owen ( theologian ) | John Owen, John Howe ( Puritan ) | John Howe, Richard Baxter.

It became famous ( or according to others, infamous ) during a period spanning the 1920s to the mid 1950s as a meeting place for many of London's artists, intellectuals and bohemians such as Dylan Thomas, Augustus John, and George Orwell.

* Paintings of Thomas Eakins, a group of rowing scenes, first and most famous is Max Schmitt in a Single Scull ( 1871 )

This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).

* Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ) English / American pamphleteer, most famous for Common Sense ( 1776 ) calling for American independence as the most rational solution