Allen's King Kong Volkswagen commercial from the 1970s is now legendary among model animation enthusiasts.

After World War Two, much of Iwerks ' early animation style would be imitated by legendary manga artists Osamu Tezuka and Shōtarō Ishinomori.

Since then, many legendary figures in the anime industry have worked with Tatsunoko, including Mizuho Nishikubo, Hiroshi Sasagawa, Koichi Mashimo, Katsuhisa Yamada, Hideaki Anno ( Tatsunoko provided animation work on the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series ), and Kazuo Yamazaki.

The legendary animation pioneer " Grim " Natwick, of Fleischers ' Betty Boop history, appears to have contributed to the early images of Sonny & Gramps, according to then-contemporaries who collaborated with Natwick during his 100-year career.

With no prior animation experience Braxton was brought on as an " inbetweener " with one or two other new hires, but his talent rapidly propelled him up to being an " assistant animator ", and to none other than master animator Ben Washam, in the already legendary Chuck Jones unit at Warners.

Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part.

Steiner received his next Oscar nomination for the 1940 film The Letter, his first of several collaborations with legendary director William Wyler.

Many of those who signed on, including John Hurt, Burt Lancaster and Dennis Hopper, did so for less than their usual salaries for a chance to work with the legendary director.

* In the John Waters film Cecil B. DeMented ( 2000 ), several characters have the name of a legendary film director tattooed on their body.

After resigning the Redskins ' post in favor of the legendary Vince Lombardi, Graham returned as athletic director of the Coast Guard Academy before retiring at the end of 1984.

In Japan, a color version remake of director Kenji Mizoguchi's The 47 Ronin, entitled Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki directed by Hiroshi Inagaki was released in 1962, the legendary story was also remade as a television series in Japan.

On March 4, 2011, it was announced that Hauer would play vampire hunter Van Helsing in legendary horror director Dario Argento's Dracula 3D.

Although he became a " legendary director on Broadway ", he made an equally impressive transition into one of the major filmmakers of his time.

His next role, in War Brides opposite Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms ( 1919 ) and Way Down East ( 1920 ).

He co-starred in the 1972 critically acclaimed neo-noir boxing film Fat City, directed by legendary director, John Huston.

The park's first director and one of its initiators was the legendary " carpenter from Skåne " Herman Lindholm, who managed it 1923 – 42.

James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe, a new video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler ( Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity ) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker, and a new video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor.

Secretary Talbott then sought out legendary Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille for help.

From the 1930s through 1960s, led by coach and then athletic director Edward P. Hurt, Morgan's athletic teams were legendary.

Gielgud had hoped to stay in America after his Broadway performance as Hamlet in 1936 to play Richard II in New York, but director Guthrie McClintic was so certain that the production would fail in the United States that Gielgud gave up the idea ( and was dismayed when Maurice Evans had a legendary success in the play on Broadway after Gielgud gave him his blessing to mount it when he decided not to ).

* Anoushirvan D. Fahkran, a 27-year-old Iranian porn actor who legally changed his name to Jonathan Taylor Spielberg and posed as the 14-year-old nephew of legendary Hollywood director Steven Spielberg to enroll in high school.

They had two sons, Peter Lewis ( of the legendary San Francisco rock band Moby Grape ), and Christopher Lewis, a film director.

In 1953, Lester moved to London and began work as a director in independent television, working for the legendary low cost television producers The Danziger Brothers on episodes of Mark Saber, a half-hour detective series.

* 1943 Helmut Krone, legendary art director

" The Israelis are legendary for their security, and this is an opportunity to see firsthand what they do, how they do it and, as importantly, the theory behind it ," said Steven Grossman, director of aviation at the Port of Oakland.

Also in late 1999, Crowe released his second book, Conversations with Billy Wilder, a question and answer session with the legendary director.

" The co-founders of the band were, August and his Savannah Band associate vibraphone player Andy Hernandez, also known as his " trusty sidekick " Coati Mundi, who serves as his on-stage comic foil, as well as his musical director and arranger and Darnell's former wife Adriana " Addy " Kaegi who was the leader, choreographer and costume designer of the Coconuts, co-writer Peter Shott on Piano who co-wrote their first hit " I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby ", drummer and band member David Span, bass player Carol Colman and legendary Jamaican drummer Winston Grennan The original Coconuts-backing vocalist / dancers Adriana Kaegi, Cheryl Poirier, Taryn Haegy ( who was replaced by Janique Svedberg ).

During his years as an assistant director, he worked under the helm of such legendary film directors as Keisuke Sasaki, Yuzo Kawashima, and Akira Kurosawa, whom he worked with in 1951 on the filming of The Idiot, based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

In addition to Adams, the magazine has a number of prominent alumni, including cartoonist Chris Onstad, creator of the webcomic Achewood, The Simpsons Executive Producer Josh Weinstein, National Medal of Science recipient Bradley Efron, novelist Trey Ellis, Bruce Handy, Editor of Vanity Fair and Spy Magazine, Goodwin Knight, Governor of the State of California, comedian Doodles Weaver, legendary Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, Disney writer / director / producer James Algar, and actor Frank Cady ( Sam Drucker on Green Acres ).

In 1996 Rimes also recorded " The Cattle Call ", a " singing cowboy " song written by cowboy yodeler Tex Owens, with legendary singer Eddy Arnold.

Vincent James McMahon was born on July 6, 1914 in Harlem, New York to his father Roderick James " Jess " McMahon, an Irish-American, was a successful boxing, wrestling and concert promoter who had worked with legendary Madison Square Garden promoter Tex Rickard, and his mother Rose, a New Yorker of Irish descent.

The bout, which was promoted and refereed by legendary fight promoter Tex Rickard, and became known as " The Fight of the Century " and was also known colloquially as " The Fight of the Giants ," soon became a symbolic battleground of the races.

The Alberts label releases have been a huge influence on the Beasts of Bourbon, so to be signed to this legendary label is not only a great honour and the start of an exciting new chapter in the bands history, it feels like ….. Destiny – Tex Perkins

Tex Perkins said at the time, " The Alberts label releases have been a huge influence on the Beasts of Bourbon, so to be signed to this legendary label is not only a great honour and the start of an exciting new chapter in the bands history, it feels like ... destiny ".

Notable athletes within the list include NFL players Wilson Whitley, Glenn Montgomery, Alfred Oglesby, Craig Veasey, Donnie Avery, David Klingler, Kevin Kolb, Sebastian Vollmer, and Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware ; baseball stars Doug Drabek, Michael Bourn, and Brad Lincoln ; golfers Fred Couples, Billy Ray Brown, Steve Elkington, and Fuzzy Zoeller ; track and field legends Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell ; NBA legends Hakeem " The Dream " Olajuwon, Clyde " The Glide " Drexler and " The Big E " Elvin Hayes as well as Bo Outlaw, Don Chaney, Michael Young, Damon Jones, Carl Herrera and Otis Birdsong ; and legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

The fossilized, formalized, precedent-based thinking of the legendary military brain was not evident in Sherman's armies.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.

The city's legendary founder was Cinyras, linked with the birth of Adonis, who called the city after his mother Amathous.

Ancus Marcius ( r. 640 BC – 616 BC ) was the legendary fourth of the Kings of Rome.

In his final years, he was a legendary and heroic figure to some of the young writers and artists in Paris.

It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the first Athenian king.

Friedrichstraße was Berlin's legendary street during the Roaring Twenties.

However, although this approach — the " shift ... from the quasi-historical or legendary materials ... to the folktale line of inquiry ," was seen as a step in the right direction, " The Bear's Son " tale was seen as too universal.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

It was in the Victorian era that Boudica's fame took on legendary proportions as Queen Victoria was seen to be Boudica's " namesake.

Belasco was legendary for the way he lit his stage scenes, as well as creating a lurid atmosphere.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

Story's confusion was apparently typical of 19th century American lawyers, as even the legendary Christopher Columbus Langdell also could not understand the old cases.

The Delphic Sibyl was a legendary prophetic figure who was said to have given prophecies at Delphi shortly after the Trojan War.

" He did make the football team, and was a varsity starter as running back and linebacker in 1912, tackling the legendary Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indians that year.

Danny Kaye was very fond of the legendary arranger Vic Schoen.

Another guest who never appeared on the show because of the controversy surrounding him was legendary African-American singer-actor Paul Robeson, who, at the time of the Draper incident, was undergoing his own troubles with the industry's hunt for Communist sympathizers.