Sir Harry Hinsley, a Bletchley veteran and the official historian of British Intelligence during the Second World War, said that Ultra shortened the war by two to four years and that the outcome of the war would have been uncertain without it.

* 1901 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( b. 1901 )

* 2009 – William Frederick " Bill " Stone, British World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )

* Harry Patch ( 1898 – 2009 ), British veteran of World War I

* March 3 – Claude Choules, British WWI veteran and last combat veteran from any nation ( died 2011 )

** William Young, British veteran of World War I ( d. 2007 )

* June 6 – Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran and world's oldest man ( d. 2009 )

* March 30 – Airey Neave, World War II veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of Commons car park.

British Combined Operations veteran LCDR Wooley, of the Royal Navy, was placed in charge of the OSS Maritime Unit in June 1943.

Many episodes featured people most British viewers had barely heard of at the time, such as Linda Ronstadt ; some featured veteran performers like Ethel Merman and Rita Moreno ; some featured well-known pop singers, including Elton John, Diana Ross, and Leo Sayer.

Diane Cilento was lured out of semi-retirement after Shaffer saw her on the stage to play the town's schoolmistress, and Ingrid Pitt ( another British horror film veteran ) was cast as the town librarian and registrar.

* Pvt Morris Shea ( 1795 – 1892 ) of the 73rd Foot was the last British veteran.

When Rosenberg laid a wreath bearing a swastika at the tomb of the unknown soldier, a British war veteran promptly threw it in the Thames.

The institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after Jeffery, Lord Amherst, a veteran from the Seven Years ' War and later commanding general of the British forces in North America.

Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity.

At Ahdut HaAvoda's 3rd Congress, held in 1924 at Ein Harod, Shlomo Kaplansky, a veteran leader from Poalei Zion, proposed that the party should support British Mandatory authorities plans for setting up an elected legislative council in Palestine.

Until the early 19th century, one observer, a British veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, Major John Mitchell thought that it seemed nothing much had changed from the application of force on a battlefield since the days of the Greeks.

Consequently, they had agreed that tens of thousands of veteran Polish troops under British command should lose their Kresy homes to the Soviet Union.

On 20 August 1827, the British naval commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean ( i. e .. commander of " Blue " Squadron ), Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington ( 1770 – 1851 ), veteran of 44 years at sea and a popular hero for his role in the Battle of Trafalgar, received his government's instructions regarding enforcement of the treaty.

* Leonard Webb, British veteran from the liberation of the camp.

Simon Weston OBE ( born 8 August 1961 ) is a Welsh veteran of the British Army who became well known throughout the United Kingdom for his recovery and charity work after suffering severe burn injuries during the Falklands War.

In 1925 he joined Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory Company, where many eminent British actors, from Edith Evans and Cedric Hardwicke to Derek Jacobi, learned their craft, and Richardson under the veteran taskmaster H. K. Ayliff " absorbed the influence of older contemporaries like Gerald du Maurier, Charles Hawtrey and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.

* Adam Swann of the God is an Englishman series is a veteran of the British Army in India who forms a transport business in the mid-19th century.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

Angry, impatient and short-tempered, Buzzcut is a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marine Corps and, with the possible exception of Principal McVicker, hates the duo more than any other character.

The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.

A friend of the Coen brothers, Vietnam War veteran Pete Exline, also inspired aspects of the character.

A character can be a young cadet or a tried-and-true veteran, each with strengths and weaknesses.

Rejected by NBC, the lead character and actor were recycled for a short-lived 1985-1986 series titled Code of Vengeance, revolving around Charles Taylor as Vietnam veteran David Dalton.

That idea eventually morphed into this parlor game, wherein movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and veteran Hollywood character actor Kevin Bacon.

The story can be traced back to The Ballad of Mulan and Disney's Mulan casts the title character in much the same way as the original legenda tomboy daughter of a respected veteran, somewhat troubled by not being the " sophisticated lady " her society expects her to be.

* Other veteran character actors who appear in the film include, William Demarest, Ruth Donnelly, Dick Elliott, Porter Hall, Charles Lane and Grant Mitchell.

The main character Gaston, a World War I veteran who suffers from amnesia, cannot remember the moral depravity of his youth ( he slept with his brother's wife and severely injured his best friend ).

He ended his baseball career as the beloved manager for the then expansion New York Mets, which won over the hearts of New York partly due to the unique character of their veteran leader.

A particular point of contention is the practice of bringing in veteran voice actors ( who are generally capable of greatly altering their voices and inflections in order to create personalities for characters ) to read for a part, and then use the recording of the professional voice actor as a guide for the movie star, even though the actual character creation work is being done by the unpaid voice actor.

Vincent Price headlines a cast of veteran character actor s along with a young Jack Nicholson.

The release includes new audio commentary featuring Brooks and Marks, James L. Brooks — A Singular Voice, a new documentary on Brooks ’ s career in television and film, featuring actresses Marilu Henner and Julie Kavner, among other collaborators, an alternative ending and deleted scenes, with commentary by Brook, new video interviews with veteran CBS news producer Susan Zirinsky, one of the models for actress Holly Hunter ’ s character and an associate producer on the film, and a featurette containing on-set footage and interviews with Brooks, Hunter, and actor Albert Brooks.

Gordon was a veteran from the classic radio days in which he perfected the role of the exasperated character, as in Fibber McGee and Molly and Our Miss Brooks.

While doing Husband, veteran character actors Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet had played Rudolph and Iris Atterbury, an older, more financially stable couple as Mr. Atterbury was George Cooper's ( Lucy's radio husband's ) boss.

The central character is usually an American, a military veteran, who becomes accidentally enmeshed in the action and meets Moto.

Kerr has played the character of Whitney Russell Harris since the shows debut in 1999 and is considered one of its veteran stars.

Wimpy did appear in Robert Altman's 1980 live-action musical film Popeye, played by veteran character actor Paul Dooley.

In the English language version the title character was narrated by veteran actor Peter Ustinov.

The film, set in the Adriatic Sea in the interwar period, begins with the titular character Porco Rosso, a veteran WWI fighter ace and freelance bounty hunter, responding to an alert over an attack on a ferry liner by airborne pirates.

* In the 1998 John Madden film Shakespeare in Love, Kempe is played by veteran character actor Patrick Barlow.

In January 1996, soap veteran Mary Stuart joined the cast as Meta Bauer ( though referred to many times over the years, the long-running character originally played by Ellen Demming had not been seen onscreen since 1974 ); the character would remain on the show until Stuart's death in 2002.

The character was designed by Disney veteran Charles Thorson, an old hand at designing cute characters for Disney's Silly Symphonies.