More recently, he has appeared in the 2001 adaption of The Lost World as Prof. Leo Summerlee, Agatha Christie's Poirot-Death on the Nile ( 2004 ) as Colonel Race and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ) playing Mr. Salt, Veruca Salt's father.

He was familiar to UK audiences for his appearances in many British television comedy shows, and is also remembered for his film appearances as Veruca Salt's father, Mr. Salt, in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 ) and as Planchet to Michael York's D ' Artagnan in The Return of the Musketeers ( 1989 ).

Compared to the rest of Veruca Salt's material, " Seether " was very pop, so much so that Gordon said that when she wrote it, she did not think the rest of the band would like it.

Since leaving Filter, Brian produced and played on Veruca Salt's Resolver record, and started planting the seeds of the band Ashtar Command with Chris Holmes.

He sleeps with Veruca and leaves shortly after to explore the werewolf part of himself.

Named after Veruca Salt, the spoiled rich girl from the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Veruca Salt was formed in Chicago by Louise Post ( guitar / vocals ) and Nina Gordon ( guitar / vocals ).

The band was inspired to work with Rock after hearing Metallica's " Enter Sandman " over the house PA system before a Veruca Salt concert at an outdoor music festival.

* Unlike the werewolf in the Angel season 5 episode " Unleashed ", Veruca remains in her wolf state after Oz kills her.

* Veruca Salt a common nickname for spoiled children, named after the spoiled rotten Veruca Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

* Veruca Salt ( band ), the Chicago-based alternative rock band named after the aforementioned character

* Veruca Salt, a pop band named after the character

The single was a success and Veruca Salt accompanied Hole on a tour, before releasing their first full-length album, American Thighs, which eventually reached Gold status.

In 1996, Veruca Salt appeared as Pavement's replacement band in their video " Painted Soldiers ".

* " Fly ", a song by Veruca Salt from their 1994 album American Thighs

The band released an EP in 1996 titled Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt to tide fans over until their next album.

After touring for American Thighs, Veruca Salt entered the studio with Bob Rock to record their second album.

They fronted a band called Little Red Rocket, often compared to Veruca Salt, in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama in the mid and late 1990s and released two albums with the band on Tim / Kerr records.

In 1997, Wacko Magneto was their first full-length album to be put into wide release, with an unquestionably grungy Hard rock sound with some similarities to Veruca Salt and Live Through This-era Hole.

Buffy takes Willow back to their dorm and then goes to take care of Veruca.

Because Sting was hosting the show that evening, he performed one of his solo songs instead of Veruca Salt performing a second song.

He has also sang the song Veruca Salt et Frank Black in trio with Keren Ann and Vincent Delerm on the latter's second album, Kensington Square.

When he meets a female werewolf, Veruca, a seductive UC Sunnydale student who sings in a band, they are immediately drawn to each other, and unbeknownst to him, they meet as wolves in the woods and have sex on the first night of the full moon.

* IV ( Veruca Salt album ), 2006

Eight Arms to Hold You is an album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt.

Resolver is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Veruca Salt.

* Resolver ( Veruca Salt album ), an album by the band Veruca Salt

To support the album, Veruca Salt toured, opening for acts such as Hole, Live and PJ Harvey.

They eventually released Resolver in 2000, the first Gordon-less Veruca Salt album.

Veruca Salt toured extensively for Eight Arms to Hold You, opening for Bush as well as a lengthy international headlining club tour.

A stop-gap EP recorded by Steve Albini, Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt, was released in 1996.

Oz realizes that Veruca was correct, and tells Willow that he is, indeed, " the wolf all the time " and needs to leave in order to try to better understand his own nature.

In 1997, Stacy Jones left the band to join Veruca Salt and was replaced by Tom Polce.

Triple Fast Action was one of many Chicago area acts signed to Capitol Records during the multi-year label frenzy that also snatched up the Smashing Pumpkins, Smoking Popes, Fig Dish, Loud Lucy, Veruca Salt, Red Red Meat, Certain Distant Suns, Liz Phair, The Lupins, Hum, Seam, Menthol, Urge Overkill, Stabbing Westward and Cupcakes among others.

As of 2005, he was playing drums for both Veruca Salt and Enemy.

Veruca Salt was formed alongside the friendship of Gordon and Louise Post.

Prior to the group's formation, Stacy Jones was well known for being a drummer in the successful alternative rock bands Veruca Salt and Letters to Cleo.

The next day, Buffy talks to Giles about a heavily armed guy she ran into while searching for Veruca who was dressed the same way as the guys they ran into on Halloween.

In the episode's DVD commentary, Seth Green said that during filming for the scene where Oz and Veruca have supposedly just woken up from mating as werewolves, he was naked except for a " boy-thong ".

He stated that this was incredibly uncomfortable since Paige Moss, the actress playing " Veruca ", had her boyfriend visiting the set.

Pete also composed music for the recent film score, The Still Life set to be released in 2007 with Dave " The Snake " Sabo, Skid Row ; Adrian Young, No Doubt ; Dizzy Reed, Guns N ' Roses ; Darius Rucker, Hootie and the Blowfish ; Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie and Delaney and Friends ; Eddie Hedges, Blessid Union of Souls ; Dean Dinning, Toad the Wet Sprocket ; Louise Post, Veruca Salt and Sonny Mone, Crazy Horse.

Veruca Salt released a self-funded demo tape and shopped it to labels while playing a handful of small club shows.