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* Warwick Davis, actor
The romance theme was later given lyrics, and became the pop standard " Smile ", first recorded by Nat King Cole and later covered by artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Trini Lopez, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Petula Clark, Liberace, Judy Garland, Madeleine Peyroux, Plácido Domingo and Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson and Robert Downey, Jr. ( included on the soundtrack for the film Chaplin ).
The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.
He was originally going to play Wicket, but he fell ill and that role was handed over to Warwick Davis.
International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.
David Learner operated his body on television, having previously played and voiced the part for the stage version, and Warwick Davis wore the Marvin costume for the feature film.
Warwick Davis played Marvin in the 2005 film.
At Arista, Davis signed Patti Smith, The Outlaws, Eric Carmen, Exposé, Ace of Base, Air Supply, Dionne Warwick, Ray Parker and Raydio, Aretha Franklin, and Alicia Keys, and he brought to the label Carly Simon, The Grateful Dead, The Kinks and Lou Reed.
Warwick had been personally signed and guided by the label's founder Clive Davis, who stated to Dionne " You may be ready to give the business up, but the business is not ready to give you up.
Notable people who were born in Epsom include television personalities Jeremy Vine, Mel Giedroyc and Michaela Strachan ( born in Ewell ) as well as artist Simon Starling, actors Tom Felton, Warwick Davis, actress Alex Kingston, and the current Ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations, Thomas Mayr-Harting.
* Warwick Davis as Goblin Corps
The Blu-ray release featured one new special feature, a picture-in-picture track that lasts the length of the film and features interviews with the crew and several minor cast members including Warwick Davis.
Willow is a 1988 American fantasy film directed by Ron Howard, produced and with a story by George Lucas, and starring Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, and Billy Barty.
The child washes up on shore near a village inhabited by a race of dwarf-like people called Nelwyns ( derisively called " pecks " by humans ) and is found by the children of Willow Ufgood ( Warwick Davis ), a farmer and amateur conjurer.
* Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood: A reluctant Nelwyn dwarf and aspiring sorcerer who plays a critical role in protecting infant Elora Danan from the evil queen Bavmorda.
During the production of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi in 1982, Lucas approached Warwick Davis, who was portraying Wicket the Ewok, about playing Willow Ufgood.
The film won Best Costume Design at the Saturn Awards, where it was also nominated for Warwick Davis for Best Performance by a Younger Actor ( lost to Fred Savage for Vice Versa ) and Jean Marsh for Best Supporting Actress ( lost to Sylvia Sidney for Beetlejuice ).
The release included an audio commentary by Warwick Davis and two " making of " featurettes.
The film ( and its reputed commercial failure ) is widely referenced in the 2011 BBC Two TV comedy, Life's Too Short, which also stars Warwick Davis.
In the TV series Life's Too Short with Warwick Davis at the beginning of episode 3 a variety of dwarf tossing, dwarf bowling is shown using a greased up little person, a slip-and-slide mat and over sized bowling pins.
Warwick Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, to an insurance broker and his wife.
In April 2010 Davis published his autobiography, Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis, with a foreword by George Lucas.

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Thomas, their only son, was born between 1393 and 1416. he became a professional soldier and served under the Earl of Warwick, but all dates are vague, and it is unknown how he became distinguished.
* Richard of York ( 6 October 1476 – 1 January 1477 ); born at Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire ; died at Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, where he was buried.
Lady Anne was born at Warwick Castle, the younger daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and Anne de Beauchamp.
Lady Margaret was born at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, the only surviving daughter of the George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and the former Isabella Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, his wife, who inherited the Earldom of Warwick.
# Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick ( born c. 1619 – 16 April 1675 ), married firstly Anne Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, then Elizabeth Ingram
He was born on 25 February 1475, at Warwick, the family home of his mother, the Duchess of Clarence, formerly Lady Isabella Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick.
The author K M Warwick was born in 1957 in Islington, and recalls it as a place scarred by bomb damage and that half of Sonderberg Road was a bomb-site that quickly sent his family scurrying away to Essex to a new life, along with many other families.
* Dionne Warwick ( born 1940 ), singer.
Dionne Warwick ( born Marie Dionne Warwick ; December 12, 1940 ) is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.
Warwick was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to Mancel Warwick ( 1911 – 1977 ), who began his career as a Pullman porter and subsequently became a chef, a gospel record promoter for Chess Records and later a Certified Public Accountant ; and Lee Drinkard Warwick ( 1920 – 2005 ), manager of The Drinkard Singers ( see below ).
' Allo ' Allo actor Arthur Bostrom was born in Rugby and attended Lawrence Sheriff School, where he was a contemporary with Kevin Warwick the Cyborg scientist ..
Sir Philip Warwick ( December 24, 1609 – January 15, 1683 ), English writer and politician, born in Westminster, was the son of Thomas Warwick, or Warrick, a musician.
* January 15-Philip Warwick, politician and writer ( born 1609 )
Nathanael was born on Forge Farm at Potowomut in the township of Warwick, Rhode Island, on August 7, 1742 new style.
* John Warwick Montgomery ( born 1931 )-Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities, writer, lecturer, and public debater in the field of Christian apologetics

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As J. Peder Zane wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “ Whether it ’ s 3 P. M. or 3 A. M., there ’ s Dionne Warwick and her psychic friends selling advice on love, money and success.
In Act 3, Scene 1, some of Warwick ’ s attack on Winchester is absent: " You see what mischief – and what murder too –/ Hath been enacted through your enmity " ( ll. 27 – 28 ).
Then, after Winchester's death, Warwick comments " So bad a death argues a monstrous life ", to which Henry replies " Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all " ( 3. 3. 30-31 ).
The fifth episode, " The Fearful King ", presented the rest of 2 Henry VI ( beginning with Henry pardoning Cade's rebels ) as well as 3 Henry VI Act 1 and Act 2, Scene 1, concluding with Warwick rallying Edward, Richard and George after their father's death.
3 Henry VI was used as the source for Act 1, which dramatised Henry's lamentation about the burdens of Kingship ( 2. 5 ), the battle of Tewkesbury ( Act 5 – although Margaret's speech in Act 5, Scene 1 was replaced with Henry V's " once more unto the breach " speech from Henry V and is spoken by Warwick ) and Richard's murder of Henry in the tower ( 5. 6 ).
Adapted by Martin Jenkins as part of the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, 3 Henry VI comprised episodes 19 (" Warwick the Kingmaker ") and 20 (" The Tower ").
" Additionally, the report of the death of Warwick and Montague's brother Thomas Neville in Act 2, Scene 3 is different from the text ; ' son ' in line 15 is replaced with ' father ', ' brother ' in line 19 is replaced with ' son ', and ' gentleman ' in line 23 is replaced with ' Salisbury '.
Film Editors ..................................... Bill Lewthwaite, Peter Seabourne, Harry Booth, Inman Hunter and Thelma Connell ( series 1 ), Joan Warwick ( series 2-4 ), David Hawkins ( series 2 ), Lee Doig ( series 3 / 4 ), Peter Rolfe Johnson ( series 4 ), Richard Sidwell ( series 4 )
On his death, the earldom was inherited by his two-year old daughter, Anne ( 4 February 1443 / 4 – 3 January 1448 / 9 ), suo jure Countess of Warwick.
R. Warwick Bond ( 3 vols., 1902 ); Euphues, from early editions, by Edward Arber ( 1868 ); AW Ward, English Dramatic Literature, i. 151 ; JP Collier, History of Dramatic Poetry, iii.
The storm then worked its way southeast through the large city of Joliet, damaging homes in the Crystal Lawns, Lily Cache and Warwick subdivisions killing 5 more people, one in Lily Cache subdivision of Plainfield, and two each in Crystal Lawns and Warwick subdivisions ; an additional 3 people would later succumb from injuries sustained during the storm.
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#" Night and Day " – 3: 39 ( 30 MPM ) Dionne Warwick ( Foxtrot )
Other members of the original team included Peter Robinson ( news ) and Sasha Twining ( news and presentation ), Paul Gardner, Richard Tree and Sarah Harding ( all 3 in sales ), Jim Warwick ( engineer based at Hereward Radio ), and Amanda Wildman ( on reception ).
* John Butler ( died 1572 / 3 ), MP for Warwick
* Toleman, who were an up and coming team in Formula One, lost Warwick to Renault but signed Venezuelan Johnny Cecotto who was a former Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion in the 350 and 750 classes, as well as a rookie from Brazil by the name of Ayrton Senna, the reigning British Formula 3 Champion.
In 1987, Warwick moved to the Arrows team, ending the season with 3 points scored.
But the glory days of that team were over and Warwick ended the season with a meagre 3 points.
Following a 3 year sabbatical, Warwick returned to Formula One in 1993 to drive for Footwork, but managed to score only 4 points.
Located on the A41 Warwick Road, the site is approximately 3 miles from Birmingham city centre, or 4 miles from Solihull.

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