** Marc Benno, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey, Micki Free, Jon Gilutin, Hawk, Howard Hewett, Bunny Hull, Howie Rice, Sharon Robinson, Dan Sembello, Sue Sheridan, Richard C. Theisen II & Allee Willis ( composers ) for Beverly Hills Cop performed by various artists

# Harold Buckley Willis

Harold " Chuck " Willis ( January 31, 1928 – April 10, 1958 ) was an American blues, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll singer and songwriter.

* Beverly Hills Cop – Marc Benno ; Harold Faltermeyer ; Keith Forsey ; Micki Free ; John Gilutin Hawk ; Howard Hewett ; Bunny Hull ; Howie Rice ; Sharon Robinson ; Danny Sembello ; Sue Sheridan ; Richard Theisen ; Allee Willis

* Harold Willis Dodds – 15th president of Princeton University

The Brazilian 1st Division of the BEF fought with the 15th Army Group under Field Marshal Harold Alexander ( later succeeded by General Mark Clark ), via the U. S. Fifth Army of Lieutenant General Mark Clark ( later succeeded by Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott ) and the U. S. IV Corps of Major General Willis D. Crittenberger.

* Judge Harold Bedford in the 1987 film Blind Date, with Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger.

He has played and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson's New Jazztet, One for All ( Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth ), Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band ( featuring Slide Hampton, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove ), Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss, among many others.

At about the same time, Morris recruited Harold S. Slusher, Thomas G. Barnes, Willis L. Webb and later Clifford L. Burdlick.

Bogart's character, Eddie Willis, is based on the career of boxing writer and event promoter Harold Conrad.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

The film had its roots in an earlier concept for a new King Kong feature developed by Willis O ' Brien, animator of the original stop-motion Kong.

John Beck's dealings with Willis O ' Brien's project were done behind his back, and O ' Brien was never credited for his idea.

During pre-production, Ishirō Honda had toyed with the idea of using Willis O ' Brien's stop motion technique instead of the suitmation process used in the first two Godzilla films, but budgetary concerns prevented him from using the process, and the more cost efficient suitmation was used instead.

* 1886 – Willis O ' Brien, American animator ( d. 1962 )

Segment from the 1925 film The Lost World animated by Willis O ' Brien

In the turn of the century, there was another well known animator known as Willis O ' Brien ( known by others as O ' bie ).

** Willis O ' Brien, American stop motion animator ( d. 1962 )

Animation, creating the illusion of motion, was accomplished with drawings ( most notably by Winsor McCay in Gertie the Dinosaur ) and with three-dimensional models ( most notably by Willis O ' Brien in The Lost World and King Kong ).

In contrast to the stop motion technique most famously used Willis O ' Brien to create the 1933 King Kong, Tsuburaya used a man in a rubber suit to create his giant monster effects.

) In 1959, he was Peter O ' Toole's understudy in Lindsay Anderson's West End staging of Willis Hall's The Long and the Short and the Tall.

Producer David O. Selznick, then production head at RKO Studios, petitioned the Academy Board of Governors to recognize the work of animator Willis O ' Brien for his groundbreaking work on 1933's King Kong.

Willis O ' Brien was born in Oakland, California.

Segment from the 1925 film The Lost World animated by Willis O ' Brien

O ' Brien was married to Hazel Ruth Collette in 1925 and they had two sons together, William and Willis, Jr., but the marriage was an unhappy one, which O ' Brien was reportedly forced into and rebelled against with drinking, gambling, and extra-marital affairs.

While making one of his daily visits to the set, O ' Brien, who had remained close to his two sons after his separation from his estranged wife, invited Willis, Jnr.

A few weeks after this visit O ' Brien's ex-wife, Hazel Ruth Collette, shot and killed William and Willis, Jr. before turning the gun on herself.

*" Willis H. O ' Brien: special effects pioneer " ( Additional information and photos )

*" Willis H. O ' Brien: stop-motion pioneer " ( early stop-motion shorts and photos )

*" Monster Film Giants Willis H. O ' Brien " ( Full length bio and career profile )

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Stop-motion animation made a name for itself with the 1933 box-office hit King Kong, where animator Willis O ' Brien defined many of the major stop motion techniques used for the next 50 years.

Ellen Willis hypothesized in 1984 that this was, at least in part, because " most black and working-class women could not accept the abstraction of feminist issues from race and class issues "; the resulting narrow demographic base, in turn, limited the validity of generalizations based on radical feminists ' personal experiences of gender relations.

Fazlur Khan, another engineer at SOM, is considered " the greatest structural engineer of the second half of the 20th century "; he is best known for his design and construction of the Willis Tower ( formerly the Sears Tower ), and John Hancock Center and for his designs of structural systems that remain fundamental to all high-rise skyscrapers.

Willis has described himself as having come from a " long line of blue collar people "; his mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, and factory worker.

* Willis D. Crittenberger, " The final campaign across Italy "; year of edition 1952 ISBN 85-7011-219-X

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