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Actor-manager

The first actor-managers, such as Robert Browne, appeared in the late 16th century, to be followed by another Robert Browne (no relation) and George Jolly in the 17th century.


1979–80 West Ham United F.C. season

Winning the Cup for the third time, West Ham manager John Lyall tactically outsmarted his Arsenal counterpart Terry Neill by paying a 4–5–1 system, stifling Arsenal's creative midfield that included future West Ham signing Liam Brady and the steely Brian Talbot.

Adam de la Peña

In 2003, de La Peña created and co-starred in a reality show, Comedy Central's I'm with Busey, in which he documented days in the life of his childhood idol, actor Gary Busey.

Adam Donshik

As an actor, Donshik's career has led him to work with directors Milton Katselas, Forest Whitaker, Charles Haid, Dwight Little, Gene Reynolds and actors Katie Holmes, Michael Keaton, Skeet Ulrich, Kiefer Sutherland, Howard Storm, Ron Livingston and Joseph Ruskin.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

The Hunt for Red October (1990), in which Alexandrov's national anthem is sung by Sean Connery's submarine crew, led by Danish actor Sven-Ole Thorsen.

Bill Justis

He played saxophone on the soundtrack for the 1964 Elvis Presley film, Kissin' Cousins and that same year took over as manager of the singing group, Ronny & the Daytonas.

Billy Minter

He remained on the books as a trainer and following Peter McWilliams' resignation as manager, Minter took over the position on 28 February 1927 and remained as manager for three years before being succeeded by Percy Smith after failing health, brought on by the stress of an unsuccessful reign, including relegation in his first season, caused him to resign the post.

Candy Samples

In 1979, she performed with John Holmes, Johnny Keyes, Serena, Uschi Digard, Kitten Natividad, and Kelly Stewart in the pornographic film John Holmes and the All-Star Sex Queens from Zane Entertainment Group.

Clifton James

George Clifton James (born May 29, 1921) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) and as the prison guard in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Constantinos Tsakiris

One of his first actions was to alter the name of Panionios to its original name Panionios GSS (which stands for "Πανιώνιος Γυμνάστικος Σύλλογος Σμύρνης" or Panionios Gymnastic Club of Smyrna) and hire Ewald Lienen as first team manager.

David Montgomery

David C. Montgomery (died 1917), American comedic actor, straight man half of the pair Montgomery & Stone, with Fred Stone

Dhaka Collegiate School

Raisul Islam Asad, Muktijoddha (freedom fighter) and national award winning actor

Easy to Assemble

The series has had several notable guest stars, including Jeff Goldblum, Keanu Reeves, Jane Lynch, Justine Bateman, Tim Meadows, Cheri Oteri, Tom Arnold, Ed Begley, Jr., Kevin Pollak, Fred Willard, Daryl Sabara, Ricki Lake, David Henrie, Patricia Heaton, and Eric Lange.

Echo Point

TV3 in New Zealand picked up the series for just a few weeks in 1996 but then later cancelled, the show featured former Shortland Street actor Martin Henderson.

Ed Bryant

This is supposedly why Monica Lewinsky chose Bryant to be the manager to interview her about the case.

Eru Potaka-Dewes

During the 1990s and early 2000s (decade) he also was working as an actor, appearing in Jane Campion's film The Piano and Rapa-Nui, produced by Kevin Costner.

Fred Basset

During mid 1976 a short-lived 5 minute television cartoon of Fred Basset was shown on the BBC, made by Bill Melendez Productions, voiced by actor Lionel Jeffries that was available on VHS.

Grundman

Irving Grundman, former general manager of the Montreal Canadiens

Guillermo Santa Cruz

In 2002, Santa Cruz acted (and, in many cases, was reunited) with fellow Chiquititas stars Camila Bordonaba, Felipe Colombo, Dario Lopilato, Lopilato's sister Luisana, and Georgina Mollo, and he acted alongside noted actors such as Catherine Fulop and Diego García in Rebelde Way, another major Argentine television hit.

Harsh Mayar

The film was shot in Rajasthan in 2009 and he worked with debut director- Nila Madhab Panda and with veteran actor Gulshan Grover and comic actor Pitobash Tripathy.

Isaac Jackman

Jackman prefixed a long dedication to Phillips Glover of Wispington, Lincolnshire, in the form of a letter on Royal and Royalty Theatres: it purported to prove the illegality of the opposition of the existing theatres to one just opened by John Palmer in Wellclose Square, Tower Hamlets.

Jay Acovone

Jay guest starred as a Casino owner with unconfirmed Mafia connections in a 2012 episode of The Mentalist entitled 'Pink Champagne on Ice', alongside fellow Stargate actor Christopher Judge.

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

Juhan Viiding

It is not known whether Viiding intended to develop a second poetic voice in addition to that of Jüri Üdi, or that he simply realized that the Soviet era of ideological symbols—as described in his "Jüri’s Yarn"—was coming to an end and the actor Jüri Üdi could drop the mask to reveal Juhan Viiding’s true literary face.

Kyle Mooney

Mooney, along with John Milhiser, Michael Patrick O'Brien, Noël Wells, Brooks Wheelan, and his comedy partner and friend, Beck Bennett, joined the thirty-ninth season of Saturday Night Live to fill the void left by the recent departures of Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Jason Sudeikis.

Legoland Windsor Resort

In September 2010, the park's high quantity of wasps during the season was featured on Watchdog, with general manager Sue Kemp appearing with host Anne Robinson and confirming new signage, actions and details on the website.

Lydia Leonard

On television she had an ongoing role in 1950s-set detective series Jericho starring Robert Lindsay, and appeared in True True Lie (2006) and The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), along with a cameo in Rome (2006, "The Stolen Eagle"), and as a nurse in the BBC's Casualty 1909.

Martok

Martok, son of Urthog is a recurring character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by actor J. G. Hertzler.

Mitchell Donald

Donald made no appearances in the Eredivisie in the 2008–09 season under manager Marco van Basten after being badly injured in pre-season at the Amsterdam Tournament in a challenge on Inter's Adriano, but he reestablished himself in the squad following the appointment of Martin Jol.

Natzweiler-Struthof

The collection was sanctioned by Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler, and under the direction of August Hirt with Rudolf Brandt and Wolfram Sievers, general manager of the Ahnenerbe, being responsible for procuring and preparing the corpses.

Northcott Theatre

Actors who spent time in the Northcott company in their earlier careers include Polly James, Lesley Joseph, John Nettles, Robert Lindsay, Brian Protheroe, Bob Peck, Geraldine James, Caroline John, Celia Imrie, Nick Brimble and Imelda Staunton; and Nicholas Hytner professionally directed his first straight dramas here.

Omagh

Sean McDermott - American Football manager and alumni of University of Liverpool Law School

Philip Battley

He is married to actress Elisa Boyd, is the nephew of television and film actor David Battley, the grandson of Labour MP John Battley,

Piper PA-24 Comanche

Country music singers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Lloyd Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were on board a Comanche owned and piloted by Cline's manager, Randy Hughes, when it crashed in deteriorating weather near Camden, Tennessee on March 5, 1963, killing all on board.

Quai des Orfèvres

Quai des Orfèvres was also a comeback film for director-actor Louis Jouvet with whom Clouzot had become good friends before World War II.

Quintus Roscius Gallus

When Thomas Nashe wanted to praise Edward Alleyn as the best actor of his generation, he called Alleyn a Roscius (Pierce Penniless, 1592); John Downes titled his history of Restoration drama Roscius Anglicanus (1708).

Raghib Ismail

It would have been difficult to offer Ismail enough money to join the CFL, but Bruce McNall, who with hockey player Wayne Gretzky and actor John Candy had recently purchased the Toronto Argonauts, tried.

Rick Hurst

Richard Douglas "Rick" Hurst (born January 1, 1946) an American actor who portrayed Deputy Cletus Hogg, Boss Hogg's cousin, in the 1980 to 1983 seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard and most recent The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion in 1997 and Hazzard in Hollywood in 2000.

Sergio Carlo

He later went on to act in various television series, such as Paraíso in 2002 and the film Cuban Blood with Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.

Stuart McQuarrie

McQuarrie trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow and soon became a highly popular actor amongst Edinburgh theatre goers before moving to London where he has played prominent roles in more controversial, new dramas by playwrights such as Sarah Kane and Anthony Neilson, amongst others.

Sveum

Dale Sveum (born 1963), American former baseball player and current manager of the Chicago Cubs

Tamás Artner

Tamás Artner (born 25 April 1970) is a Hungarian football manager and former player, who is currently the manager of Szombathelyi Haladás.

Tatiana Navka

Navka has also partnered with Russian celebrities to compete in Channel One Russia ice shows: Stars On Ice, which she won with actor Marat Basharov, and Ice Age, in which she was runner-up with actor Ville Haapasalo.

Tommy Dean

Dean was signed out of high school for a $60,000 bonus in 1964 by Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi, who was trying to transform the Dodgers into a team built around pitching, speed, and defense and considered Dean a top young prospect.

Translink Cup

Celtic Manager Tony Mowbray decided to use the game as a warm-up for European Champions League qualifiers and brought a near full-strength squad for the fixture, including Artur Boruc, Lee Naylor, Stephen McManus, Gary Caldwell, Massimo Donati, Marc Crosas, Georgios Samaras, Andreas Hinkel, Shaun Maloney and Scott McDonald.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

In September 2006 the Steve Mills Stem Cell Laboratory, which had been established by a charity created by Southampton F.C. footballer Steve Mills, moved from the Royal South Hampshire Hospital to a new location at Southampton General Hospital, and was officially opened on 27 September 2006 by Steve's widow Jo and former Southampton footballer and manager, Alan Ball.

WCPN

She interviewed people involved in stage, screen and television careers, such as actor Greg Morris of CBS-TV's Mission: Impossible series.

Whistleblower protection in the United States

Retaliation remedies are limited to withholding payroll from the manager and civil remedies that involve the Civil Service Reform Act.

William Nelson Page

Page often worked as a manager for absentee owners, such as the British geological expert, Dr. David T. Ansted, and the New York City mayor, Abram S. Hewitt of the Cooper-Hewitt organization and other New York and Boston financiers, or as the “front man” in projects involving a silent partner, such as Henry H. Rogers.

William Winckler

In the 1980s, Winckler appeared as an actor in TV series such as Remington Steele, Knight Rider, Murder She Wrote, Doogie Howser, Designing Women, The Fall Guy and Short Ribbs starring Billy Barty.

Zeus Technology

In 2004 Zeus Technology released Zeus Traffic Manager (originally 'Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager', ZXTM), based on Zeus' earlier Zeus Load Balancer product, a software load balancer for TCP and UDP based network protocols, and based on a previous Zeus Load Balancer product.


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Angela du Maurier

The eldest of three daughters of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont (maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont), she was born in St Pancras, London.

Colin Bean

His work in Dad's Army came as a result of working at Watford Rep in 1962 under series co-writer Jimmy Perry as the company's actor/manager, in addition to almost 20 years of playing a pantomime dame.

Hubert Henry Davies

He began his career in New York with The Weldons (1899) and on his return to Britain collaborated successfully with the actor-manager Charles Wyndham to produce four West End productions including Cousin Kate (Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1903) and Mrs. Gorringe's Necklace (Wyndham's Theatre, 1903).

Ilka Pálmay

She was married twice, first to actor-manager József Szigligeti (from 1877 to 1886), and then to Austrian Count Eugen Kinsky in the early 1890s, who maintained an estate at Althofen in Carinthia.

John Lawrence Toole

Encouraged by Dickens, he made his professional stage debut in 1852 at the Queen's Theatre in Dublin, under the management of Charles Dillon, and by 1853 became the principal "low comedian" at the Theatre Royale in Edinburgh.

John Savile, 1st Earl of Mexborough

Mexborough was a friend and patron of the playwright and actor-manager Samuel Foote; it was while on a visit to Mexborough in 1766 that Foote lost a leg in a riding accident.

New Theatre Royal

A popular music hall, it hosted performances by Niccolò Paganini and Franz Liszt and Mr Keane the leading actor manager of the early nineteenth century.

Visit of King George IV to Scotland

For the management of all events, Scott took the advice of his friend the young actor-manager William Henry Murray whose talents at theatrical scenery and costume were put to good use in creating the settings and the "revived ancient dresses" for the pageants he arranged.

W. H. Berry

After learning his craft in pierrot and concert entertainments, he was spotted by the actor-manager George Grossmith Jr., and appeared in a series of musical comedies in comic character roles.

Will Barker

He was reported to have paid Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (who was actor/manager of the before-said theatre), £1,000 for doing his interpretation of Cardinal Wolsey for the film.