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5 unusual facts about The Baron


John Creasey

The Baron character was made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.

From 1965 to 1966 a television version of Creasey's The Baron character was produced, starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.

The Baron

However after pressure from the US network (ABC) Marlowe was dropped in favour of the more glamorous Cordelia who had appeared in the first episode.

A few episodes were written by Tony O'Grady, a pseudonym of The Avengers writer-producer Brian Clemens.

The Incredible Robert Baldick

After that he had worked for ITV/ITC film series including The Avengers, The Saint, The Baron, The Champions and Department S.



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Akuji the Heartless

Upon traveling through the first level of the Underworld and consulting loa Baron Samedi Akuji discovers he has a chance for redemption: if he traverses hell and collects the souls of his ancestors, which the Baron despises for their evil, then he will grant Akuji safe passage out of the underworld.

Albert Raes

Raes was pursued meanwhile by the baron Benoît de Bonvoisin, accusing him of being a KGB agent and having accused the baron as an agitator of the extreme right.

Baron Butler

As the Baron predeceased his father, his son James inherited the barony in 1680 and then the dukedom in 1688.

Baron of Vila da Praia

The Baron of Vila da Praia was a title created by King John VI of Portugal under the decree of September 29, 1823 in favour of the tenant-general Francisco de Borja Garção Stockler (1759-1829) in which he was a governor and captain general of the Azores,

Baron Samedi

In sandbox video game Saints Row 2, one of the rival gangs who appears is named the Sons of Samedi, drawing their name from the Baron to fit their voodoo aesthetic.

In the RPG video game Dungeons of Dredmor, there is a recurring enemy known as Samedi and another named The Baron, both of whom are depicted as having Baron Samedi's likeness.

Baron Scales

The ancestors of the Baron Scales came into possession of the manors of Newsells, Hertfordshire and Rivenhall, Essex in 1255 by the marriage of Sir Robert de Scales to Alice de Rochester (or de Roffa/Rossa), whose family had held the manors since 1210.

Benjamin de Rothschild

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France, the only child of the Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, a banker, and Nadine Lhopitalier (1932–), an actress.

Billy Pettinger

Pettinger has been the primary songwriter in all of her original projects and has collaborated with such artists as Garth Hudson from The Band and Bob Dylan, Randy Cooke of Dave Stewart's Rock Fabulous Orchestra and Ringo Starr and Stan "the Baron" Behrens, who played with Willie Dixon, Ruth Brown and the Four Tops.

Birdoswald

Birdoswald first appears in the written record in 1211 when a certain Walter de Beivin was farming the property, then part of the Barony of Gilsland.

Caractacus Pott

The Baron's Child Catcher searches for Jeremy and Jemimah since the Baroness spotted them on Chitty when the Baron had his army follow them; although he fails to find them, the Child Catcher does not give up and decides to perform a trick.

Clan Stewart of Appin

To the West are islands including the island of Lismore, home to the MacLea and the Baron Buchull, keeper of the Buchull Mhòr (the crosier of St. Moluag), adherents of Appin.

Despina Storch

Realizing the danger that they were in, the Baron and Storch obtained French passports and made plans to flee to Cuba.

EBX Group

The attractions were made more personal through MMM’s historical and fictional characters, such as Dom Pedro II, the Baron de Eschwege and Xica da Silva, who introduce museum attractions to visitors in a playful and interactive manner.

Édouard-Jean Empain

The Baron's chauffered car, a Peugeot 604, was intercepted at a junction some 50 metres after it had left his home.

Faucigny

In 1253, Pierre II of Savoy acquired Faucigny by marrying Agnès, the daughter of the Baron de Faucigny.

Frano Getaldić-Gundulić

The Baron Gondola, was carried along with the International Committee composed for the English ladies Miss Adeline Pauline Irby (*1831 +1911 Sarajevo) and Miss Priscilla Johnston (+1912 England) under M. Wesselitsky, for Herzegovin refugees peoples, the Baron Gondola wrote to the Times magazine, asking for further help for the refugees, his letter appeared on 12 April 1875.

Giada Trebeschi

From very early stage she was a ravenous reader and her father encouraged this attitude feeding her hunger with many different genres so that at the age of twelve she already had read, among others, Hemingway’s The old man and the sea, nearly all Emilio Salgari and Jules Verne novels, Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and Italo Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount, The nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the Trees.

Gregory Rogers

Nevertheless, his most widely held work in WorldCat participating libraries is the first book he both wrote and illustrated, The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, and the Bard.

Grigory Langsdorff

With the aim of illustrating and documenting his findings, the Baron hired painters Hércules Florence, Johann Moritz Rugendas and Adrien Taunay.

Herbert Harrison Mercer

He was the son of John Noacks Mercer and Harriet Harrison Mercer, a descendant of the Baron of Whittington.

International Bodyguard Association

The IBA is run by the James Shortt, also known as James Shortt of Castleshort, or The Baron Castleshort, who was accused 2009 by a British tabloid newspaper as passing himself off as a much-decorated SAS and Parachute Regiment veteran.

Jacques Gamelin

Gamelin's father rejected Puymaurin's suggestion that Jacques be sent to an art academy, so the baron paid his way at the Académie royale de Toulouse himself.

Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière

The Company of Montreal was founded in Paris in 1639, notably by Dauversiere, with his friend the Baron de Fancamp and the Abbé Olier.

Juliette Dodu

Around 1875, she began a relationship with the baron Félix Hippolyte Larrey, medical chief of the army and son of the celebrated Larrey, and inherited his fortune (including his small château at Bièvres, Essonne).

Le Landeron

In 1373, the new mistress of the town, Varenne of Neuchâtel, granted it some additional rights and it became the capital of the Barony of Le Landeron.

Loonalaid

Their son, Peeter All, grew up to become a seaman and businessman and eventually was able to purchase the family farm from the Baron.

Mangalarga

The Mangalarga is a horse breed that was originally developed in Brazil by Francisco Gabriel Junqueira, the Baron of Alfenas, when he began breeding Royal Alter stallions from Portugal with local colonial mares on his lands in Baependi County at Minas Gerais State.

Mr. Sardonicus

In 1880 in the fictional central European country of Gorslava, prominent London physician Sir Robert Cargrave (Ronald Lewis) has come to the mysterious Baron Sardonicus (Guy Rolfe) at the urgent request of his one-time love, Maude (Audrey Dalton), now the Baron's wife.

Once Upon a Honeymoon

After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Germany, the Von Lubers travel to Warsaw, where the baron sells arms to Polish General Borelski (Albert Bassermann).

Pauline Bush

Pauline Joran (1870–1954), opera singer who married the Baron de Bush in 1899

Philip baron van Pallandt

In 1924, baron Philip van Pallandt deeded the Eerde castle to the Order of the Star in the East, an organization connected to the famous philosopher and spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti, of whom the baron was an avid follower.

Rudy de Mérode

Attached to a supply office at 18 rue Pétrarque in Paris as a cover, he spied for the Abwehr alongside another SD agent, the Dutchman Gédéon van Houten (called the baron d'Humières).

Shadowspire

Shadowspire's mysterious "Chief of Shadows" was the Baron (Baron Blitzkrieg), who was, in Mourn's opinion, one of the ten most dangerous men on the planet.

Städel

The collection of the Staedel, officially known as the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie of Frankfurt, was removed from the museum to avoid destruction from the Allied bombings, and the collection was stored in the Schloss Rossbach, a castle owned by the Baron Thüngen near Bad Brückenau in Bavaria.

Statute of Gloucester

The Statute of Gloucester, and the ensuing legal hearings, were a means by which Edward I tried to recover regal authority that had been alienated during the reign of his father, King Henry III (1216-1272) who had been made a virtual tool of the baronial party led by Simon de Montfort.

Stephen de Pencester

An effigy of Stephen de Pencester is on display in Penshurst village's St John the Baptist church, in the Sidney family chapel, and Stephen owned Penshurst Place estate before the Baron's Hall was built by the new owner of the estate Sir John De Pulteney in 1341.

Sünching

The last count left it to his grandson, the baron Hoenning O'Carroll, who still resides in the castle with his wife and daughter.

The Curse of Frankenstein

Peter Cushing played the Baron in each film except for The Horror of Frankenstein, which was a remake of the original (Curse of Frankenstein) done with a more satiric touch, and it featured a young cast headed by Ralph Bates and Veronica Carlson.

Truly Scrumptious

Truly and Caractacus dance and sing a duet (Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious) to distract the Baron's staff as children around the castle plant their own booby-traps and free Grandpa and the Potts children to help with the battle against the wicked Baron.

Untervaz

Neuburg Castle was first built during the late 13th Century, most likely for the Baron Tumb von Neuburg (Vorarlberg).

Vito Cascioferro

He was the capo elettore (ward heeler) of Domenico De Michele Ferrantelli, the mayor of Burgio and member of Parliament for the district of Bivona, as well as on good terms with the Baron Inglese.

Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford

In 1523, the Baron was created a Knight of the Garter by Henry VIII of England alongside diplomat Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire.