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4 unusual facts about The Devil's Company


The Devil's Company

This third memoir installment begins in November of 1722, eight months after the 1722 General Election that provided the historical setting for A Spectacle of Corruption.

One of the fictional characters, not happy about the activities of the British East India Company, refers to it as "the devil's company".

Liss has written that the character was "inspired" by the real life boxing champion, Daniel Mendoza, who also wrote a memoir.

This time, Weaver finds himself involved in puzzling and dangerous events surrounding the all-powerful East India Company.


1673 in England

3 July - Elkanah Settle's play The Empress of Morocco first publicly performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London by the Duke's Company and published with illustrations.

Barry Quin

After a small role in the British television series Just William in 1977, he had bit parts on UK sitcom Two's Company and US drama series Charlie's Angels.

Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company

Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company is a 2003 American made-for-television movie, made by NBC, documenting the success of the sitcom Three's Company, as well as the interpersonal conflicts that occurred among its staff and cast.

Bryanston Distributing Company

Among the company's more notable releases was the 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Devil's Rain.

Catherine Parks

Parks has made guest appearances on TV shows such as The Love Boat, Three's Company, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Street Hawk, Tales from the Darkside, Hunter, and Empty Nest.

Devil

The Devil is also a recurring feature in tales explaining the etymology of geographical names, lending his name to natural formations such as The Devil's Chimney.

Duke's Company

The company also acted many translations and adaptations of French and other foreign plays; their 1662 production of Sir Samuel Tuke's The Adventures of Five Hours, a version of Calderón's comedy Los Empeños de Seis Horas, ran for thirteen straight performances and was the first great hit of Restoration drama.

Dylan Everett

He then played roles in the movies The Devil's Mercy, Booky & the Secret Santa, Everything Is Connected, Breakfast with Scot, For All the Marbles, and made a guest appearance in The Dresden Files as Scott Sharpe.

Edward Sexby

A character based on Sexby was portrayed by John Simm in the 2008 television drama The Devil's Whore, with several significant changes to the facts of his biography.

Elizabeth Barry

Barry worked for the Duke's Company from 1675 to 1682, taking the role of Cordelia opposite Thomas Betterton's Lear in Nahum Tate's 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear.

Geoffrey, Count of Nantes

Geoffrey was portrayed by actor Paul Greenwood in the 1978 BBC TV series The Devil's Crown, which dramatised the reigns of his brother and nephews in England.

Holly Weber

Since then she began pursuing acting as a full-time profession and has had uncredited background roles in Ron Howard's Oscar nominated Frost/Nixon, Fast & Furious and The Devil's Tomb, directed by Jason Connery.

Hooperman

Guest stars in the series' 42-episode run included: Don Cheadle, Kim Delaney, Dennis Dugan, Norman Fell (who worked with Ritter on Three's Company), Miguel Ferrer, Jack Gilford, Mark Hamill, Joanna Kerns, Richard Kind, Dan Lauria, Jane Leeves, Lorna Luft, David Paymer, Barbara Rush, and Shannon Tweed.

I Walk Alone

This was the first of several films that Lancaster and Douglas made together over the decades, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), and Tough Guys (1986), establishing the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination.

Joel Brooks

He also appeared in two episodes of Three's Company as Dr. Prescott, a psychologist that Jack sees to build up his self-confidence, and in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Falow in the episode "Move Along Home".

Johnnie Mortimer

A version of Man about the House later transferred to America under the name Three's Company.

KTVF

While primarily a CBS station, KTVF also served as secondary affiliates for ABC from 1971 to 1985 (when it aired some of ABC's top-rated shows like Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, and Eight is Enough as well as Wide World of Sports, Super Bowl XIX and the Academy Awards) and NBC from 1985 to 1996.

Love in Slow Motion

In frontman Brandan Schieppati's words it is "a sort of Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets The Devil's Rejects".

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

The second segment of the film is a recut version of The Devil's Gift, a 1984 film made by the same director.

Metal Forces Festival

Despite that this event is managed by only one team of 3 people and without any greater financial sponsoring it has had and is having bands like Diamond Head Hirax, Wolf, Pagan Altar, Eluveitie, Pungent Stench, Primordial, The Devil's Blood, Bulldozer, Necrophagist, Blitzkrieg, Desaster, Ruffians and many international performer mainly from the Heavy Metal genre from all over Europe and USA.

Novocherkassk massacre

During a politburo scene in The Devil's Alternative by author Frederick Forsyth, the KGB chief, asked if he could suppress riots during famine, responds that the KGB could suppress ten, even twenty Novocherkassk's; but not fifty - intentionally using the example to highlight how serious the difficulties would be that the Soviet Union finds itself in the novel.

On the Friendly Road

It is one of four films made in 1935 (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and Hei Tiki) which lay claim to be the first 'New Zealand talkie", although dubious as the film was not released until 1936.

Phule's Company

The book follows the comedic events as Willard J. Phule, the rich son of a millionaire arms manufacturer, reforms a group of misfits in the Space Legion, a fictional organization similar to the French Foreign Legion, into an "elite fighting force".

R. Eric Lieb

Before joining Fox Atomic, Lieb held positions at Artisan Entertainment and Lionsgate, where he worked on such films as the Academy Award-winning Crash, as well as The Punisher, Saw, Saw II, The Devil's Rejects, and Hostel.

Shylock

Hyam Maccoby argues that the play is based on medieval morality plays in which the Virgin Mary (here represented by Portia) argues for the forgiveness of human souls, as against the implacable accusations of the Devil (Shylock).

Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet

He is best known for his 1663 play The Adventure of Five Hours, possibly co-authored by George Digby - the play (an adaptation of a Spanish work by Antonio Coello) was produced by the Duke's Company and later proved an influence on Richard Brinsley Sheridan's opera The Duenna.

Stuart Devlin

He was Prime Warden of the Goldsmith's Company 1996-97.

Suzan Farmer

Suzan Farmer also had lead roles in several Hammer horror films of the 1960s, including The Devil-Ship Pirates (1963), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966).

The Devil's Backbone

The response was overwhelmingly positive, though it did not receive the critical success that Pan's Labyrinth would in 2006.

Both Tielve and his co-star Iñigo Garcés had cameos as guerrilla soldiers in Pan's Labyrinth.

The Devil's Breath

The Devil's Breath is the first of three novels in the Danger Zone series by David Gilman, the second being Ice Claw, and the third Blood Sun.

The Devil's Bris

The tracks "Ex-Lover's Lover" and "When You're Evil" also appear on Voltaire's greatest hits album Deady Sings!.

The Devil's Cinema

Mark Twitchell: a young businessman and filmmaker who aspires to be the next George Lucas.

The Devil's Dictionary

The origins of The Devil's Dictionary can be traced to when Ambrose Bierce was a columnist in the San Francisco-based News Letter, a small weekly financial magazine which had been founded by Frederick Marriott in the late 1850s.

The Devil's Discus

A Thai translation of the book titled Kongchak Pisat (Thai: กงจักรปีศาจ) by Chalit Chaisithiwet (Thai: ร.อ.ชลิต ชัยสิทธิเวช) was produced for submission as evidence in a 1970 defamation lawsuit brought by Pridi Banomyong against MR Kukrit Pramoj and his newspaper Siam Rath.

The Devil's Nose

From its southern end near Neals Run on Johnsons Hollow, The Nose rises from the landscape curving along a bend in the Little Cacapon River.

The Devil's Path

The film has been nominated for several awards at the 37th Japan Academy Prize, including for Picture of the Year.

The Devil's Wall

The subtext of the plot is a Czech legend of a sheer rockface that overlooks the Vltava river, near the old monastery of Vyšši Brod, where the Devil was said to have halted the building of the monastery by damming the Vltava, which then rose and flooded the site.

The Maiden Queen

The play, commonly known by its more distinctive subtitle, was acted by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (which had escaped the Great Fire of London the year before).

Thomas Betterton

On the opening of the new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1661, Davenant, the patentee of the Duke's Company, engaged Betterton and all Rhodes's company to play in his Siege of Rhodes.

Thomaso

In October 1664, Killigrew's King's Company gave an unprecedented all-female-cast production of his Parson's Wedding.

Three Little Fishies

In a 1981 Episode of Three's Company, a wacky misunderstanding occurs when Jack and Janet overhear a psychiatrist played by Jeffrey Tambor repeatedly saying "boom, boom, dittum dottem..." while trying to remember the words to this song to help him get through to a patient.

Two's Company

Two's Company The Duets, a 2006 album of Cliff Richard in a set of 14 duets with major artists

Waterson:Carthy

Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man (2006), an album of seasonal songs on which they were joined by vocal trio The Devil's Interval (Jim Causley, Lauren McCormick & Emily Portman) was widely considered both a belated follow-up and an addendum to The Watersons' Frost & Fire (1965).

Wrights Hill Fortress

The New Zealand horror film The Devil's Rock was filmed in the tunnels and gun pits, standing in for a World War II German bunker.


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