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Alex McAvoy

His many television roles included parts in The Bill, Dad's Army and Z-Cars as well as more serious parts in Sunday night dramas on British television, while in the cinema he played the sadistic schoolteacher in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) and the Beadle in Venus Peter (1989).

Alfredo Mayo

He becomes the biggest star in comedies, dramas or historical films such as Malvaloca (1942), by Luis Marquina; Deliciosamente tontos (1943), by Juan de Orduña, or La leona de Castilla (1951).

Alive from Off Center

Notable episodes included "As Seen on TV," starring comic actor Bill Irwin as an auditioning dancer who becomes trapped in a television, wandering among daytime dramas, MTV, and PBS's own Sesame Street and the atmospheric puppet melodrama "Street of Crocodiles," adapted by the Brothers Quay from the Bruno Shultz story.

An Ode to Life

The drama achieved the highest viewership rate in Year 2004 (17%) despite being broadcast at the 7pm slot (which is generally perceived to have lower viewership figures), defeating other popular dramas in the same year such as Spice Siblings, Double Happiness and A Child's Hope 2.

Andrzej Mularczyk

1989 – Prix Italia in the category "Fiction" for radio dramas (screenplay) Z głębokości wód

Brenda Dickson

Apart from The Young and the Restless, Dickson also had roles in the dramas The Storefront Lawyers and The F.B.I., the comedies Love, American Style and Here We Go Again, and the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest.

Day of Compassion

Neil Tadken, creator, was so moved by the HIV/AIDS-awareness storyline involving the character Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillippe) on One Life To Live, that Tadken contacted the producers of all ten daytime dramas, suggesting that on June 21, their shows mention AIDS and HIV in some way.

Denny Méndez

Besides several theatrical productions, she has guest starred on many Italian sitcoms, dramas, and feature films; she also had a small role in the film Ocean's Twelve starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.

Erimem

As well as appearing in the Big Finish audio dramas, the character of Erimem featured in the Telos novella Blood and Hope by Iain McLaughlin.

Ernst Raupach

The historical dramas with which his name is chiefly associated are Die Hohenstaufen (1837–38), a cyclus of 15 dramatic pieces founded on Friedrich von Raumer's Geschichte der Hohenstaufen, and the trilogy Cromwell (1841–44).

Eva Birthistle

In 2002, Eva appeared in two dramas about the same challenging subject, Bloody Sunday: the documentary-style TV drama Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, and Sunday, written by Jimmy McGovern.

F.Cuz

Raehyun's pre-debut career includes several dramas (“Gloria,” “Over the Rainbow,” “Chosun Police (Season 3),” “Beautiful Life,” & “Rak Rak Rak”), an appearance in the movie See You After School, and a Samyang ramen CF.

Father Knows Best

The house can also be seen in both its familiar Father Knows Best style and later renovated variations in episodes of Hazel, Bewitched, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, and in numerous other television comedies and dramas.

Gendai-geki

Unlike the jidai-geki genre of period dramas, whose stories are set in the Edo period, gendaigeki stories are contemporary dramas set in the modern world.

Giovanni Luigi Fieschi

The Fiesco conspiracy has been the subject of many poems and dramas, of which the most famous Fiesco by Friedrich Schiller.

Giuseppina Morlacchi

The couple settled in a country estate in Lowell, Massachusetts with an additional home Leadville, Colorado, although she continued to perform, both with her husband in western dramas, and solo.

Hamid Arzulu

He translated and published into our language the works by German classic writer Heinrich Heine ("Die Harzreise"), Goethe's lyric poetry "West-Eastern Divan", Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's dramas "Nathan the Wise", "Emilia Galotti" and "Minna von Barnhelm", Friedrich Schiller's "Ballads", Bertolt Brecht's drama "Chalk cross" and Stefan Zweig's Novels.

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Twardowski's last two movies were 1944 war dramas; first he appeared as a doctor in The Hitler Gang and later as a German Red Cross representative in Resisting Enemy Interrogation.

Hawaii Tokai International College

Kenji Sakaguchi, a Japanese actor and son of pro wrestler Seiji Sakaguchi, starring in various T.V. dramas, attended Hawaii Tokai International College.

Ishq

Ashfaq Ahmed wrote many short stories and TV dramas about mysticism involving ishq.

James Weir Building

Although it is where some of the university's engineering departments are based, it is probably more recognisable from the Scottish crime dramas Taggart and Sea of Souls produced by STV and BBC Scotland, respectively.

János Arany

He translated three dramas of Shakespeare into Hungarian, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and King John, and they are considered to be some of the greatest translations into Hungarian in history; he also helped other Hungarian translators with his comments, and translated works by Aristophanes, Mikhail Lermontov, Aleksandr Pushkin, and Molière.

Joe Leahy

Upon leaving the service in 1945 he came to New York and signed with CBS as a staff conductor-arranger, doing script-show music, background music for radio dramas, and conducting the Skitch Henderson orchestra.

Lisa Edelstein

Bigger roles in TV dramas soon followed, among them the lesbian sister on ABC's Relativity (1996); a high-priced call girl turned Rob Lowe's date on The West Wing (1999); an assigned male at birth (AMAB) transgender woman on Ally McBeal (2000); and Ben Covington's (Scott Speedman) girlfriend on Felicity (2001).

Lorcan Cranitch

He appeared in several other British television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (with Billy Connolly), Shackleton (as Frank Wild) with Kenneth Branagh, Omagh, Hornblower (with Ioan Gruffudd), The Street, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Silent Witness and New Tricks.

Luciano Petech

His subject was the dramas and stories of the great Italian author Luigi Pirandello, who had recently died two years after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Matthew Penn

Penn has directed and/or produced over one hundred and fifty prime time TV dramas Some of his credits as a television director include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, New York Undercover, Brooklyn South, The Sopranos, House, Damages, The Closer, and Royal Pains.

Michael Redfern

He has appeared in numerous television dramas and comedies as policemen over the years, namely The Young Detectives, Crossroads, The Offence, And Mother Makes Five, George & Mildred, Robin's Nest, The Young Ones, Filthy, Rich and Catflap, Boon and Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery

Miniseries

The term serial is preferred for serialised dramas, which have been a staple of UK television schedules since the early 1950s when serials such as The Quatermass Experiment (1953) established the popularity of the form.

Moosie Drier

Other roles from this period were in 1978 biographical dramas; Drier played a young Mickey Rooney in the 1978 Judy Garland biography Rainbow, while in the Alan Freed bio American Hot Wax, Drier played Artie Moress, the head of a Buddy Holly fan-club, who gives a tearful on-the-air memorial just after the famous plane crash.

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.

Oskar Rosenfeld

1907 he founded, together with writer Hugo Zuckermann, Egon Brecher and others a Jewish theatre initiative, to play modern Yiddish dramas in German language.

Pakistan Media Awards

Pakistan Media Awards telecast recorded, mostly the ceremony held in late months of year, but as of current ceremony for the first time, ceremony was scheduled in last month of the year to honor the dramas and media achievements of 2012, but due to extension of public poll nominations date it is scheduled in early Jan of 2014.

Rosa Kato

In 2008, Kato appeared in several TV dramas such as Oh! My Girl! with Mokomichi Hayami and Change with Takuya Kimura.

Sam Strachan

Talha Burki, author of the article, quoted Martin Ledwick, Cancer Research UK's head of patient information, as approving of the plot, stating: "There is a value in dramas, they can make cancer more normal, less frightening. ... If people see a character they like get cancer, and that character fights the illness, then that's a good message to take home".

Schulmädchen

While the show's title translates to "school girls", and is a clear reference to Schulmädchen-Report, a series of soft core porn movies made in Germany in the 1970s, the show itself is a parody of imported American teen dramas such as the 1989 movie Heathers and television series Beverly Hills, 90210, which have long been popular in Germany.

Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra

It was one of the first dance dramas to be shot and relayed by Delhi Doordarshan.

Steven Wickham

He and has appeared in numerous Big Finish Audio dramas, in many guises, most notably Doggles (under the pseudonym of Sam Stevens) and Joseph in the Bernice Summerfield series and Chancellor Valyes in the Gallifrey series.

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.

Talk to the Press

Founder Natasha Courtenay-Smith has appeared as a media expert on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live and also appeared on BBC Breakfast to discuss the public fascination with the daily dramas of peoples' lives.

Tara Lynne O'Neill

She speaks fluent Irish and appeared in dramas in Irish-speaking drama "Teenage Cics"

Teatro Campesino

Teatro Campesino's early performances drew on varied traditions, such as commedia dell'arte, Spanish religious dramas adapted for teaching Mission Indians, Mexican folk humor, a century-old tradition of Mexican performances in California, and Aztec and Maya sacred ritual dramas.

Telenovel

Telenovela -- Latin-American serialised television dramas

Thomaso

Critics note, however, that Part 1 provides no dramatic denouement at its end, so that the work is, in effect, a single ten-Act work (a characteristic Thomaso shares with the author's other double dramas, Cicilia and Clorinda and Bellamira Her Dream).

Victoria, Oriental Mindoro

Appeared in ABS-CBN Primetime Dramas and Shows, ASAP, MMK, Sabel, Angelito: Batang Ama, Nasaan Ka Elisa?

Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao

During the plays of Rasaputra vijayam, Pratarudriyam, Sarangadhara dramas in 1918 at Victoria Public Hall, they were appreciated by doyen of Indian drama Bellary Raghava.

Völsunga saga

Among the more notable adaptations of this text are Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ernest Reyer's opera Sigurd, William Morris's epic poem The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Wajood

While writing and directing dramas in his college he meets Apoorva (Madhuri Dixit), a very rich girl, and falls madly in love with her.

Zina Zaflow

She has made numerous appearances in American television dramas such as ER, Grey's Anatomy, 24 and The West Wing.


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