Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE FRSA (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2021, more than eighty full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967. Major successes include Absurd Person Singular (1975), The Norman Conquests trilogy (1973), Bedroom Farce (1975), Just Between Ourselves (1976), A Chorus of Disapproval (1984), Woman in Mind (1985), A Small Family Business (1987), Man of the Moment (1988), House & Garden (1999) and Private Fears in Public Places (2004). His plays have won numerous awards, including seven London Evening Standard Awards. They have been translated into over 35 languages and are performed on stage and television throughout the world. Ten of his plays have been staged on Broadway, attracting two Tony nominations, and one Tony award.
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935)[a] is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish.[ He released three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, earning a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Albumnomination for his 1964 comedy album entitled simply Woody Allen.[3] In 2004, Comedy Centralranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians,[4][5] while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian.[6] Woody Allen
my mother's father was a konigsberg. who was maybe alan's brother's uncle or some odd distant relation like that. don't know that i ever met the guy, but may have at one of those big, and by big i mean three chartered greyhound buses to get everybody together, this was in 1959 when i was 11. all speculative, but somebody with resources had to have paid for that.
Alan Rickman was losing interest in Harry Potter, but JK Rowling lured him back by revealing Snape’s secret During the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return To Hogwarts reunion, Daniel Radcliffe and Gary Oldman discussed how Alan Rickman had the 'inside line'.
Alan Parsons OBE is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Parsons was involved with the production of several notable albums, including the Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. The Genius of Alan Parsons As Told By Abbey Road's Cameron Colbeck
Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician. He was the original keyboardist for the British band the Animals before he left to form his own band ... Occupation(s): Musician, singer, songwriter, m... Born: 19 April 1942 (age 80); Fatfield, Washin... Years active: 1961–present Instrument(s): Keyboards, vocals
Did Alan Price get all the royalties for House of the Rising Sun? And I know it ate away at Hilton for a long time.” To this day, Alan Price receives all writer royalties on The House Of The Rising Sun. With numerous personnel changes, the Animals disbanded in 1968 though they hit the Billboard chart with The Night during their reunion tour in 1983. Why did the group The Animals break up? The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s, and suffered from poor business management, leading the original incarnation to split up in 1966. They had also been touring almost nonstop. The constant touring made things worse, as Alan Price had a fear of flying. So when he left The Animals, the reasons cited were personal and musical differences, plus Alan Price's fear of flying.
I had a mate called Alan. He was a loud mouth,not universally liked, but at least you knew where you stood with him.
He did an excellent job playing the ghastly, sneaky, surreptitious Mr Slope in The Barchester Chronicales. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086667/
Alan Donald Whicker CBE was a British journalist and television presenter and broadcaster. His career spanned almost 60 years, during which time he presented the documentary television programme Whicker's World for over 30 years. Wikipedia Born: 4 August 1921, Cairo, Egypt Died: 12 July 2013, Trinity, Jersey Awards: British Academy Television Richard Dimbleby Award, British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Personality Nationality: British
the name constantly reminds me of the first (Disney's original/80's) Tron. That and my pre-kindergarten classmate...