Saturday-Night Theatre – Dick Francis – YouTube "Obituary: Dick Francis". BBC News. Wikiquote has quotations related to Dick Francis. Francis, Dick (2001). "Audio...
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Felix Francis (born 1953) is a British crime writer. He is Dick Francis’ younger son. Felix studied physics and electronics at London University, and...
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Nat Gould (section Dick Francis influence)
was by far the most successful author of stories about racing before Dick Francis. (Other authors who wrote racing stories in this period included Leslie...
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Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (May 19, 1939 – January 28, 1986) was an American pilot, engineer, and astronaut. He was killed while commanding the Space...
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Newspapers.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020. Wondrich, David (2012-11-20). "Dick Francis' Special". Imbibe Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-21. Hahn, Fritz. "Original...
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Dick Francis is an artist best known for his Galaxy Science Fiction illustrations during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1951–53, Francis was illustrating for...
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Francis (17 June 1924 – 30 September 2000) was a British author who has been credited with an extensive role helping her husband, crime writer Dick Francis...
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character in four Dick Francis novels, Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Under Orders and two follow-up books by Felix Francis, Refusal and Hands...
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"Colonel Dick". The third of seven children of Jennifer and George Strawbridge, a worker in the oil industry in the Middle East and Far East, "Dick" Strawbridge...
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Editions. Frequently featured authors in the original series include Dick Francis (17 titles), Henry Denker (16 titles), Victoria Holt (15 titles) and...
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Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author (d. 2017) 1920 – Dick Francis, Welsh-Caymanian jockey and author (d. 2010) 1920 – Joseph Gelineau,...
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supervillains and superheroes from DC Comics Bolt (1986), a book by Dick Francis B.O.L.T, a Japanese girl group The Bolt (Fragonard), a painting by Jean-Honoré...
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Dick; Reiner, Jonathan; et al. (with Liz Cheney) (2013). Heart: An American Medical Odyssey. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4767-2539-0. Cheney, Dick;...
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Robin's Nest. Britton recorded many audiobook versions of novels by Dick Francis. In September 2013 Sir Jonathan Miller directed a Gala Performance of...
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Sweet, which marked the screen debut of the Marlowe character, played by Dick Powell (whose depiction of Marlowe was applauded by Chandler). Literary success...
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Moulin Rouge, Beat the Devil, and Moby Dick. Francis was given a chance to lead the second unit of Moby Dick and shortly after became a full director...
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the Lambourn Valley Railway in 1964. It is owned by Merrick Francis, the son of Dick Francis, and is the largest horse transport business in Europe. Sheepdrove...
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Secretary of the Interior Dennis Francis (born 1956), Trinidad and Tobago diplomat David Francis (disambiguation) Dick Francis (1920–2010), British jockey-turned-novelist...
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Writers’ Association. Retrieved July 10, 2023. Berger, Roger A., "'The Black Dick': Race, Sexuality, and Discourse in the L.A. Novels of Walter Mosley", in...
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June 1967. Retrieved 9 September 2008. In the 1965 novel For Kicks by Dick Francis, one character advises another that, to go undercover as a disreputable...
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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist. He...
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(2011) as lead actor Ricochet (1993) as producer and lead actor Proof by Dick Francis (1987) as Tony Beach Reluctant Persuaders (2015) as Rupert Hardacre The...
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Grand National. Owned by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and ridden by Dick Francis, Devon Loch had won two races already that season and finished third...
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titles), Michael Connelly (13 titles), Mary Higgins Clark (12 titles) and Dick Francis (10 titles). "Reader's Digest Select Editions". Reader's Digest. Retrieved...
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previous releases, just as Francis had predicted, but on January 1, 1958, it debuted on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Francis watched the show and wrote...
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Dead Cert (novel) (category Novels by Dick Francis)
Dead Cert is Dick Francis's first novel, published in 1962 by Michael Joseph Ltd in the UK and in the US by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. The title is a...
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comparing Chesterton to "first-rate action-writer[s] like Ian Fleming or Dick Francis" for suspense, but also "persuading you that something wonderful is afoot...
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Look up Tom, Dick and Harry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry" is a placeholder for unspecified people. The phrase most...
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Hendrikus Wilhelmus Maria "Dick" Schoof (Dutch: [ɦɛnˈdrikʏs ʋɪlˈɦɛlmʏs maˈrijaː dɪk sxoːf] ; born 8 March 1957) is a Dutch civil servant and politician...
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in 1979, when she played Madge in several episodes of the series The Dick Francis Thriller: The Racing Game. Throughout the '80s she mainly did comedy...
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