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    Allan Harry Beckett MBE (b. 4 March 1914, East Ham, London Borough of Newham, United Kingdom, d. 19 June 2005, Farnborough, London) was an English civil...
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  • worked on Star Wars Alex Beckett (born 1954), Scottish footballer Allan Beckett (1914–2005), British civil engineer Andy Beckett (born 1969), British journalist...
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  • Sir Bruce's retirement Allan Beckett became senior partner. The family firm continues today as marine consulting engineers Beckett Rankine where Sir Bruce's...
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    by Allan Beckett. These anchors had such high holding power that few could be recovered at the end of the war. The Navy was dismissive of Beckett's claims...
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    Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/ ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and...
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    Ross Gardiner Union Square Theater (with Eli Wallach) WASPs In Bed Allan Beckett Theatre Don't Let Destiny Push You Around Jack John Montgomery Theater...
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  • Katherine Houghton Beckett is a fictional character of the ABC crime series Castle. She is portrayed by Stana Katic. Katherine Houghton Beckett, daughter of...
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    would be starring in a short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. Beckett wrote the theme song for John Scalzi's novel, Lock...
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    using wires attached to "Kite" anchors which were also designed by Allan Beckett. These anchors had a high holding power as was demonstrated in D+13...
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  • made of canvas and steel cables, while the "Whale" roadway designed by Allan Beckett consisted of flexible bridge spans mounted on pontoons. During the testing...
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    March 2024. Oral history interview with Major Allan Beckett An oral history interview with Allan Beckett from 1997, conducted by the Imperial War Museum...
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    Waiting for Godot (category Plays by Samuel Beckett)
    Waiting for Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in...
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  • American radio broadcaster. Frank Alexander, 94, Australian cricketer. Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer. Alfred Deakin Brookes, 85, Australian intelligence...
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  • on 6 October 1997. They were abducted by Leslie Camilleri and Lindsay Beckett, both from the New South Wales town of Yass. The men subjected the girls...
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  • Whyte, Church of Scotland minister and theologian (born 1920) 18 June – Allan Beckett, civil engineer (born 1914) 21 June – Geoffrey Jones, documentary maker...
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    Steven Allan Spielberg (/ˈspiːlbɜːrɡ/; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern...
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    David Lloyd George as being the driving force behind their production. Allan Beckett designed the 'Whale' floating roadway, crucial to the success of the...
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    Allan. Ionesco. New York: Twayne, 1972. McMahon, Joseph H. The Imagination of Jean Genet. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963. Mercier, Vivian. Beckett/Beckett....
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  • children's literature, Anne of Green Gables. It was created by Moira Walley-Beckett for the CBC and Netflix, and stars Amybeth McNulty as orphan Anne Shirley...
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    American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe has had significant influence in television and film. Many are adaptations of Poe's work, others...
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    Samuel Beckett was also an early absurdist; an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. Beckett's well-known...
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  • one that presents a "storytelling point of view" as a counterpoint to Beckett's evidence-based police work. On casting Fillion to fill the role, Marlowe...
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  • Where the Boys Are '84 (category Films produced by Allan Carr)
    in the beach funeral scene. Russell Todd's singing was dubbed by Peter Beckett, vocalist with Player and Little River Band. Touted as a more "realistic"...
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    classic silent comedies and eventually married him. The daughter of Howard Beckett Davis, she was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and educated at the...
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  • The Allnighter (album) (category Albums produced by Barry Beckett)
    4, 7-10) Producers – Allan Blazek and Glenn Frey (Tracks 1-10); Barry Beckett (Tracks 2, 3 & 8). Recorded and Mixed by Allan Blazek Second Engineers...
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  • river in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake); her staging of Lessness by Samuel Beckett (Barbican, Galway International Arts Festival and Project Arts Centre,...
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  • 3:00 Glenn Frey – lead and backing vocals, electric guitar, bass Barry Beckett – synthesizers, acoustic piano Duncan Cameron – harmony vocals, lead guitar...
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  • Stephen Merchant. At college, Chaudhry met Hugo Chegwin, Steve Stamp, and Allan Mustafa, with whom he created YouTube mockumentary videos about a fictional...
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  • 89–90. Karine Germoni, "From Joyce to Beckett: The Beckettian Dramatic Interior Monologue". Journal of Beckett Studies, Spring 2004, Vol. 13, issue 2...
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    for his collaborations with playwrights Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, sometimes called "Beckett's favourite actor," as well as creating the role of...
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