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Topic: Ted Willis


  
  Willis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Willis, a variant of the name William, is a surname, and may refer to many people.
Willis River is a tributary of the James River in Virginia
Willis the Bouncer is a Martian character in the novel Red Planet (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willis   (237 words)

  
 From Beirut horror, a bond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Willis, an Air Force staff sergeant stationed in Germany at the time, was chosen to lead the crew that would identify the remains of 241 Marines killed in what has been called the beginning of the U.S. war on terrorism.
Willis assembled his team, and they soon flew to Beirut to begin the daunting task of retrieving and identifying the bodies and parts of bodies that represented, at that time, the heaviest loss of life involving U.S. servicemen since the Vietnam War.
Willis has been hospitalized a number of times throughout the years for the disorder, originally thought to be heart problems.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2003/11_2003/111020033.htm   (901 words)

  
 Ted DiBiase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His stepfather, "Iron" Michael DiBiase, died of a heart attack in the ring when Ted was only 15.
Ted's birth name was Ted Willis, but this was changed after Helen's marriage to Iron Mike.) With his mother no longer able to take proper care of him, DiBiase went to live with his grandparents in Arizona.
On December 20, 2005 in Stamford, Conn., Ted DiBiase collapsed and lost consciousness.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ted_DiBiase   (2195 words)

  
 ANOTHER WORLD: SYNOPSES: 1979
Ted managed to calm Karen's hysterics and convince her they could safely spirit Ben away on the boat, then he stole the keys from her purse.
Ted insisted he was going to quench all her fires when Karen made him feel her forehead.
Willis had to break it to Angie that not only did he not have the money for Joey's bail, but that the IRS put a lien on all his assets for some dealings he did with Laverty, under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
www.igs.net /~awhp/aw1979d2.html   (23400 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Ted Turner
Ted Turner is an enigma; he is one of the world's richest, most successful businessmen, yet he is also one of the most controversial and outspoken.
The sheer magnitude of what he owns, accomplished or has created is staggering, especially considering he only did in one lifetime, and more specifically over the last 20 years.
Born Robert Edward Turner III in Cincinnati, Ohio, Turner was faced with his father's suicide at the tender age of 24.
www.askmen.com /men/feb00/14_ted_turner.html   (355 words)

  
 The Border Mail - Lake policeman lauded
Ted Willis was yesterday lauded for his charity and police work on the Border.
TED Willis will long be remembered as a man with a big heart who worked tirelessly to help the community.
Mr Willis along with close friend Ray MacKenzie helped form the inaugural Camp Quality in Albury for children and was well known for his visits to the event with his St Bernard dog, Wolf.
www.bordermail.com.au /news/bm/local/93566.html   (431 words)

  
 Surfing Experts: The Willis Brothers
Milton Willis recieved the Certificate of Lifesaving Merit, from the city and county of Honolulu for a daring and successful rescue in extreme hazardous ocean conditions when he came to the rescue of a young mother swept off the beach by large waves on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.
Surfing experts the Willis bros are recognized globally for surfing the worlds largest waves, building state of the art surfboards, consulting, motivational speaking, writing, educating, and thier marine safety expertise.
Milton Willis is recognized with a certificate of successful rescue under extreme hazardous surf conditions from the City and County of Honolulu for putting his life on the line (once again) in a dramatic mothers day rescue on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.
www.wbsurfing.com /willis/aboutBios.html   (2736 words)

  
 Television Heaven
A to Z of TV A gentle comedy/drama from the prolific (Lord) Ted Willis, Mrs Thursday became the surprise hit of 1966, even managing to knock Coronation Street off the top of the ratings, and making a late star of Katherine Harrison.
Determined to flesh out the character of Alice Thursday so she would seem believable to the viewing public, Ted Willis created an entire history for her on paper, so that everyone concerned with making the series would come to know the fictitious cleaner as if she were the woman next door.
Willis wrote: "Alice May Lee was born the daughter of a general labourer in Kensington and left school at 14 to work in a paper mill.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /mrsthursday.htm   (531 words)

  
 Uncommon Descent » ID Slammed in Aussie Media
Paul Willis: Ted Boyce is the Principal and he has no problem with Intelligent Design in his science classes.
Ted Boyce: We believe that our students need to know what different theories there are available for them to understand so that they can then make up their own minds what they believe and why they believe it.
Paul Willis: A favourite example of a complex structure in nature is the flagellum of bacteria.
www.uncommondescent.com /index.php/archives/412   (2335 words)

  
 DIXON OF DOCK GREEN | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
His creator, Ted Willis, resurrected him six years later as a replacement for the BBC series Fabian of the Yard.
Willis created a cosy, non-violent image around George Dixon, episodes began and ended with a monologue to camera beneath the police stations blue lamp, with a moralistic message that crime doesn't pay, before old George would disappear into the night whistling 'Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner'.
Series creator Lord Ted Willis is shown in the Guiness Book of Records as the Most Prolific TV Scriptwriter.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /dixon.htm   (577 words)

  
 Action TV Online - Dixon Of Dock Green episode guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ted himself, with his special Dixon Organisation, has also become something of an institution and was telling us the other day of the methods he adopts to ensure a constant flow of stories and ideas.
Although Dixon was killed twenty-one minutes into the film, Willis could recognize the potential of utilizing this character in a television format, and in early 1955 he approached the BBC with a treatment for a six-part series entitled Dixon Of Dock Green.
The introduction of female Constables and Sergeants was quaintly greeted with disdain from their male counterparts (in the she-may-be-a-copper-but-she's-still-a-woman vein), and they were dispatched to deal with the feminine side of cases whilst the men got on with the real business of dog handling, escorting lost children home and the like.
www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/dixondock01.htm   (2160 words)

  
 Memorable Television The TV Shows (1950's) Dixon of Dock Green   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Created by Ted Willis the character of Dixon had first been seen in the 1949 film The Blue Lamp.
Dixon met his death in that film at the hands of young Dirk Bogarde, however Willis revived the character for a play and then the BBC series.
Dixon was widowed with a daughter (played initially by Billie Whitelaw and later by Jeannette Hutchinson) and the series focused more on the everyday life in the police station and petty crime rather than the hard hitting stuff other cop shows concentrated on.
www.memorabletv.com /showsaz/dixonofdockgreen.htm   (284 words)

  
 Action TV Online - Dixon Of Dock Green episode guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
They are Ted Willis, creator and writer of the series, producer Douglas Moodie, Jack Warner, who plays the inimitable George Dixon, Arthur Rigby, and Peter Byrne.
Emerging as he did from the Ted Willis film The Blue Lamp, he transferred to the television screen with all the ease and self-assurance of the man who knows he has the sympathy and understanding of his fellows, but who will never exploit either himself or his personal qualities.
Nor in fact will it mean much of a rest for author Ted Willis, who is already at work on the stories for the autumn.
www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/dixondock02.htm   (4132 words)

  
 The Blue Lamp
Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp was an extended tribute to the Metropolitan Police, stretched in their fight against the post-war crime wave, the film is notable for its introduction of the character Police Constable Dixon (Jack Warner, with Gladys Henson as his long-serving wife).
Eliminated halfway through by a gunman's bullet, he was reincarnated and paraded in the BBC television series Dixon of Dock Green which ran on and on into the mid Seventies, and presumably would have gone on running had not Dixon, latterly a station sergeant, become anachronistically aged, since Jack Warner at the close was eighty-two.
The screenplay, based on a story by Ted Willis, was by Tibby Clarke who had himself served in the Metropolitan Police as a War Reserve Constable, and thus had some inkling of police routine and jargon.
www.britmovie.co.uk /studios/ealing/filmography/57.html   (512 words)

  
 ANOTHER WORLD: SYNOPSES: 1979
Willis was upset when Leueen told him of Gwen's leaving and her history of emotional instability.
Ted tried to "put some excitement" into Elena's life by grabbing the phone from her and making suggestive remarks to Dennis about what he and Elena were doing.
Ted reminded Iris he had disinvited her to his party when she was catty about the lavish art books he had bought to impress Rachel.
www.igs.net /~awhp/aw1979d.html   (23848 words)

  
 The Complete Rod Taylor Site: Last Bus to Banjo Creek
I had a script called "Banjo Creek," written by Ted Willis, that had been re-written by some hack at Universal Studios for a production to be made in Australia.
The story involved a pretty, fragile English girl who has to get to the outback and is taken there by "a sweaty oaf in a truck." Of course, the pair encounter many disasters, including breaking down in the desert.
Willis created 41 TV serials, wrote 37 stage plays, a dozen novels and scripts for 39 feature films.
www.fanfromfla.net /rodtaylor/lastbus.shtml   (733 words)

  
 Willis, Ted at DustyBookS - search for Ted Willis books, used books, out of print books, rare books, books online, book ...
Willis, Ted at DustyBookS - search for Ted Willis books, used books, out of print books, rare books, books online, book search, children's books, entertainment book, old books, childrens books, antique books
Dustybooks.co.uk - Search for Ted Willis books, used, out of print, rare Ted Willis books and books online, especially children's books, entertainment books, old books, childrens books, book search and antique books.
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www.dustybooks.co.uk /willis-ted.html   (215 words)

  
 Colvin, Sinkbeil earn SMS Baseball team awards
Senior shortstop Brooks Colvin has been named the A.E. “Ted” Willis SMS Most Valuable Player while freshman pitcher Brett Sinkbeil received both the Danny Cook SMS Rookie of the Year and the Dave Dickensheet SMS Outstanding Pitcher Awards.
Ted Willis was an SMS football letterman and the MVP award carries his name through a plaque donated by his widow in memory of his long-time interest and support of SMS athletics.
Danny Cook was a standout SMS third baseman from 1966 through 1969 and died of leukemia in 1989.
www.missouristatebears.com /webapps/print?id=1608   (343 words)

  
 No Trees in the Street (1959) | Movie Review
Ted Willis was a writer with a sympathetic eye for problems of the middle and lower classes.
Willis hammers home the point that people are more important than places.
The slim story line shows how the various larger-than-life characters face up to the challenge of the Street.
www.leninimports.com /sylvia_syms_no_trees_in_the_street.html   (205 words)

  
 WB Inside Surfing Media :: Surfing Essay's
Ross Clark Jones, Tony Ray, Milton Willis, Michael Willis, and Ted Schmidt made history by surfing some the of the world's largest waves ever paddled into to this date.
Once in the morning (when the swell had reached full impact) and again in the afternoon (when the swell had dropped to 50ft.+).
Cheyne Horan, Sam Hawk, and the Willis Bros. were the first ones out at Outer Log Cabins on the epic swell, Biggest Wednesday-Condition Black.
www.wbsurfing.com /willis/surfingcredo.html   (225 words)

  
 Ted Willis - playwright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
To search for published plays by Ted Willis click on one of the bookstore links above.
You will be shown all Plays in print by Ted Willis.
Ted Willis : Click on a Play title below for more information
www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsW/WillisTed.htm   (118 words)

  
 Ted Willis Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
Cited in "The Guiness Book of World Records" as the world's most prolific TV writer, Willis created 41 TV serials, wrote 37 stage plays, penned scripts for 39 feature films, churned out radio scripts and generated a dozen novels.
He was also one of the pioneers of British "kitchen sink" drama in the late 1950s, producing gritty, realistic stories set in a working-class milieu.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/189332   (101 words)

  
 bluelamp
Basil Deardon effectively directs this engaging popular crime thriller (supposedly the most popular ever in Britain) that is based on a story by Jan Read and Ted Willis; it's scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B. Clarke.
It portrays an idealized police force that seems too good to be true but, nevertheless, popularized what it's like to be a bobby.
The officer's death leads to a citywide manhunt, and the finale has the lone criminal cornered after an exciting chase ending up in a crowded dog track.
www.sover.net /~ozus/bluelamp.htm   (393 words)

  
 WILLIS TED (in MARION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ein Heim für Tiere : Roman / Ted Willis.
The left-handed sleeper : a novel / by Ted Willis.
Spring at the Winged Horse : the first season of Rosie Carr / Ted Willis.
www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?A=WILLIS+TED   (79 words)

  
 Stories, Listed by Author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
WILLIS, EDWARD HENRY; see under Willis, Ted (chron.)
WILLIS, GEORGE ANTHONY ARMSTRONG (1897-1976); see pseudonym Anthony Armstrong (chron.)
WILLIS, TED; [i.e., Edward Henry Willis] (1918-1992) (chron.)
users.ev1.net /~homeville/msf/s201.htm   (1385 words)

  
 Dixon - new and used books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
192pp With the 'help' of Ted Willis and Charles Hatton, Dixon relates his complete story.
Signed - 'To my friend and neighbour, from Ted Willis'.
Here, set down for the first time with the help of Ted Willis and Charles Hatton, is Dixon's complete story: his childhood, how he became a policeman, his marriage,his family and great moments in his career.
www.isbn.pl /A-DIXON   (1114 words)

  
 books about: willis (professional programming interfacing)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
I'd say this book brings you to an intermediate level after you are done.
Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. and Stefan K. : A Novel
An excellent novel about the powerful love between a Polish boy and a German soldier during WWII.
www.very-clever.com /books/willis   (1187 words)

  
 Chicon III - 1962 WorldCon - W62-015
w62-015.jpeg [39k]: Knotts' Berry Farm, Buena Park, CA: Clockwise from left: Bjo Trimble, Madeleine Willis, Ted Johnstone, Forry Ackerman, Dian Pelz, Ed Baker (Photo by Bruce Pelz)
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