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In comedies, Blessed portrayed Prince Vultan in the film Flash Gordon (1980); [17] the mad, comical figure of Richard IV in the first series of The Black Adder (1983), a role Blessed has claimed to be one of his most cherished [citation needed]; and Spiro Halikiopoulos in the TV mini-series My Family and Other Animals (1987), a BBC adaptation ...
During the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the Greek organization controlled a number of illegal gambling operations in and around the New York City area. After the organization's leader, Spyredon "Spiro the Greek" Velentzas was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1992, the organization gradually declined in power.
Originally from Seattle, Spiro relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career within the music industry in his early 20s. While in Los Angeles, he met German record producer/label owner Jack White, after which he spent several years in Germany working as a singer, songwriter, and producer (Laura Branigan, Anne Murray, Engelbert Humperdinck, Pia Zadora, Hazell Dean, David Hasselhoff).
Spiro(s) may refer to: Spiro, Oklahoma, a town in the U.S. Spiro Mounds, an archaeological site; Spiro (band), a British music group; Spiro (name), including a list of people with the name; Špiro, South Slavic masculine given name; ARA Spiro, two ships of the Argentine Navy; SS Spiro, an oil tanker; Euler spiral, or spiro, a curve
Ian Stuart Spiro (14 December 1946 – 8 November 1992) was a commodities broker who in 1992 murdered his wife and children, then killed himself. [1] Police stated that he was a "low-level conduit by United States government intelligence agencies and the United Kingdom's MI-6" from 1981 to 1986, and the case stirred a conspiracy theory that the family was murdered by assassins or terrorists ...
Spiro Agnew: Luci Baines Johnson July 2, 1947 (age 77) Lyndon B. Johnson: Susan Agnew October 23, 1947 (age 77) Spiro Agnew: Douglas Sannes Humphrey February 1948 (age 76) Hubert Humphrey: Julie Nixon Eisenhower July 5, 1948 (age 76) Richard Nixon: Michael Gerald Ford March 14, 1950 (age 74) Gerald Ford
Moreover, the Museum honours Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (1795–1872), the Society's first artistic director (1841–1872), composer –among others– of the Greek national anthem, well-known music teacher and contrapuntist, as well as inspirer of a whole generation of composers that shaped the music of Ionian Islands, and not only ...
Herbert John Spiro (September 7, 1924 – April 6, 2010) was an American political scientist and diplomat. [1] Born in Hamburg , Germany, where he attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium , he and his family emigrated to the United States in 1938, fleeing Nazi persecution.