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Roger Price (British Politician)
Roger Price is the name of: * Roger Price (humorist) (1918–1990), American humorist and publisher * Roger Price (television producer) (born 1941), English television producer * Roger Price (Australian politician) (born 1945), Australian former politician * Roger Price (British politician), member of the Parliament of England for Buckingham Buckingham ( ) is a market town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which had a population of 12,890 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census. The town lies approximately west of ... in the early 18th century * Roger Price, American minister and rector of King's Chapel (1729-1746) {{hndis, Price, Roger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Price (humorist)
Roger Price (March 6, 1918 – October 31, 1990) was an American humorist, author and publisher, who created ''Droodles'' in the 1950s, followed by his collaborations with Leonard B. Stern on the ''Mad Libs'' series. Price and Stern became partners with Larry Sloan in the publishing firm Price Stern Sloan. Biography Price was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and grew up in the mining town of Widen, West Virginia. He graduated from Greenbrier Military School in 1934, then attended the University of Michigan (1934–1936) and the American Academy of Art in Chicago (1936–1938). During the 1940s, he wrote for ''The Bob Hope Show'' and worked with Hope on a newspaper humor column. On Broadway he performed in Arthur Klein's musical revue '' Tickets, Please!'' (1950), and he contributed sketch material to Leonard Sillman's ''New Faces of 1952''. Price hosted the television panel show ''How To'' (1951), and he was a panelist on other game shows of the early 1950s: ''Who's There?' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Price (television Producer)
Roger Damon Price (born 1941) is a British former television producer, director and writer active in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. He has created children's television series in all three countries. He created the children's science fiction series ''The Tomorrow People'', '' Junior Points of View'', the British children's sketch variety shows ''You Must Be Joking!'' (1974-1976), ''Pauline's Quirkes'' (1976) (both of which had Flintlock as their house band) and ''You Can't Be Serious'' (1978) for Thames Television, the American sketch comedy '' Don't Look Now'', co-created the pilot episode ''UFO Kidnapped'', the teen sketch comedy '' Turkey Television'' and the Canadian sketch comedy ''You Can't Do That on Television'', which became hugely successful on Nickelodeon in the United States. He collaborated with other producers including Geoffrey Darby and Geraldine Laybourne, the latter of whom would go on to become president of Nickelodeon. He is now retired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Price (Australian Politician)
Leo Roger Spurway Price (born 26 November 1945) is an Australian former politician. He was elected as a member of the Australian House of Representatives at the 1984 election, representing the Division of Chifley in Western Sydney, for the Australian Labor Party until his retirement before the 2010 election.''Price gets not to run again'', Mt Druitt – St Marys Standard, 16 May 2007 Born in Sydney, Price was educated at the New South Wales Institute of Technology. He was an account manager with Telecom Australia before entering politics. He was an alderman on Blacktown City Council from 1981 until 1987 and served as deputy mayor in 1984–1985. At the time of his retirement, Price was the longest-serving Labor member in the parliament (House or Senate). Price served as Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 4 June 1991 until 27 December 1991, when Paul Keating became prime minister. He then served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Price (British Politician)
Roger Price is the name of: * Roger Price (humorist) (1918–1990), American humorist and publisher * Roger Price (television producer) (born 1941), English television producer * Roger Price (Australian politician) (born 1945), Australian former politician * Roger Price (British politician), member of the Parliament of England for Buckingham Buckingham ( ) is a market town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which had a population of 12,890 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census. The town lies approximately west of ... in the early 18th century * Roger Price, American minister and rector of King's Chapel (1729-1746) {{hndis, Price, Roger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckingham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Buckingham () was a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency that was last represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Greg Smith (British politician), Greg Smith, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative. The seat was abolished for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election and largely replaced by the new constituencies Buckingham and Bletchley (UK Parliament constituency), Buckingham and Bletchley and Mid Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), Mid Buckinghamshire, with some areas transferred to Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency), Aylesbury. History After its creation in 1542, the Parliamentary Borough of Buckingham sent two MPs to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801, reduced to one MP from 1868 by the Representation of the People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
