Kenneth Bernard Cook (5 May 1929 – 18 April 1987) was an Australian journalist, television documentary maker, and novelist best known for his work Wake...
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Wake in Fright (1961) is the debut novel by Australian author Kenneth Cook. John Grant is a young, bonded schoolteacher who has been assigned to work a...
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David Kenneth Cook (21 September 1940 – 16 September 2015) was a British author, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for the screen adaptation of...
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Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who descends...
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(1959) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook (1961) The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Brian Moore (1965) Dune by Frank Herbert...
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Wake in Fright is an Australian miniseries based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, which first aired on Network Ten in October 2017. Directed...
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The Cook Islands is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately...
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Huffington Post. Cook is married to Deb Callahan, and they reside in Northern California with their son. "Activist Facts - Kenneth A. Cook". Activist Facts...
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I'm Damned if I Know is a 1972 Australian television play by Kenneth Cook. A school teacher and practising Christian, Paul Armstong, is a conscientious...
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Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (redirect from Kenneth Eugene Cook, Jr.)
Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (year of appointment in parentheses): Kenneth Eugene Cook, Jr. (2018) Gage Fleegle (2023) Samuel Frederick Herd (1999) Geoffrey...
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of Kenneth Williams. London: John Murray. pp. 7–9. ISBN 978-1-84854-195-5. Stevens 2010, pp. 59, 77. Stevens 2010, pp. 83, 135. Cook, Peter; Cook, William...
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Robert Kenneth Cook (13 June 1924 – 1997) was an English professional footballer who played for Letchworth, Reading, Tottenham Hotspur and Watford. Cook began...
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George Clay as Edward Thoren The film was based on a musical play by Kenneth Cook which had been commissioned by the New South Wales Drama foundation and...
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A Fringe of Leaves. Others who wrote her story include André Brink, Kenneth Cook and Michael Ondaatje. Her life was dramatised in the BBC radio drama...
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John Kenneth Cook (born December 18, 1958, in Van Nuys, California) is an American former international motorcycle speedway rider. He was represented the...
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Grant. A film version of Wake in Fright, based on the 1961 novel by Kenneth Cook, was linked with the actor Dirk Bogarde and the director Joseph Losey...
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"Five Visions of Captain Cook" (1931) is a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor about James Cook. It was originally published in the author's collection...
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township in the 1971 psychological thriller Wake In Fright, based on the Kenneth Cook novel by the same name. "Horse Lake Station". nswrail.net. Retrieved...
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entrepreneur Ken Thomas, shark meshing contractor Nickolai Gorshenin, writer Kenneth Cook and a number of disaffected members of the Liberal Party, alienated by...
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decided to settle there permanently. The film was based on a 1972 novel by Kenneth Cook, The Wanted Dead. The Sydney Morning Herald reviewing the book, called...
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Elizabeth Taylor and Nancy Reagan Jacqueline Kent (Al, born 1947) – Kenneth Cook, Beatrice Davis, Julia Gillard and Hephzibah Menuhin Harriette A. Keyser...
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Short Story of the Year competition for 1984 and 1985. In 1985 she met Kenneth Cook, subject of her 2019 memoir, Beyond Words, and author of Wake in Fright...
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The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband is a dark comedy play by Debbie Isitt. Kenneth and Hillary have been married for twenty years but, in his middle age...
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Cambridge magazine writer David Nobbs. While still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, providing several sketches for Williams' hit West End...
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Scott Bessent (redirect from Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent)
Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent (/ˈbɛsənt/ BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American government official and former hedge fund manager serving since...
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The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777, although Spanish navigator Alvaro de Mendaña was the first...
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Nationally touring works include Wake in Fright in 2019, adapted from Kenneth Cook’s novel by Declan Greene with Zahra Newman, and Cloudstreet adapted by...
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Terrence Kenneth Cooks (born October 25, 1966) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League...
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Clifford Peter Clifton Edward Irham Cole Bob Connolly Robert Connolly Kenneth Cook John Cornell Peter Cornwell John Cosgrove Amiel Courtin-Wilson Tom Cowan...
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Tyrrell – guitar, lead vocals Jon Rudd – guitar Sean Reynolds – drums Kenneth Cook – bass, keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals John Cassidy – keyboards...
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