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William H. Thompson (July 8, 1913 – July 15, 1971) was an American radio personality and voice actor, whose career stretched from the 1930s until his death. He was a featured comedian playing multiple roles on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio series, and was the voice of Droopy in most of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio theatrical cartoons from 1943 to 1958.
Mary Walker Wyse. . ( m. 1901) . Signature. William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as " Big Bill ", [1] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago. Historians rank him among the most unethical ...
Early life and education. Thompson was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He is the son of Elaine Thompson, a New York City public-school teacher, and William C. Thompson Sr., formerly a prominent Brooklyn Democratic Party leader, City Councilman, State Senator and judge on New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division.
Lord Kelvin. It is believed the "PNP" in his signature stands for "Professor of Natural Philosophy". Kelvin also wrote under the pseudonym "P. Q. R." William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) [7] was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. [8]
William Earnest Thompson (December 18, 1931 – July 23, 2014), better known as Wallace, co-hosted The Wallace and Ladmo Show, a daily children's variety show broadcast on KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona for 36 years. [1] The program featured short comedy skits and cartoons and was known for humor that appealed to adults as well as children.
Billy Thompson (gunman) Billy Thompson, sometimes known as Texas Billy Thompson (c. 1845 – September 6, 1897) was an Old West gunman and gambler, and the younger brother of the famous gunman and lawman Ben Thompson. The younger Thompson brother never achieved the fame that his brother achieved, and in his own lifetime was mainly referred to ...
William Thompson (1775 – 28 March 1833) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the cooperative, trade union and Chartist movements as well as Karl Marx . Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of wealthy landowners ...
Bill Thompson (television host) (1931–2014), creator and co-host of the children's television program The Wallace and Ladmo Show. Bill Thompson (voice actor) (1913–1971), voice of Droopy Dog. Bill Thompson (bishop) (1946–2020), Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Western Anglicans (U.S.) Bill Thompson III (1962–2019), editor of Bird ...