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Brooker (surname)
Brooker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alex Brooker (born 1984), English journalist and presenter *Bertram Brooker (1888–1955), Canadian writer *Bob Brooker (1926–1986), Australian rules footballer * Charlie Brooker (ice hockey) (1932–2020), Canadian ice hockey player * Charlie Brooker (born 1971), British television presenter, journalist and writer *Chris Brooker (born 1986), English rugby union player *Daphne Brooker (1927–2012), British model, costume designer, and fashion professor * Edward Brooker (1891–1948), Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania * Gary Brooker (1945–2022), British musician * Greg Brooker (screenwriter), American screenwriter * Greg Brooker (music producer) (born 1981), British music producer * Ian Brooker (1934–2016), Australian botanist *James Brooker (1902–1973), American athlete *John Brooker (1861–1947) founder of Brooker & Sons, Australian preserved fruit makers * Justin Brooker (born 1977), Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Brooker
Alexander James Brooker (born 15 May 1984) is an English journalist and presenter best known for his television work with Channel 4. Since 2012, Brooker has co-hosted ''The Last Leg'', a Channel 4 panel show with Adam Hills and Josh Widdicombe as well as co-presenting Channel 4 ski jumping show '' The Jump'' with Davina McCall in 2014. In 2016, he began presenting ''The Superhumans Show'' for Channel 4 daytime. In February 2018 Brooker signed with Leeds Rhinos' Foundation PDRL (Physical Disability Rugby League) team. Career Brooker went to the Norton Knatchbull School in Ashford, Kent, before graduating from Liverpool John Moores University in 2006 and worked as a sports reporter on the ''Liverpool Echo''. He now works for the Press Association. Brooker entered Channel 4's ''Half a Million Quid Talent Search'' in 2012, which aimed to find disabled talent for coverage of the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games and beyond. He first appeared as a trackside reporter on Channel 4's cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mervyn Brooker
Mervyn Edward William Brooker (24 March 1954 – 23 January 2019) was an English cricketer and school headmaster. Early life Mervyn Brooker was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. He attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Burnley Grammar School, before reading geography at Jesus College, Cambridge.BROOKER, Mervyn Edward William ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 Cricket Brooker was a right-handed who bowled right-arm . Brooker made his[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. Originally broadcast twice weekly, the series began airing six times a week in 2017. The programme was conceived by scriptwriter Tony Warren. Warren's initial proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes, and the show has since become a significant part of English culture. ''Coronation Street'' is made by ITV Granada at MediaCityUK and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. In 2010, upon its 50th anniversary, the series was recognised by Guinness World Records, as the world's longest-running television soap opera. Initially influenced by the conventions of kitchen sink realism, ''Coronation Street'' is noted for its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Brooker
Emma Brooker is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'', portrayed by Alexandra Mardell. She first appeared on-screen during the episode broadcast on 20 April 2018. Emma's storylines have included short-term relationships with David Platt ( Jack P. Shepherd), Chesney Brown (Sam Aston) and Seb Franklin (Harry Visinoni), surviving a roof collapse at the local factory, discovering that Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) is her biological father, a relationship with Curtis Delamere (Sam Retford) who suffers from factitious disorder and running over an elderly man in her car. Mardell announced her departure from the show in February 2022, departing on 8 April 2022. Storylines Emma applies for an apprentice position at Audrey's when Maria Connor (Samia Longchambon) struggles to handle her workload with owner Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) being in hospital and David Platt ( Jack P. Shepherd) taking some time off work due to personal reasons. Her applicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Brooker
Ralph Anthony Brooker (22 September 1925 – 20 November 2019), was a British computer scientist known for developing the Mark 1 Autocode. He was educated at Emanuel School and graduated in Mathematics from Imperial College in 1945 and returned there in 1947 as assistant lecturer. His first computer project was the construction of a fast multiplier unit from electro-mechanical relays. This was taken over by Sid Michaelson and K. D. Tocher and incorporated into ICCE, the Imperial College Computing Engine based on the same technology. By then (1949)Brooker had moved to the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory to work for Maurice Wilkes on software development for EDSAC. In October 1951 Brooker joined the Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University, where he took over from Alan Turing the task of writing programming manuals and running a user service on the Ferranti Mark 1 computer. It was his experience with the rather tedious Manchester machine-coding conv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Brooker
William Thomas Brooker (October 31, 1939 – September 21, 2019) was an American professional football player who was a placekicker and end. He played for the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL) from 1962 to 1966. Brooker played college football at the University of Alabama under legendary coach Bear Bryant. He was drafted by the Texans in the 17th round (131st overall) in the 1962 AFL Draft and by the Washington Redskins in the 16th round (211th overall) in the same year's NFL Draft. Doubling as an offensive end, Brooker had his best statistical season in his rookie year, 1962. He caught four passes, three for touchdowns, the only ones he would score during his career. He also made all 33 of his extra point attempts and kicked 12 of 22 field goals for a total of 87 points. Brooker was a member of the Texans team that won the 1962 AFL Championship game, the Texans defeating the Houston Oilers (who had won the first two AFL title games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Brooker
Todd Brooker (born November 24, 1959) is a former alpine ski racer member Crazy Canucks and a ski commentator on television. World Cup career Born in Waterloo, Ontario, Brooker learned to ski and race at Blue Mountain, near Collingwood and made the Canadian national team in 1977; he competed on the World Cup circuit from December 1981 to January 1987. A younger member of the Crazy Canucks (Canada's downhill team) of the early 1980s Brooker won two World Cup downhill races at (Kitzbühel & Aspen) in 1983 finishing ninth in the season's overall downhill standings. Two years later, he won the downhill race in Furano, Japan finishing seventh in the 1985 downhill standings. Brookers rise to world class prominence placed him 13th at the 1982 World Championships, ninth in the downhill in both the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1985 World Championships. The Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel, Austria, is arguably the most physically and mentally demanding race on the downhill skiing worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Henry Brooker
Thomas Henry Brooker (30 December 1850 – 11 July 1927) was a politician in colonial South Australia. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1890 to 1905, representing West Torrens (1890–1902) and Port Adelaide (1902–1905). He was Minister for Education and Minister for Industry in the Jenkins ministry from May 1901 to March 1902. History T. H. Brooker was born in Kensington, England, and arrived at Port Adelaide with his parents, William Brooker (c. 1826 – 24 January 1909), bricklayer, and his wife Jane, née Gemmell, on the ''Caroline'' in April 1855, and spent the greater part of his life in the West Torrens district. His father was severely injured in a building collapse at Port Adelaide, and had to abandon his trade in 1875 for a position as Hindmarsh poundkeeper.Parsons, Ronald ''Hindmarsh Town'' Corporation of the Town of Hindmarsh, South Australia For 15 years he worked for Thomas Hardy at Bankside (now Torrensville and Underdale, le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Brooker
''yes'Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen Notable people with the name include: steve jops * Steve Abbott (other), several people * Steve Adams (other), several people * Steve Alaimo (born 1939), American singer, record & TV producer, label owner * Steve Albini (born 1961), American musician, record producer, audio engineer, and music journalist * Steve Allen (1921–2000), American television personality, musician, composer, comedian and writer * Steve Armitage (born 1944), British-born Canadian sports reporter * Steve Armstrong (born 1965), American professional wrestler * Steve Antin (born 1958), American actor * Steve Augarde (born 1950),arab author, artist, and eater * Steve Augeri (born 1959), American singer * Steve August (born 1954), American football player * Stone Cold Steve Austin (born 1964), American professional wrestler * Steve Aylett (born 1967), English author of sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Brooker
Scott Brooker is a British puppeteer, puppet maker, puppet designer. Career Scott Brooker has many television, theatre and film credits as a puppet maker and puppeteer. One of his most well known work was for ''Spitting Image'', where he spent thirteen years as head puppet maker. After leaving ''Spitting Image'', Brooker worked with Jim Henson's Creature Shop as a designer and fabricator working on many of their productions, including ''Alice in Wonderland'' and ''Five Children and It''. At the Creature Shop Brooker also helped design the Monkey from PG and for Disney Channel's ''The Raoul Show''. Brooker has also designed many theatre productions, most notably David Wood's ''Guess How Much I Love You''. and ''A Christmas Carol''. As well as making puppets for commercials, films, television and theatre, Brooker also designed the lamb puppet to promote CLIC Sargent, a children cancer on charity. Brooker has also performed additional puppetry for the character of Rattus Rat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Brooker
Richard Brooker (20 November 1954 – 8 April 2013) was a British actor and stuntman, perhaps best known for his role in ''Friday the 13th Part III'' as Jason Voorhees. Career Brooker, a former trapeze artist, started his career in acting in a casting magazine, "Dramalogue". The casting call was for a big man to play a role in an upcoming movie directed by Steve Miner; however it wasn’t until after Richard’s tryout that he found out it was for the role of Jason Voorhees in '' Friday the 13th: Part III''. During filming of the series, Richard had to undergo hours of makeup work to play the role of Jason, as depicted in online photographs. According to the fan-made documentary, ''Friday the 13th Part III: The Memoriam Documentary'', Brooker was at this point in the series the fittest Jason to be played. Notably, he is the first actor to don the now iconic hockey mask as Jason, which would later become the series trademark. He did all his own stunts and wore blue jeans and a swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brooker
Paul Brooker (born 25 November 1976) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Fulham, Brighton & Hove Albion, Leicester City, Reading and Brentford. Career Fulham and Brighton & Hove Albion (1995–2003) Able to play on either wing, Brooker began his career as a schoolboy at Chelsea, before joining the youth system at West London rivals Fulham. He turned professional in 1995 and broke through into the first team during the 1996–97 season. He was a part of the team which secured promotion to the Second Division in May 1997. Brooker was out of favour over the course of the following three seasons and made just one league appearance during the Cottagers' 1998–99 promotion season. He spent time away on loan at Stevenage Borough and Brighton & Hove Albion and joined the latter club on a three-year contract for a £25,000 fee in May 2000, a move which reunited him with his former Fulham manager Micky Adams. After br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
