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"Trog" Definitions
  1. the name used by the British cartoonist Wally Fawkes. He has drawn political cartoons for several newspapers, including the Observer, but is perhaps best known for creating the humorous cartoon series Flook, which appeared for many years in the Daily Mail newspaper. He stopped drawing cartoons in 2005.

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And so Crawford, now a strawberry blonde, flies to London to star in Trog, short for Troglodyte.
In this issue he continues his quest to figure out what happened, and meets a giant mutant monster named Trog Lody in a coliseum.
Not only will she be sharing a makeup table with Trog, but she's assigned a decrepit, curtainless van to change in while they're on location.
I looked at what happened to them at the end of their careers as a tragedy—it's a tragedy that Joan Crawford would have to do Trog.
In addition to Efron (as Gary) and Kendrick (as Jane), the star-studded cast includes Lamorne Morris (as Trog), Jillian Bell (as Minerva) and Paul Scheer (as Ugg).
Joan Crawford appeared in nearly 100 films in her career, but of all those, only one was "Trog," a terrible monster movie about a caveman rampaging around the British countryside.
In PEOPLE's exclusive sneak peek, Morris' Trog discovers alcohol when he accidentally dunks his head into a bucket of "rotten grape juice" after taking a bite out of a spit-roasted animal.
"The film functions among other things as a demonstration of the need both women had to appear before the camera," he writes (happy to discount both their fascinating characters and the fact that they badly needed the money because no one was writing substantial roles for women over 50), then twists the knife by hooting about Crawford's awful final film, Trog.
Still disturbed by Brockton's experiments, and enraged at a municipal court's decision to protect Trog, Murdock releases Trog in the middle of the night, hoping the caveman will be confronted and killed by either local residents or well-armed authorities. His plan ultimately succeeds. After being released, Trog wanders into town and kills the first three people he meets (a grocer, a butcher, and a citizen in a car), but not before he beats Murdock to death. Trog then snatches a little girl from a playground and takes her to his cave.
Trog is a 1970 British science fiction horror film directed by Freddie Francis, and starring Joan Crawford in a story about the discovery of a troglodyte (or Ice Age "caveman") in twentieth-century England. The screenplay was written by Peter Bryan, John Gilling, and Aben Kandel. Trog marks Crawford's last motion picture appearance.
Trog, as the King called him, was a wooden wren on a stick, and Trog had his own song. King Friday's other pet was a mockingbird (a wooden mockingbird on a stick) named Mimus Polyglottos (see Neighborhood of Make-Believe). Brazilian footballer Garrincha earned his nickname from one of the names the house wren has in Rio de Janeiro.
Johann Jakob Trog (21 April 1807 – 7 January 1867) was a Swiss politician and President of the Swiss National Council (1851/1852).
A bantam was created in Alsace by Herscher, Hirschner and Trog; it was on the "endangered" list of the FAO in 2007.
Arcade version screenshot. Trog is a maze game reminiscent of Pac-Man where players assume the role of Theropod-like dinosaurs (with Styracosaurus-like heads) Rex, Bloop, Spike and/or Gwen, through 49 islands set in the land of "Og", home to the one-eyed cavemen known as the "Trog".Trog Game Pak Instructions (Nintendo Entertainment System, US) Players must pick up all colored eggs lying around the map as the titular cavemen wander around, attempting to eat them. Unlike Pac-Man, the dinosaurs can attack at any time with a punch that does not require a power-up.
Dr. Brockton, the police, and army personnel soon gather at the cave's entrance. After pleading fruitlessly with the authorities to let her reason with Trog and safely retrieve the girl, Brockton suddenly acts on her own and charges down into the cave, where she finds the girl cowering in a corner. Trog initially behaves aggressively at the sight of the doctor in his refuge, but after a stern reprimand and a plea by Brockton, Trog surrenders the girl to her. Shortly after the doctor and girl exit the cave, all of Brockton's work on behalf of science is shattered when soldiers ignite explosives before assaulting the cave.
Trog is quickly wounded in a barrage of gunfire, falls, and is impaled on a stalagmite. The film then ends with an on-site news reporter asking the doctor to comment on the death of the missing link, but Brockton is either unwilling or unable at that moment to express her profound disappointment and grief over the loss of Trog, so she simply pushes aside the reporter's microphone and slowly walks away from the scene by herself.
Trogia is a genus of fungi in the family Marasmiaceae. It is named after a Swiss mycologist Jacob Gabriel Trog. The genus contains about 20 species that are widely distributed in tropical areas.
Eucharius Gottlib Rinck. – Recusa. – Lipsiae : Trog, 1736 Eucharii Gottlib Rinckii ... Commentatio Iuridica De Clypeorum Ratione Habenda In Feudis Alienandis : Daß man in Veräusserung der Lehngüter auf die Heerschilde zu sehen habe. Eucharius Gottlib Rinckius.
The film was released theatrically in both the United States and United Kingdom by Warner Bros. in 1970. For home viewing and film collectors, Warner Home Video began marketing VHS copies of Trog in 1995, and in DVD format in 2007.
Retrieved 2007-10-08. Some of the footage was reused for portions of the Night Gallery season 2 episode "The Painted Mirror," as well as in the 1970 film Trog,Michael H. Price. "Tape it". The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Recalling his work on the film in 1992, Cohen noted that the film was completed on time, came in under budget, and was in his opinion "very successful". Many 1970 reviews of the film, however, were not favorable. In September that year, after previewing Trog, critic Roger Ebert begins his assessment of the film with a question: In October 1970, only a few days after the film's nationwide release in the United States, The New York Times's review at least offers two faintly positive observations about Crawford's involvement in the low-budget production: In the decades since its premiere, Trog has achieved a near cult status among some movie fans, especially those who enjoy watching low-budget horror and sci-fi productions for their outlandish plots or for their sheer campiness, that a particular film is "'so bad it's good'".Erickson, Glenn. "Trog (1970)", home video reviews, TCM. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
Mark Caswell of Zzap!64 gave the original arcade version of Trog an overall positive outlook. The Nintendo Entertainment System conversion was met with positive reception from critics. Trogs arcade cabinet makes a brief appearance in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Walter Ernest "Wally" Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and a satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81.
Momentarily overcome with grief, Zenobia cradles her son while Sinbad and Melanthius investigate how to get Kassim into the column of light at the top of the shrine which will break the spell. Having come to her senses again and seeing Kassim restored to human form, Zenobia transfers her spirit into the Smilodon. Breaking free of its icy prison, the giant tiger attacks the group but Trog then enters the scene and engages the Smilodon in combat. Initially gaining the upper hand and even slamming the creature to the ground, the Smilodon disarms Trog of his spear and pins him to the wall, inflicting more damage before killing him via biting the neck.
Tork: Tork is a trog, a species of reptilian humanoid. He is very short for the standards of his race, and was abandoned by his tribe when he was a baby. He makes a living as a mercenary. He is the one who taught Lisandra to speak, use clothes, and walk on two legs.
In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Gantu relies primarily on his plasma pistol for combat. Besides firing plasma bolts, Gantu's pistol also can launch nets for capturing experiments. He has invented a "trog" call to capture experiments more easily (as shown in the episode "French Fry"). Unlike many comedic villains, Gantu is not depicted as explicitly incompetent.
After clearing the blast debris, the material to be screened was loaded into wagons (Hunde or Hunte) using rakes (Kratze) and tubs (Trog). Larger boulders (Wände) were first broken up with sledges and crowbars. From the second half of the 18th century the method of mining was reversed. Now the roof was always mined and so extraction proceeded upwards.
DiSalvo was featured as Basher Malone on the last episode of Season 4 which aired July 24, 1988. This episode was also the last episode ever for Tales from the Darkside. DiSalvo was also the Wrestling Choreography for the episode. Basher faced a demon wrestler named Trog who was managed by Tippy Ryan played by Vic Tayback.
Flook was a British comic strip which ran from 1949 to 1984 in the Daily Mail newspaper. It was drawn by Wally Fawkes (of the jazz group Wally Fawkes and the Troglodytes), who signed the strips as "Trog". It was the first newspaper comic strip to be published by the New Zealand newspaper Otago Daily Times, where it ran from 1952 to 1979.
Lyttelton received a grant for further study. He went to Camberwell School of Art, where he met Wally Fawkes, a fellow jazz enthusiast and clarinet-player, also known as the cartoonist "Trog". In 1949, Fawkes helped him to get a job with the Daily Mail writing the words for Flook, Fawkes's comic strip. They had both joined the George Webb Dixielanders in 1947.
Aben Kandel (15 August 1897 – 28 January 1993) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and (earlier in life) boxer. He was screenwriter on such classic B movies as I Was A Teenage Werewolf, Joan Crawford's final movie Trog, and one of Leonard Nimoy's first starring vehicles, Kid Monk Baroni. He is the father of poetess Lenore Kandel and screenwriter Stephen Kandel.
Sandro Porceddu is a head and neck radiation oncologist at Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital and a Professor with the University of Queensland.Bridie Jabour Scans spare PA patients from knife Brisbane Times August 3, 2011 He was president of the Clinical Oncologic Society of Australia (COSA) and chair of the Trials Scientific Committee of the Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG).
Revision 4.00 version screenshot. Trog was co-designed by George N. Petro and Jack E. Haeger, who later worked in other Midway releases such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Jack Haeger also created the artwork and "Playmation" graphics, in which character models were created with clay animation. George Petro and Kurt Mahan worked as programmers, with composer Chris Granner scoring the soundtrack and created the sound effects.
Characters from the game make appearances in later Midway titles. In Revolution X, one of the Trogs appears as a shootable "easter egg". In CarnEvil, a Trog can be found in the "Freak Show" portion of the game as an attraction on the background frozen in a block of ice labeled "Frozen In Time!", while the dinosaur characters also appear as enemies in the "Rickety Town" level.
Based on an original story by Peter Biyan and John Gilling, the film was initially developed by Tony Tenser at Tigon Films, which sold the project to producer Herman Cohen. In July 1968, Cohen announced he had signed a contract with Warner Bros-Seven Arts to produce Crooks and Coronets and Trog, with the latter to begin filming in September.Martin, Betty (1968). "Geraldine Page Signs Pact", Los Angeles Times, 11 July 1968: e17.
The present name Wimbolds Trafford comes from Winebald's Trafford, with the latter meaning "valley ford". Winebald (a personal noun) is combined with the Old English words trog (a trough or hollow) and ford (a ford or crossing). Wimbolds Trafford was recorded in the Domesday Book with a population of three households of "two smallholders and one riders". Consisting of one ploughland under the ownership of Earl Hugh of Chester, it had a taxable value of "1 geld units".
Film critic Roger Ebert wrote in his film review: "The cast alone convinced me. Let me put it as simply as I can: If you have ever wanted to see a movie starring John Carradine, Joi Lansing, Lindsay Crosby, Chris Mitchum, and Ken Maynard, then Big Foot is almost certainly going to be your only chance. Not since Joan Crawford starred in Trog has there been such an opportunity". Ebert, however, was very much aware of how hopeless Bigfoot was as a film.
Its diverse pantheon of gods reward character conformance to particular codes of conduct. Trog, the berserker god, expects abstinence from casting spells and offers aid in battle, whereas Sif Muna expects frequent spellcraft in exchange for magical assistance and gifts of spellbooks. Some deities campaign against evil, matched by a god of death who revels in indiscriminate killing, while others prove unpredictable objects of worship. Xom, an example of the latter, toys with followers, meting out punishments and showering gifts on inscrutable whims.
Gerald Kaufman by Trog Kaufman wrote many books and articles. Some are political: How to be a Minister (1980) is an irreverent look at the difficulties faced by ministers trying to control the civil service. Some are cultural: Meet Me in St Louis is a study of the 1944 Judy Garland film. He contributed a chapter about John Hodge, the Labour MP for Manchester Gorton elected in 1906, to Men Who Made Labour, edited by Alan Haworth and Diane Hayter.
Fawkes returned to The Observer in 1971 and continued to work for Punch. After Flook was cancelled in 1985, Fawkes worked briefly for Today and then served a short stint at the London Daily News. During the 1980s he continued to contribute to Punch and Private Eye, and for the Observer he drew a pocket cartoon named "mini-Trog". In 1996 he left The Observer and joined The Sunday Telegraph, where he remained until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005.
He also appeared as artist Alan Street in a trilogy of British sex comedies, beginning with The Over-Amorous Artist in 1974. Hamill's other film appearances included Trog (1970), No Blade of Grass (1970), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Hardcore (1977). Television appearances included: Crossroads, Space: 1999, The Venturers, 1990, Doctor Who (in the serial The Ribos Operation), Dennis Potter's play Double Dare, and The Professionals. He left acting in the late 1980s, and went on to run a pine furniture shop.
While resting, they encounter a Troglodyte, an tall creature somewhat like a fur-covered caveman, with a single horn on the top of its head. The Troglodyte proves to be not dangerous, but rather friendly and they named him Trog for short and follows the adventurers to the giant pyramidal shrine of the Arimaspi. Zenobia and Rafi arrive at the shrine first, but she has no key to enter. She orders the Minoton to remove a block of stone from the pyramid's wall.
The name is derived from the Old Norse word mikill (meaning big or great) and the Old English words trog (a trough) and ford. The only artifacts found from the prehistoric period are an arrowhead and a worked flake which were found in the nearby settlement of Hoole Village. The arrowhead is dated from the Early Bronze to the Early Iron Age (2350 BC to 701 BC). The Roman road from Chester to Wilderspool (near the present town of Warrington) passed through or near the village.
Originally, this part was slated to be much larger, with a long chase scene involving Phidian after being revealed as a mole of the film's villain, but this was scrapped partway through filming of the sequence due to budgetary restrictions, leaving Grellis with one line of dialogue and less than fifteen seconds of screentime in the finished film. His other film credits included appearances in Only When I Larf (1968), Submarine X-1 (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Trog (1970) and Fear in the Night (1972).
Set in contemporary England, the film follows Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford), a renowned anthropologist who learns that in the caves of the countryside a lone male troglodyte is alive and might be able to be helped and even domesticated. In the interest of science and the potential groundbreaking discovery of the missing link, she gets the creature to the surface; and while the rest of the townsfolk and police scatter in terror, Brockton stands steady with her tranquilizer gun and stuns the caveman into submission. She brings him back to her lab for study, but runs into trouble as a few people oppose the presence of a "monster" in the town, especially Sam Murdock (Michael Gough), a local businessman who is not only afraid of the negative commercial consequences but is also suspicious of a woman heading a research facility. In the meantime, the creature, given the name of "Trog", is taught by Brockton to play and share; and the capacity for language is induced by a number of surgeries and a mysterious hypnotic device that causes Trog to see or relive his distant past, including clashes between various dinosaurs.
Trog was first released for arcades by Bally/Midway in North America on March 1990 and later in Europe by Williams on February 1991. In 1990, a faithful conversion of the game by Software Creations was released for MS-DOS computers by Acclaim Entertainment. However, the DOS version only supports two players instead of four, featuring Bloop and Rex as playable characters. On October 1991, the title was then ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System by Visual Concepts and first published by Acclaim in North America and later in Europe.
In part of that promotion leading up to Halloween, Warner Bros. assures "campy cult fans" they will "delight" in the film and that both the troglodyte's makeup and "Crawford's boldly colored pantsuits" are "hilariously bad". The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's 2005 book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of "The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made". In 2012, several years before his previously described BFI interview with Joe Cornelius, John Waters recognized Trog as one of his favorite films on the streaming service MUBI.
It was during the war years that Fawkes began playing in jazz bands. He once joked that due to the amount of time spent in underground air- raid shelters people in London were becoming troglodytes, and he took up this word for one of his early jazz bands, Wally Fawkes and the Troglodytes. After the group disbanded Fawkes adopted "Trog" as his pen-name. In 1947 he took a weekly course at the Camberwell School of Art in London where fellow students included Humphrey Lyttelton and Francis Wilford-Smith.
He retired from jazz in the early 1960s when he became a film critic for The Observer and a writer on the Daily Mails satirical newspaper strip Flook, illustrated by Trog. He was also scriptwriter on the 1967 satirical film Smashing Time. This period of his life is described in Owning Up. He returned to jazz in the early 1970s with John Chilton's Feetwarmers, a partnership that ended in 2003. He later sang with Digby Fairweather's band. He released six albums in the 1970s including Nuts in 1972 and Son of Nuts the next year.
The Schaproder Bodden The Schaproder Bodden is a bodden on the Baltic Sea coast between the island of Hiddensee in the west and the islands of Rügen and Ummanz in the east. To the north the Schaproder Bodden is linked to the Vitter Bodden by the so-called Trog between the Fährinsel and the Stolper Haken of Rügen island. To the south the bodden transitions into the Kubitzer Bodden. A boundary would be the line between the southern tips of the Hiddensee (Geller Haken) and Ummanz or the link from the Geller Haken - Insel Heuwiese.
Other early illustrative sketches were produced by artist Haro Hodson and motor engineer Amherst Villiers. After Trog was forced to withdraw from the project, Cape commissioned John Burningham, who had recently won the 1963 Kate Greenaway Medal for his book Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers. On 19 November 1963, the case of McClory v Fleming, following up the 1961 case, was heard at the Chancery Division of the High Court. The proceedings lasted three weeks, during which time Fleming was unwell, suffering a heart attack as the case progressed.
He later worked with Wally Fawkes, also known as the cartoonist 'Trog', and in January 1974 formed John Chilton's Feetwarmers, who began accompanying British jazz singer and writer George Melly. Together they made records and toured the world for nearly 30 years including trips to America, Australia, China and New Zealand. In 1983 and 1984 they had their own BBC television series called Good Time George. They appeared on countless other TV shows, including Parkinson, The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, Aspel, This is Your Life and Pebble Mill at One.
Trog is a 1990 maze arcade video game originally developed and published by Bally/Midway in North America and later by Williams Electronics in Europe. In the game, players control one of four dinosaurs chased by the titular cavemen. Its gameplay includes elements of Pac-Man--collect all items in a maze, eat a special item to turn the tables on pursuers--but supports up to four players at once. Initially envisioned as a hybrid puzzle/strategy project, its original concept was later reworked into a Pac-Man-like title after poor reception from testers and features claymation graphics, advertised as "Playmation" by Midway.
The first-floor exhibition area, Little Russell St location Every year the trustees of the Cartoon Art Trust host the Cartoon Art Trust Awards, giving an award to the Young Cartoonist of the Year, and also giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to an artist who has made a significant contribution to British cartooning. Past winners have included Ronald Searle, David Levine, Trog, Fluck and Law, Norman Thelwell, Frank Dickens, David Langdon, Gerald Scarfe, Leo Baxendale and Bill Tidy. They also give the Pont Award to a cartoonist whose drawings reflect "The British Character". Past winners include Norman Thelwell, MAC, Michael Heath, Sue McCartney-Snape and Tony Husband.
She was also a regular in Grange Hill, Happy Families and presented Play School and Merry-Go-Round. Her film credits include Till Death Us Do Part (1969), The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (1969), Trog (1970), My Lover My Son (1970), The Alf Garnett Saga (1972), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), The Love Child (1988), The Punk and the Princess (2003), Kidulthood (2006) and Paddington (2014), and she has made several shorts with director Isaac Julien, including The Attendant (1992) and Vagabondia (2000), which was shortlisted for that year's Turner Prize. For twenty years until 2016 she was joint Artistic Director of the award winning Rosemary Branch Theatre. She was also an Ambassador for the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal (MSMA).
Crawford's appearance in the 1969 television film Night Gallery (which served as pilot to the series that followed) marked one of Steven Spielberg's earliest directing jobs. Crawford made a cameo appearance as herself in the first episode of The Tim Conway Show, which aired on January 30, 1970. She starred on the big screen one final time, playing Dr. Brockton in Herman Cohen's science fiction horror film Trog (1970), rounding out a career spanning 45 years and more than 80 motion pictures. Crawford made three more television appearances, including one as Stephanie White in a 1970 episode ("The Nightmare") of The Virginian and as Joan Fairchild (her final dramatic performance) in a 1972 episode ("Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death") of The Sixth Sense.
At the age of 21, he entered a art contest that was being judged by cartoonist Leslie Illingworth, who at the time was working for the Daily Mail. He used the nickname Trog, which was short for Troglodyte which came from his days from World War II, and created a comic strip called Flook, and it was a success.Newspaper Comics: Trog’s Rufus and Flook In 1949, Fawkes's comic strip Flook first appeared in the Daily Mail. It featured the unlikely and satirical adventures of its small and furry eponymous hero Fawkes's role on the Mail was chiefly as illustrator, and he had a strong team of collaborators on the scripts for Flook over the years, including George Melly, Barry Norman, Humphrey Lyttelton and Barry Took.
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Farrago is a book of articles collected from Jazz at Ronnie Scott's, the house magazine of Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London, England. The magazine was published for over twenty-five years from 1979–2006, producing 159 issues under editorship of its founder, Jim Godbolt. Godbolt's other books include two volumes of History of Jazz in Britain, 1919–1950 and 1950–1970, The World of Jazz and the autobiography All This and Many a Dog. Ronnie Scott's Jazz Farrago draws from those issues to describe an assortment of characters associated with Ronnie Scott's, including interviews with John Dankworth, Kenneth Clarke, Spike Milligan, Charlie Watts, Barbara Windsor, Michael Parkinson, and Ronnie Scott himself; poems by Ron Rubin, and drawings by Wally Fawkes (Trog), Nemethy, Picton, Pennington and Monty Sunshine; and photographs by David Redfern and David Sinclair.
Young Wings: The Magazine of the Boys' and Girls' Book Club, Vol. 10, No. 4 (September 1938), p. 20. The House in the Mountains (1940), illustrated by Grace Huxtable, was set in Kandergurgl, a little Swiss village. Max, Lisel and the other children encounter a witch, a wicked baron, Ruffin the dog, Mr Fooks the fox and Mr Trog the bear in a story with kidnappings, magic, secret passages and a ransom.'For the Children: Happy Families', The Manchester Guardian, 5 January 1941, p. 4. In 1941 she was living in Heston, Cornwall. She married Anthony Cockbain in Penzance in 1941, though he died in November 1942,'Deaths', The Times, 9 December 1942, p. 1. after only one year of marriage.British & Irish Women Writers of Fiction 1910-1960 (D) The Enchanted Islands (1941) was followed by Sea Gypsies (1942), a holiday story of Peter and Petronel on an "enchanted island", where the "little people" were as real as humans.

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