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William John Posedel (August 2, 1906 – November 28, 1989), nicknamed "Barnacle Bill", [1] was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Bees/Braves in 1938–1941 and in 1946. Posedel was born in San Francisco, California.
In 1996 it was released on CD on the album "Bix Beiderbecke 1927–1930". [3] According to Philip R. Evans, Bix Beiderbecke's biographer, in the second chorus of this recording, violinist Joe Venuti can be heard singing "Barnacle Bill the Shit-head," either to express his attitude toward the record producer, or typical of his wacky sense of ...
Barnacle Bill may refer to: Barnacle Bill (theme tune), the theme tune of the BBC children's TV programme Blue Peter; William Bernard (sailor), subject of the song; Barnacle Bill (Martian rock), a 40-cm rock on Mars in Ares Vallis; Barnacle Bill, a Fleischer Studios animated short film; Barnacle Bill, a film starring Archie Pitt and Joan Gardner
A square-rigger, it eventually went around the world. Over the following years, he gained extensive experience in Asiatic waters, serving as a ship's officer on army transports such as Burnside, Sedgwick, and Kilpatrick, voyaging to and from the Philippines and the West Indies. In Bahia he picked up a talking parrot he named "Barnacle Bill".
Barnacle Bill (U.S. title: All at Sea) is a 1957 Ealing Studios comedy film directed by Charles Frend and starring Alec Guinness. [3] It was written by T. E. B. Clarke . Guinness plays an unsuccessful Royal Navy officer and six of his maritime ancestors.
William Bernard (fl. 1849+) was a 19th-century sailor, miner and resident of San Francisco, better known as the notorious "Barnacle Bill" of American yore whose fictional exploits are chronicled in the ribald drinking song "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" — itself adapted from "Bollocky Bill the Sailor", a traditional folk song originally titled "Abraham Brown".
Hue and Cry (1947) is generally considered to be the earliest of the cycle, and Barnacle Bill (1957) the last, [3] although some sources list Davy (1958) as the final Ealing comedy. [4] Many of the Ealing comedies are ranked among the greatest British films, and they also received international acclaim. [5] [6] [7] [8]
When Bill collects his pay, he gets much less than expected and suspects that Kelly is cheating the fisherman by under-weighing the catch. Bill confronts one of Kelly's henchmen and cajoles a bribe to keep his "big mouth" shut. Bill is about to accept the money when he sees Virginia bringing the other cheated fishermen to watch him stand up to ...