Canadian-American actor and screenwriter

Harland Williams

Harland Reesor Williams is a Canadian and American comedian and actor. After several years of performing stand-up comedy in Toronto and Los Angeles, he made his film debut in Dumb and Dumber (1994) before playing starring roles in the short-lived sitcom Simon and the Disney comedy RocketMan (1997). He co-starred in Half Baked and played a psychopathic hitch-hiker in There's Something About Mary in 1998. He later appeared in films such as The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Freddy Got Fingered (2001) and Sorority Boys (2002), and provided voices in works such as Gary & Mike, Robots (2005), Meet the Robinsons (2007), and Sausage Party (2016).

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1962

November 14

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-332 Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.
1680 German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
1770 James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1812 Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.

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The world in 1962

When Harland arrived

april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Aaron Copland 1900–1990 American composer and conductor (born 1900) Adam Gilchrist 1971– Australian cricketer and sportscaster Astrid Lindgren 1907–2002 Swedish author and screenwriter (born 1907) August Šenoa 1838–1881 Croatian author and poet (born 1838) Benjamin Fondane 1898– Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic (died 1944) Boosie Badazz 1982– American rapper Charles Hazlewood 1966– English conductor Charles Lyell 1797–1875 Scottish geologist (born 1797) Claude Monet 1840–1926 French painter (born 1840)

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Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Brian Azzarello 1962– American author Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Denis O'Hare 1962– American actor and singer Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor

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