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W.S. Gilbert (1836–1911)
William Schwenck Gilbert was born in London on November 18, 1836, to William Gilbert, a retired naval surgeon, and his wife Anne. The Gilberts would add three younger girls to the brood: Jane, Maud and Florence. His parents were cold and distant, with prickly characters. Stern and unyielding, they did not show affection for their son, who absorbed...
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Born:in Strand, London, England, UKDied:(age 74) in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, England, UK |
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2020
Fargo
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Raddoppiarlo
(2020)
... (writer: "The Pirates of Penzance, Act I: Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate")
2020
Briarpatch
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Felicity
(2020)
... (writer: "I Have a Song to Sing, O!" - uncredited)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
(TV Series) (writer - 15 episodes, 2001 - 2011) (music - 2 episodes, 2020)
- Beep Panic
(2020)
... (music: "Three Little Maids" - uncredited)
- Elizabeth, Margaret and Larry
(2020)
... (music: "Three Little Maids" - uncredited)
- Palestinian Chicken
(2011)
... (writer: "Three Little Maids" - uncredited)
- Seinfeld
(2009)
... (writer: "Three Little Maids" - uncredited)
- The Table Read
(2009)
... (writer: "Three Little Maids" - uncredited)
2020
The World According to Jeff Goldblum
(TV Series documentary) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Pools
(2020)
... (lyrics: "Oh, Better Far to Live and Die" - uncredited)
2019
Star Trek: Short Treks
(TV Series short) (writer - 1 episode)
- Q&A
(2019)
... (writer: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General")
2019
Freelancers
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Crossfit
(2019)
... (lyrics: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" - uncredited)
2014-2019
Grantchester
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Episode #4.2
(2019)
... (writer: "The Pirate King" - uncredited)
- Episode #1.6
(2014)
... (writer: "I AM A PIRATE KING")
2018
Jack Irish
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.1
(2018)
... (writer: "Three Little Maids From School Are We")
1993-2017
The Simpsons
(TV Series) (lyrics - 4 episodes)
- Gone Boy
(2017)
... (lyrics: "I Have a Song to Sing, O!" - uncredited)
- The Bob Next Door
(2010)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids from School Are We", "Behold the Lord High Executioner" - uncredited)
- Deep Space Homer
(1994)
... (lyrics: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" - uncredited)
- Cape Feare
(1993)
... (lyrics: "We Sail the Ocean Blue", "I'm Called Little Buttercup", "Now Give Three Cheers", "He Is An Englishman", "Three Little Maids From School Are We" - uncredited)
2016
The Good Wife
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Verdict
(2016)
... (writer: "I Have a List" - as Gilbert) / (writer: "The Mikado or the Town of Titipu As Someday It May Happen That a Victim" - uncredited)
2016
Princess Ida
(TV Movie) (writer: "Search throughout the panorama", "Now hearken to my strict command", "Today we meet", "From the distant panorama", "We are warriors three", "If you give me your attention", "Act I Finale", "Towards the empyrean heights", "Mighty maiden with a mission", "Oh, goddess wise", "Come, mighty must", "Gently, gently", "I am a maiden", "The world is but a broken toy", "A lady fair", "The woman of the wisest wit", "Now wouldn't you like to rule the roast", "Merrily ring the luncheon bell", "Would you know the kind of maid", "Act II Finale", "Death to the invader", "Whene'er I spoke", "I built upon a rock", "When anger spreads his wing", "Act III Finale" - as Gilbert)
2015
Those People
(writer: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General", "We Sail the Ocean Blue", "Behold the Lord High Executioner", "3 Little Maids", "HMS Pinafore Overture", "Mikando Overture")
2015
The Ladies of Gilbert & Sullivan
(TV Movie) (writer: "Overture", "Act 1 Finale", "Act II Finale", "Curtain Call" - as Gilbert)
2014
Thespis
(TV Movie) (writer: "Throughout The Night", "Oh, I'm the Celestial Drudge", "Oh Incident Unprecedented", "Here Far Away from All The World", "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain", "I Once Knew A Chap", "Act I Finale", "Of All Symposia", "Olympus Is Now In a Terrible Muddle", "You're Diana, I'm Apollo", "Oh Rage and Fury", "Act II Finale" - as Gilbert)
2014
The Crimson Field
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.5
(2014)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids from School Are We" - uncredited)
2013
Brows Held High
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Cloud Atlas: Part 1
(2013)
... (writer: "We Sail the Ocean Blue")
2013
The Ladies of Gilbert & Sullivan
(TV Movie) (writer: "Overture", "Act 1 Finale", "Act II Finale", "Curtain Call" - as Gilbert)
2013
Phineas and Ferb
(TV Series short) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Love at First Byte/One Good Turn
(2013)
... (lyrics: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" - uncredited)
2012
Quartet
(lyrics: "Three Little Maids from School") / (writer: "Flowers that Bloom in the Spring", "So, Please You Sir, We Much Regret", "Titwillow")
2012
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Ruddy Gore
(2012)
... (writer: "Ruddigore: Overture", "Ruddigore: In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide")
2010
The Big Bang Theory
(TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Pants Alternative
(2010)
... ("The Elements", uncredited)
2009
House
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Broken
(2009)
... (lyrics: "He Is an Englishman" - uncredited)
2008
Midsomer Murders
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- The Magician's Nephew
(2008)
... (lyrics: "The Sorceror" - uncredited)
2008
The Ghosts' High Noon
(Video short) (lyrics: "The Ghosts' High Noon" (aka "When the night wind howls") (1887))
2008
Casualty 1907
(TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.2
(2008)
... (writer: "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" - as Gilbert, uncredited)
2008
Murdoch Mysteries
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- The Glass Ceiling
(2008)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids From School Are We")
Family Guy
(TV Series) (lyrics - 2 episodes, 2005 - 2006) (writer - 1 episode, 2007)
- Lois Kills Stewie
(2007)
... (writer: "I've Got a Little List" - uncredited)
- Patriot Games
(2006)
... (lyrics: "Libretto from The Sorcerer" - uncredited)
- Peter's Got Woods
(2005)
... (lyrics: "Sighing Softly to the River" (from "The Pirates of Penzance"))
2007
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Lip Synchin' in the Rain
(2007)
... (lyrics: "When I Was a Lad")
2007
Lilies
(TV Mini-Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- The Tallyman
(2007)
... (lyrics: "When I Was a Lad", "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze")
2006
The Good Shepherd
(lyrics: "H.M.S. Pinafore: Act 1: Hail! Men O'War's Men... I'm Called Little Buttercup")
2006
VeggieTales
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- A Snoodles Tale
(2006)
... (writer: "Modern Major General")
2006
Two and a Half Men
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- And the Plot Moistens
(2006)
... (writer: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" - uncredited)
2000-2004
The West Wing
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- A Change Is Gonna Come
(2004)
... (writer: "A Wandering Minstrel, I" - uncredited)
- And It's Surely to Their Credit
(2000)
... (writer: "For He Is An Englishman" - uncredited)
2004
Duck Dodgers
(TV Series short) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Talent Show a Go-Go/The Love of a Father
(2004)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids From School Are We")
2004
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(writer: "Three Little Maids From School Are We" from "The Mikado" - uncredited)
2004
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
(Video) (lyrics: "L'Opera") / (writer: "The Pirates Of Penzance: Overture" - uncredited)
2003
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
(TV Movie) (writer: "On a Tree by a River a Little Tom Tit")
2003
VeggieTales: The Wonderful World of Autotainment
(Video short) (lyrics: "Modern Major General")
2003
Frasier
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Fathers and Sons
(2003)
... (lyrics: "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General", "On A Tree By A River" (Willow, Tit Willow))
2003
Independent Lens
(TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
- Sumo East and West
(2003)
... (writer: "The Mikado (Act 1 Finale)" - as Gilbert)
2003
Six Feet Under
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- You Never Know
(2003)
... (writer: "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring")
2000
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Death at the Opera
(2000)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids From School Are We" - uncredited)
1999
Topsy-Turvy
(lyrics: "If You Give Me Your Attention" (1884), "This Helmet, I Suppose" (1884), "Incantation" (1877), "But Soft... / Why, Where Be Oi?" (1877), "Behold! the Lord High Executioner" (1885), "A Wand'ring Minstrel, I" (1885), "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "A More Humane Mikado" (1885), "Mi-Ya-Sa-Ma" (1885), "The Criminal Cried As He Dropped Him Down" (1885), "The Mikado Finale, Act Two" (1885), "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze" (1885))
1998
Slappy And The Stinkers
(writer: "When I Was a Lad", "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore" - uncredited)
1997
From Hare to Eternity
(Short) (lyrics: "My Gallant Crew", "I'm Called Little Buttercup" - uncredited)
Mystery Science Theater 3000
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1997) (lyrics - 1 episode, 1994)
- The Horror of Party Beach
(1997)
... (writer: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" - uncredited)
- Colossus and the Headhunters
(1994)
... (lyrics: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General")
1997
Wilde
(lyrics: "Ah, Leave me not to Mine Alone" - as Gilbert) / (music: "Ah, Leave me not to Mine Alone" - as Gilbert)
1994
The Pirates of Penzance
(TV Movie) (lyrics: "Pour, O Pour The Pirate Sherry", "When Frederic Was A Little Lad", "Oh, Better Far To Live And Die", "Oh, False One, You Have Deceived Me", "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain", "Stop, Ladies, Pray!", "Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast", "Poor Wondering One", "What Ought We Do?", "How Beautifully Blue The Sky", "Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses", "Hold, Monsters!", "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General", "Oh, Men Of Dark And Dismal Fate")
Tiny Toon Adventures
(TV Series short) (writer - 3 episodes, 1991 - 1992) (music - 3 episodes, 1990 - 1991)
- Music Day
(1992)
... (writer: "Pirates of Penzance - With Cat-Like Tread" - uncredited)
- Elephant Issues (Why Dizzy Can't Read/C.L.I.D.E. And Prejudice/One Beer)
(1991)
... (writer: "Pirates of Penzance - With Cat-Like Tread" - uncredited)
- Going Places
(1991)
... (writer: "Pirates of Penzance - With Cat-Like Tread" - uncredited)
- You Asked for It Again
(1991)
... (music: "I'm Called Little Buttercup" - uncredited)
- Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?
(1990)
... (music: "I'm Called Little Buttercup" - uncredited)
1992
'Allo 'Allo!
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- A Fistful of Francs
(1992)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids From School Are We" - uncredited)
1992
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Episode #3.2
(1992)
... (lyrics: "He Is an Englishman" - uncredited)
1992
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
(writer: "POOR WAND'RING ONE", "O DRY THE GLISTENING TEAR", "MY GALLANT CREW GOOD MORNING", "SIR JOSEPH'S BARGE IS SEEN")
1992
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- The Master Blackmailer
(1992)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids From School Are We" - uncredited)
1991
Star Trek: The Next Generation
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Disaster
(1991)
... (lyrics: "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" from "The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty" - uncredited)
1989
The Benny Hill Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Crook Report
(1989)
... (writer: "I'm Called Little Buttercup")
1988
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Here's a Side Effect of Serious Moonlight
(1988)
... (writer: "Three Little Maids From School Are We")
1987
Moonlighting
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Cool Hand Dave: Part 2
(1987)
... (writer: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General (parody)")
1987
El Mikado
(TV Movie) (lyrics: "Obertura", "Presentar-nos és un plaer/Sóc un pobre juglar", "El gran Mikado, cast i pur", "No hi pensis més/I jo he viatjat durant un mes/Mireu el gran i just senyor botxí", "Si un dia se'm demana", "Som un tren de noies", "Som cinc noietes virginals", "Perdó si per un mal entés", "Si no fossis la promesa", "Tinc tant d'orgull", "Venim perquè amb gran negui (Final Acte 1)", "Veus quin pentinat", "El sol que lluu potent i dur", "Mira, torna a sortir el sol", "Quin moment més dur", "Mi-Ya Sa-Ma/Un rei més bo", "Mira el destí, quin gran senyor", "Les flors que floreixen al maig/Tan sola i malgrat tot tan viva", "Prop d'un riu", "Hi ha bellesa en l'esclatar d'un bombardeig", "S'ha casat amb la jove Yum-Yum")
1987
Falcon Crest
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- New Faces
(1987)
... (lyrics: "As Some Day It May Happen" - uncredited)
1987
Porterhouse Blue
(TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.2
(1987)
... (writer: "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" - uncredited)
1987
Cheers
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Simon Says
(1987)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids From School Are We" - uncredited)
1987
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
(TV Movie) (lyrics: "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" (1887) - uncredited)
1986
Mr. Belvedere
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- The Play
(1986)
... (lyrics: "I'm called Little Buttercup", "My gallant crew, good morning" (uncredited), "He is an Englishman" (uncredited), "I am the very model of a modern Major General")
1985
Out of Africa
(writer: "There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast" (1885) from "The Mikado" - uncredited)
1985
A Woman of Substance
(TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.3
(1985)
... (writer: "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" - uncredited)
1982
Fame
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Solo Song
(1982)
... (writer: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" - uncredited)
1982
The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me
(TV Special) (lyrics: "The Mikado" - uncredited) / (music: "The Mikado" - uncredited)
1980-1982
Saturday Night Live
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Elizabeth Ashley/Hall & Oates
(1982)
... (writer: "Major-General's Song" - uncredited)
- David Carradine/Linda Ronstadt/Cast of 'The Pirates of Penzance'
(1980)
... (writer: "The Pirates of Penzance Medley" - uncredited)
1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
(lyrics: "I am the Monarch of the Sea" (1878), "A British Tar" (1878) - uncredited)
1981
Chariots of Fire
(lyrics: "He is an Englishman" (1878), "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "With Catlike Tread" (1879), "The Soldiers of Our Queen" (1881), "There Lived a King" (1889) - uncredited)
1980
Charlie's Angels
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Three for the Money
(1980)
... (lyrics: "The Policeman's Song" - uncredited)
1978
Absolution
(lyrics: "Soldiers of our Queen", "In doleful train ...", "Pretty Sort of Treatment for a Military Man" - uncredited)
1976-1978
The Muppet Show
(TV Series) (lyrics - 2 episodes)
- Gilda Radner
(1978)
... (lyrics: "The Major-General's Song" (uncredited), "Poor Wand'ring One")
- Valerie Harper
(1976)
... (lyrics: "Tit Willow")
1977
Top of the Pops
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #14.20
(1977)
... (writer: "The Moon and I")
1974
Monty Python's Flying Circus
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- The Light Entertainment War
(1974)
... (lyrics: "For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum" - uncredited)
1970
The Brady Bunch
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- The Tattle-Tale
(1970)
... (lyrics: "A-Wand'ring Minstrel I" - uncredited)
1970
Bewitched
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- To Go or Not to Go, That Is the Question
(1970)
... (lyrics: "I'm Called Little Buttercup" - uncredited)
1965
The Big Job
(lyrics: "Policeman's Song", "Tarantara", "Come Friends and Plough the Sea" - uncredited)
1961
Car 54, Where Are You?
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Christmas at the 53rd
(1961)
... (writer: "I Am The Captain Of The 53rd", "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" - uncredited)
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
(TV Series) (lyrics - 2 episodes, 1959 - 1960) (writer - 1 episode, 1961)
- Songs of the Open Sea
(1961)
... (writer: "We Sail the Ocean Blue", "Captain of the Pinafore" - uncredited)
- H.M.S. Pinafore
(1960)
... (lyrics: "We Sail the Ocean Blue", "I'm Called Buttercup", "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore", "British Tar", "Sorry for Her Lot", "I Am The Monarch Of The Sea", "When I Was a Lad", "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore", "Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing" - uncredited)
- The Mikado
(1959)
... (lyrics: "If You Want to Know Who We Are", "A Wandering Minstrel, I", "Three Little Maids from School Are We", "Behold, The Lord High Executioner", "They'll None of 'Em Be Missed", "Were You Not to KoKo Plighted", "The Sun Whose Rays", "Here's a How-De-Do", "A More Humane Mikado", "Finale" - uncredited)
1958
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Julie Andrews, Art Carney, Chita Rivera
(1958)
... (lyrics: "Three Little Maids" - uncredited)
1956
Omnibus
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- The American Musical Comedy
(1956)
... (lyrics: "Act I Finale")
1954-1955
You Bet Your Life
(TV Series) (lyrics - 2 episodes)
- Episode #5.18
(1955)
... (lyrics: "There Is beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast")
- Episode #5.9
(1954)
... (lyrics: "The Yeomen Of The Guard")
1946
Girl on the Spot
(lyrics: "A Policeman's Lot", "We Sail the Ocean Blue", "When the Foeman Bares His Steel", "I'm Called Little Buttercup", "Now to the Banquet We Press", "Dance a Cachucha", "Sorry Her Lot", "Love Is a Plaintive Song", "Pirate King Song", "Poor Wand'ring One" - uncredited)
1939
The Mikado
(lyrics: "If You Wonder Who We Are" (1885), "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze" (1885), "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" (1885), "Our Great Mikado" (1885), "Behold the Lord High Executioner" (1885), "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted" (1885), "I Am So Proud" (1885), "The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away" (1885), "Your Revels Cease!" (1885), "For He's Going to Marry Yum-Yum" (1885), "Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day" (1885), "Here's a How-de-do" (1885), "From Every Kind of Man Obedience I Expect" (1885), "A More Humane Mikado" (1885), "The Criminal Cried as He Dropped Him Down" (1885), "The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring" (1885), "Willow, Tit-willow" ("On a Tree By a River") (1885) - uncredited)
1937
The Girl Said No
(lyrics: "The Mikado's Song", "Three Little Maids from School", "The Lord High Executioner", "Poor Little Buttercup", "I Am the Monarch of the Sea", "Policeman's Song", "The Magnet and the Churn", "It Really Doesn't Matter", "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring", "A Wand'ring Minstrel I", "The Yeoman of the Guard" - uncredited)
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His musical, "The Mikado," was performed at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Sudsworth Frazier and Margaret Daum in the cast. See more »Publicity Listings:
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