Kenneth Branagh

In 1994 Branagh declined becoming a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Though this concept was largely discarded, the end of the title track includes a lyric referring to the "one and only Billy Shears," played by Ringo Starr, who sings the lead vocal on the next song, "With A Little Help From My Friends.". He married again in 2003, to film art director Lindsay Brunnock. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the Beatles were originally planning to "play" on the album. He starred several times with his then wife, Emma Thompson, whom he married in 1989 and divorced in 1996. Pepper, "Billy Shears" is the name of the lead singer for the fictional Sgt. He has also won an Emmy Award for his performance in the 2001 TV film Conspiracy. Also on Sgt.

He has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including two for directing and acting in Henry V and another for the screenplay of Hamlet. Most Canadians would recognize this at first glance. He has starred in a number of other successful films unrelated to Shakespeare. The badge does not contain the lettering "OPD" but rather "OPP". He is probably best known for his popular film adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare, beginning with Henry V in 1989, and including versions of Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and Hamlet (1996). The badge on Paul's arm in the Sgt Pepper's album is that of the Ontario Provincial Police. Branagh has worked on both stage and screen. The letters "OPD," appearing on a costume in a photograph on the Sgt Pepper album were interpreted variously as standing for "Officially Pronounced Dead" and an indication that Billy Campbell had worked in the Ontario Police Department.

Branagh received a honorary doctorate in Literature from Queen's University, Belfast in 1990. Beatles fans scoured the Beatles' albums for hidden "clues" confirming this, and, demonstrating the human capacity to find meaning where no meaning exists, located dozens of "confirming" nuggets of information. These morsels were concocted together into one more-or-less cohesive tale: that the real Paul, killed by a banana lorry, had been replaced by an actor named either William Campbell or Billy Shears, who had undergone plastic surgery in order to effect a perfect likeness, and who had previously won a Paul McCartney look-alike contest. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but when he was nine his family moved to England. In October 1969, Russ Gibbs, program coordinator for radio station WKNR-FM in Detroit, began a baseless rumor that Paul McCartney had been killed and replaced by a look-alike. Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile British actor and film director. In fact such contests were held, but no William Campbell ever won one. The Science of Walking with Beasts (Australia) (Two-part TV special) (2001). According to this urban legend, a William Campbell won a "Paul look-alike" contest in 1966 and was induced to impersonate Paul after Paul died.

Walking with Beasts (UK version) (TV series) (2001)