Dick Turpin as Turpin in the 1974 Carry On film "Carry On Dick" and LWT cast Richard O'Sullivan as Turpin in their eponymous series "Dick Turpin". Footnotes Notes Bibliography Dick Turpin Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief and killer. He is also known for a fictional overnight
Dick Buek was characterized by Oakley Hall in Hall's 1963 novel, "The Downhill Racers". He was portrayed by Beau Bridges in the 1975 movie, "The Other Side of the Mountain". Dick Buek Dick (Mad Dog) Buek (November 5, 1929 – November 3, 1957), born Richard Buek, was an American downhill ski racer and later a daredevil stunt pilot. A fiancé of champion snow skier Jill Kinmont, whose tragic life story was made into the inspirational hit Hollywood motion picture "The Other Side of the Mountain" (1975), Dick died in a plane crash at the age of 27. Dick Buek was born in