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 Tracy RKO Radio Pictures. "Dick Tracy" (a.k.a. "Dick Tracy, Detective") (1945) was followed by "Dick Tracy vs. Cueball" in 1946, both with Morgan Conway as Tracy. Ralph Byrd returned for the last two features, both released in 1947: "Dick Tracy's Dilemma" and "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome". "Gruesome" is probably the best known of the four, with the villain portrayed by Boris Karloff. All four movies had many of the visual features associated with film noir: dramatic, shadowy photographic compositions, with many exterior scenes filmed at night (at the RKO Encino movie ranch). Lyle Latell co-starred in all four films as Pat