William Campbell

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.". His sons, Paul and Pádraig, work as a producer with RTÉ and in computers, respectively. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the Beatles were originally planning to "play" on the album. His four daughters, Niamh, Sorcha, Sinéad and Catherine are actresses. Pepper, "Billy Shears" is the name of the lead singer for the fictional Sgt. Cusack's last stage performance was in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, in which three of his daughters played the sisters. Also on Sgt. In 1989 his performance in the film My Left Foot, with Daniel Day-Lewis, contributed to its success.

Most Canadians would recognize this at first glance. In 1984 he appeared as the shop-keeper and Thought Police spy Charrington in the film version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The badge does not contain the lettering "OPD" but rather "OPP". He received honorary doctorates in 1977 and 1980 from the NUI and the University of Dublin respectively. The badge on Paul's arm in the Sgt Pepper's album is that of the Ontario Provincial Police. Two years later in 1979 he married Mary Rose Cunningham. 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. In 1977 Cusack's wife, Maureen Kiely, an actress, died.

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morsels were concocted together into one more-or-less cohesive tale: that the real Paul, killed by a banana lorry, had been replaced by an actor named either William Campbell or Billy Shears, who had undergone plastic surgery in order to effect a perfect likeness, and who had previously won a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. By this stage he had established a successful career in films. 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. In 1963 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and appeared there for several seasons. In fact such contests were held, but no William Campbell ever won one. In 1947 Cusack formed his own company and staged productions in Dublin, Paris and New York City. 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. Between then and 1945 he performed in over sixty productions, particularly excelling in the plays of Sean O'Casey.

William Shears Campbell is a fictional Paul McCartney look-alike whose purported existence arose from the fevered efforts of conspiracy theorists to find significance in album photos and hidden musical messages during the Paul is Dead hoax in the late 1960s. He left without a degree and joined the Abbey Theatre in 1932. Cusack was educated in Newbridge, Kildare, and University College, Dublin. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players.

His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. He was the son of a sergeant in the mounted police and an actress. Cyril Cusack (26 November 1910 - 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, born in Natal, South Africa.