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Doomsday Gun
''Doomsday Gun'' is a 1994 television film produced by HBO, dramatizing the life of Canadian supergun designer Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's plan to build a supergun with a range of over . Synopsis The younger Catholic Gerald Bull is fascinated with large-bore guns, inspired by Jules Verne's novel ''From The Earth To The Moon''. The older Dr. Gerald Bull's career as a successful large-bore gun designer takes a turn as he is defunded by the U.S. Army; he then produces weapons for China, Israel, and ultimately South Africa which results in his arrest and conviction for illegal arms dealing. After his release, Bull promotes his supergun idea to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and, with funding through BCCI, begins design work on the top secret project, "Babylon". Bull solves several manufacturing challenges by forging and assembling it in sections which are bolted together by flanges, and lining the relatively soft barrel material with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Bernstein
Walter Bernstein (August 20, 1919 – January 23, 2021) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s because of his views on communism. Some of his notable works included ''The Front'' (1976), '' Yanks'' (1979), and ''Little Miss Marker'' (1980). He was a recipient of Writers Guild of America Awards including the Ian McLellan Hunter award and the Evelyn F. Burkey award. Early life Bernstein was born on August 20, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York, to Eastern European immigrants Hannah (née Bistrong) and Louis Bernstein, a teacher. He studied at the Erasmus High School in Flatbush, Brooklyn. After graduating from high school, he went on to study a six-month immersive language course at University of Grenoble, where he lived with a French family who were acquaintances of his father. It was here that he was exposed first to communist ideas. He returned to the United States and attended Dartmouth College, where he gained h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From The Earth To The Moon
''From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes'' (french: De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called '' Around the Moon''. The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and in that, considering the comparative lack of empirical data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are remarkably accurate. However, his version of a space gun for a non-rocket spacelaunch turned out to be impractical for safe human space travel since a much longer barrel would have been r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Owen
Clive Owen (born 3 October 1964) is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series ''Chancer'' from 1990 to 1991. He received critical acclaim for his work in the film '' Close My Eyes'' (1991) before earning international attention for his performance as a struggling writer in '' Croupier'' (1998). In 2005, he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the drama '' Closer'' (2004). Owen has played leading roles in films such as '' Sin City'' (2005), '' Derailed'' (2005), '' Inside Man'' (2006), '' Children of Men'' (2006), and '' The International'' (2009). In 2012, he earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role in '' Hemingway & Gellhorn''. He played Dr. John W. Thackery on the Cinemax medical drama series '' The Knick'', for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Graves
Rupert Simeon Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in '' A Room with a View'', '' Maurice'', '' The Madness of King George'' and '' The Forsyte Saga''. From 2010 to 2017 he starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series '' Sherlock''. Early life Graves was born in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England, to Mary Lousilla ('' née'' Roberts) Graves, a travel co-ordinator, and Richard Harding Graves, a music teacher and musician. Education Graves was educated at Wyvern Community School, a state comprehensive school in his home town of Weston-super-Mare, which he left at the age of 15. The school has since closed and re-opened as the Hans Price Academy. Career Graves's first job after leaving school was as a circus clown. He has appeared in more than 25 films and more than 35 television productions. He has also appeared on stage. He first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E. M. Forste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fox
William Fox (born 19 May 1939), known professionally as James Fox, is an English actor. He appeared in several notable films of the 1960s and early 1970s, including '' King Rat'', '' The Servant'', ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' and ''Performance'', before quitting the screen for several years to be an evangelical Christian. He has since appeared in a wide range of film and television productions. Early life Fox was born on 19 May 1939 in London, the second son of theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. His elder brother is actor Edward Fox and his younger brother is film producer Robert Fox. His maternal grandfather was playwright Frederick Lonsdale. Like several members of the Fox family, he attended Harrow School. After leaving Harrow, Fox took a short service commission in the Coldstream Guards. Career Early career Fox first appeared on film in ''The Miniver Story'' in 1950. His early screen appearances, both in film and television, were made under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Goldwyn
Anthony Howard Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist. He made his debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film '' Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives'' (1986), and had his breakthrough for starring as Carl Bruner in the fantasy thriller film ''Ghost'' (1990), which earned him a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star as Harold Nixon in the biographical film '' Nixon'' (1995), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and as Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries ''From the Earth to the Moon'' (1998). Goldwyn voiced the main character in the Disney animated film ''Tarzan'' (1999), and portrayed Colonel Bagley in '' The Last Samurai'' (2003), Johnathon "John" Collingwood in the horror film ''The Last House on the Left'' (2009), Andrew Prior in the ''Divergent'' film series (2014–2015) and Paul Cohen in ''King Richard'' (2021), the latter of which earned him a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zia Mohyeddin
Zia Mohyeddin (; born 20 June 1931) is a British-Pakistani actor, producer, director and television broadcaster who has appeared in both Pakistani cinema and television as well as in British cinema and television throughout his career. Zia Mohyeddin is famous for his blockbuster Pakistan Television talk show named after him ''Zia Mohyeddin Show'' (1969 – 1973). He is also known for originating the role of Dr. Aziz in the stage play of '' A Passage to India.'' He also appeared in ''Lawrence of Arabia''. Early life and career Zia Mohyeddin was born in Lyallpur, (now called Faisalabad), British India (now in Pakistan), in a family originally from Rohtak, East Punjab (now in Haryana), British India. His father, Khadim Mohyeddin, was a mathematician, musicologist, playwright and lyricist associated with various theatre groups. Zia spent his early life in Kasur and Lahore. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London from 1953 to 1956. After stage roles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aharon Ipalé
Aharon Ipalé (December 27, 1941 – June 27, 2016) was an Israeli-American actor, known for his roles in American and British film and television productions. His credits included ''Fiddler on the Roof'' (1971), ''Innocent Bystanders'' (1972), '' Raid on Entebbe'' (1977), '' Too Hot to Handle'' (1977), '' The Concorde ... Airport '79'' (1979), '' The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood'' (1980), ''Xanadu'' (1980), '' Who Dares Wins'' (1982), '' Eye of the Widow'' (1991), '' Son of the Pink Panther'' (1993), ''The Mummy'' (1999), and '' The Mummy Returns'' (2001). Early life Ipalé was born in Morocco on December 27, 1941. He arrived in present-day Israel with his family when he was just two years old as part of the early migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel. Ipalé enrolled in a theater school in London following his service in the Israeli Army. Career He began his acting career by appearing in British television series and theater productions, including the television mini-se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Vandernoot
Alexandra Vandernoot (born 19 September 1965) is a Belgian actress. Career While having starred in a number of French films, she is known internationally as Tessa Noël, Duncan MacLeod's girlfriend, in the fantasy television series '' Highlander: The Series.'' Her character was introduced in the series premiere, and she appeared through the fourth episode of season 2, "The Darkness," in which her character was killed off. She later returned in the ''Highlander'' second-season finale, " Counterfeit Part Two," as a woman made-up to look like Tessa, and also in the series finale as Tessa Noël. Vandernoot had a small part as a French television reporter in the 1994 film ''Pret-a-Porter (Ready to Wear)''. She also appeared in ''Le Dîner de Cons'' as Christine Brochant. In 2007, she played an engineer in ''Ondes de choc,'' a mini-series produced by the French public channel France 3 retracing an accident at a chemical factory comparable to the AZF factory disaster, a chemical fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Annis
Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in ''Reckless'' (1998), '' Wives and Daughters'' (1999), '' Deceit'' (2000), and '' Cranford'' (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial ''Lillie''. Her film appearances include '' Krull'' (1983), ''Dune'' (1984), '' The Debt Collector'' (1999), and '' The Libertine'' (2004). Early life and education Annis was born in Kensington, London in 1945, to an English father, Lester William Anthony Annis (1914–2001) and a Brazilian-French mother, Mariquita (Mara) Purcell (1913–2009). Both were sometime actors and Mara a sometime singer. Mara was from a wealthy Brazilian family. The Annises moved to Brazil when Francesca was one year old, and spent six years there, returning to England when she was seven. In recollecting the years in Brazil, she described her parents as running "a nightclub on Copacabana beach", and her m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kitchen
Michael Roy Kitchen (born 31 October 1948) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama '' Foyle's War'', which comprised eight series between 2002 and 2015. He also played the role of Bill Tanner in two James Bond films, and that of John Farrow in BBC Four's comedy series ''Brian Pern''. Early life Kitchen was born in Leicester. As a boy he was head chorister in the Church of the Martyrs choir, where he was a regular soloist. He attended the City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School, where he appeared on stage in a production of ''Cymbeline''.Michael Kitchen interview in The Leicester Mercury 13 August 1992; retrieved 19 March 2015. Career ...
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Gulf War
The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Ba'athist Iraq, Iraq were carried out in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with the Gulf War air campaign, aerial bombing campaign against Iraq on 17 January 1991 and came to a close with the American-led Liberation of Kuwait campaign, Liberation of Kuwait on 28 February 1991. On 2 August 1990, Iraq invaded the neighbouring Kuwait, State of Kuwait and had fully occupied the country within two days. Initially, Iraq ran the occupied territory under a puppet government known as the "Republic of Kuwait" before proceeding with an outright annexation in which Kuwaiti sovereign territory was split, with the "Saddamiyat al-Mitla' District" being car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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