Barry Duffield
Barry Duffield (born 28 February 1962) is an Australian actor, producer, scriptwriter and director from Billingham, England. He is mostly known for his portrayal of Lugo in the Starz television series ''Spartacus''. Early life Born 28 February 1962 in Billingham, England, Barry Duffield moved to Australia with his family in 1968 where they finally settled in Nhulunbuy in the north of the country. He studied at the ''Woodridge North State School'' until 1972, and then at the ''Nhulunbuy Area School'' until 1979. From 1997 to 1998, he chose the ''South Seas Film and Television School'' of New Zealand to improve his skills in writing and direction. At the end of it he got his first and only diploma. He married Susan Flemming, whom he met in 1996, on 26 September 1999. They live together in Auckland. His first steps in movie making was when he took his father's 8mm camera to shoot a short film in stop motion with dance and singing which he called ''Salt'N'Pepper shaker show''. L ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Billingham
Billingham is a List of towns in England, town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in County Durham, England. The town is on the north side of the River Tees and is governed as part of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees unitary authority. It had a population of 33,927, in the 2021 census. The settlement has existed since Anglo-Saxon times as a village. A post-Second World War town centre was built north of the old village centre on the town's grange. It was a township, with an Urban district council, urban district, from 1923, until 1968, when it was absorbed into the County Borough of Teesside, and later part of the county of Cleveland. Billingham is home to the Billingham Manufacturing Plant which is a major producer of chemicals for agriculture. History The town was settled by Angles (tribe), Angles and has a name either meaning ''Billa's people's home'' or ''beak, bill-shaped hill people's home''. The town was in one of the Northumbrian regiones. This regione is tho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Darwin (Australia)
Darwin ( Larrakia: ') is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 census. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre. Darwin's proximity to Southeast Asia makes it a key link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin and extends southerly across central Australia through Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, concluding in Port Augusta, South Australia. The city is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbour. Darwin's suburbs extend to Lee Point in the north and to Berrimah in the east. The Stuart Highway extends to Darwin's eastern satellite city of Palmerston and its suburbs. The Darwin region, like much of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and dry season. A period known locally as "the build up" leading up to Dar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Zealand Writers Guild
The New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) is a New Zealand trade union which represents writers in the fields of film, television, radio, theatre, video and multi-media. The guild's name in Māori language is Puni Taatuhi o Aotearoa. It provides services, events, networks, lobbying, and legal advice to writers mostly in the film and television industry. The Guild is affiliated to three major union organisations, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds and the Union Network International. Description The Guild's members include most of the professional script writers working in New Zealand. There were 517 registered members of the Guild as of 2 November 2016. The Guild was founded in 1975. It was initially established to set minimum rates and conditions for writers working in television. It has expanded to encompass all script writing fields. The NZWG lobbies government to improve conditions for writers, comments about matters relevant ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television commercials, video games, and the growing area of online web series. Terminology In the silent era, screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist, and screen playwright.Maras, Steven. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice'', Wallflower Press, 2009, pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown, and argues that they could not be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "Film scenario, scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a contra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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War Of The Damned
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups. It is generally characterized by widespread violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. ''Warfare'' refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties. Etymology The English word ''war'' derives from the 11th-century Old English words and , from Old French ( as in modern French), in turn from the Frankish , ultimately deriving from the Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic . The word is related to the Old Saxon , Old High German , and the modern German , meaning . History Anth ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vengeance
Vengeance may refer to: *Vengeance (concept) or revenge, a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance Film * ''Vengeance'' (1930 film), action adventure film directed by Archie Mayo * ''Vengeance'' (1937 film) or ''What Price Vengeance?'', Canadian film directed by Del Lord * ''Vengeance'' (1958 film), Spanish drama directed by Juan Antonio Bardem * ''Vengeance'' (1968 film), Spaghetti Western by Antonio Margheriti * ''Vengeance'' (1970 film), kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh * ''Vengeance'' (2009 film), French-Hong Kong film directed by Johnnie To * ''Vengeance'' (2014 film), action film starring Danny Trejo * ''Vengeance'' (2022 film), dark comedy film written, directed, and starring B. J. Novak * '' Vengeance: A Love Story'', a 2017 American action thriller film * ''The Vengeance Trilogy'', series of three South Korean films directed by Park Chan-wook * ''Vengeance'', the working title of the 2022 film '' The Batman'' Literature * Venge ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and dancer. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Prince of Pop", ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' honored him as the best performing male solo act on Pop Airplay and one of the Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century, Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century. Timberlake remains among the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales of over 117 million records worldwide. His List of awards and nominations received by Justin Timberlake, awards include ten Grammy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Brit Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, ''Billboard'' Music Awards, the Songwriters Hall of Fame#Contemporary Icon Award, Contemporary Icon Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and MTV's Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Timberlake appeared on musical televi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yogi Bear (film)
''Yogi Bear'' is a 2010 American live-action animated comedy film directed by Eric Brevig and written by Brad Copeland, Joshua Sternin and Jennifer Ventimilia. Based on the Hanna-Barbera animated television series ''The Yogi Bear Show'', the film stars Anna Faris, Tom Cavanagh, T.J. Miller, Nate Corddry and Andrew Daly, alongside the voices of Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake. The film centers on Yogi Bear as he teams up with his best friend Boo-Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, and nature documentary filmmaker Rachel Johnson to stop their home, Jellystone Park, from being logged. Production on the film took place in New Zealand in October 2008. Produced by Donald De Line's De Line Pictures and Karen Rosenfelt's Sunswept Entertainment, ''Yogi Bear'' premiered at Westwood on December 11, 2010 and was theatrically released in the United States six days later on December 17 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Upon release, the film was met with largely negative reviews from critics. Plo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lucy Lawless
Lucille Frances Lawless (; born 29 March 1968) is a New Zealand actress and director. She is best known for her roles as Xena in the television series ''Xena: Warrior Princess'', as Number Three (Battlestar Galactica), D'Anna Biers on the re-imagined ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Battlestar Galactica'' series, and List of Spartacus characters#Lucretia, Lucretia in the television series ''Spartacus: Blood and Sand'' and associated series. Since 2019, she has starred as Alexa in the television series ''My Life Is Murder''. Lawless had recurring roles as Diane Lewis-Swanson on the NBC sitcom ''Parks and Recreation'' (2012–2014), and as Countess Palatine Ingrid Von Marburg on the WGN America supernatural series ''Salem (TV series), Salem'' (2015). She also starred as Ruby on the Starz horror-comedy series ''Ash vs Evil Dead'' (2015–2018). Early life and education Lawless was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Albert, New Zealand, Mount Albert to teacher Julie Rya ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Warrior Princess
Warrior Princess may refer to: *"Warrior Princess", the 2014 Mongolian hit film about the life of Queen Anu *'' Xena: Warrior Princess'', a 1995-2001 American television series ** "The Warrior Princess" (''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''), an episode of ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' ** ''Xena: Warrior Princess'' (comics) *'' X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Warrior Princess'', a 1996 story arc of the ''X-wing: Rogue Squadron'' comics series *'' Diana: Warrior Princess'', a 2003 roleplaying game by Heliograph Incorporated *''Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender'', a 2013 memoir of Kristin Beck, a former United States Navy SEAL who came out as a trans woman *nickname of English professional kickboxer Ruqsana Begum (born 1983) See also *Women warriors in literature and culture * List of female action heroes *List of women warriors in folklore This is a list of women who engaged in war, found throughout mythology and folklore, studied i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Legendary Journeys
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Young Hercules
''Young Hercules'' is a prequel series to the television series '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' that originally aired on Fox Kids Network. After a pilot film aired on Feb. 17, 1998, the series premiered on September 12, 1998 and ended on May 14, 1999, with a total of 50 episodes over the course of 1 season. It stars Ryan Gosling in the title role, who took over from Ian Bohen who starred in the pilot movie and four episodes of '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''. The series was inspired by the Greek myths of Heracles. Plot The show features the efforts of Ares, the god of war, played by Kevin Tod Smith, who attempts often to destroy his younger half-brother to win over Zeus' good graces. Among his group is his nephew Strife ( Joel Tobeck), who is the rather weaker member of the team. Strife's mother is Discord, goddess of retribution ( Meighan Desmond), who acts more level-headed and power hungry than her counterpart on more than one occasion. The series has two oth ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |