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Biggles (film)
''Biggles'' is a 1986 British science fiction adventure film directed by John Hough (later released in 1988 in the United States as ''Biggles: Adventures in Time''). The plot involves time travel between the 1980s and the 1910s during World War I, involving the character, Biggles (from the series of novels by W. E. Johns). The film stars Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, and Peter Cushing in his final feature film role. Plot In the mid 1980s, catering salesman Jim Ferguson ( Alex Hyde-White), living in present-day New York City, is involuntarily transported to 1917, where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth (Neil Dickson) after he is shot down on a photo recon mission. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to 1986. He is visited by Biggles' former commanding officer, William Raymond (Peter Cushing), who is now an Air Commodore living in Tower Bridge in London. Raymond tells him about his theory that Ferguson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature printed likenesses of the main actors. Prior to the 1980s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, and other pertinent details to inform prospective viewers about the film. Film posters are often displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitor's pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD (and historically VHS) packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Max
''The Blue Max'' is a 1966 war film , WW I film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Karl Michael Vogler, and Jeremy Kemp. The film was made in DeLuxe Color and was one of the last movies filmed in CinemaScope. It was filmed entirely in Ireland, and included numerous location scenes shot in Dublin, Wicklow and Cork. The plot is about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front during World War I. The screenplay was written by David Pursall, Jack Seddon, and Gerald Hanley, based on the novel of the same name by Jack D. Hunter as adapted by Ben Barzman and Basilio Franchina. In contrast to films that romanticize the flying aces of the Great War, ''The Blue Max'' depicts the protagonist as a man who appears to have no regard for anyone but himself. Set against the realities of modern warfare, the film also explores the decline of chivalry and the advent of total war. Plot German Unteroffizier, Corpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Flynn (actor)
Daniel Flynn (born 1961) is an English actor. His credits include '' Biggles: Adventures in Time'' (1986), '' The Detectives'' (1994), ''Soldier Soldier'' (1994), '' Peak Practice'' (1998), '' Murder in Mind'' (2003), '' William and Mary'' (2003), ''Afterlife'' (2005), ''The Bill'' (2006–2009), Solaire of Astora in the 2011 FromSoftware game '' Dark Souls'', '' Unforgotten'' (2021), and ''The Crown'' (2022). Early life Flynn was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, the son of actor Eric Flynn and his wife Fern Warner; the family moved to Bromley, Kent, when he was a baby. He has a brother and sister; his brother is actor Jerome Flynn. He also has a half-brother and sister from his father's second marriage; Johnny Flynn is a musician and actor. Flynn is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1982 with an Acting (RADA Diploma). Career Flynn has been acting on television since 1983. From 2006 until 2009, he played the role of Superintendent John Heato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Saxon (actor)
William James Smyth (12 June 1955 – 2 July 2003), better known by his stage name James Saxon, was an English character actor. He began his career in British television productions in the early 1980s. Early life Saxon was born William James Smyth on 12 June 1955, in the town of Swindon in the county of Wiltshire. He trained to be an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in London. Career Saxon began his career on television in the series ''Jukes of Piccadilly'' in 1980 before landing the part of Morris Hardacre in a period-piece social comedy series, set in 1930s Northern England, entitled ''Brass'', a part he played in all three series. As the decade progressed, he appeared in numerous television productions, playing the role of an American airman, Sergeant Elmer Jones, in the series ''We'll Meet Again'' (1982), and Oscar Botcherby in the 1985 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Two Doctors''. In 1986, he played the character of Phillip Crane in the BBC series '' Brush Strok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Siberry
Michael Siberry (born 1956) is an Australian stage and screen actor. Life and career Siberry was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia and began his career in Adelaide at the State Theatre Company of South Australia before moving to England to perform for the Royal Shakespeare Company. On Broadway, Siberry has performed the likes of Nicholas Nickleby in '' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'', Gratiano in '' The Merchant of Venice'', Captain Georg von Trapp in ''The Sound of Music'' and Shakespeare in '' The Frogs'' (Lincoln Center). Other theatre credits include Morrell in '' Candida'' and Astrov in '' Uncle Vanya'' at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey and Osbourne in '' Journey's End'', Oberon in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and Billy Flynn in ''Chicago'' at London's West end theatre. He portrayed King Arthur in the U.S. National Tour of '' Monty Python's Spamalot'' for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Gonshaw
Francesca Gonshaw (born 25 November 1959) is an English former actress who appeared in television, theatre and cinema productions in the 1980s. From 1982 to 1987, she appeared as Maria Recamier in the BBC's '''Allo 'Allo!'' television situation comedy series set in occupied France during World War II. After early roles in the BBC's ''Shades'' and ''Gesualdo the Prince'', Gonshaw featured as Arsinoe in '' The Cleopatras'' in 1983. After leaving ''Allo 'Allo!'' for the role of Amanda Palmer in the drama '' Howard's Way'', Gonshaw appeared in other productions including as Lisa Walters in the Central soap-opera ''Crossroads'' (1984–85), as Maria in the movie '' Biggles: Adventures in Time'' (1986) and in the Grammy-winning music video for Peter Gabriel's "Digging in the Dirt" (1992). On stage, she played Hermia in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and Ophelia in ''Hamlet''. After her acting career, she went on to work for Miramax Books, and then became curator of an art gallery. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauptmann
() is an officer rank in the armies of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It is usually translated as ''captain''. Background While in contemporary German means 'main', it also has, and originally had, the meaning of 'head', i.e. ' literally translates to 'head-man', which is also the etymological root of ''captain'' (from Latin , 'head'). This rank is equivalent to the rank of captain in the British and US Armies, and is rated OF-2 in NATO. : Currently, there is no female form within the German military (such as ''Hauptfrau''): the correct form of address is "''Frau Hauptmann''." More generally, a Hauptmann can be the head of any hierarchically structured group of people, often as a compound word. For example, a is the captain of a fire brigade, while refers to the leader of a gang of robbers. Official Austrian and German titles incorporating the word include , , , and . In Saxony during the Weimar Republic, the titles of , and were held by senior civil servants. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant
A lieutenant ( , ; abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a Junior officer, junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, Security agency, security services and police forces. The rank in armies and air forces is often subdivided into subcategories of seniority. In Comparative navy officer ranks of Anglophone countries, English-speaking navies, lieutenants are often equivalent to the army rank of Captain (armed forces), captain; in other navies, the lieutenants are usually equal to their army counterparts. ''Lieutenant'' may also appear as part of a title used in various other organisations with a codified command structure. It often designates someone who is "second-in-command", and as such, may precede the name of the rank directly above it. For example, a "lieutenant master" is likely to be second-in-command to the "master" in an organisation using both ranks. Political uses include lieu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which Lift (force), lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning Helicopter rotor, rotors. This allows the helicopter to VTOL, take off and land vertically, to hover (helicopter), hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft and many forms of short take-off and landing (STOL) or short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft cannot perform without a runway. The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter in 1936, while in 1942, the Sikorsky R-4 became the first helicopter to reach full-scale mass production, production. Starting in 1939 and through 1943, Igor Sikorsky worked on the development of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, VS-300, which over four iterations, became the basis for modern helicopters with a single main rotor and a single tail rotor. Although most earlier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
