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Citizen Verdict
''Citizen Verdict'' is a 2003 drama film directed by Philippe Martinez and starring Armand Assante, Jerry Springer and Roy Scheider. Cast *Armand Assante as Sam Patterson *Jerry Springer as Marty Rockman *Roy Scheider as Governor Bull Tyler *Raffaello Degruttola as Ricky Carr *Dorette Potgieter as Carlene Osway *Justine Mitchell as Jessica Landers *Gideon Emery as Larry Grimes *Adrian Galley as William Doby *Langley Kirkwood as Vince Turner *Brendan Pollecutt as Bob White Reception The film has a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Jamie Russell of the BBC awarded the film two stars out of five. Steve Persall of the Tampa Bay Times The ''Tampa Bay Times'', called the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute ... graded the film a C−. References External links * * {{rotten-tomatoes, citizen_verdict British d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Martinez
Philippe Martínez is a French film producer, director, screenwriter, actor, and former President of the Odéon Theater in Marseille. Career From 1988 through 1990, Martinez was President of the Odéon Theater, Marseille. In late 1990, he moved to the United States and became Chairman of the Board of Ulysses Entertainment. From 1996 to 1999 he headed Los Angeles–based Betar Entertainment and served as executive producer on '' Ultimate Weapon'' and ''In Her Defense''. In 1999, Martinez launched Bauer-Martinez Studios and produced over 14 films including '' The Piano Player'', '' Out of Season'', '' The Defender'', ''Dot.Kill'', '' House of 9'', and '' Land of the Blind''. More recently, he produced '' Modigliani''. As film director, Martinez completed '' Citizen Verdict'', '' Wake of Death'', '' The Steam Experiment'', and '' Viktor''. Filmography :;Producer * ''The Night and the Moment'' (1994) * '' Getting In'' (1994) * '' Musketeers Forever'' (1998) * '' The Ultimat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Assante
Armand Anthony Assante Jr. (; born October 4, 1949) is an American actor. He played mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film '' Gotti'', Odysseus in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of Homer's ''The Odyssey'', Nietzsche in '' When Nietzsche Wept'', and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's '' I, the Jury''. He has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards (one win for his performance in ''Gotti''), four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Early life Assante was born in New York City and raised in Cornwall, New York, the son of Armand Anthony Assante Sr., a painter and artist, and Katharine (née Healy), a music teacher, English teacher and poet. He is of Italian and Irish descent. Career During the 1970s, Assante was a regular on two NBC soap operas, '' How to Survive a Marriage'' as Johnny McGhee and '' The Doctors'' as Mike Powers. His first film was ''The Lords of Flatbush'' (1974), although his work did not appear in the final cut of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Springer
Gerald Norman Springer (February 13, 1944 – April 27, 2023) was a British-American broadcaster, journalist, actor, lawyer, and politician. He was best known for hosting the controversial tabloid talk show '' Jerry Springer'' from 1991 to 2018. Springer was noted as a pioneer in the emergence of " trash TV"; his eponymous show was a "commercial smash and certifiable cultural phenomenon" in the 1990s. Born in London during World War II to Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust, Springer was raised in Queens, New York City. He attended Northwestern University School of Law, qualified as a lawyer, and first became actively involved in politics working for the campaign of Robert Kennedy in 1968. A Cincinnati City Council member, Springer served as the 56th Mayor of Cincinnati from 1977 to 1978. He then worked as a local news anchor in Cincinnati where he won ten Regional Emmy Awards for commentary. From 2005 to 2006, Springer hosted '' Springer on the Radio,'' a liberal t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s through to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe, and one British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA. Scheider's best-known roles include Frank Ligourin in ''Klute'' (1971), Police Chief Martin Brody in ''Jaws (film), Jaws'' (1975) and its Jaws 2, 1978 sequel, "Cloudy" Russo in ''The French Connection (film), The French Connection'' (1971), "Buddy" in ''The Seven-Ups'' (1973), Doc Levy in ''Marathon Man (film), Marathon Man'' (1976), Scanlon / Dominguez in ''Sorcerer (film), Sorcerer'' (1977), Joe Gideon in ''All That Jazz (film), All That Jazz'' (1979), Frank Murphy in ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), and Dr. Heywood Floyd in the ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' sequel, ''2010: The Year We Make Contact'' (1984). Subsequent credits included ''Naked Lunc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Farley
Guy Farley is a British film composer, arranger and conductor. Farley has received accolades and nominations throughout his career including 4 nominations at the 2014 Music and Sound awards, winning the best original composition for Marks and Spencer – "Believe in Magic and Sparkle" TV advertisement. His score for ''A Good American'' was nominated for best original score in 2017 at the Austrian Film Awards and in 2017 his arrangement of Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Yes I Can" for ''We're the Superhumans'', for Channel 4 saw the film win multiple awards including the Cannes Golden Lion award (Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity). Farley has composed scores for over 50 films, including independent films in UK, Italy, Portugal and Germany and for TV series in UK and US, including Netflix series ''The Crown (TV series), The Crown'' (additional music in 3 episodes, 2016) and US series ''True Justice'' (2010–2012) , starring Steven Seagal. Farley's wide range of films includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. Cannes is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside Venice and Berlin, as well as one of the "Big Five" major international film festivals, alongside Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. History The early years The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They found the support of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery (born 12 September 1972) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Deucalion in '' Teen Wolf'' and for providing voice-over work in video games, television series and films. Early life and education Emery was born to Pauline, a competitive horse rider and Ashton, a management consultant. He has two half-brothers. At the age of 4, his father moved the family to Johannesburg, South Africa. Emery kept himself amused by imitating characters from film and television. Early impersonations included Michael Jackson and Max from '' Hart to Hart''. He returned to England during high school, briefly attending Reading Blue Coat School. But it was back in South Africa at St John's College where he cemented his love for acting, playing Dick Deadeye in the Gilbert & Sullivan musical '' H.M.S. Pinafore'' and winning Best Actor for the role of Mr. Glum in The Glums comedy sketch, "L'Engagement". After briefly considering a career in graphic art, he went on to study acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley Kirkwood
Langley Kirkwood (born 14 April 1973) is a South African actor. He has appeared in films such as '' Invictus'', ''Dredd'', and '' Mia and the White Lion'', as well as TV series, including '' Generation Kill'' in 2008 and the 2024 series '' White Lies''. He is also a triathlete, and participated in the South African Ironman competition several times. Early life and education Langley Kirkwood was born in England on 14 April 1973. He moved to South Africa with his parents when he was young. He studied acting at school and went on to study drama at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon .... Career He has starred in many South African as well as international TV series, including '' Generation Kill'' (2008) and the 2024 se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampa Bay Times
The ''Tampa Bay Times'', called the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit journalism school directly adjacent to the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus. It has won fourteen Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single year for the first time in its history, one of which was for its PolitiFact project. History The newspaper traces its origin to the ''West Hillsborough Times'', a weekly newspaper established in Dunedin, Florida, on the Pinellas Peninsula in 1884. At the time, neither St. Petersburg nor Pinellas County existed; the peninsula was part of Hillsborough County. The paper was published weekly in the back of a pharmacy and had a circulation of 480. It subsequently changed ownership six times in seventeen years. In December 1884, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Drama Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Drama Films
German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman era) * German diaspora * German language * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
