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David Menkin
David Menkin (born 10 May 1977) is a Norwegian-born American actor. He is best known for his voice roles as Porter and Jack in the US dub of ''Thomas & Friends'' (2013–2021) and as Virgil and Gordon Tracy in the 2015 reboot series '' Thunderbirds Are Go'' (2015–2020). His other voice roles in animation and video games include Scoop and Travis in the US version of ''Bob the Builder'', Dad Hooman in '' Floogals'', Chuck in ''Space Chickens in Space'', Munki and Rocky in '' Jungle Beat: The Movie'', Malos in ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'', Captain Joseph Brady in ''Battlefield 3'', Breach in ''Valorant'', Magnus in '' Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers'', Luke Skywalker in '' Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga'', and Barnabas Tharmr in ''Final Fantasy XVI''. Early life Menkin was born to a Norwegian mother and an American father in Moss, where he partially spent his childhood before the family moved to Benin to partake in Saga Petrolium's oil drilling in West Africa. In a 2018 rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moss, Norway
Moss is a coastal List of cities in Norway, town and a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Østfold Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Moss. The city of Moss was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt) and City in 1720. The rural municipality of Jeløy was merged with the city on 1 July 1943. The former municipality of Rygge was merged into it on 1 January 2020. Its administrative district covers areas east of the town, such as the island of Dillingøy in the lake Vansjø. Parts of the town are located on the peninsula of Jeløy. The city of Moss has 30,723 inhabitants (2012). Name The Old Norse form of the name was . It may be derived from an old root ''mer-'' which means to "divide" or "split". The adjacent topography shares similar etymology: * , Mosse-"marsh-river-border"+ (see , , Old Norse for river). The name is thought to be very old and the meaning of it is not clear. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benin
Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It was formerly known as Dahomey. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its population lives on the southern coastline of the Bight of Benin, part of the Gulf of Guinea in the northernmost tropical portion of the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Porto-Novo, and the seat of government is in Cotonou, the most populous city and economic capital. Benin covers an area of , and its population in was estimated to be approximately million. It is a tropical country with an economy heavily dependent on agriculture and is an exporter of palm oil and cotton. From the 17th to the 19th century, political entities in the area included the Kingdom of Dahomey, the city-state of Porto-Novo#History, Porto Novo, and other states to the north. This region was referred to as the Slave Coast of West Africa from the early 17th century due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Sherman (actor)
Martin T. Sherman (born 1971) is an American actor, director, writer and inventor. Early life Martin T. Sherman was born in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1971. He is a graduate of Gibbs High School. Career Sherman has starred in several films and television as well as providing voice acting for several video games, including Pac-Man in '' Pac-Man World 3'', the first time the character ever had a voice actor in his games. From 2009 to 2015, Sherman voiced Thomas and Percy in the US version of the children's television series ''Thomas & Friends,'' as well as providing their voices for the Day out with Thomas dummy units (and the steam locomotive at the Strasburg Rail Road). He also voiced Diesel in the show's US dub from 2013 to 2015, taking over from former U.S. narrator Michael Brandon. After Sherman's departure from the series, Joseph May, Christopher Ragland, and Kerry Shale had taken over the roles of Thomas, Percy, and Diesel respectively, though Shale had already voiced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas The Tank Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional, anthropomorphised tank locomotive who originated from the British children's books ''The Railway Series'', created and written by Wilbert Awdry with his son Christopher Awdry, Christopher, first published in 1945. Thomas runs on the Fat Controller's North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor. He became the most popular character in the series, and is the titular protagonist in the accompanying television series adaptation ''Thomas & Friends'' and its reboot ''Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go''. Based on the LB&SCR E2 class,Sibley, Brian (1995). ''The Thomas the Tank Engine Man''. London: Heinemann. . Thomas debuted in the 1946 book ''Thomas the Tank Engine (book), Thomas the Tank Engine''—the second book in ''The Railway Series''—and was the focus of the four short stories featured within. In 1979, British writer and producer Britt Allcroft came across the books, and arranged a deal to make the television series ''Thomas the Tan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Schwab
John Schwab is an American actor, TV producer and musician who resides in London. He produced ''The Hide'' with Christopher Granier-Deferre, which was nominated for a BIFA 2010. He is best known for his film and television roles, such as lawyer Travis Tygart in the 2015 drama film '' The Program'' (2015), baseball player Lefty Grove in the 2018 biographical drama film '' The Catcher Was a Spy'' (2018) and television producer Jotham Starr in the television miniseries ''Dark Money'' (2019). He has worked on British television series such as ''Doctor Who'', '' Clone'', ''My Dad's the Prime Minister'', '' Hotel Babylon'' and '' The Mallorca Files''. His voice work in animation and video games include Dane in '' Crysis: Warhead'', Zeck in ''Boo, Zino & the Snurks'', Vinnie in '' Thomas & Friends: The Great Race'', Timo in '' Gladiators of Rome'', Jin in ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' and '' Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country'', Dandelion in ''The Witcher'' video games, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Rackstraw
Robert Rackstraw (born 31 October 1965) is an English voice actor who has worked in various animated films, television shows and video games. Early life Rackstraw grew up in the Sunderland suburb of New Silksworth, and attended Southmoor Comprehensive. His voice acting career began with a chance meeting with a local radio presenter, when he began writing scripts for radio adverts, and later voicing them. He said in 2013: “I thought it was daft that these guys get paid a lot more FOR reading than I was FOR writing. So I started augmenting my income by writing ridiculous things and accents into my scripts that no one else could do but me. I eventually got a show reel together and I started sending it all over the country." Filmography Film Television Video games References External links * 1965 births Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors English male television writers English male voice actors English televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV3 (Norway)
TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viaplay Group. It was separated from the earlier Pan-Scandinavian version in 1990. Unlike its main rivals, NRK, TV 2 and TVNorge, the channel does not broadcast from Norway but from West Drayton, Middlesex in the United Kingdom, even if the channel is almost solely aimed at Norwegian viewers. This excludes the channel from the strict rules in Norway that apply to advertising (ban on advertisements aimed at children or interrupting programs). Also unlike the other main channels, it wasn't available on analogue terrestrial, having to rely on satellite and cable television for its distribution. With the launch of digital terrestrial television in October 2007, the channel became available terrestrially. On 3 August 2009 TV3 launched a new visual identity and a new logo. The new visual identity mostly uses purple colour. The identity had rolled out to Denmark and Hungary, as TV3 Norway was the first to use it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Foster Jenkins (film)
''Florence Foster Jenkins'' is a 2016 biographical film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Nicholas Martin and Julia Kogan. It stars Meryl Streep as Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress known for her generosity and poor singing. Hugh Grant plays her manager and long-time companion, St. Clair Bayfield. Other cast members include Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Nina Arianda. Filming began in May 2015, and the premiere was held in London on 12 April 2016. The film was released on 6 May 2016 in the United Kingdom, 13 July in France and 12 August in the United States. At the 89th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Actress for Streep, which marked her 20th Oscar nomination, and Best Costume Design. The film also received four nominations at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Plot In 1944, Florence Foster Jenkins is a New York City socialite heiress who founded the Verdi Club to celebrate her lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From U
''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] |
Arthur Christmas
''Arthur Christmas'' is a 2011 animated Christmas comedy film directed by Sarah Smith who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Baynham, and starring the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley Jensen. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, and Aardman Features and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, the film is Aardman's second computer-animated feature film after 2006's ''Flushed Away''. The film tells the story of Santa Claus' family as one of his sons works to deliver an overlooked bicycle to a little girl in Trelew, Cornwall, England before Christmas morning. Following the under-performance of ''Flushed Away'', DreamWorks Animation did not renew its partnership with Aardman. In April 2007, Aardman signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures. Originally titled ''Operation Rudolph'', the project was first announced in 2007. Aardman spent 18 months on pre-production on the story and design in the UK bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zero Dark Thirty
''Zero Dark Thirty'' is a 2012 American political action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. Produced by Boal, Bigelow, and Megan Ellison, and independently financed by Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, the film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks, which culminates in the discovery of his compound in Pakistan and the U.S. military raid where bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011. It stars Jessica Chastain as Maya, a fictional CIA intelligence analyst, with Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton appearing in supporting roles. Widely released on January 11, 2013, following its premiere in Los Angeles on December 10, 2012, ''Zero Dark Thirty'' received critical acclaim for its acting, direction, screenplay, sound design, and editing, and was a major box office success, grossing $132 million worldwide. It appeared on 95 critics' top ten lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octane (film)
''Octane'' (released as ''Pulse'' in the United States) is a 2003 horror film directed by Marcus Adams and starring Madeleine Stowe, Mischa Barton, and Norman Reedus. The film follows a divorced mother and her teenage daughter on a late-night road trip, and the mother's battle to find her daughter after she gets caught up with a bizarre cult of young criminals at a truck stop. Shot largely in Luxembourg, the film features a soundtrack by dance duo Orbital. It was released in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2003, having previously screened at the CineVegas Film Festival in the United States. Upon its release, the film was noted by some critics (such as ''Variety'') for blending elements of American road films with surrealist horror. Plot A man and woman posing as paramedics assists a man in an overturned car on a freeway. As an ambulance approaches, the woman panics, taping the man's mouth shut and pulling him from the car before speeding away. Meanwhile, single mother Senga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
