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Titanic (1996 TV Miniseries)
''Titanic'' is a 1996 American two-part television miniseries which premiered on CBS on November 17 and 19, 1996. It focuses on several characters aboard the RMS ''Titanic'' during her maiden voyage in 1912. The miniseries was directed by Robert Lieberman. The original music score was composed by Lennie Niehaus. Plot ''Titanic'' follows three main story threads. Isabella Paradine is traveling on the ''Titanic'' to join her husband after attending her aunt's funeral in the United Kingdom. On the ''Titanic'', she meets Wynn Park, her former lover. She falls in love with him again, and after a brief affair, she sends her husband a wireless saying they cannot be together anymore (despite their daughter). When the ship starts sinking, Isabella reluctantly leaves Wynn when he forces her to board a lifeboat. As the boat is lowered, Isabella confesses a long kept secret that her daughter Claire is actually Wynn's. Later on board the RMS ''Carpathia'' she is grief-stricken when she find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lieberman
Robert Lieberman (July 16, 1947 – July 1, 2023) was an American film and television director. Career Lieberman was the founder of the commercial production company Harmony Pictures and directed close to two thousand commercials. He received many Clio nominations and won 29. Lieberman in 1980 was the first winner of the DGA Award for Best Commercial Director. He was nominated another three times for the DGA Award and in 1996 won his second award. He also directed one film with Akshay Kumar called '' Speedy Singhs'' starring Camilla Belle and Vinay Virmani. Personal life Lieberman was married from June 27, 1990, to June 7, 2001, to actress Marilu Henner; the divorced couple had two children, Nicholas Morgan and Joseph Marlon. He also has two children, Erin and Lorne Lieberman, from his first marriage. Lieberman married former model Victoria Peters in 2010. Illness and death Robert Lieberman died after battling cancer in Los Angeles on July 1, 2023, at the age of 75. Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifeboat (shipboard)
A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills are required by law on larger commercial ships. Rafts (raft, liferafts) are also used. In the military, a lifeboat may double as a whaleboat, dinghy, or Captain's gig, gig. The ship's tenders of cruise ships often double as lifeboats. Recreational sailors usually carry inflatable liferafts, though a few prefer small proactive lifeboats that are harder to sink and can be sailed to safety. Inflatable lifeboats may be equipped with auto-inflation (carbon dioxide or nitrogen) canisters or mechanical pumps. A quick release and pressure release mechanism is fitted on ships so that the canister or pump automatically inflates the lifeboat, and the lifeboat breaks free of the sinking vessel. Commercial aircraft are also required to carry auto-inflating liferafts in case of an emergency water landing; offshore oil platforms also have life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Waterman
Felicity Waterman (born 11 October 1964) is an English actress known for her role as Vanessa Hunt during the final two seasons of the television drama series ''Knots Landing'', and for her role as regular cast member Lt. Abigail Hawling on the syndicated television series '' Pensacola: Wings of Gold'' (1999–2000).Felicity Waterman Biography (From www.pensacolatv.com) She has also appeared in other TV series such as '' Thunder in Paradise'' (as Megan Whitaker Spencer, two episodes, 1994) '''' (as "Kelsey" in " |
Mike Doyle (actor)
Michael Doyle (born September 16, 1972) is an American actor. He is mainly known for his role on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' as Ryan O'Halloran, Adam Guenzel in '' Oz'', and from 2018 to 2023 on ''New Amsterdam'' as Martin McIntyre. Early life and career Doyle attended the Juilliard School as a member of the Drama Division's ''Group 27'' (1994–1998). On the set of '' Oz'', Doyle met George Morfogen, whom he would cast in ''Shiner'', a short film written, produced and directed by Doyle that debuted at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Doyle also wrote and produced the 2003 limited-release film ''Cutter''. Doyle also appeared as Jamie Perse, a small-time crook, in the 1996 television miniseries ''Titanic'' (also starring Peter Gallagher and Catherine Zeta-Jones). Doyle played Lt. Cmdr. Tom Palatonio in the 2005 action film '' Phantom Below''. His death in the season 10 finale of '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' ended a successful six-year run as forensic tech Rya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Brown
Margaret Brown (née Tobin; July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS ''Titanic'', which sank in 1912, and she unsuccessfully urged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field to look for survivors. During her lifetime, her friends called her "Maggie", but by her death, obituaries referred to her as the "Unsinkable Mrs. Brown". Gene Fowler referred to her as "Molly Brown" in his 1933 book '' Timberline''. The following year, she was referred to as the "Unsinkable Mrs. Brown" and "Molly Brown" in newspapers. Early life Margaret Tobin was born on July 18, 1867, near the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri, on Denkler's Alley. The three-room cottage where she was born is now the Molly Brown Birthplace and Museum; it is on 600 Butler Street in Hannibal. Her parents were Irish Catholic immigrants John Tobin and Johanna (Collins) Tobin. Her s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Rees
Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh-American actor and director. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby''. He also received Obie Awards for his role in ''The End of the Day'' and as co-director of ''Peter and the Starcatcher''. Rees was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in November 2015. On television, he played Robin Colcord in ''Cheers'' and List of The West Wing characters#Foreign officials, Lord John Marbury in ''The West Wing''. He also appeared as the Sheriff of Rottingham in Mel Brooks' ''Robin Hood: Men in Tights''. Early life Rees was born in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales, the son of Doris Louise (née Smith), a shop clerk, and William John Rees, a police officer. He and his parents moved to Balham, London, where he grew up. He studied art at the Camberwell College of Arts and the Slade S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Smith (sea Captain)
Edward John Smith (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was a British sea captain and naval officer. In 1880, he joined the White Star Line as an officer, beginning a long career in the British Merchant Navy. Smith went on to serve as the master of numerous White Star Line vessels. During the Second Boer War, he served in the Royal Naval Reserve, transporting British Imperial troops to the Cape Colony. Smith served as captain of the ocean liner ''Titanic'', and perished along with 1,510 others when she sank on her maiden voyage. Early life Edward John Smith was born on 27 January 1850 on Well Street, Hanley, Staffordshire, England to Edward Smith, a potter, and Catherine Hancock, born Marsh, who married on 2 August 1841 in Shelton, Staffordshire. His parents later owned a shop. Smith attended the British School in Etruria, Staffordshire, until the age of 13 when he left and operated a steam hammer at the Etruria Forge. In 1867, he went to Liverpool at the age of 17 in the foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Lowe
Commander Harold Godfrey Lowe (21 November 1882 – 12 May 1944) was a British naval officer. He was also the fifth officer of the ''RMS Titanic'', and was one of the four ship's officers to survive the disaster. Biography Early years Harold Godfrey Lowe was born in Llanrhos, Caernarvonshire, Wales, on 21 November 1882, the fourth of eight children, born to George Edward and Emma Harriette Quick. His father had ambitions for him to be apprenticed to a successful Liverpool businessman, but Lowe was determined to go to sea. At 14, he ran away from his home in Barmouth where he had attended school and joined the Merchant Navy, serving along the West African Coast. Lowe started as a ship's boy aboard the Welsh coastal schooners as he worked to attain his certifications. In 1906, he passed his certification and gained his second mate's certificate, then in 1908, he attained his first mate's certificate. By the time he started with the White Star Line, in 1911, he had gained his Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Cleaver
Alice Catherine Cooper (1889–1984) was a survivor of the and nursemaid for the Allison family, wealthy insurance moguls from Canada during the early 20th century. She is best known for rescuing the youngest Allison child, Hudson Trevor, from the ''Titanic''. Little is known about her later life, as she refused to give interviews after surviving the shipwreck. She was the subject of books and movies that misidentified her as Alice Mary Cleaver, a woman who was infamous for murdering her own infant. Early life Alice Catherine Cooper was born in London on 5 July 1889. Her father Joseph Cooper was a postman, and her mother was Lavinia Alice Cooper (maiden name Thomas). Work When she was 22, Cooper was hired by the Allison family to be a nursemaid for their youngest child, Hudson Trevor. She traveled first class on the ''Titanic'' with them (under ticket No. 113781) and boarded in Southampton. She stayed in the same room as Trevor so that she could care for him, which was right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Family
The Allison family was a Canadian family of first-class passengers on board the RMS ''Titanic'', which struck an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912. The family consisted of Hudson Joshua Creighton Allison (9 December 1881 – 15 April 1912); his wife, Bess Waldo Allison (''née'' Daniels; 14 November 1886 – 15 April 1912); their daughter, Helen Loraine Allison (5 June 1909 – 15 April 1912); and son, Hudson Trevor Allison (7 May 1911 – 7 August 1929). Of the family, only Trevor survived. History The Allison family, bound for Montreal, booked first-class passage on the ''Titanic''. They boarded the ship in Southampton along with four servants: a maid, Sarah Daniels (no relation to Bess); a nurse, Alice Cleaver; a cook, Amelia Mary "Mildred" Brown; and a butler, George Swane. Hudson and Bess occupied cabin C-22, Sarah and Loraine occupied C-24, and Alice and Trevor occupied C-26. Two second-class cabins were booked for George and Mildred. Hudson and Bess were dining c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
