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Almeria Walk Of Fame
Almeria Walk of Fame (Paseo de la fama de Almería in Spanish) is the filmmaking Walk of Fame located in Almeria, Spain, similar to Hollywood Walk of Fame. Celebrities The celebrities who have their own star are: * Eduardo Fajardo received his star on April 11, 2012 for his role in '' 7th Cavalry'' and '' Django''. * Omar Sharif received his star on December 4, 2012 for his role in ''Lawrence of Arabia'' * Ridley Scott received his a star for directing '' Exodus: Gods and Kings.'' in 2013 * Producer Denis O'Dell received his star on December 3, 2013 for his work on ''How I Won the War''. * Max von Sydow received his star on December 5, 2013 for his role in '' March or Die''. * Arnold Schwarzenegger received his star on October 29, 2014 for his role in Conan the Barbarian'', as well as receiving Almería Tierra de Cine prix. * Actor and director Terry Gilliam received his star on December 3, 2014 during the XIII Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Almería en Corto. * Patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif ( ar, عمر الشريف ; born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub , 10 April 193210 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances in British, American, French, and Italian productions. His career encompassed over 100 films spanning 50 years, and brought him many accolades including three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award for Best Actor. Sharif played opposite Peter O'Toole as Sherif Ali in the David Lean epic ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and portrayed the title role in Lean's ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965), earning him the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He continued to play romantic leads, in films like '' Funny Girl'' (1968) and ''The Tamarind Seed'' (1974), and historical figures like the eponymous characters in ''Genghis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Von Sydow
Max von Sydow ( , ; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. He became a French citizen in 2002 and lived in France for the last two decades of his life. Capable in roles ranging from stolid, contemplative protagonists to sardonic artists and menacing, often gleeful villains, von Sydow was first noticed internationally for playing the 14th-century knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's ''The Seventh Seal'' (1957), which features iconic scenes of his character challenging Death to a game of chess. He appeared in a total of eleven films directed by Bergman, among which were ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960) and '' Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He starred in a third winner, Bille August's ''Pelle the Conq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Cosas Del Querer
''The Things of Love'' ( es, Las cosas del querer, links=no) is a 1989 Spanish musical film directed by Jaime Chávarri which stars Ángela Molina, Ángel de Andrés López, and Manuel Bandera. Plot Set in Francoist Spain, the plot tracks a homosexual singer (Mario), a pianist (Juan), and the latter's girlfriend (Pepita), who form a troupe (as well as a love triangle) and tour around Spain. Cast Production A Lince Films and Compañía Iberoamericana de TV production, the film was inspired by the life of '' copla'' singer , even though the filmmakers had no permission from the artist and the producer Luis Sanz did not want to acknowledge it either. The screenplay was penned by Lázaro Irazábal, Fernando Colomo, and Jaime Chávarri, based on a story by Lázaro Larreta. Shooting locations included the 'Teatro Ideal Cinema' in Úbeda, as well as Madrid and the province of Almería. Release The film was theatrically released in Spain on 3 October 1989. Accolades , - , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángela Molina
Ángela Molina Tejedor (born 5 October 1955) is a Spanish actress. Aside from her performances in Spanish films, she has starred in multiple international productions, particularly in a number of Italian films and television series. Family Molina was born in Madrid on 5 October 1955, the daughter of singer Antonio Molina and Ángela Tejedor. Her siblings , Mónica and are also actors. Another of her siblings, , is a composer. Career She studied dance and theatre art in the Escuela Superior de Madrid. She made her film debut in 1975 with César Fernández Ardavín's ''No matarás''. Another early major credit is her performance as Rosa (a sexually provocative woman and unwed mother) in '' Black Brood'' (1977), a film portraying fascist violence in post-Francoist Spain. She rose to international prominence after starring in Luis Buñuel's last film ''That Obscure Object of Desire'' (1977). She has worked with such directors as Luis Buñuel, the Taviani brothers, Jaime Cháv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rustlers' Rhapsody
''Rustlers' Rhapsody'' is a 1985 American comedy–Western film. It is a parody of many Western conventions, most visibly of the singing cowboy films that were prominent in the 1930s and the 1940s. The film was written and directed by Hugh Wilson, who was supposedly inspired by working at CBS Studio Center, the former Republic Pictures backlot. It stars Tom Berenger as a stereotypical good-guy cowboy, Rex O'Herlihan, who is drawn out of a black-and-white film and transferred into a more self-aware setting. Patrick Wayne, son of Western icon John Wayne, co-stars, along with Andy Griffith, Fernando Rey, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner and Sela Ward. Henner was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award as Worst Supporting Actress. Plot The concept of the film is explained in a voiceover wondering what it would be like if one of the old Rex O'Herlihan films were to be made today. At that point, the scene shifts from black and white to color and the soundtrack changes from mono to surrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger
''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger'' is a 1977 fantasy film directed by Sam Wanamaker and featuring stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhausen. The film stars Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Jane Seymour and Patrick Troughton. The third and final ''Sinbad'' film released by Columbia Pictures, it follows ''The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'' (1958) and ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'' (1973). Plot In the kingdom of Charak, a celebration is taking place for the coronation of Prince Kassim, but Kassim's evil stepmother, Zenobia, places a curse on him just as he is going to be crowned Caliph. Sinbad, a sailor and Prince of Baghdad, moors at Charak some time later, intent on seeking permission from Prince Kassim to marry Kassim's sister, Princess Farah, but finds the city under curfew. Sinbad and his men are offered hospitality by a man named Rafi, but during their meal one of Sinbad's crew is poisoned and the rest are attacked by Rafi, who is Zenobia's son. Sinbad defeats him, but Zenobia summons a tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deserter (1971 Film)
''The Deserter'' ( it, La Spina Dorsale Del Diavolo) is a 1970 Italian- Yugoslav American international co-production Western film produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It was directed by Burt Kennedy and written by Clair Huffaker. Scripted during the Vietnam War in the style of ''The Dirty Dozen'' (1967) with a party of professional or misfit soldiers going into an enemy sanctuary, it was designed as a vehicle for Yugoslavian theater and film matinee idol Bekim Fehmiu. The film featured an ensemble cast of well-known American actors. Noted as the boy in ''Shane'' (1953), actor Brandon deWilde appears in his last Western film before his death in 1972. Plot A US Army cavalry unit returns from a two week patrol to find the inhabitants of a Christian mission near its home fort have been killed by Apache Indians. Among the victims is the savagely tortured wife of the patrol's leader, Capt. Victor Kaleb (Bekim Fehmiu). Still alive after she was skinned alive, Kaleb has to execute his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Wayne
Patrick John Morrison (born July 15, 1939), better known by his stage name Patrick Wayne, is an American actor. He is the second son of movie star John Wayne and his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz. He made over 40 films, including eleven with his father. Later in his career, Wayne became a television host with the 1980 variety program '' The Monte Carlo Show'' and the 1990 revival of ''Tic-Tac-Dough''. Early life and career Born in Los Angeles, he is one of John Wayne's four children by his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz, daughter of Panama's Consul General to the U.S. He adopted his father's stage surname, Wayne. He made eleven movies with his father: ''Rio Grande'' (1950), ''The Quiet Man'' (1952), '' The High and the Mighty'' (1954) - as a props assistant, '' The Conqueror'' (1956), ''The Searchers'' (1956), '' The Alamo'' (1960), '' The Comancheros'' (1961), ''Donovan's Reef'' (1963), ''McLintock!'' (1963), ''The Green Berets'' (1968) and ''Big Jake'' (1971). Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mundo (Spain)
''El Mundo'' (; ), before ''El Mundo del Siglo Veintiuno'', is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain. The paper is considered one of the country's newspapers of record along with '' El País and ABC.'' History and profile ''El Mundo'' was first published on 23 October 1989. Perhaps the best known of its founders was Pedro J. Ramírez, who served as editor until 2014. Ramirez had risen to prominence as a journalist during the Spanish transition to democracy. The other founders, Alfonso de Salas, Balbino Fraga and Juan González, shared with Ramírez a background in Grupo 16, the publishers of the newspaper ''Diario 16''. Alfonso de Salas, Juan Gonzales and Gregorio Pena also launched '' El Economista'' in 2006. ''El Mundo'', along with '' Marca'' and '' Expansión'', is controlled by the Italian publishing company RCS MediaGroup through its Spanish subsidiary company Unidad Editorial S.L. Its former owner was Unedisa which merged with Grupo Recoletos in 2007 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''Brazil'' (1985), ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' (1988), ''The Fisher King'' (1991), '' 12 Monkeys'' (1995), ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' (1998), ''The Brothers Grimm'' (2005), '' Tideland'' (2005), and ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'' (2009). Being the only Monty Python member not born in Britain, he became a naturalised British subject in 1968 and formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006. Gilliam was born in Minnesota, but spent his high school and college years in Los Angeles. He started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist. He joined Monty Python as the animator of their works, but eventually became a full member and was given acting roles. He became a feature film director in the 1970s. Most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal Sur
Canal Sur ('South Channel') is part of Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA), the public broadcasting company of Andalusia. It was created by means of the devolved powers given to this region by an Act of Parliament in its statute of autonomy. Canal Sur consists of two television channels, Canal Sur TV and Canal Sur 2, a public radio network, Canal Sur Radio and Canal Fiesta Radio. History On 28 February 1989 Canal Sur 1 TV was launched as the public broadcaster of the Autonomous Community of Andalucía. This means that it was funded by the regional government of Andalusia. Becoming the fourth Spanish autonomous community to have its own public TV channel after Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. In its origins, Canal Sur broadcast programming of all kinds, including news, entertainment, cultural, sports and children's content. Canal Sur was launched with the aim of disseminating Andalusian culture, politics and values among its population and to have an alternative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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