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Blue Ice (film)
''Blue Ice'' is a 1992 crime thriller film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Michael Caine and Sean Young. Premise ''Blue Ice'' is a crime thriller involving a former spy (Caine), who is a jazz-club owner, who becomes immersed again in the world of espionage and counter-intelligence. Cast * Michael Caine as Harry Anders * Sean Young as Stacy Mansdorf * Ian Holm as Sir Hector * Bob Hoskins as Sam Garcia * Jack Shepherd as Stevens * Bobby Short as Buddy * Alun Armstrong as Osgood * Alan MacNaughtan as Lewis Mandorf * Sam Kelly as George * Phil Davis as Westy * Patricia Hayes as Old Woman The band in Harry's club is portrayed by a number of accomplished musicians, including Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts * Tom Boyd ... oboe * Dave Green ... bass * Michael Kamen ... orchestrator * Anthony Kerr ... vibes * Peter King ... alto sax * Gerard Presencer ... trumpet * Pete Thomas ... saxophone/composer:additional music * Charlie Watts ... drums * Steve Williamson . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Mulcahy
Russell Mulcahy ( ; born 23 June 1953) is an Australian film director. Mulcahy's work is recognisable by the use of fast cuts, tracking shots and use of glowing lights, neo-noir lighting, windblown drapery, and fans. He directed music videos in the 1980s, worked in television since the early 1990s and directed the films ''Razorback'' (1984), '' Highlander'' (1986) and '' Resident Evil: Extinction'' (2007). Early life and career Mulcahy was born in Melbourne. He grew up in in the Illawarra region of New South Wales and attended Corrimal High School. When he was 14 he received an 8mm camera and began making short films with his friends. After school he began working as a film editor for Australia's Seven Network. He later said he "used to creep in there at 3am and make my own movies". He also acted on stage and was unsure whether to focus on acting or directing. Two of his films won the City Film Festival Award for Best Independent Short Film and he won Best Short Film at the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Hayes
Patricia Lawlor Hayes (22 December 1909 – 19 September 1998) was an English character actress. Early life Patricia Hayes OBE was born in Streatham,Dennis Barker, "Hayes, Patricia Lawlor (1909–1998)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 200available online Retrieved 18 June 2020. London, the daughter of George Frederick Hayes and Florence Alice Hayes. Her father was a clerk in the civil service and her mother was a schoolmistress. As a child, Hayes attended the Sacred Heart School in Hammersmith. Career Hayes attended RADA, graduating in 1928. She spent the next 10 years in repertory theatre.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/175668.stm She was featured in many radio and television comedy shows between 1940 and 1996, including ''Hancock's Half Hour'', ''Ray's a Laugh'', ''The Arthur Askey Show'', ''The Benny Hill Show'', ''Bootsie and Snudge'', ''Hugh and I'' and ''Till Death Us Do Part''. She played the part of Henry Bones in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Films
The year 1992 in film involved many significant film releases. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1992 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * August 24 – Production begins on '' Jurassic Park''. Awards 1992 wide-release films January–March April–June July–September October–December Notable films released in 1992 United States unless stated # *'' 1492: Conquest of Paradise'', directed by Ridley Scott, starring Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Armand Assante, Loren Dean – (Spain/U.K./France) *'' 1991: The Year Punk Broke'' *'' 588 rue paradis'', Directed by Henri Verneuil, starring Richard Berry and Omar Sharif – (France) A *'' Afterburn'', directed by Robert Markowitz, starring Laura Dern, Robert Loggia, Vincent Spano, Michael Rooker *''Agantuk'' (The Stranger), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India) – winner of FIPRESCI Award at Venice Film Festival *''Al-Lail'' (The Night) – ( Syria) *'' Aladdin'', directed by John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the anti-hero protagonist of a number of films based on the unnamed main character, a secret agent, in the spy novels written by Len Deighton. Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in three of the four films based on the four published novels featuring this character, ''The Ipcress File'' (1965), ''Funeral in Berlin'' (1966) and ''Billion Dollar Brain'' (1967). Caine also starred as this character in two other films not directly based on Deighton's novels. ''The Times'' called Caine "the epitome of Sixties cool in his first outing as the secret agent Harry Palmer". A trailer for his second role as Palmer described him as possessing "horn rims, cockney wit and an iron fist". The character's thick horn-rimmed glasses, girls, and disregard for authority was cited by Mike Myers as an influence for ''Austin Powers''; Caine would later star in ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (2002), with his portrayal of Nigel Powers, father of secret agent Austin Powers, a spoof of Palme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Allbeury
Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury (24 October 1917 – 4 December 2005) was a British author of espionage fiction. He served as an intelligence officer in the Special Operations Executive between 1940 and 1947, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is believed to be the only British secret agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war, and he remained there until the Allied armies arrived. During the Cold War he was captured and tortured when running agents across the border between East and West Germany. After running his own advertising agency, he became the managing director of the seafort-based pirate radio station Radio 390 in 1964, later moving to the ship-based Radio 355 (see under Swinging Radio England for details) until its closure in August 1967. His first novel, ''A Choice of Enemies'', was published in 1972. Allbeury went on to publish over 40 novels, under his own name as well as Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler. Early life Allbeury was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Williamson
Steve Williamson (born 28 June 1964) is an English saxophonist and composer (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, keyboard and composition). He has been called "one of the most distinctive saxophone voices in contemporary British jazz". Biography Born in London, England, to Jamaican parents, Williamson began playing saxophone at the age of 16 and started his career playing in reggae bands, including Misty in Roots. In 1984 and 1985 he studied at London's Guildhall School of Music, where he was tutored by Lionel Grigson. Williamson was a member of the noted collective of British-born black jazz musicians who came together as the Jazz Warriors in the mid-1980s. At the Nelson Mandela 70th birthday open-air festival in 1988, Williamson played alongside Courtney Pine in Wembley Stadium, and afterwards was a constant presence at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. He was member of Louis Moholo's Viva La Black (1988) and of Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath (1990). Duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Thomas (saxophonist)
Pete Thomas is a British music producer, TV and film composer, recording musician, and saxophonist. He was born in London and is based in Southampton, England. Career Thomas studied saxophone at Leeds College of Music, obtaining a first class diploma. He has worked as head of jazz and pop performance at University of Southampton, where he also taught saxophone and composition. He had one of his first professional gigs with Fats Domino. This led to working with Joe Jackson on his '' Jumpin' Jive'' album and world tours, as saxophonist and co-arranger. He composed music for '' Blue Ice'' featuring Michael Caine, '' Monkey Business'' for Meridian TV and ''American Kickboxer II''. His work has also been featured in the video game ''Fallout New Vegas''. He has also worked with Bill Haley & His Comets, Elton John, PJ Harvey, The Proclaimers, R.E.M., Cliff Richard, Dave Stewart, Richard Thompson, Kim Wilde, and Jimmy Witherspoon James Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Presencer
Gerard Presencer (born 12 September 1972) is an English jazz trumpeter. Biography Presencer showed his first interest in what was to become his chosen instrument, the trumpet, at nine. He attributes his early determination to become a trumpeter to hearing Roy Eldridge's solo from a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert. He has cited Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Wheeler, Woody Shaw, and Clifford Brown as early influences. When he was eleven, he became the youngest trumpeter with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. At the age of 18, he began playing with pianist Stan Tracey, in his big band, octet, septet, and in duo, playing a live concert at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, later released on Blue Note Records. Presencer worked with British musicians Peter King, John Dankworth, John Taylor, Ronnie Scott, Norma Winstone, and Mike Gibbs, as well as with international musicians, including Johnny Griffin, Chris Potter, Mark Turner, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter King (saxophonist)
Peter John King (11 August 1940 – 23 August 2020) was an English jazz saxophonist, composer, and clarinettist. Early life Peter King was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England. He took up the clarinet and saxophone as a teenager, entirely self-taught. His first public appearances were in 1957, playing alto in a trad jazz group at the Swan Public House, Kingston, in a group organised by trumpeter Alan Rosewell, with whom he worked at the Directorate of Overseas Surveys as an apprentice cartographer. After the performance, however, King made the choice of becoming a professional musician. He came under the strong musical influence of Charlie Parker developing a bebop style inspired by Parker. Career In 1959, at the age of 19, he was booked by Ronnie Scott to perform at the opening of Scott's club in Gerrard Street, London. In the same year, he received the ''Melody Maker'' New Star award. He worked with Johnny Dankworth's orchestra from 1960 to 1961, and went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Kerr
Anthony Kerr is a British jazz vibraphone player, who has performed and recorded internationally with Georgie Fame, Charlie Watts, BBC Big Band, Robbie Williams, Joe Lovano, Jacqui Dankworth, and Courtney Pine. His compositions have been broadcast on BBC Radio. He teaches vibraphone and jazz improvisation at the Royal College of Music in London and produces and records music from his home studio in Hertfordshire. Biography He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 16 October 1965. From 1981 till 1984 he received his education at the Belfast School of Music. After graduation he moved to New York to study vibes and marimba with David Friedman and Kenny Werner. In 1987 he won a scholarship to the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. He worked as a percussionist with the RTE Symphony Orchestra. And for some time he was employed with UK's National Theater. Later he worked as a jazz musician with such artist as John Taylor, Louis Stewart, Peter King, Norma Winstone, Mik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Green (musician)
David John Green (born 5 March 1942) is an English jazz bassist. His first public performances were with his childhood friend Charlie Watts in the late 1950s. While performing with Humphrey Lyttelton from 1963 to 1983, he also played with the Don Rendell–Ian Carr band in the early 1960s, and went on to play with Stan Tracey. In the early 1980s, he led his own group, Fingers, featuring Lol Coxhill, Bruce Turner and Michael Garrick. He regularly backed visiting American stars at Ronnie Scott's, including Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Roland Kirk and Sonny Rollins. He has also performed and recorded with Dave Newton, Didier Lockwood and Spike Robinson. In 1991, he was a founding member of Charlie Watts's quintet, together with Gerard Presencer, Peter King and Brian Lemon. Since 1998, he has led a trio featuring Iain Dixon and Gene Calderazzo, and since 2009, he has been a member of The ABC&D of Boogie Woogie, with Ben Waters, Axel Zwingenberger and Charlie Watts, performing at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Boyd (musician)
Thomas, Tom or Tommy Boyd may refer to: Political figures *Thomas A. Boyd (1830–1897), U.S. Representative from Illinois *Thomas Boyd (Australian politician) (1802–1860), banker and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1845 * Thomas Boyd (Wisconsin politician) (1844–1915), Wisconsin State Assemblyman *Thomas Boyd Caldwell (1856–1932), Canadian politician *Tom Boyd (Northern Ireland politician) (1903–1991), Northern Irish political figure *Christopher Boyd (politician) (Thomas Christopher Boyd, 1916–2004), British politician *Tom Boyd (Idaho politician) (1928–2015), American farmer and politician *Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd (1547–1611), Scottish noble and politician Sportspeople *Tom Boyd (gridiron football) (born 1959), American player of gridiron football *Tom Boyd (Scottish footballer) (born 1965), Scottish football player (Motherwell FC, Chelsea FC, Celtic FC, Scotland national team) *Tom Boyd (Australian footballer) (born 1995), Australian rules f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
