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Coded Hostile
''Coded Hostile'' is a 1989 British television film directed by David Darlow and written by Brian Phelan, about the real life shoot-down of Korean Air Flight 007. The film stars Michael Murphy, Michael Moriarty, Chris Sarandon, Harris Yulin, Otto Jarman and Bradley Lavelle. It was produced by Granada Television, and first screened on ITV on 7 September 1989. A revised version was screened by Channel 4 on 31 August 1993 to include details of subsequent events. Plot Cast MISAWA LISTENING POST: *Ed O'Ross as Sgt. Duffy *Gavan O'Herlihy as Sgt. Muller *George Roth as Capt. Ames *Mark Burton as Levin *Otto Jarman as Clark * Bradley Lavelle as Jamie *Kieron Jecchinis as Coles *Matthew Freeman as Aaron *Andrea Browne and James Tillitt as Operatives STATE DEPARTMENT: *Michael Murphy as Richard Burt *Debora Weston as Carol *Colin Bruce as Dave *Marc Smith as Mort *Bill Bailey as Military *Peter Whitman and Francine Body as Watch Officers *Alexander Webb as Aide PENTAGON: *Michael Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Darlow (film Producer)
David Walter Darlow (born January 1942) is a British film producer and director, who predominantly produced documentary films and series. Life Darlow was active as an producer of documentary films and series since the 1970s. He worked for the BBC. In 1972 he planned to produce a documentary for the BBC about the vanishing of Royal Navy frogman Lionel Crabb. This led to a conflict with the British Ministry of Defence and ultimately the BBC abandoned the project. Darlow also directed some productions such as the documentary ''The Sword of Islam'' (1987) or the TV movie ''Coded Hostile'' (1989). Together with John Smithson he co-founded the production company Darlow Smithson Productions in 1988. In June 2002 Smithson acquired full control and bought out Darlow's 50 % stake.RDF producer heads to Darlow Smithson'. In: c21media.net, 27 July 2004. A month later Darlow left the company. In 2000 Darlow won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in the category ''Outstanding Background/Analysis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Rimmer
Shane Rimmer (born Shane Lance Deacon; May 28, 1929 – March 29, 2019) was a Canadian actor and screenwriter who spent the majority of his career in the United Kingdom. The self-proclaimed "Rent-A-Yank" of the British entertainment industry, he appeared in over 160 films and television programmes from 1957 until his death in 2019, usually playing supporting North American characters. Among his best known roles were the voice of Scott Tracy in the original ''Thunderbirds (TV series), Thunderbirds'' series, Air Force Captain "Ace" Owens in ''Dr. Strangelove'', Joe Donnelli and Malcolm Reid on ''Coronation Street'', Edward R. Murrow in ''Gandhi (film), Gandhi'', and Louie Watterson on the Cartoon Network series ''The Amazing World of Gumball''. He also made several appearances in the James Bond film series. He also made several on-stage appearances for the Royal National Theatre, and contributed scripts to ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'' and ''Joe 90''. Early life Rimmer was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shootdown (film)
''Shootdown'' is a 1988 American made-for-television drama film starring Angela Lansbury. Leonard Hill served as the executive producer. Plot In the film, Nan Moore (Lansbury) loses her son in the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 disaster. She wishes to discover the truth about her son's death. Cast *Angela Lansbury as Nan Moore *George Coe as David *Kyle Secor as John Moore *Molly Hagan as Elizabeth Moore *Jennifer Savidge as Mary *Diana Bellamy as Lillian *Alan Fudge as Bruce Production The film's production was delayed due to controversies surrounding the KAL007 incident. NBC subjected the film to various cuts and rewrites. Producer Leonard Hill said that NBC's censors "played the role of grand inquisitor. It was quite a relentless interrogation and it turned into a war of attrition." The network deleted dialogue that criticized the U.S. government for using the incident for its own political purposes, and specific criticisms of the Reagan administration were likewise repressed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Togo Igawa
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor who works primarily in British films and television. In recent years, he has had roles in major films such as ''Revolver'', ''Memoirs of a Geisha'', ''The Last Samurai'', and ''A Matter of Size''. Additionally, Igawa provides the voices of Professor Moshimo in ''Robotboy'', and Hiro in the ''Thomas & Friends'' franchise starting with 2009’s ''Hero of the Rails''. Besides these, he also appears in 2011's ''Johnny English Reborn'', the sequel to ''Johnny English'', as English's Tibetan guru and is in the 2012 film ''Gambit'' playing businessman Takagawa. His television roles have included appearances in ''Lovejoy'', ''Yu-Gi-Oh'', ''The IT Crowd'', ''Torchwood'', ''Casualty'', ''Archer'', ''Doctor Who'' and ''The Crown''. Igawa voiced the main villain Colonel Lee in the video game ''Crysis Warhead'' and the Yakuza character Jiro in the 2013 video game ''Payday 2''. Personal life Igawa lives in England with his wife Adrienne Bab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Cornicard
Stéphane Cornicard is a multilingual actor and director (French, English, German, Spanish and Italian), who trained in France with François David, French director and writer, at Colby College, United States, U.S. and at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Career Cornicard's many credits include Jean in ''Saving Private Ryan'' by Steven Spielberg, Liquid Snake in Metal Gear and Gabe Logan in Syphon Filter, the evil Count Raum in ''Primal (video game), Primal'', enigmatic profiler Gerd Hanke in ''Evidence: The Last Ritual'' by Eric Viennot, the narration for Napoleon Bonaparte in the video game ''Napoleon: Total War'' in English, French, German and Spanish (as well as voicing Charlemagne in the later Total War: Attila, the voice of the character Riordan in BioWare's ''Dragon Age: Origins'', and Stroud in ''Dragon Age II'' and ''Dragon Age: Inquisition''. He gave his voice to the French Red Cross for their anti-personal landmines campaign. He also played the character Lonesome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomasz Borkowy
Tomasz Karol Borkowy (born 17 September 1952, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish actor, but has been working in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s. He often works under the name Tomek Bork and has had many film and television appearances. He graduated from Theatre college in Kraków in 1977 and first came to the UK the following year, unable to speak English. Before this he had appeared in a number of Polish TV series and films. In 1980 he moved to the UK permanently to continue his career. Since then he has appeared in the films ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'', ''Murder on the Moon'' and '' Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy.'' Notable television appearances have included ''Doctor Who'' (''The Curse of Fenric''), ''The Bill'', ''Love Hurts'', ''Sleepers'', ''Lovejoy'' and most recently, ''Doctors.'' He has also continued to work in Poland, where he is most well known for playing the lead role in the TV drama series, ''Dom'' (''House'') which ran for 7 series over 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael J
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= *Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrick Hagon
Garrick Hagon (; born September 27, 1939) is a British-Canadian actor in film, stage, television and radio, known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in '' Star Wars: A New Hope''. His many films include ''Batman'', ''Spy Game'', ''Me and Orson Welles'' and '' The Message''. He was the rebel leader Ky in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Mutants'', and played Simon Gerrard, Debbie Aldridge's husband in the BBC's ''The Archers''. Early life and career Hagon was born in London, England, and brought up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he attended UTS and Trinity College (Hon. English, 1963). He acted with Alec Guinness in ''Richard III'' at the Stratford Festival, where he played for seven seasons and won the Tyrone Guthrie Award in 1963. He guest-starred (as Johnnie Nipick) in the episode ''The River'' in the CBC television series '' The Forest Rangers'' in 1964. After studying for a spell with the Royal Court Theatre Studio in London, Hagon then acted with Prospect Productions, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jezek
Robert Jezek (born 6 April 1955) is a Canadian stage, film and television actor based in the United Kingdom. Career In 1989, Jezek appeared as Sergeant Zbrigniev in the ''Doctor Who'' television serial ''Battlefield''. He is known for playing companion Frobisher in a range of ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions and based on the BBC television series ''Doctor Who''. In 2002, he guest-starred in '' Sarah Jane Smith: Ghost Town'', an audio drama produced by the same company. He also lent his voice to the videogame '' The Getaway: Black Monday'' in 2004. He has also had minor roles in films including playing a Rescue 1 technician in ''Event Horizon'' (1997) a police officer in '' Casino Royale'' (2006) and the Polish neighbour in ''Last Chance Harvey'' (2008). He has also appeared in a number of short films. In April 2011, he appeared in British soap opera ''EastEnders'', as the Polish father of a girl who was bullying Ben Mitchell (then Charlie Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Greene
Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is a American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 19901995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on Mirror symmetry (string theory), mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the Flop-transition, flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. Greene has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, ''The Elegant Universe'', ''Icarus at the Edge of Time'', ''The Fabric of the Cosmos'', ''The Hidden Reality'', and related Public Broadcasting Service, PBS television specials. He also appeared on ''The Big Bang Theory'' episode "The Big Bang Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Marzello
Vincent Marzello (July 4, 1951 – March 31, 2020) was an American actor. Early life Marzello was born in the New York borough of Brooklyn on July 4, 1951. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Career Marzello was active on screen from 1976 in North America and Europe, his first role being in an episode of '' The Brothers''. Thereafter he appeared in productions that included '' The Spy Who Loved Me'', ''Superman'', ''Never Say Never Again'', '' The Witches'', ''Taggart'', ''The House of Eliott'', ''The Fragile Heart'', ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', ''Little Britain'', ''Nuclear Secrets'' and ''Mile High''. Marzello also lent his voice to the character of Fernando Ramirez in the '' UFO: Afterlight'' computer game and appeared in the U.K. ''Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel'' (1990 radio series) (with his wife). In 2006, he played Bob Zelnick in '' Frost/Nixon'' in London's West End, starting at the Donmar Warehouse in August and transferring to the Gielgud T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |