Fight For Life (UK Charity)
Fight for Life may refer to: * ''The Fight for Life'', a 1940 American movie directed by Pare Lorentz. * ''Fight for Life'' (film), a 1987 American TV movie. * ''Fight for Life'' (TV series), a 2007 UK health series. * ''Fight for Life'' (video game), a 1996 game for the Atari Jaguar. * Fight for Life (New Zealand charity), a cancer charity whose boxing events are promoted by Dean Lonergan. * Fight for Life (UK charity), a children's cancer charity whose onetime patron was Gary Lineker Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster. He is regarded as having been one of the greatest English strikers. His media career began with the BBC, where he has p ...

The Fight For Life
''The Fight for Life'' is a 1940 American medical drama film nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures. Plot At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it. Cast *Myron McCormick (The young intern) * Storrs Haynes (The teacher) *Will Geer (2nd Teacher) *Dudley Digges (Head Doctor) *Dorothy Adams Dorothy Adams (January 8, 1900 – March 16, 1988) was an American character actress of stage, film, and television. Early years Adams was born in Hannah, North Dakota. She later moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, and was educated there. ... (The Young Woman) * Effie Anderson (The Receptionist) References External links ...
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Pare Lorentz
Pare Lorentz (December 11, 1905 – March 4, 1992) was an American filmmaker known for his film work about the New Deal. Born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in Clarksburg, West Virginia he was educated at Buckhannon High School, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and West Virginia University. As a young film critic in both New York City and Hollywood, Lorentz spoke out against censorship in the film industry. As the most influential documentary filmmaker of the Great Depression, Lorentz was the leading American advocate for government-sponsored documentary films. His service as a filmmaker for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II was formidable, including technical films, documentation of bombing raids, and synthesizing raw footage of Nazi atrocities for an educational film on the Nuremberg Trials. Nonetheless, Lorentz perennially will be known best as "FDR′s filmmaker." New Deal documentary films Lorentz left West Virginia University, in 1925, to begin a career as a writer ...
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Fight For Life (film)
''Fight for Life'' is a 1987 American made-for-television drama film starring Jerry Lewis (in his television film debut), Patty Duke and Morgan Freeman. It was originally broadcast on March 23, 1987, on ABC. Plot Dr. Bernard Abrams, an Ohio optometrist, and his wife Shirley Abrams have a six-year-old daughter that suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. The child's paraplegic doctor cares for her. As for the little girl's parents, they need to have a drug approved from the Food and Drug Administration. However, the process is slow and they are forced to fly to England to obtain the medication. They take their cause to the media in order to highlight their case and force the FDA to expedite its decision on use in America. Cast * Jerry Lewis : Dr. Bernard Abrams * Patty Duke : Shirley Abrams * Barry Morse : Dr. Whalley * Morgan Freeman : Dr. Sherard * Jaclyn Bernstein : Felice Abrams * Gérard Parkes : Father Robert Hunt * Robert Benson : Dr. Keith * Rosemary Dunsmore * Patr ...
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Fight For Life (TV Series)
Fight for Life is a British television series which explores the human body and its fight for survival in life-threatening situations using new technology, with computer-generated imagery and specially shot footage. The series explains the six stages of life: Birth, Childhood, Teenagers, Prime of Life, The Middle Years and The Final Years. Episodes Birth This episode explains that birth is the riskiest time in life and the process of a woman delivering a baby and how both the woman and the child are put at risk in this complex journey. It features a two-hour-old baby already facing death who has Meconium Aspiration Syndrome as a result of inhaling excrement at or before birth. The programme also follows a woman who needs a caesarean because her baby's in a breech position but the operation goes horribly wrong as the umbilical cord In placental mammals, the umbilical cord (also called the navel string, birth cord or ''funiculus umbilicalis'') is a conduit between the develo ...
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Fight For Life (video Game)
''Fight for Life'' is a 1996 fighting video game developed and published by Atari Corporation in North America and Europe for the Atari Jaguar. It was the final game to be developed and published by Atari themselves before dropping support for the platform and merging with JT Storage in a reverse takeover on July 30, 1996, and the last fighting title released for the console. Set in a purgatory dimension known as the Specter Zone, ''Fight for Life'' follows eight deceased fighters as they enter a tournament held by a shapeshifting being called the Gatekeeper, who will bestow a second chance at life to the winning victor. Its gameplay consists of one-on-one fights, with a main eight-button configuration, featuring special moves and the ability to customize character's movesets, as well as four different playable modes. Directed, designed and solely programmed by former Sega AM2 member Francois Yves Bertrand as Atari's answer to ''Virtua Fighter'', ''Fight for Life'' started developm ...
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Fight For Life (New Zealand Charity)
Fight for Life may refer to: * ''The Fight for Life'', a 1940 American movie directed by Pare Lorentz. * ''Fight for Life'' (film), a 1987 American TV movie. * ''Fight for Life'' (TV series), a 2007 UK health series. * ''Fight for Life'' (video game), a 1996 game for the Atari Jaguar. * Fight for Life (New Zealand charity), a cancer charity whose boxing events are promoted by Dean Lonergan. * Fight for Life (UK charity), a children's cancer charity whose onetime patron was Gary Lineker Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster. He is regarded as having been one of the greatest English strikers. His media career began with the BBC, where he has p ...

Dean Lonergan
Dean Robert "Locust" Lonergan is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer, and current events promoter. He was the promoter of Jeff "The Hornet" Horn who won the WBO Welterweight World Championship against Manny Pacquiao in 2017. He was also the promoter of rising heavyweight Justis Huni and IBF Cruiserweight Champion Jai Opetaia before both parted company with Lonergan after the promoter fell out of favour with Fox Sports in December 2022. Playing career Lonergan represented the New Zealand national rugby league team from 1986 to 1991 and also represented Auckland. He played for the Glenora Bears and City Newton Dragons in the Auckland Rugby League competition and the Canberra Raiders in the NSWRL Premiership. He spent 1989 with the Rochdale Hornets in England. In a Test match against Australia in Melbourne in 1991, Lonergan clashed famously with Kangaroo forward Steve Roach and had to be carried from the field. However he returned to the field and New Ze ...
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Fight For Life (UK Charity)
Fight for Life may refer to: * ''The Fight for Life'', a 1940 American movie directed by Pare Lorentz. * ''Fight for Life'' (film), a 1987 American TV movie. * ''Fight for Life'' (TV series), a 2007 UK health series. * ''Fight for Life'' (video game), a 1996 game for the Atari Jaguar. * Fight for Life (New Zealand charity), a cancer charity whose boxing events are promoted by Dean Lonergan. * Fight for Life (UK charity), a children's cancer charity whose onetime patron was Gary Lineker Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster. He is regarded as having been one of the greatest English strikers. His media career began with the BBC, where he has p ...