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John Bloom (actor)
John Bloom (February 19, 1944 – January 15, 1999) was an American actor. Career Standing at 7' 4" (224 cm) tall, he is most famous for his roles as the Frankenstein Monster in the low-budget horror movie '' Dracula vs. Frankenstein'' (he remains the tallest actor to ever portray the character), and the unfortunate recipient in ''The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant''. He also had a role in ''The Dark'', then he played Milt in ''Bachelor Party'', ''The Hills Have Eyes Part II'', ''Harry and the Hendersons'', and '' Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' followed. He played the blacksmith "Tiny" on the TV series ''Paradise'' and ''Guns of Paradise''. Bloom died from heart failure brought on by his immense height on January 15, 1999 in his home city of Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome, a group of signs and symptoms caused by an impairment of the heart's blood pumping function. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, excessive fatigue, and leg swelling. The shortness of breath may occur with exertion or while lying down, and may wake people up during the night. Chest pain, including angina, is not usually caused by heart failure, but may occur if the heart failure was caused by a heart attack. The severity of the heart failure is measured by the severity of symptoms during exercise. Other conditions that may have symptoms similar to heart failure include obesity, kidney failure, liver disease, anemia, and thyroid disease. Common causes of heart failure include coronary artery disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease, excessive alcohol consumption, infection, and cardiomyopathy. These cause heart failure by altering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Film Actors
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Deaths
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootings in the United States; the Year 2000 problem ("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000; the Millennium Dome opens in London; online music downloading platform Napster is launched, soon a source of online piracy; NASA loses both the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander; a destroyed T-55 tank near Prizren during the Kosovo War., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Death and state funeral of King Hussein rect 200 0 400 200 1999 İzmit earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Columbine High School massacre rect 0 200 300 400 Kosovo War rect 300 200 600 400 Year 2000 problem rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Climate Orbiter rect 200 400 400 600 Napster rect 400 400 600 600 Millennium Dome 1999 was designated as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frozen Assets (film)
''Frozen Assets'' is a 1992 American comedy film directed by George T. Miller. It stars Shelley Long and Corbin Bernsen. Plot Zach Shepard, an executive at a Los Angeles bank, gets a new job at a bank in Oregon, which is revealed to be a sperm bank. After some initial confusion, Zach and the sperm bank's doctor, Grace Murdock, deal with a shortage of donations by holding a contest with a $100,000 prize. Citizens abstain from sex to save themselves for bank "deposits," while a local brothel protests the sperm bank for ruining its business. Zach is assisted in assorted ways by Newton, an escaped mental patient who lives with his mother, and before his work is done, Zach and Grace are ready to open up a joint account. Cast *Shelley Long as Dr. Grace Murdock *Corbin Bernsen as Zach Shepard * Larry Miller as Newton Patterson *Dody Goodman as Mrs. Patterson *Gerrit Graham as Lewis Crandall * Matt Clark as J.F. Hughes Filming Filming took place in Portland, Oregon and the Columbia Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Outdoors (film)
''The Great Outdoors'' is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, written and produced by John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes, and starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy with supporting roles done by Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening (in her film debut), Chris Young (actor), Chris Young, Lucy Deakins, and Robert Prosky. It tells the story of two families spending their week-long vacation at a lake resort in the fictional town of Pechoggin, Wisconsin with hilarious outcomes. Aykroyd, Candy, and Young reprise their roles from Hughes' previous film, ''She's Having a Baby''. The film was met with mixed reviews and has gained a cult following. Plot Chicagoan Chester "Chet" Ripley, his wife Connie, and their two sons Buckley "Buck" and Ben are spending a week vacationing at Wally and Juanita's Perk's Pine Lodge Resort in Pechoggin, Wisconsin, for the summer. They get a vacation cabin called The Loon's Nest from its owner Wally. All goes as planned until Connie's sister Kate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runaway Train (film)
''Runaway Train'' is a 1985 American independent action thriller film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay and John P. Ryan. The screenplay by Djordje Milicevic, Paul Zindel and Edward Bunker was based on an original 1960s screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, with uncredited contributions by frequent Kurosawa collaborators Hideo Oguni and Ryūzō Kikushima. The film was also the feature debut of both Danny Trejo and Tommy "Tiny" Lister, who both proceeded to successful careers as "tough guy" character actors. The story concerns two escaped convicts and a female assistant locomotive driver who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. Voight and Roberts were both nominated for Academy Awards for their respective roles. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Kurosawa intended the original screenplay to be his first color film following ''Red Beard'', but difficulties with the American fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark (1979 Film)
''The Dark'' is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by John Cardos and starring William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn, and Casey Kasem. page 132 Cast * William Devane as Roy Warner * Cathy Lee Crosby as Zoe * Richard Jaeckel as Detective Dave Mooney * Keenan Wynn as Sherman "Sherm" Moss * Casey Kasem as Police Pathologist * Jacquelyn Hyde as De Renzy * Warren Kemmerling as Captain Speer * Biff Elliot as Detective Jack Bresler * John Bloom as The Dark Killer * Jay Lawrence as Jim * Vivian Blaine as Courtney * William Derringer as Herman * Russ Marin as Dr. Baranowski * Roberto Contreras as Max, The Bartender * Vernon Washington as Henry Lydell * Erik Howell as Antwine * Ron Iglesias as Rudy * William Lampley as The Young Man * Sandra Walker McCully as Carhop * Ken Minyard as T.V. Sportscaster * Valla Rae McDade as Camille * Monica Peterson as Mrs. Lydell * Penny Ann Phillips as Zelza * Jeffrey Reese as Randy * Kathy Richards as Shelly Warner Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels' Wild Women
''Angels' Wild Women'' (originally titled ''Screaming Angels'') is a 1972 biker film written and directed by cult director Al Adamson. Preceded by ''Satan's Sadists'' (1969) and ''Hell's Bloody Devils'' (1970), it is the last in a trio of (unrelated) motorcycle gang films directed by Adamson for Independent-International Pictures Corp., a company he co-founded with Sam Sherman. The plot centers on a group of tough biker babes who leave their cycle gang boyfriends to go on a violent rampage. When a cult leader kills one of the girls, the others go out for revenge. Premise A group of good motorcyclists fight against an evil hippie cult based on the murderous Charles Manson "family". Cast * Ross Hagen as "Speed" * Kent Taylor as Parker * Preston Pierce as "Turk" * Regina Carrol as Margo * William Bonner as "King" * Arne Warde as "Slim" * Jill Woelfel as Donna (credited as Jill Woefel) * Vicki Volante as Terry * Albert Cole as "Weasel" * Claire Polan as "Love Child" * John Bloom as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Frankenstein Monster
Frankenstein's monster or Frankenstein's creature, often referred to as simply "Frankenstein", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus''. Shelley's title thus compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay and gave them fire. In Shelley's Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method based on a scientific principle he discovered. Shelley describes the monster as tall and emotional. The monster attempts to fit into human society but is shunned, which leads him to seek revenge against Frankenstein. According to the scholar Joseph Carroll, the monster occupies "a border territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists". Frankenstein's monster became iconic in popular culture, and has been featured in various forms of media, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brain Of Blood
''Brain of Blood'' (also known as ''The Creature's Revenge'', ''The Oozing Skull'', and ''The Undying Brain'') is a 1971 American horror film directed by Al Adamson and starring Grant Williams, Kent Taylor and Reed Hadley. Angelo Rossitto and John Bloom also appeared in it. It was also Hadley's last film appearance before his death in 1974. Plot Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is the hope of transplanting his brain into another body. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton, having unwisely put off acquiring another body until the last minute, transplants Amir's brain into the body of the disfigured simpleton assistant who failed in said chore. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the woman chained in the basement. Cast * Grant Williams as Bob Negserian *Kent Taylor as Dr. Lloyd Trenton * John Bloom as Gor * Regina Carrol as Tracey Wilson *Vicki Volante a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
