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Largo Winch (TV Series)
''Largo Winch'' is a television program based on the Belgian comic book series of the same name by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme that first aired on January 26, 2001 in France on M6, and May 3, 2001 in Germany on ProSieben. The show lasted two seasons. Guest stars included Kim Poirier, Vernon Dobtcheff, Elisha Cuthbert, Olga Kurylenko and David Carradine. Plot Largo Winch (Paolo Seganti) is a 28-year-old adventurer, drifting around the world, searching for himself. Along the way he's picked up with Simon Ovrannaz (Diego Wallraff), an ex-thief he met in a Turkish prison. The two are best friends...almost brothers. Then one day, Largo's life is changed forever when he learns that Nerio Winch (David Carradine), the step-father he barely knew, is dead. Nerio is an Aristotle Onassis-like billionaire who secretly adopted Largo as a child, but never took him in. Instead, he paid a family in Luxembourg to raise him, then sent him to a monastery as a teenager to be educated. Nerio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Francq
Philippe Francq (; born 13 December 1961) is a Belgian comic book artist, best known for the series ''Largo Winch''. Biography Philippe Francq was born in Etterbeek in 1961.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Philippe Francq". In België gestript, pp. 111. Tielt: Lannoo. He was since his youth an ardent comic reader, who grew up with the comics from ''Tintin'' magazine from the 1950s. His early favourites were ''Blake and Mortimer'', ''Spike and Suzy'', ''Alix'' and ''The Adventures of Tintin''. He finished studying comic drawing at the Saint Luc Academy in Brussels when he was 23. After some minor success with ''Des villes et des femmes'' and ''Léo Tomasini'' (both at Dargaud), he met author Jean Van Hamme, then already one of the most successful European comic authors with ''Thorgal'' and ''XIII'', in 1988. Van Hamme offered Francq a comic based on some novels he had written ten years earlier, and this was in 1990 the basis for the series ''Largo Winch''. Since then, this as well has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Program
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Houde
Serge Houde (born February 16, 1953) is a Canadian film and television character actor. He is best known for his role in Jon Cassar's Emmy-nominated miniseries '' The Kennedys'' playing the notorious Chicago mafia boss Sam Giancana opposite Tom Wilkinson and Barry Pepper. ''GQ'' Tom Carson said Houde’s performance was "a terrific Sam Giancana (Serge Houde, and where has this formidable actor been all of Martin Scorsese's life?). It will probably set off Camelot guardians' alarm bells to hear that Giancana, the Chicago Mob boss, appears at all—and tête-à-tête with papa Joe, who's committing hubris's fatal error by negotiating with him." Biography Houde began acting at age 35, and he has over 160 film and TV productions to his credit. Besides his role as Sam Giancana in '' The Kennedys'', Houde also appeared in the Seth Rogen-starring feature, '' 50/50'', which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. In it, he played Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geordie Johnson
Geordie () is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect used by its inhabitants, also known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English. There are different definitions of what constitutes a Geordie. The term is used and has been historically used to refer to the people of the North East. A Geordie can also specifically be a native of Tyneside (especially Newcastle upon Tyne) and the surrounding areas. Not everyone from the North East of England identifies as a Geordie. Geordie is a continuation and development of the language spoken by Anglo-Saxon settlers, initially employed by the ancient Brythons to fight the Pictish invaders after the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes who arrived became ascendant politically and culturally over the native British through subsequent migration from tribal homelands along the North Sea coast of mainland Europe. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Powell (actor) (1854–1927), American orchidologist
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Charles Powell may refer to: * Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater (born 1941), British diplomat and businessman * Charles Powell (historian) (born 1960), British-Spanish historian * Charles Powell Hamilton (1747–1825), British admiral * Charles Berkeley Powell (1858–1933), Canadian businessman and politician * Charles Lawrence Powell (1902–1975), U.S. federal judge * Charlie Powell (1932–2014), American football player * Charles Lee Powell (1863–1959), American structural engineer and entrepreneur * Charles Wesley Powell Charles Wesley Powell (May 5, 1854 – August 18, 1927) was an American hobbyist turned horticulturist specializing in the study of orchids (Orchidaceae). He is credited with providing scientists the first large-scale collection of orchid specime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristotle Onassis
Aristotle Socrates Onassis (, ; el, Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, Aristotélis Onásis, ; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975), was a Greek-Argentinian shipping magnate who amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was married to Athina Mary Livanos (daughter of shipping tycoon Stavros G. Livanos), had a long-standing affair with opera singer Maria Callas and was married to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of US President John F. Kennedy. Onassis was born in Smyrna (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the catastrophe of Smyrna. He moved to Argentina in 1923 and established himself as a tobacco trader and later a shipping owner during the Second World War. Moving to Monaco, Onassis fought Prince Rainier III for economic control of the country through his ownership of SBM and its Monte Carlo Casino. In the mid-1950s, he sought to secure an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Wallraff
Diego is a Spanish language, Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese language, Portuguese equivalent is Diogo (name), Diogo. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''. Etymology ''Tiago'' hypothesis Diego has long been interpreted as variant of ''Tiago'' (Brazilian Portuguese: ''Thiago''), an abbreviation of ''Santiago'', from the older ''Sant Yago'' "Saint Jacob (name), Jacob", in English known as James the Great, Saint James or as ''San-Tiago''. This has been the standard interpretation of the name since at least the 19th century, as it was reported by Robert Southey in 1808 and by Apolinar Rato y Hevia (1891). The suggestion that this identification may be a folk etymology, i.e. that ''Diego'' (and ''Didacus''; see below) may be of another origin and only later identified with ''Jacobo'', is made by Buchholtz (1894), though this possibility is judged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Carradine
David Carradine ( ; born John Arthur Carradine Jr.; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor best known for playing martial arts roles. He is perhaps best known as the star of the 1970s television series ''Kung Fu'', playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk travelling through the American Old West. He also portrayed the title character in both of the ''Kill Bill'' films. He appeared in two Martin Scorsese films: ''Boxcar Bertha'' and ''Mean Streets''. David Carradine was a member of the Carradine family of actors that began with his father, John Carradine. The elder Carradine's acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage, television, and in cinema, spanned more than four decades. A prolific "B" movie actor, David Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films in a career spanning more than six decades. He received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his work on ''Kung Fu'', and received three add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Kurylenko
Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko ( uk, Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко; born 14 November 1979) is a Ukrainian and French actress and model. She started her acting career in 2005, and first found success as an actress for her role as Nika Boronina in the film adaptation of the video game ''Hitman'' (2007). She is known as Bond girl Camille Montes in the 22nd James Bond film, ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008), and as Taskmaster in '' Black Widow'' (2021). She starred in Terrence Malick's ''To the Wonder'' (2012), Martin McDonagh's dark comedy ''Seven Psychopaths'' (2012), the Tom Cruise science fiction film '' Oblivion'' (2013), Armando Iannucci's political satire ''The Death of Stalin'' (2017), and Terry Gilliam's ''The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'' (2018). Early life Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Her father, Konstantin, is Ukrainian, and her mother, Marina Alyabusheva, who teaches art and is an exhibited artist, was born in Irku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Ann Cuthbert Phaneuf (; born 30 November 1982) is a Canadian actress and model. As a Child actor, child actress, she made her first televised appearance as an extra in the Canadian horror-themed series for children ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'' and co-hosted ''Popular Mechanics for Kids''. She made her feature film debut in the 1997 Canadian family-drama ''Dancing on the Moon''. Her first major lead role came in the 1998 drama film ''Airspeed (film), Airspeed (No Control)'' alongside Joe Mantegna. In 2001, she starred in the movie ''Lucky Girl (2001 film), Lucky Girl'', for which she received her first award, the Gemini Awards. After moving to Hollywood in 2001, she was cast as Kim Bauer in the series ''24 (TV series), 24'', her first big role in an American production, alongside Kiefer Sutherland. For this role, she was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards twice. In 2003, she played Darcie Goldberg in the college comedy ''Old School (film), Old School'' and Carol-An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a British actor, best known for his roles on television and film, he has acted in numerous stage productions. Biography Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, of Russian descent. He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup. One of his many television roles was as the Chief Scientist in the ''Doctor Who'' series ''The War Games'' in 1969, in which he became the first actor ever to mention the Time Lords by name. He appeared in the ''Blake's 7'' episode "Shadow" as the Chairman of the Terra Nostra in 1979. He has appeared in such films as ''The Day of the Jackal'' (1973), ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977), ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989), and ''Before Sunset'' (2004). In his 2006 memoir, ''Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins'', British actor Rupert Everett describes an encounter with Dobtcheff on the boat train to Paris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Poirier
Kim Jacinthe Poirier (born February 6, 1980) is a Canadian actress, singer, film producer, and television host. Biography Personal life Born in Drummondville, Quebec, the daughter of actress/model Carol Laquerre who was Miss Toronto in 1976, she has one sister. She enjoys watching movies, writing, meditating, jogging, playing guitar, and singing. She does volunteer work for the homeless. Poirier is fluent in both French and English. Professionally trained in yoga, she has studied numerology, healing, and nutrition. Career As a child growing up in Toronto, Ontario, Poirier worked in modeling and TV commercials, moving into TV and film acting in adulthood. She did catalogue modelling and commercials for Aquafresh, Ontario Tourism, Ontario Place (theme park), Ontario Place, Bell Canada, Turtles Chocolates, Old El Paso, Toronto Eaton Centre, Pizza Pizza and Ford Motor Company, Ford. She was up for a lead female role in the TV show ''Breaker High'' when she was only 15 but when t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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