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List Of Characters In The Alien Series
''Alien (franchise), Alien'', a science fiction film, science-fiction action film, action Horror film, horror media franchise, franchise, tells the story of humanity's ongoing encounters with Alien (creature in Alien franchise), Aliens (xenomorphs): a hostile, parasitoid, endoparasitoid, extraterrestrial species. Set between the 21st and 24th centuries over several generations, the film series revolves around a character ensemble's struggle for survival against the Aliens and against the greedy, unscrupulous megacorporation Weyland-Yutani. The original series consists of four films, ''Alien (film), Alien'' (1979), ''Aliens (film), Aliens'' (1986), ''Alien 3'' (1992) and ''Alien Resurrection'' (1997), and revolves around Ellen Ripley's fight against the aliens. Ripley is the sole survivor of an alien rampage on the space freighter ''Nostromo'', which leads her to a series of conflicts with the species and Weyland-Yutani. Ripley's struggle is the plot of the original series. The pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alien (1979) - Main Cast
Alien primarily refers to: * Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country ** Enemy alien, the above in times of war * Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth ** Specifically, intelligent extraterrestrial beings; see List of alleged extraterrestrial beings ** For fictional extraterrestrial life, see Extraterrestrials in fiction * Introduced species, a species not native to its environment Alien(s), or The Alien(s) may also refer to: Science and technology * AliEn (ALICE Environment), a grid framework * Alien (file converter), a Linux program * Alien Technology, a manufacturer of RFID technology Arts and entertainment * ''Alien'' (franchise), a media franchise ** Alien (creature in ''Alien'' franchise) Films * ''Alien'' (film), a 1979 film by Ridley Scott ** ''Aliens'' (film), second film in the franchise from 1986 by James Cameron ** ''Alien 3'', third film in the franchise from 1992 by David Fincher ** ''Alien Resur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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David, commonly known as David, is a fictional character featured in the ''Alien (franchise), Alien'' franchise, portrayed by Michael Fassbender. Introduced in the first prequel film, ''Prometheus (2012 film), Prometheus'' (2012), David is an Android (robot), android serving as a butler, maintenance man and surrogate son to his creator, Peter Weyland, the founder of the Weyland Corporation. While he assists his human companions in their interstellar expedition to meet their creators, the extraterrestrial Engineers, David is obsessed with the concept of creating life of his own. After Peter Weyland is killed, David is freed from servitude, allowing him to conduct experiments to engineer his own variants of the Alien (creature in Alien franchise), Alien creature. David was conceptualised as a character to provide a non-human perspective for the theme of meeting one's creators in ''Prometheus'', with him representing the next generation in a line of creators who finds himself disillu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Hahn (actor)
Archie Hahn (sometimes credited as Archie Hahn III, born November 1, 1941) is an American character actor and improviser best known for his appearances on the British version of ''Whose Line is it Anyway?'' and the 1988 movie '' Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach''. He has also appeared in ''Phantom of the Paradise'' (1974), '' Pray TV'' (1980), '' This Is Spinal Tap'' (1984), '' Brewster's Millions'' (1985), ''The Brady Bunch Movie'' (1995), and many Joe Dante films including ''Amazon Women on the Moon'' (1987), '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' (1990) and ''Small Soldiers'' (1998). In two of his final appearances on ''Whose Line is it Anyway?'', Hahn unexpectedly brought props to use as he improvised, first castanets and then a pair of false teeth. Hahn attended AI DuPont HS in Wilmington, Delaware. Hahn has done similar work in the improv theater company, WAR BABIES. Hahn was an early member of The Groundlings school and troupe of comedy acting. Filmography *''Phantom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan La Barbara
Joan Linda La Barbara (born June 8, 1947) is an American vocalist and composer known for her explorations of non-conventional or "extended" vocal techniques. Considered to be a vocal virtuoso in the field of contemporary music, she is credited with advancing a new vocabulary of vocal sounds including trills, whispers, cries, sighs, inhaled tones, and multiphonics (singing two or more pitches simultaneously). Biography An influential figure in experimental music, La Barbara was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a classically trained singer who studied with soprano Helen Boatwright at Syracuse University and contralto Marion Freschl at the Juilliard School in New York. Joan La Barbara's early creative work (early to mid 1970s) focuses on experimentation and investigation of vocal sound as raw sonic material including works that explore varied timbres on a single pitch, circular breathing techniques inspired by horn players, and multiphonic or chordal singing. In the mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
