Maggie Weston (actress)
Maggi or Margaret Weston may refer to: * Lt MaggieWeston, a fictional character in ''Exofleet'' * Maggie Weston (make-up artist), make-up artist, married to Terry Gilliam * Maggi Weston, actress, seen in ''Regeneration (1915 film)'' and ''The Foundling (1915 film)'' * Margaret Weston Dame Margaret Kate Weston, Order of the British Empire, DBE, Fellow of the Museums Association, FMA (7 March 1926 – 12 January 2021) was a British museum curator who was the director of the Science Museum, London, Science Museum, London, bet ... (1926–2021), Director of the Science Museum, London * Margaret W. Weston, photography collection and gallery owner {{hndis, Weston, Maggie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Exofleet
''Exosquad'' is an animated television series created by Universal Animation Studios, Universal Cartoon Studios for MCA TV's Universal Family Network broadcast syndication, syndicated programming block. The show is set in the beginning of the 22nd century and covers the space warfare in fiction, interplanetary war between humanity and Neosapiens, a fictional race artificially created as workers/Slavery, slaves for the Terran (demonym), Terrans. The narrative generally follows Able Squad, an elite Terran unit of powered exoskeleton, exoframe pilots, on their missions all over the Solar System, although other storylines are also abundant. The series ran for two complete seasons in syndication from 1993 to 1994, and was cancelled after one third-season episode had been produced. Reruns later aired on USA Network. Plot The series is set in the years 2119–2121 AD,Dates on the tombstone of Nara Burns' parents. decades after humanity ("Terrans") has expanded beyond Earth, terrafo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maggie Weston (make-up Artist)
Margaret Diane "Maggie" Weston (born January 1948) is a British former makeup artist. She is married to Terry Gilliam. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen''. She also won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Makeup in 1990 at the 43rd British Academy Film Awards. Selected filmography * ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' is a 1988 adventure fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, and starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Robin Williams and Uma Thurman. An interna ...'' (1988) References Living people 1948 births Best Makeup BAFTA Award winners British make-up artists {{UK-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''Brazil'' (1985), ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' (1988), ''The Fisher King'' (1991), '' 12 Monkeys'' (1995), ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' (1998), ''The Brothers Grimm'' (2005), '' Tideland'' (2005), and ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'' (2009). Being the only Monty Python member not born in Britain, he became a naturalised British subject in 1968 and formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006. Gilliam was born in Minnesota, but spent his high school and college years in Los Angeles. He started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist. He joined Monty Python as the animator of their works, but eventually became a full member and was given acting roles. He became a feature film director in the 1970s. Most of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Regeneration (1915 Film)
Regeneration may refer to: Science and technology * Regeneration (biology), the ability to recreate lost or damaged cells, tissues, organs and limbs * Regeneration (ecology), the ability of ecosystems to regenerate biomass, using photosynthesis * Regeneration in humans, the ability of humans to recreate, or induce the regeneration of, lost tissue * Regenerative (design), a process for resilient and sustainable development * Regenerative agriculture, a sub-category of organic agriculture History and politics * Regeneration (Colombia), La Regeneración, a 19th-century period and political movement in Colombia *Regeneration (Portugal), a 19th-century period in the history of Portugal * The ReGeneration, a cultural generation concerned with environmentalism * Viðreisn (Regeneration), a political party in Iceland founded in 2016 Music * ''Regeneration'' (Stanley Cowell album) (1976) * ''Regeneration'' (Roy Orbison album) (1977) * ''Regeneration'' (The Divine Comedy album) (20 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Foundling (1915 Film)
''The Foundling'' is a 1915 silent film directed by Alan Dwan. The film premiered in 1915, was lost in a fire accident shortly afterwards, and is now a lost film, lost film. It was remade as ''The Foundling (1916 film), The Foundling'' in 1916 with the same principal cast, but with a different director, John B. O'Brien, at the helm. "The Foundling" Trivia Plot Molly O (Mary Pickford) is a poor little girl whose mother died in childbirth and whose father David King (Edward Martindel) rejects her. When David departs to Italy to paint his late wife as the Madonna, Molly O is left behind in a cruel orphanage. She is beloved by the other pupils, but becomes enemies with the matron's niece Jennie (Mildred Morris). As a result, she is shipped off to live with a boardinghouse proprietress (Maggie Weston). S ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Margaret Weston
Dame Margaret Kate Weston, Order of the British Empire, DBE, Fellow of the Museums Association, FMA (7 March 1926 – 12 January 2021) was a British museum curator who was the director of the Science Museum, London, Science Museum, London, between 1973 and 1986. She began her career as an electrical engineer before joining the Science Museum in 1955. Weston oversaw the expansion of the museum into the Science Museum Group, including the foundation of the National Railway Museum in York and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. She also played a key role in acquiring Concorde 002, which is now housed at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton. Early life and education Margaret Weston was born in Oakridge, Gloucestershire, the only child of two headteachers, Margaret ( Bright) and Charles Weston, and educated at Stroud High School. During the war a German bomber crashed in the village and Margaret's father, who was also in the Home Guard, arrested ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |