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Wild Justice (novel)
''Wild Justice'' is an adventure novel by Wilbur Smith. It was partially set in Seychelles where Smith had a home for a number of years. It was the third best selling book in England in 1980. The novel was published in the US as ''The Delta Decision''. TV adaptation The novel was filmed for TV in 1993 as a two-part miniseries. It is also known as ''Covert Assassin''. Cast * Roy Scheider - Peter Stride * Patricia Millardet - Magda Altman * Christopher Buchholz - Colin Noble * Ted McGinley - Aubrey Billings * Clive Francis - Sir Steven * Sam Wanamaker - Kingston Parker * Kelly Marcel - Melissa Stride * Richard Ridings - Carl * Constantine Gregory - Sergei Bulov * David Yip - Wong * Kevork Malikyan - Ali Hassan * Rita Wolf - Vritra References External links''Wild Justice''at Pan MacMillan''Wild Justice'' (film)at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Zambian-born British-South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families. An accountant by training, he gained a film contract with his first published novel ''When the Lion Feeds''. This encouraged him to become a full-time writer, and he developed three long chronicles of the South African experience which all became best-sellers. He acknowledged his publisher Charles Pick's advice to "write about what you know best", and his work takes in much authentic detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. By the time of his death in 2021 he had published 49 books and had sold more than 140 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy (by 2014). Early life Smith was born in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, (now Zambia), as was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Marcel
Kelly Marcel (born 10 January 1974) is a British screenwriter, actress and television producer. She co-wrote the film '' Saving Mr. Banks'' (2013) and wrote the film '' Fifty Shades of Grey'' (2015), and created and served as executive producer of the television series '' Terra Nova.'' Biography Marcel is the daughter of director Terry Marcel and actress Lindsey Brookand, and the older sister of actress Rosie Marcel. Career Marcel has played minor roles in television series such as '' The Bill'', ''Holby City'', and '' Casualty''. She had a largely non-speaking role as Young Vera in the 1994 television film adaptation of ''A Dark-Adapted Eye''. Marcel eventually quit acting to pursue writing, while working part-time in Prime Time Video, a video rental shop in Battersea, London. Around the corner from the video shop was the Latchmere pub, where Tom Hardy hosted an acting workshop. Marcel and Hardy became friends, and he subsequently brought Marcel in to do uncredited rewrites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seychelles In Fiction
Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, is east of mainland Africa. Nearby island countries and territories include the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the French overseas departments of Mayotte and Réunion to the south; and Maldives and the Chagos Archipelago (administered by the United Kingdom as the British Indian Ocean Territory) to the east. It is the least populated sovereign African country, with an estimated 2020 population of 98,462. Seychelles was uninhabited prior to being encountered by Europeans in the 16th century. It faced competing French and British interests until coming under full British control in the late 18th century. Since proclaiming independence from the United Kingdom in 1976, it has developed from a largely agricultural society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinemann (publisher) Books
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1979 British Novels
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Novels By Wilbur Smith
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Wolf
Rita Wolf (born Rita Ghose, ) is an American British actress born in Kolkata, India. US theatre credits include premieres of work by Tony Kushner ("Homebody/Kabul" at NY Theatre Workshop, also at BAM) and Richard Nelson ("The Michaels" at The Public Theatre and "The Michaels Abroad" at Hunter College). She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her role in "The American Pilot" by David Greig at Manhattan Theatre Club and appeared most recently with NAATCO in "Out of Time" at The Public Theatre directed by Les Waters. Wolf moved from Kolkata, India to London as a child and began her professional acting career with Joint Stock Theatre Company at The Royal Court Theatre, London in Hanif Kureishi's ''Borderline.'' She appeared on British television and in several London theatre productions, including the first professional production of pioneering S. Asian Theatre Company Tara Arts, then had her first leading film role in Retake Film and Video Collective's 1984 movie '' Majdhar'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevork Malikyan
Kevork Malikyan (born 2 June 1943) is an English-Armenian actor and teacher. He is known for his roles as Kazim in the film ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989), Max Papandrious in the television sitcom ''Mind Your Language'' (1977–1979) and Rady in the film ''Flight of the Phoenix'' (2004) and Parvus in '' paytaht Abdülhamid'' (2017) Career Malikyan made his first television appearance in an episode of the British Historical drama ''The Portrait of a Lady'' in 1968 playing the role of ‘servant’. Through out the last years of the 1960s Malikyan made other numerous television appearances including Doctor Who, The Saint, and The Avengers. Malikyan got his big break in the British film The Man Who Haunted Himself in 1970, starring Roger Moore, in which Malikyan played Luigi the butler of the Pelham family. In 1977 Malikyan embarked on his most notable role on British television, in the ITV sitcom Mind Your Language, which was about an Adult education centre a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Yip
David Nicholas Yip (; born 4 June 1951) is a British actor of Chinese and English descent. He gained prominence through his lead role in the BBC series ''The Chinese Detective''. Early life Yip was born in Liverpool to a Chinese father, a seaman from Canton, and an English mother from Liverpool. He has six brothers and had a working class upbringing. After leaving school at 16, Yip worked as a shipping clerk for British Railways for 2 years. At 18, he was offered a job as an assistant stage manager by Teresa Collard at the Neptune Theatre. He participated in local youth productions while working at the Everyman, including one under the direction of Barry Kyle when he was visiting the Liverpool Playhouse. Yip's peers encouraged him to audition for drama school. He got into East 15 Acting School and went on to complete his training in 1973. Career Yip's first screen roles were in the detective game show '' Whodunnit?'' in 1975, and small roles in the BBC TV movie ''Savages'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Gregory
Constantine Gregory (born Constantine Liebert, September 16, 1942) is an American actor, dialect coach, and voice actor. Until 1983 he was usually credited as Constantin de Goguel. Life and career He was born of a Dutch father and Russian–born mother. On their divorce, he was given his mother's surname of de Goguel. His mother was born in 1920 in Sebastopol with the White Army during the Russian Civil War, and in 1925 was smuggled out to England, where she was brought up. She studied acting briefly under Michael Chekhov at Dartington, but when his school broke up with the outbreak of war, she then later went to America and worked as a personal assistant to Edward James. She married Onno Liebert (Leebaert) in 1941. Liebert was a journalist and broadcaster who escaped the occupied Netherlands on a bicycle. Gregory came to England with his mother in 1950 and then attended Dartington Hall School (1950–1961), followed by Trinity College, Dublin (1961–1965) where he read Economics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ridings
Richard Ridings (born 19 September 1958) is an English actor. He portrayed Alan Ashburn in the ITV television drama ''Fat Friends'', Bernard Green in the BBC One comedy-drama '' Common as Muck'', and is the voice of Daddy Pig in ''Peppa Pig''. He trained as an actor at Bretton Hall College, then the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He is the father of singer-songwriter Freya Ridings. Career He has had roles in a series of other television series and feature films, among them ''Clockwise'', ''The Ink Thief'', ''Red Dwarf'', ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', ''Fierce Creatures'' and as Silas in '' Highlander: The Series''. Ridings voices Daddy Pig in the animated children's series ''Peppa Pig'', Father Christmas and Boss Dwarf in ''Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom'', and Grooby in Q Pootle 5. In 2005, he took the lead role in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom '' Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore'', playing a sexually obsessed overweight ghost alongside Steve Furst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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