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Jack Burton (footballer, Born 1886)
Jack Burton may refer to: * Jack Burton (character), lead character in the film ''Big Trouble in Little China'' * Jack Burton (cricketer) (1923–2001), Australian cricketer * Jack Burton (equestrian) Jonathan Rowell Burton (October 27, 1919 – May 29, 2019) was an American equestrian. He competed in two events at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as ... (born 1919), American Olympic equestrian See also * John Burton (other) {{hndis, Burton, Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Burton (character)
''Big Trouble in Little China'' (also known as ''John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China'') is a 1986 American fantasy action-comedy film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong. The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton (Russell), who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dun) rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan (Hong), who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to be released from a centuries-old curse. Although the original screenplay by first-time screenwriters Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein was envisioned as a Western set in the 1880s, screenwriter W. D. Richter was hired to rewrite the script extensively and modernize it. The studio hired Carpenter to direct the film and rushed ''Big Trouble in Little China'' into production so that it would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Burton (cricketer)
Jack Richard Burton (3 November 1923 – 30 October 2001) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ... during the 1951–52 season. References External links * 1923 births 2001 deaths Australian cricketers South Australia cricketers Cricketers from South Australia 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-cricket-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Burton (equestrian)
Jonathan Rowell Burton (October 27, 1919 – May 29, 2019) was an American equestrian. He competed in two events at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December .... References External links * 1919 births 2019 deaths American male equestrians Olympic equestrians for the United States Equestrians at the 1956 Summer Olympics People from Berwyn, Illinois Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-equestrian-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |