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Werner Stocker (actor)
Werner Stocker (April 7, 1955 – May 27, 1993) was a German actor. He studied acting at the and at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts. Stocker appeared in the 1987 American television film '' The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission''. He is probably best known for his role as Darius, the immortal monk who was Duncan's friend in the first season of "Highlander: The Series" in 1993. It was his final role as he died from a brain tumour in 1993 shortly after finishing filming for the series. ''Highlander: The Series'' Werner Stocker also featured in the fantasy hit '' Highlander: The Series'' as Darius, a 2,000-year-old immortal priest. The script of the episode " Band of Brothers" describes Darius as a monk with a "hideously ugly face",Episode "Band of Brothers", Final shooting script, p. 1, in ''Highlander the Series'' (season 1) (DVD, Davis-Panzer Productions, Inc., 2001), disc 9. but when the producers cast the part, they chose Stocker, who did not fit this des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Darius (Highlander)
Darius is a fictional character from '' Highlander: The Series'', portrayed by actor Werner Stocker. He first appeared in the season one episode " Band of Brothers" (1993) and is featured in four subsequent episodes of the same season, as well as in one ''Highlander'' novel. A two-thousand-year-old Immortal living as a monk in Paris, France, he is a friend and mentor of protagonist Duncan MacLeod. He is a peace advocate, having rejected violence fifteen hundred years ago. He is retired on Holy Ground where other Immortals are forbidden to fight him and lives in his spartanly furnished rectory, visited by other Immortals, studying old books, playing martial games, and brewing ancient beverages. Creative Consultant David Abramowitz's initial idea of Darius having an ugly face but a beautiful soul was abandoned when Stocker was cast and Darius became a moral figure of the show. Darius' further development in following seasons was prevented by Stocker's illness and subsequent death, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Adrian Paul
Adrian Paul Hewett (born 29 May 1959) is an English actor, martial artist and director best known for the title role of Duncan MacLeod on the television series '' Highlander: The Series''. In 1997, he founded the Peace Fund charitable organisation. Early life Paul was born in London, the first of three brothers, to an Italian mother and a British father. He attended St Mary's Grammar School (as was) in Sidcup, Kent, where in his time in 6th Form, he established something of an empire based in the school library selling first so-called "stales" from the baker's in Sidcup High Street, progressing to a selection of biscuits. Paul first became a model, then a dancer and choreographer. As a teenager, he was a capable footballer and made several appearances for Cray Wanderers in the London Spartan League between 1976 and 1978. In 1985, Paul moved to the United States to pursue careers in dance and modeling. Paul spent time in the theatre, appearing in numerous plays, and has state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Radu Gabrea
Radu Bartolomeu Gabrea (20 June 1937 – 9 February 2017) was a Romanian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than twenty films between 1969 and 2016. He showed his first film in the Locarno Festival. He was born in Bucharest, the son of Iosif Gabrea, a university professor, and Maria Lehrmann, a school teacher who came from a German family from Transylvania. Gabrea attended the city's , and then enrolled in the Technical University of Civil Engineering, graduating in 1960. During that time, he participated in the Bucharest student movement of 1956; arrested and interrogated by the Securitate, he was detained for nine months, of which six were spent in solitary confinement. Starting in 1960, he worked as a construction engineer until 1963, when he decided to give up his engineering career to become a film director. He then studied at the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC), in the film directing department; he graduated in 1968, and started wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Margit Saad
Margit Saad (30 May 1929 – 7 August 2023) was a German actress who worked largely in German film and television, with occasional English language appearances. Biography Margit Saad was born in Munich, Germany, the daughter of a Lebanese linguist father and a German-language-teaching mother from Düsseldorf. She made her screen debut in '' Eva erbt das Paradies''. In 1960 she starred in the British drama film '' The Criminal'' and followed it up with appearances in other British films and television programmes such as '' The Rebel'' (US ''Call Me Genius'', 1961) with Tony Hancock, '' Playback'' (1962), an entry in the ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' series of second features, ''The Saint'' in ''The Saint Sees It Through'' (1964), and ''The Magnificent Two'' (1967) supporting Morecambe and Wise. Saad appeared in an early 1966 episode of the American television espionage series '' Blue Light''. It was edited together with three other episodes later in 1966 to create the American the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Derrick (TV Series)
A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and a boom hinged at its base to provide articulation, as in a stiffleg derrick. The most basic type of derrick is controlled by three or four lines connected to the top of the mast, which allow it to both move laterally and cant up and down. To lift a load, a separate line runs up and over the mast with a hook on its free end, as with a crane. Derricks are especially useful for high-rise rigging, jobs that cover a long period of time, or jobs when the impact to street or pedestrian traffic is a concern. Forms of derricks are commonly found aboard ships and at docking facilities. Large derricks mounted on dedicated vessels are known as floating derricks and shearlegs. The term derrick is also applied to the framework supporting a drillin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael Verhoeven
Michael Alexander Verhoeven (13 July 1938 – 22 April 2024) was a German film director, screenwriter, film and television producer, and actor. He was also a qualified Doctor of Medicine. He was considered a political filmmaker. Biography Michael Verhoeven stemmed from a theatre and film family, the son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (1901–1975) and actress Doris Kiesow (1902–1973). Michael Verhoeven married Austrian actress Senta Berger in 1966 and stayed with her until his death in 2024 – in what is considered one of the longest-running scandal-free marriages in show business. Their sons are screenwriter/director/actor Simon Verhoeven (born 1972) and producer/actor Luca Verhoeven (born 1979). Verhoeven and Berger met at the Berlinale in 1960 and played together in front of the camera in the 1963 film '' Jack and Jenny'', where he was supposed to kiss her in one scene. The two fell in love during filming. The couple had two sons, Simon Vincent (born 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Die Weiße Rose (film)
''Die Weiße Rose'' (''The White Rose'') is a 1982 CCC Film production about the White Rose resistance to the Nazis led by university students in Munich in 1942–1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad. Actress Lena Stolze, who played Sophie Scholl, reprised that role in '' Fünf letzte Tage'' (''Five Last Days''), also released in 1982. That film was later remade as '' Sophie Scholl: The Final Days'' in 2005. Plot Munich 1942: The student group White Rose, among them the Scholl siblings, have started to produce and distribute leaflets calling for resistance against Hitler and his regime. Risking their lives, they take leaflets to other cities and write slogans such as "Down with Hitler" on the walls of houses at night. As the Gestapo's noose tightens around the students, they make contact with other resistance groups and even with high military officials. In early 1943, the Gestapo strikes. Hans and So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Egon Günther
Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017) in: Tagesspiegel, 31 August 2017. was a German film director and writer. His film ''Lotte in Weimar (film), Lotte in Weimar'' was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. In 1985, his film ''Morenga (film), Morenga'' was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Selected filmography * ''The Dress (1961 film), The Dress'' (co-director: Konrad Petzold, 1961) — (based on ''The Emperor's New Clothes'') * ''Lots Weib'' (1965) * ''Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam'' (1966, released 1990) * ' (1968) — (based on a novel by Johannes R. Becher) * ' (1970, TV film) — (base ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Exil (miniseries)
Exile is either an entity who is, or the state of being, away from one's home while being explicitly refused permission to return. Exile, exiled, exiles, The Exile, or The Exiles may also refer to: Exiles * Babylonian captivity, or Babylonian exile of the 6th century B.C., during which a number of people were deported from the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon * Cuban exile, the large exodus of Cubans since the 1959 Cuban Revolution * Francoism, or the exile of Republicans in Spain, the large number of people who fled from Spain to other countries (France, Mexico, the United States) during the regime of Francisco Franco * Malta exiles, men of politics, high rank soldiers, administrators and intellectuals of the Ottoman Empire who were sent to exile in Malta * Marian exiles, more than 800 English Protestants who mostly fled to Germany, Switzerland, and France and joined with reformed churches * Project Exile, a controversial federal program started in Richmond, Virginia in 1997 * Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
SOKO 5113
Soko ( sh-Cyrl, Соко) was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer based in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. The company was responsible for the production of many military aircraft for the Yugoslav Air Force. SOKO was created in 1950 by the relocation of the aircraft factory section of Ikarus company from Zemun, SR Serbia. Officially founded as "Preduzeće Soko" (Soko Corporation, ''soko'' meaning "falcon" in Serbian), soon after it was renamed "Soko Vazduhoplovna Industrija, RO Vazduhoplovstvo" (Soko Aeronautical Industry, WO (Work Organization) Aeronautics). Its first director was Yugoslav People's Army colonel Ivan Sert. The following directors of the company were engineers Miljenko Pješčić and Tomislav Mirić. The serial manufacture of numerous types of aircraft was projected by the Aeronautical Technical Institute in Belgrade. Besides aircraft, SOKO also produced helicopters under licence. Located in the vicinity of Mostar, it mostly used the Mostar Airport for test fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Deutscher Filmpreis
The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. Besides being the most important List of film awards, film award in Germany, it is also the most highly endowed German cultural award, with cash prizes in its current 20 categories totalling nearly three million euros. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a government agency, commission, but since 2005 the award has been organized by the German Film Academy (Deutsche Filmakademie). The Federal Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs has been responsible for the administration of the prize since 1999. The awards ceremony is traditionally held in Berlin. History The award was created in 1951 by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, Federal Ministry of the Interior and was first given out during the Berlin Film Festival. A pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dana Vávrová
Dana Vávrová (; 9 August 1967 – 5 February 2009) was a Czech-German actress. She was one of the most popular German actresses throughout 1980s and early 1990s. After her role in Herbstmilch as Anna Wimschneider in 1989, she became a household name in Cinema of Germany. Biography Vávrová was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and played her first main film role in ''Ať žijí duchové!'' (English: ''Long Live the Ghosts!'') in 1976, having played a minor role in ''Jak se točí Rozmarýny''. In 1979 she played a minor role in the television mini-series Arabela. In 1982, she played the main role as Janina David in the German television mini-series '' Ein Stück Himmel'', and was awarded the Goldene Kamera, the Goldener Gong, and an Adolf Grimme Award. In this mini-series, Joseph Vilsmaier was one of the cinematographers. In parallel with her acting, she attended the Prague Conservatory from 1981 to 1985. After some further roles including the films ''Amadeus'' and Pan Tau, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
