An alliance is an agreement or friendship between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests.

See also military alliance and business alliance.

Examples of alliances[link]

International relations[link]

In international relations, the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, signed in 1373 between the Kingdom of England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal, is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.

• Holy Alliance, coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia created in 1815
• Quadruple Alliance
• Triple Alliance (disambiguation)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty

Political organizations[link]

• Alberta Alliance Party, a small right-wing political party in Alberta, Canada that existed from 2002 until merging to form the Wildrose Alliance Party in 2008 (see below)
• Social Democratic Alliance, political party in Iceland
• Alliance (New Zealand), left-wing political party in New Zealand
• Alliance 90, an alliance of three opposition groups in East Germany
• Alliance for Chile, a political coalition that includes Chiles two rightwing parties RN and UDI
• Alliance (Sweden), an electoral and governing (since September 2006) political coalition between the Moderate Party, Centre Party, Liberal People's Party and Christian Democrats
• Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, political party operating in Northern Ireland
• Canadian Alliance, Canadian right-of-centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003
• Fijian Alliance, a former political party in Fiji
• International Alliance of Socialist Democracy, an organization founded by Mikhail Bakunin
• Melanesian Alliance Party, a political party in Papua New Guinea
• People's Alliance for Democracy, a long-term protest movement in Thailand which is opposed to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters
• ProLife Alliance, a political party in the United Kingdom
• SDP-Liberal Alliance, electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in the United Kingdom that operated from 1981 to 1988
• The Alliance Party (Malaya), the predecessor of the Barisan Nasional political coalition in Malaysia
• The Alliance (Hong Kong), political group in Hong Kong
• Tongmenghui (or "Revolutionary Alliance"), a Chinese underground resistance movement which operated in Japan from 1905 to 1950
• United Iraqi Alliance, a political coalition in Iraq
• United People Alliance, electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party or PCP and the Portuguese Democratic Movement or MDP
• National Alliance (disambiguation), several political parties
• National Democratic Alliance (disambiguation), several political parties
• New Alliance Party (disambiguation), several political parties
• Wildrose Alliance Party, a small right-wing political party in Alberta, Canada
• Liberal Alliance (disambiguation), several political parties
• The Alliance short for Republican, Ecologist and Social Alliance (ARES) is a federation of centrist political parties in France.

Television, film, and comic books[link]

• The Alliance, a group of aliens and monsters in the Doctor Who episode 'The Pandorica Opens'
• Alliance of Twelve from the Alias TV series
• Alliance (DC Comics), an organization of alien freedom fighters from the pages of DC Comics
• Anglo-Sino Alliance, powerful government and law-enforcement organization that controls a large sector of colonized "core planets" in the Firefly television series
• Earth Alliance (Babylon 5), fictional alliance of the countries of Earth in the television series Babylon 5
• Ferengi Alliance, fictional extraterrestrial race from the Star Trek universe
• Rebel Alliance, interstellar political resistance force formed in direct military opposition to the Galactic Empire in the fictional Star Wars universe
• The Alliance (The Office episode), an episode of the television series The Office
• The Alliance (professional wrestling), professional wrestling faction which ostensibly consisted of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling
• Alliance to End Hulkamania, professional wrestling stable in World Championship Wrestling
• Alliance Films, motion picture distribution/production company, which serves Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

Video games[link]

• The Alliance, a military, cultural, and economic alliance between various races in the Warcraft series of video games
• The Alliance of Order in Warhammer, an alliance of Humans, Elves and Dwarves to counter the Forces of Destruction
• Systems Alliance, the representative body of humanity in the Mass Effect series
• In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, the titular Alliance refers to a coalition of heroes that normally work independently of one another, or in separate units.

Business[link]

• Airline alliance, an agreement between two or more airlines to cooperate on a substantial level. The three largest passenger alliances are the Star Alliance, SkyTeam and Oneworld.

Literature[link]

• Burk, Kathleen and Melvyn Stokes (eds.): The United States and the European Alliance since 1945 (Oxford: Berg, 1999).
• Heuser, Beatrice, "Alliances Bedevilled by History: Franks, Germanics and Anglo-Saxons in the Cold War", in Luciano Tosi (ed): Europe, its Borders and the Others (Naples: Edizione Scientifiche Italiane, 2000), pp.313-349.
• Hunt, Peter: War, Peace, and Alliance in Demostenes' Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• O'Neill, Robert, Alliances and International Order (1988)
• Phillips, Charles and Alan Axelrod (ed), Encyclopedia of historical treaties and alliances. Vol. 1, From ancient times to World War I (Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001)
• Strategies Alliances and Military Power: Changing Roles". With contributions by the Faculty and Staff of the Strategic Studies Institute at the United States Army War College, Carlislse Barracks, Pennsylvania, USA (Leyden: Sijthoff, 1977)
• Weitsman, Patricia A., Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004)

D.C. Douglas
Born	(1966-02-02) February 2, 1966 (age 46) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, Voice Actor
Years active	1978–present
Website
http://www.dcdouglas.com

D.C. Douglas (born February 2, 1966) is an American character actor, voice actor, and director now living in Los Angeles. Douglas was born in Berkeley, California.^[1] His father was a salesman,^[1] and his mother was an artist and writer.^[1][2] His grandparents were vaudeville performers.^[1] His grandmother, Grace Hathaway,^[3] continued in burlesque as a dancer and his grandfather, Joe Miller,^[4] became known in San Francisco for his talks at the Theosophy Lodge and his weekly walks through Golden Gate Park.^[5]

Theatre, film and television[link]

Douglas performed on stage in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s and early 1980s, moving to Los Angeles in 1985 to study at the Estelle Harman Actors Workshop. In Los Angeles, he co-founded the improvisation troupe Section Eight, and was a member of Theatre of NOTE.

In 1996, he landed a small role in Boston Common, an NBC pilot. When the show was picked up for a season he returned in ten additional episodes as the character D.C., the antagonist to Hedy Burress's character.

The Crooked Eye starring Linda Hunt and Fay Masterson

That same year, Douglas wrote, produced and starred in Falling Words, his first festival film short. In subsequent years he wrote, produced and directed The Eighth Plane, an anti-Scientology gangster film short and Freud and Darwin Sitting in a Tree, about cousin marriage and Lewis Henry Morgan.

In 2005, Douglas's film short, Duck, Duck, Goose!, played film festivals worldwide and received awards for the Best Short from the Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) and Best Actor from the Trenton Film Festival.

His 2009 CGI film short, The Crooked Eye starring Fay Masterson and narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt, played festivals around the world and won awards for Best Narration (STIFF), Best Screenplay (HDFest - New York) and Best Animated Short (Red Rock Film Festival)^[6]

Film credits include Black Ops with Lance Henriksen and Universal Remote: The Movie with Charles Q. Murphy; Hallmark Channel TV movie Final Approach with Dean Cain; and the Lindsay Lohan "comeback" film Labor Pains on the ABC Family channel.

Television credits include The Bold and the Beautiful, 24, Star Trek: Enterprise, NYPD Blue, ER, Charmed, Without A Trace among others. He most recently appeared in CBS's Criminal Minds, ABC's Castle and Fox's Raising Hope.

Voice over[link]

D.C. Douglas' voice over career encompasses video games, television and radio commercials, film and voice-matching celebrities like Val Kilmer and Kevin Spacey. He was part of the first wave of "internet age" voice over artists at the beginning of the 21st century who built and worked from home studios.

Voice over credits include The Master in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game, Albert Wesker in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil 5 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Raven in Tekken 6, AWACS Ghost Eye in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, Commandant Alexei in Tales of Vesperia, Legion in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, Grimoire Noir in Nier, as well as several national campaigns (including the GEICO Celebrity campaign from 2006–2008, the McDonald's Be The Sizzle campaign from 2009–2010, and Radio Shack's Holiday Hero campaign in 2010).

Douglas is the voice of Chase in The Hub's Transformers: Rescue Bots.

In addition to his commercial and video game voice over work, he also does many voice overs for the non-profit progressive research and information center Media Matters for America.^[7]

Politics[link]

D.C. Douglas in Tea Party PSA

In April, 2010, Douglas came under fire from the Tea Party movement for a phone call he made to Freedomworks in which he left an inflammatory voice mail. A day later GEICO dropped him from the new "shocking news" series of internet commercials that were in post-production.^[8] This led to some debate in the voice over community about whether announcers were public figures.^[9] Douglas responded by producing a mock Tea Party PSA for YouTube that was subsequently broadcast on Joy Behar's HLN show with Douglas as a guest.^[10]

The experience spurred Douglas to continue creating short political videos, the majority of which are satirical. Most viewed were his Burn A Koran Day video (posted by The Huffington Post^[11]) and his Why #OccupyWallStreet? video (aired on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell^[12] and posted on the MoveOn.org^[13] and Daily Kos^[14] websites).

In November, 2011, D.C. Douglas tweeted out a quote from a Tower Heist Q & A at the ArcLight Hollywood where Brett Ratner made a disparaging remark about homosexuals. The Hollywood Reporter subsequently reported Douglas' tweet as the beginning of a controversy which led to Ratner stepping down from the 2012 Oscars. ^[15]

Television highlights[link]

• 2 Broke Girls
• Hot in Cleveland
• Castle
• Franklin & Bash
• Raising Hope
• Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures
• Criminal Minds
• Pushing Twilight
• Without A Trace
• 24
• ER
• JAG
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• What About Brian?
• The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
• Strong Medicine
• Las Vegas
• Beverly Hills, 90210
• Boston Common
• That 80's Show
• Mister Sterling
• NYPD Blue
• Charmed
• Silk Stalkings
• Renegade
• Diagnosis: Murder
• Melrose Place
• Coach
• Days of our Lives
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• General Hospital
• Civil Wars
• Al TV

Anime highlight[link]

• Fighting Spirit - Aiko's brother

Video game highlights[link]

• Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds - Albert Wesker
• Star Wars: The Old Republic - Various
• Nier - Grimoire Noir
• .hack//G.U. vol.1//Rebirth - Gabi, Taihaku (2006)
• .hack//G.U. vol.2//Reminisce - Gabi, Taihaku (2007)
• .hack//G.U. vol.3//Redemption - Gabi, Taihaku (2007)
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation - AWACS Ghost Eye (uncredited)
• Eternal Sonata - Jazz
• Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - Dominic 'Vulture' Zubov (voice segments only) (uncredited)
• Dragon Age: Origins - Justice (PRC) (2010)
• Eternal Sonata - Jazz (2007)
• Mass Effect 2 - Legion (2010)
• Mass Effect 3 - Legion (2012)
• Resident Evil 5 - Albert Wesker
• Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles - Albert Wesker (uncredited)
• Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles - Albert Wesker
• Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D - Albert Wesker
• Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 - Additional Voices (uncredited)
• Rise of Dragonian Era Online - Unknown
• Street Fighter X Tekken - Raven
• Might & Magic Heroes VI - Michael
• Tales of the Abyss - Emperor Peony (uncredited)
• Tales of Vesperia - Alexei (uncredited)
• Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology - Kelvin Garr
• Tales of Graces - President Dylan Paradine (uncredited)
• Caesar IV - Various
• Armored Core: For Answer - Additional Voices
• Tekken 6 - Raven (uncredited)
• Tekken 5 - Additional Voices (uncredited)
• Radiata Stories - Additional Voices
• Soulcalibur IV - Custom Voice (uncredited)
• Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars - Avatar/Malacay/additional voices
• SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix - Various
• SpellForce: The Breath of Winter - Uzakhan, Shamziro, Bario, Blind Monk, Desperate Soul
• Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - Suou Uzuki, Voyager
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Master
• The Granstream Saga - Additional Voices (uncredited)

Further reading[link]

• Power, Richard. The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller, 1993. ISBN 0-9618916-8-8. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• D.C. Douglas voice over website
• D.C. Douglas acting website
• D.C. Douglas production website
• D.C. Douglas news website
• Tea Party PSA
• D.C. Douglas blog
• D.C. Douglas political videos
• D.C. Douglas video archive
• D.C. Douglas at the Internet Movie Database
• D.C. Douglas at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)