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Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor of screen and stage, as well as a playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic ''What's Love Got to Do With It''. He became the first African American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaption of the Shakespearean play. Currently, he stars as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama .
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Mel Gibson
Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.
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Peter Barkworth
Peter Wynn Barkworth (14 January 1929 – 21 October 2006) was an English actor.
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Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich (born July 30, 1939) is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. His most critically acclaimed film is The Last Picture Show (1971).
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Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles, and has been nominated for an Academy Award twice, and won the Emmy Award on five occasions and the Golden Globe award once. Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job said that "Peter has a great range from comedy to drama. He could break your heart or he could make you laugh."
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Pruitt Taylor Vince
Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American award-winning character actor who has made many appearances in film and television.
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Richard Kiley
Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 – March 5, 1999) was an American stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for his voice work, as narrator of various documentary series, and for having played Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha. Kiley was the first to sing and record The Impossible Dream, the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph, and introduced the song Stranger in Paradise.
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Richie Havens
Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941) is an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style (in open tuning), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice, OBE (born 26 May 1923) is a British actor known for his Tony Award-winning Broadway performance in the revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten.
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Rupert Davies
Rupert Davies (22 May 1916 – 22 November 1976) was a British actor. He remains best known for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based the Maigret novels written by Georges Simenon.
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Simon West
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Sydney Cockerell
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Warren Mitchell
:This is about the English actor. For the U.S. college basketball coach, go to Warren Mitchell (basketball).
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The Prisoner Puzzle ( with Patrick McGoohan )
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- Duration: 36:38
- Updated: 03 Nov 2012
A very rare interview from Canadian Television circa 1977. Warner Troyer interviews Patrick McGoohan about the making and meaning of the 1960's TV series "The Prisoner". This interview took place in Toronto in 1977 in front of, and with the participation of, a studio audience. The 35-minute program was broadcast on TVOntario, a public television network which had shown The Prisoner series along with commentaries from Troyer from October 1976 to February 1977. The Ontario Educational Communications Authority also published a 21-page booklet on The Prisoner called The Prisoner Puzzle. Links to text: www.scribd.com www.cultv.co.uk
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THE PRISONER, PATRICK MCGOOHAN SPEAKS Part one.
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- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Rare interview with Mcgoohan speaking openly about THE PRISONER, part 1. From the channel 4 documentary THE PRISONER FILE aired after the final episode FALL OUT in '84 and never repeated.
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THE PRISONER, PATRICK MCGOOHAN INTERVIEWED.
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- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Rare interview with Mcgoohan on tv's GREATEST HITS show surrounded by members of six of one the prisoner appreciation society.
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THE PRISONER, PATRICK MCGOOHAN SPEAKS Part two.
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- Duration: 8:53
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Final upload from the C4 documentary THE PRISONER FILE from '84. The notorious "LATAPE" which can be found on my faves' was scheduled to play at the end of this prog' but was considered unworthy to broadcast.
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Patrick McGoohan Interview, 1985
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- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 05 Aug 2012
Interview for the Today Show in 1985 for McGoohan's appearance as a spy (again) in Pack of Lies.
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The Prisoner - Mike Smith interviews Patrick McGoohan
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- Duration: 2:57
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Mike Smith interviews Patrick McGoohan from the cult series 'The Prisoner'
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The Prisoner Opening Sequence
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- Duration: 3:00
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
Opening sequence, unusually without titles, from one of the greatest TV programs of all time: The Prisoner. If you haven't watched this show, you haven't lived...
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"The Prisoner" Opening credits/sequence
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Intro to the Old '60's British Spy TV series. Has a cult following, including me. Lots of fun.
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DangerMan - Patrick McGoohan TV Intro
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- Duration: 0:29
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
DangerMan - Patrick McGoohan TV Intro
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Patrick McGoohan (Be Seeing You)
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- Duration: 7:11
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
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The Prisoner Full Theme & Opening Titles
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- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Ron Grainers full theme from this iconic and seminal series.
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Patrick McGoohan: Ice Station Zebra
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- Duration: 0:58
- Updated: 26 May 2012
Character-revealing scene in Ice Station Zebra by Patrick McGoohan as David Jones (not his real name).
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Hell Drivers: Patrick McGoohan, Sean Connery
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- Duration: 1:43
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Patrick McGoohan playing the alpha male in a cutthroat trucking company in this 1957 movie featuring several actors who became cult heroes later. Sean Connery is on the right in the opening scene. He got the James Bond role after McGoohan turned it down.
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Patrick McGoohan drum solo
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- Duration: 1:48
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
All Night Long (1962) Directed by Basil Dearden. Starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Attenborough, Dave Brubeck. Jazz adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello.
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Patrick McGoohan speaks about his association with Lew Grade
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Segments culled from The Persuader: A documentary on Sir Lew or Lord Grade. Rest in peace Patrick you will always be my favourite actor. Be seeing you.
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Hosted by Patrick McGoohan Journey Into Darkness The Unknown
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- Duration: 5:10
- Updated: 01 Sep 2012
Personally, this man could read out of a phone book and I'd be riveted to my seat. These clips are from two episodes of Journey to the Unknown spliced together to make the "film" Journey Into Darkness. The scintillating Patrick McGoohan served as host.
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Rare Patrick McGoohan Clips Rafferty The Prisoner
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- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 04 Jun 2012
Rare clips of Patrick McGoohan in various roles. Rafferty, This Day in Fear, The Moonshine War, The Man Out There and Two Living One Dead.
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Hysteria: "Power of the Individual" Patrick McGoohan
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- Duration: 1:29
- Updated: 31 Mar 2012
Patrick McGoohan plays a telepathic mad scientist in this weird underground sci-fi movie from 1996 that owes a lot to Scanners.
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The Global Village, The Prisoner Patrick McGoohan.
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- Duration: 0:55
- Updated: 24 Sep 2012
Leo McKern explains the Village to Patrick McGoohan. The Big Society, Global Governance of The Global Village. A New World Order coming into view. Nadia Gray is the actress.
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The Prisoner Opening Theme
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- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
The full opening theme of The Prisoner (1967), from The Chimes of Big Ben.
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'I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape' The Times Purple Weekend
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- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
'I Helped Patrick Mcgoohan Escape' The Times. 6/12/07. Purple Weekend Festival, León. One of my all-time favorit bands with Ride and Teenage Fanclub, since TV Personalities. Very strange behaviour from Mr Edward Ball with wig. I interviewed the band before the concert for www.myspace.com then filmed them from side of stage. Bob Kelly (guitarist) gave me his signed setlist. Here is setlist him and Times play - 1. Biff Bang Pow 2. This Is london 3. Big Painting(for Kally) 4. Red With Purple Flashes 5. Controversial Girlfriend 6. Whatever Happened To Thamesbeat? 7. Up Against It 8. Chimes Of big Ben 9. If Only 10. Love Force Trauma 11. Cloud Over Liverpool 12. Manchester 13. Picture Gallery 14. Mill Hill Self Hate Club 15. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (no wig).
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Brand: Patrick McGoohan
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- Duration: 1:27
- Updated: 07 Aug 2012
McGoohan plays an obsessive priest who tries to get his congregation to walk to their death in the mountains for their own good. They turn on him, stone him and leave him for dead just before this scene. And award-winning theatrical performance.
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Patrick McGoohan: Thomasina at Dinner
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- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Dinner scene from The Three lives of Thomasina, 1963.
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02 Nov 2012
GENEVA (Reuters) - A video that appears to show Syrian rebels killing soldiers who had surrendered probably constitutes a war crime that should be prosecuted, the United Nations human rights office...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - From New York City's Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and officials on Friday faced growing evidence of widespread destruction wrought by...
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Russia's prime minister has said that members of the Pussy Riot punk band serving two-year prison sentences should be set free. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that he detested the Pussy...
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| Patrick McGoohan | |
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| Born | (1928-03-19)March 19, 1928 Astoria, Queens, New York, USA |
| Died | January 13, 2009(2009-01-13) (aged 80) Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Years active | 1955–2002 |
| Spouse | Joan Drummond (1951–2009) his death |
| Children | Catherine, Anne, Frances |
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an American-born actor, brought up in Ireland and England, where he established an extensive stage and film career, with his most notable roles in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US),[1] and The Prisoner, which he co-created.[1] McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz.[2] Later in his career he moved to America and subsequently appeared as the killer in four Columbo episodes, twice winning an Emmy. He was featured in David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981), and played King Edward I aka Longshanks in Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995).
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Early life[link]
McGoohan was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, to Thomas McGoohan and Rose Fitzpatrick, who were living in the United States after emigrating from Ireland to look for work. He was brought up Roman Catholic.[3] Shortly after he was born, McGoohan's parents moved back to Mullaghmore, County Leitrim, Ireland,[4] and, seven years later, they moved to Sheffield, England. McGoohan attended St Vincent's school in Sheffield,[5] but following the outbreak of World War II he was evacuated to Loughborough, Leicestershire. There he attended Ratcliffe College, where he excelled in mathematics and boxing.
McGoohan left school at the age of sixteen and returned to Sheffield where he worked as a chicken farmer, a bank clerk and a lorry driver before getting a job as a stage manager at Sheffield Repertory Theatre. When one of the actors became ill McGoohan filled in, launching his acting career.
Early career[link]
In 1955, McGoohan starred in a West End production of a play called Serious Charge in the role of a priest accused of being gay. Orson Welles was so impressed by McGoohan's stage presence ("intimidated," Welles said later) that he cast him as Starbuck in his York theatre production of Moby Dick—Rehearsed. (Welles said in 1969 that he believed McGoohan "would now be, I think, one of the big actors of our generation if TV hadn't grabbed him. He can still make it. He was tremendous as Starbuck.")[6]
While working as a stand-in during screen tests, McGoohan was signed to a contract with the Rank Organisation. The producers may have been more interested in capitalizing on his boxing skill and appearance than his acting ability, casting him as the conniving bad boy in such films as the gritty Hell Drivers and the steamy potboiler The Gypsy and the Gentleman, and after a few films and some clashes with the management, the contract was dissolved.
Free of the contract, he did some TV work, winning a BAFTA in 1959, for a role the previous year in an episode of Armchair Theatre.[7] His favourite part for the stage was the lead in Ibsen's Brand, for which he received an award, and appeared in a (still extant) BBC television production in August 1959.
[edit] 1960s: Danger Man
Soon, production executive Lew Grade approached McGoohan about a TV series in which he would play a spy named John Drake. Having learned from his experience at the Rank Organisation, he insisted on several conditions in the contract before agreeing to appear in the programme: all the fistfights should be different, the character would always use his brain before using a gun, and, much to the horror of the executives, no kissing. The series debuted in 1960 as Danger Man, a half-hour programme geared toward an American audience. It did fairly well, but not as well as hoped.[8] Production lasted only one year and 39 episodes.
McGoohan was one of several actors considered for the role of James Bond in Dr. No (along with future Bond actor Roger Moore). While McGoohan, a Catholic, turned down the role on moral grounds, the success of the Bond films is generally cited as the reason for Danger Man being revived. McGoohan, introduced himself as “Drake. John Drake” in the style of James Bond for the series, but while the Bond character was—and remains—quite the womanizer, McGoohan said his faith made him resist having his Drake character fall into the same lifestyle as Bond.[9]
Before Danger Man was revived, McGoohan spent some time working for Disney on The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.[10] After he had also turned down the role of Simon Templar in The Saint, Lew Grade asked him if he would like to give John Drake another try. This time, McGoohan had even more say about the series. Danger Man (US: Secret Agent) was resurrected in 1964 as a one-hour programme. The scripts now allowed McGoohan more range in his acting. The popularity of the series led to McGoohan becoming the highest paid actor in the UK[11] and the show lasted almost three more years.
After shooting the two episodes of Danger Man in colour, McGoohan told Lew Grade he was going to quit for another show.[12] After the series was over, one interviewer asked McGoohan if he would have liked the series to continue, to which he replied, "I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself."[citation needed]
[edit] The Prisoner
In the face of McGoohan's intention to quit Danger Man Grade asked if he would at least work on "something" for him. McGoohan gave him a run-down of what would later be called a miniseries about a secret agent who resigns suddenly and wakes up to find himself in a prison disguised as a holiday resort. Grade asked for a budget, McGoohan had one ready, and they made a deal over a handshake early on a Saturday morning to produce The Prisoner. Apart from being the star, McGoohan was the executive producer, forming Everyman Films with series producer David Tomblin, and also wrote and directed episodes, in some cases using pseudonyms.[13] The originally commissioned seven episodes were increased to seventeen.
The Prisoner spends the entire series trying to escape from The Village and to learn the identity of his nemesis, Number One. The Prisoner was a completely new, cerebral kind of series, stretching the limits of the established television formulae. Its influence has been echoed in Lost, Babylon 5, Nowhere Man, I-man, Tower Prep, The Truman Show, The Simpsons and ReBoot.[citation needed]
The main character, the unnamed Number Six, became McGoohan's most recognisable character. Unfortunately, it also became his prison. Number Six was so obsessively pro-individual that whenever McGoohan later played someone who had something to say about individuality or freedom, the character was often compared to his previous incarnation. For example, his portrayal of the warden in Escape from Alcatraz. "Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number", he was once quoted as saying.
The cult of The Prisoner spawned many books, college courses, a quarterly magazine, and documentaries. There were several fan clubs—most notably "Six of One", which still honours the show annually with a convention in Portmeirion, North Wales, where the show's exteriors were shot. McGoohan was the honorary president. In the May 30, 2004 edition of TV Guide, The Prisoner was ranked seventh in a list of the "25 Top Rated Cult Shows Ever!" McGoohan's show outranked the likes of The Twilight Zone (#8) and Doctor Who (#18). TV Guide wrote, "Fans still puzzle over this weird, enigmatic drama, a Kafkaesque allegory about the individual's struggle in the modern age."
[edit] Late 1960s to 1980s: Films and Columbo
McGoohan appeared in many films, including Howard Hughes's favourite, the 1968 film Ice Station Zebra, for which he was critically acclaimed, and Silver Streak (1976), with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. In 1977, he starred in the TV series Rafferty playing a former army doctor who has retired and moved into private practice (one reviewer considers this series a forerunner to House, M.D.[14]). He also appeared in the 1981 film Scanners, a science fiction/horror film by Canadian director David Cronenberg that has since attained cult film status. In 1985, he appeared on Broadway for his only production there; he starred opposite Rosemary Harris in Hugh Whitemore's Pack of Lies, in which he played a British intelligence agent. He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Best Actor for his performance.
McGoohan received two Emmy Awards for his work on Columbo with his long-time friend Peter Falk. McGoohan had said that his first appearance on Columbo was probably his favourite American role. He directed five Columbo episodes (including three of the four in which he played the murderer), and wrote and produced two (including one of these). McGoohan was involved with the Columbo series in some capacity from 1974 to 2000.[15]
1990s[link]
In 1991, he starred in The Best of Friends for the British Channel 4 network, which told the story of the unlikely friendship between a museum curator, a nun and a playwright. McGoohan played George Bernard Shaw alongside Sir John Gielgud as Sydney Cockerell and Dame Wendy Hiller as Sister Laurentia McLachlan. In the United States, the drama was shown as part of Masterpiece Theatre by PBS.
He was most recognised by a later generation of fans as the Machiavellian King Edward I "Longshanks" from the Oscar-winning Braveheart (1995), and as Judge Omar Noose in A Time to Kill (1996). He directed Richie Havens in a rock-opera version of Othello called Catch My Soul.
In 1996, he appeared in Paramount's big budget cinema adaptation of The Phantom comic strip, playing the original, murdered Phantom, and father of the current incarnation of the title character (played by Billy Zane) who carried on his father's "undying" persona.
2000s[link]
In 2000, he reprised his role as Number Six in an episode of The Simpsons, "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes". In it, Homer Simpson concocts a news story to make his website more popular, and he wakes up in a prison disguised as a holiday resort. Dubbed Number Five, he befriends Number Six and escapes with his boat.
McGoohan's last film was a voice role in the animated film Treasure Planet, released in 2002. That same year, he received the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award for The Prisoner.
McGoohan's name was linked to several aborted attempts at producing a new film version of The Prisoner. In 2002, director Simon West (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) was signed to helm a version of the story. McGoohan was listed as executive producer for the film, which never came to fruition. More recently, director Christopher Nolan attached to a proposed film version. However, the source material remained difficult and elusive to adapt into a feature film. Ultimately, a reimagining of the series was filmed for the AMC network in late 2008, with broadcast taking place in November 2009; McGoohan was not involved in the project.
Personal life[link]
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McGoohan fell in love with an actress named Joan Drummond, to whom he reportedly wrote love notes every day. They were married on May 19, 1951. They had three daughters, Catherine (born 1952), Anne (born 1959) and Frances (born 1960). The McGoohans settled in the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles in the mid-1970s.
Death and legacy[link]
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McGoohan died on January 13, 2009 at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, following a brief illness.[16] His remains were cremated.[17]
A biography of the actor was published in 2007 by Tomahawk Press.[18]
Selected filmography[link]
- Hell Drivers (1957)
- The Quare Fellow (1962)
- The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964)
- Ice Station Zebra (1968)
- The Moonshine War (1970)
- Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
- Silver Streak (1976)
- Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
- Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
- Scanners (1981)
- Kings and Desperate Men (1981)
- Braveheart (1995)
- The Phantom (1996)
- A Time to Kill (1996)
- Treasure Planet (2002)
References[link]
- ^ a b ""Prisoner" Star Patrick McGoohan Dies". CBS News. January 14, 2009. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/14/entertainment/main4722806.shtml. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
- ^ "Patrick McGoohan". Internet Movie DataBase. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001526/. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
- ^ "Patrick McGoohan". The Daily Telegraph. January 15, 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4242255/Patrick-McGoohan.html. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
- ^ Langley, R: Patrick McGoohan. Tomahawk Press, 2007.
- ^ Langley, R: Patrick McGoohan, pp. 12–13. Tomahawk Press, 2007.
- ^ Jonathan Roenbaum (ed.), Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, This Is Orson Welles (Da Capo Press, New York, 1992 [rev. 1998 ed.]) p.4
- ^ "Prisoner star McGoohan dies at 80", BBC News, 15 January 2009
- ^ Vincent Cosgrove, 2007. "Odds Are He Will Live on Disc Tomorrow," New York Times, April 15. Retrieved 4-7-10.
- ^ [1]"Patrick McGoohan: Catholic News Service (citation) by Fr. Joseph Jenkins, January 14, 2009"
- ^ ""Disneyland" The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 1 (1963)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055929/. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
- ^ Don't Knock Yourself Out, Network, 2007
- ^ Martin Jackson "Danger Man To Quit", Daily Express, April 16, 1966, p.12. Jackson states: "Now McGoohan has put up a new TV idea to ATV's managing director Lew Grade. He said: "It is another adventure series but a very different sort of character. It promises to be very exciting. Mr. Grade said: Mr. McGoohan is coming to see me tomorrow to discuss the details. We hope to start work on the new series in October."
- ^ McGoohan wrote "Free for All" as Paddy Fitz and directed "Many Happy Returns" and "A Change of Mind" as Joseph Serf. He also wrote "Once Upon A Time" and "Fall Out" using his own name.
- ^ TV.com: Rafferty
- ^ List of Columbo episodes
- ^ Dalton, Andrew. "'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in LA". Associated Press through the Internet Archive. http://web.archive.org/web/20090209085143/http://google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hls8g79toC_XSUxWXSHcbe8n9ergD95N1HBG0. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
- ^ "Find a Grave Memorial". http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32920404. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
- ^ Langley, Roger; Falk, Peter (October 2007). Patrick McGoohan: Danger Man or Prisoner?. Tomahawk Press. ISBN 978-0-9531926-4-9.
External links[link]
- Patrick McGoohan at the Internet Movie Database
- Patrick McGoohan at the Internet Broadway Database
- Patrick McGoohan at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
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| Name | McGoohan, Patrick |
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| Date of birth | March 19, 1928 |
| Place of birth | Astoria, Queens, New York |
| Date of death | January 13, 2009 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California |
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| Sir Sean Connery | |
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 Sean Connery in 2008 |
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| Born | Thomas Sean Connery (1930-08-25) 25 August 1930 (age 81) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1954–2006, 2010[1] |
| Spouse | Diane Cilento (m. 1962–1973, divorced) Micheline Roquebrune (m. 1975–present) |
| Children | Jason Connery |
| Family | Neil Connery (brother) |
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930)[2] is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).
Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six Eon Productions films and the non-canonical Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again).[3] In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables.[4] His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock. He was knighted in July 2000.[5][6] Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Scot"[7] and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".[8] In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century".
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Early life[link]
Connery's great-grandparents emigrated to Scotland from Ireland in the mid 19th century.[9] Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, to Euphemia "Effie" (née Maclean), a cleaning woman, and Joseph Connery, a factory worker and lorry driver.[10] Both his mother's parents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers[11] from Fife and Uig on the Isle of Skye.[12] His father was a Roman Catholic, while his mother was a Protestant. He has a younger brother, Neil (b. 1938). Connery claims he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present. He was, however, generally referred to in his youth as "Tommy".[13] Although he was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft 2 inches (188 cm) at 18. He was known during his teen years as "Big Tam", and claims to have lost his virginity to an adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14.[14][15]
Connery's first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society.[16] He then joined the Royal Navy during which time he got two tattoos, of which his official website says "unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous—his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong commitments: his family and Scotland. After six decades, his tattoos still reflect those two ideas: One tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads "Mum and Dad," and the other is self explanatory, "Scotland Forever."[17]
Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family.[18] Afterward, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan.[19][20] and a coffin polisher. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour,[20] Student artist Richard De Marco who painted several notable early pictures of Connery described the young Connery as "very straight, slightly shy, too, too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis."[21]
Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18 and from 1951 time trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British army.[22] While his official website claims he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class[23] or failing to place in the Tall Man classification.[24] One of the other competitors mentioned that auditions were being held for a production of South Pacific;[23] and Connery landed a small part. While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the notorious Valdor gang, one of the most ruthless gangs in the city. He was first approached by them in a billiard hall on Lothian Street where he prevented them from stealing from his jacket and was later followed by six gang members to a 15 ft high balcony at the Palais.[25] There Connery launched an attack single-handedly against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by a biceps and cracked their heads together. From then on he was treated with great respect by the gang and gained a reputation as a "hard man".[26]
Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife. While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess and offered Connery a contract worth £25 a week immediately after the game. Connery admits that he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, "I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves."[27][28]
Career[link]
1950s[link]
Looking to pick up some extra money, Connery helped out backstage at the King's Theatre in late 1951.[23] He became interested in the proceedings, and a career was launched.
In 1957, Connery played Spike, a minor gangster with a speech impediment in Montgomery Tully's No Road Back alongside Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton and Norman Wooland.[29] He then played a rogue lorry driver Johnny Yates in Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan.[25] Later in 1957 Connery appeared in Terence Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom and Gustavo Rojo; the film was shot on location in southern Spain.[30][31] He also had a minor role in Gerald Thomas's thriller Time Lock (1957) as a welder, appearing alongside Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall and Vincent Winter, which commenced filming on 1 December 1956 at Beaconsfield Studios.[32]
In 1958 he had a major role in the melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958) as a British reporter named Mark Trevor, caught in a love affair opposite Lana Turner and Barry Sullivan. During filming, star Lana Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery. He stormed onto the set and pointed a gun at Connery, only to have Connery disarm him and knock him flat on his back. Stompanato was banned from the set.[33] Connery later recounted that he had to lie low for a while after receiving threats from men linked to Stompanato's boss, Mickey Cohen.
In 1959, Connery landed a leading role in Robert Stevenson's Walt Disney Productions film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) alongside Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, and Jimmy O'Dea. The film is a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. Upon the film's initial release, A. H. Weiler of the New York Times praised the cast (save Connery whom he described as "merely tall, dark, and handsome") and thought the film an "overpoweringly charming concoction of standard Gaelic tall stories, fantasy and romance.".[34] In his book The Disney Films, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin stated that, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People is not only one of Disney's best films, but is certainly one of the best fantasies ever put on film."[35]
He also had a prominent television role in Rudolph Cartier's 1961 production of Anna Karenina for BBC Television, in which he co-starred with Claire Bloom.[36]
James Bond: 1962–71, 1983[link]
Connery's breakthrough came in the role of secret agent James Bond. He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the films succeeded his career would greatly benefit.[28] He played the character in the first five Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967) – then appeared again as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983). All seven films were commercially successful.
Sean Connery's selection as James Bond owed a lot to Dana Broccoli, wife of Cubby Broccoli, who is reputed to have been instrumental in persuading Cubby that Sean Connery was the right man.[37] James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisioned of James Bond looks" and "I’m looking for Commander Bond and not an overgrown stunt-man," adding that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined. However, Fleming's girlfriend told him Connery had the requisite sexual charisma. Fleming changed his mind after the successful Dr. No premiere; he was so impressed, he created a half-Scottish, half-Swiss heritage for the literary James Bond in the later novels.
Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director Terence Young, polishing the actor while using his physical grace and presence for the action. Robert Cotton wrote in one Connery biography that Lois Maxwell (the first Miss Moneypenny) noticed, "Terence took Sean under his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat." Cotton wrote, "Some cast members remarked that Connery was simply doing a Terence Young impression, but Young and Connery knew they were on the right track."[38] The tutoring was successful; Connery received thousands of fan letters a week, and the actor became one of the great male sex symbols of film.[28]
In 2005, From Russia with Love was adapted by Electronic Arts into a video game, titled James Bond 007: From Russia with Love, which featured all-new voice work by Connery as well as his likeness, and those of several of the film's supporting cast.
Beyond Bond[link]
Although Bond had made him a star, Connery did not like the role, saying that he was "fed up to here with the whole Bond bit".[28] While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Apart from The Man Who Would Be King and The Wind and the Lion, both released in 1975, most of Connery's successes in the next decade were as part of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier.[39]
In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the script, in which he describes the character removing his mask as being "Sean Connery — or someone of equal but cheaper stature".[40] When shown the script, Connery was happy to play the supporting role.
After his experience with Never Say Never Again in 1983 and the following court case, Connery became unhappy with the major studios and for two years did not make any films. Following the successful European production The Name of the Rose (1986), for which he won a BAFTA award, Connery's interest in more commercial material was revived. That same year, a supporting role in Highlander showcased his ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which would become a recurring role in many of his later films. The following year, his acclaimed performance as a hard-nosed Irish-American cop in The Untouchables (1987) earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his sole nomination throughout his career. His subsequent box-office hits included Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), in which he played Henry Jones Sr., the title character's father, The Hunt for Red October (1990) (where he was reportedly called in at two weeks' notice), The Russia House (1990), The Rock (1996), and Entrapment (1999). In 1996, he voiced the role of Draco the dragon in the film Dragonheart. Both Last Crusade and The Rock alluded to his James Bond days. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wanted "the father of Indiana Jones" (although Connery is only 12 years older than Ford) to be Connery since Bond directly inspired the Indiana Jones series, while his character in The Rock, John Patrick Mason, was a British secret service agent imprisoned since the 1960s. In 1998, Sean Connery received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award.
In recent years, Connery's films have included several box office and critical disappointments such as First Knight (1995), The Avengers (1998), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), but he also received positive reviews, including his performance in Finding Forrester (2000). He also later received a Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema.
Retirement[link]
Connery stated in interviews for the film (included on the DVD release) that he was offered a role in The Lord of the Rings series,[clarification needed] declining it due to "not understanding the script." CNN reported that the actor was offered up to 15% of the worldwide box office receipts to play Gandalf, which had he accepted, could have earned him as much as $400 million for the trilogy.[41] After the series went on to become a huge hit, Connery decided to accept the lead role in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, despite not "understanding" it either. In July 2005, it was reported that he had decided to retire from film-making, following disillusionment with the "idiots now making films in Hollywood" and the turmoil making the 2003 film.[42]
In September 2004, media reports indicated that Connery intended to retire after pulling out of Josiah's Canon, which was set for a 2005 release. However, in a December 2004 interview with The Scotsman newspaper from his home in the Bahamas, Connery explained he had taken a break from acting to concentrate on writing his autobiography. At the Tartan Day celebrations in New York in March 2006, Connery again confirmed his retirement from acting, and stated that he is now writing a history book. On 25 August 2008, his 78th birthday, Connery unveiled his autobiography, Being a Scot, co-written with Murray Grigor.
He was planning to star in an $80 million movie about Saladin and the Crusades that would be filmed in Jordan before the producer Moustapha Akkad was killed in the 2005 Amman bombings. When Connery received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award on 8 June 2006, he again confirmed his retirement from acting. On 7 June 2007, he denied rumours that he would appear in the fourth Indiana Jones film, stating that "retirement is just too much damned fun".[43]
Connery returned to voice acting, playing the title character in the animated short Sir Billi the Vet,[44] and in 2005 he recorded voiceovers for a new video game version of his Bond film From Russia with Love. In an interview on the game disc, Connery stated that he was very happy that the producers of the game (EA Games) had approached him to voice Bond and that he hoped to do another one in the near future.[citation needed] In 2010, he reprised his role as the title character in the animated film Sir Billi, serving also as executive producer.[45]
In April 2011, his spokesman confirmed that Connery has retired from making public appearances.[46]
In the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the character Sentinel Prime's features were mostly based on Connery. When Leonard Nimoy was to voice the role, however, the effects were altered to incorporate Nimoy's acting as well.[47]
Sean Connery has a villa in Karindi, Greece. His neigbor is the Dutch crown-prince with whom he shares a helicopter platform.[48]
Personal life[link]
Connery dated a woman named Julie Hamilton in the 1950s; given his rugged appearance and rough charm she initially thought he was a most appalling person and was not attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt.[49] He also shared a mutual attraction with black jazz singer Maxine Daniels, whom he met at the Empire Theatre[disambiguation needed 
]. He made a pass at her, but she informed him that she was already happily married with a baby daughter.[50] Connery was married to actress Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1973. They had a son, actor Jason Connery. Connery has been married to Moroccan-French painter Micheline Roquebrune (born 1929) since 1975.[51]
Connery, a keen golfer, owned the Domaine de Terre Blanche[52] in the South of France for twenty years (from 1979) where he planned to build his dream golf course on the 266 acres (108 ha) of land but the dream[53] was not realised until he sold it to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999. Connery has also always had an interest in football. Connery supported Celtic in the 1960s, but began supporting their Old Firm rivals Rangers in the 1990s.[54] Commenting on his change of allegiance, Connery stated "I've always supported the team I thought played the best soccer...religious affiliations in sport mean nothing to me."[54] He has been awarded the rank of Shodan (1st dan) in Kyokushin karate.[55]
Connery was knighted in July 2000.[56] He had been nominated for a knighthood in 1997 and 1998, but these nominations were vetoed by Donald Dewar due to Connery's political views.[56]
Scottish National Party[link]
Connery is a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),[57][58] a centre-left political party campaigning for Scottish independence, and has supported the party financially[59] and through personal appearances. His funding of the SNP ceased in 2001, when the UK Parliament passed legislation that prohibited overseas funding of political activities in the UK.[59] In 2008, Connery said in the Scottish Sunday Express he believed that Scotland will become an independent country within his lifetime and praised the work of the SNP in a minority government after their victory in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election. Connery has been criticised for commenting on UK politics while living as a tax exile in the Bahamas,[60][61] although he released documents in 2003 showing that he had paid £3.7 million in UK taxes between 1997/98 and 2002/03.[62] Connery has sworn not to return to Scotland until it becomes an independent state.[63]
Health[link]
In 1993, news that Connery was undergoing radiation treatment for an undisclosed throat ailment sparked media reports that the actor was suffering from throat cancer following years of heavy smoking, and he was falsely declared dead by the Japanese and South African news agencies. Connery immediately appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to deny all of this. In a February 1995 interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said that the radiation treatment was to remove nodules from his vocal cords. (His father, a heavy smoker, died from throat cancer in 1972.) In 2003, he had surgery to remove cataracts from both eyes. On 12 March 2006, he announced he was recovering from surgery in January to remove a kidney tumour. In 2008, he chipped a bone in his shoulder after falling while playing golf. In October 2009, he told Wine Spectator magazine that he has been diagnosed with a heart condition.[64]
Tribute[link]
- Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Scot".[7]
- A bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in the capital city of Estonia.[65]
- Connery shared a Henrietta Award with Charles Bronson for "World Film Favorite – Male" in 1972.
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Lilacs in the Spring | Undetermined role | (uncredited) |
| 1957 | No Road Back | Spike | |
| 1957 | Hell Drivers | Johnny Kates | |
| 1957 | Action of the Tiger | Mike | |
| 1957 | Time Lock | Welder No. 2 | |
| 1958 | Another Time, Another Place | Mark Trevor | |
| 1958 | Night to Remember, AA Night to Remember | RMS Titanic deck hand | uncredited |
| 1959 | Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Michael McBride | |
| 1959 | Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | O'Bannion | |
| 1961 | On the Fiddle | Pedlar Pascoe | |
| 1961 | Frightened City, TheThe Frightened City | Paddy Damion | |
| 1962 | Longest Day, TheThe Longest Day | Pte. Flanagan | |
| 1962 | Dr. No | James Bond | |
| 1963 | From Russia with Love | James Bond | |
| 1964 | Marnie | Mark Rutland | |
| 1964 | Woman of Straw | Anthony Richmond | |
| 1964 | Goldfinger | James Bond | |
| 1965 | Hill, TheThe Hill | Trooper Joe Roberts | |
| 1965 | Thunderball | James Bond | |
| 1966 | monde nouveau, UnUn monde nouveau | Himself | (cameo) |
| 1966 | Fine Madness, AA Fine Madness | Samson Shillitoe | |
| 1967 | You Only Live Twice | James Bond | |
| 1967 | Bowler and the Bunnet, TheThe Bowler and the Bunnet | Himself | (Director; documentary) |
| 1968 | Shalako | Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin | |
| 1970 | Molly Maguires, TheThe Molly Maguires | Jack Kehoe | |
| 1971 | Red Tent, TheThe Red Tent | Roald Amundsen | |
| 1971 | Anderson Tapes, TheThe Anderson Tapes | John Anderson | |
| 1971 | Diamonds Are Forever | James Bond | |
| 1972 | España campo de golf | Himself | (short subject) |
| 1973 | Offence, TheThe Offence | Detective Sergeant Johnson | |
| 1974 | Zardoz | Zed | |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Colonel Arbuthnot | |
| 1975 | Ransom | Nils Tahlvik | |
| 1975 | Dream Factory, TheThe Dream Factory | Himself | (documentary) |
| 1975 | Wind and the Lion, TheThe Wind and the Lion | Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli the Magnificent | |
| 1975 | Man Who Would Be King, TheThe Man Who Would Be King | Daniel Dravot | |
| 1976 | Robin and Marian | Robin Hood | |
| 1976 | Next Man, TheThe Next Man | Khalil Abdul-Muhsen | |
| 1977 | Bridge Too Far, AA Bridge Too Far | Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart | |
| 1979 | First Great Train Robbery, TheThe First Great Train Robbery | Edward Pierce/John Simms/Geoffrey | |
| 1979 | Meteor | Dr. Paul Bradley | |
| 1979 | Cuba | Maj. Robert Dapes | |
| 1981 | Outland | Marshal William T. O'Niel | Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actor |
| 1981 | Time Bandits | King Agamemnon/Fireman | |
| 1982 | G'olé! | Narrator | (documentary) |
| 1982 | Five Days One Summer | Douglas Meredith | |
| 1982 | Wrong Is Right | Patrick Hale | |
| 1983 | Sean Connery's Edinburgh | Himself | (short subject) |
| 1983 | Never Say Never Again | James Bond | (Non-Eon Productions James Bond film) |
| 1984 | Sword of the Valiant | The Green Knight | |
| 1986 | Highlander | Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez | |
| 1986 | Name of the Rose, TheThe Name of the Rose | William of Baskerville | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1987 | Untouchables, TheThe Untouchables | Jim Malone |
|
| 1988 | Presidio, TheThe Presidio | Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell | |
| 1988 | Memories of Me | Cameo (as himself) | |
| 1989 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Professor Henry Jones Senior | |
| 1989 | Family Business | Jessie McMullen | |
| 1990 | Hunt for Red October, TheThe Hunt for Red October | Captain Marko Ramius | Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1990 | Russia House, TheThe Russia House | Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair | |
| 1991 | Highlander II: The Quickening | Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez | |
| 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | King Richard I | (uncredited cameo) |
| 1992 | Medicine Man | Dr. Robert Campbell | |
| 1993 | Rising Sun | Capt. John Connor | (also executive producer) |
| 1994 | Good Man in Africa, AA Good Man in Africa | Dr. Alex Murray | |
| 1995 | Just Cause | Paul Armstrong | (also executive producer) |
| 1995 | First Knight | King Arthur | |
| 1996 | Dragonheart | Draco | (voice) |
| 1996 | Rock, TheThe Rock | Capt. John Patrick Mason (Ret.) | (also executive producer) |
| 1998 | Avengers, TheThe Avengers | Sir August de Wynter | |
| 1998 | Playing by Heart | Paul | |
| 1999 | Entrapment | Robert MacDougal | (also producer) |
| 2000 | Finding Forrester | William Forrester | |
| 2003 | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, TheThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Allan Quatermain | (also executive producer) |
| 2005 | 007: From Russia with Love | James Bond | (voice and likeness) video game |
| 2012 | Sir Billi[66] | Sir Billi | (voice, executive producer) animated film |
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- Yule, Andrew (1992), Sean Connery:Neither Shaken Nor Stirred, Sphere
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The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register (it became The Times on 1 January 1788). The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967.
The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (1838), The Straits Times (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), The Canberra Times (1926), and The Times (Malta) (1935). For distinguishing purposes it is therefore sometimes referred to, particularly in North America, as the "London Times" or "The Times of London".[2][3]
The Times is the originator of the ubiquitous Times Roman typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech printing. In November 2006 The Times began printing headlines in a new font, Times Modern. The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to compact size in 2004 in an attempt to appeal more to younger readers and commuters using public transport. The Sunday Times remains a broadsheet.
Though traditionally a moderate newspaper and sometimes a supporter of the Conservatives, it supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections.[4] In 2004, according to MORI, the voting intentions of its readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats, and 26% for Labour.[5] The Times had an average daily circulation of 394,102 in March 2012.[1] An American edition has been published since 6 June 2006.[2]
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History[link]
1785 to 1890[link]
The Times was founded by publisher John Walter on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor. Walter changed the title after 940 editions on 1 January 1788 to The Times. In 1803, Walter handed ownership and editorship to his son of the same name. Walter senior had spent sixteen months in Newgate prison for libel printed in The Times, but his pioneering efforts to obtain Continental news, especially from France, helped build the paper's reputation among policy makers and financiers.
The Times used contributions from significant figures in the fields of politics, science, literature, and the arts to build its reputation. For much of its early life, the profits of The Times were very large and the competition minimal, so it could pay far better than its rivals for information or writers.
In 1809, John Stoddart was appointed general editor, replaced in 1817 by Thomas Barnes. Under Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of The Times rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the City of London. Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling were two noted journalists, and gained for The Times the pompous/satirical nickname 'The Thunderer' (from "We thundered out the other day an article on social and political reform.").The increased circulation and influence of the paper was based in part to its early adoption of the steam-driven rotary printing press. Distribution via steam trains to rapidly growing concentrations of urban populations helped ensure the profitability of the paper and its growing influence.[6]
The Times was the first newspaper to send war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. W. H. Russell, the paper's correspondent with the army in the Crimean War, was immensely influential[7] with his dispatches back to England.
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A wounded British officer reading The Times's report of the end of the Crimean war, in John Everett Millais' painting Peace Concluded.
In other events of the nineteenth century, The Times opposed the repeal of the Corn Laws[citation needed] until the number of demonstrations convinced the editorial board otherwise, and only reluctantly supported aid to victims of the Irish Potato Famine. It enthusiastically supported the Great Reform Bill of 1832, which reduced corruption and increased the electorate from 400 000 people to 800 000 people (still a small minority of the population). During the American Civil War, The Times represented the view of the wealthy classes, favouring the secessionists, but it was not a supporter of slavery.
The third John Walter, the founder's grandson, succeeded his father in 1847. The paper continued as more or less independent, but from the 1850s The Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from the penny press, notably The Daily Telegraph and The Morning Post.
During the 19th century, it was not infrequent for the Foreign Office to approach The Times and ask for continental intelligence, which was often superior to that conveyed by official sources.[8]
1890 to 1981[link]
The Times faced financial extinction in 1890 under Arthur Fraser Walter, but it was rescued by an energetic editor, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell. During his tenure (1890–1911), The Times became associated with selling the Encyclopædia Britannica using aggressive American marketing methods introduced by Horace Everett Hooper and his advertising executive, Henry Haxton. Due to legal fights between the Britannica's two owners, Hooper and Walter Montgomery Jackson, The Times severed its connection in 1908 and was bought by pioneering newspaper magnate, Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe.
In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914, Wickham Steed, the Times's Chief Editor, argued that the British Empire should enter World War I.[9] On 8 May 1920, also under the editorship of Steed, The Times in an editorial endorsed the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document, and called Jews the world's greatest danger. In the leader entitled "The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry", Steed wrote about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
What are these 'Protocols'? Are they authentic? If so, what malevolent assembly concocted these plans and gloated over their exposition? Are they forgery? If so, whence comes the uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in part fulfilled, in part so far gone in the way of fulfillment?".[10]
The following year, when Philip Graves, the Constantinople (modern Istanbul) correspondent of The Times, exposed The Protocols as a forgery, 'The Times retracted the editorial of the previous year.
In 1922, John Jacob Astor, son of the 1st Viscount Astor, bought The Times from the Northcliffe estate. The paper gained a measure of notoriety in the 1930s with its advocacy of German appeasement; then-editor Geoffrey Dawson was closely allied with those in the government who practised appeasement[citation needed], most notably Neville Chamberlain.
Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent, was a correspondent for the newspaper in Spain during the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s. Philby was admired for his courage in obtaining high-quality reporting from the front lines of the bloody conflict. He later joined MI6 during World War II, was promoted into senior positions after the war ended, then eventually defected to the Soviet Union in 1963.[11]
Between 1941 and 1946, the left-wing British historian E.H. Carr was Assistant Editor. Carr was well known for the strongly pro-Soviet tone of his editorials.[12] In December 1944, when fighting broke out in Athens between the Greek Communist ELAS and the British Army, Carr in a Times editorial sided with the Communists, leading Winston Churchill to condemn him and that leader in a speech to the House of Commons.[13] As a result of Carr's editorial, The Times became popularly known during World War II as the threepenny Daily Worker (the price of the Daily Worker was one penny)[14]
On 3 May 1966 it started printing news on the front page for the first time - previously the front page featured small advertisements, usually of interest to the moneyed classes in British society.[citation needed] In 1967, members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson, The Thomson Corporation merged it with The Sunday Times to form Times Newspapers Limited.
An industrial dispute prompted the management to shut the paper for nearly a year (1 December 1978 – 12 November 1979).
The Thomson Corporation management were struggling to run the business due to the 1979 Energy Crisis and union demands. Management were left with no choice but to save both titles by finding a buyer who was in a position to guarantee the survival of both titles, and also one who had the resources and was committed to funding the introduction of modern printing methods.
Several suitors appeared, including Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland and Lord Rothermere; however, only one buyer was in a position to meet the full Thomson remit, Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
1981 to present: Murdoch-era[link]
In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International.[15] The acquisition followed three weeks of intensive bargaining with the unions by company negotiators, John Collier and Bill O'Neill.
After 14 years as editor, William Rees-Mogg resigned the post upon the completion of the change of ownership.[16] Murdoch began to make his mark on the paper by appointing Harold Evans as his replacement.[17] One of his most important changes was the introduction of new technology and efficiency measures. In March–May 1982, following agreement with print unions, the hot-metal Linotype printing process used to print The Times since the 19th century was phased out and replaced by computer input and photo-composition. This allowed print room staff at The Times and The Sunday Times to be reduced by half.[citation needed] However, direct input of text by journalists ("single stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the Wapping dispute of 1986, when The Times moved from New Printing House Square in Gray's Inn Road (near Fleet Street) to new offices in Wapping.[18]
Robert Fisk,[19] seven times British International Journalist of the Year,[20] resigned as foreign correspondent in 1988 over what he saw as "political censorship" of his article on the shooting-down of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988. He wrote in detail about his reasons for resigning from the paper due to meddling with his stories, and the paper's pro-Israel stance.[21]
In June 1990, The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles ("Mr", "Mrs", or "Miss" prefixes) for living persons before full names on first reference, but it continues to use them before surnames on subsequent references. The more formal style is now confined to the "Court and Social" page, though "Ms" is now acceptable in that section, as well as before surnames in news sections.
In November 2003, News International began producing the newspaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes. On 13 September 2004, the weekday broadsheet was withdrawn from sale in Northern Ireland. Since 1 November 2004, the paper has been printed solely in tabloid format.
The Conservative Party announced plans to launch litigation against The Times over an incident in which the newspaper claimed that Conservative election strategist Lynton Crosby had admitted that his party would not win the 2005 General Election. The Times later published a clarification, and the litigation was dropped.
On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. Author/solicitor David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire has had more letters published on the main letters page than any other known contributor – 158 by 31 January 2008. According to its leading article, "From Our Own Correspondents", removal of full postal addresses was in order to fit more letters onto the page.
In a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, Murdoch stated that the law and the independent board prevented him from exercising editorial control.[22]
In May 2008 printing of The Times switched from Wapping to new plants at Broxbourne on the outskirts of London, and Merseyside and Glasgow, enabling the paper to be produced with full colour on every page for the first time.
Some[who?] allege that The Times' partisan opinion pieces also damage its status as 'paper of record,' particularly when attacking interests that go against those of its parent company – News International. In 2010 it published an opinion piece attacking the BBC for being 'one of a group of' signatories to a letter criticising BSkyB share options in October 2010.[23]
In March 2012, it became the first British newspaper to formally endorse same-sex marriage.
Content[link]
The Times features news for the first half of the paper with the leading articles on the second page, the Opinion/Comment section begins after the first news section with world news normally following this. The business pages begin on the centre spread, and are followed by The Register, containing obituaries, Court & Social section, and related material. The sport section is at the end of the main paper.
[edit] Times2
The Times's main supplement is the times2, featuring various lifestyle columns.[clarification needed] It was discontinued on 1 March 2010 but reintroduced on 11 October 2010 after negative feedback. Its regular features include a puzzles section called Mind Games. Its previous incarnation began on 5 September 2005, before which it was called T2 and previously Times 2. Regular features include columns by a different columnist each weekday. There was a column by Marcus du Sautoy each Wednesday, for example. The back pages are devoted to puzzles and contain sudoku, "Killer Sudoku", "KenKen", word polygon puzzles, and a crossword simpler and more concise than the main "Times Crossword".
The supplement contains arts and lifestyle features, TV and radio listings and reviews.
[edit] The Game
The Game is included in the newspaper on Mondays, and details all the weekend's football activity (Premier League and Football League Championship, League One and League Two.) The Scottish edition of The Game also includes results and analysis from Scottish Premier League games.
Saturday supplements[link]
The Saturday edition of The Times contains a variety of supplements. These supplements were relaunched in January 2009 as: Sport, Weekend (including travel and lifestyle features), Saturday Review (arts, books, and ideas), The Times Magazine (columns on various topics), and Playlist (an entertainment listings guide).
Saturday Review is the first regular supplement published in broadsheet format since the paper switched to a compact size in 2004.
At the beginning of summer 2011 Saturday Review switched to the tabloid format
The Times Magazine features columns touching on various subjects such as celebrities, fashion and beauty, food and drink, homes and gardens or simply writers' anecdotes. Notable contributors include Giles Coren, Food and Drink Writer of the Year in 2005.
Online presence[link]
The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk.[24] There are now two websites: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content. There are also iPad and Android editions of both newspapers. Since July 2010, News International has required readers who do not subscribe to the print edition to pay £2 per week to read The Times and The Sunday Times online.[25]
Visits to the websites have decreased by 87% since the paywall was introduced, from 21 million unique users per month to 2.7 million.[26] In April 2009, the timesonline site had a readership of 750,000 readers per day.[27] As of October 2011, there were around 111,000 subscribers to the Times' digital products [28]
Ownership[link]
The Times has had the following eight owners since its foundation in 1785:
- 1785 to 1803 - John Walter;
- 1803 to 1847 - John Walter, 2nd;
- 1847 to 1894 - John Walter, 3rd;
- 1894 to 1908 - Arthur Fraser Walter;
- 1908 to 1922 - Lord Northcliffe;
- 1922 to 1966 - Astor family;
- 1966 to 1981 - Roy Thomson; and
- 1981 to present - News International (a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation, run by Rupert Murdoch).
Readership[link]
At the time of Harold Evans' appointment as editor in 1981, The Times had an average daily sale of 282,000 copies, in comparision to the 1.4 million daily sales of its traditional rival The Daily Telegraph.[29] By November 2005 The Times sold an average of 691,283 copies per day, the second-highest of any British "quality" newspaper (after The Daily Telegraph, which had a circulation of 903,405 copies in the period), and the highest in terms of full-rate sales.[30] By March 2012 The Times' average daily circulation had fallen to 394,102 copies, compared to The Daily Telegraph's 576,378, with the two retaining respectively the second-highest and highest circulations among British "quality" newspapers.[1] In contrast The Sun, the highest-selling "tabloid" daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, sold an average of 2,614,725 copies in March 2012, and the Daily Mail, the highest-selling "middle market" British daily newspaper, sold an average of 1,952,524 copies in the period.[1]
In a 2009 national readership survey The Times was found to have the highest number of ABC1 25–44 readers and the largest numbers of readers in London of any of the "quality" papers.[31]
Typeface[link]
In 1908 The Times started using the Monotype Modern typeface.[32]
The Times commissioned the serif typeface Times New Roman, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype, in 1931.[33] It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated.[34] The font was supervised by Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times. Morison used an older font named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. Times New Roman made its debut in the 3 October 1932 issue of The Times newspaper.[35] After one year, the design was released for commercial sale. The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch font five times since 1972. However, all the new fonts have been variants of the original New Roman font:
- Times Europa was designed by Walter Tracy in 1972 for The Times, as a sturdier alternative to the Times font family, designed for the demands of faster printing presses and cheaper paper. The typeface features more open counter spaces.
- Times Roman replaced Times Europa on 30 August 1982.[36]
- Times Millennium was made in 1991,[36] drawn by Gunnlaugur Briem on the instructions of Aurobind Patel, composing manager of News International.
- Times Classic first appeared in 2001.[37] Designed as an economical face by the British type team of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, it took advantage of the new PC-based publishing system at the newspaper, while obviating the production shortcomings of its predecessor Times Millennium. The new typeface included 120 letters per font. Initially the family comprised ten fonts, but a condensed version was added in 2004.
- Times Modern was unveiled on 20 November 2006, as the successor of Times Classic.[36] Designed for improving legibility in smaller font sizes, it uses 45-degree angled bracket serifs. The font was published by Elsner + Flake as EF Times Modern; it was designed by Research Studios, led by Ben Preston (deputy editor of The Times) and designer Neville Brody.[38]
Political allegiance[link]
The Times had declared its support for Clement Attlee's Labour at the 1945 general election; the party went on to win the election by a landslide over Winston Churchill's Conservative government. However, the newspaper reverted to the Tories for the next election five years later. It supported the Conservatives for the subsequent three elections, followed by support for both the Conservatives and the Liberal Party for the next five elections, expressly supporting a Con-Lib coalition in 1974. The paper then backed the Conservatives solidly until 2001.
For the 2001 general election The Times declared its support for Tony Blair's Labour government, which was re-elected by a landslide. It supported Labour again in 2005, when Labour achieved a third successive win, though with a reduced majority.[39] For the 2010 general election, however, the newspaper declared its support for the Tories once again; the election ended in the Tories taking the most votes and seats but having to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to form a government as they had failed to gain an overall majority.[40]
| Year | Party Supported |
|---|---|
| 1945 | Labour |
| 1950 | Conservatives |
| 1955 | Conservatives, Liberal |
| 1974 | Conservatives-Liberal Coalition |
| 1979 | Conservatives |
| 2001 | Labour |
| 2010 | Conservatives |
This makes it the most varied newspaper in terms of political support in British history.[41]
Sponsorships[link]
The Times, along with the British Film Institute, sponsors the "The Times" bfi London Film Festival.
The Times sponsors the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature at Asia House, London.
Notable people[link]
Editors[link]
| Name[42] | Tenure |
|---|---|
| John Walter | 1785 to 1803 |
| John Walter, 2nd | 1803 to 1812 |
| John Stoddart | 1812 to 1816 |
| Thomas Barnes | 1817 to 1841 |
| John Delane | 1841 to 1877 |
| Thomas Chenery | 1877 to 1884 |
| George Earle Buckle | 1884 to 1912 |
| George Geoffrey Dawson | 1912 to 1919 |
| Henry Wickham Steed | 1919 to 1922 |
| George Geoffrey Dawson | 1923 to 1941 |
| Robert McGowan Barrington-Ward | 1941 to 1948 |
| William Francis Casey | 1948 to 1952 |
| William Haley | 1952 to 1966 |
| William Rees-Mogg | 1967 to 1981 |
| Harold Evans | 1981 to 1982 |
| Charles Douglas-Home | 1982 to 1985 |
| Charles Wilson | 1985 to 1990 |
| Simon Jenkins | 1990 to 1992 |
| Peter Stothard | 1992 to 2002 |
| Robert Thomson | 2002 to 2007 |
| James Harding | 2007 to present |
Notable columnists and journalists[link]
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Related publications[link]
[edit] Times Literary Supplement
Main article: The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a separately-paid-for weekly literature and society magazine.
[edit] The Times Science Review
Main article: The Times Science Review
Between 1951 and 1966 The Times published a separately-paid-for quarterly science review, The Times Science Review. Remarkably, in 1953 both the newspaper and its science supplement failed to report on the discovery of the structure of DNA in Cambridge, which was reported on by both the News Chronicle and The New York Times.
The Times started a new (but free) monthly science magazine, Eureka, in October 2009.
Times Atlases[link]
(Times Books Group Ltd)
- The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, 2007 ISBN 978-0-00-780150-3
In fiction[link]
- In the dystopian future world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Times has been transformed into the organ of the totalitarian ruling party, its editorials—of which several are quoted in the book—reflecting Big Brother's pronouncements.
- Rex Stout's fictional detective Nero Wolfe is described as fond of solving the London Times' crossword puzzle at his New York home, in preference to those of American papers.
- In the James Bond series by Ian Fleming, James Bond, reads The Times. As described by Fleming in From Russia, with Love: "The Times was the only paper that Bond ever read."
See also[link]
[edit] References
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- ^ Haslam, Jonathan. "We Need a Faith: E.H. Carr, 1892–1982" pages 36–39 from History Today, Volume 33, August 1983 page 37
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- ^ An analysis of The Times reader demographic (based on NMA figures, news agenda and advertising in the paper) can be seen in this study.
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Further reading[link]
- Evans, Harold (1983). Good Times, Bad Times. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-78295-9 - includes sections of black-and-white photographic plates, plus a few charts and diagrams in text pages.
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- Official website (Mobile)
- The Sunday Times site
- Times World Atlases official website including a History and Heritage section detailing landmark Times atlases
- Archive from 1785 to 2006 – full text and original layout, searchable (not free of charge, registration required)
- Neil, Andrew; Griffiths, Ian; Fitzpatrick, Barry (15 January 2006). "Three views of the industrial dispute twenty years on". The Observer (UK). http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1686500,00.html.
- The Times editor Robert Thomson lecture online: From the editorial desk of The Times, RMIT School of Applied Communication Public Lecture series
- Anthony Trollope's satire on the mid-nineteenth century Times
- Journalism Now: The Times Winchester University Journalism History project on the Times in the nineteenth century
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