Yeoman refers chiefly to a free man owning his own farm, especially from the Elizabethan era to the 17th century. Work requiring a great deal of effort or labour, such as would be done by a yeoman farmer, came to be described as "yeoman's work". Thus yeoman became associated with hard toil.
Yeoman was also a rank or position in a noble household, with titles such as Yeoman of the Chamber, Yeoman of the Crown, Yeoman Usher, and King's Yeoman. Most of these, including the Yeomen of the Guard, had the duty of protecting the sovereign and other dignitaries as a bodyguard, and carrying out various duties for the sovereign as assigned to his office.
In modern British usage, yeoman may specifically refer to
In the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, a yeoman is a rating usually with secretarial, clerical, payroll or other administrative duties. The first women in the U.S. Navy were Yeomen in World War I.
In the Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, and other maritime forces which follow British naval tradition, a Yeoman of Signals is a signalling and tactical communications petty officer.
Robert David Yeoman (born March 10, 1951) is an American cinematographer and director of photography. Yeoman is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Yeoman spent his childhood in the northern suburbs of Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1973 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1979.
Yeoman's first filmwork was done as a second unit director of photography on To Live and Die in LA, directed by William Friedkin in 1986. He went on to shoot many independent films including Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy — for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography — Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale, and Roman Coppola's CQ. He has worked on every live action film by Wes Anderson, including Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) as cinematographer, and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007), credited as director of photography.
Tim Kang (born March 16, 1973) is an American television and film actor. He is best known for his AT&T commercials and his role as Kimball Cho in the TV series The Mentalist.
Kang was born in San Francisco, California. He got into acting later than most, not pursuing it as a career until the age of 26. Kang is a series regular on CBS's The Mentalist as Special Agent Kimball Cho. He appeared in Rambo (2008) and also on such TV shows as The Office, Chappelle's Show, and Monk. He has also appeared in many TV commercials – the most notable of which are recurring spots for Shell and AT&T. Kang holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts from the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University. He also studied acting in Russia at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Kang is the eldest of three boys. He has a daughter, Bianca, born November 7, 2009.
Tim is the current spokesman of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Owain Sebastian Yeoman (born July 2, 1978) is a Welsh actor. His credits include The Nine, Kitchen Confidential and the HBO series, Generation Kill. He currently appears as Agent Wayne Rigsby in The Mentalist.
Yeoman made his film debut as Lysander in the Oscar nominated film Troy. He also had a small part in Broken Lizard's film, Beerfest, and made a guest appearance on an episode of Midsomer Murders.
He played the major villain, a T-888 model cyborg Terminator, in the pilot episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The role was taken by Garret Dillahunt in the series of the same name. Yeoman studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London alongside acclaimed method actor Pieter Lawman. He holds a degree in English Literature from Brasenose College, Oxford University. On 9 December 2006 he married actress Lucy Davis at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Davis and Yeoman were permitted to marry there as her father, Jasper Carrott, had been awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours in 2002. As of February 2011 they are separated.
Robin Jessica Tunney (born June 19, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her lead roles in the movie The Craft and the Fox television series Prison Break and The Mentalist.
Tunney was born in Chicago, Illinois to a car salesman father, Patrick, and a bartender mother, Cathy. Tunney is Irish American; her father emigrated from Ireland and grew up in Orland Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago. She was raised Roman Catholic, attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park, and resided in Palos Heights, Illinois, also in the Chicago area. After graduating high school, she then studied Art at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She is a cousin of Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney.
At the age of 19, Tunney moved to Los Angeles, California and obtained several recurring TV roles on Class of '96, Law & Order, Dream On, and Life Goes On. She gave her breakthrough performance as a suicidal teenager in Empire Records, and attracted further attention by playing a witch in The Craft. She shaved her head for Empire Records and had to wear a wig in The Craft.
Plot
An alien phenomenon of unprecedented size and power is approaching Earth, destroying everything in its path. The only starship in range is the USS Enterprise--still in drydock after a major overhaul. As Captain Willard Decker readies his ship and his crew to face this menace, Admiral James T. Kirk arrives with orders to take command of the Enterprise and intercept the intruder. But it has been three years since Kirk last commanded the Enterprise on its historic five year mission... is he up to the task of saving the Earth?
Keywords: 23rd-century, admiral, alien, android, artificial-intelligence, based-on-cult-tv-series, based-on-tv-series, biblical-allegory, blockbuster, castle-thunder
The human adventure is just beginning
There is no comparison
Not owning it would be illogical (DVD release)
Captain James T. Kirk: Damn it, Bones, I need you. Badly!
Captain James T. Kirk: Evaluation, Mr. Spock.::Commander Spock: Fascinating.
Commander Spock: It's life, Captain, but not life as we know it.
[Kirk apologizes for assuming command over Captain Decker]::Captain James T. Kirk: I'm sorry, Will.::Commander Willard Decker: No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. Not one damned bit. I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get a starship command again. Well, sir, it looks like you found a way.
[a transporter accident has just occurred]::Transporter chief: Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long... fortunately.
Captain James T. Kirk: Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to the Starfleet...::Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Just a moment, Captain, sir. I'll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little-known, seldom-used "reserve activation clause." In simpler language, Captain, they DRAFTED me!::Captain James T. Kirk: [In mock horror] They didn't.::Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: This was your idea. This was your idea, wasn't it?::Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, there's a... thing... out there.::Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Why is any object we don't understand always called "a thing"?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Well Jim... I hear Chapel's an M.D. now. Well I'm gonna need a top nurse... not a doctor who'll argue every little diagnosis with me. And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay, too! I know engineers, they LOVE to change things.
Captain James T. Kirk: Well, Bones. Do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?::Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: They do not. It's like working in a damn computer center.
Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura: It could hold a crew of... tens of thousands.::Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Or a crew of a thousand ten miles tall.
[after Spock comments that, mentally, V'ger is a child]::Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Spock, this "child" is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?::Commander Spock: It knows only that it needs, Commander. But, like so many of us... it does not know what.
Plot
An navy jet with a defective radio system and a passenger plane get in danger of collision. In flashbacks we learn about the personal problems of the pilots and most of the crew.
Keywords: air-traffic-controller, airplane, airplane-accident, airport, based-on-novel, boxing, cockpit, crash-landing, disaster, emergency-landing
The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!
Sidney Schreiber: I should be in the American flag business. Cigarettes turn me blue, whiskey turns me red, and women turn me white.
Cheryl Heath: I just love banana splits. Is it all the wonderful mixed-up flavors, or is it something Freudian?
Gertrude Ross: You've GOT to get a haircut. And if you have to let the barber give you Novocaine, let 'em!
Gertrude Ross: Actors don't have mothers. They're the only people on earth who give birth to themselves.
That talking mule is back... and the Navy's got him!
Plot
Chasing pretty girls, blowing up a liferaft inside a submarine, virtually every sailor gag ever thought of, and a bunch of songs fill out this Martin and Lewis outing as a pair of sailors.
Keywords: based-on-play, blood-donation, boxing, contest, harbor, hawaii, hula-dance, kissing, lipstick, luau
Melvin Jones: Why, I was fighting Gene Tierney once, and...::Al Crowthers: Wait a minute! Don't you mean Gene Tunney?::Melvin Jones: [shouts] You fight who you want, I'll fight who I want!
Naval Doctor: [Unable to find a heartbeat] Be a good boy now and tell the doctor where your heart is.::Melvin Jones: You'll find out. I'm no stool pigeon.
Melvin Jones: Excuse me, handsome.::CPO Lardoski: Where do you get that handsome stuff?::Melvin Jones: Didn't I hear that man call you a pretty officer?::CPO Lardoski: [Growling] He said, "Petty officer." [Melvin sticks his tongue out at him behind his back]
Hilda Jones: Everybody should donate to the blood bank. What type are you?::Melvin Jones: Oh, the quiet type. I go to bed at nine o'clock, see a movie now and then, read some books, play checkers...::Hilda Jones: No! I mean what kind of blood have you?::Melvin Jones: Red.
Melvin Jones: Why d'ya put the bandage on my hand before ya put the gloves on?::Al Crowthers: So when you hit'm, you won't break your knuckles.::Melvin Jones: Why don't you put some on my shoes so I won't wear them out from running away from him?
Al Crowthers: How many fights have ya had all together?::Melvin Jones: [Talking loudly in a punchy boxer's voice in order to frighten his opponent] Oh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah... [Al hits him'] When ya add 'em up together now, I had 101 fights.::Al Crowthers: Yup!::Melvin Jones: Oh, 101! I win 'em all but 100!
Melvin Jones: There's no basis for metabolism, certain unaware of the fact that there are other men concerned here, and you still can't feel that a physical being is abstract. You've got to base the full heart and soul on the ingredients that other people are aware of the fact that physical being is isn't even evolved. Isn't that right?
Plot
Basically the story of the sea battle for Okinawa between the ships of the U.S. Navy and the Japanese suicide planes---the Kamaikazes---and, as such, is filled with stock footage from official U.S. war-department films and newsreels and from Japanese newsreels..and even a movie-within-a-movie where 1948's "Ladies of the Chorus" is shown to a crew of a ship in 1944. The factual story is interlaced with a fictional one dealing with the crew of an American destroyer which is assigned to an ocean picket line around Okinawa to protect the supply ships and the forces on the island. As such, it has the usual battle-weary skipper, the Latino wise-guy, the "Kid" and the "Old Veteran", and the brash, cigar-chewing "operator" on the ship who has cornered the entire supply of the ship's beer rations.
Keywords: 1940s, airplane, american, american-flag, anti-aircraft-gun, archive-footage, b-movie, battle, battleship, beer
Plot
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Keywords: father-daughter-relationship, kamikaze, navy, riveter, semaphor, ship, ship-launch, submarine, torpedo, uso
You'll Always Remember . . . And Never Forget . . . Destroyer
Steve Boleslavski: Sighted schooners, sank same. [Said after confiscating two tallboy beer cans in the engine room]
Plot
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
Keywords: ambush, arab, army, aviator, bombing-mission, british, brother-sister-relationship, cavalry, cowardice, cricket-the-game
Julia Ashton Wister: We can't be blamed for what we want, only for what we do.