- published: 03 Jan 2015
- views: 410549
Goran Višnjić ( /ˈviːʃnjiːtʃ/ VISH-nyich; Croatian: [ˈʋiʃɲitɕ]; born September 9, 1972) is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American and British films and television productions. He is best known for his role as Dr. Luka Kovač in the hit television series ER. Now credited as Goran Visnjic in his English-language work, he adopted the simplified spelling of his name when he came to the United States in the late '90s, believing it would be more accessible to American audiences.
Visnjic was born in the Dalmatian coastal city of Šibenik, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. He has one older brother, Joško. His father, Željko Višnjić, was a bus driver, and his mother, Milka, worked in a food market. He appeared in plays throughout his childhood and made his screen debut at age 16 in the controversial Yugoslav film Braća po materi (1988), playing a young Ustaša.
As Yugoslavia began to dissolve, Višnjić was serving a year-long tour of duty with the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). He left the JNA and returned to Šibenik, where he joined the nascent Croatian Army in defending his hometown against JNA-supported Krajina Serbs.
Sir Alain Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving. He is also known for his performance with Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1969, he starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson.
Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky, and The Rose with Bette Midler, as well as playing varied roles in television drama, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess), and Pack of Lies. He also continued to appear on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
Angus Macfadyen (born 21 September 1963) is a Scottish actor, best known for his roles as Robert the Bruce in Braveheart and as Jeff Denlon in Saw III. He starred primarily as secondary characters in his career in films such as Titus, We Bought a Zoo, Equilibrium and Cradle Will Rock. He has made appearances in several television series such as Californication, Criminal Minds and the final season of Chuck.
Macfadyen was born in Glasgow, Scotland and lived a colourful childhood, being raised in such places as the Philippines, Africa, Singapore and France. His father was a doctor in the World Health Organization. Angus found himself back in Britain, however, when it came to education. He attended the University of Edinburgh, and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Angus' first role was the role of Philip in the film made for television, "The Lost Language of Cranes" (1991). The film centers on a young man (Angus) who must tell his parents that he is gay. Playing the role of his father was fellow Scottish actor Brian Cox. Angus then acted in the television TV movie "15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight" (1993) and also on the television show "Takin' Over the Asylum" (1994) which was about a salesman who runs a radio station in an institution. This led to the biggest role of Angus's career.
Actors: Ross MacGibbon (director), Aram Khachaturyan (composer), Yuri Grigorovich (writer), Carlos Acosta (actor), Aleksandr Volchkov (actor), Raffaello Giovagnolli (writer), Nina Kaptsova (actress), Maria Allash (actress),
Genres: Music,Actors: Dan Masucci (actor), Christy Lee Hughes (actress), Susie Griswold (producer), Kathy Fleig (actress), Tobias Seamon (director), Tobias Seamon (writer), Daniel J. Kelly (actor), Gregor Dowgird (actor), Dave Mominee (producer), Rob Desposito (actor), Jim Sande (composer), Jennifer Carr (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Csaba Borbely (director), Dick James (actor), Claudio Antonelli (actor), Evan Rochelle (actor), Glenn Santoro (actor), Kevin Cage (actor), Mario McCabe (actor), Helmut Muller (actor), Marko Hansom (actor), Austin Rogers (actor), Gabriel (editor), Rogerio Mateo (actor), Gerry Preston (actor), Antonio Martinelli (actor), Gábor (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Adult, History,Actors: Manouk van der Meulen (actress), David Bowles (actor), Andy Moore (actor), Heidi Stiene (editor), Kenneth D. Barker (producer), Kenneth D. Barker (writer), Kenneth D. Barker (director), Simon Kirk (actor), Graham Hughes (actor), David Robertson (actor), Joe Man (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Maher (actor), Alvin Blossom (actor), Melinda Humphrey (miscellaneous crew), Taylor Dean (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery,Actors: Bernard Giraudeau (actor), José Giovanni (director), Niels Arestrup (actor), Claude Brasseur (actor), José Giovanni (writer), Lisa Kreuzer (actress), Gérard Darmon (actor), Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (actor), Daniel Duval (actor), Jean Turlier (actor), Jean-Hugues Anglade (actor), Jean-Roger Milo (actor), Edward Meeks (actor), Robert Arden (actor), Manuel Cauchi (actor),
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,Actors: Seizô Fukumoto (actor), Mikio Narita (actor), Shin'ichi Chiba (actor), Hiroyuki Sanada (actor), Noribumi Suzuki (director), Shin'ichi Chiba (actor), Noribumi Suzuki (writer), Rikiya Yasuoka (actor), Tatsuo Endô (actor), Hiroyuki Sanada (actor), Etsuko Shihomi (actress), Isamu Ichida (editor), Abdullah the Butcher (actor), Abdullah the Butcher (actor), Gorô Kusakabe (producer),
Plot: Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. He travels to find his brother and finds he has been murdered in mysterious circumstances. While staying with his sister he overhears his Uncle's plans to find a 130CT diamond (named the Queen of Sheba) and soon learns he may be behind other sinister schemes.
Keywords: blind-girl, blood-splatter, campy, diamond, magician, mansion, martial-arts, monkey, nazi, nunActors: Mimmo Poli (actor), Renato Montalbano (actor), Luciano Bonanni (actor), Ignazio Balsamo (actor), Loris Bazzocchi (actor), Fulvio Mingozzi (actor), Giancarlo Badessi (actor), Pietro Ceccarelli (actor), Arturo Dominici (actor), Pino Ferrara (actor), Franco Franchi (actor), Veriano Ginesi (actor), Ciccio Ingrassia (actor), Ignazio Leone (actor), Gigi Reder (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jack Benny (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Milton Berle (actor), Milton Berle (actor), Kirk Douglas (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor), Charlton Heston (actor), Lena Horne (actress), Janis Paige (actress), Barry Shear (director), William O. Harbach (producer),
Plot: Berle tries a comeback with this special, with highlights showing him competing with Jack trying to demonstrate the right approach Laurence Harvey should take in comedy, and a musical skit where Jack as Ben Hur, Harvey as Spartacus and Milton as Cleopatra lamenting their Movie depictions. Kirk Douglas and Charlton Heston make silent, uncredited cameos.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Richard Farnsworth (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor), Johnny Duncan (actor), Kirk Douglas (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), Roy Engel (actor), Ted de Corsia (actor), David Bond (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Chuck Courtney (actor), John Daheim (actor), Harold Goodwin (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor),
Plot: In 73 BCE, a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus, Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army against the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor, Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army against the slaves. Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesians have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., ancient-rome, ancient-world, antiquity, arena, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bathing, battle, battlefieldActors: Renato Baldini (actor), Nerio Bernardi (actor), Massimo Girotti (actor), Carlo Ninchi (actor), Vittorio Sanipoli (actor), Yves Vincent (actor), Gianna Maria Canale (actress), Jean Ferry (writer), Renzo Rossellini (composer), Riccardo Freda (director), Mario Serandrei (editor), Carlo Giustini (actor), Ludmilla Tchérina (actress), Cesare Bettarini (actor), Dina Di Bari (costume designer),
Plot: 74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., ancient-rome, arena, battle, battlefield, character-name-in-title, combat, escape, gladiator, greco-roman-wrestlingIf you were around today I'd follow you
If you were around today I'd follow you
You had them on the run, you had them scared
You had them on the run, you had them scared
You weren't afraid to dream of a better life
You weren't afraid to dream of a better life
You got away from there and those dreaded words
You got away from there and those dreaded words
Those about to die, we salute you!
Those about to die salute you!
You crucified one of them, just to show them pain
Show them pain
You crucified one of them, just to show them pain
Show them pain
You crucified one of them, just to show them pain
Show them pain, show them
You crucified one of them, just to show them pain
Show them pain, show them pain
You crucified one of them, just to show them pain
Show them pain, show them pain
You crucified one of them, just to show them pain
Show them pain