The rowans or mountain-ashes are shrubs or small trees in genus Sorbus of family Rosaceae. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. The name rowan was originally applied to the species Sorbus aucuparia, and is also used for other species in Sorbus subgenus Sorbus. Rowans are unrelated to the true ash trees which belong to the genus Fraxinus, family Oleaceae, though their leaves bear superficial similarity.
The name "rowan" is derived from the Old Norse name for the tree, raun. Linguists believe that the Norse name is ultimately derived from a proto-Germanic word *raudnian meaning "getting red" and which referred to the red foliage and red berries in the autumn. Rowan is one of the familiar wild trees in the British Isles, and has acquired numerous English folk names. The following are recorded folk names for the rowan: Delight of the eye (Luisliu), Mountain ash, Quickbane, Quickbeam, Quicken (tree), Quickenbeam, Ran tree, Roan tree, Roden-quicken, Roden-quicken-royan, Round wood, Round tree, Royne tree, Rune tree, Sorb apple, Thor's helper, Whispering tree, Whitty, Wicken-tree, Wiggin, Wiggy, Wiky, Witch wood, Witchbane, Witchen, Witchen Wittern tree. Many of these can be easily linked to the mythology and folklore surrounding the tree. In Gaelic, it is caorann, or rudha-an ("red one", pronounced similarly to English "rowan").
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- Sorbus rufopilosa
- Sorbus sargentiana
- Sorbus scalaris
- Sorbus scopulina
- Sorbus simonkaiana
- Sorbus sitchensis
- Sorbus stankovii
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- Sorbus torminalis
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'Rowan' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Fish Tank (2013)
Actors: Ethan Michael Roberts (writer), Ethan Michael Roberts (editor), Ethan Michael Roberts (producer), Ethan Michael Roberts (writer), Ethan Michael Roberts (director), Nigel Coutinho (producer), James Fite (actor), Sara Lipinski Chambers (actor), Becky Zimmer (producer), Ryan Albrecht (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,An Englishman in Brisbane (2013)
Actors: Matt Clayton (actor), Matt Clayton (producer), Matt Clayton (writer), Matt Clayton (writer), Jacob Paint (actor), Jacob Paint (writer), Jacob Paint (director), Clare Abbotts (editor), Clare Abbotts (writer), Robert Nobilia (actor), Richard MacDonald-Miller (miscellaneous crew), Richard MacDonald-Miller (actor), Harley Mentiplay (miscellaneous crew), Dan Randall (writer), Rhys Marshall (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Fired! (2012)
Actors: David Sterne (actor), Kieran O'Brien (actor), Kieran O'Brien (producer), James Hillier (actor), James Hillier (producer), James Hillier (writer), Greg Ash (director), Greg Ash (producer), Greg Ash (writer), Greg Ash (writer), Greg Ash (writer), Paul Zenon (actor), Leo Kaliski (composer), Andrew Bone (actor), Alexander Trotter-Fernandez (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short, Western,Fired! (2012)
Actors: David Sterne (actor), Kieran O'Brien (actor), Kieran O'Brien (producer), James Hillier (actor), James Hillier (producer), James Hillier (writer), Greg Ash (director), Greg Ash (producer), Greg Ash (writer), Greg Ash (writer), Greg Ash (writer), Paul Zenon (actor), Leo Kaliski (composer), Andrew Bone (actor), Alexander Trotter-Fernandez (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short, Western,Rowan's Road (2012)
Actors: David Turley (actor), Colton Mitchell (producer), Colton Mitchell (editor), Colton Mitchell (writer), Colton Mitchell (director), Colton Mitchell (costume designer), Ryan Ricks (producer), Ryan Ricks (editor), Ryan Ricks (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Ricks (costume designer), Steven Goodsell (editor), Steven Goodsell (miscellaneous crew), Steven Goodsell (producer), Blake Leszczynski (actor), Michael Corey (composer),
Genres: Action, Drama, Short, Western,Taglines: Grace is Given, Redemption is Earned.
Quotes:
[last lines]::Marshall Drake: Some men die killing, and some men die praying. You need to decide for yourself which one you're going to be.[first lines]::Hobbs: Fine day's work.
The Mapmaker (2011)
Actors: Charles Dance (actor), Barrington Pheloung (composer), Jenny Agutter (actress), Nicolas Roeg (producer), Sarah Radclyffe (producer), Scott Bassett (producer), Scott Bassett (writer), Roopesh Parekh (producer), Matthew Price (costume designer), Harry Eden (actor), Rachel Hurd-Wood (actress), Jenni Lewis (miscellaneous crew), Jaspreet Pandohar (miscellaneous crew), Gisela Evert (producer), Andrew Jadavji (editor),
Plot: When Rowan and Isabel return to the coastline where they spent a blissful summer, almost fifty years before, it's with a very different purpose. Isabel is dying; she wants it to be here, now. As darkness falls, their past collides with the present and Rowan is called upon to make a sacrifice that will preserve their unity forever. Passionate, searing and poetic "The Mapmaker" examines a life and love that, just like all of ours, is all too fleeting.
Genres: Drama, Short,Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her (2010)
Actors: Ryan Andrew Balas (editor), Joe Swanberg (actor), Ryan Andrew Balas (writer), Ryan Andrew Balas (actor), Ryan Andrew Balas (producer), Ryan Andrew Balas (director), Deirdre Herlihy (actress), Darren Marshall (producer), Darren Marshall (editor), Richard Buonagurio (producer), Brandon Krum (producer), Brandon Krum (miscellaneous crew), Gary Marino Jr. (producer), Gary Marino Jr. (miscellaneous crew), Nathan Sandberg (composer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Taglines: Family isn't always black or white.
Dying Breed (2008)
Actors: John Fox (miscellaneous crew), Leigh Whannell (actor), Shelley Marie Brown (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Rutter (miscellaneous crew), Trudy Talbot (miscellaneous crew), Reg Evans (actor), Nerida Tyson-Chew (composer), Ken Radley (actor), Kira Bohn (miscellaneous crew), Nathan Phillips (actor), Bille Brown (actor), Bille Brown (actor), Jill Ryan (miscellaneous crew), Brendan Donoghue (actor), Steven Haar (actor),
Plot: Dying Breed interweaves the two most fascinating icons of Tasmanian history: the extinct Tasmanian tiger and "The Pieman" (aka Alexander Pearce) who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Against all odds, Pearce escaped from the most feared penal settlement of the British Empire - Sarah Island - and disappeared into the impenetrable forests of Western Tasmania. Seven convicts escaped with him, yet Pearce was the only one that emerged... along with chunks of human flesh in his pockets. The legend of Pearce was born. An extinct species... a long forgotten legend... both had a desperate need to survive; both could now have living descendants within the Tasmanian bush. Many sightings of the tiger have been reported. Many hikers have gone missing. Hundreds in fact. Zoologist Nina is convinced there are still tigers remaining in the Tasmanian wilderness, and she has proof - a photograph of a paw print snapped by her sister just before she met with a fatal accident in the bush eight years before. Unable to attain funding for an expedition, Nina fears her wish to finish her sister's work (and perhaps lay to rest recurrent nightmares she has about her sister's death) will never happen. Her partner, Matt, manages to persuade an old mate Jack to help finance the trip - at a price. Jack brings along a girlfriend, Rebecca, who uses the trip as an escape from her stifling real estate job. On their quest to find the extinct tiger, the group venture deep into isolated territory and into the domain of "Pieman" descendants. "Sarah" is a small township that passionately upholds its cannibalistic heritage in honour of the convict patriarch that gave birth to it. It needs to stay hidden to survive... but it also needs fresh "stock" to breed. The four hunters become the hunted.
Keywords: after-dark-horrorfest, arrow-through-the-head, asthma-inhaler, australia, axe, axe-in-the-chest, backpacking, bakery, bar, barbed-wireGenres: Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: Every body has different tastes Some species are better off dead.
Quotes:
Matt: [sees Jack cut the yellow ute's front right tyre] what does that achieve?::Jack: Nothing, but i feel better eh? Come on, let's have a beer.Katie: Simple Simon met the pie man playing with a knife Said Simple Simon to the pie man, "Will you take my life?" Said the pie man to Simple Simon, "When the time is right" Said Simple Simon to the pie man, "Then I'll die tonight".
Angel Baby (1995)
Actors: Jo Weeks (miscellaneous crew), John Lynch (actor), Colin Friels (actor), John Brumpton (actor), Deborra-Lee Furness (actress), David Argue (actor), Robyn Nevin (actress), Jacqueline McKenzie (actress), Timothy White (producer), Samuel Johnson (actor), Esme Melville (actress), Robert Morgan (actor), Stephen Brett (miscellaneous crew), Dany Cooper (editor), Marilyn Coleman (actress),
Plot: Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall passionately in love. Ahead of them lies the inevitable road to disaster...one they share to the end.
Keywords: auditory-hallucination, australia, delusion-of-reference, female-frontal-nudity, independent-film, love, male-frontal-nudity, pregnancy, psychosis, schizophreniaGenres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: An extraordinary story of love's transcendant power.
Quotes:
Kate's Doctor: Would you prefer to see another doctor?::Kate: Yes, Dr. Seuss.Kate: I don't hang around with psychos.
Kate: Well, I'm pregnant.::Harry: That's great! Wait, how do you know?::Kate: Easy, the "Wheel of Fortune" answers for the day were: "Great Expectations" and "Big as a blimp."
Harry: No more junk food, no more coffee, and no medications.
5 Card Stud (1968)
Actors: Denver Pyle (actor), Louise Lorimer (actress), Ted de Corsia (actor), Whit Bissell (actor), John Anderson (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Chuck Hayward (actor), Robert F. Hoy (actor), Roy Jenson (actor), Yaphet Kotto (actor), Dean Martin (actor), Roddy McDowall (actor), Robert Mitchum (actor), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (actor), Hal B. Wallis (producer),
Plot: After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another; all by hanging. Who will be killed next and who is responsible? Is it one of the original party seeking to cover their accursed deed, or perhaps the mysterious Rev. Jonathan Rudd, who has recently arrived in town?
Keywords: based-on-novel, bible, card-playing, cardsharp, cemetery, cheating-at-cards, denver-colorado, digit-in-title, gun-in-a-book, gunfightGenres: Mystery, Western,
Taglines: A card cheat was hung... then all hell broke loose! From the producer of The Sons of Katie Elder, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Last Train from Gunhill.
Quotes:
[explaining why a murdered black man should be allowed to be buried in the graveyard with deceased whites]::The Rev. Jonathan Rudd: Well, they all look alike to the worms.Van Morgan: I didn't hear you say amen.::Little George: I don't believe in it.
Van Morgan: You mean you came over 100 miles just to tell me that?::Little George: I'd have come farther.
Van Morgan: Wanna do me a favor Mama?::Mama Malone: Depends.::Van Morgan: If I'm not back by dark, will you flip that last chair up?::Mama Malone: What if you do get back?::Van Morgan: Well, I'll just sit down and play me some cards - for money.::Mama Malone: About time. A man don't work, he ain't respectable.
Van Morgan: You've preached a lot of funerals around here lately. You got something new for this one?::The Rev. Jonathan Rudd: The funeral is for the living, Mr. Morgan. I'll say what his folks want to hear: that Nick Evers was a good son, a good brother, a loyal friend and a respected citizen.::Van Morgan: You think you won't gag on all that?
Rowan, Don Filmography
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1966, role: actor , character name: Capt. Torch
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1966, role: actor , character name: Guardsman
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1966, role: actor , character name: Capt. Torch
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1941, role: actor , character name: Taylor, Big Worker Socked by Shorty
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1941, role: actor , character name: Mug
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1941, role: actor , character name: Marine
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1941, role: actor , character name: Blake
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1940, role: actor , character name: Annabella's Brother
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1940, role: actor , character name: Guard
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1940, role: actor , character name: Moving Man Foreman
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1940, role: actor , character name: Lou Markeim [Chs. 1-2]
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1940, role: actor , character name: Husky Man
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1940, role: actor , character name: Al Muller
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1940, role: actor , character name: O'Toole
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1940, role: actor , character name: Capt. Torch
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1940, role: actor , character name: Conley
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1939, role: actor , character name: Stranger
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1939, role: actor , character name: Betting Official
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1939, role: actor , character name: Bit Role
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1939, role: actor , character name: Gangster
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1939, role: actor , character name: Phillips the Chauffeur
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1939, role: actor , character name: Ranger Murphy
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1939, role: actor , character name: Slade
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1939, role: actor , character name: Big Billy
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1938, role: actor , character name: Owens
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1938, role: actor , character name: Bill Grogan
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1938, role: actor , character name: Kimball
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1937, role: actor , character name: Henchman Lew
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1937, role: actor , character name: Policeman
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1937, role: actor , character name: Riley
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1937, role: actor , character name: Bit Role
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1937, role: actor , character name: Reilly
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1937, role: actor , character name: Guard
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1937, role: actor , character name: Bruiser
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1937, role: actor , character name: Steve
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1936, role: actor , character name: Henchman Luke Arledge
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1936, role: actor , character name: Man on Deadwood Street
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1936, role: actor , character name: 'Buttons' McDermott
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1936, role: actor , character name: Coast Type
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1936, role: actor , character name: Foreman
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1936, role: actor , character name: Police Sgt. Maloney
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1936, role: actor , character name: Undetermined Role
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1936, role: actor , character name: Powers
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1936, role: actor , character name: Siki
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1936, role: actor , character name: Guardsman
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1936, role: actor
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1936, role: actor , character name: Henchman
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1935, role: actor , character name: Curley
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1933, role: actor
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1932, role: actor
Rowan Filmography
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2002, role: actor
Rowan Filmography
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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ROWAN
ROWAN
Promises, your promises, a gift you gave to me
Lies and broken promises, oh why did I believe
Treated me so badly, treated me so cruel
How could you betray me, take me for a fool
Promises, your promises, oh vain and foolish me
You tricked me with your promises, so blind I could not see
How could you beguile me, when I needed you
Surely I have been deceived, when I thought you true
Always
Always
Promises, your promises, a trail of broken dreams
All your lies and promises were never what they seemed
Treated me so badly, treated me so cruel
How could you betray me, take me for a fool
Always
Always
Always
Always
Always
Always
Always - you broke my heart and threw away
Always - the love I gave you every day
Always - there's nothing left that I can say
Always - look after number one
Always - you broke my heart and set me free
Always - oh how you lied and cheated me
Always - so now I know how things must be
Always - look after number one
Always - you broke my heart and threw away
Always - this love I gave you every day
Always - there's nothing left for me to say
Always - look after number one
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