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Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a German-born American actor, producer, and musician. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Over the Hedge (2006) and Red (2010).
Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth highest including supporting roles. He is a two-time Emmy Award–winning, Golden Globe Award–winning and four-time Saturn Award–nominated actor. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000, following thirteen years of marriage. He is currently married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has one daughter.
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of two French counter-intelligence agents and an informant for the French government. While in prison he was further convicted of attacks in France that killed 11 and injured 150 people and sentenced to an additional life term.
A committed Marxist-Leninist ideologue, Ramírez Sánchez is widely regarded as one of the most famous political terrorists of his era. When he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1970, recruiting officer Bassam Abu Sharif gave him the code name "Carlos" due to his South American roots. After several bungled bombings, Ramírez Sánchez achieved notoriety for a 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which killed three people. This was followed by a string of attacks against Western targets. For many years he was among the most wanted international fugitives. Carlos was dubbed "The Jackal" by The Guardian after one of its correspondents reportedly spotted Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal near some of the fugitive's belongings.
Ronny Jordan (born Ronald Laurence Albert Simpson on 29 November 1962 in London, England) is a guitarist at the forefront of the acid jazz movement at the end of the twentieth century. Additionally, Jordan can be included in several other jazz genres such as urban jazz, jazz funk, crossover jazz, and smooth jazz. He came to prominence after being featured on Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, which saw release in 1993. He was also one of the artists whose recordings are featured on Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool — a compilation album released in 1994 to benefit the Red Hot Organization.
Ever since the release of 1992's The Antidote, recordings from Jordan have been a mainstay on a variety of Billboard charts. He has also been the recipient of many awards, including The MOBO Best Jazz Act Award as well as Gibson Guitar Best Jazz Guitarist Award. His 2000 release, A Brighter Day, was nominated for a Grammy award in the Best Contemporary Jazz Album category.
Jordan's song "The Jackal" (from his 1993 album The Quiet Revolution) gained prominence when C. J. Cregg lip-synched it in an episode of The West Wing.
Actors: George Cisneros (actor), Lakisha R. Lemons (director), Lakisha R. Lemons (producer), Lakisha R. Lemons (writer), Denise Williamson (actress), Cory Hart (actor), LeMarc Johnson (actor), Bobby Simpson II (actor), Jesse Young III (producer), JaQuay Young (producer), JaQuay Young (actress), Hilary Wagner (actress), Elle Hammons (actress), Frank White (actor), Ashley Stern (actress),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Adrià Guxens (writer), Adrià Guxens (producer), Adrià Guxens (miscellaneous crew), Adrià Guxens (editor), Adrià Guxens (director), Nua Watford (actress), Nua Watford (miscellaneous crew), Scott Spears (actor), Miranda Franklin-Wall (actress), Autumn Harrison (actress), Autumn Harrison (costume designer), Erika Quintana (actor), David Anthony Luna (actor), Chaz Kao (actor), Kristine Reyes (actress),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Paul W.S. Anderson (writer), Charles B. Griffith (writer), Roger Corman (producer), Mike Elliott (producer), Paul W.S. Anderson (producer), Paul W.S. Anderson (writer), Dougray Scott (actor), Luke Goss (actor), Ving Rhames (actor), Sean Cameron Michael (actor), Danny Trejo (actor), Jeremy Bolt (producer), Robin Shou (actor), Gero Brugmann (miscellaneous crew), Roel Reiné (director),
Plot: Convicted cop-killer Carl Lucas, aka Frankenstein, is a superstar driver in the brutal prison yard demolition derby known as Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom for himself and his pit crew, Lucas is plunged into an all-new competition more vicious than anything he has experienced before. Pitted against his most ruthless adversaries ever, Lucas fights to keep himself and his team alive in a race in South Africa's infernal Kalahari Desert. With powerful forces at work behind the scenes to ensure his defeat, will Lucas' determination to win at all costs mean the end of the road for him?
Keywords: airplane, ak-47, armored-car, axe, billionaire, blood, blood-splatter, bomb, brawl, car-accidentActors: Leslie Phillips (actor), Jarmo Mäkinen (actor), Larry King (actor), V.I. Lenin (actor), David Hayman (actor), Robert Minkoff (actor), Daniel Dae Kim (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Serge Houde (actor), Mikhail Gorbachev (actor), Jim Clark (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Jack Black (actor), Ronald Reagan (actor), Sidney Poitier (actor),
Plot: Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the United States FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires "The Jackal" -- an elusive, nasty assassin -- to kill FBI Director Donald Brown. Present at the shooting of Murad's brother were FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian militia. Nearly no one has ever seen The Jackal, save for Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper. Upon learning that the Director Brown is a target, Preston and Koslova enlist the services of the reluctant Mulqueen to track down the Jackal before he can assassinate Brown.
Keywords: airport, american-abroad, animal-in-title, arm-blown-off, assassin, assassination, assassination-attempt, ax-in-head, axe-murder, bare-chested-maleActors: Turhan Bey (actor), Tobey Maguire (actor), David McCallum (actor), Lee Patterson (actor), Tyrone Power Jr. (actor), DeLane Matthews (actress), John G. Thomas (producer), John G. Thomas (director), Jeanne Stawiarski (actress), John Johnston (actor), Russ Reina (writer), Kamen Dranduski (composer), Willy Kazasian (composer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Stuart Gillard (writer), Robert Lantos (producer), Stuart Gillard (director), Joseph Shiloach (actor), Gene Corman (miscellaneous crew), Monique Champagne (miscellaneous crew), Willie Aames (actor), Wendy Grean (producer), Phoebe Cates (actress), Stephen J. Roth (producer), Paul Hoffert (composer), Danny Rossner (miscellaneous crew), Julie Whitfield (costume designer), Gadi Levy (miscellaneous crew), Neil Vipond (actor),
Plot: In the Victorian period, two teenagers, David and Sarah, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent known as the Jackal raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem. Only David and Sarah narrowly escape, and all the others are slayed in the massacre. Their flight leads them to a beautiful oasis - their paradise - where they discover love and sex. However, the Jackal has not given up on Sarah yet, and David must lure him to his death, or be killed by him.
Keywords: 1820s, american-abroad, arab, baghdad, camel, caravan, chimpanzee, damascus-syria, desert, englishmanActors: Dick Clark (actor), Bruce Davison (actor), George Wallace (actor), Susan Sullivan (actress), Dalene Young (writer), Aaron Stell (editor), Gary Grubbs (actor), Richard Hatch (actor), Jimmy Williams (actor), Fred Karlin (composer), Kelly Ward (actor), Roger Gimbel (producer), Mike Love (actor), Kristine DeBell (actress), David Byrd (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Jacques François (actor), Robert Favart (actor), Edward Fox (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Van Doude (actor), Terence Alexander (actor), Féodor Atkine (actor), Jacques Alric (actor), Gérard Buhr (actor), Michel Auclair (actor), Bernard Archard (actor), Jean Champion (actor), Cyril Cusack (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Raymond Gérôme (actor),
Plot: It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who agrees to kill French President De Gaulle for half a million dollars. We watch his preparations which are so thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail even as we watch the French police attempt to pick up his trail. The situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and the film closely follows the plot of the book.
Keywords: 1960s, affair, animal-in-title, armed-robbery, assassin, assassination, assassination-attempt, assassination-plot, assumed-identity, bare-breastsActors: Bessie Love (actress), Norman Dawn (director), Sessue Hayakawa (actor), Sessue Hayakawa (actor), Sessue Hayakawa (actor), Thomas Jefferson (actor), Misao Seki (actor), Tote Du Crow (actor), Sidney Franklin (actor), Omar Whitehead (actor), Ann May (actress), Alice Catlin (writer), Edwin Warren Juyol (writer), Homer Lea (writer),
Genres: Drama,