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French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, Paris, no. 598. Photo: Paramount.
Burly, beefy and tall George Bancroft (1882-1956) was an American film and stage actor who played many ill-tempered tough guys. He received an Oscar nomination for his part as Thunderbolt Jim Lang in Josef von Sternberg's gangster film Thunderbolt (1929). Bancroft is also well remembered as Marshal Curly Wilcox in John Ford's Western Stagecoach (1939).
George Bancroft was born in 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended high school at Tomes Institute in Port Deposit, Maryland. After working on merchant marine vessels at age 14, Bancroft was an apprentice on the USS Constellation and later served on the USS Essex and the West Indies. Additionally, during the Battle of Manila Bay (1898), he was a gunner on the USS Baltimore. During his days in the Navy, he staged plays aboard ship. In 1900, he swam underneath the hull of the battleship USS Oregon to check the extent of the damage after it struck a rock off the coast of China. For this, he won an impressive appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He graduated as a commissioned officer, and served in the Navy for the prescribed period of required service but no more. He decided to turn to show business, first as a theatre manager. In 1901, Bancroft began acting in earnest, as he toured in plays and had juvenile leads in musical comedies. In vaudeville, he did blackface routines and impersonated celebrities. By 1923, he was good enough for Broadway and spent about a year there doing two plays, the musical comedies Cinders (1923) and The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly (1923). Two years earlier, he had already made his first appearance in the silent film The Journey's End (1921). Being a big man with dark features, he was a natural for heavies. And it seemed that early Westerns were an easy fit as well after his first four films. Through 1924 and into 1925, he did four, culminating with pay dirt in his appealing performance as rogue Jack Slade in the silent Western The Pony Express (James Cruze, 1925). With him was another up-and-coming character actor, Wallace Beery. Bancroft's acting made Paramount Pictures take a look at him as star material. He played an important supporting role in a cast including Wallace Beery and Charles Farrell in the period naval widescreen epic Old Ironsides (James Cruze, 1926). His roles as tough guy took on more flesh in his association with director Josef von Sternberg and his well-honed gangster films. The first of these was Underworld (Josef von Sternberg, 1927) with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht won an Academy Award for Best Original Story. He next appeared in von Sternberg's The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928) with Betty Compson and Olga Baclanova, and their work culminated with Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg, 1929) for which Bancroft received an Oscar nomination. He was tops at the box office.
George Bancroft played the title role in The Wolf of Wall Street (Rowland V. Lee, 1929), released just prior to the Wall Street Crash. It was Bancroft's first talkie. He appeared in Paramount's all-star revue Paramount on Parade (Elsie Hanis, a.o., 1930) and the crime film Blood Money (Rowland Brown, 1933) with Frances Dee and Judith Anderson. His various on-screen personas as bigger-than-life strong man was not far from his off-screen character as Hollywood notability got to him. It was recalled that he became more difficult to deal with as his ego grew. William McPeak at IMDb: "At one point, he refused to obey a director's order that he fall down after being shot by the villain. Bancroft declared, 'One bullet can't kill Bancroft!'" He stayed busy through the 1930s as older and stouter featured characters. Bancroft was getting competition from younger character actors. In the early 1930s, his roles continued to typecast him as lead heavies, but increasingly, he was cast as second tier in later roles. He was paper editor MacWade in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936), starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, a doctor in A Doctor's Diary (Charles Vidor, 1937), a contracter in Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938) with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, and a warden in Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939) with Cagney and George Raft. Most memorably is his Marshal Curly Wilcox in the classic Western Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939), opposite John Wayne. Here he is particularly engaging as a tough lawman with a big heart. Into the 1940s, he only did a handful of films. But he again had a rogue's spotlight with another name director, Cecil B. DeMille, in one of his epics. He played a Texas Ranger chasing a murderer over the Canadian border in North West Mounted Police (Cecil B. DeMille, 1940) with a stellar cast including Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, and Paulette Goddard as fleeing criminal, Jacques Corbeau's (Bancroft) daughter. By 1942, Bancroft had decided to move on, retiring with the intention of becoming a Southern California rancher. He quietly assumed this new role for a long run of 14 years before his passing. George Bancroft passed away in 1956 in Santa Monica, California. He was married twice, first to Edna Brothers, and after their divorce to silent film actress Octavia Broske. They had a daughter Georgette.
Sources: William McPeak (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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A large George Burns doll was carried around by this woman on the red carpet at the 60th Annual Academy Awards, April 11, 1988. I don't know why!
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George Clooney, Tilda Swinton among the honorees at the 38th Telluride Film Festival from September 2-5 in Telluride, Colorado.
Ann Arbor, MI - Actor George Clooney flashes his charming smile while carrying a backpack of goodies and makes his way onto the set of his new film "The Ides of March" at the University of Michigan. George is on double duty on this film, acting as Governor Mike Morris as the lead role and directing an all star cast including Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei, Philip Seymour Hoffman and pictured Jeffrey Wright.
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French postcard by A.N., Paris. Collection: Didier Hanson.
French boxer and war hero Georges Carpentier (1894 – 1975) reigned as the world's light heavyweight champion in 1920 - 1922. Nicknamed the ‘L'homme à l'orchidée’ (the Orchid Man), he was known for his speed, his excellent boxing skills and his extremely hard punch. Legendary is his fight for the world's heavyweight crown with champ Jack Dempsey, one of the highlights of the Roaring Twenties. After his boxing career ended he worked as an entertainer in vaudeville and appeared in half a dozen of films.
Georges Carpentier (pronounced car-pont-yay) was born in Liévin near Lens, France in 1894. Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight upwards. Turning pro at the age of 14, Carpentier first won the European welterweight championship in 1911. He became middleweight champion of Europe in 1912, and light heavyweight champion of Europe in 1913. That year, he beat ‘Bombardier’ Billy Wells in Ghent, Belgium to become heavyweight champion of Europe. He defended his title later that year against Wells, in 1914 against Pat O'Keefe and in London he beat Ed ‘Gunboat’ Smith to add the ‘White Heavyweight Champion of the World’ to his European title. During World War One, Carpentier served as an aviator, winning the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille Militaire, two of France's highest military decorations. This served to heighten his already phenomenal popularity, not only in France but in the United States and England as well. Carpentier defended his title twice again in 1919 before dropping down a weight to challenge Battling Levinsky for the light heavyweight championship of the world. The fight took place in 1920, in Jersey City and Levinsky was knocked out in the fourth. Carpentier's attempt at the heavyweight Championship of the world came in 1921, again in Jersey City, when he faced Jack Dempsey. This fight was the first million dollar gate in boxing history. Living up to his nickname, Dempsey mauled Carpentier in the first three rounds before knocking him out in the fourth. Carpentier never fought again for that title. He lost his world light heavyweight title and his European heavyweight and light heavyweight titles the following year in a controversial bout with Senegalese fighter Battling Siki. His last truly noteworthy fight was in 1924, with Gene Tunney at the Polo Grounds in New York. Carpentier lost the bout by TKO after fifteen rounds. In 1927, the 33-years-old Carpentier retired from the ring.
Georges Carpentier was considered as the most learned man that ever stepped into the ring. And indeed, he is the author of the novel ‘Brothers of the Brown Owl a story of the boxing ring’ (1923). American magazine Photoplay wrote in 1920: “He is very fond of good literature and the opera. He sings and plays the piano with professional skill.” After the ring, Carpentier spent a number of years as a vaudeville song-and-dance man, mostly in England and the US. He also appeared in half a dozen films. Carpentier starred in both silent and sound films. In 1913 he had already made his film de but in the short Une aventure de Jack Johnson, champion de boxe toutes catégories du monde/Jack Johnson's Adventures in Paris (1913, Henri Pouctal) starring African American boxing champion Jack Johnson as himself. Seven years later followed Le trésor de Kériolet/The treasure of Keriolet (1920, Félix Léonnec) with André Nox. In England he made A Gipsy Cavalier (1922, J. Stuart Blackton) with Flora Le Breton. In France he was seen in La symphonie pathétique/Pathetic Symphony (1928, Mario Nalpas, Henri Étiévant). Carpentier made three films in Hollywood: the silent adventure drama The Wonder Man (1920, John G. Adolfi), the musical The Show of Shows (1929, John G. Adolfi) with John Barrymore, and the musical comedy Hold Everything (1930, Roy Del Ruth) in which he is mixed up with Joe E. Brown! Ruined by the Wallstreet Crash, he returned to Paris. Carpentier’s last screen appearance was in Toboggan/Battling-Geo (1934, Henri Decoin) with Arlette Marchal. Soon after, he bought with his last money a bistro in a chic Paris neighborhood and named it Chez Georges Carpentier. Wikipedia adds that Georges Carpentier and his one-time opponent Jack Dempsey would remain close friends throughout their lives. From 1921 on they visited and forth in New York and Paris, getting together to commemorate anniversary of their famous bout and exchanging birthday greetings. Like Carpentier, Dempsey became a restaurateur. At 81, Carpentier died in Paris in 1975 of a heart attack, and was buried in the Cimetiere de Vaires-sur Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was married to Georgette Elsasser. In 1991, Georges Carpentier was posthumously elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Nicolas Zeisler (Cultureboxe) (French), Silent Ladies and Gents, Wikipedia and IMDb.
George Floyd Memorial Site, Minneapolis
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Born 21 November 1894 in Kiama, George Ernest Weir grew up at Wesley Park (in Kiama Heights), ‘between the hills and the sea’. The farm was very close to ‘Bush Bank’, the childhood home of his mother, and a short ride from ‘Buena Vista’ in Gerringong, the home of his father.
A keen rifle-shooter, George enlisted in August 1915 and embarked on 30 December 1915.
George was a popular young man, an active church-goer (at Christ Church Kiama) and a Sunday School teacher. Before leaving he was farewelled numerous times, from the Church itself, from the Anglican Men’s Society, the Girl’s Friendly Society, and the sporting groups he belonged to.
George arrived in France in April 1916 (having travelled via Egypt), and joined his company on the Western Front. To his distress he was separated at this point from his boyhood friend (also called George) who had enlisted at the same time, and he tried very hard to be transferred to his ‘brother’s’ company. It is not clear if this happened – in his letters home he asks constantly for news of George (Boniface).
George’s first serious engagement in the horror that was trench warfare was at Pozières, which took place 22-28 July 1916.Wounded in the jaw, he wrote home to his family saying (cheerfully) ‘If my jaw had been a bit worse I would have got a trip to England with it!’ He qualified this by expressing, more soberly, his concerns about his mates, particularly his ‘brother’ George, and saying ‘I knew such a lot of real good fellows who have gone under...To tell you the truth I was glad to get out of it for a while’. As it was, George was deemed sufficiently recovered to rejoin his unit in mid September 1916.
George as killed in action on the Somme as the line pushed past Flers on 6 November 1916. According to accounts of the battle, it was bitterly cold, with gale force winds and constant rain. In fact, further action was apparently temporarily halted after 6 November due to the weather.
George has no known grave, but he is commemorated on the wall of the memorial at Villers-Bretonneux as follows: Pte GE Weir, 3rd Battalion AIF, Service Number 3939. He was just a few weeks short of his 22nd birthday.
George’s mother (Isabella) and father were visiting family in Clunes (near Lismore) when the telegram arrived advising that George had been killed. The message was delivered in early December 1916 by the local Anglican minister, and caused enormous grief to all in the family, and to the wider community. Isabella never quite recovered – her obituary (in 1923) described her heartbreak at the loss of her boy, and letters between George’s father and the War Office (seeking further information and also return of George’s personal effects) also stressed their continuing sorrow.
George was one of nine children. Three of his brothers and sisters died in childhood, another served in Palestine, but was spared to come home. After the war, two of the brothers married, as did one of the three remaining sisters. None of the siblings had children.
Thanks to Rosalie O’Neale, G. Weir and M. Weir for their contributions and assistance.
French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, nr. 112. Photo: Roger Carlet.
Handsome and athletic Georges Marchal (1920-1997) was one of the main lead actors in the French cinema of the 1950’s, together with Jean Marais. He starred in several costume dramas and swashbuckling films and later appeared in films of Luis Buñuel.
Georges Marchal was born as Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, France, in 1920. In Paris, he followed secondary school, and then took classes in ballet and acrobatics. Many odd jobs followed, like courier, docker at the Les Halles market, assistant at the Medrano circus. He enrolled in the course of Ms. Calvi, and was hired at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal for the play Permission de détente (Permission to relax) by Yves Mirande. At 20, he joined the Comédie-Française to play in Iphigénie et Psyché (Iphigenia and Psyche). He soon also played in boulevard comedies. His film career started with the comedy Fausse alerte/The French Way (1940, Jacques de Baroncelli, Bernard Dalban) starring Josephine Baker, which was only released in 1945. During the Occupation days he was noted in Lumière d'été/Summer Light (1943, Jean Grémillon) opposite Madeleine Renaud, Vautrin/Vautrin The Thief (1943, Pierre Billon) with Michel Simon, and after the war in Au grand balcon/The Grand Terrace (1949, Henri Decoin) with Pierre Fresnay, about the heroic pilots who struggled,suffered and often died to carry the mail. He became the typical Jeune Premier of the French post-war cinema and posed as a rival of Jean Marais although he didn’t reach the same level. In 1951, he assumed the title role in Il naufrago del Pacifico/Robinson Crusoe (1951, Jeff Musso), and for Sacha Guitry, he played the young Louis XIV in the star-studded Si Versailles m'était conté/Affairs of Versailles (1953, Sacha Guitry). In 1951, he married actress Dany Robin. They were both young, beautiful, adored, and preserved their privacy in a house of Montfort l'Amaury. They made six films together, including La Voyageuse Inattendue/The Unexpected Voyager (1949, Jean Stelli), based on an old script by Billy Wilder, and the comedy Jupiter (1952, Gilles Grangier). Georges’ talent as a stuntman did wonders for his parts in costume films and swashbucklers such as Messalina (1952, Carmine Gallone) with Maria Félix, Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio/Theodora, Slave Empress (1954, Riccardo Freda) with Gianna Maria Cannale, and Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (1953, André Hunebelle) in which he featured as D'Artagnan.
The arrival of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) sounded like the death knell for Georges Marchal. He moved to Italy to continue his career. With his muscular body, he was an ideal hero for the Peplum films (the Italian sword and sandal epics). He appeared in a dozen of them, including Nel Segno Di Roma/Sheba and the Gladiator (1958, Guido Brignone - and uncredited Riccardo Freda and Michelangelo Antonioni) with Anita Ekberg, Le Legioni di Cleopatra/Legions of the Nile (1959, Vittorio Cottafavi) with Linda Cristal, and Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort, Il colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (1961, Sergio Leone) with Rory Calhoun. Marchal was a close friend of Luis Buñuel and also one of his preferred actors. Marchal starred in four of his films: Cela s'appelle l'aurore/That is the Dawn (1955) with Lucia Bosé, La mort en ce jardin/Death in the Garden (1956) with Simone Signoret, Belle de jour/Beauty of the Day (1967) with Catherine Deneuve, and La voie lactee/The Milky Way (1969) with Laurent Terzieff. Other interesting films he appeared in were the anthology film Guerre secrète/The Dirty Game (1965, Terence Young, Christian Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Werner Klinger) with Robert Ryan, the Romanian historical epic Dacii/The Dacians (1967, Sergiu Nicolaescu) with Pierre Brice, Faustine et le bel été/Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972, Nina Companeez) and Les Enfants du placard/The Closet Children (1977, Benoît Jacquot) with Lou Castel. During the 1970’s he focussed on television and appeared in Quentin Durward (1971, Gilles Grangier), as Philip IV the Fair in Les Rois maudits/The Accursed Kings (1972, Claude Barma), Gaston Phébus (1977, Bernard Borderie) and Les grandes familles/The Great Families (1988, Edouard Molinaro) with Michel Piccoli. He played a seductive older man in three TV-films based on the legendary Claudine novels by Colette, Claudine à Paris/Claudine in Paris (1978), Claudine en ménage/Pauline Engaged (1978) and Claudine s'en va/Claudine Goes (1978), all starring Marie-Hélène Breillat and directed by Edouard Molinaro. He also played Claude Jade's father in the fine mini-series L'Île aux trente cercueils/The Island of Thirty Coffins (1979, Marcel Cravenne). He retired in 1989. His last film appearance had been as General Keller in L'Honneur d'un capitaine/A Captain’s Honour (1982, Pierre Schoendoerffer) about the French army's behavior in Algeria. Georges Marchal died in 1997, Maurens, France, following a long illness. He was married with Dany Robin from 1951 till their much publicised divorce in 1969. He remarried in 1983 with Michele Heyberger.
Sources: Hal Erickson (All Movie Guide), Pablo Montoya (IMDb), Ciné-Ressources, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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George Perez, born June 9, 1954, is a writer and illustrator of comic books known for his work on various titles, including The Avengers, Teen Titans, and Wonder Woman.
Source: Wikipedia
Photo taken April 28, 2012 at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, BMO Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
British postcard with Polish imprint by De Reszke Cigarettes, no. 22.. Photo: publicity still for The House of Rothschild (Alfred L. Werker, 1934).
George Arliss (1868-1946) was the first British actor to win an Academy Award. He was also an author, playwright and film maker.
George Arliss began his stage career in 1887 in the British provinces. By 1900, he was playing London's West End in supporting roles. He embarked for a tour of America in 1901 in Mrs. Patrick Campbell's troupe. Intending to remain in the USA only for the length of the tour, he stayed for twenty years eventually becoming a star on Broadway in 1908 with the satiric drama The Devil, by Ferenc Molnar. Producer George Tyler commissioned a play specifically tailored for Arliss in 1911 and the actor toured in Disraeli for five years, eventually becoming closely identified with the 19th century British prime minister. He began his film career with The Devil (1921, James Young), followed by Disraeli (1921, Henry Kolker) and four other silent films. Today, only The Devil and The Green Goddess (1923, Sidney Olcott), based on William Archer’s stage play, are known to have survived. He remade Disraeli (1929, Alfred E. Green) in sound and won the Academy Award for Best Actor. At 61, he converted successfully from a star of the legitimate theater, then silent films, to the talkies.
George Arliss made ten sound films exclusively for Warner Bros. under a contract that gave the star an unusual amount of creative control over his films. Curiously, his casting of actors and rewriting of scripts were privileges granted him by the studio that are not even mentioned in his contract. After his first three films, Arliss approved an undistinguished director, John Adolfi, to direct each of his films from that point on. Adolfi soon found himself regarded as a successful director of the critically and financially acclaimed Arliss films. Arliss preferred to use the same reliable actors from film to film such as Ivan Simpson and Charles Evans. Yet he had an eye for discovering newcomers like James Cagney, Randolph Scott, and Dick Powell. The Man Who Played God (1932, John G. Adolfi) was Bette Davis' first leading role. Until the end of Davis' life, she would credit Arliss for personally insisting upon her as his leading lady and giving her a chance to show her mettle. The two also co-starred in The Working Man (1933, John G. Adolfi). Despite his extensive involvement in the planning and production of his films, Arliss claimed credit only for acting. Working closely with Warners production chief, Darryl Zanuck, Arliss left the studio when Zanuck resigned in April 1933. Zanuck quickly signed him to make new films at Zanuck's fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, prompting Warners to bitterly complain to the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences that Zanuck had ‘stolen’ their star. Arliss is remembered primarily for his witty series of historical biographies such as Alexander Hamilton (1931, John G. Adolfi), Voltaire (1933, John G. Adolfi), The House of Rothschild (1934, Alfred L. Werker) and Cardinal Richelieu (1935, Rowland V. Lee). However, he had a second string to his bow, domestic comedies such as The Millionaire (1931, John G. Adolfi), A Successful Calamity (1932, John G. Adolfi) and The Last Gentleman (1934, Sidney Lanfield). In these films he often appeared with his wife, Florence Arliss. He was approaching 70 when he completed the British-made Doctor Syn (1937, Roy William Neill). He and Flo returned to America later that year to visit old friends. Returning to their home in London in 1939, the onset of World War II prevented their return to America. Braving the German aerial bombing of London throughout the war, Arliss remained in his native city where he died in 1946.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
French postcard by Agfa. Photo: Studio Harcourt.
Handsome and athletic Georges Marchal (1920-1997) was one of the main lead actors in the French cinema of the 1950s, together with Jean Marais. He starred in several costume dramas and Swashbucklers and later appeared in films of Luis Buñuel.
Georges Marchal was born as Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, France, in 1920. In Paris, he followed secondary school, and then took classes in ballet and acrobatics. Many odd jobs followed, like courier, docker at the Les Halles market, and assistant at the Medrano circus. He enrolled in the course of Ms. Calvi, and was hired at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal for the play 'Permission de détente' (Permission to relax) by Yves Mirande. At 20, he joined the Comédie-Française to play in 'Iphigénie et Psyché' (Iphigenia and Psyche). He soon also played in boulevard comedies. His film career started with the comedy Fausse alerte/The French Way (Jacques de Baroncelli, Bernard Dalban, 1940) starring Josephine Baker, which was only released in 1945. During the Occupation days, he was noted in Lumière d'été/Summer Light (Jean Grémillon, 1943) opposite Madeleine Renaud, Vautrin/Vautrin The Thief (Pierre Billon, 1943) with Michel Simon, and after the war, in Au grand balcon/The Grand Terrace (Henri Decoin, 1949) with Pierre Fresnay, about the heroic pilots who struggled, suffered and often died to carry the mail. He became the typical Jeune Premier of the French post-war cinema and posed as a rival of Jean Marais although he didn’t reach the same level. In 1951, he assumed the title role in Il naufrago del Pacifico/Robinson Crusoe (Jeff Musso, 1951), and for Sacha Guitry, he played the young Louis XIV in the star-studded Si Versailles m'était conté/Affairs of Versailles (Sacha Guitry, 1953). In 1951, he married actress Dany Robin. They were both young, beautiful, adored, and preserved their privacy in a house of Montfort l'Amaury. They made six films together, including La Voyageuse Inattendue/The Unexpected Voyager (Jean Stelli, 1949), based on an old script by Billy Wilder, and the comedy Jupiter (Gilles Grangier, 1952). Georges’ talent as a stuntman did wonders for his parts in costume films and swashbucklers such as Messalina (Carmine Gallone, 1952) with Maria Félix, Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio/Theodora, Slave Empress (Riccardo Freda, 1954) with Gianna Maria Canale, and Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (André Hunebelle, 1953) in which he featured as D'Artagnan.
The arrival of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) sounded like the death knell for Georges Marchal. He moved to Italy to continue his career. With his muscular body, he was an ideal hero for the Peplum films (the Italian sword and sandal epics). He appeared in a dozen of them, including Nel Segno Di Roma/Sheba and the Gladiator (Guido Brignone - and uncredited Riccardo Freda and Michelangelo Antonioni, 1958) with Anita Ekberg, Le legioni di Cleopatra/Legions of the Nile (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1959) with Linda Cristal, and Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort, Il colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (Sergio Leone, 1961) with Rory Calhoun. Marchal was a close friend of Luis Buñuel and also one of his preferred actors. Marchal starred in four of his films: Cela s'appelle l'aurore/That is the Dawn (1955) with Lucia Bosé, La mort en ce jardin/Death in the Garden (1956) with Simone Signoret, Belle de jour/Beauty of the Day (1967) with Catherine Deneuve, and La voie lactee/The Milky Way (1969) with Laurent Terzieff. Other interesting films he appeared in were the anthology film Guerre secrète/The Dirty Game (Terence Young, Christian Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Werner Klinger, 1965) with Robert Ryan, the Romanian historical epic Dacii/The Dacians (Sergiu Nicolaescu, 1967) with Pierre Brice, Faustine et le bel été/Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (Nina Companeez, 1972) and Les Enfants du placard/The Closet Children (Benoît Jacquot, 1977) with Lou Castel. During the 1970s, he focussed on television and appeared in Quentin Durward (Gilles Grangier, 1971), as Philip IV the Fair in Les rois maudits/The Accursed Kings (Claude Barma, 1972), Gaston Phébus (Bernard Borderie, 1977), and Les grandes familles/The Great Families (Edouard Molinaro, 1988) with Michel Piccoli. He played a seductive older man in three TV-films based on the legendary Claudine novels by Colette, Claudine à Paris/Claudine in Paris (1978), Claudine en ménage/Pauline Engaged (1978) and Claudine s'en va/Claudine Goes (1978), all starring Marie-Hélène Breillat and directed by Edouard Molinaro. He also played Claude Jade's father in the fine TV Mini-series L'Île aux trente cercueils/The Island of Thirty Coffins (Marcel Cravenne, 1979). He retired in 1989. His last film appearance had been as General Keller in L'Honneur d'un capitaine/A Captain’s Honour (Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1982) about the French army's behaviour in Algeria. Georges Marchal died in 1997 in Maurens, France, following a long illness. He was married to Dany Robin from 1951 till their much-publicised divorce in 1969. He remarried in 1983 to Michele Heyberger.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Pablo Montoya (IMDb), Ciné-Ressources, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
is a Red rat snake, more commonly known as a corn snake (Pantherophis guttata). He closely resembles many corn snakes seen in the wild (southeastern United States) though he was bred and hatched in captivity. in 2003. Photo by Frank. .
George Frederic Watts, 1865, by Julia Margaret Cameron
This photograph is included in a Royal Collection book and touring exhibition Roger Fenton • Julia Margaret Cameron: Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection at the Aberdeen Art Gallery, 12 June - 21 August 2010 and Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere, 31 January - 25 April 2011.
The Royal Collection © 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Original Caption: President George W. Bush and Harriet Miers Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, aboard Air Force One.
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George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."
He was born into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in England. He received a good education that led to his admission to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1609. He went there with the intention of becoming a priest, but he became the University's Public Orator and attracted the attention of King James I. He served in the Parliament of England in 1624 and briefly in 1625.
After the death of King James, Herbert renewed his interest in ordination. He gave up his secular ambitions in his mid-thirties and took holy orders in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as the rector of the little parish of St Andrew's Church, Lower Bemerton, Salisbury. He was noted for unfailing care for his parishioners, bringing the sacraments to them when they were ill and providing food and clothing for those in need. Henry Vaughan called him "a most glorious saint and seer."
He was never a healthy man and died of consumption at the age of 39.
This fresco is a 14th century example of a St George icon at Staro Nagoricane in the Republic of Macadonia (former Yugoslavia). I'd love to know when Icons showing the battle with the dragon began to be made. The oldest examples I have come upon are from the 15th century.
from Wikipedia: The Church of St. George, a Serbian Orthodox church in the village of Staro Nagoricane near Kumanovo in the Republic of Macedonia, is noteworthy both for its architecture and its frescoes. The church was first constructed in 1071, and reconstructed between 1313 and 1318 by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin. During this reconstruction period, the church's walls were painted with frescoes by Mihailo and Evtihij.
George Knelson scrambles from the bull at the Harrow Rock'N Horse Fest Ram Rodeo at Harrow, Ontario, Canada, on Aug. 19, 2012. . This image is Copyright of Rob Skeoch, any publication, uploads or usage requires a writen release from Rob Skeoch at 905-335-6031.
British Real Photograph postcard.
American actor George O'Brien (1899-1985) was a muscular, barrel-chested, yet sensitively talented leading man of classic silent films, like John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924) and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927). He became a different kind of star as a cowboy in B-Westerns during the sound era.
Regimental number - 1031
Place of birth - Bairnsdale, Victoria
School - Hindmarsh Public School
Religion - Church of England
Occupation - Farm hand
Address - ...
Marital status - Single
Age at embarkation - 19
Next of kin - Father, Harry Sandford Davis, William Street, Beverly, South Australia
Previous military service - Served in the Cadets
Enlistment date - 11 September 1914
Rank on enlistment - Private
Unit name - 16th Battalion, F Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number - 23/33/1
Embarkation details - Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Troopship A40 Ceramic on 22 December 1914
Rank from Nominal Roll - Private
Unit from Nominal Roll - 16th Battalion
Fate - Killed in Action 2 May 1915
Place of death or wounding - Gallipoli, Turkey
Date of death - 2 May 1915
Age at death - 18
Age at death from cemetery records - 18
Place of burial - No known grave
Commemoration details - The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 52), Gallipoli, Turkey
The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.
The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.
The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial - 79
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records - Parents: Henry Sandford and Fanny DAVIS, South Esplanade, Semaphore, South Australia. Native of Victoria, Australia. 52
Family/military connections - Brother: 1032 Pte Harry Herbert DAVIS, 16th Bn, died of wounds, 5 June 1915.
Other details -
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
(found on ebay)
This took me about 4 hours? But I don't mind :D, I love to draw and hopefully it will be worth it, I hope you like it (:
Hand drawn and added text on computer.
9/23/2017 Prince George (Courthouse) Volunteer Fire Department 60th Anniversary Celebration. Open house, lunch, in-service and antique apparatus judging, & parade.
Photos by Tom Herman - www.odhfs.org
George Centre, Grantham at night. The grade 2* listed George Hotel (dating from 1780) was transformed into a shopping mall, which despite its attractiveness has failed to attact business and has recently been sold.
Grantham, Lincolnshire, High Street, George Centre
May 2017
Vintage Austrian postcard. Fox. Iris Verlag, 5879. George O'Brien in the early sound film Rough Romance (A.F. Erickson, 1920).
American actor George O'Brien (1899-1985) was a muscular, barrel-chested, yet sensitively talented leading man of classic silent films, like John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924) and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927). He became a different kind of star as a cowboy in B-Westerns during the sound era.