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H.M.S. Defiant

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H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States) is a British naval war CinemaScope and Technicolor film from 1962 starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde. [1]

43 relations: Alec Guinness, André Maranne, Anthony Oliver, Anthony Quayle, Bryan Pringle, Captain (Royal Navy), Christopher Challis, CinemaScope, Clifton Parker, Columbia Pictures, Corsica, Declan Mulholland, Dirk Bogarde, Edmund H. North, Executive officer, Fire ship, French Revolutionary Wars, James Bolam, John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, Johnny Briggs (actor), Joy Shelton, Lewis Gilbert, Maurice Denham, Michael Coles (actor), Midshipman, Murray Melvin, Nigel Kneale, Nigel Stock (actor), Odeon Leicester Square, Peter Gill (playwright), Peter R. Hunt, Ray Brooks (actor), Richard Carpenter (screenwriter), Robin Stewart, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Russell Napier, Spithead and Nore mutinies, Technicolor, Toke Townley, Tom Bell (actor), Victor Maddern, Walter Fitzgerald, War film.

Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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André Maranne

André Maranne (born 1926) is a French former actor, best known for playing Frenchmen in English language roles in the UK from the mid-1950s.

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Anthony Oliver

Anthony Oliver (4 July 1922, Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales—November 1995, London) was a British film, television and stage actor.

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Anthony Quayle

Sir John Anthony Quayle, (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was an English actor and theatre director.

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Bryan Pringle

Bryan Pringle (19 January 1935 – 15 May 2002) was an English character actor who appeared for several decades in television, film and theatre productions.

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Captain (Royal Navy)

Captain (Capt) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy.

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Christopher Challis

Christopher George Joseph Challis BSC, FRPS (18 March 1919 – 31 May 2012) was a British cinematographer who worked on more than 70 feature films since beginning in the industry during the 1940s.

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CinemaScope

CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, for shooting widescreen movies.

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Clifton Parker

Clifton Parker (5 February 1905 – 2 September 1989) was an English composer, particularly noted for his film scores.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Corsica

Corsica (Corse; Corsica in Corsican and Italian, pronounced and respectively) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.

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Declan Mulholland

Thomas Declan Mulholland (6 December 1932 – 29 June 1999) was a Northern Irish character actor of film and television.

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Dirk Bogarde

Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor and writer.

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Edmund H. North

Edmund Hall North (March 12, 1911 – August 28, 1990), was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton.

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Executive officer

An executive officer (XO) is generally a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.

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Fire ship

A fire ship or fireship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire and steered (or, when possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy ships, or to create panic and make the enemy break formation.

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French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution.

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James Bolam

James Christopher Bolam, (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Dr Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies programme Grandpa in My Pocket.

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John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne

John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, (9 November 1924 – 23 September 2005), professionally known as John Brabourne, was a British peer, television producer and Oscar-nominated film producer.

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Johnny Briggs (actor)

John Ernest Briggs, MBE (born 5 September 1935) is an English actor.

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Joy Shelton

Joy Winstanley Shelton (3 June 1922 – 28 January 2000) was an English actress who performed in films, radio and television.

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Lewis Gilbert

Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter, who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

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Maurice Denham

William Maurice Denham, OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor who was best known for his role as Mr Justice Steven Rawley in Porridge.

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Michael Coles (actor)

Ernest Michael Coles (12 August 1936 – 26 April 2005) was an English actor.

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Midshipman

A midshipman is an officer of the junior-most rank, in the Royal Navy, United States Navy, and many Commonwealth navies.

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Murray Melvin

Murray Melvin (born 10 August 1932) is an English stage and film actor noted for his work with Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick.

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Nigel Kneale

Thomas Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a British screenwriter.

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Nigel Stock (actor)

Nigel Hector Munro Stock (21 September 1919 – 23 June 1986) was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who played character roles in many films and television dramas.

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Odeon Leicester Square

The Odeon Leicester Square is a cinema which occupies the centre of the eastern side of Leicester Square in London, dominating the square with its huge black polished granite facade and high tower displaying its name.

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Peter Gill (playwright)

Peter Gill (born 7 September 1939) is a Welsh theatre director, playwright and actor.

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Peter R. Hunt

Peter Roger Hunt (11 March 1925 – 14 August 2002) was an English film editor, director and television producer.

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Ray Brooks (actor)

Raymond Michael Brooks (born 20 April 1939 in Brighton, Sussex) is an English television and film actor.

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Richard Carpenter (screenwriter)

Richard Michael "Kip" Carpenter (14 August 1929 – 26 February 2012) was an English screenwriter, author, and actor who created a number of British television series, including Robin of Sherwood and Catweazle.

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Robin Stewart

Robin Stewart (9 October 1946 – 22 November 2015) was an English actor, game show host and reporter who was best known for playing Mike Abbott, the son of Sid James' character Sid Abbott in the 1970s sitcom Bless This House.

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Rochefort, Charente-Maritime

Rochefort is a commune in southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary.

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Russell Napier

Russell Gordon Napier (28 November 1910 – 19 August 1974) was an Australian actor.

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Spithead and Nore mutinies

The Spithead and Nore mutinies were two major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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Toke Townley

John Antony Townley (6 November 1912 – 27 September 1984) billed as Toke Townley, was an English actor.

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Tom Bell (actor)

Thomas George Bell (2 August 1933 – 4 October 2006) was an English actor on stage, film and television.

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Victor Maddern

Victor Jack Maddern (16 March 1928 – 22 June 1993) was an English actor, described by The Telegraph as having "one of the most distinctive and eloquent faces in post-war British cinema.".

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Walter Fitzgerald

Walter Fitzgerald Bond (18 May 1896 – 20 December 1976) was an English character actor.

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War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Defiant

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