"and by guarding the Arctic convoys. Less obviously, Forester draws parallels between the early 19th century and his own time in one or two of the other Hornblower novels. The Commodore The Commodore (published 1945) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. It was published in the United States under the title ""Commodore Hornblower"". Having achieved fame and financial security, Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower has married Lady Barbara Leighton (née Wellesley) and is preparing to settle down to unaccustomed life as the squire of Smallbridge in Kent. He still yearns to serve at sea and accepts with"
"for Hornblower's fictional adventures. The name ""Horatio"" was inspired by the character in William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" and chosen also because of its association with contemporary figures such as Nelson. Forester's original inspiration was an old copy of the ""Naval Chronicle"", which described the effective dates of the Treaty of Ghent. It was possible for two countries to still be at war in one part of the world after a peace was obtained months before in another because of the time required to communicate around the world. The burdens that this placed on captains far from home led him to a"
"can't be bothered'."" Some information in this table was obtained from Ioan Gruffudd Ioan Gruffudd (; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh actor. He first came to public attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in ""Titanic"" (1997), and then for his portrayal of Horatio Hornblower in the ""Hornblower"" series of television films (1998–2003). Subsequent roles have included Lancelot in ""King Arthur"" (2004), Mister Fantastic in ""Fantastic 4"" (2005) and its (2007), William Wilberforce in ""Amazing Grace"" (2006), and Tony Blair in ""W."" (2008). His other film credits include ""102 Dalmatians"" (2000), ""Black Hawk Down"" (2001), ""The Gathering"" (2003), ""Fireflies"
"David Buck David Buck (17 October 1936 – 27 January 1989) was an English actor. Buck was born in London, the son of Joseph Buck and Enid Marguerite (née Webb). He starred in many television productions from 1959 until 1989. One of his earlier roles was that of Horatio Hornblower in an episode entitled ""Hornblower"" (1963), in the Alcoa Premiere TV series. He played Winston Smith in ""Theatre 625: The World of George Orwell: 1984"" (1965), a remake of Nigel Kneale's adaptation of the novel. In the first two series of the ITV horror and supernatural anthology series ""Mystery and"
"Arthur Hornblow Jr. Arthur Hornblow Jr. (March 15, 1893 – July 17, 1976) was an American film producer. Hornblow was the son of Arthur Hornblow Sr. (1865–1942), a writer who edited ""Theatre Magazine"" in New York City. (He allowed a version of his last name be used by C. S. Forester for the fictional sea captain Horatio Hornblower after meeting writer Forester at a New York cocktail party.) Hornblow graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City, in 1911, before studying at Dartmouth College and New York Law School, and was a member of the fraternity Theta Delta Chi."
"Ioan Gruffudd Ioan Gruffudd (; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh actor. He first came to public attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in ""Titanic"" (1997), and then for his portrayal of Horatio Hornblower in the ""Hornblower"" series of television films (1998–2003). Subsequent roles have included Lancelot in ""King Arthur"" (2004), Mister Fantastic in ""Fantastic 4"" (2005) and its (2007), William Wilberforce in ""Amazing Grace"" (2006), and Tony Blair in ""W."" (2008). His other film credits include ""102 Dalmatians"" (2000), ""Black Hawk Down"" (2001), ""The Gathering"" (2003), ""Fireflies in the Garden"", ""The Secret of Moonacre"" (both 2008), ""Sanctum"", ""Horrible"
"three ""Hornblower"" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film ""Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N."". In June 1808, Hornblower is in command of the 36-gun frigate HMS ""Lydia"", with orders to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua (near modern Choluteca, Choluteca) and supply a local landowner, Don Julian Alvarado (""descendant"" of Pedro de Alvarado by a fictional marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma), with muskets and powder. Don Julian is ready to revolt against the Spanish (at this point allied with Napoleon). Upon meeting Don Julian, however, Hornblower discovers he is an insane megalomaniac calling himself ""El Supremo"" (""the Almighty"") who"
"Michael J. Dolan Michael J. Dolan was born in 1884, he was an Irish actor known for ""Scrooge"" (1951), ""Captain Horatio Hornblower"" (1951) and ""Saints and Sinners"" (1949). He died on 21 October 1954 in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 70. He was a distinguished actor with the Abbey Theatre for many years where he appeared in many productions and in December 1923 he took over management from Lennox Robinson, during that time he was stage manager, general manager and director, his career with the Abbey can be seen in the Abbey Theatre Archives During his acting career he"
"features an occasionally introspective tone unusual for an old-fashioned swashbuckler. In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, British Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower (Gregory Peck) commands the 38-gun frigate HMS ""Lydia"" on a lengthy secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who is calling himself ""El Supremo"" (""The Almighty"") (Alec Mango), in his rebellion against Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. As Hornblower observes to First Lieutenant Bush (Robert Beatty), ""War breeds strange allies"". Upon his arrival, Hornblower is told that a larger, much more powerful Spanish warship,"
"June 1805. Captain Sawyer, commander of the ship of the line HMS ""Renown"" in the Horatio Hornblower novel ""Lieutenant Hornblower"", is based on Captain Pigot, sharing many of the same mannerisms. Sawyer was portrayed by actor David Warner in the A&E miniseries ""Hornblower"" episodes ""Mutiny"" and ""Retribution"". The second novel in the Alexis Carew series, ""Mutineer"", by J. A. Sutherland, takes nearly the entire account of the mutiny, down to the gasket being a source of contention for Midshipman Carew, and puts it in a science fiction setting involving a futuristic HMS ""Hermione"" under the command of a Captain Neals."
"C. S. Forester Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott ""C. S."" Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. Two of the Hornblower books, ""A Ship of the Line"" and ""Flying Colours"", were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include ""The African Queen"" (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). Forester was born in Cairo and, after a family"
"Dahl about his experiences as a fighter pilot. This prompted Dahl to write his first story, ""A Piece of Cake"". Forester wrote many novels. He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars. He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel, published in 1937. The last completed novel was published in 1962. With demand for more stories, Forester filled in Hornblower's life story, in effect. Hornblower's fictional feats were based on real events, but Forester wrote the body of the works carefully to avoid"
"appeared in numerous plays by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, all of these were Abbey Theatre productions, ""The King of Spain's Daughter"" (1936), Katie Roche which toured to the Arts Theatre Cambridge, England and Temporal Powers (1937), The Knig of Spain's Daughter (1939), Katie Roche (1949), and Katie Roche (1953) this was played at the Queen's Theatre, Dublin pending the rebuilding and enlargement of the Abbey Theatre. Michael J. Dolan Michael J. Dolan was born in 1884, he was an Irish actor known for ""Scrooge"" (1951), ""Captain Horatio Hornblower"" (1951) and ""Saints and Sinners"" (1949). He died on 21 October 1954"
"S. Forester to create his Lord Ramage series of novels set around the same period. Gene Roddenberry was influenced by the Hornblower character while creating the ""Star Trek"" characters James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard. Nicholas Meyer, director of some of the Star Trek films, frequently cites Horatio Hornblower as one of his primary influences. David Weber's character Honor Harrington closely parallels Hornblower and he deliberately gave her the same initials. Like Hornblower, the reader first meets Harrington in junior command rank, the daughter of doctors from a fairly modest background and lacking patronage of any sort, and throughout the"
"- had come to Weber long before the last name did. Weber knew that if the Honor novels worked, she was inevitably going to be compared to C.S.Forester's Horatio Hornblower, therefore he chose Harrington's name so that she had the same initials. He says, ""There are certainly, clearly, similarities between the two. There are also huge differences. And Honor has never been as neurotic as Hornblower was. Hornblower always carried a massive sense of inferiority around with him. Honor never did."" Weber also feels that in the later books in the series, Honor has more in common with Admiral Horatio"
"on Captain Horatio Hornblower, described Gerry Blattner as the ""studio head"" in his autobiography (and mistakenly called him ""Jerry""), he was actually the head of Warner Bros. European Film Productions. In the contemporary Australian publicity handouts for The Sundowners, the section describing the choice of locations quotes (and describes) Gerry Blattner thus: Although born in Liverpool in 1913, he grew up in Hertfordshire after his father bought the Ideal Film Company studio in Elstree in 1928. He had one daughter, Sandra. Gerry and his first wife Pamela also lived in Elstree while he was working for Warner Bros. Simon Cowell's"
"including Denis Lawson, Antony Sher, Ian McNeice, Andrew Tiernan, Samuel West, Christian Coulson, Cherie Lunghi, Greg Wise and Ronald Pickup. The series consists of eight television films, which are notable for their high production values. All were later released on DVD (with the original aspect ratio of widescreen in Europe and in the US). In the US, the series was retitled ""Horatio Hornblower"", and some of the films were known by different titles. The eight films cover the events of just three of the ten novels (""Mr. Midshipman Hornblower"", ""Lieutenant Hornblower"", and ""Hornblower and the Hotspur""), and various alterations and"
"they had been looking for to sit in the captain's chair""; Roddenberry agreed after auditioning every other candidate for the role. The other actors considered included Yaphet Kotto, Patrick Bauchau, Roy Thinnes and Mitchell Ryan. Stewart was uncertain why the producers would cast 'a middle-aged bald English Shakespearean actor' as captain of the ""Enterprise"". He had his toupee delivered from London to meet with Paramount executives, but Roddenberry ordered Stewart to remove the ""awful looking"" hairpiece. Stewart's stentorian voice impressed the executives, who immediately approved the casting. Roddenberry sent Stewart C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, saying the Picard character"
"other films including ""Oklahoma"", ""Ruggles of Red Gap"" and ""Gaslight"". He gave aspiring actress Marie Windsor her first screen test, and Constance Ockelman her new name, Veronica Lake. As a producer he was nominated for an Academy Award 'Best Picture' Oscar four times, but failed to win. The Hornblows, Frith, and Random House collaborated to produce numerous sequels, ""Birds Do the Strangest Things"" (1965), and so on. Arthur Hornblow Jr. Arthur Hornblow Jr. (March 15, 1893 – July 17, 1976) was an American film producer. Hornblow was the son of Arthur Hornblow Sr. (1865–1942), a writer who edited ""Theatre Magazine"""
"an outline in ""The Hornblower Companion"". The first three novels written, ""The Happy Return"", ""A Ship of the Line"", and ""Flying Colours"" were collected as ""Captain Horatio Hornblower"" (1939) by Little Brown in the US. Both a single-volume edition and a three-volume edition (in a slip case) were published. ""Mr. Midshipman Hornblower"", ""Lieutenant Hornblower"", and ""Hornblower and the Atropos"" were compiled in one book, variously titled ""Hornblower's Early Years"", ""Horatio Hornblower Goes to Sea"", or ""The Young Hornblower"". ""Hornblower and the Atropos"" was replaced by ""Hornblower and the Hotspur"" in later UK editions of ""The Young Hornblower"". ""Hornblower and the"
"Horton Foote Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplays for the 1962 film ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" and the 1983 film ""Tender Mercies"", and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play ""The Young Man From Atlanta"" and two Academy Awards, one for an original screenplay, ""Tender Mercies"", and one for adapted screenplay, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". In 1995, Foote was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter"
"Galante"", and the chapter ""Hornblower and the Man Who Felt Queer"", for the section concerning the ""Indefatigable""'s expedition against the ""Papillon"". The episode also diverges from the plot of this chapter in several respects, mostly related to the addition of Simpson and Kennedy to the event (in the book, Simpson is not transferred to ""Indefatigable"", and Kennedy does not take part in the expedition). The Even Chance The Even Chance is the first of eight Hornblower television adaptations relating the exploits of Horatio Hornblower, the protagonist in a series of novels and short stories by C.S. Forester. ""The Even Chance"""
"in the novels ""Lieutenant Hornblower"" (much told from his point of view), ""Hornblower and the Hotspur"", ""Hornblower and the Crisis"", ""The Happy Return"", ""Ship of the Line"", ""Flying Colours"", ""The Commodore"", and ""Lord Hornblower"". Bush is portrayed by Robert Beatty in the 1951 adaptation ""Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N."" In the film, Bush is not as severely wounded during the sinking of the ""Sutherland""; he is wounded in the leg rather than losing it entirely. In the Hornblower TV series, Bush was played by Paul McGann. Few changes were made to the character, although some aspects of his role in ""Lieutenant"
"Flying Colours (novel) Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology. It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England. It is one of three ""Hornblower"" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film ""Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N."". At the end of the previous novel, ""A Ship of the Line"", after attacking and severely damaging a superior French squadron with HMS ""Sutherland"", Hornblower had to surrender his ship to the French. He and"
"officers with extra income). Together with the money from prizes taken while he was captain of the ""Sutherland"" and from his recapture of the ""Witch of Endor"", he is finally financially secure and free to court and marry Lady Barbara. Flying Colours (novel) Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology. It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England. It is one of three ""Hornblower"" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American"
"Horatio Caine Horatio Caine is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American crime drama """", portrayed by David Caruso. He is the head of the crime lab, under the rank of Lieutenant of the MDPD. Horatio Caine formerly worked in New York City as a detective with the NYPD, before moving to Miami where he worked as a detective lieutenant with the MDPD. He killed the man who murdered his mother; his own father. In 1995, while on the job, he was stabbed while investigating a case in which children were locked in closets while their parents were"
"Caruso's performance as the character being the most praised. Horatio gathered a cult following as well. On an episode of the ""Late Show with David Letterman"" that aired on March 8, 2007, comedian Jim Carrey professed to being a fan of the show and went on to satirically impersonate Caruso's character. Caruso said in an interview with CBS that he was impressed with Carrey's impersonation. Horatio Caine Horatio Caine is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American crime drama """", portrayed by David Caruso. He is the head of the crime lab, under the rank of Lieutenant of"
"match. Maria dotes upon the irritable Hornblower in ways that he finds irritating; she knows little of the sea, and annoys him both with her ignorance and hero-worship of him, which clashes with his eternally low self-image. Despite this unfortunate beginning, however, he warms to her over the course of several books, and becomes a good (though not perfect) husband to her and father to their two children, also named Horatio and Maria. After gruelling service during the blockade of Brest aboard ""Hotspur"", he is promised a momentous promotion to post captain by Commander-in-Chief William Cornwallis and is recalled to"
"World War II becoming head of the RAF radio unit on the British Forces Broadcasting Service attaining the rank of Pilot Officer. In 1946 he and his mother Margaret Miller Towers started a company called Towers of London that sold various syndicated radio shows around the world, including ""The Lives of Harry Lime"" and ""The Black Museum"" with Orson Welles, ""Secrets of Scotland Yard"" with Clive Brook, ""Horatio Hornblower"" in which Michael Hordern played the famous character created by C.S. Forester, and a series based on the Sherlock Holmes stories, featuring John Gielgud as Holmes, Ralph Richardson as Watson, and"
"of the Fleet, dying at the age of 80 on 12 January 1858. This fictional biography of a fictional character has confused some readers, who have taken it as a factual work. Parkinson includes in Horatio's family tree at a number of real life Hornblowers. They include The Hornblower canon by Forester consists of eleven novels (one unfinished) and five short stories. In addition, ""The Hornblower Companion"" includes maps showing where the action took place in the ten complete novels plus Forester's notes on how they were written. Another short story, ""The Point and the Edge,"" is included only as"
"The Good Shepherd (novel) The Good Shepherd (1955) is a nautical and war novel by C.S. Forester, best known as the creator of fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower. The hero of ""The Good Shepherd"" is Commander Krause, the captain of the fictional US Navy ""Mahan""-class destroyer USS ""Keeling"" in World War II. Krause is in overall command of an escort force protecting an Atlantic convoy in the Battle of the Atlantic. He finds himself in a difficult position. The voyage in question occurs early in 1942, shortly after America's entry into the war. Although he is a career Navy"
"The Last Encounter ""The Last Encounter"" is a short story by C. S. Forester, providing the final chapter in the life of his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel ""Hornblower and the Crisis"" and another short story, ""Hornblower and the Widow McCool"". In 1848, Hornblower, now 72, is enjoying a comfortable retirement on his country estate at Smallbridge, Kent. Recently promoted to the well-paid but honorary rank of Admiral of the Fleet, he reflects that life as a country gentleman is pleasant and secure but dull. Hornblower is still married to the upper-class"
"by Bill Farmer (who also voices Goofy and Pluto). Farmer established the character's voice on the spot during recording for ""The Prince and the Pauper"", when the director surprised him with the request. Asked for something ""aristocratic and snobbish"", he says he mixed Ben Stein and Jim Backus. In the 1990s, Horace was intended to star in a new TV series to be created for The Disney Afternoon, titled ""Maximum Horsepower"", intended to explain his disappearance from cartoons after the 1930s ended. The concept would be that, in 1939, Horace had gotten tired of playing bit parts and, after learning"