"Who played ""The Jackal"" in the 1973 film ""The Day of the Jackal""?"
"Jackal (The Day of the Jackal) The Jackal is a fictional character, the villain of the novel ""The Day of the Jackal"" by Frederick Forsyth. He is an assassin who is contracted by the OAS French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. The book was published on 7 June 1971, in the year following de Gaulle's death, and became an instant bestseller. In the original 1973 film adaptation, he is portrayed by Edward Fox. A revised version of the character was portrayed by Bruce Willis in the 1997 remake, ""The Jackal"","
"The Jackal (1997 film) The Jackal is a 1997 American political action thriller film directed by Michael Caton-Jones, and starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, and Sidney Poitier. The film, which is a loose remake of the 1973 film ""The Day of the Jackal"", involves the hunt for a paid assassin. A joint operation between the FBI and the MVD leads to the death of the younger brother of an Azerbaijani mobster. In retaliation, the mobster hires an assassin known only as the ""Jackal"" to kill an unidentified target. The Jackal demands $70 million for the job, to which the mobster"
"Edward Fox (actor) Edward Charles Morice Fox, (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor. He played the part of the professional assassin, known only as the ""Jackal"", who is hired to assassinate the French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963, in the film ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973). He portrayed Edward VIII in the British television drama series ""Edward & Mrs. Simpson"" (1978). Fox was born in Chelsea, London, the son of Robin Fox, a theatrical agent, and Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, an actress and writer. He is the elder brother"
"studios and when a handshake was a handshake no longer."" However, Universal then offered him the chance to direct ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973), based on the best-selling suspense novel by Frederick Forsyth. The film starred Edward Fox as an Englishman who is relentlessly driven to complete his mission to try to kill French president Charles de Gaulle, and Michael Lonsdale as the French detective charged with stopping him. Zinnemann was intrigued by the opportunity to direct a film in which the audience would already be able to guess the ending (the Jackal failing his mission), and was pleased"
"""The Day of the Jackal"" and the 1973 film adaptation of the same name, the latter of which has character actor Jean Sorel playing Bastien-Thiry. Bastien-Thiry was born to a family of Catholic military officers in Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle. His father had known de Gaulle in the 1930s and was a member of the Gaullist RPF. He attended the ""École polytechnique"", followed by the ""École nationale supérieure de l'Aéronautique"", then entered the French Air Force where he specialized in the design of air-to-air missiles. In 1957, he was promoted to principal military air engineer. He was married to Geneviève Lamirand, the"
"joined the Countryside March to support hunting rights in the UK. He also supported the restoration of the Royal Hall, Harrogate, funded by his great-grandfather Samson Fox. Edward Fox (actor) Edward Charles Morice Fox, (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor. He played the part of the professional assassin, known only as the ""Jackal"", who is hired to assassinate the French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963, in the film ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973). He portrayed Edward VIII in the British television drama series ""Edward & Mrs. Simpson"" (1978). Fox"
"when it ultimately became a hit with the public. ""The Day of the Jackal"" was followed four years later by ""Julia"" (1977), based on a story in the book ""Pentimento"" by Lillian Hellman. The film starred Jane Fonda as Hellman and Vanessa Redgrave as her best friend Julia, a doomed American heiress who forsakes the safety and comfort of great wealth to devote her life to the anti-Nazi cause in Germany. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three, for Best Screenplay (Alvin Sargent), Best Supporting Actor (Jason Robards), and Best Supporting Actress for Redgrave, who drew"
"with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, and as a French police investigator in ""Day of the Jackal"" (1973) with Edward Fox. Michel Auclair Michel Auclair (14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema. Auclair was born Vladimir Vujović to a Serbian father and a French mother in Koblenz. His father was Vojislav Vujović, prominent Yugoslav Communist and secretary of the Communist Youth International. Auclair moved to Paris when he was three years old. He entered medical school but then studied acting at the CNSAD in"
"played many diverse roles, and because she was fluent in French, English and German, she appeared in films in all three languages, including a number of Hollywood productions. Seyrig may be most widely known for her role as Colette de Montpelier in Zinnemann's 1973 film ""The Day of the Jackal"". In turn, perhaps her most demanding role was in Chantal Akerman's 1975 film ""Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles"", in which she was required to adopt a highly restrained, rigorously minimalistic mode of acting to convey the mindset of the title character. Seyrig was a major feminist figure"
"Nicholas Young (actor) Nicholas John Young (born June 11, 1949) is a British actor. He was trained at the Corona Stage School London and made his professional debut in 1964 playing a lead in the film ""Eagle Rock"". He made numerous television appearances during the 1960s including featured roles in individual dramas and in series such as ""Front Page Story"", ""Kate"" and ""The Flying Swan"" as well as film roles in ""The Haunted House of Horror"" (1969), ""The Day Of The Jackal"" (1973), ""Three for All"" (1975), ""Eskimo Nell"" (1975), ""It Could Happen to You"" (1975), ""Adventures of a Private"
"The Day of the Locust (film) The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, and starring William Atherton, Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, and Geraldine Page. The screenplay by Waldo Salt is based on the 1939 novel of the same title by Nathanael West. Set in Hollywood, California just prior to World War II, it depicts the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals whose dreams of success have failed to come true. In his review in ""The New York Times"", Vincent Canby called it ""less a conventional film than it is"
"parenthesis. Ralph Kemplen Ralph Kemplen (8 October 1912 – 4 April 2004) was a British film editor with more than fifty film credits between 1933 and 1982. Kemplen had a long collaboration with director John Huston (1906-1987) on six films between 1951 and 1966. Kemplen also directed one feature film, ""The Spaniard's Curse"" (1958). Kemplen won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973) and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (for ""Moulin Rouge"" (1952), ""Oliver!"" (1968), and ""Day of the Jackal""). The director of each film is indicated"
"""The Outfit"" (much like ""The Friends of Eddie Coyle"" and other crime films of this period) has aged rather well, finding itself on many lists of lesser known films recommended by writers on film in the 21st century. The Outfit (1973 film) The Outfit is a 1973 crime film directed by John Flynn. It stars Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan. Flynn's screenplay is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Richard Stark, pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake. It features a character modeled on Stark's fictional character Parker, who was introduced in ""The"
"The Day of the Dolphin The Day of the Dolphin is a 1973 American science-fiction thriller film directed by Mike Nichols and starring George C. Scott. Based on the 1967 novel ""Un animal doué de raison"" (lit. ""A Sentient Animal""), by French writer Robert Merle, the screenplay was written by Buck Henry. A brilliant and driven scientist, Jake Terrell, and his young and beautiful wife, Maggie, train dolphins to communicate with humans. This is done by teaching the dolphins to speak English in dolphin-like voices. Two of his dolphins, Alpha (""Fa"") and Beta (""Bea""), are stolen by officials of the"
"of the ""Comédie Française""), ""The Crucible"", Luigi Pirandello's ""The Rules Of The Game"", Fyodor Dostoevsky's ""The Idiot"" and George Bernard Shaw's ""Mrs. Warren's Profession"". He returned to the National in 1977 for a production of Feydeau's ""The Lady from Maxim's"". In 1973 he played Dr Astrov in Anton Chekhov's ""Uncle Vanya"" opposite Peter O'Toole at the Bristol Old Vic, and had an uncredited role as Charles Calthrop in the film ""The Day of the Jackal"". In 1975 he appeared in Frederick Lonsdale's ""On Approval"" at the Haymarket Theatre, and in 1976 he played Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde's ""An"
"Bruce Cabot Bruce Cabot (born Étienne de Pelissier Bujac Jr., April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972) was an American film actor, best remembered as Jack Driscoll in ""King Kong"" (1933) and for his roles in films such as ""The Last of the Mohicans"" (1936), Fritz Lang's ""Fury"" (1936) and the western ""Dodge City"" (1939). He was also known as one of ""Wayne's Regulars"", appearing in a number of John Wayne films beginning with ""Angel and the Badman"" (1947). Cabot was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico to a prominent local lawyer, Major Étienne de Pelissier Bujac, Sr. and Julia Armandine"
"The Outfit (1973 film) The Outfit is a 1973 crime film directed by John Flynn. It stars Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan. Flynn's screenplay is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Richard Stark, pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake. It features a character modeled on Stark's fictional character Parker, who was introduced in ""The Hunter"". Two hitmen drive to Eddie Macklin's house to assassinate him as he builds a brick wall in his backyard. Meanwhile, Eddie's brother Earl (Robert Duvall) is released from prison in Illinois after a 27-month term for carrying"
"Zinnemann, who was looking for an actor who was not well-known and could be believable as the assassin in the film ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973). Fox won the role, beating other contenders such as Roger Moore and Michael Caine. From then on he was much sought after, appearing in such films as ""A Bridge Too Far"" (1977) as Lieutenant General Horrocks, a role he has cited as a personal favourite, and for which he won the Best Supporting Actor award at the British Academy Film Awards. He also starred in ""Force 10 from Navarone"" (1978), with Robert Shaw"
"1963) and as Edmond Dantès in a BBC television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" (1964). Badel also played the villainous sunglasses-wearing Najim Beshraavi in ""Arabesque"" (1966) with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. He played the French Interior Minister in ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973), a political thriller about the attempted assassination of President Charles de Gaulle; in the political television drama ""Bill Brand"" (1976) he played David Last, the government's Employment Minister, a left-wing former backbench MP who had recently joined the front bench after 30 years in the House of Commons. One of his"
"up with the name ""Crisis? What Crisis?"" and one day, when we were sitting around Scorpio Studio, he came in with this sketch of a guy in a deck chair under an umbrella with all this chaos going on around him."" ""Crisis? What Crisis?"" is a line in the film ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973). The phrase was used as a headline in The Sun newspaper in 1979 to convey a popular impression of the UK government at the time. Artist Paul Wakefield returned after his work in ""Crime of the Century"", photographing the backgrounds at the Welsh mining"
"Save the Tiger Save the Tiger is a 1973 drama film about moral conflict in contemporary America directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker, and Liv Lindeland. The screenplay was adapted by Steve Shagan from his novel of the same title. Lemmon won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Harry Stoner (making him the first of six actors to win Oscars for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor), an executive in the garment industry who struggles with the complexity of modern life versus the"
"Bradford Anderson Bradford William Anderson (born September 21, 1979) is an American actor best known for his role as the young hacker criminal Damian Millhouse Spinelli (a.k.a. The Jackal), on the television soap opera ""General Hospital"", a part which he originated in November 2006 and has continued to play until the present, on both ""General Hospital"" and the Summer 2007 spin-off """". Anderson is a native of Meredith, New Hampshire, the son of Bill Anderson and Noni Smith. His mother, who worked at local theater companies, encouraged both him and his sister Jennifer to get involved in acting. Anderson's first"
"idea that excited me was to make a suspense film where everybody knew the end - that de Gaulle was not killed. In spite of knowing the end, would the audience sit still? And it turned out that they did, just as the readers of the book did."" The film was the inspiration for the 1997 American film ""The Jackal"", featuring Richard Gere, Bruce Willis, Sidney Poitier and Jack Black. The 1997 film is about an assassin nicknamed ""The Jackal"" who wants to assassinate a highly significant target, but other than that, it has little in common with the original"
"The Day of the Jackal The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The novel remains popular, and in 2003 it was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The OAS does exist as described in the novel, and the book"
"at the Sorbonne and in 1964 they formed the ""théâtre du soleil"". He played Philippe, the tormented son of a woman with terminal illness, in the 1974 drama film ""La Gueule ouverte"", by the controversial director Maurice Pialat. He won a César Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1982 movie ""La Balance"". One of his few English-language roles was a cameo in the 1973 thriller ""The Day of the Jackal"" and he co-starred as ""Jacques"" in the 1975 John Frankenheimer movie ""French Connection II"" which starred Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey, (sequel to ""The French Connection""). Léotard"
"Bruce McGill Bruce Travis McGill (born July 11, 1950) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his work with director Michael Mann in the movies ""The Insider"" (1999), ""Ali"" (2001), and ""Collateral"" (2004). McGill's other notable film roles include Daniel Simpson ""D-Day"" Day in John Landis' ""Animal House"", Com. Matuzak in ""Timecop"", Reverend Larson in ""Shallow Hal"", Gene Revell in ""The Sum of All Fears"", and Lt. Brooks in ""Ride Along"" and its sequel ""Ride Along 2"". Bruce McGill's television roles include Jack Dalton on ""MacGyver"" (1985–1992) and Det. Vince Korsak on ""Rizzoli & Isles"" (2010–2016). He"
"Jack the Bear Jack the Bear is a 1993 American drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz, written by Steven Zaillian based on the novel by Dan McCall, and starring Danny DeVito, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., Miko Hughes, and Gary Sinise. Jack Leary and his younger brother Dylan start over in Oakland, California in 1972 following the death of their mother Elizabeth. The boys live with their father John, who entertains late-night horror film audiences as ""Midnight Shriek"" host-commentator ""Al Gory."" John has a drinking problem that disrupts the smooth running of the household. Some parental duties fall to Jack, who"
"Christopher Lee Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, military officer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, a typecasting situation he always lamented. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974), Saruman in ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy (2001–2003) and ""The Hobbit"" film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the"
"Burgess Meredith Best Cinematography – Conrad L. Hall Nominated: Best Motion Picture Actress – Drama – Karen Black Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture – Burgess Meredith Win: Best Costume Design – Ann Roth Nominated: Best Supporting Actor – Burgess Meredith Best Art Direction – Richard Macdonald The Day of the Locust (film) The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, and starring William Atherton, Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, and Geraldine Page. The screenplay by Waldo Salt is based on the 1939 novel of the same title by Nathanael West. Set in Hollywood,"
"in which he has appeared are ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973), ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977), ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"" (1989), and ""Before Sunset"" (2004). In his 2006 memoir ""Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins"", British actor Rupert Everett describes an encounter with Dobtcheff on the boat train to Paris, and reveals his extraordinary reputation as the ""patron saint"" of the acting profession, stating that Dobtcheff ""was legendary not so much for his acting as for his magical ability to catch every first night in the country"". Widely travelled and prone to pop up in the"
"and French language productions. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villainous Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film ""Moonraker"", the detective Claude Lebel in ""The Day of the Jackal"", and M. Dupont d'Ivry in ""The Remains of the Day"". On 25 February 2011, he won a César Award, his first, as a Best Supporting Actor in ""Of Gods and Men"". Michael Lonsdale Michael Edward Lonsdale (born May 24, 1931), sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows. Lonsdale was born in"
"Jack Lemmon John Uhler ""Jack"" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight-time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. He starred in over 60 films, such as ""Some Like It Hot"", ""The Apartment"", ""Mister Roberts"" (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), ""Days of Wine and Roses"", ""The Great Race"", ""Irma la Douce"", ""The Odd Couple"" and its sequel ""The Odd Couple II"" (and other frequent collaborations with ""Odd Couple"" co-star Walter Matthau), ""Save the Tiger"" (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award"
"Jack Kehoe Jack Kehoe (born November 21, 1938) is an American film actor appearing in a wide variety of films, including the crime dramas ""Serpico"" (1973), ""The Pope of Greenwich Village"" (1984) and Brian De Palma's ""The Untouchables"" (1987), as well as the cult favorites ""Car Wash"" (1976) and ""Midnight Run"" (1988), the popular western ""Young Guns II"" (1990), and ""On the Nickel"" (1980). Kehoe has also appeared in several Academy Award-winning films, including Jonathan Demme's ""Melvin and Howard"" (1980) and Best Picture winner ""The Sting"" (1973), in which Kehoe (as grifter Joe Erie, aka The Erie Kid) and co-stars"