"act. And Jeremy Irons' villain isn't fit to tie Alan Rickman's shoelaces."" In the ""Crime Time Filmbook"", which archives various UK film reviews, the film was given a 5/5 star review citing it as ""...simply the best Action film of the decade, leaving imitators like ""Bad Boys"", ""Executive Decision"", ""The Rock"" and ""Chain Reaction"" in varying depths of shadow. ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" was released on Laserdisc on January 17, 1996, on VHS on May 14, 1996, and on DVD on March 9, 1999. A special edition was released on DVD on July 10, 2001 and then re-released in"
"Die Hard Die Hard is a 1988 American action thriller film. It was directed by John McTiernan, and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It was produced by the Gordon Company and Silver Pictures, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film follows off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) who is caught in a Los Angeles skyscraper during a heist led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). It is based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel ""Nothing Lasts Forever"". Made for $28 million, ""Die Hard"" grossed over $140 million theatrically worldwide, with the film"
"Die Hard (film series) The ""Die Hard"" series is an American action film series that originated with Roderick Thorp's novel ""Nothing Lasts Forever"". All five films revolve around the character of John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis), a New York City and Los Angeles police detective who continually finds himself in the middle of violent crises and intrigues where he is the only hope against disaster. The films have grossed a combined $1.4 billion worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, except the fifth installment which was negatively received. The first film begins on Christmas Eve when McClane comes to"
"July 30, 1996, at age 49. Anthony Peck Anthony Peck (born Carmen Anthony Pecchio; March 20, 1947 – July 20, 1996) was an American actor. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toledo, and his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Temple University. He appeared in several of John McTiernan's films, such as ""Die Hard"", ""The Hunt for Red October"", ""Last Action Hero"", and ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"". Other appearances include ""Creator"", ""Unbecoming Age"", ""In the Line of Fire"", ""The Enemy Within"", and """" (This was his last film)."
"Die Hard with a Vengeance Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action thriller film and the third in the ""Die Hard"" film series. It was co-produced and directed by John McTiernan (who directed ""Die Hard""), written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as New York City Police Department Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClane's reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Simon Gruber. It was released on May 19, 1995, five years after ""Die Hard 2"", becoming the second highest-grossing film at the worldwide box-office that year. It received mixed reviews. It was"
"the charity ball were shot (at Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre), then the hanging scene, and finally the gondola sequence (rewritten from its original conception due to the now-compressed shooting schedule). Johnny Depp's shooting on the film was the hardest to incorporate into any of the new actors' schedules, due to his contractual obligation on Michael Mann's ""Public Enemies"" at the time; in the end, Gilliam had access to Depp for one day and three hours. All of the shots involving him had to be completed in one take, to fit into Depp's compressed time schedule. Finally, Jude Law arrived at the"
"Anthony Peck Anthony Peck (born Carmen Anthony Pecchio; March 20, 1947 – July 20, 1996) was an American actor. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toledo, and his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Temple University. He appeared in several of John McTiernan's films, such as ""Die Hard"", ""The Hunt for Red October"", ""Last Action Hero"", and ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"". Other appearances include ""Creator"", ""Unbecoming Age"", ""In the Line of Fire"", ""The Enemy Within"", and """" (This was his last film). Anthony Peck died of cancer on"
"Dennis Hayden (actor) Dennis Hayden (born April 7, 1952) is an American actor, producer and writer, most famous for his role as Eddie, one of the main terrorists in the popular 1988 action film ""Die Hard"". Dennis Hayden was one of five brothers and one sister born in Girard, Kansas on a pig and soybean farm. He worked the wheat harvest during summers off from high school, graduating in 1970. He worked the summer wheat harvests and played football, becoming the number one tackle in Kansas. He attended Fort Scott Junior College for the game, but then, when he was"
"M14 rifle used by Shughart. Furthermore, Howe said that Gordon would not have given his weapon to someone while he could still fight. Durant later admitted that he initially misidentified which man was killed first, but did not wish to change the official record. Shughart's body was eventually recovered and is buried in Westminster Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In the 2001 film ""Black Hawk Down"", Shughart was portrayed by actor Johnny Strong. On May 23, 1994, Shughart and Gordon were posthumously decorated with the Medals of Honor for protecting the crew of Super Six Four. They were the first Medal of"
"Tapes"". He later became a fixture in many of Arnold Schwarzenegger's films, stood up to Steven Seagal in ""Out for Justice"", and doubled for the one arm man in the big screen version of ""The Fugitive"". Nick Dimitri Nick Dimitri (born December 27, 1932), is a stuntman and actor best known as Charles Bronson's black leather blazer wearing opponent in the climax of ""Hard Times"". In addition to fisticuffs, his speciality was dying violently on screen. He was a regular stuntman on the World War II TV series ""The Rat Patrol"" and a double for action actors Sean Connery and"
"to use the unintentional scene in the final film. ""Die Hard"" was Alan Rickman's first feature film role. Rickman was cast after producer Joel Silver saw his performance as Vicomte de Valmont in the Broadway run of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. For his death scene, he was dropped on a green screen set. The shot used was the first take; Rickman was dropped sooner than he had been told he would be, so the look of fear on his face is genuine. The DVD text commentary track reveals that the shooting script did not originally include the meeting between McClane and"
"had been cast to play the Gurkha guide Billy Fish. Stuntman Joe Powell doubled for Sean Connery and it was he who performed the fall from the rope bridge at the film's climax. The stunt involved a fall of 80 feet onto a pile of cardboard boxes and matresses which could have been fatal if the stunt had gone wrong. Powell performed the stunt perfectly and John Huston was so impressed that he stated ""That's the darndest stunt I've ever seen!"" Michael Caine stated that Sean Connery did not like heights and was not fond of the final scene in"
"last gesture of loyalty and defiance, Haeften places himself in the path of the bullets meant for Stauffenberg. When his turn arrives, Colonel Stauffenberg's last act is to cry ""Long live sacred Germany!"" Patrick Wilson was originally cast in ""Valkyrie"", but he dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and other unspecified reasons. Stephen Fry was also offered a role in the film but was unable to participate. Some of the non-German actors initially experimented with German accents, but Singer discarded the idea, instead instructing them to adopt neutral accents that ""[wouldn't] distract from the story"". Singer added he was not"
"he had a crush on his co-star Cybill Shepherd during ""The Last Picture Show,"" but she did not reciprocate his romantic feelings, even though she said in a separate interview that she found him ""very attractive"". He was also heavily featured in the Metallica video for ""One"", which featured footage of the film ""Johnny Got His Gun"". Timothy Bottoms Timothy James Bottoms (born August 30, 1951) is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead in ""Johnny Got His Gun"", Sonny Crawford in ""The Last Picture Show"" where he and his fellow co-stars, Cybill"
"for his co-stars. Tessier died of cancer in 1990. Robert Tessier Robert W. Tessier (June 2, 1934 – October 11, 1990) was an American actor and stuntman who was best known for playing heavy, menacing characters in films and on television. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts of Algonquian descent, Tessier served as a paratrooper in the Korean War earning both a Silver Star and Purple Heart. Tessier was an accomplished motorcycle rider doing stunts in the circus. These skills helped him secure his first film role in ""The Born Losers"" directed by Tom Laughlin. With his shaven head, size and threatening-looking"
"coach in the new Von Miller Old Spice Commercials 2017. Dennis Hayden (actor) Dennis Hayden (born April 7, 1952) is an American actor, producer and writer, most famous for his role as Eddie, one of the main terrorists in the popular 1988 action film ""Die Hard"". Dennis Hayden was one of five brothers and one sister born in Girard, Kansas on a pig and soybean farm. He worked the wheat harvest during summers off from high school, graduating in 1970. He worked the summer wheat harvests and played football, becoming the number one tackle in Kansas. He attended Fort Scott"
"(film)"". Strong stars in ""Sinners & Saints"", a New Orleans-based police thriller featuring Sean Patrick Flanery and Tom Berenger released in 2012. 2016 marked his return to the screen, starring in ""Daylight's End"", an apocalyptic zombie thriller movie, with Lance Henriksen. Johnny Strong Johnny Strong (born July 22, 1974) is an American actor, musician, stuntman and martial artist. He is best known for his roles in ""Black Hawk Down"" (as Medal of Honor recipient Randy Shughart) and ""The Fast and the Furious"" as Leon. Aside from acting, Strong is also the Lead vocalist and founder of the band Operator. Strong"
"film ""Superman"". Andrews died at the age of 77 on 6 March 1989, at his home in Salehurst, leaving behind his long-term friend and partner Basil Hoskins. They are now buried alongside each other at St Mary the Virgin's Church, Salehurst. Harry Andrews Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English actor known for his film portrayals of tough military officers. His performance as Sergeant Major Wilson in ""The Hill"" alongside Sean Connery earned Andrews the 1965 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the 1966 BAFTA Award"
"was considered for the role. Pacino was injured during rehearsals for a gunfight after he grabbed the barrel of a prop gun which had just been used to fire several dummy bullets. His hand stuck to the hot barrel and he was unable to remove it immediately; the injury sidelined him for two weeks. The gunfight scene also includes a single camera shot directed by Steven Spielberg, who was visiting the set at the time. During filming, some Cuban-Americans objected to the film's Cuban-American characters being portrayed as criminals by non-Cuban-American actors. To counter this, the film features a disclaimer"
"was unable to get back up. His brothers were able to get him a hospital where it was discovered that the hip bones on one side of his body were severely damaged due to being overly stressed. In March 1996, he gave a rare interview with ""Euro Trash Cinema"", a popular European exploitation film magazine, in which he discussed his early life and career, former co-stars and his thoughts on the state of the Italian film industry. His last film was ""Honey Sweet Love"", in 1999. Donald O'Brien (actor) Donal ""Donald"" O'Brien (born 15 September 1930) is a French-born Irish"
"He appeared as a boxer in the movie ""All Fall Down"" (1962), as a prisoner in ""Al Capone"" (1959), as a boxer in ""Fight for the Title"" (1957), as a boxer in ""Telephone Time (TV)"" (1957), as a referee in ""The Harder They Fall"", (1956), as an uncredited boxer in ""Kid Monk Baroni"" (1952), and as a fighter in ""Fighting Fools (1949)."" He died on September 28, 2001 in Los Angeles, and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery. Benny Goldberg Benny Goldberg (December 25, 1918 – September 29, 2001) was a Polish-born bantamweight boxer and a top rated"
"was a wounded bank robber at the receiving end of Eastwood's ""Do you feel lucky?"" monologue from ""Dirty Harry"". Popwell was a murderous pimp in ""Magnum Force"", appeared as Big Ed Mustapha in ""The Enforcer"" and as Harry's detective colleague Horace King in ""Sudden Impact"". He did not appear in the last film in the series, ""The Dead Pool"", due to a scheduling conflict. His final film role was opposite Sharon Stone in ""Scissors"". He died eight years later, at age 72, from complications following open heart surgery. Albert Popwell Albert Popwell (July 15, 1926 – April 9, 1999) was"
"""Pearl Harbor"" featured a sequence in which the characters portrayed by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett took to the skies to fight the Japanese. This sequence is understood to be a fill-in for Taylor's and Welch's roles, but the characters do not bear any other similarities to Taylor and Welch. Unlike ""Tora! Tora! Tora!"", Taylor was not consulted for the ""Pearl Harbor"" film, and later called the adaptation ""... a piece of trash...over-sensationalized and distorted."" After contracting an illness from a hip surgery two years prior, Taylor died on November 25, 2006 of a strangulated hernia at an assisted living"
"Robert Patrick Robert Hammond Patrick Jr. (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayals of villainous characters. He is a Saturn Award winner with four nominations. Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his interest in acting, and entered film in 1986. After playing a supporting role in ""Die Hard 2"" (1990), Patrick starred as the T-1000, the main antagonist of """" (1991) – a role he reprised for cameo appearances in ""Wayne's World"" (1992) and ""Last Action Hero"" (1993). Other notable film credits include ""Fire in the Sky"" (1993), ""Striptease"" (1996),"
"buoyancy, meaning that he was unable to float or swim in water, which was discovered while filming ""The Cruel Sea"" when the ship was sinking. Co-star Jack Hawkins saved him from drowning in the open air water-tank at Denham Studios. He died at his home in Wittersham on the Isle of Oxney, Kent, on 12 September 2014, aged 90, from prostate cancer which had been diagnosed several years earlier. The participants at his funeral on the 19 September in St John the Baptist Church, Wittersham were Dame Judi Dench, his grandson Hal Sinden and Sir Patrick Stewart. The eulogy was"
"I think he had a heart thing. So this was Arnold coming back. And he wanted to try to make something good, and to take some chances. I applauded that. And we had very, very good actors around him, like Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Pollak and Rod Steiger. It was a very enjoyable experience. Half way through shooting I told Arnold I thought he should die in this movie. Of course Universal blanched at the idea, so I shot the ending both ways, and everybody agreed that the dying ending was the better one. ""End of Days"" received mainly negative"
"However, when Cameron wakes up, Riley administers the blood and Ember uses his ten seconds to fling himself from the apartment balcony. As he dies, Riley warns everybody not to touch Ember's body. Paramedics attempt to resuscitate Ember, joined by Camilla. They succeed in getting a heartbeat, allowing Maggie to possess Camilla, before Ember dies. Brad Peyton was hired to direct & executive producer the film. Ronnie Christensen was hired to write the film. Blumhouse Productions and WWE Studios were hired to be the production companies. Aaron Eckhart was cast in the film on September 17, 2013. Mark Henry was"
"released on DVD on June 19, 2007, followed by a Blu-ray release on November 20, 2007 and a re-release on January 29, 2013. Die Hard 2 Die Hard 2 is a 1990 American action thriller film and the second installment in the ""Die Hard"" film series. The film was released on July 4, 1990 in the United States. The film was directed by Renny Harlin, written by Steven E. deSouza and Doug Richardson and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The film co-stars Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Art Evans, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John Amos and"
"Harbor, also committed suicide in the closing stages of the battle. He had been in command of the Japanese naval air forces stationed on the island. In the end, almost the entire garrison of troops on the island — at least 29,000 — died. For the Americans, the victory was the most costly to date in the Pacific War: out of 71,000 who landed, 2,949 were killed and 10,464 wounded. Future Hollywood actor Lee Marvin was among the many Americans wounded. He was serving with ""I"" Company, 24th Marine Regiment, when he was hit by shrapnel in the buttocks by"
"Tom Lister Jr. Thomas ""Tiny"" Lister Jr. (born June 24, 1958) is an American character actor and retired professional wrestler known for his roles as the neighborhood bully Deebo in the film ""Friday"" and its first sequel and as President Lindberg in ""The Fifth Element"". He had two short professional wrestling stints, wrestling Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) after appearing as Zeus in the 1989 movie ""No Holds Barred"" and resuming the feud as Z-Gangsta in 1996 for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He is blind in his right eye. Lister was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on"
"onto the top of the elevator and forcibly kisses her one last time, before she grabs the elevator cable and unhooks the tether holding the car. Sebastian tries to grab a hold of Linda's foot but he pulls off her boot and Sebastian falls to his death into the explosion in the shaft below. Linda and Matt emerge from the burning laboratory and emergency personnel take them away in an ambulance. At the time of ""Hollow Man""'s release, Bacon recounted a ""bad morning"" on which, among other mishaps, he read a story in the press that suggested Robert Downey, Jr."
"down the hallway before falling down the stairs where he dies in full view of the shocked party guests. A horrified Stephanie, with blood on her face and clothes and still holding the gun in her hand, appears at the stairway. Jilly then appears and descending the stairs shouting after Jake she tells everyone that she just saw Stephanie shoot him. The show's ratings had not been high enough in Australia to justify a renewal so this cliffhanger was never initially resolved for Australian audiences. The actors playing Stephanie, Jilly and Dennis were later brought back to film a hasty"
"Die Hard 2 Die Hard 2 is a 1990 American action thriller film and the second installment in the ""Die Hard"" film series. The film was released on July 4, 1990 in the United States. The film was directed by Renny Harlin, written by Steven E. deSouza and Doug Richardson and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The film co-stars Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Art Evans, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John Amos and Reginald VelJohnson. The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's novel ""58 Minutes"". The novel has the same plot but differs slightly: a cop"