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Pat Roach is a Actor British born on 19 may 1937 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Francis Patrick "Pat" Roach (19 May 1937 – 17 July 2004) was an English actor, professional wrestler and author. He was known for his roles as West Country bricklayer Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, General Kael in Willow, and his numerous supporting roles in the Indiana Jones films.
Pat Roach décède d'un cancer de l'œsophage en juillet 2004.
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Birth name Francis Patrick Roach
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 may 1937 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Death 17 july 2004 (at 67 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 may 1937 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Death 17 july 2004 (at 67 years)
Biography
Il est surtout connu pour ses combats contre Harrison Ford dans la saga Indiana Jones : Dans Les Aventuriers de l'arche perdue, il joue le sherpa colossal dans la taverne de Marion au Népal, puis l'énorme mécanicien allemand chauve et moustachu devant l'avion. Dans Indiana Jones et le Temple maudit, il joue le chef des gardes qui affronte Indy sur le tapis roulant du broyeur. Dans Indiana Jones et la Dernière Croisade, il a un tout petit rôle d'officier de la Gestapo ce qui en fait le seul acteur avec Harrison Ford à apparaître dans les trois premiers films de la saga. Outre la saga Indiana Jones, Roach est aussi connu pour son rôle de Général Kael dans le célèbre film d'Heroic Fantasy Willow en 1987 ou pour avoir affronté James Bond dans Jamais plus Jamais, avec Sean Connery.Pat Roach décède d'un cancer de l'œsophage en juillet 2004.
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Kull the Conqueror (1997)
, 1h35Directed by John Nicolella
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films, Witches in film, Films set in Atlantis
Actors Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere, Thomas Ian Griffith, Litefoot, Roy Brocksmith, Edward Tudor-Pole
Roles Zulcki
Rating48%
Demons once ruled mankind under Akivasha, Sorceress Queen of Acheron, until overthrown by the god Valka. The kingdom of Valusia was built on the ruins of Acheron, and Valka left a single flame of Acheron there to burn for eternity as reminder of "godless times".
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
, 2h22Directed by Jane Campion
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Valentina Cervi
Roles Strongman
Rating61%
The film tells the story of Isabel Archer (Kidman), an innocent young woman of independent means who is manipulated by her "friend" Madame Merle (Hershey) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (Malkovich).
, 2h23Directed by Kevin Reynolds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film, Political films
Actors Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alan Rickman, Michael McShane
Roles Celtic Chieftain
Rating68%
Robin of Locksley (Costner), an English nobleman who joined Richard the Lionheart, King of England in the Third Crusade, is imprisoned in Jerusalem along with his comrade Peter. After witnessing an amputation at the hand of the Ayyubid prison guards, Robin escapes, saving the life of a Moor named Azeem (Freeman) in the process, Robin, Peter and Azeem escape through a sewer and climb up into a alley but Peter is shot by an archer while escaping and has Robin swear to protect his sister Marian (Mastrantonio). Peter then grabs a scimitar and attacks an Ayyubid patrol giving Robin and Azeem enough time to to run down a small closed market. Azeem then grabs a fruit from one of the market stands and gives half of it to Robin and after nearly being spotted by a Ayyubid soldier and with the whole town on a lookout for them Robin and Azeem escape. Robin returns to England with Azeem, who has vowed to accompany him until the debt of saving his life is repaid.
The Big Man (1990)
, 1h56Directed by Liam Neeson, David Leland, Kenny Ireland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, George Rossi, Billy Connolly, Pat Roach, Maurice Roëves
Roles Billy
Rating56%
A Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) becomes unemployed during a union strike. He is unable to support his family and cannot resolve his bitterness about his situation. Desperate for money, he accepts an offer made by a Glasgow gangster to fight in an illegal bare-knuckle boxing match. A long and brutal fight follows.
Wings of Fame (1990)
, 1h56Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Actors Peter O'Toole, Colin Firth, Marie Trintignant, Andréa Ferréol, Robert Stephens, Walter Gotell
Rating67%
Dans les années 1960, lors d'un festival de cinéma, on attend la star César Valentin. Brian Smith, jeune écrivain inconnu, approche la vedette et le tue d'une balle de revolver avant d'être tué par la chute d'un projecteur. Smith désormais célèbre pour ce meurtre est conduit avec sa victime sur une île, dans un hôtel réservé aux célébrités dont le souvenir est encore vivace sur terre. Ceux qui tombent peu à peu dans l'oubli étant logés dans les mansardes, les caves ou rejetés à la mer, dès lors pour tous, une seule crainte obsessionnelle : Perdre sa gloire et rejoindre le groupe des oubliés de l'éternité. Dans cette atmosphère d'ennui et de haine, Smith et Valentin jouent au chat et à la souris.
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
, 1h42Directed by Richard Lester
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Actors Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, C. Thomas Howell, Kim Cattrall
Roles French Executioner
Rating59%
Twenty years after the events of The Four Musketeers, Cardinal Mazarin has imprisoned the Duke of Beaufort. Mazarin hires d'Artagnan to bring together Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, to work for him. Porthos accepts, but Athos and Aramis decline. By this time, Athos has a son named Raoul.
, 2h7Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Motocyclette, Political films, Évasion, Alternate history films, Children's films
Actors Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Alex Hyde-White
Roles Gestapo
Rating81%
In 1912, 13-year-old Indiana Jones is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop in Moab, Utah. While scouting caves, Indy discovers a group of grave robbers who have found a golden crucifix belonging to Coronado and steals it from them, hoping to donate it to a museum. The men give chase through a passing circus train, leaving Indy with a bloody cut across his chin from a bullwhip and new phobia of snakes. Indy escapes, but the local sheriff makes him return the crucifix. Impressed with Indy's bravery, the leader of the robbers gives Indy his fedora.
Willow (1988)
, 2h6Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film, Children's films
Actors Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, Billy Barty, Patricia Hayes
Roles General Kael
Rating71%
A prophecy states that a female child with a special birthmark will herald the downfall of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women in her realm to prevent fulfilment of the prophecy. When the prophesied child is born, the mother begs the midwife to take her to safety. The midwife reluctantly accepts, and leaves Nockmaar castle unnoticed. The mother is executed, and the midwife is eventually found. Knowing she cannot escape, she sets the baby on a makeshift raft of grass and sends her down the river, hoping for fate to run its course. Bavmorda sends her daughter Sorsha and General Kael to find the baby so that the prophecy can never be fulfilled.
Red Sonja (1985)
, 1h29Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Witches in film, Rape and revenge films
Actors Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith, Janet Ågren, Ernie Reyes
Roles Brytag
Rating51%
After being raped by the soldiers of Queen Gedren, a despot who had her parents and brother murdered for scarring the queen's face while rejecting her sexual advances, Red Sonja is visited by a spirit who grants her the strength to seek revenge. Having trained under a swords master, and become distrustful of most men, Red Sonja is found by Lord Kalidor, who takes her to her dying sister Varna. Varna is a member of an order of priestesses who were preparing to destroy a light-powered relic known as the Talisman that created the world and whose growing power now threatens it. However, Gedren's army and her aide-de-camp Ikol slaughtered the priestesses and took the Talisman while Varna was fatally wounded by the time she found Kalidor. Before dying, Varna tells Sonja of the events at her temple while urging her to find the Talisman and destroy it. After turning down Kalidor's offer to accompany her, seeing a storm in the distance, Sonya arrives to the now-ruined kingdom of Hablock. There she meets the young Prince Tarn and his servant Falkon, learning Gedren completely wiped out Hablock when Tarn refused to surrender. Tarn announces that he is raising a new army to crush Gedren and invites Sonja to work for him as a cook. She declines while told that Gedren is based in Berkubane, the Kingdom of Eternal Night.
, 1h58Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Children's films
Actors Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone
Roles Chief Guard
Rating74%
In 1935, Indiana Jones - Indy (Harrison Ford) narrowly escapes the clutches of Lao Che (Roy Chiao), a crime boss in Shanghai. With his 11-year-old Chinese sidekick, Short Round (or Shorty) (Jonathan Ke Quan), and the nightclub singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) in tow, Indy flees Shanghai on an airplane that, unknown to them, is owned by Lao. While the three of them sleep on the plane, the pilots parachute out, and they leave the plane to crash over the Himalayas while dumping its fuel. Indy, Shorty, and Willie discover this and narrowly manage to escape on an inflatable raft and ride down the slopes into a raging river. They come to Mayapore, a desolate village in northern India, where the poor villagers believe them to have been sent by the Hindu god Shiva and enlist their help to retrieve the sacred Sivalinga stone stolen from their shrine, as well as the community's children, from evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace. During the journey to Pankot, Indy hypothesizes that the stone may be one of the five fabled Sankara stones that promise fortune and glory.
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
, 1h43Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia D'Abo, Mako Iwamatsu, Sarah Douglas, Tracey Walter
Roles Man Ape / Toth-Amon
Rating59%
Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his companion, the thief Malak (Tracey Walter), are confronted by Queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas) of Shadizar. She tests their combat ability with several of her guards. Satisfied, she tells Conan that she has a quest for him. He refuses her, but when she promises to resurrect his lost love, Valeria, Conan agrees to the quest. He is to escort the Queen's niece, Jehnna (Olivia d'Abo), an innocent who is destined to restore the jeweled horn of the dreaming god Dagoth; a magic gem must first be retrieved that will locate the horn. Conan and Malak are joined by Bombaata (Wilt Chamberlain), the eunuch captain of Taramis's guard. Bombaata has secret orders to kill Conan once the gem is obtained.
, 1h31Directed by Ray Austin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors George Segal, Morgan Fairchild, Roddy McDowall, Janet Suzman, Tom Baker, Robert Hardy
Roles Little John
Rating50%
In not-so-merry-old-England during the 13th Century, the neurotic Prince John (Roddy McDowell) sits on the throne, supported by his evil henchman, Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Tom Baker) and constantly ridiculed by his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Janet Suzman). While celebrating his birthday, the Prince becomes unhappy when he discovers his older brother, Richard, is not dead as everyone thought but rather being held for ransom in Austria. As Richard is the rightful King of England, this creates a problem for Prince John. However, Gisbourne openly suggests that they tax the Saxon peasants to raise the ransom, while secretly confiding in the Prince that the King will most likely die of pneumonia before the year is out and that they will keep the money.
Never Say Never Again (1983)
, 2h14Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Spy films, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Underwater action films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Carrera, Max von Sydow, Bernie Casey
Roles Lippe
Rating60%
After MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a machine which scans his eye. Bond is seen by Blush and an attempt is subsequently made to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to defeat the assassin.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
, 1h55Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Children's films
Actors Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott
Roles Giant Sherpa / 1st Mechanic
Rating79%
In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) braves an ancient booby-trapped temple in Peru and retrieves a golden idol. He is confronted by rival archaeologist René Belloq (Paul Freeman) and the indigenous Hovito people. Surrounded and outnumbered, Jones is forced to surrender the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a waiting floatplane.
Clash of the Titans (1981)
, 1h58Directed by Desmond Davis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films based on mythology, Giant monster films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Children's films, Robot films, Disaster films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Burgess Meredith
Roles Hephaestus
Rating68%
King Acrisius of Argos (Donald Houston) imprisons his daughter Danaë (Vida Taylor), jealous of her beauty. When the god Zeus (Laurence Olivier) impregnates her, Acrisius sends his daughter and his newborn grandson Perseus to sea in a wooden coffin. In retribution, Zeus kills Acrisius and orders Poseidon (Jack Gwillim) to release the last of the Titans, a gigantic sea monster called the Kraken, to destroy Argos. Meanwhile, Danaë and Perseus safely float to the island of Seriphos, where Perseus grows to adulthood.