Ex-soldier Snake Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is given 24 hours to find the President of the United States, who has been captured after the crash of Air Force One.

Police Commissioner Bob Hauk ( Lee Van Cleef ) offers a deal to special forces soldier turned criminal " Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ): If he rescues the president and retrieves a secret cassette tape within 24 hours, Hauk will give him a full pardon.

" Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is escorted to the prison on Manhattan Island by armed officers.

* Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken

Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

Kurt Russell did an incredible job, and it would be fun to see someone else try.

Demme's next film, 1980's Melvin and Howard, did not get a wide release, but received a groundswell of critical acclaim, and led to the signing of Demme to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star vehicle Swing Shift.

' Lovebug Starski, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Full Force, Russell Simmons and Wyclef Jean all have been produced by, or have worked with, Kurt.

* Kurt Russell ( born 1951 ), an American actor

* 1951 – Kurt Russell, American actor

Kevin Costner had been cast as Ace Woody, a " vile and sadistic trainer of slaves who are forced to fight in death matches for a plantation owner ( DiCaprio )" before he later dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, and was replaced by Kurt Russell who later also dropped out.

Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, John Diehl, French Stewart, and Viveca Lindfors.

* Kurt Russell

* March 17 – Kurt Russell, American actor

Hawn has maintained a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983.

Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell for the third time in the comedy Overboard ( 1987 ).

The analysis of logical concepts and the machinery of formalization that is essential to Principia Mathematica ( 3 vols., 1910 – 1913 ) ( by Bertrand Russell, 1872 – 1970, and Alfred North Whitehead, 1861 – 1947 ), to Russell's theory of descriptions, to Kurt Gödel's ( 1906 – 1978 ) incompleteness theorems, and to Alfred Tarski's ( 1901 – 1983 ) theory of truth, is ultimately due to Frege.

In 1979, John Carpenter began what was to be the first of several collaborations with actor Kurt Russell when he directed the TV movie Elvis.

His next film, The Thing ( 1982 ), is notable for its high production values, including innovative special effects by Rob Bottin, special visual effects by matte artist Albert Whitlock, a score by Ennio Morricone and a cast including rising star Kurt Russell and respected character actors such as Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Keith David, and Richard Masur.

Pfeiffer then appeared as chic restauranteuse Jo Ann Vallenari in Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) opposite Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell, but experienced creative and personal differences with director Robert Towne, who later described her as the " most difficult " actress he has ever worked with.

In 1996, he had role in the Kurt Russell film Executive Decision, in which he played a special ops soldier who only appears in the film's first 45 minutes.

Executive Decision, ( also known as Critical Decision ) is a 1996 action film, directed by Stuart Baird and starring Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo and Steven Seagal.

Dr. David Grant ( Kurt Russell ), a United States Naval Academy graduate and now a consultant for Army Intelligence, is informed that the world's most feared terrorist, El Sayed Jaffa ( Andreas Katsulas ), has been taken into custody.

Meanwhile, Colonel General Kurt Student, commander of the Fallschirmjaeger, the German airborne forces, received orders from Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, to immediately move from Berlin and proceed to the Netherlands, where he would collect all available units and build a front near the Albert Canal, which was to be held at all costs.

In 1976 he appeared in the screen adaptation by Tom Mankiewicz of the Jack Higgins novel The Eagle Has Landed as Oberst ( Colonel ) Kurt Steiner, the commander of a Luftwaffe paratroop brigade disguised as Polish paratroopers, whose mission was to kidnap or kill the then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, alongside co-stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter and Donald Pleasence.

Colonel Jack O ' Neill ( spelled Jack O ' Neil in the film, and given as John O ' Neill in one case, and John J. O ' Neill in another ) makes his first appearance, played by actor Kurt Russell, in the 1994 military science fiction film Stargate, written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.

Russia was represented by Nikolai Rumyantsev and David Alopaeus ( Russian ambassador to Stockholm ), while Sweden by Infantry General Kurt von Stedingk ( former Swedish ambassador to Petersburg ) and Colonel Anders Skjöldebrand.

A fan of his, Colonel Haki ( Kurt Katch ) of the Turkish police ( who appears in several Ambler books ), believes he would be interested in the history of one Dimitrios Makropoulos ( Zachary Scott ), whose body was just washed up on the beach.

* Kurt Katch as Colonel Haki

He guest starred in television programmes including guest-starring in 1966 as Luftwaffe Colonel Kurt Halland in the second season episode 29, " Siren Song " of Twelve O ' Clock High.

The local commandant, Colonel Kurt Von Strohm, has decided to keep them for himself after the war and forces René to hide the painting in his café.

Meanwhile, Radl selects of a team of commandos to carry out the operation, led by a disgraced Fallschirmjäger commander, Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Steiner.

Colonel Kurt Steiner is not a Nazi stereotype.

One year previously, in the events of the movie Stargate, Colonel Jack O ' Neill ( Kurt Russell ) led a team through the Stargate to the planet Abydos.

Kurt Russell's character Jonathan " Jack " O ' Neil, a rather humorless Colonel, is played by Richard Dean Anderson as Jonathan " Jack " O ' Neill ( with two L's ) in SG-1.

He leaves the Spartans after the discovery of the Covenant to train the next batch of Spartans, and is recruited by Colonel Ackerson to assist Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose ( Spartan-II Kurt-051 ) with training the SPARTAN-III supersoldiers at the secret world of Onyx after a few years of combat duty ( receiving two Purple Hearts in the process ).

Promoted to the rank of Colonel ( Oberst ) in 1925 and Lieutenant General ( Generalleutnant ) in 1931, Stülpnagel played a leading role in the Reichswehr in conjunction with Kurt von Schleicher and Freiherr von Bussche during the Weimar era.

Geering is Colonel Kurt Von Strohm's assistant and usually comes with him to the café.

The vice-commander is Colonel Kurt W. Meidel and the command chief is Chief Master Sergeant Mark R. Aman.