Star Heath Ledger's death in January 2008 cast doubt on the film's future, but the production was salvaged with the addition of new actors playing his character in scenes he did not complete.

The initial scene of the two knights jousting is actually footage of Heath Ledger's stunt double in an accident.

Day-Lewis received the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role-Motion Picture ( which he dedicated to Heath Ledger, saying that he was inspired by Ledger's acting and calling the actor's performance in Brokeback Mountain " unique, perfect "), and a variety of film critics ' circle awards for the role.

He was one of the actors, along with Johnny Depp and Jude Law, who helped complete the late Heath Ledger's role after he died before filming ended.

Starring opposite Mel Gibson as the film's hero, and Heath Ledger as Gibson's screen son, Isaacs portrays a sadistic British army officer who kills Ledger's character, among many other soldiers.

In early 2010, Osborne reinvented the Doink character to resemble Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker in The Dark Knight, nicknaming the incarnation ' Reborne Again '.

The Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight ( 2008 ) is the most nominated superhero film in Academy Award history with 8 nominations with two wins for Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker.

And some of the best sequences are due in part to Heath Ledger's well delivered internal dialogue voice over, giving an inner life to the musings of a troubled anti-hero ".

Time magazine named Van Damme's performance in the film the second best of the year ( after Heath Ledger's The Joker in The Dark Knight ), having previously stated that Van Damme " deserves not a black belt, but an Oscar ".

These exclusives include Daniel Radcliffe's only gay press interview, Madonna's first worldwide press interview for her Confessions On A Dance Floor album, Elton John and David Furnish's only print interview for their civil partnership in December 2005, Heath Ledger's only gay press interview, Take That's first print interview after re-forming, Kylie Minogue, who always gives attitude her launch interviews and Robbie Williams's only cover story interview on the release of his Greatest Hits album.

In the 2000 movie The Patriot, Heath Ledger's character Gabriel Martin is wounded in a battle that takes place not long after the fall of Charleston.

* In the film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the Hanged Man card is pulled from the Doctor's deck and represents Heath Ledger's character, " Tony " whom they find hanging from a bridge.

During actor Heath Ledger's Hollywood memorial service, " Old Man " was chosen to be played with a slideshow of pictures from Ledger's life.

* Ulrich von Liechtenstein ( see above ), the name taken by Heath Ledger's character in the film A Knight's Tale

He appeared briefly in Candy, an Australian film, as Heath Ledger's doctor and very briefly in " Stealth " as one of the technicians.

Among others, John Heath has observed, " The unalterable kernel of the tale was a hunter's transformation into a deer and his death in the jaws of his hunting dogs.

Absalon probably did not take part in the following battle of Grathe Heath in 1157, in which Sweyn was defeated and slain and led to Valdemar ascending the Danish throne.

The former was unacceptable to Heath's Cabinet and the latter to Heath personally, so the talks collapsed.

His son, the fourth Baron, held office in the Conservative administration of Edward Heath and was later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.

In 1895 the library was opened on Moseley Road and in 1907 Balsall Heath Baths were opened in an adjoining building.

In July 2005 Balsall Heath was hit by a tornado, which devastated many buildings around Church Road and Ladypool Road.

In September 1992, a report was published encouraging the formation of a zone of tolerance towards prostitution in Balsall Heath.

The following year Samo Paull, a woman working as a prostitute, was abducted from Balsall Heath and murdered.

Christopher Soames, Britain's Ambassador to France during the government of Edward Heath and cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, remarked that " Mrs. Thatcher was not really running a team.

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a comic twist was added to rhyming slang by way of spurious and fabricated examples which a young man had laboriously to explain to his father ( e. g. ' dustbins ' meaning ' children ', as in ' dustbin lids ' = ' kids '; ' Teds ' being ' Ted Heath ' and thus ' teeth '; and even ' Chitty Chitty ' being ' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ', and thus ' rhyming slang '...).

The first fullerene to be discovered, and the family's namesake, buckminsterfullerene ( C < sub > 60 </ sub >), was prepared in 1985 by Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, James Heath, Sean O ' Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University.

The five primary schools in the immediate vicinity of Kesgrave are Beacon Hill Primary School, Birchwood Primary School, Cedarwood Primary School the building of which was awarded a Civic Trust Award in 2003, Gorseland Primary School and Heath Primary School.

The earliest longbow known from England, found at Ashcott Heath, Somerset, is dated to 2665 BC, but no longbows survive from the period when the longbow was dominant ( c. 1250 – 1450 AD ), probably because bows became weaker, broke and were replaced, rather than being handed down through generations.

From 1987 to 1992, he was the oldest sitting British MP ( preceding former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath ).

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( LYR ) depot at Newton Heath.

Newton Heath initially played on a field on North Road, close to the railway yard ; the original capacity was about 12, 000, but club officials deemed the facilities inadequate for a club hoping to join The Football League.

In 1939, a pilot plant for tabun production was set up at Munster-Lager, on Lüneburg Heath near the German Army proving grounds at Raubkammer.

Predating Goldberg, the corresponding term in the UK was, and still is, " Heath Robinson ", after the English illustrator with an equal devotion to odd machinery ( although Heath Robinson's creations did not have the same emphasis on the sequential or chain reaction element ).

His university colleagues included Tony Crosland, Denis Healey, and Edward Heath, and he became friends with all three, although he was never particularly close to Healey.

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

In later life, Heath's peculiar accent – with its " strangulated " vowel sounds, combined with his non-Standard pronunciation of " l " as " w " and " out " as " eout " – was satirised by the Monty Python's Flying Circus in the audio sketch " Teach Yourself Heath " ( originally recorded for their 1972 LP Monty Python's Previous Record but not released at the time ).

) These panels were originally drawn by such comics artists as Jack Kirby and DC Comics artists Russ Heath, Tony Abruzzo, Irv Novick, and Jerry Grandenetti, who rarely received any credit.

The Heath has major historical importance, originally crossed by principal routes from London to the west and southwest of Britain.

The Heath, a major place for Londoners to walk and " take the air ", has three open-air public swimming ponds ; one for men, one for women, and one for mixed bathing, which were originally reservoirs for drinking water and the sources of the River Fleet.

The station originally also had a connection with Haywards Heath, between 1883 and 1963.

Sacha Baron Cohen was originally cast as Abbie Hoffman, while Spielberg approached Will Smith for the role of Bobby Seale, and planned to meet Heath Ledger about the possibility of playing Tom Hayden.

There was also an Anglican mission church at Gamlingay Heath dedicated to St Sylvester, originally constructed in iron in 1879, which closed in the 1980s.

The M23 was planned to relieve congestion on the A23 through Streatham, Thornton Heath, Purley and Coulsdon in south London and was originally intended to terminate in Streatham Vale at a junction with the controversial London Ringways Plan's Ringway 2 ( the intended replacement of the South Circular Road ( A205 )).

Radio Northampton was originally available on 1107 kHz MW across the County from a transmitter at Kings Heath ; this was reallocated to Virgin Radio using 1233 kHz.

The Numismatst was originally published as a four page leaflet in 1888 by George F. Heath in Chicago.

The Heath Company was originally founded as an aircraft company in 1912 by Edward Bayard Heath with the purchase of Bates Aeroplane Co, soon renamed to the E. B.

The area which is today known as Belvedere was originally part of Lesness Heath, which originally stretched from the area of Lesnes Abbey to Erith and constituted the estate of Sir Culling Eardley.

Heath () is a community in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales, originally called the Great Heath and named as a result of the large park and woodland that it once contained.

There are also 4 feeder schools ; Hatch Ride primary, Wildmoor Heath ( originally called Broadmoor Primary ), Oaklands junior and Crowthorne CofE primary.

The old grandstand originally became a soldiers home, although it is now the base of the Whittington Heath Golf Course.

Cradley Heath was originally an area of heath, between Cradley, Netherton and Old Hill, in the Staffordshire parish of Rowley Regis, which subsequently received borough status in 1933.

The town is probably most famous nationally for the Cradley Heath Heathens, a Speedway team, which originally operated as Cradley Heath Cubs.

A Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) aerodrome at Bracebridge Heath originally opened in 1916 for use by the Robey-Peters aircraft factory, in the manufacture and flight testing of their own designs and licence-built Sopwith aircraft.

Despite this, construction eventually began in 1896 and on 2 November 1897 a single-track line to Kingswood ( originally Kingswood and Burgh Heath ) was complete.

Heath Town consists mostly of White British residents, however, it has a large percentage of Asian and Afro-Caribbean residents who migrated to England during the 1950s and 1960s and originally settled in the Victorian terraced before relocating to the modern council flats.