Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the Danish film Pelle the Conqueror ( 1987 ), which itself won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Pelle Hvenegaard ( born 29 August 1975 in Copenhagen, Denmark ) is a Danish actor and writer, best known for his role in the award-winning film Pelle the Conqueror, a Danish-Swedish co-production filmed on Zealand ( Sjælland ) and Bornholm, Denmark that was released in Sweden December 25, 1987.

* Peter-No-Tail ( film ) ( Pelle Svanslös ) ( 1981 ) ( director together with Stig Lasseby ; chief animator )

The Danish film industry got a major boost in the late 1980s when the movie Babettes Gæstebud ( Babette's Feast ), directed by Gabriel Axel, won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1987, and next year the Best Foreign Film award went to Pelle Erobreren ( Pelle the Conqueror ), directed by Bille August.

Besides his leading role in the film version of Torch Song Trilogy co-starring Matthew Broderick and Anne Bancroft, Fierstein's film roles include Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, Robin Williams ' makeup-artist brother in Mrs. Doubtfire, and Merv Green in Death to Smoochy, in addition to parts in Garbo Talks, Duplex, Kull the Conqueror, and Independence Day.

The British horror film Witchfinder General was retitled The Conqueror Worm for U. S. release, but was not actually based on Poe's poem.

The Conqueror is a 1956 CinemaScope epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.

* Hannibal ( 1959 film ), a 1959 historical film based on the life on Hannibal the Conqueror

The film was retitled The Conqueror Worm in the United States in an attempt to link it with Roger Corman's earlier series of Edgar Allan Poe-related films starring Price — although this movie has nothing to do with any of Poe's stories, and only briefly alludes to his poem.

However, in an attempt to link the film with Roger Corman's earlier Edgar Allan Poe series of films, it was retitled The Conqueror Worm.

" Danny Peary noted, " The Conqueror Worm is a stunning film in many ways, but probably Reeves's greatest achievement is that he was able to maintain an extraordinary momentum throughout, until the film ends as it began, with a woman ( this time Sara ) screaming.

( 1942 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), Force of Evil ( 1948 ), The Conqueror ( 1956 ) and his final film Beneath the Planet of the Apes ( 1970 ).

Kull the Conqueror is a 1997 fantasy film about the Robert E. Howard character Kull starring Kevin Sorbo.

The film was originally intended to be a third Conan film, Conan the Conqueror.

In 1954, Armendáriz had a role in the film The Conqueror produced by Howard Hughes.

The song " Lost Heaven " was used as the ending theme of the Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa film.

The 1997 film Kull the Conqueror is loosely based on The Hour of the Dragon, replacing Conan with Kull but keeping the basic plot of a barbarian king being removed from his throne by the machinations of an undead sorcerer.

A soundtrack CD of the film, Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie Conqueror Of Shamballa OST, which contained forty-six tracks, was released on December 21, 2005.

In a theatrical chart from the same year, Conqueror of Shamballa ranked as the seventh best film from 2005 in Japan.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

Almost everything about the movies that is peculiarly of the movies derives from a tension created and maintained between narrative time and film time.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

But this doesn't detract from its merit as an interesting, if not great, film.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Told strictly from the viewpoint of the Russian conquerors, the film compassionately peers over the shoulders of a smitten Soviet couple, at both sides of the conflict's aftermath.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

A prime research tool for film historians, the catalog consists of entries on more than 50, 000 films, from 1893 to the mid-1970s, documenting casts, crews, synopses and production notes.

Kurosawa's responsibilities increased, and he worked at tasks ranging from stage construction and film development to location scouting, script polishing, rehearsals, lighting, dubbing, editing and second-unit directing.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vírgenes (" The Virgins ' Corner "), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood.

The controversy caused by the fact that the film was shot in English was the reason he was expelled from the film school.

Cuarón faced criticism from some of the more purist Harry Potter fans for his approach to the film.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

On the return trip to Earth, Mattingly performed a one-hour spacewalk to retrieve several film cassettes from the exterior of the Service Module.