Many aspiring comedians who dream of becoming the next Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld never see the inside of a movie or television studio, but rather spend most of their careers doing stand-up in comedy clubs and other small venues, hoping to be discovered.

Russell Mulcahy was disappointed with the movie as originally released, and later made his own " Renegade Version " director's cut with a proper sequencing of various scenes, and the filmmakers ' explanation for why the movie turned out as it originally did.

The latest movie version released in spring of 2010 is simply entitled Robin Hood and is directed by Ridley Scott, with Robin played by Russell Crowe.

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.

The made-for-TV movie was a smash hit with viewers and critics, and was also released as a feature film in cinemas outside the U. S. and revived the career of Russell, who was a child actor in the 1960s.

Singer-songwriter Tom Russell has a song titled " Touch Of Evil " on his 2001 album Borderland that references the movie extensively, including the long opening shot and the dialogue between Dietrich and Welles about his future.

John Russell Taylor's official biography of Hitchcock, Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock ( 1978 ), suggests that the story originated after a spell of writer's block during the scripting of another movie project:

With Hawks encouraging ad-libbing on the set, Russell was able to slip her writer's work into the movie.

The movie was directed by George Stevens and written by Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Garson Kanin ( uncredited ), Frank Ross ( Jean Arthur's husband at the time ), and Robert Russell.

A World War II-era movie called Flight for Freedom ( 1943 ) starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray furthered a myth that Earhart was spying on the Japanese in the Pacific at the request of the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

* Internet Movie Database link to The Deadly Tower, a 1975 made-for-TV movie based on the Texas Sniper shootings ; Kurt Russell portrayed sniper Charles Whitman

Included in this collection are transcribed interviews from Larry Gara and Bill Russell as well as material for a movie about Dodds that Russell worked on.

* In the 2001 movie 3000 Miles to Graceland, Michael Zane ( Kurt Russell ) and Murphy ( Kevin Costner ) play a violent cat and mouse game with each other all the way to Twin Falls to launder the money they had stolen from an earlier casino heist.

Sidney, Ohio has a drive-in movie theatre, the Auto-Vue, located on the corner of 4th Street and Russell Road.

* The movie Public Enemies ( 1996 ) with Theresa Russell was filmed in the town.

" on ABC, a made for TV movie starring Kurt Russell as Elvis.

* The third Ken Russell movie used the Bluebell Railway as one of his filming locations for the 1989 TV movie A British Picture.

Over the course of her career, Russell earned four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: My Sister Eileen ( 1942 ); Sister Kenny ( 1946 ); Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1947 ); and the movie version of Auntie Mame ( 1958 ).

The band also realised music videos directed by Roger Christian, Marcelo Anciano, Russell Mulcahy and Dean Chamberlain, and recorded the single " Say the Word " for the Playing for Keeps movie soundtrack.

Ridley maintains that Russell shut him out of the process, saying " I never heard a word while he was shooting the movie.

Although Spike Jonze had never acted in a movie before, Russell wrote the part of Conrad Vig specifically for him, and the two practised Conrad's southern accent over the phone while Jonze directed his first feature film, Being John Malkovich.

Actor Gene Hackman's pet in the 1995 movie Crimson Tide was a smooth-coated Jack Russell terrier named " Bear ".

* May 10 – Nancy Walker, American movie and television actress ( d. 1992 )

The overarching plot takes place over five days leading up to a political rally for Replacement Party candidate Hal Phillip Walker, who is never seen throughout the entire movie.

The other two series were Casablanca, another TV version of a renowned movie ( featuring Charles McGraw in Humphrey Bogart's role ), and Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker, a Western later produced by Roy Huggins that went on to its own time slot for several years until it started rotating with Bronco, another Warner Bros. Western.

Letters to Miss Celie in the movie The Color Purple ( film ) by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker, are addressed to " Hartwell County, Georgia " suggesting that the movie is set either in Hartwell or Hart County.

The movie Tapeheads, released in 1988 and starring John Cusack and Tim Robbins, featured Sam Moore and Junior Walker as a fictitious, legendary soul duo called " The Swanky Modes.

In 1988, Taylor starred opposite Barbara Eden in the made for television movie, The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick, and guest starred on series including Diagnosis: Murder, Walker: Texas Ranger, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and L. A. Law.

) Elinor Donahue ( as Ellie Walker ) and Jack Burns ( as Warren Ferguson ) were two other cast members not to be involved in the movie.

Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event.

In 1989, a made-for-television movie based on the novel, was directed by Giles Walker with teleplay by Joe Wisenfeld and Richard John Davis.

As the movie progresses, the inaccuracies become more and more extreme and it is evident that Cox was using the device to accentuate modern-day events with the Walker era.

There is no evidence that Walker ever met Vanderbilt or received his support, as the movie suggests.

The role provided Walker with her film debut when she signed a contract with M-G-M to make a movie version, starring Lucille Ball, which was filmed in 1943.

Gilyard is known for his roles as Ben Matlock's ( played by Andy Griffith ) second private investigator ( and right-hand man ) Conrad McMasters, on the 1980s legal drama series, Matlock: ( a role he played from 1989 to 1993 ); as Pastor Bruce Barnes in the Left Behind movie trilogy ; as Cordell Walker's ( played by Chuck Norris ) Texas Ranger partner, James " Jimmy " Trivette, on the 1990s crime drama, Walker, Texas Ranger, and as Lieutenant ( junior grade ) Marcus " Sundown " Williams in Top Gun.

Gilyard appeared in the 2005 television movie, Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire, but only had a cameo appearance because the filming schedule conflicted with a long-planned family vacation.

Harley M. " Beanie " Walker ( June 27, 1878 – June 23, 1937 ) was a member of the Hal Roach movie production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932.

Without Warning is an American CBS TV movie, directed by, featuring veteran news anchor Sander Vanocur and reporter Bree Walker as themselves covering a breaking news story of three meteor fragments crashing into the Earth's northern hemisphere.

The movie paved the way for Mehmood to succeed Johnny Walker as the most successful Bollywood comedian.

Circus is a 2000 British crime thriller movie directed by Rob Walker and written by David Logan.

In 2010, Walker made a cameo appearance in the movie Big Money Rustlas.

In 2011, Walker did a Syfy channel movie Super Shark.

Figuring prominently in the book are linebacker Wayne Walker, quarterback Milt Plum, defensive tackle Alex Karras, cornerback Dick " Night Train " Lane, and star player ( head coach in the movie ) Joe Schmidt, among others.

Jack is making a movie called the Mystery of Karen Walker and while making the movie he meets Lois.

Another Walker song was " Blue Canadian Rockies " recorded by Gene Autry ( which featured in Autry ’ s 1952 movie of the same name ).