In Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation, Banquo is played by acclaimed stage actor Martin Shaw, in a style reminiscent of earlier stage performances.

He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), and in a number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness ( 1985 ) and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

Further prominent films from this early time in her career included Roman Polanski's suspense classic Repulsion ( 1965 ) and Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour ( 1967 )— as the haut-bourgeois housewife who achieves sexual satisfaction working in a Parisian brothel.

His most notable work may be his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown ( 1974 ).

** 1979: Roman Polanski's film Tess with Nastassja Kinski ( Tess ), Leigh Lawson ( Alec ), and Peter Firth ( Angel ).

Numerous films have been made at Twickenham since the end of Hagen's tenure including Carol Reed's The Stars Look Down in 1939, In the 1960s classic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with Noël Coward, Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion ; Be My Guest in 1965, featured Jerry Lee Lewis an early appearance by the young actor Steve Marriott and The Nashville Teens.

Perhaps his most bizarre and powerful film role occurred in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac ( 1966 ), in which he portrayed the love-sodden husband of a much younger French wife ( Françoise Dorléac ).

He was played by Harry Eden in Roman Polanski's big-budget 2005 film version.

He appeared in various films, including The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 ), The Black Windmill ( 1974 ), Richard Loncraine's 1995 version of Richard III, The Scarlet Letter ( 1995 ), Shadowlands ( 1993 ), Elizabeth ( 1998 ), Enigma ( 2001 ), The Gathering Storm ( 2002 ), Love Actually ( 2003 ) and Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist ( 2005 ).

He had a small part as an obstetrician in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby in 1968.

The show was adapted from Roman Polanski's 1967 movie The Fearless Vampire Killers, and initially directed by Polanski himself.

In the summer of 1968, Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate introduced Sebring to Polanski's friend Wojciech Frykowski and his girlfriend, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, who had recently moved to Los Angeles from New York.

On April 1, 1969, while Roman Polanski was away in Europe filming movies, Folger and Frykowski moved into the Polanskis ' Cielo Drive home in Benedict Canyon, at Polanski's request.

Komar later became an actor, appearing in Roman Polanski's 1986 film Pirates.

She also appeared in the Woody Allen film Another Woman ( 1988 ) and in Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

Recent motion pictures in which the agency has been involved in include Fox Searchlight's Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Robert Duvall, and directed by Scott Cooper ; Richard Eyre ’ s The Other Man, starring Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas and Laura Linney ; Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Williams, and Kim Cattrall ; James Toback's documentary Tyson, which was the official selection in Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and won a specially named " Knockout " prize ; Chris Rock's documentary Good Hair, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won a special jury prize ; and The Women, directed by Diane English and starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, and Bette Midler.

Berri also won the Oscar for Best Short Film for Le Poulet at the 39th Academy Awards in 1966, and produced Roman Polanski's Tess which was nominated for Best Picture in 1981.

In his early years, Frykowski was a very close friend and financier of film director Roman Polanski and played the part of a thief in one of Polanski's early Polish-made short films, Mammals, in 1962.

According to Roman Polanski's 1984 autobiography, Folger was very good to Wojciech, paying all of the couple's living expenses at the time.

Chegwin's most prestigious acting role was that of Fleance in Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth.

The many period piece films set in the 1930s and 1940s are led by Roman Polanski's classic Chinatown ( 1974 ) starring Jack Nicholson and its belated sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), which Nicholson also directed.

Other thrillers of this period inspired by Hitchcock include The Bedroom Window ( 1987 ), largely a remake of Rear Window ( 1954 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

Many films recognized as classics contain levels of sex, violence, and shock typically associated with exploitation films ; examples are Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Tod Browning's Freaks, and Roman Polanski's Repulsion.

Annis gained attention for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth ( 1971 ) in which she performs the sleepwalking soliloquy in the nude.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 1329 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII ; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

The earliest articles of faith were said to have been composed in the first century by the apostles themselves and sung publicly while on mission ( see Old Roman Symbol ).

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

The conflict between Arianism and Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal confrontation in the Church after the legalization of Christianity by the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Licinius.

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

The resulting constitutional framework became known as the Principate, the first phase of the Roman Empire.

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The modern history of Abensberg, which is often incorrectly compared with that of the 3rd century Roman castra ( military outpost ) of Abusina, begins with Gebhard, who was the first to mention Abensberg as a town, in the middle of the 12th century.

* 1521 – Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Agrippina was the wife of the general and statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors.

Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

She was the first Roman woman of the Roman Empire to have traveled with her husband to Roman military campaigns ; to support and live with the Roman Legions.