His first regular TV role came in 1962 as Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy ; leaving after two seasons to appear in The Sand Pebbles.

* Robert Wise's The Sand Pebbles ( Hollywood studio, filmed in Taipei, Keelung, Tamsui and Hong Kong ) ( drama )

He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles ( 1966 ).

The Sound of Music was an interim film for Wise, produced to mollify the studio while he developed the difficult film The Sand Pebbles, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and Candice Bergen.

Wise would later speak of The Sand Pebbles as the film he most wanted to direct, though he had earlier explored such anti-war themes in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

He also oversaw the DVD commentaries of The Sand Pebbles, Executive Suite.

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The Sand Pebbles features Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako and Marayat Andriane ( later known as a writer of erotic fiction under the nom de plume Emmanuelle Arsan ).

( The ship is nicknamed the " Sand Pebble " and its sailors refer to themselves as " Sand Pebbles.

For years, Robert Wise had wanted to make The Sand Pebbles, but the film companies were reluctant to finance it.

The Sand Pebbles was eventually paid for, but because its production required extensive location scouting and pre-production work, as well as being due to monsoons in Taipei, its producer and director Robert Wise realized that it would be over a year before principal photography could begin.

A seaworthy vessel that was actually powered by Cummins diesel engines, the San Pablo made the voyage from Hong Kong to Taiwan and back under her own power during shooting of the Sand Pebbles.

The Sand Pebbles was filmed both in Taiwan and in Hong Kong.

Afterwards, Steve McQueen did not do any film work for about a year due to exhaustion, saying that whatever sins that he had committed in his life had been paid for when he made The Sand Pebbles.

He was not seen on film again until two movies of 1968, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt ( which included his fellow The Sand Pebbles actor Simon Oakland as Bullitt's boss ).

The Sand Pebbles was nominated for eight Academy Awards, but failed to win any: Best Picture for Robert Wise, Best Actor for Steve McQueen, Best Supporting Actor for Mako, Best Art Direction / Set Decoration-Color, Best Cinematography-Color, Best Film Editing, Best Sound ( James Corcoran ) and Best Original Music Score for Jerry Goldsmith.

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McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles.

McQueen also earned his only Academy Award nomination in 1966 for his role as an engine room sailor in The Sand Pebbles, in which he starred opposite Richard Attenborough and Candice Bergen.

He was busy with the delayed The Sand Pebbles, though.

He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots!

Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).

In the northeast are several flat-topped mountains, of which Raccoon and Lookout are the most prominent, having a maximum elevation near the Georgia line of little more than and gradually decreasing in height toward the southwest, where Sand Mountain is a continuation of Raccoon.

Sand | Quartz sand ( silica ) is the main raw material in commercial glass production

* In North Harwich Sand Pond, a public beach and lovely swimming area, is located off Great Western Road.

Sand is cheap and easily available.

Sand in the jumping pit is a modern invention ( Miller, 66 ).

After neighbouring Algeria's 1962 independence from France, border skirmishes in the Tindouf area of south-western Algeria, escalated in 1963 into what is known as the Sand War.

Then there is a new race, the " Agamans ", desert nomads, and a scenario involving them, " The Sand Eaters ".

Northern Saskatchewan is mostly covered by boreal forest except for the Lake Athabasca Sand Dunes, the largest active sand dunes in the world north of 58 °, and adjacent to the southern shore of Lake Athabasca.

The main campus is adjacent to Palo Alto, bounded by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard, and Sand Hill Road.

He is best known for directing cult horror / comedy films the Evil Dead series, the action / superhero film Darkman, crime thriller A Simple Plan and supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker ( also the creator ) and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

He is also the executive producer of Starz original television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.

Morocco argues that the Algerian position is due to the 1963 Sand War, in which the two countries clashed.

Sand and silt are the products of physical and chemical weathering ; clay, on the other hand, is a product of chemical weathering but often forms as a secondary mineral precipitated from dissolved minerals.

Sand is least active, followed by silt ; clay is the most active.

Sand is the most stable of the mineral components of soil ; it consists of rock fragments, primarily quartz particles, ranging in size from 2. 0 mm to 0. 05 mm.

Sand is largely inert but plays an important part in holding open soil.

Even a female literary giant of the Victorian era, George Sand, observed " The cigar is a perfect compliment to an elegant lifestyle ".

Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand.

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado sits directly west of the Sangre de Cristo Range, which is featured in the background.

The Great Sand Dunes is a famous feature of the valley.

) Near the Great Sand Dunes, where only camping is available, the Great Sand Dunes Lodge and the Nature Conservancy's Zapata Ranch are recommended for lodging.