The British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy Carry On films.

* Carry On Columbus, a 1992 film

It was intended that Ray would become a recurring Carry On star, but he had been dropped after just one film because of contract problems ( he was contracted to ABC films who had never used him ).

James also played characters named Sid in appearances outside of the Carry On films, Sid Abbot in Bless This House on television and its spin-off film, as well as Sid Jones, Sid Turner, Sid Marks, Sid Stone, and Sid Gibson in addition to four characters called just ' Sid '.

Williams worked regularly in British film during the 1960s and 1970s, mainly in the Carry On series ( 1958 – 1978 ) with its British double entendre humour.

In his diaries, Williams wrote that he earned more in a British Gas commercial than for any Carry On film.

The Carry On series is notable for producing the greatest number of films of any British series, and next to the James Bond films, it is the second longest continually-running film series in British film history ( with a fourteen-year hiatus between 1978 and 1992 ).

( A film had appeared the previous year under the title Carry on Admiral: although this was a comedy in a similar vein — and with Joan Sims in the cast — it has no connection to the series.

There was also an unrelated 1937 film Carry On London, starring future Carry On performer Eric Barker.

The last film to be made was Carry On Columbus in 1992.

Many of them parodied more serious films — in the case of Carry On Cleo ( 1964 ), the Burton and Taylor film Cleopatra ( 1963 ).

The stock-in-trade of Carry On humour was innuendo and the sending-up of British institutions and customs, such as the National Health Service ( Nurse, Doctor, Again Doctor, Matron ), the monarchy ( Henry ), the Empire ( Up the Khyber ), the military ( Sergeant ) and the trade unions ( At Your Convenience ) as well as the Hammer horror film ( Screaming ), camping ( Camping ), foreigners ( Abroad ), beauty contests ( Girls ), and caravan holidays ( Behind ) among others.

A film had appeared the previous year under the title Carry on Admiral ; although this was a comedy in a similar vein ( with Joan Sims in the cast ) it has no connection to the series.

There was also an unrelated 1937 film Carry On London, starring future Carry On performer Eric Barker.

ITV's most successful sitcom of this period was probably The Army Game ( 1957 – 61 ), featuring some of the comedians who would soon appear in the Carry On film series.

In 1958 he played the sergeant in the first Carry On film comedy, Carry On Sergeant, and in 1963 he appeared as a town councillor in the Boulting brothers ' film Heavens Above!

Stanley Unwin ( 7 June 1911 Pretoria, South Africa – 12 January 2002 Danetre Hospital, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England ), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comedian and comic writer, and the inventor of his own language, " Unwinese ", referred to in the film Carry On Regardless as " gobbledegook ".

* 1961 Carry On Regardless, fifth film of the series as " Landlord ".

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

In 1965 Lerner collaborated again with Burton Lane on the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which was adapted for film in 1970.

On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 57 out of 100, indicating " mixed or average reviews ".

" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plans to make a biographical film on her life.

On May 25, 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment were working with Fran Rubel Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui on a re-envisioning or relaunch of the Buffy film for the big screen.

** Bill: On His Own, sequel the 1981 film

On location, there is usually just one camera to film an interview, and it's usually trained on the interviewee.

The growing presentation of cheerleading as a sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.

The 2000 film Bring It On, about a San Diego high school cheerleading squad called " The Toros ", starred real-life former cheerleader Kirsten Dunst.

In 2009, Universal Pictures signed music video and film director Billie Woodruff ( Barbershop, Honey ) to direct the fifth film in the Bring It On series titled Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.

On 7 July 2010 it was announced that Coronation Street was working with The Mill and the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive ( responsible for the operation of Manchester Metrolink ) to film a spectacular and realistic tram crash.

On 23 October 2011, Variety reported that Elwes will make his directorial debut with an independent film, Elvis & Nixon.

In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by Budd Schulberg, Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillips, who won the Academy Award for best picture as co-producer of The Sting, Rachel Dratch, a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy Shonda Rhimes, film director and producer Jethro Rothe-Kushel (" The Oscars "), VP of Fox Searchlight, Zola Mashariki, Chris Meledandri Executive Producer of Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who!

Vertov explains himself in " On ' Kinopravda '": in editing " chance film clippings " together for the Kino-Nedelia series, he " began to doubt the necessity of a literary connection between individual visual elements spliced together ....

“ On the Amazon ” from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders was an unusual choice but became an audience favorite in concerts and featured in “ Till Tomorrow ”, a documentary film about McLean produced by Bob Elfstrom.

The songs " On Your Shore " and " Exile " ( from Watermark ) and " Epona " ( from Enya ) were featured in the 1991 film L. A. Story.

On each of the last three of these missions, astronauts also performed deep-space EVAs on the return to Earth, to retrieve film canisters from the outside of the spacecraft.

In this continution of the story, which begins immediately after the ending of the first film, Sergeant Neil Howie is rescued from the burning Wicker Man by a group of police officers from the mainland.

He also appeared in The Big Knife as an overly aggressive film studio boss who berates film star Jack Palance ; as Al Capone in Al Capone ( 1959 ); as Mr. Joyboy in The Loved One ; as the serial killer in No Way to Treat a Lady ; and as a repressed gay NCO in The Sergeant ( 1968 ); as Rabbi Saunders in The Chosen ( 1981 ).

According to John Leguizamo, who played Master Sergeant Carlos " Rat " Lopez in the movie, Steven Seagal had punched the air out of him during film rehearsals.

Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I.

The film was based on the diary of Sergeant Alvin York, as edited by Tom Skeyhill, and adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard Koch, and Sam Cowan ( uncredited ).

Sergeant York was a spectacular success at the box office and became the highest grossing film of 1941.

In 1941, Warner also produced the influential pro-war film Sergeant York.

As a supporting actor, his most notable success was as Detective Sergeant Bingham, a light comedy role played opposite Gordon Harker, in the popular Inspector Hornleigh film series: Inspector Hornleigh ( 1939 ), Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday ( 1939 ), and Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It ( 1941 ).

His public profile growing, Monkhouse also began appearing in comedy films, including the first of the Carry On film series, Carry On Sergeant in 1958.

She appeared in numerous films, which included, Carry On Sergeant and Carry On Doctor, Ladies Who Do, The Vikings, the Beatles film Help !, Georgy Girl, Doctor in Clover, The Birthday Party, The Bed Sitting Room, Confessions of a Window Cleaner and Britannia Hospital amongst others.

The 2006 film Joy Division portrays a member of the BFC, Sergeant Harry Stone, among the German troops and refugees fleeing the Red Army advance into Germany.

The first Carry On film, Carry On Sergeant ( 1958 ), was based on Delderfield's play The Bull Boys.

The film then transitions to a Sergeant ( also Marvin ) as he leads his squad of infantrymen through North Africa, Sicily, and then on to Omaha Beach at the start of the Battle of Normandy.

After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of American Delta Force Sergeant Norm " Hoot " Hooten in Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), the lead role as Bruce Banner in the Ang Lee directed film Hulk ( 2003 ), Hector in the movie Troy ( 2004 ), the lead in Steven Spielberg's Munich ( 2005 ), and the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek ( 2009 ).

In the film, he played Sergeant First Class Norm ' Hoot ' Gibson, an elite Delta Force soldier, who fights his way out of a battle in Mogadishu, Somalia after a mission to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord goes awry.

An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a U. S. Navy aviation officer candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him.

An untrue but often-repeated story suggests that he was upset when his scenes as Sergeant Maylon Stark in the classic film From Here to Eternity were cut after a preview audience kept yelling " There's Superman!

Ermey has often been typecast for the roles of authority figures, such as his breakout performance as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, and plastic army men leader Sarge in the Toy Story films.

Actor Charles Trowbridge played Hull in the 1941 film Sergeant York.