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    #1262
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭golfball37


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    For those of a certain certain age David Bailey was one of the most famous fashion and portrait photographers of his time. He only ever did wedding photography once. For whose wedding?

    I read about him last year at one of the Kray twins wedding and the shenanigans that went on. Hardly that? Ronnie was gay so must be the other one- reggie. The article was about one of them making a pass at him


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    #1263
    [Deleted User]
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    The only actor with at least one film credit every year since 1954.

    Malcolm McDowell?


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    #1264
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,168 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    golfball37 wrote: »
    I read about him last year at one of the Kray twins wedding and the shenanigans that went on. Hardly that? Ronnie was gay so must be the other one- reggie. The article was about one of them making a pass at him

    Correct. It was reggie krays wedding.


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    #1265
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,168 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Malcolm McDowell?

    considering he didn't get his first credit until 1964 i'm going to say no.


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    #1266
    [Deleted User]
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    The only actor with at least one film credit every year since 1954.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Malcolm McDowell?
    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    considering he didn't get his first credit until 1964 i'm going to say no.


    He's old enough - could have been a child actor for all I know :p


    I'm gonna go with two, and leave it at that.. It's probably some french or Italian bloke :pac: Or someone who is an 'actor' , but has 'film credits' for other as well as acting, like director, producer, or dolly grip :D

    So I'll say Michael Gambon, and Redford :)


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    #1267
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users Posts: 5,961 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    The only actor with at least one film credit every year since 1954.

    Is this a trick question? Isn't there a pseudonym that actors use for work they don't want their name to actually be associated with? Same with directors, writers etc.


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    #1268
    partyguinness
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    The only actor with at least one film credit every year since 1954.


    Hitchcock?


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    #1269
    [Deleted User]
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    Probably an obscure one alright..... Could be <insert actor's name> appears courtesy of eg Sinatra.... Bogart....

    This can't go on much longer.... Like the bloke in Dirty Harry, "We gots to know" :p


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    #1270
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,168 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    I'll put you all out of your misery. The actor in question is James Hong.

    v_166871.jpg

    the older kids may know him better as

    big-troubel-in-little-china-james-hong.jpg


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    #1271
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Am I alone in thinking that one was a little obscure? :)

    Anyway, according to his Wikipedia filmography, there are several years with no film appearance at all....and anything before 1957 was uncredited....
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hong_filmography


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    #1272
    magicbastarder
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    Yeah_Right wrote: »
    Is this a trick question? Isn't there a pseudonym that actors use for work they don't want their name to actually be associated with? Same with directors, writers etc.
    alan smithee for directors, IIRC.


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    #1273
    magicbastarder
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    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Am I alone in thinking that one was a little obscure? :)

    Anyway, according to his Wikipedia filmography, there are several years with no film appearance at all....and anything before 1957 was uncredited....
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hong_filmography
    that seems to be incomplete - lots on IMDB which is not listed on wikipedia (e.g. the years 1962, 63 and 64:

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393222/#actor


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    #1274
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,168 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Am I alone in thinking that one was a little obscure? :)

    Anyway, according to his Wikipedia filmography, there are several years with no film appearance at all....and anything before 1957 was uncredited....
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hong_filmography

    imdb is a much better source for film and tv credits

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393222/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


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    #1275
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Have had a look there in the meantime all right.

    It fills in the "missing" years....but still says the 1954 appearance was uncredited. An impressively long career, all the same!


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    #1276
    greenspurs
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    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Back to the last soccer one.....10-0 for Hungary v El Salvador in 1982 is correct.

    Nobody having a stab at my boxing question from a few pages back? - what did Cassius Clay change his name to on the night that he beat Sonny Liston to win the World Heavyweight Championship?

    Cassius X
    247469249_2017413731748359_7675802031635703098_n.jpg

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... "



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    #1277
    Capt'n Midnight
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    alan smithee for directors, IIRC.
    It used to be. Till this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118577/


    What is "Alan Smithee" is an anagram of ?


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    #1278
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It used to be. Till this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118577/


    What is "Alan Smithee" is an anagram of ?
    Em, anal sh1te


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    #1279
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,699 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It used to be. Till this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118577/


    What is "Alan Smithee" is an anagram of ?

    The Alias Men, but that's an urban legend, it was chosen because it was a believable name that was not in use in Hollywood.


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    #1280
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    One is tremolo, the other trill maybe?

    Tr is for an instrument e.g. triangle, trombone, trumpet.

    tr is to waver the music note e.g. trill, tremolo, turn.


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    #1281
    Joe_ Public
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    For any military history buffs: to what was Air Chief Marshall Leigh-Mallory referring when he spoke about "the greatest feat of flying of World War 2"?


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    #1282
    [Deleted User]
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    I believe it was managing to land a glider right beside Pegasus bridge during the Normandy landings.

    A fantastic place to visit, not that it's especially scenic, but the atmosphere is something else, and it's just the same on the beaches...


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    #1283
    Joe_ Public
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    Well answered. The addendum to the question is that the two pilots of the lead Horsa glider, Jim Wallwork and John Ainsworth, became the first allied troops to touch french soil on d day when they were thrown through the window of their glider on impact and knocked unconscious when they struck the ground.


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    #1284
    Roger_007
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    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    For any military history buffs: to what was Air Chief Marshall Leigh-Mallory referring when he spoke about "the greatest feat of flying of World War 2"?

    Was that the ‘Doolittle raid’ on Japan in 1942?


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    #1285
    Joe_ Public
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    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Was that the ‘Doolittle raid’ on Japan in 1942?

    No, it was the landing of a glider right on its target on d day, as answered above. Whether it was truly the greatest feat of flying during the war is definitely open to debate, i think the dambusters would be a popular answer, but it is what the Allied d day air commander believed.


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    #1286
    Roger_007
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    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    No, it was the landing of a glider right on its target on d day, as answered above. Whether it was truly the greatest feat of flying during the war is definitely open to debate, i think the dambusters would be a popular answer, but it is what the Allied d day air commander believed.

    There were hundreds of gliders used. On the law of averages, a few were bound to land precisely on target!


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    #1287
    Joe_ Public
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    Roger_007 wrote: »
    There were hundreds of gliders used. On the law of averages, a few were bound to land precisely on target!

    I'm not certain how many gliders were used for the assault on Pegasus Bridge but it definitely wasn't hundreds, probably just a small handful. And as the lead glider, there was probably more pressure on Wallwork to get it right and act as a guide for others, as well as the pre planned target of ripping a hole in the barbed wire that surrounded the landing area. To land precisely on target, 50m from the bridge without the germans even realising it was impressive enough if you ask me anyway.


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    #1288
    branie2
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    I also like the picture rounds


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    #1289
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    branie2 wrote: »
    I also like the picture rounds
    Or anything that can't be Googled .


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    #1290
    [Deleted User]
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    ... just an addendum to the original quote by Leigh-Mallory. Some versions give it as "the greatest feat of precision flying of World War 2"

    "
    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    ...when they were thrown through the window of their glider on impact and knocked unconscious when they struck the ground.

    Forgot that part - was regaled with story after story by an old gent at the Café Gondrée (AKA Pegasus Bridge Café), I just kept the wine flowing and the stories just kept coming. Fact and fiction were well and truly intertwined but the pilot coming through the windscreen was certainly mentioned - more than once, probably :)


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    #1291
    ohnonotgmail
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    Roger_007 wrote: »
    There were hundreds of gliders used. On the law of averages, a few were bound to land precisely on target!
    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    I'm not certain how many gliders were used for the assault on Pegasus Bridge but it definitely wasn't hundreds, probably just a small handful. And as the lead glider, there was probably more pressure on Wallwork to get it right and act as a guide for others, as well as the pre planned target of ripping a hole in the barbed wire that surrounded the landing area. To land precisely on target, 50m from the bridge without the germans even realising it was impressive enough if you ask me anyway.

    6 gliders used in what they appropriately called Operation Deadstick.


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