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The first "Gongman" was Carl Dane, a circus strong man who was paid a one-time fee by General Film Distributors. Athletes who played the Gongman in the film sequence over the years included boxer Bombardier Billy Wells , the second "Gongman", who was actually the first contracted by J.A. Rank – a subtle but important difference.
The Rank Organisation (founded as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation) is a British entertainment conglomerate founded in 1937 by industrialist J. Arthur Rank.It quickly became the largest and most vertically integrated film company in the United Kingdom, owning production, distribution, and exhibition facilities as well as manufacturing projection equipment and chairs. [1]
Though he appeared as the wrestler Nikolas in Jules Dassin's film noir, Night and the City (1950), [1] Richmond was perhaps most recognisable as the shirtless gongman banging the enormous gong preceding the opening credits for films produced or distributed by the Rank Organisation. He was the fourth – and last – actor to take the job.
A film series or movie series is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series. [1] It is a type of series fiction . This article explains what film series are and gives brief examples of movie series.
Dane then appeared in Warner Bros. anti-German sentiment film My Four Years in Germany as Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. [12] This would be the first of many such roles for Dane in his early career. The film was released 29 April 1918 and was a success, earning an approximate $500,000 at the box office (the film had a budget of $50,000). [13]
Wells in 1912. William Thomas Wells, better known as Bombardier Billy Wells (31 August 1889 – 12 June 1967), was an English heavyweight boxer. Fighting under the name "Bombardier Billy Wells", he was British and British Empire Champion from 1911 until 1919, defending his title fourteen times.
The Kingsman film franchise is based on the comic book series of the same name, which began with the 2012 comic book The Secret Service. Three sequels, Mum's the Word, The Big Exit and The Red Diamond, followed from 2016 to 2018. The series was initially known as The Secret Service before being rebranded after the first Kingsman film's release.
The term gong'an originally referred to the table, desk, or bench of a Chinese magistrate. [citation needed] It was later used as a name for unusual legal cases. [9]Gong'an as a genre of fiction has been translated into English as "court-case" fiction [10] or "crime-case" fiction. [11]