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Backdraft is a 1991 American action thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen.Starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro, Jason Gedrick, and J. T. Walsh, it follows Chicago firefighters on the trail of a serial arsonist.
His first wife was Eileen. His first major role was in the 1985 firefighter film Turk 182. [1] [2] McGee provided the voice for Mr. White in the 2006 Reservoir Dogs video game. He also is the voice of Big Ed in the game Real Heroes: Firefighter, as well as Otis Schmidt, the driver and engineer in the movie Backdraft.
Leigh was cast in her first mainstream Hollywood studio film, the firefighter drama Backdraft (1991), in which she played a more conventional role, the girlfriend of lead actor William Baldwin. She found more success in the gritty crime drama Rush (1991), portraying an undercover cop who becomes a junkie and falls in love with her partner ...
"Chicago Fire" star David Eigenberg and Capt. Dan Olivas of the Los Angeles County Fire Department speak to TODAY.com about NBC's "LA Fire & Rescue."
On the final day of shooting, Mitr was required to grab a rope ladder hanging from a helicopter. However, he only managed to grab the lowest rung. Unaware of this, the helicopter pilot took off and Mitr finally lost his grip and fell to the ground. The accident was caught on film and appeared in the final theatrical release.
Since 2020, there have been at least 14 fatal crashes of airplanes and helicopters fighting fires in the U.S., killing at least 25 pilots and crew members, according to a Times review of federal data.
When asked by a reporter if they were indeed retrieving keepsakes, one firefighter responded, saying, “Yeah, just trying to save some photos.” The firefighters were removing items from a ...
William Joseph Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) [1] is an American actor and the second-youngest of the four Baldwin brothers.He has starred in the films Flatliners (1990), Backdraft (1991), Sliver (1993), Virus (1999), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Forgetting Sarah Marshall, in which he portrayed himself, and the Netflix show Northern Rescue (2019).