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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.
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Showbiz folks have a flair for the dramatic, so it makes sense that Hollywood’s biggest night (a.k.a. the Academy Awards) has yielded some wild moments over the course of its (nearly) 100-year ...
The other films are primarily hand-drawn and related to the television series. The first three films were localized into English and compiled into a single film, Digimon: The Movie. Subsequent films up to Digimon Frontier: Island of Lost Digimon were also released in English as well.
The Hollywood Heritage Museum, also known as the "Hollywood Studio Museum," is located on Highland Ave. in Hollywood, California, United States.. The museum is opposite the Hollywood Bowl and is housed in the restored Lasky-DeMille Barn, [1] which was acquired in February 1983 by Hollywood Heritage, Inc., and moved to its present site.
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]