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John Blackthorne, also known as Anjin (按針, lit. "Pilot", " Steuermann ") , is the protagonist of James Clavell 's 1975 novel Shōgun . The character is loosely based on the life of the 17th-century English navigator William Adams , who was the first Englishman to visit Japan.
Blackthorne (released as Blackhawk in some European countries) is a cinematic platform game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released for the Super NES and MS-DOS in 1994. The cover art for the SNES version was drawn by Jim Lee. [4] The following year, Blackthorne was released for the Sega 32X with additional content.
Prunus spinosa, called blackthorn or sloe, is an Old World species of flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is locally naturalized in parts of the New World. The fruits are used to make sloe gin in Britain and patxaran in Basque Country. The wood is used to make walking sticks, including the Irish shillelagh.
Blackthorn is a 2011 Western film directed by Mateo Gil and starring Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, and Stephen Rea. [3] Written by Miguel Barros, [4] the film is a fictional account of an aged Butch Cassidy living under the assumed name James Blackthorn in a secluded village in Bolivia 20 years after his disappearance in 1908. [5]
Paul Blackthorne (born 5 March 1969) [citation needed] is an English actor. Although born in Shropshire, he spent his early childhood on UK military bases in Britain and Germany. [1] Blackthorne broke into acting via television advertisements in England. His breakthrough commercial in the UK came in the Grim Reaper advertisement for Virgin ...
John Blackthorne in FX's Shōgun is based on William Adams, a real-life sailor and navigator who was instrumental in the true story of James Clavell's book. John Blackthorne in ‘Shōgun’ Is ...
Sheila Bellush was a 35-year-old mother of six who was murdered on November 7, 1997, by a hired gunman named Jose Del Toro, on the orders of her ex-husband, Allen Blackthorne. Blackthorne, who had stalked Bellush since their divorce in 1987, allegedly wanted custody of their two children. [1]
He was also cast as John Blackthorne, a leading role opposite Hiroyuki Sanada in FX's 2024 limited-series Shōgun, the second TV adaptation of James Clavell's best-selling novel of the same name. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In 2022, Jarvis was nominated for Best Lead Performance in the British Independent Film Awards ' new gender-neutral category for his ...