Who, Ransom Riggs or Jonathan Frakes, narrated the History Channel documentary "Lee and Grant"?
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Ransom Riggs Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children".
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Jonathan Frakes Jonathan Scott Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor, author, and director. Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series "" and subsequent films. Frakes also hosted the television series "", challenging viewers to discern his stories of fact-based phenomena and fabricated tales. In June 2011, Frakes narrated the History Channel documentary "Lee and Grant". He was also the voice actor of David Xanatos in the Disney television series "Gargoyles".
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Marlon Riggs Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was a filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including "Ethnic Notions", "Tongues Untied", "Color Adjustment", and "Black is... Black Ain't." Riggs' aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.
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Richard E. Grant's Hotel Secrets Richard E. Grant's Hotel Secrets is a British TV series where actor Richard E. Grant visits extremely expensive hotels around the world. It was made by Burning Bright Productions (established 2011), produced and directed by a Barbie MacLaurin. The series has been sold to other countries, known as "Hotellien salattu maailma" in Finland and "Hoteltitkok" in Hungary.
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Big History (TV series) Big History is an American television documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston, which originally aired on H2 in 2013. It won the 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction.
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Jane Ransom Jane Reavill Ransom is a prize-winning American novelist and poet.
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Carson Grant Carson Ferri-Grant (born December 17, 1950) is an American actor and artist. Grant has created characters and stories in visual mediums as drawings, paintings, in films and on stage.
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Expo: Magic of the White City Expo: Magic of the White City is a historical documentary released to DVD on September 13, 2005. Directed by Mark Bussler and narrated by Gene Wilder, the documentary tells the story of Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. It begins by explaining Frederick Law Olmsted's planning of the fair and the architecture by Daniel Burnham. It also details exhibits by many people, including George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.
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James Fisk (financier) James Fisk, Jr. (April 1, 1835 – January 7, 1872) – known variously as "Big Jim", "Diamond Jim", and "Jubilee Jim" – was an American stockbroker and corporate executive who has been referred to as one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age. Though Fisk was admired by the working class of New York and the Erie Railroad, he achieved much ill-fame for his role in Black Friday in 1869, where he and his partner Jay Gould befriended the unsuspecting President Ulysses S. Grant in an attempt to use the President's good name in a scheme to corner the gold market in New York City. Several years later Fisk was murdered by a disgruntled business associate.
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Bob Yerkes Bob Yerkes (born Brayton Walter Yerkes on February 11, 1932) is an American stuntman. Beginning a life of acrobatics in the circus at the age of 15, Yerkes went on to work as a stuntman in such films as "Back to the Future", "Return of the Jedi", and "Hook". Yerkes currently hosts stunt training days, on an invitation-only basis at his home in Los Angeles.
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Ghosthunters Ghosthunters is a British paranormal documentary television series that originally aired from 1996 to 1997 on the Discovery Channel. The four-series program was produced by Inca Productions of Covent Garden, London (by producers Sheldon Greenberg and Eddie Babbage), hosted by Ian Cashmore, and narrated by William Woollard. Ian Cashmore also appeared in the promo for the American Syfy series "Ghost Hunters".
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Matthew Lesko Matthew Lesko (born May 11, 1943) is an American author known for his publications and infomercials on federal grant funding. He has written over twenty books instructing people how to get money from the United States government. Widely recognized for recording television commercials, infomercials, and interviews in colorful suits decorated with question marks, Lesko's signature fashion also extends into his daily attire and transportation,
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Drilling and Killing Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship is an audio documentary produced by Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, mixed and engineered by Dred Scott Keyes. The piece was first aired in 1998 on "Democracy Now!"
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Document of the Dead Document of the Dead is a 1979 documentary film by American filmmaker Roy Frumkes that was largely shot during the production of the 1978 film "Dawn of the Dead". Originally a 66-minute feature, it has since been expanded two times. First, in 1989, when an 85-minute version was released, featuring new interviews from the set of "Two Evil Eyes". Then, in 2012, it was released as "The Definitive Document of the Dead", with a 102-minute runtime, featuring new footage filmed through 2006.
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Richard Landes Richard Allen Landes (born June 26, 1949) is an American historian and author, specializing in Millennialism. He coined the term "Pallywood" for what he considers the practice of staged filming of evidence against Israel for the benefit of the Palestinians. He currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of History at Boston University. Landes was the director of the now quiescent Center for Millennial Studies. Landes is the son of the late Harvard Professor of Economics and History David S. Landes.
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The Congress (1988 film) The Congress is a 1988 documentary film directed by the Emmy Award-winning director Ken Burns. The Florentine Films production, which focuses on the United States Congress, aired on PBS in 1989. Narrated by David McCullough, the documentary features use of photographs, paintings, and film from sessions of Congress, in its implementation of the Ken Burns Effect. Scenes from the Academy Award-winning Frank Capra film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" are also used. The work features numerous interviews from writers and historians including Charles McDowell, David McCullough, Cokie Roberts, George Tames, David Broder, James MacGregor Burns, Barbara Fields, and Alistair Cooke. Many congressmen are specifically referred to, including Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, Thomas Brackett Reed, Joseph Gurney Cannon, George William Norris, Jeannette Rankin, and Everett Dirksen. The film also includes focus on the Congress' work during pivotal periods in United States history, including the Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, and Women's suffrage. The documentary was released by PBS, on DVD in 2004. Footage of the Capitol from the film was later incorporated into Burns' later masterpiece, The Civil War.
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Rob Reep Robert "Rob" Gregg Reep, Jr. (born June 1, 1988) is an American historian, filmmaker, and documentary narrator.
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Hugh Grant Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. Grant has received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César for his work. His films have earned more than US$2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant first received attention after earning the Volpi Cup for his performance in James Ivory's "Maurice" (1987) but achieved international success after appearing in the Richard Curtis-scripted "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994). Grant used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s, delivering comic performances in films such as "Mickey Blue Eyes" (1999) and "Notting Hill" (1999). One of the best known figures in 1990s British popular culture, Grant was in a high-profile relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, which was the focus of much attention in the British and international media.
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Matthew Levinger Matthew Levinger (born 1960) is an American historian. He is Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of the National Security Studies Program at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs.
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Samuel Beckwith Captain Samuel H. Beckwith (December 18, 1837 – December 6, 1916) was a telegraph and cipher officer to Ulysses S. Grant. He was nicknamed "Grant's Shadow" by other staff officers. Beckwith was the first to transmit news of John Wilkes Booth's whereabouts after Lincoln's assassination, leading to his capture. Beckwith was also present as Grant's telegraph officer on Abraham Lincoln's visits.
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Ken Banks Ken Banks is the founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS, a mobile messaging application aimed at the grassroots non-profit community. He was the invited opening keynote speaker at the 2009 Humanitarian Technology Challenge and is described as "probably the world’s leading voice in promoting mobile phones as an appropriate technology" in the May/June 2010 edition of World Watch magazine.
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Jonathan Goodwin (escapologist) Jonathan Goodwin (born 20 February 1980) is a Welsh TV escapologist and daredevil. He first appeared on Channel 4 TV programme "Dirty Tricks" and has subsequently appeared in TV specials "The Seven Stupidest Things to Escape From", and "Deathwish Live" as well as Discovery Channel's "One Way Out" and "How Not to Become Shark bait" in which he allowed himself to be attacked by a Caribbean reef shark. Goodwin returned to Discovery Channel in 2009 for a ten-part series of "One Way Out" which also starred engineer Terry Stroud. He also appeared in an episode of the Channel 4 program "Balls of Steel" with his dad helping him with a stunt.