Whose motion picture debut was in a film based on a screenplay by Ken Nolan?
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Tom Hardy (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor and producer. His motion picture debut was in Ridley Scott's 2001 action film "Black Hawk Down". Hardy's other notable films include the science fiction film "" (2002), the crime film "RocknRolla" (2008), biographical psychological drama "Bronson" (2008), sports drama "Warrior" (2011), Cold War espionage film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011), crime drama "Lawless" (2012), drama "Locke" (2013), mobster film "The Drop" (2014), and the biographical western thriller "The Revenant" (2015), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He portrayed "Mad" Max Rockatansky in the post-apocalyptic film "" (2015), and both of the Kray twins in the crime thriller "Legend" (2015). He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: the science fiction thriller "Inception" (2010), the superhero film "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012), as Bane, and the action-thriller "Dunkirk" (2017), based on the British evacuation in World War II. Hardy has been cast as Eddie Brock/Venom in a live-action film adaptation of the same name, set to be released in 2018.
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Black Hawk Down (film) Black Hawk Down is a 2001 war film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay by Ken Nolan. It is based on the 1999 non-fiction book of the same name by Mark Bowden, which in turn is based on the 29-part series of articles published in "The Philadelphia Inquirer", chronicling the events of a 1993 raid in Mogadishu by the U.S. military aimed at capturing faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid, and the ensuing firefight, known as the Battle of Mogadishu. The film features a large ensemble cast, including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Jason Isaacs, Tom Hardy in his feature film debut, and Sam Shepard.
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Adam Hamdy Adam Hamdy (born 12 March 1974) is a British writer and film producer best known for his debut comic book limited series "The Hunter" and his comedy feature film "Pulp", which became the first film to ever premiere on the Xbox Video platform.
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Mary Nolan Mary Nolan (December 18, 1902 – October 31, 1948) was an American stage and film actress, singer and dancer. She began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in the 1920s performing under the stage name Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson. She was fired from the "Ziegfeld Follies" in 1924 for her involvement in a tumultuous and highly publicized affair with comedian Frank Tinney. She left the United States shortly thereafter and began making films in Germany. She appeared in seventeen German films from 1925 to 1927 using a new stage name, "Imogene Robertson".
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Morgan Freeman on screen and stage American actor and director Morgan Freeman has had a prolific career on film, television and on the stage. His film debut was as an uncredited character in the Sidney Lumet–directed drama "The Pawnbroker" in 1964. Freeman also made his stage debut in the same year by appearing in the musical "Hello, Dolly!" He followed this with further stage appearances in "The Niggerlovers" (1967), "The Dozens" (1969), "Exhibition" (1969), and the musical "Purlie" (1970–71). He played various characters on the children's television series "The Electric Company" (1971–77). Freeman subsequently appeared in the films "Teachers" in 1984, and "Marie" in 1985 before making his breakthrough with 1987's "Street Smart". His role earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later he appeared in war film "Glory" (1989), and starred as Hoke Coleburn in the comedy-drama "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989). Freeman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in the latter and also earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Deathtrap (film) Deathtrap is a 1982 American thriller film based on Ira Levin's play of the same name, directed by Sidney Lumet from a screenplay by Levin and Jay Presson Allen, starring Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon and Christopher Reeve. Critics gave the film mostly favorable reviews while noting its plot similarities to Caine's 1972 film "Sleuth".
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Young Desire (film) Young Desire is a 1930 American drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and written by Winifred Reeve, C. Gardner Sullivan and Matt Taylor. The film stars Mary Nolan, William Janney, Ralf Harolde, Mae Busch, George Irving and Claire McDowell. The film was released on June 8, 1930, by Universal Pictures.
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One Way Ticket (1935 film) One Way Ticket is a 1935 film from Columbia Pictures directed by Herbert Biberman starring Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin and Walter Connolly. The film is based on the novel One-Way Ticket by Ethel Turner (New York, 1934).
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Moll Flanders (1996 film) Moll Flanders is a 1996 film starring Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman. The film was directed by Pen Densham. The original music score was composed by Mark Mancina. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe.
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Nevada Smith Nevada Smith is a 1966 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Steve McQueen. The film was made by Embassy Pictures and Solar Productions, in association with and released by Paramount Pictures. The movie was a prequel to the Harold Robbins novel "The Carpetbaggers", which had been made into a highly successful film two years earlier, with Alan Ladd playing McQueen's part as an older man. "Nevada Smith" depicts Smith's first meeting with another "Carpetbaggers" character, Jonas Cord Sr., but the two films' stories are otherwise unrelated.
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Nate Parker Nate Parker (born November 18, 1979) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and musical performer who has appeared in "Beyond the Lights", "Red Tails", "The Secret Life of Bees", "The Great Debaters", "Arbitrage", "Non-Stop", "Felon", and "Pride". Parker's directorial debut feature film, "The Birth of a Nation", in which he also starred, made history at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the distribution rights for $17.5 million, breaking the record for the most paid for a Sundance Film Festival production, surpassing "Little Miss Sunshine", which had been acquired by Searchlight for $10 million ten years earlier.
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Timothée Chalamet Timothée Chalamet ( ; born December 26, 1995) is an American stage and film actor. Chalamet started his acting career in two short films before appearing in the acclaimed series "Homeland". He made his feature film debut in Jason Reitman's "Men, Women & Children" (2014) and appeared in Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" (2014). Chalamet starred in a number of independent films before his breakthrough role as the lead in Luca Guadagnino's film "Call Me by Your Name" (2017), for which he received critical acclaim.
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The Rookie (2002 film) The Rookie is a 2002 sports drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief, but famous Major League Baseball career in 1999–2000. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, and Brian Cox.
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I.T. (film) I.T. is a 2016 thriller film directed by John Moore and written by Dan Kay and William Wisher. It stars Pierce Brosnan, James Frecheville, Anna Friel, Stefanie Scott and Michael Nyqvist and was produced by David T. Friendly and Beau St. Clair, who was Brosnan's producing partner at the production company Irish DreamTime before her death. The film was released on September 23, 2016, with a limited release and on video on demand.
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The Debut The Debut is an independent feature-length film directed and co-written by first-time Filipino American filmmaker Gene Cajayon. It is the first Filipino American film to be released theatrically nationwide, starting in March 2001 in the San Francisco Bay area and ending in November 2002 in New York City.
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Whore (1991 film) Whore is a 1991 British-American drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Theresa Russell. The screenplay by Russell is based on David Hines' prize-winning monologue, "Bondage". While not a financial success grossing a little over $1 million, the film did attract some positive notices, and generated an unrelated sequel, a 1994 film "Whore II".
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Hardball (film) Hardball is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Brian Robbins. It stars Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane and D. B. Sweeney. The screenplay by John Gatins is based on the book "Hardball: A Season in the Projects" by Daniel Coyle. The original music score is composed by Mark Isham.
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The Duellists The Duellists is a 1977 historical drama film and the feature directorial debut of Ridley Scott. It won the Best Debut Film award at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. The basis of the screenplay is the Joseph Conrad short story "The Duel" (titled "Point of Honor" in the United States) published in "A Set of Six".
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Revenge of the Creature Revenge of the Creature (also known as Return of the Creature and Return of the Creature from the Black Lagoon) is the first sequel to "Creature from the Black Lagoon", being the only 3-D film released in 1955 and the only 3-D sequel to a 3-D film released during "the golden age of 3-D". Directed by Jack Arnold, the film stars John Agar and Lori Nelson. This was Clint Eastwood's film debut.
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Paper Lion (film) Paper Lion is a 1968 sports comedy film starring Alan Alda as writer George Plimpton, based on Plimpton's 1966 nonfiction book of the same name depicting his tryout with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. The film premiered in Detroit on October 2, 1968 and was released nationwide the week of October 14, 1968.
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The Citizen (film) The Citizen is a 2013 American drama independent film directed by Sam Kadi, written by Sam Kadi, Samir Younis, Jazmen Darnell Brown, and starring Khaled El Nabawy, Agnes Bruckner, Rizwan Manji, William Atherton, and Cary Elwes. "The Citizen" was filmed in New York City, Detroit Masonic Temple in Detroit Michigan, and the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Michigan. The film premiered on September 20, 2012 at the Boston Film Festival.
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Layer Cake (novel) Layer Cake is the debut novel of British author J. J. Connolly, first published in 2000 by Duckworth Press. It was made into a motion picture in 2004 (also called "Layer Cake"), directed by Matthew Vaughn and written for the screen by Connolly himself.