Sir Sidney Solomon was the older brother of a track and field athlete whose feats were depicted in what 1981 movie?
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Sidney Abrahams Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams (11 February 1885 – 14 May 1957), nicknamed "Solly", was a British Olympic athlete and 26th Chief Justice of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He was the older brother of famed Olympian Harold Abrahams.
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Harold Abrahams Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie "Chariots of Fire".
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The Liberation of Skopje (1981 film) The Liberation of Skopje is a 1981 Australian television film about the liberation of Skopje prison.
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The Chinese Stuntman The Chinese Stuntman (also known as Counter Attack or The Chieh Boxing Master) is a 1981 martial arts Bruceploitation film starring Bruce Li.
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1981 in athletics (track and field) This page contains an overview of the year 1981 in athletics.
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Sidney Percy Roberson Sidney Percy Roberson (1937–2016), known as Sid Roberson, was a bodybuilder, personal trainer, actor, director, photographer and advertising executive. He placed 3rd as Mr Universe in 1963; trained the gangster Reggie Kray; was the lead in a campaign for Strongbow cider; directed advertising for Hamlet cigars, the Labour Party and W. H. Smith; and directed television including "The Sweeney" and "The Fast Show".
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1981 British Speedway Championship The 1981 British Speedway Championship was the 1981 edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 3 June at Brandon in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Steve Bastable, who beat Kenny Carter and John Louis in a run-off for the title. The top eight riders qualified for the next stage of the World Championship, the 1981 Overseas Final.
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1981 Pacific Conference Games The 1981 Pacific Conference Games was the fourth edition of the international athletics competition between five Pacific coast nations: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States. This was the first occasion that athletes from beyond the Pacific grouping were allowed to compete at the tournament. A total of 21 men's and 16 women's athletics events were contested. Combined track and field events were included for the first time, in the form of the men's decathlon and the women's pentathlon. The women's 3000 metres was also a new addition to the programme.
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Djibouti at the 2000 Summer Olympics Djibouti took part in the 2000 Summer Olympics, which were held in Sydney, Australia from 15 September to 1 October. The country's participation at Sydney marked its fifth appearance in the Summer Olympics since its debut at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, United States. The delegation included two track and field athletes; Omar Daher Gadid in the men's marathon and Roda Ali Wais in the women's 800 metres. Gadid failed to finish the marathon, while Wais did not progress past the first round of her event.
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Ben St Lawrence Ben St Lawrence (born 7 November 1981) is an Australian long-distance runner who specialises in the 5,000 and 10,000metres. He is the current Australian and Oceanian record holder in the 10,000metres. St Lawrence competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and has qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. For both of his Olympics, St Lawrence qualified in the 10,000metres. He has also qualified for two World Championships, two World Cross Country Championships and two Commonwealth Games.
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1981 (film) 1981, longer title "1981: L'année où je suis devenu un menteur" ("1981: The Year I Became a Liar") is a 2009 Canadian French language comedy-drama film from Quebec written and directed by Ricardo Trogi. It was released on 4 September 2009. The film is autobiographical about the youth years of the director as told by him during the film.
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1981 Epsom Derby The 1981 Epsom Derby was the 202nd annual running of the Derby horse race. It took place at Epsom Downs Racecourse on 3 June 1981.
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Solomon Wariso Solomon Wariso (born 11 November 1966 in Portsmouth) is a retired English sprinter who competed primarily in the 200 and 400 metres. He represented his country at two outdoor and three indoor World Championships and is the British record holder in the indoor 4 × 400 metres relay.
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Kill and Kill Again Kill and Kill Again is a 1981 South African/American action film notable for being the first live-action film to use the visual effects known as bullet-time. It is a sequel to "Kill or Be Killed" (1980). Filmed in Sun City, Bophuthatswana, the film has a more tongue in cheek comedy approach than its predecessor.
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Mad Max 2 Mad Max 2 (originally released in the United States as The Road Warrior and sometimes known as Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller. The film is the second installment in the "Mad Max" film series, with Mel Gibson reprising his role as "Mad" Max Rockatansky. The film's tale of a community of settlers who moved to defend themselves against a roving band of marauders follows an archetypical "Western" frontier movie motif, as does Max's role as a hardened man who rediscovers his humanity when he decides to help the settlers. Filming took place in locations around Broken Hill, in the outback of New South Wales.
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Run Rebecca, Run Run, Rebecca, Run is a 1981 Australian film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Henri Szeps, Simone Buchanan, and John Ewart. The screenplay concerns a child kidnapped by a refugee.
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Ghost Story (1981 film) Ghost Story is a 1981 American horror film directed by John Irvin and based on the 1979 book of the same name by Peter Straub. It stars Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman and Craig Wasson (in a dual role). It was the last film to feature Astaire, Fairbanks, and Douglas (who died four months before the film's release), and the first film to feature Michael O'Neill. The film was shot in Woodstock, Vermont, Saratoga Springs, New York and at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
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1981 Overseas Final The 1981 Overseas Final was the inaugural running of the Overseas Final as part of the qualification for the 1981 Speedway World Championship Final to be held at the Wembley Stadium in London, England. The 1981 Final was run on 12 July at the White City Stadium in London, and was the second last qualifying round for Commonwealth and American riders.
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Just Another Missing Kid Just Another Missing Kid is a 1981 documentary film about the search for a missing teenager and directed by John Zaritsky.
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Yesterday (1981 film) Yesterday (aka. The Victory) is a 1981 film directed by Larry Kent (as Lawrence I. Kent), starring Vincent Van Patten and Claire Pimparé. It is a love story of a young soldier maimed in Vietnam, who allows his former girlfriend to believe he's dead to spare her anguish.
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The Long Good Friday The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979, but because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film. The storyline weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including low-level political and police corruption, IRA fundraising, displacement of traditional British industry by property development, UK membership of the EEC, and the free-market economy. It was voted at number 21 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films of the 20th century, and provided Bob Hoskins with his breakthrough film role.
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History of the World, Part I History of the World, Part I is a 1981 American anthology comedy film written, produced, and directed by Mel Brooks. Brooks also stars in the film, playing five roles: Moses, Comicus the stand-up philosopher, Tomás de Torquemada, King Louis XVI, and Jacques, "le garçon de pisse". The large ensemble cast also features Sid Caesar, Shecky Greene, Gregory Hines (in his film debut), Charlie Callas; and Brooks regulars Ron Carey, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Andreas Voutsinas, and Spike Milligan.