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British. Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films and radio and television programmes, and C. Northcote Parkinson elaborated a "biography" of him, The True Story of Horatio Hornblower. [1]
Box office. $5,333,000 [1] Captain Horatio Hornblower (known as Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. in the UK, "R.N." standing for "Royal Navy") is a 1951 British naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan .
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The Hornblower Companion (1964) is a book of anecdotes and maps that provides background on the series. C. Northcote Parkinson wrote a “biography” of this fictional hero, The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (1970). The character was perhaps most famously played by Gregory Peck in the film Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951).
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Horatio Hornblower is the fictional naval hero created by C. S. Forester in 1937 who appears in a number of novels set during the Napoleonic Wars. Hornblower is not based on an actual person but inspired by a variety of naval events and officers. Author C.S Forester got the idea for Hornblower after reading the Naval Chronicle, the Royal Navy ...
Oct 10, 1999 · C.S. Forester’s fictional sailor of the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Horatio Hornblower, was an immediate success when he first appeared in 1937, in The Happy Return. Sequels continued his story as he found love, promotion and worldly success. The books are still in print, and have been newly adapted into television films. A recent biography of ...
Horatio Hornblower was an officer in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Clever, but unhappy for most of his life, he found fame and fortune as a hero of the Navy. Hornblower, the son of a doctor, was born on 4 July 1776 (the date of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence) in Hythe, Kent. He was given a classical education, and by the time he joined the Royal Navy ...
May 1, 2005 · This is a reprint of the author's 1970 fictional biography of Horatio Hornblower. C. S. Forester wrote the first five Hornblower novels in chronological order, starting with Hornblower's service as a Royal Navy captain in 1807 and continuing to 1815 when the war ended and most of the Royal Navy was laid up.
