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Aug 3, 2022 · "Marcel" opens at Ragtag Cinema Friday. In real life, James Owen is a lawyer and executive director of energy policy group Renew Missouri.
- 10 Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
- 9 Dave Toschi
- 8 Johnny Broderick
- 7 William J. Burns
- 6 William J. Flynn
- 5 Ellis Parker
- 4 Marcel Guillaume
- 3 Ignatius Pollaky
- 2 William E. Fairbairn
- 1 Raymond C. Schindler
Isidor “Izzy” Einstein and Moe Smith were two middle-aged men from New York’s Lower East Side who managed to arrest 4,932 offenders, haul in roughly five million bottles of illegal liquor, and sport a conviction rate of 95 percent from 1920–25. Before becoming the premier booze detectivesof their day, the Austrian immigrant Einstein had been a stre...
When your name gets mentioned as the possible inspiration behind both Inspector Harry Callahan of Dirty Harry fame and Steve McQueen’s turn as Lieutenant Frank Bullitt in 1968’s Bullitt, you know you’re cool. The man who can make that claim is Dave Toschi, who served as an inspector in the San Francisco Police Department from 1952–83. During Toschi...
Often called the “Broadway Cop,” Johnny Broderick patrolled New York’s theater district as a member of the New York Police Department from 1923–47. In his time, Broderick was known throughout the city as a cop not to be messed with. His reputation was mostly built around his willingness to beat up gangsters and suspects alike, and many stories abou...
Called “America’s Sherlock Holmes” by no less of an authority than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, William J. Burns managed to go from being the son of an Irish immigrant in Columbus, Ohio, to the one-time directorof the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). Burns mostly made a name for himself as a private detective, however, and while running the Willia...
William J. Flynn and William J. Burns were contemporaries who not only shared the same first name and middle initial, but also the same look. Both men were powerfully built, with large stomachs and well-trimmed mustaches that made them both resemble President Theodore Roosevelt. In another twist of fate, both men began their law enforcement careers...
Like William J. Burns, Ellis Parker was also known as “America’s Sherlock Holmes.” But, unlike both Burns and Holmes, Parker did not serve in order to protect a nation or a major city. For 44 years, Parker was the Chief of Detectives of Burlington County, New Jersey, a mostly rural county in the Delaware Valley. One would think that life as a small...
It’s not certain, but many believe that Georges Simenon based his prolific Inspector Jules Maigret on the French detective Marcel Guillaume. Originally born in the French provinces, Guillaume moved to Paris and was urged to become a police officerby his father-in-law, who was a policeman himself. For decades, Guillaume honed his skills and became k...
Commonly known as “Paddington Pollaky,” Ignatius Pollaky was a Hungarian immigrant who became one of Victorian England’s first and most popular private detectives. In 1881, Pollaky was preserved for posterity when his name was used in a song for the Gilbert and Sullivan play Patience. Prior to becoming a piece of theater history, Pollaky had operat...
Between the World Wars, Shanghai, China, was one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Divided into sections that separated the native Chinese from Europeans, Shanghai was home to a robust smuggling trade and several red-light districts that not only sold women, but also drugs and guns. Enter William E. Fairbairn. Originally born in England, F...
Raymond C. Schindler’s early life was neither thrilling nor indicative of his later life as a famous detective. Born in the tiny northern New York town of Mexico, Schindler would go on to attend high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before becoming an insurance agent, a typewriter salesman, and a gold minerin California. After answering an advertise...
Jul 20, 2022 · How Cinematographer Bianca Cline Breathed Life into. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. The Director of Photography discusses learning life lessons from a 1-inch shell, her inventive blend of stop motion and live action, and the power of possibility. One night when Bianca Cline was 16 years old, word spread through her Frazier Park, California ...
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Blythe: Depends on your point of view, Hendley. Garner’s memorable portrayal as The Scrounger Hendley was based on a real-life character, Stalag Luft III veteran Marcel Zillessen. Marcel Eric Zillessen was born in Northampton in 1917 to a German father and Irish mother. His parents soon moved north to Bradford to take over management of the ...
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Jul 3, 2022 · Marcel the Shell With Shoes On mirrors Marcel’s real-life viral fame via the YouTube shorts, although Camp, Slate, and co-writer Nick Paley had to make adjustments for 2022.
Jun 29, 2019 · The premiere of TV One’s “The Bobby DeBarge Story” is finally airing June 29, 2019 at 8 pm, so to celebrate, actors Roshon Fegan, Tyra Ferrell, Adrian Marcel, Blue Kimble and Big Boi chatted with us about the making of the film which is the untold story of some aspects of the life of Bobby DeBarge, his role as the lead singer of Switch and the formation of his siblings’ group DeBarge.
