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Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.

Rebecca Lacey

Cast · Known for Nightborn

The daughter of actors Ronald Lacey (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Mela White (Bergerac), Rebbeca Lacey is a British actress best known for her performances as the ditzy Hilary in the sitcom May to December, and as Dr Georgina 'George' Woodman in Casualty. Her films have included Carry on Columbus, Heavy Weather, Arthur's Dyke and Chalet Girl.

Fred Sorenson

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Fred Sorenson played the daredevil pilot Jock Lindsey in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Born in the Panama Canal Zone, Sorenson has never appeared in another film; Indiana Jones or otherwise. Instead, he opted for a quiet life as a commercial airline pilot. He did fly to Kauai to save the crew of 1993's Jurassic Park, another film directed by Steven Spielberg, after a hurricane stranded the crew.

Ted Grossman

Cast · Known for Jaws

Ted Grossman is a stuntman and actor who played the Peruvian Porter in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Deputy Sheriff in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He also provided stunts for The Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He also played a Porter in footage fpr the Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye ride at Disney World.

Paul Freeman

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Paul Freeman (born January 18, 1943) played René Emile Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark and returned to the franchise ten years later to portray Frederick Selous in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Among his other work, Freeman appeared in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie as Ivan Ooze and in the 2007 comedy Hot Fuzz, directed by Edgar Wright.

David Wayman

Cast · Known for Graphic Desires

David was born on the 27th January in Enfield, North London, UK and spent his early education in and around Hertfordshire. At the age of 18, David began his Acting training at East 15 Acting School in East London. After a number of short films and theatre roles, David made his feature-film Début in British Zombie Movie 'The Dead Inside' (due for release 2012). Following on from this, David was cast as 'Tom' in BAFTA winner Martin Gooch's film "Death - It's a Mystery" (2011) playing opposite Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hot Fuzz), Nick Moran (Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels) and Leslie Phillips (of "Carry On" fame). More recently, he has played lead roles in romantic comedy "Art Ache" and ghost story "Wandering Rose". Theatre Credits include the title role in "A Picture of Dorian Gray", Benedick in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and Captain Phoebus in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to name a few.

Ishaq Bux

Cast · Known for The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Ishaq Bux was an Indian actor. He is best remembered by his roles of Omar in Raiders of The Lost Ark and the fakir in Octopussy.

Vic Tablian

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Vic Tablian is an Armenian SSR born British actor. His filmography includes two different roles in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark; he played both the treacherous Peruvian guide Barranca and later in the film as the Nazi collaborating "Monkey Man". Eleven years later Tablian returned to the Indiana Jones franchise playing Demetrios in the first episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,

Eddie Tagoe

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Eddie Tagoe is a Ghanaian actor best known in the U.K. for playing "Presuming Ed" in the 1986 film production of Withnail and I, a role which he resumed in 2000 in a stage production of the same work. Internationally, he may be better recognized for his brief appearance in the movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Billed only as the "Messenger Pirate", his character was sent to find Indiana Jones in advance of Nazis boarding the ship on which Jones was travelling. Initially unable to find Jones, he was instructed by the captain to look again, and immediately replied, "I found him!", pointing to Jones swimming to the Nazi submarine. Tagoe had a significantly larger part as "Chocolate Mousse" in the 1984 farce, Top Secret!, and appeared in various other roles such as Sgt. Gwambe in Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, as well as in The Dogs of War and Pink Floyd The Wall. The son of a Ghanaian chief, Tagoe travelled to London to study reflexology prior to pursuing acting. In 1995, however, he returned to his reflexology career when he was recruited to serve as team reflexologist for Newcastle United F.C.

Karen Allen

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Other Mommy

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Allen has also had roles in films including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Cruising (1980), Starman (1984), Scrooged (1988), The Sandlot (1993), and Poster Boy (2004).

John Rees

John Rees was born on March 6, 1927 in Port Talbot, Wales as John Morgan Rees. He was an actor and composer, known for Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Eye of the Needle (1981) and Doctor Who (1963). He died in October 1994 in Spain.

Ronald Lacey

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ronald William Lacey (28 September 1935 – 15 May 1991) was an English actor. He made numerous television and film appearances over a 30 year period and is perhaps best remembered for his villainous roles in Hollywood films, most famously Major Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Bill Weston

Cast · Known for 2001: A Space Odyssey

Bill Weston (29 May 1941 - 25 March 2012) was a British stunt performer and actor, whose 40-year career includes credits for Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Living Daylights and Batman Begins.

George Harris

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

George William Harris (born 20 October 1949) is a British actor of film, stage, television, radio and musical theatre. His notable roles include Kingsley Shacklebolt in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Captain Simon Katanga in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Clive King in popular medical drama Casualty, where he was one of the original cast members. He also played real-life Somali warlord Osman Ali Atto in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.

Howard G. Kazanjian

Producer · Executive Producer · Known for Demolition Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi

Howard G. Kazanjian (born July 26, 1942) is an Armenian-American film producer best known for the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, as well as the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Kazanjian was an originating member of Lucasfilm, Ltd., serving as its vice president for approximately eight years (1977 to 1984).

Scott Whyte

Cast · Known for Love, Death & Robots

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Scott Whyte (born January 8, 1978, in Manhattan Beach, California) is an American actor who is best known for his role on City Guys where he portrayed Chris, one of the main characters. He has also appeared in other TV series, such as That '70s Show, and Just Shoot Me!, as well as appearing in the films D2: The Mighty Ducks and its sequel, D3, although as different characters. Whyte has spent his entire life living in the South Bay of California. Whyte, always interested in the arts, has been leaping from one form to the other, having spent time in animation along with playing music, all while maintaining an acting career. Whyte also attended the University of Southern California briefly until he landed a starring role on NBC’s City Guys. Whyte made his film debut in the Mel Gibson/Kurt Russell feature Tequila Sunrise. At age ten, after watching Raiders of the Lost Ark, Whyte figured he could become the next Indiana Jones. But after breaking his wrist swinging from a tree, he set his sights on the goal of becoming an actor, so that he "could do all those fun things and not get hurt." He landed his first part at the age of 13, appearing in a commercial for Pop Tarts, and later appeared in the television series That '70s Show, Just Shoot Me!, The Nanny, Full House, Locals and TNBC's Hang Time, along with hosting the television series Chicken Soup for the Soul, based on the best selling books. His recent films include Reeker, The Fallen Ones, Voodoo Moon, All In, and Death Row. Description above from the Wikipedia article Scott Whyte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Bob Papenbrook

Robert DeWayne Papenbrook (September 18, 1955 – March 17, 2006) was an American voice actor. Fellow voice actors often nicknamed him "Pappy". He was very well known in the worlds of anime and video game voice-overs for his voice acting of "gruff" characters. However, he was especially well known in his various live action voice-overs which, most notably, included the Power Rangers franchise. He was discovered by filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, which got him his very first voice acting role in the hit film Raiders of the Lost Ark as the voices of all the Hovito natives who pursue Indiana Jones in the beginning of the film. His best-known roles included the voices of Rito Revolto in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Power Rangers Zeo, Shadowborg in Big Bad Beetleborgs, Scorpix in Beetleborgs Metallix and Deviot in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy. Aside from acting, he also taught kickboxing and other martial arts. He and his wife Debbie Rothstein married in 1978 and had a son, Bryce Papenbrook, who is also a voice actor. On March 17, 2006, Papenbrook died of chronic lung problems at the age of 50. The 2008 DVD Adventures in Voice Acting was dedicated to him (whose appearance was filmed before his death). Source: Article "Bob Papenbrook" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Michael Kahn

Editor · Known for Jurassic Park, Minority Report, Peter Pan

Michael Kahn (born December 8, c. 1930) is an American film editor known for his frequent collaboration with Steven Spielberg. His first collaboration with Spielberg was for his 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He has edited all of Spielberg's subsequent films except for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which was edited by Carol Littleton. Kahn has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing and has won three times—for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), which were all Spielberg-directed films. Kahn was born to a Jewish family in New York City. While his birth year has been reported as 1935, Kahn said in 2015, when asked if he was 80, that his age at that point was "closer to 85." Kahn has edited digitally since at least Twister (1996), though he continued to edit on film with Spielberg long after most editors had stopped doing so. In 2008, Kahn acknowledged that "people find it hard to believe that Steven and I still edit film on a Moviola and a KEM. [But] Steven feels film got us where we are today, and he loves the smell of it and feel of it. We started that way and both really enjoy it." George Lucas remarked, "Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Moviola than anybody can cut on an Avid." However, since The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), Kahn has edited Spielberg's films on an Avid machine. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Kahn (film editor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Romo Gorrara

Romo Gorrara was born on 24 April 1932 in Holborn, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Willow (1988), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Daylight (1996). He died on 4 December 1997 in Camden, London, England, UK.

Anthony Chinn

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Anthony Chinn (1930 – 22 October 2000) was a Guyanese actor based in England who appeared in over 50 films and television series throughout a career which spanned more than four decades. Chinn also had early uncredited roles in the James Bond films Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964) and You Only Live Twice (1967), later playing a Taiwanese businessman in A View to a Kill (1985). Chinn played the Kitai in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1969), a Chinese assassin in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and a Chinese doorman in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).[5] He appeared as Mohan in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and as Mactilburgh's technician in The Fifth Element (1997).

Don Fellows

Cast · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Don Fellows was an American actor known for his roles in British theater and television. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Fellows served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a member of the Actors Studio. He moved to London in 1973 to further his stage career. Fellows' TV appearances included Space: 1999, Z Cars, Lillie, The Sandbaggers, The Citadel, The Beiderbecke Tapes, The Bill and Inspector Morse. His film appearances included The Naked Civil Servant, Spy Story, The Omen, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Eye of the Needle and Velvet Goldmine. He featured alongside fellow American expatriate actor Ed Bishop in the radio series The BBC Presents: Philip Marlowe. Throughout his life, Fellows suffered from a stutter, which he was able to suppress while acting. He died in 2007, at the age of 84.

William Hootkins

Cast · Known for Batman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars

William Michael Hootkins was born on July 5, 1948, in Dallas, Texas. He moved to London, England in the early '70s and lived there up until 2002. Hootkins was an actor at Theatre Intime while attending Princeton University where he learned how to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. He also trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and attended St. Marks, where he was in the same theater group as Tommy Lee Jones. The imposingly bulky and heavyset Hootkins first began acting in films and TV shows alike in the mid '70s. His more noteworthy parts include the first of the Rebel fighter pilots to get killed while attacking the Death Star in "Star Wars", scientist Topol's bumbling oaf assistant in "Flash Gordon", Major Eaton, sent by the US government in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", one of Rod Steiger's demented sons in "American Gothic", a corrupt police lieutenant in "Batman", a disgusting sleazy voyeur in "Hardware", a coarse South African police chief in "Dust Devil", the mysterious and duplicitous Mr. X in "Hear My Song", a haughty corporate executive in "Death Machine", Santa Claus in "Like Father, Like Santa", and an opera-singing vampire in "The Breed". Moreover, Hootkins had small parts in two "Pink Panther" pictures: he's a taxi driver in both "The Trail of the Pink Panther" and "Curse of the Pink Panther". Among the TV shows he did guest spots on are "Yanks Go Home", "Agony", "Play for Today", "Tales of the Unexpected", "The Life and Times of David Lloyd George", "Brett Maverick", "Cagney and Lacey", "Taxi", "Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense", "Poirot", "Chancer", "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles", "The Tomorrow People", "The West Wing", and "Absolute Power". Hootkins received many accolades for his outstanding performance as Sir Alfred Hitchcock in Terry Johnson's hit play "Hitchcock Blonde". In addition to his substantial film and TV credits, Hootkins was also a popular and prolific voice artist who recorded dozens of plays for BBC Radio Drama; he supplied the voices for such iconic individuals as Orson Welles, J. Edgar Hoover, and Winston Churchill. William Hootkins died of pancreatic cancer on October 23, 2005. IMDb Mini Biography

Sonny Caldinez

Sonny Caldinez (1 July 1932 – 12 April 2022) was a Trinidadian actor and professional wrestler. He was often cast in television and films for his great height and muscular physique. He appeared as various Ice Warriors on the British programme Doctor Who and also in films such as The Man with the Golden Gun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ali G Indahouse, Arabian Adventure and The Fifth Element.

Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Costume Design · Known for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Deborah Nadoolman Landis (born May 26, 1952) is an American costume designer, author, and professor. She has worked on notable films such as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Three Amigos, all of which credited her as Deborah Nadoolman. Landis served two terms as president of the Costume Designers Guild of which she has been a member for more than thirty years. She is married to director John Landis; their son is screenwriter Max Landis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Nadoolman Landis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia