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The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
The Day of the Jackal is a British spy thriller television series, based on the Frederick Forsyth novel of the same name. It stars Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch. It is written and created by Ronan Bennett, produced by Christopher Hall and directed by Brian Kirk, Anthony Philipson, Paul Wilmshurst and Anu Menon. The first series began airing ...
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.Based on the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
The Jackal is a fictional character, the principal antagonist of the novel The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. He is an assassin who is contracted by the OAS French terrorist group of the early 1960s to kill Charles de Gaulle , then President of France .
The Jackal is a 1997 American action thriller film directed and produced by Michael Caton-Jones and starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Diane Venora and Sidney Poitier in his final theatrically released film role. It is a loose remake of the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, which was based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth.
Frederick McCarthy Forsyth [a] CBE (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist.He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan, The Cobra and The Kill List.
The Day of the Jackal (1973) – political thriller film about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle; the story surrounding the Jackal is fictitious, although the historical background is true [117]
He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, [5] the detective Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Abbot in The Name of the Rose (1986) and Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day (1993).