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Callan has a chance meeting with Schneider and finds common ground in their interest in model soldiers and war games. At Schneider's house, where Callan and his host re-play a scenario from the Peninsular War and go on to recreate the Battle of Gettysburg, Meres breaks in, distracting Callan. Hunter sends the police in order to ensure Callan is ...
Robot Overlords (originally titled Our Robot Overlords) is a 2014 British independent science fiction film, starring Callan McAuliffe, Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson. The film is directed by Jon Wright and produced by Piers Tempest.
The surviving episodes from Series 1 still exist as 405-line tapes, and those episodes featured on the 2015 DVD Callan: This Man Alone had proper electronic conversions to 625-line video, but the episodes have previously had poor quality optical conversions by merely pointing a 625-line electronic camera at a monitor displaying the original 405 ...
Callan's boss Hunter is played by Eric Porter, and Meres too is re-cast, this time played by Peter Egan. The only recurring actors from the TV series were Edward Woodward as Callan, Russell Hunter as Lonely, and Clifford Rose as Dr Snell. Callan was the first film with a Dolby-encoded optical soundtrack. [2]
Adam Russell Hunter (18 February 1925 – 26 February 2004) [1] [2] was a Scottish television, stage and film actor. He played Lonely in the TV thriller series Callan, starring Edward Woodward, and shop steward Harry in the Yorkshire Television sitcom The Gaffer (1981–1983) with Bill Maynard.
Costas Georgiou (Greek: Κώστας Γεωργίου; 21 December 1951 – 10 July 1976), also known by his alias Colonel Callan, was a Cypriot-born British court-martialled-soldier-turned-mercenary who was executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial for activities during the civil war phase of the Angolan War of Independence.
[4] [5] His breakthrough role came with the crime drama On the Waterfront (1954), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, [6] and subsequent appearance in Fred Zinnemann's musical Oklahoma!. [7] Steiger played a crooked promoter who hires a sports journalist in the Mark Robson-directed film noir The Harder They ...
Channel 4 (previously 4oD and All 4) is a video on demand service from Channel Four Television Corporation, [1] free of charge for most content and funded by advertising. [2] The service is available in the UK and Ireland; viewers are not required to have a TV licence —required for live viewing and the BBC iPlayer on-demand service—when ...