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In the 1997 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Favor the Bold", Ben Sisko says the phrase as the last line of the episode. He refers to it as an old saying. In the 1986 film "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", Admiral James T. Kirk alters the phrase when setting off on a dangerous mission. He says "May fortune favor the foolish.".
John Michael Bird was born in Bulwell, Nottingham, [1] where his father ran a small chemist's shop.He failed his 11-plus, but his secondary modern headmaster managed to have him transferred, aged 12, to High Pavement Grammar School.
The Crown is a historical drama web television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.
The King is a 2019 epic historical drama film directed by David Michôd, based on several plays from William Shakespeare's Henriad. [3] [4] [5] The screenplay was written by Michôd and Joel Edgerton, who both produced the film with Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Liz Watts.
The film begins when a miller, who is poaching deer on lands belonging to the King of England, is detected by a hunting party led by the cruel Norman knight Sir Miles Folcanet. The miller flees the hunting party until he runs into a Saxon earl, Robert Hode and his friend, Will. The miller pleads for help and Will urges Hode to intercede, as the ...
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (born 18 January 1988) is an English actor. He has played the role of Francis Weston in the BBC series Wolf Hall (2015), Francesco Salviati in Medici (2018), Townes in the Netflix chess period drama The Queen's Gambit (2020), Grigory Petrov in The Great (2023), detective Charles Whiteman in Bodies (2023) and Brian Epstein in Midas Man (2024).
The following year, he joined the recurring cast of historical/fantasy series Outlander, in which he played Lieutenant Jeremy Foster, one of Black Jack Randall's men. [5] He also appeared briefly in an episode of the BBC TV series Call the Midwife , [ 2 ] and a short film called The Unknowns .
A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British historical drama film directed and produced by Fred Zinnemann, adapted by Robert Bolt from his play of the same name.It depicts the final years of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England who refused both to sign a letter asking Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII of England's marriage to Catherine of Aragon and to take an Oath of ...