• Moby Dick is a 1956 American color adventure film directed and produced by John Huston, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ray Bradbury. A film adaptation...
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  • as Moby Dick in 1930, a version in which Ahab kills the whale and returns home to the woman he loves (played by Joan Bennett). Moby Dick, a 1956 film directed...
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    Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line "Call me Ishmael." He is the first-person narrator of much of...
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  • Moby Dick (1930 film), a film starring John Barrymore Moby Dick (1956 film), a film by John Huston starring Gregory Peck Moby Dick (unfinished film)...
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  • made of his meta-play Moby Dick—Rehearsed, or with the 1956 film Moby Dick, in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by...
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    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab...
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  • Moby Dick is a 1998 American television miniseries directed by Franc Roddam, written by Roddam, Anton Diether, and Benedict Fitzgerald, and executive...
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  • Moby Dick (sometimes referred to as Moby Dick—Rehearsed) is a two-act drama by Orson Welles. The play was staged June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of...
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    guest at the premiere of John Huston's film Moby Dick, 1956, where he was introduced as "the man who killed Moby Dick". In 1952, Time magazine reported the...
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    Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's...
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    Friedrich von Ledebur (category Austrian male film actors)
    (1986-12-25)25 December 1986) was an Austrian actor who was known for Moby Dick (1956), Alexander the Great (1955) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). Ledebur...
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    Noel Purcell (actor) (category Irish male film actors)
    actor of stage, screen, and television. He appeared in the 1956 film Moby Dick and the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty. Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell was the...
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  • The Ryelands (also named The Moby Dick), was built in England in 1887 and later came into the hands of the film industry in 1948 when RKO Pictures purchased...
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    Audrey Hepburn. During the late 1950s, he portrayed Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956), war hero Joseph G. Clemons in Pork Chop Hill (1959), and writer F...
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  • Father Mapple (category Characters in Moby-Dick)
    Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's...
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  • Eddy Duchin Story 22 June The Catered Affair 27 June Moby Dick 29 June The King and I July 1956 6 July The Fastest Gun Alive 12 July Foreign Intrigue...
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  • Awards December 20, 1956 The 28th National Board of Review Awards were announced on December 20, 1956. Around the World in 80 Days Moby Dick The King and I...
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    Seamen's Bethel (category Moby-Dick)
    Bethel appear in the 1922 film Down to the Sea in Ships. In 1956, John Huston shot a scene from the movie adaptation of Moby-Dick (with Gregory Peck and...
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    Queequeg (category Characters in Moby-Dick)
    Queequeg is a character in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. The story outlines his royal, Polynesian descent, as well as his...
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  • Tom Clegg (actor) (category English male film actors)
    Fair (1954), The Stateless Man (1955), The Extra Day (1956), Moby Dick (1956), The Hideout (1956), Saint Joan (1957), Battle of the V-1 (1958), Mark of...
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    Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). The following actors have portrayed this character in film adaptations: Mervyn Johns in Moby Dick (1956) Gordon Stanley...
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    Richard Basehart (category American male film actors)
    Fourteen Hours (1951) and Moby Dick (1956). He was further nominated for a BAFTA Award for his role in Time Limit (1957), the only film directed by Karl Malden...
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  • (1982) This list covers films shot, or partly shot, in Ireland, but which are not set there. Henry V (1944) Moby Dick (1956) - filmed in Youghal, County Cork...
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  • Islands Starbuck, in Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick Lieutenant Starbuck, in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica film and TV series Dana Scully, from The X-Files...
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    Nathaniel Philbrick (category 1956 births)
    to author Moby-Dick, won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was adapted as a film in 2015. Philbrick was born on June 11, 1956, in Boston...
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    In the Heart of the Sea (category Non-fiction books adapted into films)
    Advertising for the film points out that the historical story inspired the Moby Dick mythology. Ann Alexander, a ship sunk by a whale on August 20, 1851 Philbrick...
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  • (1962 film) Mister 880 (1950 film) (Burt Lancaster) Mister Scoutmaster (1953 film) Moby Dick (1956 film) (Gregory Peck) Monkey Business (1931 film) (Marx...
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  • collaborated with director John Huston on eight films, beginning with Moulin Rouge (1952) and also including Moby Dick (1956). Although his previous experience with...
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  • documentary titled The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles (2000).: 422  Moby Dick—Rehearsed was a film version of Welles's 1955 London meta-play, starring Gordon Jackson...
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    James Robertson Justice (category English male film actors)
    Hornblower (1951), and Moby Dick (1956), in which he played the one-armed sea captain also attacked by the white whale. In the film, Justice's character...
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