• Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the 1959 book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester...
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    The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) west of Brest, France...
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  • "Sink the Bismark" (later "Sink the Bismarck") is a march song by American country music singer Johnny Horton and songwriter Tillman Franks, based on...
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    Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was...
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  • The Bismarck was a battleship of the German navy during World War II, named after Otto von Bismarck. Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 war film about the sinking...
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  • Look up Bismarck or bismarck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bismarck most often refers to: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Prussian statesman and...
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    Force H (category Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War II)
    from the sinking. Every Royal Navy unit available was then given the task of destroying Bismarck. Force H set sail from Gibraltar to intercept Bismarck with...
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    ORP Piorun (G65) (category J, K and N-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
    while other units of the Royal Navy task force caught up to sink the Bismarck. After World War II, Piorun was returned to the Royal Navy and recommissioned...
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  • in 1960 with both "Sink the Bismarck" and "North to Alaska", the latter used over the opening credits to the John Wayne film of the same name. Horton died...
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  • Robert Desmond (category Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts)
    Griffith the Tailor. Other films include The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Indiscreet (1958), The Ugly Duckling (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), The Bulldog...
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  • which was claimed to be the strongest beer ever made. In 2010, BrewDog announced Sink The Bismarck, an apparent 41% ABV to reclaim the world's strongest beer...
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    Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (German: Otto, Fürst von Bismarck, Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Herzog zu...
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  • The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt is a 1962 historical nonfiction book by William L. Shirer. It tells the story of the Royal Navy's hunt to...
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    Kenneth More (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    The Deep Blue Sea (1955), Reach for the Sky (1956), A Night to Remember (1958), North West Frontier (1959), The 39 Steps (1959) and Sink the Bismarck...
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    Laurence Naismith (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
    Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in A Night to Remember (1958), the First Sea Lord in Sink the Bismarck! (1960), and Argus in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)...
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  • appearance in the film, Sink the Bismarck! (1960). He also played the role of Bob, the barman, in the film Bitter Harvest (1963), based on the trilogy 20...
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    were as Jo "le Suédois" in the 1955 French heist film Rififi and as Captain of Battleship Bismarck in the film Sink the Bismarck! Möhner retired from filming...
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    C. S. Forester (category Writers about the Age of Sail)
    basis of the screenplay for the film Sink the Bismarck! (1960). Several of his novels have been filmed, including The African Queen (1951), directed by John...
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  • Jack Watling (category Actors from the London Borough of Waltham Forest)
    In the account of the sinking of the Titanic, the film A Night To Remember (1958), he played Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall and in Sink the Bismarck! (1960)...
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    Edward R. Murrow (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    August 10, 2016. Sink the Bismarck! at IMDb . Smith, Sally Bedell (November 1990). In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley : The Legendary Tycoon...
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    John Leach (Royal Navy officer) (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
    off the action with Bismarck after Hood had sunk, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his part. In the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck! Leach...
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  • Lewis Gilbert (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine...
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  • sustained Britain in the early days of World War II and the Royal Navy's desperate pursuit and destruction of the Bismarck. Sink the Bismarck!, a movie based...
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    Heinz Nickel. p. 202. ISBN 978-3-86619-047-4. McGowen, Tom (1999). Sink the Bismarck: Germany's Super-Battleship of World War II. Brookfield, Connecticut:...
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    David Hemmings (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    the Street (1959), directed by J. Lee Thompson. He could also be seen in Men of Tomorrow (1959), In the Wake of a Stranger (1959), Sink the Bismarck!...
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  • Maurice Denham (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    include 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956), Night of the Demon (1957), Two-Way Stretch (1960), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), H.M.S. Defiant (1962), Those Magnificent...
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    Dana Wynter (category British expatriate actresses in the United States)
    in Shake Hands with the Devil (1959), and the last of her 20th Century Fox contract roles opposite Kenneth More in Sink the Bismarck! (1960). She then starred...
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    of 1960 List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1960 "Billboard Top 100 - 1960". Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2011-01-12....
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  • Johnny Briggs (actor) (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    Jimmy The Diplomatic Corpse (1958) – Johnny (Office Boy) Sink the Bismarck! (1960) – Young Seaman on Prince of Wales (uncredited) Light Up the Sky! (1960)...
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  • Jack Gwillim (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
    playing a warship captain in Sink the Bismarck! (1960), the archbishop Hubert Walter in Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), the obnoxious club secretary in...
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