• The Fisher King is a 1991 American fantasy comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Robin Williams and...
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    The Fisher King is a figure in Arthurian legend, the last in a long line of British kings tasked with guarding the Holy Grail. The Fisher King is both...
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    John King Fisher (October 1853 – March 11, 1884) was a gunslinger from the U.S. state of Texas during the heyday of the American Old West. Fisher was born...
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    literatures. It employs many allusions to the Western canon: Ovid's Metamorphoses, the legend of the Fisher King, Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Canterbury...
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    sustenance in infinite abundance, often guarded in the custody of the Fisher King and located in the hidden Grail castle. By analogy, any elusive object...
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    portrayed Giuseppe Zangara in the musical Assassins (1989). Jeter gained notoriety for his roles in The Fisher King (1991) and The Green Mile (1999). His other...
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    Edge (1985) and The Morning After (1986); and dramas The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Fisher King (1991) Fearless (1993) and The Mirror Has Two Faces...
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    Percival (category Knights of the Round Table)
    uncle is analogous to Chrétien's Fisher King, but what Peredur sees being carried before him in his uncle's castle is not the Holy Grail (Old French graal)...
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    Amanda Plummer (category Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre alumni)
    her roles in films including Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Plummer...
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    Terry Gilliam (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    acclaim for Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and Fear and Loathing...
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  • paradox" where the alien time traveller the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) prevents the invasion plot of an alien called the Fisher King (Neil Fingleton...
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    for her leading performance in the play Lost in Yonkers (1990) and supporting performance in the film The Fisher King (1991). Her other film credits include...
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    Poets Society (1989), and The Fisher King (1991). He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the drama Good Will Hunting (1997)...
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    popularising the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which...
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    Society (1989), Awakenings (1990) and The Fisher King (1991). He also found greater commercial success in the 1990s. Many of his films during this period...
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    (2013–2015), voiced the Fisher King in Doctor Who (2015), and starred as the title character in the live-action adaptation series The Tick (2016). His other...
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  • 2005-12-14. CBS. ^E122 "The Fisher King, Part 1". Criminal Minds. Season 1. Episode 22. 2006-05-10. CBS. ^E201 "The Fisher King, Part 2". Criminal Minds...
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  • Susannah Doyle (category Actors from the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames)
    "The Fisher King" (2004), The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury (2008), "Shut Up and Dance", from Black Mirror (2016), Josh (TV series) (2016), and The Last...
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  • with the Fisher King when he was trapped in the King's throne room after a door closed behind him. As he faced Merlin, the still-alive Fisher King explained...
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    Crossing Delancey (1988), The Fisher King (1991), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Wolf (1994), Nixon (1995), Down with Love (2003), and The Perfect Host (2010)...
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  • doubles: Sigurd's corpse is briefly shown in "The Fisher King", King Ecbert appears in "The Fisher King" as a corpse and in "Baldur" as a cloaked figure...
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    (1989) and The Fisher King (1991). Williams starred in the critically acclaimed dramas The World According to Garp (1982), Moscow on the Hudson (1984)...
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    premiere, "The Departed", but were released separately on streaming services and in digital stores, with the first part titled "The Fisher King" and the second...
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    Jim Carter (actor) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    "Duty" (2003) and the Midsomer Murders episode "The Fisher King" (2004), and Dinotopia (2002). He also played Captain Brown in the five-part BBC series...
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    Corbenic (redirect from The Grail Castle)
    often known as the Fisher King. The castle's descriptions vary greatly in different sources, and it first appears by that name in the Lancelot-Grail cycle...
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    Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress and writer. She played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars films...
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  • drowning them. In the episode, "Secrets and Lies", Ray Baker guest-starred as rogue CIA Agent Bruno Hawks. In the season finale "The Fisher King (Part I)", Charles...
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    role was in the 1991 movie The Fisher King. Ross was born in Zanesville, Ohio, but his mother, Elizabeth Russell, a nightclub singer in the 1920s and 1930s...
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  • Richard Fisher (born 1943), American astronomer The Rich Fisher, fictional character Bron in Joseph d'Arimathie verse variant in "Fisher King" literary...
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    sustains the Fisher King's wounded father. The loathly lady announces other quests that the Knights of the Round Table proceed to take up and the remainder...
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