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Antón García Abril

Anton Garcia Abril has composed as many orchestral works as he has chamber and vocal pieces, and he has composed music for movies and television series such as El Hombre y la Tierra, Fortunata y Jacinta, Anillos de oro, El perro, Segunda ensenanza, Brigada Central, Ramon y Cajal, and Compuesta y sin novio.

Billy Goldenberg

He also composed the scores to countless films and made-for-TV movies; including Onassis: The Richest Man in the World, 18 Again!, Guilty Conscience, Helter Skelter, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, (Sidney Sheldon's) Rage of Angels and hundreds of others.

Blackblack

Prepping for past gigs included dressing as if they were starring in the Ice Capades, crafting massive Native American headresses, and making vats of theatrical blood in the Dompe family kitchen for a Carrie-themed summertime barbecue at The Echo in Echo Park.

Carrie Barton

She has enjoyed stellar reviews in such regional stage productions of Crimes of the Heart, The Crucible, Modigliani, and Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face as well as many original works.

Devathalara Deevinchandi

It is remake of Nagin, a highly successful 1976 Hindi film, which in turn was inspired by François Truffaut's film The Bride Wore Black, based on Cornell Woolrich's novel of the same name.

Eric Forrester

And then Pam sabotages the latest showcase by showering Donna—wearing the showstopper gown—with honey, both a reference to Brian De Palma's 1976 film, Carrie (in which the title character is showered with blood) and to Eric and Donna's well-known habit of using honey during sex play.

Francesco Scavullo

Scavullo also created shots for various movie posters, album covers and Broadway shows, including one for A Star is Born (featuring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), a portrait of Julie Andrews for Blake Edwards' Victor Victoria.

Funky Divas

The second single, "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" (a cover of the Aretha Franklin hit from the film Sparkle), also became a top ten hit on the US Hot 100 (and also their fifth #1 single in the US R&B chart).

Hollywood novel

The Love of The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel written by Fitzgerald, but left incomplete before his death about a studio executive Monroe Stahr, and later adapted into The Last Tycoon starring Robert De Niro.

Home Theater Network

Prior to The Disney Channel's April 1983 launch, Walt Disney Pictures licensed select live-action films to many premium cable networks (including HBO, Showtime and Spotlight); as a result, HTN featured Disney fare such as Freaky Friday, Snowball Express, Pete's Dragon, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The North Avenue Irregulars.

Ichchhadhari Nag

Many Bollywood movies incorporate the Ichchadhari Nag legends, or the character of Nagraj, such as Nagin (1954 film), Sridevi in the 1986 movie Nagina (film), and Reena Roy in Nagin (1976 film).

Jean-François Richet

It is a loose remake of John Carpenter's 1976 film of the same name, with an updated plot.

Lääz Rockit

The group takes its name from the finale of the 1976 Clint Eastwood movie, The Enforcer, involving the use of a M72 LAW rocket.

Larry Wilcox

Then it was on to the 1976 film The Last Hard Men, TV appearances, commercials, and the TV show CHiPs.

Patrick Gleeson

Gleeson has been involved in the scoring of a number of film soundtracks, including The Plague Dogs, Apocalypse Now, Crossroads and The Bedroom Window.

Priscilla Pointer

Pointer has appeared in many films, including Carrie (1976), in which she played the onscreen mother of her real-life daughter Amy Irving, The Onion Field (1979), Mommie Dearest (1981), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Coyote Moon (1999).

Sodium vapor process

It was used in the 1970s for scenes in Island at the Top of the World, Gus, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Freaky Friday, Escape to Witch Mountain, Pete's Dragon, and The Black Hole.

Space Force

Cues from Logan's Run, Outland, and Capricorn One can be heard in series one, while music from The Wind and the Lion, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gremlins and Alien can be heard in series two.

Student Bodies

Carnival of Souls, Black Christmas, Carrie, Halloween, When a Stranger Calls, The Shining, Friday the 13th, and Prom Night.

Susan Ruttan

Her most dramatic role to date was in the 2004 remake of Helter Skelter, in which she played the mother of Linda Kasabian.

The Double-D Avenger

It's of special interest to cult movie fans since it's the only "reunion film" of Russ Meyer's famous actresses Kitten Natividad (Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens), Haji (Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and Raven De La Croix (Up!).

The Last Exorcism Part II

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that The Last Exorcism Part II was an "unimpressive follow-up to The Last Exorcism", though praising Ashley Bell's "... memorable, unsettling performance that easily can be compared to Sissy Spacek’s Carrie".

Tim Kincaid

Since then, he has appeared in non-sexual roles in a few adult films and makes an appearance as a commentator in Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (2008) a documentary about Jack Wrangler, the first gay adult superstar and the star of Kansas City Trucking Co.


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2 Filhos de Francisco

Until 2008, 2 Filhos de Francisco used to be considered the second biggest audience of a Brazilian film (after the 1976 film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands).

Ena Begović

Begović began acting early, making her first screen appearance at the age of 16 through a small part in Okupacija u 26 slika, a controversial 1976 film directed by Lordan Zafranović.

Eureka Locomotive

The Eureka's last film appearance was in the 1976 film, The Shootist, and it was sold thereafter to Old Vegas, an amusement park in Henderson, Nevada, where it was placed on display.

Fighting Mad

Fighting Mad is a 1976 film directed by Jonathan Demme, about an Arkansas farmer played by Peter Fonda who uses Guerrilla tactics against corrupt land developers evicting him and his neighbors in order to stripmine their land.

Garabit viaduct

The Garabit Viaduct was used to represent the condemned "Cassandra Crossing" bridge in the 1976 film The Cassandra Crossing.

Grigori Kromanov

His 1976 film Brillianty dlya diktatury proletariata (Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat) is based on the homonymous 1974 detective novel by Yulian Semyonov.

Harry M. Rosenfeld

In the 1976 film All the President's Men, Rosenfeld was played by Jack Warden.

Hatfield Peverel

Hatfield Peverel Station is seen quite extensively in the 1976 film Exposé starring Linda Hayden and Fiona Richmond.

La gran aventura del Zorro

La gran aventura del Zorro ("The Great Adventure of Zorro") is a 1976 film starring Rodolfo de Anda in a Mexican version of Zorro, directed by Raúl de Anda and featuring such actors as Helena Rojo and Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.

Letheringham

Akenfield, a 1976 film was partly shot on location in Letheringham.

Liuxing Hudie Jian

It is the basis of a 1976 film Killer Clans, a 1978 television series produced by Hong Kong's CTS, the 1993 film Butterfly and Sword, a 2003 mainland Chinese television series and a franchise of video games.

Porque te vas

Only when the song was used in Carlos Saura's 1976 film Cría Cuervos (Raising Crows), and the film went on to be honored at the Cannes Film Festival (Jury grand prize) and the Berlin Film Festival (jury special prize), did the song become internationally known and a hit.

Stunt cock

In the 1976 film The First Nudie Musical, the character Rosie (played by Cindy Williams of Laverne & Shirley fame) announces the arrival of a "stunt cock" to complete the filming of a key porn scene.

Supercoven

The sample on "Wizards of Gore" is from the 1976 film Blood Sucking Freaks by Joel M. Reed, but the song is based on the 1970 film The Wizard of Gore by Herschell Gordon Lewis.

The Billion Dollar Bubble

The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America.

The Brothers Johnson

Two of the duo's songs were featured on the soundtrack of the 1976 film Mother, Jugs & Speed.

The Love of the Last Tycoon

A 1976 film version was adapted for the screen by Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter, directed by Elia Kazan (his last film), produced by Sam Spiegel, and released as The Last Tycoon.

The Return of the Shaggy Dog

Return of the Shaggy Dog is a 1987 two-part television movie interquel to the 1959 feature film The Shaggy Dog, but the character timelines are before that of the 1976 film The Shaggy D.A., all produced by The Walt Disney Company.

The Shadow Line

Andrzej Wajda has made a 1976 film adaptation of the novel under its Polish title - Smuga cienia.

Viamala

The Via Mala was used by the German film director Werner Herzog as a location in his 1976 film Heart of Glass.

VOTD

Voyage of the Damned, a 1974 novel and 1976 film concerning the fate of the MS St.