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Al Leong

As a stuntman, Leong was involved with the production of numerous films including The Golden Child, Last Action Hero, Roland Emmerich's Godzilla, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, and Daredevil.

Alan John

His compositions include original music for various plays, films (such as Three Dollars and The Bank) and TV series (including Love My Way), and the musical theatre works Jonah Jones, Orlando Rourke, and the musical Snugglepot and Cuddlepie for the Sydney Festival 2007 at the Theatre Royal.

Cathy Schulman

A graduate of Yale University, Schulman's screen credits include Isn't She Great, Sidewalks of New York, Employee of the Month, Crash, The Illusionist, and Darfur Now.

Cold deck

In the movie Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean accuses his partner Rusty Ryan of using a cold deck to cheat a group of Hollywood "teen heartthrobs" (cameoing as themselves) out of their money.

Denis Lenoir

Denis Lenoir (born Paris, 1949) is a French cinematographer, whose credits include Uprising, The Clearing, and Thursday.

Disney Channel India

Disney Channel India original movie premiered Luck Luck Ki Baat, the Indian version of The Luck of Irish which debuted successfully.In 2013, a family version of the BBC show Mastermind India was aired with name Disney Q Family Mastermind.

DJ Quest

Quest is also featured in the Doug Pray-directed documentary “Scratch” (Palm Pictures), and is respected as one of today’s most talented and versatile DJ/turntablist.

East Jersey State Prison

The prison's distinctive architecture, with its large dome and imposing metal gates, has appeared in many films including Lock Up, Crazy Joe, Rounders, Malcolm X, He Got Game, The Hurricane, and Ocean's Eleven.

Erin Lear

She is also an office production assistant for the 2001 film The Order and casting director in the television series Scare Tactics.

Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger

Kritzinger was portrayed by Franz Rudnick in a 1984 film Wannseekonferenz, and again by David Threlfall in the 2001 BBC/HBO film Conspiracy.

Guy Burt

He won the Betty Trask Award in 1994 for this work, which was adapted into the 2001 film, The Hole, starring Thora Birch and Daniel Brocklebank.

James Haven

He had minor roles in several films starring his sister, Angelina Jolie, namely Gia (1998), Hell's Kitchen (1998), and Original Sin (2001), as well as in Monster's Ball (2001), which starred his sister's then-husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

Jamie White

Jamie White has also played a part in a few movies, her largest movie role being an MTV VJ and groupie in the 2001 movie Rock Star (Jamie's best friend, Heidi Mark, was also in that movie).

Jamshied Sharifi

Sharifi went on to compose the soundtracks to many major studio and independent films including Muppets From Space, Down To Earth, Nickelodeon film Harriet the Spy and the Paramount/Nickelodeon film Clockstoppers, and contributed to the scores of The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Rugrats Movie

Jonathan Breck

Beginning his career as a stage actor, Breck is most successful for playing the demonic antagonist, The Creeper, in the Jeepers Creepers film series.

Kilcoole

Cassidy's claim to fame was in her appearance in the film The Others and also starring as the lead in the television show Harper's Island.

Little Things of Venom

Track four, "Little Things Of Venom", was used in the soundtrack for the IMAX 3-D film Haunted Castle (2001), in which lead singer Steverlinck also starred.

Loughborough Central railway station

The station has appeared in many film and television programmes, chosen for its retro aesthetic, such as Enigma, Shadowlands and Cemetery Junction.

Louisiana State University Laboratory School

Steven Soderbergh, Hollywood director of several films including Ocean's Eleven

Mazda MX-3

The MX-3 has made several cameos in movies and TV shows to include The Italian Job(twice), Dumb and Dumber, I Robot (with a Kit on, parked in an alley), The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious (John Walsh’s MX-3), Analyze That, Cellular (film), Postal (film), John Doe (TV series) and Session 9.

Monika Schnarre

Schnarre has also made a number of movies, with starring roles in Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Vegas, City of Dreams, Snowbound, and Love on the Side with Marla Sokoloff (2004).

Philippa Campbell

She followed up Via Satellite by producing Christine Jeffs' acclaimed Rain, which premiered in Director’s Fortnight in Cannes in 2002 and was nominated for Best Film at the 2001 New Zealand Film Awards.

Planet of the Apes: The Fall

Planet of the Apes: The Fall (2002) is a novel by William T. Quick that serves as a prequel to the Planet of the Apes film "re-imagining" by Tim Burton.

Rafał Kubacki

He is known from his role as Ursus (Lygia's huge bodyguard) in Quo Vadis (2001 film) directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

Raja Rajeshwari

Sri Raja Rajeshwari (also Sree Raja Rajeshwari) is a 2001 Tamil religious film directed by Bharati Kannan and starring Ramya Krishna, Ramki, Sangavi, and Banupriya.

Renée Asherson

Asherson's last-known film appearance came two years later in the role of the "Old Lady" in Alejandro Amenábar's 2001 film The Others.

Retrofit Films

After graduating from Loyola Marymount University’s film school, Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling, the two founders of Retrofit Films, started their careers working together at Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner’s C/W Productions on high-profile films like Mission Impossible II, Vanilla Sky and The Others, where they contributed to script and story development, research, production and promotion.

Riding in Cars with Boys

Riding in Cars with Boys is a 2001 film based on the autobiography of the same name by Beverly Donofrio about a woman who overcame difficulties, including being a teen mother, and who later earned a master's degree.

Rolls-Royce 20/25

The Rolls Royce 20/25 hp is featured in films such as; The League of Gentlemen (1959), Father Came Too! (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), To Be or Not To Be (1983), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Remains of the Day (1993), Simon Sez (1999), Enigma (2001), etc.

San Bernardino International Airport

The airport has served as the filming location for both the 2001 movie The Fast and the Furious and the 2004 Martin Scorsese film The Aviator using a Lockheed Constellation preserved by the Airline History Museum, and flown in for the shoot, were done at San Bernardino International, with one hangar "dressed" as a Trans World Airlines facility.

San Gabriel Dam

The dam appears in the 2001 action/war film Behind Enemy Lines, starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman, and is set in southern Bosnia.

Sea tractor

The Burgh Island sea tractor also appears as the method of transport between the mainland and the island in Evil Under the Sun (2001 film) TV series of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Sharat Sardana

Sardana was the writer of the BAFTA-nominated short film, Inferno (2001), starring Sanjeev Bhaskar.

Shillpi Sharma

After doing a number of ads, she made her movie debut with director N. Chandra's film Style.

Silverton, Oregon

The first bank robbery and chase scene in the movie Bandits (starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton) was filmed in Silverton.

Snells Beach

The Mahurangi Peninsula was the setting for the 2001 New Zealand film Rain, starring Sarah Peirse and Marton Csokas.

Stereotypes of West and Central Asians in the United States

"The Turk", a Turkish Mafioso in the dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers and "Ahmet Sunay", a Turkish High-Tech Missile Guidance System dealer and "businessman" in the thriller film The International, both played by Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer is another similar stereotype.

The Card Player

The film stars Stefania Rocca and Liam Cunningham and is Argento's second giallo feature of the decade (following Sleepless).

The Dark Secret

Track 5 is a cover of a song by Italian progressive rock band Goblin, composed as part of the soundtrack for the 2001 giallo movie Sleepless, directed by Dario Argento.

Traci Hale

In 2001 Hale wrote a song for the Chris Rock film Down to Earth and songs on albums for Tyrese (RCA), Ginuwine and Usher.

Trona Pinnacles

Over thirty film projects a year are shot among the tufa pinnacles, including backdrops for car commercials and sci-fi movies and television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Disney's Dinosaur, The Gate II, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes.

True Vibe

They may be best known to mainstream audiences for appearing on the title track to 'N Sync members' Lance Bass and Joey Fatone's movie, On the Line.

Turbo-Charged Prelude

Turbo-Charged Prelude is a 2003 short film, directed by Philip Atwell, featuring Paul Walker reprising his role as Brian O'Conner, in a short series of sequences which bridge The Fast and the Furious with its first sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Vyto Ruginis

Vyto has appeared in such films as The Devil's Advocate with Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone, Broken Arrow with John Travolta and Christian Slater, Jumpin' Jack Flash with Whoopi Goldberg, The Fast and The Furious, Auto Focus, and many more.

Zishe Breitbart

Breitbart was played by Finnish strongman Jouko Ahola in a highly fictionalized account of his life in Werner Herzog's 2001 film Invincible.


see also

ABLA

In the 2001 film Hardball, Keanu Reeves coaches a ragtag bunch of kids on an inner-city little league team.

Amy Robbins

Robbins has also appeared on film, playing the part of Maureen in the 2001 film Strange Relations alongside Julie Walters and Paul Reiser, Bryony in the 1997 musical film Up On The Roof alongside actor Adrian Lester, Darla in the 1998 TV movie Nightworld: 30 Years to Life for American channel HBO starring actor Robert Hays, and Sylvie in the 2002 film Killing Me Softly.

Blowin' Up

From the beginning, Jamie expresses his dislike for fellow actor Jason Biggs (notable is the fact Biggs and Kennedy both appeared in Kevin Smith's 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back).

Boubacar Traoré

The book inspired Swiss film director Jacques Sarasin for the 2001 film Je chanterai pour toi ("I'll Sing For You") about Boubacar, released on DVD in 2005.

Claude Perron

She performed Eva (Nino's colleague) in the 2001 film Amélie, and Marion in the 1996 film Bernie.

Counts and Dukes of Guelders

William Thatcher, the lead character in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale played by Heath Ledger claimed to be Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein from Gelderland so as to appear to be of noble birth and thus qualify to participate in jousting.

Danielle de Niese

Ridley Scott's 2001 film Hannibal features a scene from Dante's La Vita Nuova; in it, de Niese sings as the character Beatrice the song "Vide Cor Meum" by Patrick Cassidy.

Darko

Donnie Darko, a 2001 film by Richard Kelly starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jena Malone

Delia, Alberta

Delia was one of several Canadian filming locations used in the 2001 film Knockaround Guys, starring Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper.

Delivering Milo

Delivering Milo is a 2001 film written by David Hubbard and directed by Nick Castle.

Doe Boy

The Doe Boy, a 2001 film written and directed by Randy Redroad

DreamWorks Animation in amusement parks

The film is chronologically sequenced between the original 2001 film Shrek and Shrek 2 which was released in 2004.

Edges of the Lord

Edges of the Lord is an award-winning 2001 film, written and directed by Yurek Bogayevicz, set in Poland during World War II, starring Willem Dafoe and Haley Joel Osment.

Enemy at the Gate

Enemy at the Gates, a 2001 film starring Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes, partly based on William Craig's book.

Goodbye Charlie Bright

Goodbye Charlie Bright is a 2001 film directed by Nick Love and starring Paul Nicholls, Roland Manookian and Danny Dyer.

Graham Street

Graham Street was featured in a scene from the 2001 film Rush Hour 2.

HMS Evadne

The Evadne (now Marala) was the setting of the 2001 film The Cat's Meow, in which she represented William Randolph Hearst's yacht, the Oneida.

Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote

Randall Wallace, the screenwriter of the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, readily admitted that he copied the line from Tora! Tora! Tora! The director of Tora! Tora! Tora!, Richard Fleischer, stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary.

Jewel of the Sahara

Jewel of the Sahara is a 2001 film starring Gerard Butler, Clifford David as the old Francois Renard and Peter Franzén as the young Francois Renard.

Jonathan M. Woodward

He also appeared as Dr. Jason Posner in the 2001 film Wit, which was based on the play of the same name written by Margaret Edson.

Jonathan Wade-Drahos

Jonathan Wade-Drahos is an American film and television actor who is most famous for his lead role as John Webster in Dirk Shafer's 2001 film Circuit.

Lo Lieh

In 2000s, Lo played Wei Tung's Uncle in 2001 film The Vampire Combat, along with Collin Chou and Valerie Chow.

Matthias Habich

In the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates about Stalingrad, he played the part of General (later Field Marshal) Friedrich Paulus.

May It Be

"May It Be" is a song composed by Irish musician Enya and Roma Ryan featured in Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring.

Normandie Hotel

The hotel served as a locale for one of the four stories that helped compose the storyline for the 2001 film 12 Horas directed by Puerto Rican director Raúl Marchand Sánchez.

North Hollywood Medical Center

Other than being used in Scrubs, the building was featured repeatedly as the hospital in the 2001 film The One, starring Jet Li.

North Moore Street

The same West Broadway/N Moore corner has also been the location for the diner set of It Could Happen to You (1994 film), a set site for Zoolander (2001 film) and, in 2006, the location for a free-standing billboard advertising the animated film Enchanted.

Ramón Menéndez

His only film as a screenwriter and not as a director was the 2001 film Tortilla Soup.

Rapid River, Michigan

One scene from the 2001 film Escanaba in da Moonlight was shot in the Swallow Inn, a popular bar on Main Street.

Sabrina Dhawan

Dhawan is most well known for Monsoon Wedding, a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair; and for Cosmopolitan, a 2003 American cross-cultural romance film directed by Nisha Ganatra and broadcast on PBS.

Vermont State Police

In the 2001 film Super Troopers, the protagonists of the story were patrolmen of the Vermont State Police.

XCU: Extreme Close Up

XCU: Extreme Close Up is a 2001 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham.

Yau Ma Tei Police Station

The Yau Ma Tei Police Station is the location of a scene of the 2001 film Rush Hour 2.

Yellow Bird

The Yellow Bird, a 2001 film adaptation of a 1946 short story by Tennessee Williams of the same name