X-Nico

7 unusual facts about Highlander


Alexandra Vandernoot

While having starred in a number of French films, her best-known role internationally is as Tessa Noël, Duncan MacLeod's girlfriend, in the fantasy television series Highlander: The Series.

Andy Briggs

Briggs career began as an uncredited writer working on story development for Highlander: The Series in 1991.

Château de Pierrefonds

The castle has often been used as a location for filming including les Visiteurs, Highlander: The Series, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc and the 1998 version of The Man in the Iron Mask.

Eduardo Spohr

The list of works of fiction which influenced Eduardo goes from Highlander to The Matrix, through childhood cartoons like Saint Seiya.

Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods

Highlander: The Last of the Macleods is a video game developed by Lore Design Limited and published by Atari for the Atari Jaguar CD-ROM home console system.

Miles Richardson

He appeared in three episodes of Midsomer Murders, he has had parts in 'Allo 'Allo, "Doctors"(three times) Maurice, The Remains of the Day, Highlander: The Raven, Hope it Rains and Dirk Gently.

Pont de la Tournelle

Numerous scenes of Highlander: The Series were filmed along the Quai de la Tournelle near and underneath Pont de la Tournelle between 1992 and 1998.


9th century BC

In Highlander, the immortal Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez (Sean Connery) was born in Egypt in 896 BC.

Adrian Paul

He was cast in the role that would bring him to the most prominence to date, that of Duncan MacLeod in the syndicated television series Highlander: The Series, in 1992.

Adrian Paul Hewett (born 29 May 1959), better known as Adrian Paul, is an actor best known for his role on the television series Highlander: The Series as Duncan MacLeod.

Arthur MacArthur, Sr.

MacArthur was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the descendant of Highlander nobility through his father, who had died just seven days before his birth in 1815.

Battle of Walcheren Causeway

At one point, all Calgary Highlander officers in one company were wounded or killed, and the brigade major, George Hees took command of a company.

Bruce Seth Green

His credits include Knight Rider, "V", Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Not related to Buffy actor Seth Green; on occasion, some sources confuse them.), Angel, Dawson’s Creek, Gilmore Girls, Law & Order, Diagnosis Murder, Baywatch, Highlander and other series.

Bunkertor 7

Track 10, "Thorns", has no vocals, but contains a modified sample from the 1986 film Highlander of The Kurgan (Clancy Brown) telling the character Ramirez (Sean Connery), "Tonight you sleep in hell".

Byron Chief-Moon

Chief-Moon has made appearances in several well-known American and Canadian TV shows (such as MacGyver, North of 60, Stargate SG-1, Da Vinci's Inquest, Highlander: The Series, and appeared on Walker, Texas Ranger, as well as several feature films.

Cossacks: European Wars

The English unique units are the Highlander and the Bagpiper.

Duncan MacLeod Timeline:1792-1891

On June 18, on the battlefield of Waterloo (present-day Belgium), Duncan carries a sick soldier on his back and meets Immortal Darius on his way.

Earl Pastko

Pastko's television appearances include Street Justice, Highlander, Street Legal, Kung Fu, Lonesome Dove, Poltergeist, Lexx, Stargate, La Femme Nikita, Once A Thief, The Eleventh Hour, This Is Wonderland, Zixx, Living in Your Car, and The Murdoch Mysteries.

Ellenstein

Rachel Ellenstein is a fictional character from the universe of Highlander movies

Fantasy Gardens

The site was also used as the primary set of the "Revisions" episode of the TV series Stargate SG-1, the "Irresponsible" episode of Stargate Atlantis, the B&W "Monster Movie" episode of Supernatural and on the episodes "Shadows" and "Blackmail" from Highlander: The Series.

Geraint Wyn Davies

He has guest-starred in episodes of Katts and Dog, Highlander: The Series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Outer Limits, RoboCop: The Series, The Hidden Room, Matrix, Diamonds, Sweating Bullets, 1-800-Missing and many more.

Goran

In the South Slavic languages, Goran means "woodsman", "the man from the mountains" or "highlander"; the name can also have a metaphorical meaning "tall as a tree", "the big one", "the tall one".

Gorana

Gorana is a Serbo-Croatian female given name, meaning "female from the mountains", "highlander" etc. (see male form Goran).

Harlan Collins

He has composed and arranged music for Sesame Street, Robin Hood, Highlander, Fighting Words, One Tough Cop and the cult classic This Is Spinal Tap, and wrote "Wrap Me In Your Arms" for Olivia Newton-John, a song included on her 1976 album Come On Over.

Independent Highlander Group

Independent Highlander Group (Agrupación Serrana Independiente -ASI- in Spanish) is a people group who created a candidature for the local elections carried out in Spain on 22 May 2011, for the village of Santibáñez de la Sierra, in the province of Salamanca.

The Independent Highlander Group (ASI), formed by Francisco Aguadero Fernández, José Carlos Martín Sánchez, Francisco Javier Martín Maíllo and Eloy Nieto Panchuelo, got the absolute majority in the Council of Santibáñez de la Sierra, with 95 votes (52,78%) against 51 votes (28,33%) for the PP (conservatives) and 31 (17,22%) for PSOE (socialists).

These results were translated, by the open lists electoral system valid in the villages that have less of 250 inhabitants (group where Santibáñez de la Sierra is now inserted, with 223 inhabitants in 2010), in the 4 councillors election for the Independent Highlander Group (ASI) and 1 for the People's Party (PP).

KASY-TV

Initially, KASY ran cartoons (such as Highlander: The Animated Series, The Flintstones, Mutant League and Mighty Max), old movies, talk shows, classic sitcoms (such as Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show), recent off-network sitcoms (such as Harry and the Hendersons).

King's College London–UCL rivalry

More daringly, in 1956, King's Engineers grabbed Phineas from a cabinet in the University College Union after melting off its locks, the very day before the visit of the Queen Mother to inspect the Scottish Highlander.

Mean Guns

Christopher Lambert plays a highly skilled killer attempting to eliminate all the others and make off with a prize, effectively the same high-concept as underlay his famous oft-reprised role as Connor MacLeod in the Highlander movies.

Melnitsa

For the first several years the band had worked the club and festival circuit, earned a bona fide cult status in the folk-n-fantasy teenage sub-culture and released an acoustic album Doroga Sna (Дорога Сна, The Road of Dream) featuring the underground hit Gorets (Горец, Highlander) set to the Russian translation of Robert Burns' Highland Harry Back Again.

Peter McManus Cafe

McManus' has been featured in a number of films and television programs, including Highlander, Radio Days, Keeping the Faith, Seinfeld, Law & Order and Saturday Night Live.

Pumpkintown, South Carolina

The first white settler, in 1745, was 30-years old Cornelius Keith, a Scottish Highlander who was born at Loch Lomond and as a child had immigrated to Brunswick County, Virginia, to later move with his wife Juda and a son into this frontier area of the Carolinas.

R. R. McIan

She too favoured historical subjects from the Highlands, such as Highlander defending his Family at the Massacre of Glencoe.

Redburn

Unable to find employment at home and deciding to go to sea, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City and bound for Liverpool, England.

Roger Bellon

His opera "Highlander: A Celtic Opera" was co-composed with Harlan Collins.

Silvercup Studios

During its early years the facility was used mostly for the filming of music videos and commercials, although occasionally scenes for motion pictures were shot there, including Highlander and Garbo Talks.

Stan Kirsch

Kirsch has appeared in the short-lived TV series Riders in the Sky, on the soap opera General Hospital in 1992, but his most notable role came later that year on Highlander: The Series as Richie Ryan from 1992 to 1997.

Tony Rotherham

He was the assistant director additional scenes in a 1999 film adaptation of King Lear, and has worked on many other films, including Highlander 1 & 2, Merlin The Quest Begins and several documentaries.

You Got to Move

The film’s centerpiece is the Highlander Folk School (now known as Highlander Research and Education Center), a 75-year-old center for education and social action that was somehow involved in each of the lives chronicled in the documentary.


see also