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48 unusual facts about Mel Gibson


Alexander Brod

In 2004, the Bureau was considering filing a lawsuit against Mel Gibson, the director of "The Passion of the Christ" and the film’s distributor in Russia.

Andrew Bovell

His other films credits include Edge of Darkness (2010) starring Mel Gibson and The Book of Revelation (2006).

Avi Korein

The Israeli bouncer-turned-bodyguard has provided security services for Bruce Willis and, since about 1996, Mel Gibson.

Battle of the Curragh

The Curragh plains were later used as a location to recreate the Battle of Stirling Bridge in Mel Gibson's 1995 film Braveheart.

Bruce Davey

A partner in Icon Entertainment alongside Mel Gibson, Sydney-born Davey has produced many films including Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ, Push, and Braveheart for which he won an Academy Award.

Chasen's

Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Richard Nixon, James Stewart, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Kirk Douglas and Ronald Reagan were still regulars, along with newer celebrities such as John Travolta, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Mel Gibson.

Dara Coleman

He was made famous as the redcoat sergeant defying Mel Gibson in the 2000 movie The Patriot by shouting "This is the King's highway, and I'd advise you to make way! Ready arms! By twos!".

Donal Gibson

Donal Gibson (born February 13, 1958) is an American actor, and younger brother of award-winning actor and director Mel Gibson.

Ed Limato

Edward Frank "Ed" Limato (July 10, 1936 – July 3, 2010) was an American talent agent and a senior vice president at the William Morris Agency, representing clients such as Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicolas Cage, Mel Gibson, Steve Martin, Richard Gere, and Denzel Washington.

Elmar Wepper

Elmar Wepper (born 16 April 1944) is a German actor best known for dubbing Mel Gibson since the 1980's.

Farhad Safinia

Apocalypto (2006), which he co-wrote with director/producer Mel Gibson, is his first feature length screenplay.

Ford XB Falcon

In the movie Mad Max, Mel Gibson's black Pursuit Special was a limited GT351 version of a 1973 Ford XB Falcon Hardtop.

Graeme Brosnan

While at NIDA Graeme studied under such luminaries as George Ogilvie (Mad Max, Bodyline) and George Whalley (On Our Selection, Harp in the South) and worked on Whalley’s Jane Street Theatre production of Waiting for Godot which starred Mel Gibson and Geoffrey Rush.

H8R

Had the series not been canceled, the producers had hoped to book Sarah Palin, Joan Rivers, Mel Gibson and Lady Gaga for future episodes.

Halfway, Cambuslang

He was a friend of Robert Burns and wrote a poem about William Wallace called Blind Harry's Wallace, a rendering into contemporary English of a medieval Scots poem, which was eventually used as the basis for the screenplay that became the Mel Gibson blockbuster Braveheart.

Hilario Chi Canul

Hilario Chi Canul (Born 16 October 1981) is a Mexican linguist of Maya ethnicity who worked as a translator and Yucatec Maya language coach in the production of the 2006 movie Apocalypto by Mel Gibson.

Hubert Gagnon

He is best known as the voice of Homer Simpson in the Quebec version of The Simpsons, the voice of Mel Gibson in many movies, and also the character Picabo on the québécois TV show Les Oraliens.

Icons of Evil

The sample in "Where is Your God Now" is taken from the Mel Gibson film The Passion of the Christ and from William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.

Jacques Frantz

He is renowned for his voice, which he has leant to many well known actors such as Robert De Niro, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, and Nick Nolte.

Lee Baca

After the July 28, 2006 arrest of Mel Gibson for drunk driving, the Los Angeles Sheriff Department initially told the press that Mel Gibson was arrested without incident or special treatment.

Malpais, Costa Rica

The area has recently become famous due to several celebrities buying land and building dream houses, Mel Gibson, Gisele Bündchen and Bobbie Phillips, who began bringing celebrities to town several years ago with her private hideaway retreat in the hills of Mal Pais.

Marko Zaror

In Machete Kills (2013), he plays an associate of main villain Luther Voz (Mel Gibson), using his own name Zaror as role name.

Marquetta Goodwine

Goodwine served as a consultant for the 2000 Mel Gibson film The Patriot, which featured scenes set on the South Carolina coast of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.

Monica Migliorino Miller

The latter is an attempt to outline the theology present in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

Morris Birdyellowhead

Morris Birdyellowhead, also known as Morris Bird, is a Native Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Flint Sky in the 2007 epic film Apocalypto, directed by Mel Gibson.

Northern Baptist Theological Seminary

In 2004 NBTS's then-president Charles Moore joined many other Protestant evangelicals in endorsing Roman Catholic film director Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

One of the Living

The track was one of two songs Turner recorded for the soundtrack for the Australian post-apocalyptic film (in which she also co-starred alongside Mel Gibson).

Palm Beach, New South Wales

1978- Mel Gibson stars in the movie "Tim" filmed mostly at Barrenjoey Customs House (1911)

Paso de Ovejas

The city of Paso de Ovejas, along with the city of Catemaco, Veracruz, was one of two cities used for most of the filming of Apocalypto (a 2006 film produced by Mel Gibson).

Philip K. Eichner

First, in 2004, when accusations of anti-Semitism were raised against Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Eichner was a strong public supporter of the film.

Philip Suriano

Another small but notable appearance was in 1989's Lethal Weapon 2 (also with Pesci) as L.A.P.D. Detective Joseph Ragucci, who makes a bet with Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and loses, but notably pays him with an illegal krugerrand.

Piotr Sobociński

His career was hitting a peak in the mid-1990s when he was asked by Ron Howard to work on the film Ransom starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo.

Protevangelium

There is a direct reference to the Protevangelium in the opening moments of Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ, where the character of Jesus, while praying in a garden, stomps on the head of a snake.

Pursuit Special

Within this storyline, Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) is offered the black Pursuit Special, referred to as a V8 Interceptor, as an incentive to stay on the force as their top pursuit man after he reveals his desire to quit.

Ralph Ovadal

Vehemently anti-Catholic, he openly calls the pope "antichrist," and led protests in front of movie theaters showing Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ.

Richard D. Hansen

Hansen worked as a historical consultant on the 2006 Mel Gibson film, Apocalypto, and has appeared in 25 film documentaries including several National Geographic specials, the Discovery Channel, CNN, CNN International, Koch Television, British Broadcasting Corp, Sixty Minutes Australia, CBS, History Channel, ABC 20/20, ABC Primetime Live, ABC Good Morning America, Russia 1 Television, Alstom Foundation Films, TimeLine Films of London,Guatevision, and the Learning Channel.

Richard Donner

It starred Mel Gibson as a widowed narcotics detective with a suicidal bent "who breaks every rule for the sheer joy of it."

Donner directed six films starring Mel Gibson overall, creating a Lethal Weapon franchise with 3 sequels, the last one being Lethal Weapon 4, released in 1998.

Rick Rescorla

The two participated in the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, which Moore would later describe in a 1992 book he co-authored We Were Soldiers Once… And Young, (from which the 2002 Mel Gibson film We Were Soldiers would be adapted).

Rory Culkin

Since then, Culkin has appeared in numerous films, Signs being the most famous, in which he starred alongside Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix.

Rudy Youngblood

Going to a general casting call, Youngblood was selected by the director Mel Gibson to play the leading role of Jaguar Paw in the epic film Apocalypto (2005), about the ending times of Mayan culture.

Sgt. MacKenzie

After "Sgt. MacKenzie" was first released on our Tried and True CD album in 2000, a copy of the song made its way to the hands of Hollywood director, Randall Wallace and actor Mel Gibson.

The original recording is on the ClanWallace live album and it was this recording that inspired Randall Wallace and Mel Gibson to contact Seoras about using the track on the film "Once we were Soldiers" Seoras waved his rights but remains the holder of the production rights returned to him three years after the films release.

Sophie Marceau

Marceau achieved international recognition in 1995 playing the role of Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson's Braveheart.

State Theatre Company of South Australia

Notable actors, writers and directors, working with the Company include Neil Armfield, Ruth Cracknell, Andrew Bovell, Judy Davis, Gale Edwards, Mel Gibson, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sharman, Hugo Weaving and John Wood.

Ted Sutton

He is best known for playing Sergeant Cunningham in SIGNS, a film made by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix.

The Mullanes

This song was issued as a 12" promotional single in the USA to promote the soundtrack to the 1988 Mel Gibson film Tequila Sunrise. It also appears on the Ricky and Pete soundtrack (Tass and Parker, 1988). A re-recorded version of "Recurring Dream" appears on the Crowded House compilation album Afterglow (1999).

Theotokos of Vladimir

A detail of the Virgin's left eye and nose in the icon is part of the logo of Icon Productions, founded by Mel Gibson.


A Great and Terrible Beauty

In July, 2006, Icon Productions, the film production company run by Mel Gibson, announced that it would adapt the book into a film based on A Great and Terrible Beauty, to be written and directed by Charles Sturridge.

Belvoir St Theatre

The building was purchased by a syndicate of people and there are currently 600 owners including noted actors, writers and performers: Robyn Archer, Gillian Armstrong, Peter Carey, Ruth Cracknell, Judy Davis, Mel Gibson, Max Gillies, Dorothy Hewett, Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Dame Joan Sutherland, Patrick White, David Williamson, Neil Armfield, Mike Willesee, Colin Friels, and Gwen Plumb.

Christopher Koch

His novel The Year of Living Dangerously, set in Jakarta during the fall of the Sukarno regime, was made into a film directed by Peter Weir and starring Sigourney Weaver, Mel Gibson and Linda Hunt.

Eva Mylott

Mylott was the paternal grandmother of the actor and film director Mel Gibson and was also related to the Australian pianist Tamara Anna Cislowska.

Lenny Clarke

In 2006, Clarke and Leary appeared on television during a Red Sox telecast and, upon realizing that Red Sox 1st baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of Mel Gibson's anti-semitic comments.

Morgan's Riflemen

Morgan's Riflemen were a key model for the fictional unit portrayed in the hit movie The Patriot, by Mel Gibson.

Susi Graf

She worked as a television producer interviewing numerous film directors such as Quentin Tarantino, John Waters, Terry Gilliam and many more as well as actors like Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson.

The Million Dollar Hotel

In an October 2000 press conference in Sydney, before the Australian release of the film, Mel Gibson said, "I thought it was as boring as a dog's ass."

William Wallace

A well-known account of Wallace's life is presented in the 1995 film Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson as Wallace, written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland.