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unusual facts about historical drama



Ed Grady

Grady's theater roles included three seasons at Unto These Hills, an outdoor Cherokee historical drama staged in Cherokee, North Carolina.

Hu Mei

In 1997, she directed the TV historical drama series Yongzheng Dynasty (Yongzheng Wangchao) which became a phenomenal hit in mainland China.

Leopoldo Lugones

La guerra gaucha (The Gaucho War) is a 1942 Argentine historical drama and epic film directed by Lucas Demare and starring Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, and Amelia Bence.

Rick Warden

He is probably best known for his appearances in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers as 1st Lt. Harry Welsh, the BBC docudrama Dunkirk as Major Phillip Newman RAMC, and the HBO/BBC2 historical drama, Rome, as Quintus Valerius Pompey.

The Story of Jacob and Joseph

The Story of Jacob and Joseph is a 1974 American historical drama television film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the biblical Book of Genesis with a screenplay written by Ernest Kinoy.


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Alessandro Safina

In 2003, Safina performed the English and Korean vocals for a Korean song called Hamangyeon (하망연(何茫然)), which was featured as part of the soundtrack for Dae Jang Geum, a popular South Korean historical drama TV series.

Ann Tyrrell

In 1953, she appeared unbilled as Mary Tudor sister of Queen Elizabeth I in the M-G-M historical drama Queen Bess and in 1955, she appeared in the film Seven Angry Men with Raymond Massey and Jeffrey Hunter.

Bailoretto, la aventura de un rebelde

Bailoretto, la aventura de un rebelde is a 1985 Argentine historical drama about Juan Bautista Bailoretto directed and written by Atilio Polverini and Sebastián Larreta.

Chavenage House

Two productions have be shot at Chavenage in 2013, 'The Unknown Heart' based on a idea by Rosamunde Pilcher as well as Channel 4's new historical drama 'New Worlds'.

David A. R. White

In 2012 he produced the historical drama Apostle Peter and the Last Supper starring Robert Loggia and Bruce Marchiano.

Emil August Fieldorf

In (2009) a historical drama movie entitled Generał Nil based on Fieldorf's life premiered in Poland to generally positive reviews.

Francisco Goya

Goya in Bordeaux (1999) Spanish historical drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura about the life of Francisco de Goya.

Freedom Road

Freedom Road was a 1979 American TV historical drama mini-series starring boxer Muhammad Ali and Kris Kristofferson, based on the 1944 novel by Howard Fast and directed by Jan Kadar.

Germanicus

He was featured in the ITV historical drama series The Caesars (TV series) played by Eric Flynn, the second episode is also named 'Germanicus'.

Indira Varma

Varma has had a number of television and film roles, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in 1997 and Bride and Prejudice in 2004, and the young Roman wife Niobe during the first season of BBC/HBO's historical drama series Rome.

Joseph Grew

In the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, an historical drama about the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the part of US Ambassador Joseph Grew was played by Meredith Weatherby.

Kara Mustafa Pasha

In the 2012 Polish and Italian fictional historical drama film September Eleven 1683 about the Battle of Vienna, Kara Mustafa Pasha is portrayed by Italian actor Enrico Lo Verso.

Khachik Dashtents

Dashtents is an author of poetry collections ("Songbook", 1932; "Spring Songs", 1934; "Fire", 1936), "Tigran The Great" a historical drama (1947), translations from William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Saroyan.

Kim Kibum

In October 2011 Kim played Joseon scholar-official Pak Paengnyeon in historical drama Deep Rooted Tree.

Miki Sakai

In January 2008, Miki Sakai appeared in the 10-hour long TV historical drama Tokugawa Fūunroku Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune.

Moon Geun-young

Following her early success, she returned to the screen in 2001 as the young Empress Myeongseong (Lee Mi-yeon played the adult version) on the popular historical drama Empress Myeongseong.

Morten Tyldum

He will make his English-language debut with the historical drama The Imitation Game about the life of mathematician Alan Turing starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

Mukul Nag

He is best known for playing the revered saint, Sai Baba of Shirdi, in the Hindi language historical drama series Shirdi Ka Sai Baba.

Northcott Theatre

In its first years, the company originated a number of plays of West Country interest, including new historical drama by Jack Emery and an adaptation of the Cornish Passion Play.

Peter Hinwood

After Rocky Horror, he capped his cinematic career with a bit role in Paul Humfress and Derek Jarman's homoerotic Roman historical drama, Sebastiane.

Salvador Espriu

The tremendous public success of La pell de brau (1960) signified the popular recognition of Espriu: the author posed the historical drama of Sepharad (poet's nickname for Spain after the Jewish usage) in poems with a high spiritual, moral and political resonance.

The Great Conqueror's Concubine

The Great Conqueror's Concubine, alternatively known as King of Western Chu, is a historical drama film directed by Stephen Shin and Wei Handao, starring Ray Lui, Rosamund Kwan, Zhang Fengyi and Gong Li.

Theo Trebs

Trebs previously played supporting roles in Lilly the Witch – The Dragon and the Magic Book (2008), Krupp – A German Family (2008), as Alfried Krupp (aged 10–13 years) and as Ferdinand in Michael Haneke's award-winning historical drama The White Ribbon (2009).

William Kong

He co-produced the historical drama war film called The Flowers of War.

Winston Chao

His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm (1997), a double role in the historical drama Palace of Desire, the biographical mini-series The Legend of Eileen Chang (2004), the historical drama Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan (2007), the adaptation of Ba Jin's novel Cold Nights (Han ye, 2009), and the portrayal of Confucius (2011).

Yermak Timofeyevich

In 1996, directors Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valeri Uskov produced the film Yermak, a historical drama about the conquest of Siberia which starred Viktor Stepanov, Irina Alfyorova, and Nikita Dzhigurda.