Category: Richard Winters
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Richard Winters Leadership Project update
Cast members from Band of Brothers will be be reuniting to jump out of planes (!) later this year in aid of the Richard Winters Leadership Project, a campaign to raise money for a monument in Normandy in honor of the late Major Winters. Over 20 cast members have committed to the event. To learn…
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‘Homeland’ begins filming in Charlotte, NC
Homeland began filming in Charlotte this week and will continue filming through the end of the month: Hollywood has come to town, and south Charlotte’s Mountainbrook neighborhood is front and center. Film giant 20th Century Fox is shooting a pilot episode of a TV show, “Homeland,” for Showtime and they’re filming much of it in…
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Damian Lewis comments on Winters
More on Major Richard Winters’ passing. CNN has this quote from Damian Lewis: Actor Damian Lewis, who portrayed Winters in the series, told CNN that Winters’ support for him during the production was “generous and unstinting. I’ll never forget his rallying cry to me to ‘hang tough!’ “He has died quietly, in private, without fanfare…
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Maj. Richard Winters Dies
RIP Major Winters. Hershey native, Major Dick Winters, the World War two hero has died. News 8 has learned about his passing through a close family friend. Winters passed away January 2. He was laid to rest on Saturday, January 8. He had requested a private, unannounced funeral service. Winters grew up in Lancaster, attending…
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BBC Press release on ‘Stolen’
The BBC Press Office has more on the BBC One film Stolen: Damian Lewis plays Detective Inspector Anthony Carter in a fast-paced thriller about human trafficking in Britain today, where children are brought here for a better life but end up working illegally outside the system. It’s a story of modern child slavery that demonstrates…
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New project, ‘The Baker’ US DVD release, Richard Winters Leadership project
New project: According to IMDb, Damian Lewis has been cast as “Gareth” in the film Will. According to the film’s IMDB page, it is being directed by Ellen Perry who is also listed as co-writer along with Zack Anderson. The film also lists actors Kristian Kiehling and Perry Eggelton in the cast and is in…
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Congressman Holden of Pennsylvania has introduced a new resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives to award Major Richard Winters the Medal of Honor. If you’ve seen Damian Lewis’s portrayal of Major Winters in Band of Brothers then you understand why he deserves this recognition. U.S. citizens are asked to contact their Congressional Representatives to…
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Thank you to Linda from the Major Dick Winters site for uploading scans of the “Deluxe Edition” of the new Easy Co. 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment – In Photographs publication autographed by Damian Lewis. Click here to sign a petition asking NBC executives to renew Life starring Damian Lewis for a 3rd season. Vote to…