• Local Hero or Local Heroes may refer to: Local Hero (film), a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama by Bill Forsyth Local Hero (soundtrack), a music album by Mark...
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  • Local Hero is a 1983 British dramedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis...
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  • Local Hero is the debut soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released in April 1983 by Vertigo Records internationally...
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  • Home: Theme of the Local Hero" is an instrumental rock track by Mark Knopfler, and the closing track from the 1983 film Local Hero soundtrack. It was...
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  • A local hero (ローカルヒーロー, rōkaru hīrō, also written as gotōchi hīrō (ご当地ヒーロー)) is a Japanese superhero who is created to represent a particular region of...
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  • Local Hero (Korean: 동네의 영웅; lit. Neighborhood Hero) is a 2016 South Korean espionage television drama series, starring Park Si-hoo, Jo Sung-ha, Lee Soo-hyuk...
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  • Citizenship (DIAC). The Local Hero Award acknowledges extraordinary contributions made by Australians in their local community. A Local Hero from each state and...
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    date. He has composed and produced film scores for nine films, including Local Hero (1983), Cal (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), Wag the Dog (1997) and...
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  • Local Hero is a musical with music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler, and a book by Bill Forsyth and David Greig. The musical is based on the 1983 film of the...
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    Alan; Astaire, Mark (1983). Local Hero: The Making of the Film. Edinburgh: Polygon Books. p. 39. ISBN 978-0904919677. "Local Hero (Original Soundtrack) –...
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    Momotarō (category Heroes in mythology and legend)
    and other works that portray the tale of this hero. There is a popular notion that Momotarō is a local hero of Okayama Prefecture, but this claim was invented...
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    Schoenstein in Animal House (1978), oil company executive "Mac" MacIntyre in Local Hero (1983), pickle store owner Sam Posner in Crossing Delancey (1988) and...
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    referred to as Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes, to record a new version of "Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero" to support the Teenage Cancer Trust and...
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    of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance (1985) and the film Local Hero (1983). She starred in the thriller Appointment with Death (1988) and...
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    from Dire Straits in 1983, when he released his first soundtrack album Local Hero. That same year he produced his first album, Infidels for Bob Dylan. Between...
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    Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. In Homeric Greek, "hero" (ἥρως, hḗrōs) refers to the mortal offspring...
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    Local Heroes was a British online service that connected people with local plumbers, electricians, and other tradespeople. It was launched in early 2016...
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    Scottish film director and writer known for his films Gregory's Girl (1981), Local Hero (1983) and Comfort and Joy (1984) as well as his adaptation of the Marilynne...
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    Year" for 2010 by Woollahra Council, the local government authority responsible for the Gap. He received Local Hero Award for Australia in 2011, the National...
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    Retrieved 8 January 2011. "Peter Mullan: Local hero". TheGuardian.com. 7 January 2001. Matheou, Demetrios; "Local Hero" Guardian.co.uk, 7 January 2001 (Retrieved:...
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  • Bello, Ed Harris, and William Hurt. In the film, a diner owner becomes a local hero after he foils an attempted robbery, but has to face his past enemies...
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  • band's first four albums, the ExtendedancEPlay EP and Mark Knopfler's Local Hero soundtrack. Many of the songs have reworked arrangements and extended...
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  • with different abilities. The first season of the series titled The Local Heroes! was released on February 2, 2021. The second season, subtitled The Intergalactic...
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  • is a Scottish actress notable for playing Stella Urquhart in the film Local Hero and DCS Gill Templer in the TV series Rebus. She has also appeared in...
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    she has acted in several television dramas such as Fashion King (2012), Local Hero (2016), Innocent Defendant (2017), Dae Jang Geum Is Watching (2018), Bossam:...
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    lessons published on YouTube. In 2018, Woo was awarded the Australia's Local Hero Award. Woo's ethnic Chinese parents migrated to Australia from Malaysia...
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  • and "Local Hero" is about a time that he saw a picture of himself in a store window, which the salesgirl said was a picture of "just a local hero". "Souls...
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  • also had roles in internationally successful films including Braveheart, Local Hero and Les Misérables. Norton spent part of his childhood in Moffat Street...
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  • efforts of those who work at a grass roots level through the "Australia's Local Hero" award. The Australian of the Year award receives substantial sponsorship...
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  • Stranger, his most notable roles were those in Gumshoe, Britannia Hospital, Local Hero and Defence of the Realm. Mackay was acknowledged as a strong character...
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