Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster...

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...

Local Hero is the debut soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released in April 1983 by Vertigo Records internationally...

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...

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...

Citizenship (DIAC). The Local Hero Award acknowledges extraordinary contributions made by Australians in their local community. A Local Hero from each state and...

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...

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...

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...

Alan; Astaire, Mark (1983). Local Hero: The Making of the Film. Edinburgh: Polygon Books. p. 39. ISBN 978-0904919677. "Local Hero (Original Soundtrack) –...

Schoenstein in Animal House (1978), oil company executive "Mac" MacIntyre in Local Hero (1983), pickle store owner Sam Posner in Crossing Delancey (1988) and...

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...

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...

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...

Retrieved 8 January 2011. "Peter Mullan: Local hero". TheGuardian.com. 7 January 2001. Matheou, Demetrios; "Local Hero" Guardian.co.uk, 7 January 2001 (Retrieved:...

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...

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...

Local Heroes is a science and history television programme in the United Kingdom, presented by Adam Hart-Davis. Made by Screenhouse Productions and directed...

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...

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...

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...

empty-headed niceness of local radio.” Forsyth was able to raise money to make the film on the basis of his success with Local Hero. "Local Hero created the impression...

band's first four albums, the ExtendedancEPlay EP and Mark Knopfler's Local Hero soundtrack. Many of the songs have reworked arrangements and extended...

Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. In Homeric Greek, "hero" (ἥρως, hḗrōs) refers to the mortal offspring...

Local Heroes was a British online service that connected people with local plumbers, electricians, and other tradespeople. It was launched in early 2016...

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...

a Scottish actress known for her roles as Stella Urquhart in the film Local Hero and Gill Templar in the television series Rebus. Black was born and grew...

also had roles in internationally successful films including Braveheart, Local Hero and Les Misérables. Norton spent part of his childhood in Moffat Street...

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...

Retrieved 26 April 2020. For "Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)": "Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes songs and albums". Official Charts Company. Retrieved...