• Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder...
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    national outrage and an extensive federal investigation, filed as Mississippi Burning (MIBURN), which later became the title of a 1988 film loosely based...
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  • Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, The Milagro Beanfield War, Mississippi Burning, Pelle the Conqueror, Tin Toy, Working Girl, and You Don't Have to...
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    Evita (1996); true-story dramas, including Midnight Express (1978), Mississippi Burning (1988), Come See the Paradise (1990) and Angela's Ashes (1999); family...
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    roles include Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out (1988), Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning (1988), Terry Cruger in Sea of Love (1989), Rowdy Burns in Days of...
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  • 1960) is an American character actor. He had roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine...
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    Bonnie and Clyde (1967), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and Mississippi Burning (1988). Hackman gained further fame for his portrayal of Lex Luthor...
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    Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Mississippi Burning (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990),...
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  • informant for the FBI. Dennis testified against the Klan in the Mississippi Burning case, and once mentioned having met De La Beckwith. The investigation...
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    Michael Schwerner (their murder was later depicted in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, loosely based on these events). The victims were members of the...
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  • has appeared in a number of feature films, including Biloxi Blues, Mississippi Burning, Talk Radio, and In the Family. Overall was born in Nashville, Tennessee...
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    Wise Blood (1979), Ragtime (1981), Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Exorcist III (1990), Critters 4 (1992), Alien Resurrection...
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  • United States v. Cecil Price, et al., also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case, was a criminal trial where the United States...
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    for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Mississippi Burning (1988), Almost Famous (2000), and North Country (2005). McDormand...
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    guest spots in episodic television and had a role in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning before landing the role of Eddie Winslow in Family Matters the following...
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    Never Sang for My Father Nominated 1972 The French Connection Best Actor Won 1989 Mississippi Burning Nominated 1993 Unforgiven Best Supporting Actor Won...
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    including Excalibur, Runaway Train, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans, and In the Name of the Father. Jones has...
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  • producer for Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988), and Billy Crystal's 61* (2001). Colesberry was also an occasional...
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  • John Proctor (FBI agent) (category Law enforcement officials from Mississippi)
    Mississippi Burning, played by Gene Hackman, is loosely based on Proctor. John Proctor died at the Queen City Nursing Home in Meridian, Mississippi on...
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  • and has also been described as a remake of the 1988 American film Mississippi Burning. Three medical friends from Delhi go missing in a small village,...
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  • The Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story, Sheriff Ray Stuckey in Mississippi Burning, The Outsiders, The Hollywood Knights, Fried Green Tomatoes, The...
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    typecast in authority figure roles, such as Mayor Tilman in the film Mississippi Burning (1988), Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine (1997), Sheriff Hoyt in The...
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    run time: 42 minutes; first aired: September 2018. In the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, the character of Agent Monk (played by Badja Djola) and his abduction...
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  • York who worked primarily within black film. He is best known for Mississippi Burning, Penitentiary, A Rage in Harlem, and Who's the Man?.African-American...
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    as Robert Gavel, working as a stunt driver in Steel Magnolias and Mississippi Burning. In the film I Know What You Did Last Summer, Watson performed the...
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  • Murder in Mississippi precedes the storylines of both 1975's Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan and 1988's Mississippi Burning. Murder in...
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    Temptation of Christ and as an FBI Agent Alan Parker's racial drama Mississippi Burning. He also made appearances in Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989)...
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    background work on feature films. He had his first feature film role in Mississippi Burning (1988). Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bell appeared in supporting...
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    Year Film Credit Ref. 1988 Miles from Home Mississippi Burning 1993 The Music of Chance Naked in New York 1994 The Paper Quiz Show Executive producer...
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    state of Mississippi reopen a criminal investigation into the 1964 Mississippi Burning murders of civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, citing...
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