• 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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    known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Wise Blood (1979), Ragtime (1981), Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Exorcist III (1990), Alien Resurrection (1997), and the...
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). His other film appearance include roles in Mississippi Burning (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990),...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    typecast in authority figure roles, such as Mayor Tilman in the film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, Sheriff Hoyt in the fifth and sixth...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • York who worked primarily within black film. He is best known for Mississippi Burning, Penitentiary, A Rage in Harlem, and Who's the Man?. Djola's breakout...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • In 1989, Mitchell was working as a court reporter when the film Mississippi Burning inspired him to look into old civil rights cases that many thought...
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