"Brothers in Arms" - a mini-series about the Second World War, a joint production of the United States and Great Britain. Actors of the series "Brothers in Arms" played a script written on the basis of a book by Stephen Ambrose. He is a historian by profession, therefore his book is of an artistic and documentary nature.
General information
The producers of the series were Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Worked on the script: Tom Hanks, Eric Bork, Graham Yost, John Orloff, Eric Jendresen, Eric Max Fry and Bruce S. McKenna.
The television show premiered on HBO in 2001. The series was so liked by the audience that it is still broadcast from time to time by various television channels around the world.
What about the Brothers in Arms series? The plot of the show is based on the combat path of one of the companies of the US paratrooper regiment. This path runs from the Georgia Fighter Training Camp through Normandy. Rota took part in Operation Market Garden and participated in the Battle of Baston. The mini-series ends with the events of the end of the war.
Each episode of the television series tells a different story. Eight directors worked at once on the creation of Brothers in Arms.
In total, the actors of the series “Brothers in Arms” starred in 10 episodes of the television show.
Actors and roles
For a reliable image of hostilities in the filming of the series involved a huge number of actors.
The main roles were as follows:
- The role of Major Winters was played by actor Damian Lewis.
- The role of captain Nixon went to Ron Livingston.
- The role of second lieutenant Lipton was successfully handled by Donnie Wahlberg.
- The actor Scott Grimes was invited to the role of Sergeant Malarka.
- The role of Staff Sergeant Powers took actor Peter Youngblood Hills.
- Actor Shane Taylor played Eugene Rowe's orderly.
- Matthew Leitch played the role of Staff Sergeant Talbert.
- Rick Gomez was invited to the role of specialist George Luz.
- The role of Sergeant Randleman was taken by actor Michael Cudlitz.
- The role of Private Robert Wynn was played by actor Nicholas Aaron.
- The role of specialist Joseph Libgott went to actor Ross McCall.
- For the role of specialist Frank Perconte was invited James Madio.
- The actor Philip Barantini was taken on the role of Private Sisk.
Heroes of the series "Brothers in Arms"
Actors of the TV show perfectly got used to their roles. Most of all, the audience empathized, of course, with the main character - Richard Winters.
Damian Lewis played first Richard - lieutenant, then captain, and later major. Winters at the end of the war began to command the whole battalion, and after the war he became an entrepreneur, like his military friend Lewis Nixon.
The actor of the TV show "Brothers in Arms" Ron Livingston played that very friend of the lieutenant. According to the script, Lieutenant Nixon was addicted to alcohol and women. Neither one nor the other brought him happiness in life. After going through many battles and battles, Nixon was never able to open fire from firearms.
As the fate of the character “Brothers in Arms” Donnie Wahlberg has developed, it is known that after the war he graduated from the university as a physical engineer and got a job at a factory for the production of plastic and glass products. Lipton Carwood grew up on the career ladder and soon became a production director, and then director of international development.
Specialist Frank Perkonte after the war got a job as a postman and settled in Chicago.
After the war, the military doctor Eugene Rowe took up construction, and Captain Spears remained in the army, fought in Korea, and after a while became lieutenant colonel.
Damien Watkin Lewis
Producer, actor from the UK Damien Lewis was born 02/11/1971 in London. She has been in films since 1993. In addition to The Brothers in Arms, he can be seen in the television series The Forsyte Saga, Life as a Sentence, Wolf Hall, and Homeland.
In 2007, the actor married Helen McCrory. Helen is also an actress. The couple has two children, a son of Gulliver and daughter Manon.
Lewis currently has two awards - an Emmy and a Golden Globe. In total, Damien was nominated three times for the Golden Globe, twice for the Emmy and three more times for the Award of the Guild of Actors.
Ronald Joseph Livingston
Ron was born on 06/05/1967 in the city of Cedar Rapids (Iowa). His mother worked in a Lutheran church, and his father was an engineer. Ron has two younger brothers and a sister. All Livingston brothers are actors, and their sister Jennifer works on television.
Before becoming an actor, Ron managed to graduate from Yale with a degree in Theater and English Literature. After graduating, the future actor moved to Chicago and got a job at the Goodman Theater. In films and television series, Ron Livingston has been acting since 1992.
The actor can be seen in the television series Sex and the City, Practice, Military Legal Service, American Dad!, In the films Little Black Book, 5th Wave, The Spell, and others .
Ronald is married to actress Rosemary DeWitt.
Donald Edmond Wahlberg
Donald Wahlberg is the elder brother of the famous actor Mark Wahlberg. He is not only an actor, but also a singer, composer. Donny was a member of the band New Kids on the Block.
The actor was born on August 17, 1969 in Dorchester, USA in a simple working family. His relatives were originally from Sweden and Ireland.
Donald has been fond of music since childhood, and he has been acting in films since 1996. The actor can be seen in the films Purgatory, The Sixth Sense, Dreamcatcher, The Right to Kill, and others.
Scott Grimes
Scott is not only an actor, but also a singer, songwriter. He was born on 07/09/1971 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Grimes first appeared on the set at the age of 13. Scott's older sister is also an actress.
Scott Grimes can be seen in the films "Critters", "Crimson Tide", "Robin Hood", in the television series "Ambulance", "Doyle's Case", "Think Like a Criminal", "Orville" and others.
Scott Grimes has three music albums released from 1989 to 2010.
The actor was married to a girl named Don Bailey from 1997 to 2007. He has two children.
Rewards Received
The TV show has collected many of the most prestigious awards. The film crew and the actors in the Brothers in Arms series have earned the Golden Globe, six Emmy Awards, the Screenwriters Guild of America Award and many other awards.
Inspired by the success of the Brothers in Arms mini-series, in 2010, producers released a new television series on HBO. This time about the Marine Corps during the Second World War. The series was called "Pacific Ocean".