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A composer ( Latin " compn "; literally " one who puts together ") is a person who creates or writes ___MASK82___ , which can be vocal ___MASK82___ ( for a singer or choir ), instrumental ___MASK82___ ( e . g ., for solo piano , string quartet , wind quintet or orchestra ) or ___MASK82___ which combines both instruments and voices ( e . g ., ___MASK80___ or art song , which is a singer accompanied by a pianist ). The core meaning of the term refers to individuals who have contributed to the tradition of Western ___MASK87___ through creation of works expressed in written musical notation ( e . g ., sheet ___MASK82___ scores ). Charlton Heston ( born John Charles Carter or Charlton John Carter ; October 4 , 1923  April 5 , 2008 ) was an American ___MASK32___ and political activist . Nigel John Dermot " Sam " Neill ( born 14 September 1947 ), known professionally as Sam Neill , is a Northern Ireland born ___MASK33___ actor who first achieved leading roles in films such as "" and " Dead Calm " and on television in " Reilly , Ace of Spies ". He won a broad international audience in 1993 for his roles as Alisdair Stewart in " The Piano " and Dr . Alan Grant in " Jurassic Park ", a role he reprised in 2001 ' s " Jurassic Park III ". Neill also had notable roles in " Merlin ", " The Hunt for Red October " and " The Tudors ". In 2016 , he starred in " Hunt for the Wilderpeople " alongside Julian Dennison , to great acclaim . He holds ___MASK33___ and British nationality , but identifies primarily as a New Zealander . A screenplay ___MASK24___ , screenwriter for short , scriptwriter or scenarist is a ___MASK24___ who practices the craft of screenwriting , ___MASK79___ screenplays on which mass media such as films , television programs , comics or video games are based . Uta Thyra Hagen ( 12 June 1919  14 January 2004 ) was a German American actress and theatre practitioner . She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of " Who ' s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?" by Edward Albee ( who called her " a profoundly truthful actress "). Because Hagen was on the ___MASK23___ blacklist , in part because of her association with Paul Robeson , her film opportunities dwindled and she focused her career on New York theatre . She twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999 . She later became a highly influential acting teacher at New York ' s Herbert Berghof Studio and authored best - selling acting texts , " Respect for Acting ", with Haskel Frankel , and " A Challenge for the Actor ". Her most substantial contributions to theatre pedagogy were a series of " object exercises " that built on the work of Konstantin Stanislavski and Yevgeny Vakhtangov . She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981 . Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American ___MASK71___ - ___MASK56___ adventure film and the third installment in the " Jurassic Park " film series . The film stars Sam Neill , William H . Macy , Téa Leoni , Alessandro Nivola , Trevor Morgan , and Michael Jeter . It is the first film in the series not to have been directed by Steven Spielberg , nor based on a book by Michael Crichton ( though numerous scenes in the film were ultimately taken from Crichton ' s novels " Jurassic Park " and " The Lost World "). The film takes place on Isla Sorna , off Central America ' s Pacific coast , the island featured in the , where a divorced couple has tricked Dr . Alan Grant into going in order to help them find their son . ___MASK71___ ___MASK56___ film ( or sci - fi ) is a genre that uses speculative , fictional science - based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science , such as extraterrestrial lifeforms , alien worlds , extrasensory perception and time travel , along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft , robots , cyborgs , interstellar travel or other technologies . ___MASK71___ ___MASK56___ films have often been used to focus on political or social issues , and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition . In many cases , tropes derived from written science ___MASK56___ may be used by filmmakers ignorant of or at best indifferent to the standards of scientific plausibility and plot logic to which written science ___MASK56___ is traditionally held . Michael De Luca ( born August 13 , 1965 ) is an American ___MASK14___ producer and screenwriter . The former president of production at both New Line Cinema and DreamWorks , De Luca has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Picture . Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 American action ___MASK78___ ___MASK14___ directed by Tony Scott , written by Larry Ferguson and Warren Skaaren and starring Eddie Murphy . It is the sequel to the 1984 ___MASK14___ " Beverly Hills Cop " and the second installment in the " Beverly Hills Cop " series . Murphy returns as Detroit police ___MASK37___ Axel Foley , who reunites with Beverly Hills detectives Billy Rosewood ( Judge Reinhold ) and John Taggart ( John Ashton ) to stop a robbery / gun - running gang after Captain Andrew Bogomil ( Ronny Cox ) is shot and seriously wounded . John Howard Carpenter ( born January 16 , 1948 ) is an American ___MASK14___ director , screenwriter , producer , ___MASK58___ , editor and composer . Although Carpenter has worked in numerous ___MASK14___ genres , he is most commonly associated with horror and science ___MASK56___ films from the 1970s and 1980s . Northern Ireland (; Ulster Scots : "") is a top - level constituent unit of the ___MASK60___ in the northeast of Ireland . It is variously described as a country , province , region , or " part " of the ___MASK60___ , amongst other terms . Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland . In 2011 , its population was 1 , 810 , 863 , constituting about 30 % of the island ' s total population and about 3 % of the UK ' s population . Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement , the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters , while other areas are reserved for the British government . Northern Ireland co - operates with the Republic of Ireland in some areas , and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to " put forward views and proposals " with " determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments ". Sanford Meisner ( August 31 , 1905  February 2 , 1997 ), also known as Sandy , was an American ___MASK32___ and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique . While Meisner was exposed to method acting at the Group Theatre , his approach differed markedly in that he completely abandoned the use of affective memory , a distinct characteristic of method acting . Meisner maintained an emphasis on " the reality of doing ," which was the foundation of his approach . Horror is a genre of ___MASK56___ which is intended to , or has the capacity to frighten , scare , disgust , or startle their readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror . Literary historian J . A . Cuddon has defined the horror story as " a piece of ___MASK56___ in prose of variable length ... which shocks or even frightens the reader , or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing ". It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere . Horror is frequently ___MASK76___ , though it can be non - ___MASK76___ . Often the central menace of a work of horror ___MASK56___ can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society . Julie Carmen ( born April 4 , 1954 ) is an American actress , dancer and a licensed psychotherapist . She came to prominence onscreen in the 1980s , winning the Venice ___MASK14___ Festival Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in John Cassavetes ' ___MASK14___ , " Gloria " ( 1980 ). Her acting training was with Sanford Meisner at Neighborhood Playhouse and with Uta Hagen at HB Studios . Carmen was on the Board of Directors of both Women in ___MASK14___ for three years and IFP / West for six years . U - boat is the anglicised version of the German word U - Boot , a shortening of Unterseeboot , literally " undersea boat ". While the German term refers to any submarine , the ___MASK96___ one ( in common with several other languages ) refers specifically to military submarines operated by Germany , particularly in the First and Second World Wars . Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships , they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ( commerce raiding ), enforcing a naval blockade against enemy shipping . The primary targets of the U - boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada , the British Empire , and the United States to the ___MASK60___ and ( during the Second World War ) to the Soviet Union and the Allied territories in the Mediterranean . John Nicholas Cassavetes ( December 9 , 1929  February 3 , 1989 ) was a Greek - American ___MASK32___ , film director , and screenwriter . Cassavetes was a pioneer of American independent film , writing and directing over a dozen movies , which he partially self - financed , and pioneered the use of improvisation and a realistic cinéma vérité style . He also acted in many ___MASK23___ films , notably " Rosemary ' s Baby " ( 1968 ) and " The Dirty Dozen " ( 1967 ). He studied acting with Don Richardson , using an acting technique based on muscle memory . His income from acting made it possible for him to direct his own films independently . Jürgen Prochnow (; born 10 June 1941 ) is a German - born American ___MASK32___ . His best - known roles internationally have been as the good - hearted and sympathetic U - Boat captain in " Das Boot " ( 1981 ), Duke Leto Atreides in " Dune " ( 1984 ), the minor but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in " Air Force One " ( 1997 ), and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in " Beverly Hills Cop II " ( 1987 ). The Tudors is a historical ___MASK56___ television series set primarily in sixteenth - century England , created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime . The series was a collaboration between American , British , and Canadian producers , and filmed mostly in Ireland . Although named after the Tudor dynasty as a whole , it is based specifically upon the reign of King Henry VIII of England . Reilly , Ace of Spies is a 1983 ___MASK42___ miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly , a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British . Among his exploits , in the early 20th century , were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near - overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918 . His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage . Lovecraftian horror is a subgenre of horror ___MASK56___ that emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown ( and in some cases , unknowable ) more than gore or other elements of shock , though these may still be present . It is named after American author H . P . Lovecraft ( 1890  1937 ). Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20 , 1890  March 15 , 1937 ) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror ___MASK56___ . Virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in ___MASK61___ , he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th - century authors in his genre . Lovecraft was born in Providence , Rhode Island , where he spent most of his life . Among his most celebrated tales are " The Call of Cthulhu " and " The Shadow over Innsmouth ", both canonical to the " Cthulhu Mythos ". Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor , Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period , partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself . He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years ; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46 . The Piano is a 1993 ___MASK33___ drama film about a mute piano player and her daughter . Set during the mid - 19th century in a rainy , muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of ___MASK33___ , it revolves around the piano player ' s passion for playing the piano and her efforts to regain her piano after it is sold . " The Piano " was written and directed by Jane Campion , and stars Holly Hunter , Harvey Keitel , Sam Neill , and Anna Paquin in her first acting role . The film ' s score for the piano by Michael Nyman became a best - selling soundtrack album , and Hunter played her own piano pieces for the film . She also served as sign language teacher for Paquin , earning three screen credits . The film is an international co - production by Australian producer Jan Chapman with the French company Ciby 2000 . In the Mouth of Madness ( also known as John Carpenter ' s In the Mouth of Madness ) is a 1995 American Lovecraftian horror ___MASK14___ directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca . It stars Sam Neill , Julie Carmen , Jürgen Prochnow , David Warner and Charlton Heston . Informally , the ___MASK14___ is the third installment in what Carpenter calls his Apocalypse Trilogy , preceded by The Thing and Prince of Darkness . New Line Cinema is an American ___MASK14___ studio that was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as a ___MASK14___ distribution company , later becoming an independent ___MASK14___ studio . It became a subsidiary of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1994 before Turner merged with ___MASK9___ Warner in 1996 , and was later merged with its larger sister studio Warner Bros . Entertainment in 2008 . Currently , its films are distributed by Warner Bros . ___MASK14___ producers fill a variety of roles depending upon the type of producer . Either employed by a production company or independent , producers plan and coordinate various aspects of ___MASK14___ production , such as selecting script , coordinating writing , directing and editing , and arranging financing . During the " discovery stage ", the producer has to find and acknowledge promising material . Then , unless the ___MASK14___ is supposed to be based on an original script , the producer has to find an appropriate screenwriter . Das Boot ( German meaning " The Boat ") is a 1981 German epic ___MASK15___ ___MASK14___ written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen , produced by Günter Rohrbach , and starring Jürgen Prochnow , Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann . It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a TV miniseries , and in several different home video versions of various running times .