Lewis Gun

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The Lewis light machine gun and variants appear in the following films, television series, and anime used by the following actors:

==Specifications==
*Type: Light Machine Gun
*In service: 1914-1953
*Designers: Samuel McClean, Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, Birmingham Small Arms Co.
*Designed: 1911
*Produced: 1913-1942
*Manufacturers: Birmingham Small Arms Co., Savage Arms Co.
*Wars: World War I, World War II, Korean War, Arab-Israeli War
*Weight: 28 pounds (13 kg)
*Length: 50.5 inches (1,280 mm)
*Barrel length: 26.5 inches (670 mm)
*Width: 4.5 inches (110 mm)
*Cartridge: .303 British/.30-06 Springfield
*Action: Gas-operated
*Rate of fire: 500–600 rounds/min
*Muzzle velocity: 2440 ft/s
*Effective range: 880 yards (800 m)
*Maximum range: 3,500 yards (3,200 m)
*Feed system: 47- or 97-round drum magazine
*Sights: Blade and Tangent Leaf

==Infantry==
[[Image:Lewis gun.JPG|thumb|right|400px|Lewis gun - .303 British]]

===Film===
*Australian soldiers in ''[[Kokoda (2010)|Kokoda]]'' (2010)
*IRA soldiers in ''[[Wind That Shakes the Barley, The]]'' (2006)
*British soldiers in ''[[Trench, The|The Trench]]'' (1999)
*[[Jean Claude Van Damme]] in ''[[Legionnaire]]'' (1998)
*''[[Michael Collins]]'' (1996)
*[[Ian McKellen]] as Richard of Gloucester in ''[[Richard III]]'' (1996)
*Alex Hyde White as Jim Ferguson in ''[[Biggles: Adventures in Time]]'' (1986)
*John Rhys-Davies as Dogati in ''[[King Solomon's Mines]]'' (1985)
*Terrence Hill in ''[[March or Die]]'' (1977)
*Imperial Sandtroopers in ''[[Star Wars|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]'' (1977) (as the "T-21 Blaster Rifle")
*U.S. Soldier with in ''[[Dillinger (1973)|Dillinger]]'' (1973)
*[[Lee Marvin]] in ''[[Professionals, The|The Professionals]]'' (1966)
*[[Gavin MacLeod]] as Seaman Crosley in ''[[The Sand Pebbles]]'' (1966)
*[[Steve McQueen]] as Jake Holman and [[Richard Crenna]] as Capt. Collins in ''[[Sand Pebbles, The|The Sand Pebbles]]'' (1966) (U.S.Navy Ship Mounted)
*''[[633 Squadron]]'' (1964)
*[[Humphrey Bogart]] in ''[[Passage to Marseille]]'' (1944)
*[[Gary Cooper]] as Robert Jordan in ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1943)

===Animation===
*''[[Atlantis, The Lost Empire]]'' (2001)

===Television===
*Shown in picture of soldiers in WWI in ''[[Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey]]'' (2009) in the episode: Machine Guns, of season 1
*Shown in ''[[Time Warp]]'' (2009) in the episode: Splahes, Guns, and Bikes
*Used by Indiana Jones in ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' (1996) in Phantom Train of Doom
*''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'' (1991) in Flight 714, used by Tintin, a few Syndonesions, and Rastapopoulos's Men (had modified parts[butt, barrel, and pan], had 2 handles)
*''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1968)

===Video Games===
*''[[Silent Storm]]'' (2003)
*''[[Battlefield Heroes]]''

==Aircraft Mounted==
[[Image:Rafmachinegunlewis3.jpg|thumb|right||350px|Aircraft mounted Lewis Gun - .303 British]]

===Film===
*U.S. Army biplane crews in ''[[King Kong (2005)|King Kong]]'' (2005)
*Japanese bombers in ''[[Pearl Harbor]]'' (2001)
*[[Brendan Fraser]] as Rick O'Connell and [[Oded Fehr]] as Ardeth Bey in ''[[Mummy, The|The Mummy]]'' (1999)
*Alex-Hyde White as Jim Ferguson in ''[[Biggles: Adventures in Time]]'' (1986)
*Nicholas Lyndhurst as Chalky in ''[[Sky Bandits]]'' (1986)
*[[Tom Selleck]] as O'Malley in ''[[High Road to China]]'' (1983)
*[[Shane Rimmer]] as Hogan in ''[[People That Time Forgot, The|The People That Time Forgot]]'' (1977)
*Malcolm McDowell as Maj. John Gresham in ''[[Aces High]]'' (1976)
*''[[Hell's Angels]]'' (1930)

===Television===
*Used by U.S. WWI soldiers mounted on planes in ''[[Mail Call]]''
*Used by WWII Officers on Jeep(shown in footage) in ''[[Weaponology]]'' (2008) in SAS

===Anime===
*Mounted on a Fairey Swordfish aircraft in ''[[Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]'' (2001)

*''[[Porco Rosso]]'' (1992)

===Video Games===
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