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*''[[Hell's Angels]]'' (1930) | *''[[Hell's Angels]]'' (1930) | ||
*Japanese soldiers in ''[[Guadalcanal Diary]]'' (1944) | *Japanese soldiers in ''[[Guadalcanal Diary]]'' (1944) | ||
*[[Victor McLaglen]] as The Sergeant and [[Wallace Ford]] as Morelli in ''[[Lost Patrol, The|The Lost Patrol]]'' (1934) | |||
===Television=== | ===Television=== | ||
Revision as of 08:56, 15 May 2012
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
Film
- Soldier of Orange (1977) - dual mounted on fast patrol boat
- Australian soldiers in Kokoda (2010)
- Justin Michael Carriere as Pte Godin in Passchendaele (2009)
- Canadian soldiers in Passchendaele (2009)
- IRA soldiers in Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)
- British soldiers in 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). This model is actually a FN FAL/LAR mockup designed to look like the Lewis Gun.
- Yevgeni Bakalov as Arystarch in The Sixth (Shestoy) (1981)
- Terrence Hill in March or Die (1977)
- Imperial Sandtroopers in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (as the "T-21 Blaster Rifle")
- U.S. Soldier with in Dillinger (1973)
- Anatoly Kuznetsov as Fyodor Sukhov in White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) (1970)
- The Last Escape (1970)
- Lee Marvin in 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 The Sand Pebbles (1966) (U.S.Navy Ship Mounted)
- 633 Squadron (1964)
- Australian soldiers in Desert Rats, The (1953)
- Humphrey Bogart in Passage to Marseille (1944)
- Gary Cooper as Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
- Australian soldier in Lighthorsemen, The (1987)
Animation
- Atlantis, The Lost Empire (2001)
Television
- Australian troops in Anzacs(1985)
- 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
- Carried by John Laurie as Private James Frazer in Dad's Army (1968-1977)
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1993)
Video Games
- Silent Storm (2003)
- Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004)
- Battlefield Heroes
- Fallout Tactics (2001)
Aircraft Mounted
Film
- U.S. Army biplane crews in King Kong (2005)
- Japanese bombers in Pearl Harbor (2001)
- Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell and Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bey in 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 The People That Time Forgot (1977)
- Malcolm McDowell as Maj. John Gresham in Aces High (1976)
- Hell's Angels (1930)
- Japanese soldiers in Guadalcanal Diary (1944)
- Victor McLaglen as The Sergeant and Wallace Ford as Morelli in The Lost Patrol (1934)
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)