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Lewis Gun
The Lewis Gun and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Specifications
(1913 - 1942)
- Type: Machine Gun
- Caliber: .303 British, .30-06 Springfield, 7.92x57mm Mauser
- Feed System: 47- or 97-round pan magazine
- Fire Modes: Full-Auto (500-600 RPM)
Infantry
Infantry Lewis Guns are fitted with wooden stocks. Most infantry Lewis Guns feature the original cooling jacket, but some lack the cooling jacket; these are most commonly associated with the British Home Guard, and are often aircraft Lewis Guns converted for ground usage.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hearts of the World | British soldiers | 1918 | ||
| The Heart of Humanity | Robert Anderson | Paul Patricia | 1918 | |
| Shoulder Arms | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie | Supposedly a mockup | 1918 |
| German soldiers | ||||
| Arsenal | Bolsheviks | 1929 | ||
| Journey's End | British soldiers | with 97-round magazines | 1930 | |
| The Other Side | British soldiers | Savage M1917 | 1931 | |
| Shock Troop | British soldiers | 1934 | ||
| Alamases's Gorge (Ushchelye Alamasov) | Ir. Kan | Enemy commander | Savage M1917 | 1937 |
| Enemy soldiers | Standard British and Savage M1917 | |||
| Shchors | Evgeniy Samoylov | Nikolay Shchors | Savage M1917 | 1939 |
| Red soldiers | ||||
| Wake Island | U.S. soldiers | 1942 | ||
| Immortal Sergeant | Henry Fonda | Cpl. Colin Spence | 1943 | |
| Melville Cooper | Pvt. Pilcher | |||
| Allyn Joslyn | Pvt. Cassidy | |||
| British troops | ||||
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Gary Cooper | Robert Jordan | 1943 | |
| Passage to Marseille | Humphrey Bogart | Jean Matrac | 1944 | |
| The Fighting Seabees | Japanese soldiers | without the cooling shroud | 1944 | |
| The Desert Rats | Australian soldiers | 1953 | ||
| Paths of Glory | French soldier | 1957 | ||
| Dunkirk | British soldiers | 1958 | ||
| Operation Amsterdam | Dutch soldiers | 1959 | ||
| Pork Chop Hill | Chinese soldiers | Mocked up as Degtyaryov DP-28 | 1959 | |
| Cruelty (Zhestokost) | Vyacheslav Bogachyov | Ugolovny Rozysk operative | 1959 | |
| Virgin Soil Upturned (Podnyataya tselina) | Pyotr Glebov | Aleksandr Polovtsev | 1960 | |
| Igor Dmitriev | Vaclav Lyatyevski | |||
| 633 Squadron | RAF sentry | On the dual AA mount | 1964 | |
| The Professionals | Lee Marvin | Rico | 1966 | |
| Mexican soldiers | ||||
| The Sand Pebbles | Gavin MacLeod | Seaman Crosley | 1966 | |
| Steve McQueen | Jake Holmanr | |||
| Richard Crenna | Capt. Collins | |||
| Joe Turkel | Seaman Bronson | |||
| Sergey Lazo | Imperial Japanese Army soldiers | Savage M1917 | 1968 | |
| Two Comrades Were Serving (Sluzhili dva tovarishcha) | Oleg Yankovskiy | Andrei Nekrasov | 1968 | |
| The Intervention (Interventsiya) | Seen in French trenches | 1969 | ||
| White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) | Anatoly Kuznetsov | Fyodor Sukhov | 1970 | |
| You Can't Win 'Em All | Tony Bonner | Gunner Reese | 1970 | |
| Dillinger | U.S. Soldier | 1973 | ||
| And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...) | Imperial Japanese Army Soldiers | with the tripod of some other machine gun | 1974 | |
| Peasant Son (Krestyanskiy syn) | Georgiy Burkov | Andrey Petrakov | 1975 | |
| Sergey Kurakin | Kostya Baykov | |||
| A bandit | ||||
| Soldier of Orange | Dual mounted on fast patrol boat | 1977 | ||
| March or Die | Terence Hill | Marco Segrain | 1977 | |
| French Foreign Legionnaires | ||||
| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | Imperial Sandtroopers | As the "T-21 Blaster Rifle" | 1977 | |
| The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (Konets imperatora taygi) | German Kachin | Pavel Nikitin | 1978 | |
| Nartai Begalin | Akhmai | |||
| The Sixth (Shestoy) | Yevgeni Bakalov | Arystarch | 1981 | |
| Keep Your Eyes Open! (Smotri v oba!) | Fyodor Sukhov | Aleksey Komanov | 1981 | |
| Do Not Set Traps for Leshiy... (Ne stavte Leshemu kapkany...) | Sultan Dikambayev | A shaggy bandit | 1981 | |
| Biggles: Adventures in Time | Alex Hyde-White | Jim Ferguson | 1986 | |
| The Lighthorsemen | Australian soldier | 1987 | ||
| The Art of Living in Odessa (Iskusstvo zhit v Odesse) | Seen in a crate | 1989 | ||
| Michael Collins | Ian Hart | Joe O'Reilly | 1996 | |
| Black And Tans | ||||
| Richard III | Ian McKellen | Richard of Gloucester | 1996 | |
| Legionnaire | Jean Claude Van Damme | 1998 | ||
| The Trench | British soldiers | 1999 | ||
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley | IRA soldiers | 2006 | ||
| Passchendaele | Justin Michael Carriere | Pte Godin | 2009 | |
| Canadian soldiers | ||||
| Kokoda | Australian soldiers | 2010 | ||
| Sucker Punch | Emily Browning | Babydoll | 2011 | |
| War Horse | British troops | 2011 | ||
| Gangster Squad | Cohen's men | 2013 | ||
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Imperial Stormtroopers | "T-21 Blaster Rifle" | 2016 | |
| Wonder Woman | Zack Snyder | British soldier | 2017 | |
| British Army | ||||
| Journey's End | Asa Butterfield | Second Lieutenant Raleigh | man-portable, trench mounted | 2018 |
| British soldiers | ||||
| Deadpool 2 | 2018 | |||
| Tolkien | British soldiers | 2019 | ||
| 1917 | British soldiers | 2019 | ||
| The King's Man | Matthew Goode | The Shepard | 2021 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dad's Army | John Laurie | Private James Frazer | 1968-1977 | |
| The Strogovs (Strogovy) | Seen among Shtychkov's guns, Ep.7 | 1976 | ||
| A White soldier | Ep.7 | |||
| Anzacs | Australian troops | 1985 | ||
| Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Documentary footage; mounted on Mk V Female tank | 1990 | ||
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Lynsey Baxter | Margarete Trappe | "Phantom Train of Doom" | 1993 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Sean Patrick Flanery | Indiana Jones | Ep.: Phantom Train of Doom | 1993 |
| The Somme | British soldier | 2005 | ||
| The Somme – From Defeat to Victory | British soldier | 2006 | ||
| Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey | Shown in picture of soldiers in WWI | Season 1, Ep.: Machine Guns | 2009 | |
| Downton Abbey | British soldier | S2E05 | 2011 | |
| The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya) | Seen in barraks | 2012 | ||
| Peaky Blinders | Ian Peck | Curly | with stock and bipod removed | 2013 |
| Sam Neill | Inspector Chester Campbell | with stock and bipod removed | ||
| Iddo Goldberg | Freddie | |||
| Samuel Edward-Cook | Danny | |||
| The Son - Season 1 | J. Quinton Johnson | Neptune | 2017 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fallout Tactics | "Lewis MKII" | 2001 | ||
| Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault | Dual-mounted | 2004 | ||
| Forgotten Hope 2 | Portable, mounted on Chevy 30WCT jeep and LCA (Landing Craft, Assault) | 2005 | ||
| Cross Fire | "Lewis Gun" | 2007 | ||
| Battlefield Heroes | 2009 | |||
| The Great War 1918 | 2013 | |||
| World of Guns: Gun Disassembly | Lewis Machine Gun | Light Ground Mount support | 2014 | |
| Battlefield Hardline | "Syndicate Gun" | Russian PK-A sight and AN/PEQ-15 IR Designator | Betrayal DLC | 2015 |
| Verdun | "Machine Gun Model 1914 Lewis" | 2015 | ||
| Star Wars Battlefront | "T-21", "T-21B" | Based on prop weapon from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope; also features a new custom variant | 2015 | |
| Day of Infamy | Lewis Gun | 2016 | ||
| Battlefield 1 | Lewis Gun | Has 3 Variants | 2016 | |
| Call of Duty: WWII | Lewis | Aircraft model converted for ground usage | 2017 | |
| Screaming Steel: 1914-1918 | Lewis Gun | 2018 | ||
| Post Scriptum | Introduced in 2022 Mercury update | 2018 | ||
| Battlefield V | Lewis Gun | Has 3 Variants | 2018 | |
| Enlisted | 2021 | |||
| Beyond The Wire | "Lewis Gun" | 2022 |
Anime
| Title | Characters | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porco Rosso | A pirate | 1992 | |
| Girls und Panzer | Shark Team | Mounted on British Mark IV tank | 2012 |
| Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 1 | Shark Team | Mounted on British Mark IV tank | 2017 |
| Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2 | Shark Team | Mounted on British Mark IV tank | 2019 |
Animation
| Title | Characters | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantis, The Lost Empire | Rourke | 2001 |
Aircraft Mounted
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wings | WWI American Cadet Airmen | 1927 | ||
| Hell's Angels | Mounted on the plane | 1930 | ||
| King Kong | US pilots | 1933 | ||
| The Lost Patrol | Victor McLaglen | The Sergeant | 1934 | |
| Wallace Ford | Morelli | |||
| Alamases's Gorge (Ushchelye Alamasov) | Twin Lewis Model 1924, mounted on soviet R-5 combat plane | 1937 | ||
| Fighting Film Collection No. 4 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 4) | Royal Navy personnel | Converted for AA serivce; documentary footage | 1941 | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | acting as coaxial machine gun | 1943 | ||
| Guadalcanal Diary | Japanese soldiers | 1944 | ||
| The Fighting Seabees | US Navy | mounted on the Higgins boat | 1944 | |
| Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | mounted on Air Force plane | 1956 | ||
| The Blue Max | British pilots | 1966 | ||
| Aces High | Malcolm McDowell | Maj. John Gresham | 1976 | |
| The People That Time Forgot | Shane Rimmer | Hogan | 1977 | |
| The Ace of Aces (L'As des as) | Jean-Paul Belmondo | Jo Cavalier | Mounted on S.E.5, with 97-round drum, visually modified as Vickers | 1982 |
| Frank Hoffmann | Gunther von Beckman | Mounted on Fokker Dr.I, with 97-round drum, visually modified as Parabellum MG14 | ||
| High Road To China | Tom Selleck | Patrick O'Malley | 1983 | |
| Jack Weston | Struts | |||
| Sahara | Ronald Lacey | Beg | 1983 | |
| Tuareg | ||||
| Sky Bandits | Nicholas Lyndhurst | Chalky | 1986 | |
| Biggles: Adventures in Time | Alex Hyde-White | Jim Ferguson | 1986 | |
| The Mummy | Brendan Fraser | Rick O'Connell | 1999 | |
| Oded Fehr | Ardeth Bey | |||
| The Aviator | 2004 | |||
| King Kong | U.S. Army biplane crews | 2005 | ||
| Flyboys | Martin Henderson | Reed Cassidy | 2006 | |
| British pilots | ||||
| The 39 Steps | mounted on Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 | 2008 | ||
| The Red Baron | Matthias Schweighöfer | Manfred von Richthofen | 2008 | |
| British pilots |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father Brown | Seen on a WWI photo of Sopwith Camel 2F.1 fighter plane; "The Arrow of Heaven" (Ep.12) | 1974 | ||
| Wings BBC TV Series | Tim Woodward | 2nd Lt. Alan Farmer | S02E08 "Officers and gentlemen" S02E01 "Forward Action" S01E08 "The Hunters" Mounted on plane | 1977-1978 |
| Wings BBC TV Series | Nicholas Jones | Capt. Owen Triggers | S02E11 "Mutiny" Mounted on plane | 1977-1978 |
| Wings BBC TV Series | Michael Cochrane | Lt. Charles Gaylion | Mounted on plane | 1977-1978 |
| Wings BBC TV Series | British WW1 RFC fighter pilots | Mounted on planes | 1977-1978 | |
| Mail Call | U.S. WWI soldiers | Mounted on planes | 2002-2009 |
Anime
| Title | Characters | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porco Rosso | Mounted on a pirate plane | 1992 | |
| Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door | Mounted on a Fairey Swordfish aircraft | 2001 | |
| Mayoi Neko Overrun! | 2010 | ||
| The Mystic Archives of Dantalian | Pilot | Mounted on aircraft | 2011 |
| Saga of Tanya the Evil | Alliance airmen | mounted on Blériot 127 bombers | 2017 |
Type 92
The Type 92 is a Japanese derivative of the Lewis Gun and was equipped as a defensive weapon on Imperial Japanese Navy planes during the early parts of World War II. In combat however, the Type 92 was considered inadequate compared to the Type 1 and Type 2 machine guns and the Type 99 cannon. As with the Navy's Type 97 machine gun and the previously mentioned Type 1, the Type 92 remained chambered for (Japanese-produced varieties of) .303 British (7.7x56mmR). The most distinctive visual difference compared to the original Lewis Gun is the enlarged trigger guard.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pearl Harbor | Japanese Pilots | mounted on D3A "Val" dive bombers and B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers | 2001 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medal of Honor: Rising Sun | "Type 92 7.7mm Machine Gun" | mounted on elephant's saddle and Aichi D3A "Val" dive bombers | 2003 |
| Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault | "Type 92 portable machinegun" | with forced-air cooling jacket | 2004 |
| Call of Duty: WWII | "Chatter Box" | cosmetic weapon variant of the Lewis Gun | 2017 |
| World of Warships: Legends | Added in February 2021 update | 2019 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strike Witches | Mounted on Akagi-class aircraft carrier | 2008 | |
| Strike Witches 2 | Mounted on F1M floatplane and Akagi-class aircraft carrier | 2010 | |
| Strike Witches: The Movie | Mounted on F1M floatplane and Akagi-class aircraft carrier | 2012 | |
| The Wind Rises | mounted on Mitsubishi G3M bombers | 2013 | |
| Drifters | mounted on Hiryu-based fighter/bomber aircraft | 2016 | |
| Sirius the Jaeger | Ep. 07; mounted in armoured car | 2018 | |
| The Magnificent Kotobuki | Torihei | mounted on "D4Y2 Suisei", "Rahama's Longest Day" (E03) | 2019 |
| Kate | mounted on "D4Y2 Suisei", "Blood for a Nazarin Pound" (E07) | ||
| Allen | mounted on "Type 95", "The Vagabond Leader" (E09) | ||
| Anesan | mounted on "D4Y2 Suisei", "Duel in Ikesuka" (E11) | ||
| Strike Witches: Road to Berlin | Mounted on Akagi-class aircraft carrier | 2020 |