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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
The Lewis Gun is a light machine gun initially designed by US Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, but primarily produced in the United Kingdom. Colonel Lewis designed the machine gun in 1911, but it was not considered for use by the US military due to disagreements between Lewis and General William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army at the time. Lewis moved to Europe in 1913, determined to privately produce the guns, and in 1914 the Birmingham Small Arms Company began producing the Lewis Gun under license in Britain.
The Lewis Gun is gas-operated, with its most distinct features being its 47 or 97-round pan magazine, and large cooling jacket. The cooling jacket works by having the muzzle blast from firing a shot forced into the jacket to cool the barrel.
The Lewis Gun was used extensively by Britain throughout World War I, where it was valued for its lower weight and greater portability compared to other contemporary machine guns. While officially replaced by the Bren Gun and Vickers K by the time of World War II, the Lewis Gun was still used extensively, with large stocks in storage being reissued following the British Expeditionary Force leaving behind much of its equipment following the Dunkirk Evacuation. Large amounts were also issued to the Home Guard, where it was discovered that the gun works just fine without the heavy cooling jacket- much to the chagrin of World War I veterans who carried one during the war. The Lewis Gun was officially withdrawn from service in 1946, with over 152,000 produced in total.
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 | |||
| A War Within | Mounted on Mark IV tank Replica | 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 | |
| SAS Rogue Heroes | British soldier | Ep. 1 | 2022 |
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 | |||
| Far East War | "Lewis Light Machine Gun" | 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 |
| Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 | "Lewis" | 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 | |
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | Lewis Gun | 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
The Lewis Gun also also extensively used on British and French aircraft during World War I, favored due to its lower weight than other machine guns, air cooling, and self-contained magazines as opposed to belts. An infantry Lewis Gun was also the first machine gun fired from an airplane, with Captain Charles Chandler of the US Army firing one while aboard a Wright Flyer in 1912.
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 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Hope | 2003 | |||
| Enlisted | 2021 |
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 | |
| Enlisted | 2021 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Momotaro: Sacred Sailors | Imperial Japanese army soldier | 1945 | |
| Strike Witches | Mounted on Akagi-class carrier | 2008 | |
| Strike Witches 2 | Mounted on F1M floatplane and Akagi-class carrier | 2010 | |
| Strike Witches: The Movie | Mounted on F1M floatplane and Akagi-class 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 carrier | 2020 |
Lewis Assault Phase Rifle
The Lewis Assault Phase Rifle was an extremely rare prototype based on the Lewis Gun action, but modified to be more portable and able to be fired from the shoulder. This rifle was a competitor of the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle that never went into production.
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | "Lewis Assault Phase Rifle" | MK2 and MK3 variants | 2016 |