Gentle Giant (album)
Gentle Giant is the first album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant, released in 1970.
Martin Smith (drummer)
Martin Smith( 17 December 1946 – 2 March 1997), was a drummer for Gentle Giant and Simon Dupree and the Big Sound.
He played on the first two Gentle Giant albums, Gentle Giant and Acquiring the Taste, before being replaced by Malcolm Mortimore.
Smith was a versatile drummer who specialised in playing jazz and blues styles.
Smith died on 2 March 1997, at the age of 50, of internal haemorrhaging; apparently he had been very ill with a blood disorder for five years.
He continued to drum until two months before his death.
150 people went to his funeral, including many fellow musicians, and Gordon Haskell( of early King Crimson fame) wrote the eulogy.
Gentle Giant (film)
Gentle Giant is a 1967 American drama film about a young boy's friendship with an American black bear, based on the 1965 book" Gentle Ben" by Walt Morey.
It was produced by Ivan Tors, directed by James Neilson and written by Edward J. Lakso and Andy White.
The film stars Clint Howard, Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, Huntz Hall, and Bruno the Bear.
The film was released on November 15, 1967, by Paramount Pictures.
The film was also the pilot for the CBS TV series," Gentle Ben"( 1967 – 69), based on the same characters and also starring Clint Howard, Dennis Weaver, and Bruno.
The film is a prequel to the TV series, providing the backstory of how the boy Mark Wedloe met Ben the bear, tamed him and adopted him as a companion.
Originally, the film was scheduled for release before the TV series began to air, but the film's release date was changed to be closer to Thanksgiving 1967, meaning that the film came out after the TV series had already been running for about two months.
" Gentle Giant" therefore served as additional promotion for the" Gentle Ben" TV series rather than introducing it.
James Neilson (director)
James D. Neilson( October 1, 1909 December 9, 1979) was an American television director, known for his work with" Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color".
John Cromwell (director)
Elwood Dager Cromwell( December 23, 1886 – September 26, 1979), known as John Cromwell, was an American film and stage director and actor.
His films spanned the early days of sound to 1950s film noir, when his directing career was cut short by the Hollywood blacklist.
Kerry Minnear
Kerry Churchill Minnear( born 2 January 1948, in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England) is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist who played in the progressive rock band Gentle Giant during the 1970s.
Minnear received a classical music education at the Royal Academy of Music, with a degree in composition.
Contributing to the band's success as one of the composers and arrangers, Kerry, unlike most of the keyboardists of his time, chose to create natural sounds from his keyboards.
Like the other members of Gentle Giant, he is quite adept on a number of instruments including the cello, drums, guitar, bass, idiophones, recorder, vibraphone, theremin, and timpani.
Minnear also composed the soundtrack to the 1996 video game Azrael's Tear, along with bandmate Ray Shulman.
He now lives in Solihull( West Midlands) with his wife Lesley and has three children, Sally, Sam and Susie.
Still part of the Gentle Giant franchise, he also composes for film and television.
In the years since the disbanding of Gentle Giant, Minnear has been a member of The Reapers during the 1980s.
He has also been a teacher and, being a Christian, a church musician He and his wife Lesley own Alucard Music, which releases Gentle Giant CDs and DVDs.
His son Sam Minnear is a founding member of alternative pop band Misty's Big Adventure.
Ray Shulman
Raymond Shulman( born 8 December 1949) is a Scottish musician, and the youngest of three brothers in progressive rock band, Gentle Giant.
Shulman was born in Portsmouth.
His father was a trumpet player in a jazz band, and that was the first instrument he learned to play.
He went on to learn violin and guitar, and was primed for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, but his brother Derek convinced him to join his band Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, which later evolved into Gentle Giant.
During Shulman's recording days in the band as a bass guitarist, his virtuosity often compared to popular players such as Yes' Chris Squire.
Yet, like Genesis' Mike Rutherford, Shulman was quite adept at other instruments as well.
Similar to the role of the rhythmist in the art-rock band Family, Shulman sometimes doubled on violin, recorder, trumpet, acoustic and electric guitars.
Shulman and keyboardist- bandmate Kerry Minnear composed or co-wrote much of the music for Gentle Giant.
Shulman was in Gentle Giant from the beginning in 1970 to the last tour in 1980.
He would go on to become a record producer in the late 1980s and 1990s, working with the Sugarcubes, the Sundays, the Trash Can Sinatras, and Ian McCulloch, The Defects among others.
He also has created music for several video games, such as Privateer 2 and Azrael's Tear and released two trance- EP: s under pseudonym Head- Doctor.
Evil Brain from Outer Space
Evil Brain from Outer Space is a 1964 film edited together for American television from films# 7,# 8 and# 9 of the 1957/1958 Japanese Super Giant film series.
The Scavengers (1959 film)
The Scavengers is a 1959 Filipino crime film that was directed by John Cromwell, and starred Vince Edwards and Carol Ohmart.
Shot on location in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, it was produced by former US Navy fighter pilot Kane W. Lynn and Filipino director Eddie Romero( who also wrote the screenplay).
It was released in December, 1959 as a double feature in the U.S. with" Terror Is a Man" by Hal Roach's Valiant Pictures.
" The Scavengers" was re-released in 1963 as City of Sin by Lynn's new company, Hemisphere Pictures.
Graciela Lara
Graciela Lara is a Mexican actress of film and television who made her debut in the 1959 film," Santa Claus".

Question: Are the directors of films Gentle Giant (Film) and The Scavengers (1959 Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes