Question: Brannigan is a 1975 British thriller DeLuxe Color film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring which American actor and filmmaker, nicknamed Duke, and known professionally as who?

Context articles: Kings of the Sun
The Saint (1997 film)
Douglas Hickox
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Brannigan (film)
John Wayne
Bedazzled (1967 film)
Conrack
Emperor of the North Pole
Seven Cities of Gold (film)

Kings of the Sun is a 1963 DeLuxe Color film directed by J. Lee Thompson for Mirisch Productions set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza by Hunac Ceel.
 Location scenes filmed in Mazatlán and Chichen Itza.
 The film marks the second project Thompson completed with Yul Brynner within a year — the other being Taras Bulba.
The Saint is a 1997 espionage thriller DeLuxe Color film in Panavision, starring Val Kilmer in the title role, with Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija, directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick.
 The title character is a high tech thief and master of disguise that becomes the anti-hero while using the moniker of various saints while paradoxically living in the underworld of international industrial theft.
 The film was a financial success with a worldwide box office of $169.4 million, rentals of $28.2 million, and continuous DVD sales.
Douglas Hickox (10 January 1929 – 25 July 1988) was an English film director.
 Hickox was born in London, where he was educated at Emanuel School.
 Hickox worked extensively as an assistant director and second unit director throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.
 ‘’The British B Film’’ (Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane; BFI, 2009) credits him with working on over thirty musical shorts and a handful of jazz/pop supporting featurettes.
 He made his first major picture in 1970.
 Over the next ten years, he developed a reputation for the wit and style of his direction, and for his taut action sequences.
 His work includes "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" (1968), "Entertaining Mr Sloane" (1969), "Sitting Target" (1972), "Theatre of Blood" (1973), "Brannigan" (1975), "Sky Riders" (1976) and "Zulu Dawn" (1979).
 He worked on various TV programmes in the 1980s until his death.
 He died in a London hospital following a heart surgery operation at age 59.
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 DeLuxe Color film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger.
 The CinemaScope film was released by Twentieth Century-Fox, which had originally planned to put Marilyn Monroe in the title role, and then suspended her when she refused to do the film.
Brannigan is a 1975 British thriller DeLuxe Color film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring John Wayne and Richard Attenborough filmed in Panavision.
 One of the screenwriters was Dalton Trumbo's son, Christopher Trumbo.
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker.
 An Academy Award-winner for "True Grit" (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.
Bedazzled is a 1967 British comedy DeLuxe Color film directed and produced by Stanley Donen in Panavision format.
 It was written by and stars Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
 It is a comic retelling of the Faust legend, set in the Swinging London of the 1960s.
 The Devil (Peter Cook) offers an unhappy young man (Moore) seven wishes in return for his soul, but twists the spirit of the wishes to frustrate the man's hopes.
Conrack is a 1974 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision based on the 1972 autobiographical book "The Water Is Wide" by Pat Conroy, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Jon Voight in the title role, alongside Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Hume Cronyn and Antonio Fargas.
 The film was released by 20th Century Fox on March 27, 1974.
Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American DeLuxe Color film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine.
 It was re-released under the shorter title Emperor of the North, and is best known under the latter name.
Seven Cities Of Gold is a 1955 historical adventure DeLuxe Color film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Anthony Quinn, Richard Egan and Michael Rennie, filmed in CinemaScope.
 It tells the story of the 18th.
 Century Franciscan priest, Father Junípero Serra and the founding of the first missions in what is now California.
 The screenplay is based on the 1951 novel "The Nine Days of Father Serra" by Isabelle Gibson Ziegler.
 The tag line of the film was “This is the story of the making ...and the forging...of California...when men chose gold or God...the sword or the Cross”.