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Also known as Thomas Lee Holland, Thomas Holland

American scriptwriter and director (born 1943)

Person · Open Library

Born
05 January 1968
Works
137

Top works

  • IL Custode Del Tempo
  • Rubicon, The Triumph and Tragedy of tje Roman Republic
  • Pax
  • Dynasty, The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
  • Lives of the Caesars

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Film & TV

Directing · Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Tom Holland (born July 11, 1943) is an American filmmaker, best known for directing the films Fright Night (1985), Fatal Beauty (1987), Child's Play (1988), The Temp (1993) and Thinner (1996).

Known for

  • Robot Dracula — Tom2026
  • The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide — Horror Film Expert2025
  • The Occult — Uncle Walter2024
  • Doc of Chucky — Self2024
  • Horror's Greatest — Self - Writer, Psycho II2024
  • Horror's Greatest — Self - Writer & Director, Fright Night2024
  • Horror's Greatest — Self - Director, Salem's Lot2024
  • King on Screen — Self2023
  • In Search of Darkness: Part III — Self2022
  • In Search of Darkness: Part II — Self2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US

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Listeners
918
Total plays
4,298

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In the Heart of the Sea

Tom Holland (born 1968) is an acclaimed British author. He has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, on many subjects from vampires to history. Holland was born and brought up in Salisbury, England. He obtained a double first at Cambridge, and afterwards studied shortly for a PhD at Oxford, taking Lord Byron as his subject, before interrupting the post graduate studies and moving to London. He has adapted Herodotus, Homer, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio 4. <a href="https://www

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Quotes

  • Yazidis [were] shot and thrown like refuse into pits; men and boys beheaded in front of their families; girls as young as eight subjected to gang rape; beatings; forced conversions; torture; slavery. In a camp I visited, a woman who had been raped for an entire year, then shot in the head when her owner grew tired of her, then finally sold back to her husband, lay curled in a foetal ball in a makeshift tent, rocking and moaning to herself.
  • Nobody in the West really gives a shit. And the reason nobody gives a shit, as a Yazidi refugee I spoke to said, is that in the West you have Christians, you have Muslims, you have Jews who all speak up for their co-religionists, but who cares about the Yazidi? Who cares about them?
  • Far from Islam having been born in the full light of history, its birth was shrouded in what has appeared, to an increasing number of scholars, an almost impenetrable darkness. To be sure, there are very few scholars who would go so far as to claim that the Prophet never existed. Someone by the name of Muhammad does certainly appear to have intruded upon the consciousness of his near-contemporaries.
  • To live in a Western country is to live in a society still utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions. This is no less true for Jews or Muslims than it is for Catholics or Protestants. Two thousand years on from the birth of Christ, it does not require a belief that he rose from the dead to be stamped by the formidable – indeed the inescapable – influence of Christianity.
  • Rare was the royal genealogy that had not born witness to the fecundity of Woden.
  • Estates brought Edward wealth, which enabled him to display generosity to those who support he needed; military commands had given him experience in war, without which no king could hope to maintain his rule.

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