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Lewis Gun

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The Lewis light machine gun and variants appear in the following films, television series, and anime used by the following actors:

Specifications

  • Type: Light Machine Gun
  • In service: 1914-1953
  • Designers: Samuel McClean, Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, Birmingham Small Arms Co.
  • Designed: 1911
  • Produced: 1913-1942
  • Manufacturers: Birmingham Small Arms Co., Savage Arms Co.
  • Wars: World War I, World War II, Korean War, Arab-Israeli War
  • Weight: 28 pounds (13 kg)
  • Length: 50.5 inches (1,280 mm)
  • Barrel length: 26.5 inches (670 mm)
  • Width: 4.5 inches (110 mm)
  • Cartridge: .303 British/.30-06 Springfield
  • Action: Gas-operated
  • Rate of fire: 500–600 rounds/min
  • Muzzle velocity: 2440 ft/s
  • Effective range: 880 yards (800 m)
  • Maximum range: 3,500 yards (3,200 m)
  • Feed system: 47- or 97-round drum magazine
  • Sights: Blade and Tangent Leaf

Infantry

Lewis Gun - .303 British

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
For Whom the Bell Tolls Gary Cooper Robert Jordan 1943
Passage to Marseille Humphrey Bogart Jean Matrac 1944
Desert Rats, The Australian soldiers 1953
633 Squadron RAF sentry On the dual AA mount 1964
The Professionals Lee Marvin Rico 1966
The Professionals Mexican soldiers 1966
The Sand Pebbles Gavin MacLeod Seaman Crosley 1966
The Sand Pebbles Steve McQueen Jake Holman 1966
The Sand Pebbles Richard Crenna Capt. Collins 1966
The Last Escape Mounted on a Soviet tank; visually modified as Degtyaryov DT 1970
White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) Anatoly Kuznetsov Fyodor Sukhov 1970
Dillinger U.S. Soldier 1973
Soldier of Orange Dual mounted on fast patrol boat 1977
March or Die Terrence Hill Marco Segrain 1977
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Imperial Sandtroopers As the "T-21 Blaster Rifle" 1977
The Sixth (Shestoy) Yevgeni Bakalov Arystarch 1981
Biggles: Adventures in Time Alex Hyde-White Jim Ferguson 1986
The Lighthorsemen Australian soldier 1987
Michael Collins Ian Hart Joe O'Reilly 1996
Michael Collins Black And Tans 1996
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
Passchendaele Canadian soldiers 2009
Kokoda Australian soldiers 2010
Sucker Punch Emily Browning Babydoll 2011

Television

Title Actor Character Note Air Date
Dad's Army John Laurie Private James Frazer 1968-1977
Anzacs Australian troops 1985
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Sean Patrick Flanery Indiana Jones Ep.: Phantom Train of Doom 1996
Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey Shown in picture of soldiers in WWI Season 1, Ep.: Machine Guns 2009
Time Warp Ep.: Splahes, Guns, and Bikes 2009

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Fallout Tactics "Lewis MKII" 2001
Silent Storm 2003
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault Dual-mounted 2004
Battlefield Heroes 2009

Anime

Title Characters Notation Date
Porco Rosso A pirate 1992

Animation

Title Characters Notation Date
Atlantis, The Lost Empire Rourke 2001

Aircraft Mounted

Aircraft mounted Lewis Gun - .303 British

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
Hell's Angels Mounted on the plane 1930
The Lost Patrol Victor McLaglen The Sergeant 1934
The Lost Patrol Wallace Ford Morelli 1934
Guadalcanal Diary Japanese soldiers 1944
Aces High Malcolm McDowell Maj. John Gresham 1976
The People That Time Forgot Shane Rimmer Hogan 1977
High Road to China Tom Selleck O'Malley 1983
Sky Bandits Nicholas Lyndhurst Chalky 1986
Biggles: Adventures in Time Alex Hyde-White Jim Ferguson 1986
The Mummy Brendan Fraser Rick O'Connell 1999
The Mummy Oded Fehr Ardeth Bey 1999
Pearl Harbor Mounted on Japanese bombers 2001
King Kong U.S. Army biplane crews 2005

Television

Title Actor Character Note Air Date
Mail Call U.S. WWI soldiers Mounted on planes

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

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