Difference between revisions of "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:

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

Lewis Gun - .303 British

Soldier of Orange (1977) - dual mounted on fast patrol boat
Australian soldiers in Kokoda (2010)
Justin Michael Carriere as Pte Godin in Passchendaele (2009)
Canadian soldiers in Passchendaele (2009)
IRA soldiers in Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)
British soldiers in The Trench (1999)
Jean Claude Van Damme in Legionnaire (1998)
Michael Collins (1996)
Ian McKellen as Richard of Gloucester in Richard III (1996)
Alex Hyde White as Jim Ferguson in Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
John Rhys-Davies as Dogati in King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Yevgeni Bakalov as Arystarch in The Sixth (Shestoy) (1981)
Terrence Hill in March or Die (1977)
Imperial Sandtroopers in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (as the "T-21 Blaster Rifle")
U.S. Soldier with in Dillinger (1973)
Anatoly Kuznetsov as Fyodor Sukhov in White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) (1970)
The Last Escape (1970)
Lee Marvin in The Professionals (1966)
Gavin MacLeod as Seaman Crosley in The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Steve McQueen as Jake Holman and Richard Crenna as Capt. Collins in The Sand Pebbles (1966) (U.S.Navy Ship Mounted)
633 Squadron (1964)
Australian soldiers in Desert Rats, The (1953)
Humphrey Bogart in Passage to Marseille (1944)
Gary Cooper as Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Australian soldier in Lighthorsemen, The (1987)

Australian troops in Anzacs(1985)
Shown in picture of soldiers in WWI in Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey (2009) in the episode: Machine Guns, of season 1
Shown in Time Warp (2009) in the episode: Splahes, Guns, and Bikes
Used by Indiana Jones in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1996) in Phantom Train of Doom
Carried by John Laurie as Private James Frazer in Dad's Army (1968-1977)

Aircraft mounted Lewis Gun - .303 British

U.S. Army biplane crews in King Kong (2005)
Japanese bombers in Pearl Harbor (2001)
Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell and Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bey in The Mummy (1999)
Alex-Hyde White as Jim Ferguson in Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
Nicholas Lyndhurst as Chalky in Sky Bandits (1986)
Tom Selleck as O'Malley in High Road to China (1983)
Shane Rimmer as Hogan in The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Malcolm McDowell as Maj. John Gresham in Aces High (1976)
Hell's Angels (1930)
Japanese soldiers in Guadalcanal Diary (1944)

Mounted on a Fairey Swordfish aircraft in Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001)

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 *Shown in ''[[Time Warp]]'' (2009) in the episode: Splahes, Guns, and Bikes
 *Used by Indiana Jones in ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' (1996) in Phantom Train of Doom
-*''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1968)
+*Carried by [[John Laurie]] as Private James Frazer in ''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1968-1977)
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