William Randolph Hearst Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Films==== * In the [[television film]] ''[[Rough Riders (miniseries)|Rough Riders]]'' (1997), Hearst (played by [[George Hamilton (actor)|George Hamilton]]) is depicted as travelling to Cuba with a small band of journalists, to personally cover the [[Spanish–American War]]. * Hearst is mentioned in the Disney movie ''[[Newsies]]'' (1992), directed by [[Kenny Ortega]], which depicts the Newsboys' Strike of 1899. Hearst is never seen onscreen but is referenced by several of the newsies in various musical numbers, and is portrayed as an antagonist engaged in a bitter circulation war with [[Joseph Pulitzer]]. * In the [[HBO]] movie ''[[Winchell (film)|Winchell]]'' (1998), [[Kevin Tighe]] played Hearst. * In ''[[RKO 281]]''(1999), Hearst was played by [[James Cromwell]]. * ''[[The Cat's Meow]]'' (2001), a fictitious version of the death of [[Thomas H. Ince]], takes place in November 1924, on a weekend cruise aboard Hearst's [[USS Oneida (SP-432)|yacht]], celebrating Ince's 44th birthday. The film's fictionalizes Ince's death by suggesting that Hearst shot Ince and covered it up.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2002-06-28|title=Hollywood Confidential|url=http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2020/06/hollywood-confidential/|website=[[Jonathan Rosenbaum]]|language=en-US|access-date=September 12, 2020|archive-date=September 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923005422/http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2020/06/hollywood-confidential/|url-status=live}}</ref> Hearst is portrayed by [[Edward Herrmann]]. (Ince actually became severely ill aboard Hearst's private yacht, and the official cause of the filmmaker's death was heart failure.<ref name="Taves">{{cite book |last1=Taves |first1=Brian.|title=Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Producer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1BRDjArx64C |access-date=10 January 2016 |date=2012 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-3423-9}} Taves' extensive biography contains a strong rebuttal to the much rumored murder of Thomas Ince; see pp. 1–13.</ref>) * He was portrayed by [[Matthew Marsh (actor)|Matthew Marsh]] in [[Agnieszka Holland]]'s 2019 film, ''[[Mr Jones (2019 film)|Mr Jones]]''. * He was portrayed by [[Charles Dance]] in [[David Fincher]]'s 2020 film, ''[[Mank]]''. * He was portrayed by [[Pat Skipper]] in [[Damien Chazelle]]'s 2022 film, ''[[Babylon (2022 film)|Babylon]]''. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page