William Devane
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William Joseph Devane is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the Fox serial dramas 24 and 24: Live Another Day.
Devane in The Missiles of October (1974)
Interstellar (film)
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Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaug
William Devane
…James Heller, now President, in the limited-run series 24: Live Another Day (2014). Devane had a cameo role as Williams, as part of NASA, in the film Interstellar (2014), and was also part of the regular cast of the sitcom The Grinder. In 2022, he appeared in a four-episode guest arc on the Amazon Prime Video…
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The Dust Bowl phenomenon of the 1930s, as documented by Ken Burns in The Dust Bowl (2012), served as inspiration for the blight.
The Svínafellsjökull glacier in Iceland was used as a filming location for Interstellar, doubling for Mann's planet.
Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, conceived and executive produced the film and served as scientific consultant.