Brigadier Gerard version of the short novel "Uncle Bernac". A 1927 film with Rod La Rocque as Gerard had the title "The Fighting Eagle". In 1970 "The Adventures of Gerard" was directed by Jerzy Skolimowski with Peter McEnery playing Gerard. As of 2014 television and movie writer John Altschuler is developing Brigadier Gerard as a feature, with Steve Carell attached to play Brigadier Gerard and Ricky Gervais attached to play Napoleon. Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
Gerard of Csanád (encompassing present-day Banat in Serbia, Romania and Hungary) around 1030. Benedictine monks who could speak Hungarian helped him to preach among the local inhabitants. Most information of Gerard was not preserved in impartial sources, but in his hagiographies. The "Short Life of Saint Gerard", which was composed around 1100, is an abridgement of an earlier biography. The earlier biography did not survive. The "Short Life" primarily presents Gerard as a bishop. The majority of scholars regard the "Short Life" the most reliable source of Gerard's life. The "Long Life of Saint Gerard" is a compilation of multiple sources, including the