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.
Brigadier Gerard (horse) him 12 pounds." The theory that Brigadier Gerard was a sick horse and ran below form against Roberto does not bear factual scrutiny; neither his trainer nor owner offered this as an excuse and his official 10 lengths defeat of the third horse, Gold Rod, was on a par with his best form. As his owner, John Hislop, acknowledged, re-examination of the race film showed that he actually beat Gold Rod by 17 lengths. Thus the Brigadier may have run his best ever race in defeat. Brigadier Gerard returned in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and set a new course