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 Koeppel Gerard Koeppel Gerard Koeppel is an American author and historian, with a focus on New York infrastructure. He has written three books—"Water for Gotham: A History" (Princeton University Press, 2000), "Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Nation" (Da Capo Press, 2009); and "City on a Grid: How New York Became New York" (Da Capo Press, 2015)—and contributed to numerous other books, including The Encyclopedia of New York City, of which he was an associate editor of the second edition. "City on a Grid" was a winner of a 2015 New York City Book Award and was