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 Richardson (author) Lifetime Achievement in Business award 2012 Cumbria Community Heroes Lifetime Achievement award 2015 Commended by the United States Ambassador to the UK in 2010 for furthering relations between the UK and USA He still runs Richardson's of Whitehaven, a Fine Wine and Coffee Merchants in the town and is working on his first novel. Gerard Richardson (author) Gerard Richardson MBE born 4 January 1962 in Cleator Moor was the founder and CEO of the International Maritime Festivals which ran in Whitehaven from 1999 to 2013. He is also an author of two Recipe Books with celebrity chef Jean Christophe Novelli