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 (archbishop of York) or entertain women in houses belonging to others. It was not only Gerard who complained about the relationship between him and his canons; the latter accused Gerard of impoverishing York by making gifts of lands to others. Gerard was an associate of the anonymous author of the "Quadripartitus" and the "Leges Henrici Primi", two 12th-century law books. The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury charged Gerard with immorality, avarice and the practice of magic. Gerard encouraged at least one of his clergy to study Hebrew, a language not normally studied at the time. Some chroniclers considered his ownership of a Hebrew