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Walking with Dinosaurs (film)
Walking with Dinosaurs (film) is a 2013 family adventure directed by Barry Cook. It uses computer-animated dinosaurs against live-action landscapes to tell the story of Patchi.
Wall of Eyes
Wall of Eyes is the 2024 second album by the Smile, the trio of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner, released on XL Recordings; eight tracks, produced by Sam Petts-Davies, Metacritic 83.
Wall of Sound
Wall of Sound, also called the Spector sound: a 1960s pop production style Phil Spector developed at Gold Star Studios with Larry Levine and the Wrecking Crew, layering doubled instruments in heavy echo, exemplified by "Be My Baby" and distinct from the Grateful Dead's live sound system of the same name.
Wall of Sound (record label)
Wall of Sound is a London independent record label founded in the mid-1990s by Mark Jones, named after Phil Spector's production style. Its big beat roster included Propellerheads, Röyksopp, and The Wiseguys; it merged with PIAS UK in 2006. Unrelated: a 2020 Jeddah label and a Leeds record shop share the name.
Wall of Voodoo
Wall of Voodoo, Los Angeles new wave band active 1977–1988 with a brief 2006 return, founded as Acme Soundtracks by Stan Ridgway and Marc Moreland; known for the 1983 MTV hit 'Mexican Radio' and the album Call of the West.
Wall Street (1987 film)
Wall Street (1987) is Oliver Stone's drama starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko and Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, released 11 December 1987; Douglas won the Best Actor Oscar, and "greed is good" became its famous mantra.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, also known as Wall Street 2, is a 2010 drama film directed by Oliver Stone, with Michael Douglas returning as Gordon Gekko.
Wall to Wall (제 로퍼) (film)
Wall to Wall (84제곱미터, 84 Square Meters) is a 2025 South Korean Netflix psychological thriller directed by Kim Tae-joon, starring Kang Ha-neul as a homeowner driven to breakdown by mysterious inter-floor noise, debt, and hostile neighbors; released July 18, 2025.
WALL-E
WALL-E (WALL·E) is Pixar's 2008 G-rated computer-animated sci-fi film directed by Andrew Stanton, about a lonely trash-compacting robot and the probe EVE; it won the Best Animated Feature Oscar and grossed $535 million.
Wall's (ice cream)
Wall's is an ice cream brand (Heartbrand, aka Algida, Langnese, Ola, Kibon) founded as a 1786 London butcher's shop; ice cream began 1922 at Acton with 'Stop me and buy one' tricycles, now sold in over 52 countries under The Magnum Ice Cream Company.
Wallace (The Wire)
Wallace is a fictional teenage drug dealer in HBO's The Wire (2002), in the Barksdale Organization under D'Angelo Barksdale, played by Michael B. Jordan; he cares for orphans in a vacant and is killed in the season 1 finale.
Wallace & Gromit
Wallace & Gromit, Nick Park's British stop-motion clay-animation series from Aardman Animations, stars an eccentric inventor and his silent dog. Known for A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, three Oscars, and Vengeance Most Fowl.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 British-American stop-motion comedy directed by Nick Park and Steve Box, the duo's first feature film.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is Aardman's 2024 stop-motion comedy, the duo's second feature, in which Feathers McGraw returns after The Wrong Trousers and hijacks Wallace's robotic gnome Norbot. Directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, it streamed on BBC iPlayer and Netflix and won the 2025 BAFTA for Best Animated Film.
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery (Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, 1885-1949), American MGM character star, Oscar winner for The Champ (1931, tied with Fredric March), known for Min and Bill, Treasure Island's Long John Silver, and over 250 films.
Wallace Chung (钟汉良)
Wallace Chung (钟汉良, 鍾漢良, Chung Hon-Leung), born 1974 in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong actor and singer. TVB dancer turned Taiwanese pop idol with the 1995 album OREA, then a mainland drama star known for My Sunshine, Too Late to Say I Love You, and Three.
Wallace Collection
Wallace Collection: national museum of fine and decorative arts at Hertford House, Manchester Square, London. Formed by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace in 1897, opened 22 June 1900, free entry, 5,637 works.
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford, also known as Wally Ford, was an American character actor who moved from wise-cracking 1930s B pictures to supporting roles in film noir and Westerns.
Wallace Huo (霍建华)
Wallace Huo (霍建华, Huo Jianhua), Taiwanese actor and singer born 1979 in Taipei; mainland breakthrough roles include Xu Changqing in Chinese Paladin 3, Bai Zihua in The Journey of Flower, and the Qianlong Emperor in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace; married to Ruby Lin.
Wallace Langham
Wallace Langham (James Wallace Langham II), American actor born 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas; known as Phil on The Larry Sanders Show, Josh Blair on Veronica's Closet, and David Hodges on CSI and CSI: Vegas.
Wallace Reid
Wallace Reid (William Wallace Reid, 1891–1923), American silent-film actor called "the screen's most perfect lover"; starred in over 60 Lasky/Paramount films, became addicted to morphine after a 1919 train-crash injury, and died at 31 in a sanitarium.
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn (born 1943), American playwright and character actor, son of New Yorker editor William Shawn; wrote The Fever and My Dinner with André, played Vizzini in The Princess Bride, voices Rex in Toy Story.
Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was an American novelist, historian, and environmentalist who wrote about the American West and won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) was an American poet and Hartford insurance executive whose first book, Harmonium (1923), became a landmark of modern poetry; he won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize.
Wallander (British TV series)
Wallander is a British crime drama adapted from Henning Mankell's novels, with Kenneth Branagh as Swedish detective Kurt Wallander; it ran on BBC One from 2008 to 2016.
Wallander (Swedish TV series)
Wallander (Swedish TV series): Swedish feature-length crime films about Henning Mankell's Ystad detective Kurt Wallander. Best known is the Krister Henriksson series (2005–2013, 32 films, TV4/Yellow Bird), distinct from the Rolf Lassgård series, the BBC Branagh version, and the Gustaf Skarsgård reboot.
Wallenstein
Wallenstein is a dramatic trilogy by Friedrich Schiller, first performed at Weimar in 1798 and 1799, dramatizing the final months of the imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Wallis Day
Wallis Day (born 1994) is a British actress known as Holly Cunningham in Hollyoaks, Nyssa-Vex in Krypton, and Kate Kane in Batwoman, replacing Ruby Rose; also Infinite, Sex/Life, and Red Sonja's Annisia.
Walloon literature
Walloon literature is the literature of Wallonia, the Romance-speaking southern region of Belgium, comprising Walloon-language works from the 16th century and French-language writing by authors such as Georges Simenon.
Wallows
Wallows are a Los Angeles alternative rock trio of Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, and Cole Preston; childhood bandmates behind "Pleaser" and the albums Nothing Happens, Tell Me That It's Over, and Model on Atlantic Records.