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Wings Hauser

Wings Hauser (Gerald Dwight Hauser, 1947–2025), American character actor and musician; father of Cole Hauser; famous as Ramrod in Vice Squad, Greg Foster on The Young and the Restless, and Independent Spirit nominee for Tough Guys Don't Dance.

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) is Wim Wenders's 1987 French-West German film in which angels Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) watch over divided West Berlin; Damiel becomes human for trapeze artist Marion. Cannes Best Director 1987; remade as City of Angels.

Wings of Honneamise

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise (王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼), also Oritsu Uchugun, is Studio Gainax's 1987 debut anime film directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga: an alternate-Earth first-spaceflight drama with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, an 800-million-yen Bandai budget, and a famous box-office failure turned critics' favorite.

Wingwomen

Wingwomen (Voleuses) is a 2023 French action-comedy heist film directed by and starring Mélanie Laurent with Adèle Exarchopoulos, Manon Bresch, and Isabelle Adjani, adapted from the graphic novel La Grande Odalisque and released on Netflix November 1, 2023.

Winifred Burkle

Winifred "Fred" Burkle, played by Amy Acker, is a fictional physicist on Angel; a Texan trapped five years in Pylea, later Wolfram & Hart science head, killed by Illyria in "A Hole in the World".

Wink Martindale

Wink Martindale (Winston Conrad Martindale, 1933-2025) was an American disc jockey and game show host, distinct from football coach Don Martindale, who hosted Gambit, Tic-Tac-Dough, High Rollers, and Debt, recorded the million-selling "Deck of Cards," and arranged Elvis Presley's early interviews.

Winkle Twinkle

Winkle Twinkle (উইঙ্কল টুইঙ্কল), 2026 Bengali political drama by Srijit Mukherji, adapted from Bratya Basu's 2002 play; communist activist Sabyasachi Sen vanishes in 1976 and wakes in 2002, starring Ritwick Chakraborty and Parambrata Chattopadhyay.

Winner (Better Call Saul)

Winner is the season 4 finale of Better Call Saul (S4E10), written by Peter Gould and Thomas Schnauz, directed by Adam Bernstein. Jimmy wins reinstatement as Saul Goodman with a faked speech about Chuck; Mike kills Werner Ziegler for Gus.

Winner (విన్నర్) (2017 film)

Winner (విన్నర్, Hindi dub Shoorveer) is a 2017 Telugu action-romance film directed by Gopichand Malineni, starring Sai Dharam Tej and Rakul Preet Singh, released 24 February 2017 with about 30 crore pre-release business.

Winner Is King (烽火流金)

Winner Is King (烽火流金), formerly Sha Po Lang (杀破狼), is an unaired 40-episode Chinese steampunk historical drama adapted from Priest's novel, starring Tan Jianci and Chen Zheyuan, licensed in 2021 but shelved by China's danmei-drama restrictions.

Winner Takes All (大赢家)

Winner Takes All (大贏家) is a 2000 Hong Kong comedy directed by Clifton Ko, starring Sam Hui as conman Wong Tai-chin, Karl Maka as the bald detective, Nicholas Tse, Ruby Lin, Alec Su, and Joey Yung; released 29 January 2000, 91 minutes, HK$10,030,582 box office. Distinct from the 2020 Chinese film of the same Chinese title.

Winners and Sinners (奇谋妙计五福星)

Winners and Sinners (奇謀妙計五福星), also released as The 5 Lucky Stars, is Sammo Hung's 1983 Golden Harvest action comedy about five ex-convicts running a cleaning company who stumble into a Triad counterfeit-plate war, with Jackie Chan as a guest cop; it won the 1984 HK Film Award for Best Action Choreography.

Winnetou – 1. Teil

Winnetou – 1. Teil (1963) is a Harald Reinl Karl May western, first of the trilogy, with Pierre Brice as Winnetou and Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand, filmed in Yugoslavia and the top German film of 1963/64.

Winnetou – 2. Teil

Winnetou – 2. Teil (English title: Winnetou: Last of the Renegades) is a 1964 West German Western directed by Harald Reinl, starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker.

Winnetou – 3. Teil

Winnetou – 3. Teil (The Desperado Trail) is a 1965 West German-Yugoslav Karl May western directed by Harald Reinl, starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker, in which Winnetou dies from Rollins' bullet, ending the trilogy.

Winnie Holzman

Winnie Holzman (born 1954) is an American TV, stage, and screen writer, Princeton '76 and NYU Musical Theatre MFA, creator of My So-Called Life and book writer of the musical Wicked, later co-writer of its films.

Winnie the Pooh (2011 film)

Winnie the Pooh (2011) is Walt Disney Animation Studios' 51st animated feature, a hand-drawn musical comedy directed by Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall, based on A.A. Milne's stories, released July 15, 2011, and the studio's last 2D theatrical film.

Winnie the Pooh (Disney character)

Disney's Winnie the Pooh, the animated adaptation of A.A. Milne's 1926 bear, beginning with the 1966 featurette Honey Tree, the 1977 compilation feature, and the 2011 film, distinct from the public-domain original since 2022.

Winnie the Pooh (franchise)

Winnie the Pooh franchise: media property based on A.A. Milne's 1926 book Winnie-the-Pooh, illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Disney acquired rights in 1961; the 1926 book entered the US public domain January 1, 2022, enabling works like Blood and Honey.

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is Disney's 1966 animated featurette, the studio's first Pooh film, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, voiced by Sterling Holloway, released February 4, 1966 with The Ugly Dachshund.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British slasher horror film directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield. It features Pooh and Piglet's murderous rampage in the Hundred Acre Wood.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024) is a British slasher horror sequel directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, made for $1 million by Jagged Edge Productions, adding Tigger after his January 2024 public domain entry, and launching the Twisted Childhood Universe.

Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz, born 1971) is an American actress of Beetlejuice, Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Girl, Interrupted, and Stranger Things, with Oscar nominations for The Age of Innocence and Little Women, a 2001 shoplifting conviction, and a comeback via Black Swan.

Winston Duke

Winston Duke (born 1986, Argyle, Tobago) is a Trinidadian-American actor, Yale MFA 2013, known as M'Baku in Black Panther and the MCU films, and for Us, Nine Days, Spenser Confidential, and The Fall Guy.

Winston Ntshona

Winston Zola Ntshona (1941–2018), South African actor and playwright of the Serpent Players, co-devised Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island with Athol Fugard and John Kani, shared the 1975 Tony Award for Best Actor, was detained under apartheid, and received the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver.

Winston Zeddemore

Winston Zeddemore, the everyman fourth Ghostbuster of the Ghostbusters franchise, played by Ernie Hudson and voiced by Arsenio Hall; hired via a help-wanted ad in the 1984 film, later Dr. Winston Zeddemore, entrepreneur and research-facility builder in Frozen Empire.

Winter (2026 TV series)

Winter (2026) is a six-part ITV1 crime drama starring Richard Armitage as Bristol forensic pathologist Dr Ethan Winter and Annabel Scholey as DI Lauren Bell, adapted from the French series Balthazar, premiering 30 September 2026.

Winter Ave Zoli

Winter Ave Zoli, also credited Winter Uhlarik, is an American actress born 1980 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, raised in Prague, best known as Lyla Winston on Sons of Anarchy (2009–2014) and for Hellboy, The Pagan Queen, Bosch, and Father Stu.

Winter Begonia (鬓边不是海棠红)

Winter Begonia (鬓边不是海棠红) is a 2020 iQiyi Chinese drama adapted from Shui Ru Tian Er's novel, starring Huang Xiaoming, Yin Zheng, and Charmaine Sheh as a businessman and Peking opera master in 1930s Beiping.

Winter Fire

"Winter Fire" is the eighth episode and season 1 finale of It: Welcome to Derry, aired December 14, 2025 on HBO; written by Jason Fuchs, titled after Ben Hanscom's poem to Beverly in IT, ending with Pennywise's escape stopped.