Lewis Gun

The Lewis light machine gun and variants appear in the following films, television series, and anime used by the following actors:

Specifications

(1913 - 1942)

• Type: Machine Gun

• Caliber: .303 British, .30-06 Springfield, 7.92x57mm Mauser

• Feed System: 47- or 97-round pan magazine

• Fire Modes: Full-Auto (500-600 RPM)

Infantry

Lewis Gun - .303 British

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Hearts of the World		British soldiers		1918
Shoulder Arms	Charlie Chaplin	Charlie	Supposedly a mockup	1918
Shoulder Arms		German soldiers	Supposedly a mockup	1918
Arsenal		Bolsheviks		1929
Journey's End		British soldiers	with 97-round magazines	1930
Shock Troop		British soldiers		1934
Alamases's Gorge (Ushchelye Alamasov)	Ir. Kan	Enemy commander	Savage M1917	1937
		Enemy soldiers	Standard British and Savage M1917
Shchors	Evgeniy Samoylov	Nikolay Shchors	Savage M1917	1939
		Red soldiers
Immortal Sergeant	Henry Fonda	Cpl. Colin Spence		1943
Immortal Sergeant	Melville Cooper	Pvt. Pilcher		1943
Immortal Sergeant	Allyn Joslyn	Pvt. Cassidy		1943
Immortal Sergeant		British troops		1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Gary Cooper	Robert Jordan		1943
Passage to Marseille	Humphrey Bogart	Jean Matrac		1944
The Fighting Seabees		Japanese soldiers	without the cooling shroud	1944
Desert Rats, The		Australian soldiers		1953
Dunkirk		British soldiers		1958
Operation Amsterdam		Dutch soldiers		1959
Pork Chop Hill		Chinese soldiers	Mocked up as Degtyaryov DP-28	1959
Cruelty (Zhestokost)	Vyacheslav Bogachyov	Ugolovny Rozysk operative		1959
Virgin Soil Upturned (Podnyataya tselina)	Pyotr Glebov	Aleksandr Polovtsev		1960
Virgin Soil Upturned (Podnyataya tselina)	Igor Dmitriev	Vaclav Lyatyevski		1960
633 Squadron		RAF sentry	On the dual AA mount	1964
The Professionals	Lee Marvin	Rico		1966
The Professionals		Mexican soldiers		1966
The Sand Pebbles	Gavin MacLeod	Seaman Crosley		1966
The Sand Pebbles	Steve McQueen	Jake Holman		1966
The Sand Pebbles	Richard Crenna	Capt. Collins		1966
Two Comrades Were Serving (Sluzhili dva tovarishcha)	Oleg Yankovskiy	Andrei Nekrasov		1968
The Intervention (Interventsiya)			Seen in French trenches	1969
White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni)	Anatoly Kuznetsov	Fyodor Sukhov		1970
You Can't Win 'Em All	Tony Bonner	Gunner Reese		1970
Dillinger		U.S. Soldier		1973
And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...)		Imperial Japanese Army Soldiers	with the tripod of some other machine gun	1974
Soldier of Orange			Dual mounted on fast patrol boat	1977
March or Die	Terence Hill	Marco Segrain		1977
March or Die		French Foreign Legionnaires		1977
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope		Imperial Sandtroopers	As the "T-21 Blaster Rifle"	1977
The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (Konets imperatora taygi)	German Kachin	Pavel Nikitin		1978
The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (Konets imperatora taygi)	Nartai Begalin	Akhmai		1978
The Sixth (Shestoy)	Yevgeni Bakalov	Arystarch		1981
Biggles: Adventures in Time	Alex Hyde-White	Jim Ferguson		1986
The Lighthorsemen		Australian soldier		1987
The Art of Living in Odessa (Iskusstvo zhit v Odesse)			Seen in a crate	1989
Michael Collins	Ian Hart	Joe O'Reilly		1996
Michael Collins		Black And Tans		1996
Richard III	Ian McKellen	Richard of Gloucester		1996
Legionnaire	Jean Claude Van Damme			1998
The Trench		British soldiers		1999
The Wind That Shakes the Barley		IRA soldiers		2006
Passchendaele	Justin Michael Carriere	Pte Godin		2009
Passchendaele		Canadian soldiers		2009
Kokoda		Australian soldiers		2010
Sucker Punch	Emily Browning	Babydoll		2011
War Horse		British troops		2011
Gangster Squad		Cohen's men		2013
Rouge One: A Star Wars Story		Imperial Stormtroopers	"T-21 Blaster Rifle"	2016
Wonder Woman		British Army		2017
Wonder Woman	Zack Snyder	British soldier		2017

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Air Date
Dad's Army	John Laurie	Private James Frazer		1968-1977
The Strogovs (Strogovy)			Seen among Shtychkov's guns, Ep.7	1976
		A White soldier	Ep.7
Anzacs		Australian troops		1985
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Lynsey Baxter	Margarete Trappe	"Phantom Train of Doom"	1993
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Sean Patrick Flanery	Indiana Jones	Ep.: Phantom Train of Doom	1993
The Somme – From Defeat to Victory		British soldier		2006
Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey		Shown in picture of soldiers in WWI	Season 1, Ep.: Machine Guns	2009
Downton Abbey		British soldier	S2E05	2011
The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya)			Seen in barraks	2012
Peaky Blinders	Ian Peck	Curly	with stock and bipod removed	2013
Peaky Blinders	Sam Neill	Inspector Chester Campbell	with stock and bipod removed	2013
Peaky Blinders	Iddo Goldberg	Freddie		2013
Peaky Blinders	Samuel Edward-Cook	Danny		2013

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Fallout Tactics	"Lewis MKII"			2001
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault			Dual-mounted	2004
Forgotten Hope 2			Portable, mounted on Chevy 30WCT jeep and LCA (Landing Craft, Assault)	2005
Battlefield Heroes				2009
The Great War 1918				2013
Battlefield Hardline	"Syndicate Gun"	Russian PK-A sight and AN/PEQ-15 IR Designator	Betrayal DLC	2015
Verdun	Machine Gun Model 1914 Lewis			2015
Star Wars Battlefront	"T-21", "T-21B"		Based on prop weapon from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope; also features a new custom variant	2015
Day of Infamy	Lewis Gun			2016
Battlefield 1	Lewis Gun		Has 3 Variants	2016
Call of Duty: WWII	Lewis		Aircraft model converted for ground usage	2017

Anime

Title	Characters	Notation	Date
Porco Rosso	A pirate		1992
Girl Und Panzer		Mounted on British Mark IV tank	2012

Animation

Title	Characters	Notation	Date
Atlantis, The Lost Empire	Rourke		2001

Aircraft Mounted

Aircraft mounted Lewis Gun with 47-round magazine - .303 British

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Wings		WWI American Cadet Airmen		1927
Hell's Angels			Mounted on the plane	1930
The Lost Patrol	Victor McLaglen	The Sergeant		1934
The Lost Patrol	Wallace Ford	Morelli		1934
Alamases's Gorge (Ushchelye Alamasov)			Twin Lewis Model 1924, mounted on soviet R-5 combat plane	1937
Guadalcanal Diary		Japanese soldiers		1944
The Fighting Seabees		US Navy	mounted on the Higgins boat	1944
Aces High	Malcolm McDowell	Maj. John Gresham		1976
The People That Time Forgot	Shane Rimmer	Hogan		1977
The Ace of Aces (L'As des as)	Jean-Paul Belmondo	Jo Cavalier	Mounted on S.E.5, with 97-round drum, visually modified as Vickers	1982
	Frank Hoffmann	Gunther von Beckman	Mounted on Fokker Dr.I, with 97-round drum, visually modified as Parabellum MG14
High Road To China	Tom Selleck	Patrick O'Malley		1983
High Road To China	Jack Weston	Struts		1983
Sahara	Ronald Lacey	Beg		1983
Sahara		Tuareg		1983
Sky Bandits	Nicholas Lyndhurst	Chalky		1986
Biggles: Adventures in Time	Alex Hyde-White	Jim Ferguson		1986
The Mummy	Brendan Fraser	Rick O'Connell		1999
The Mummy	Oded Fehr	Ardeth Bey		1999
Pearl Harbor		Imperial Japanese Navy pilots	Mounted on Japanese bombers	2001
King Kong		U.S. Army biplane crews		2005
The 39 Steps			mounted on Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5	2008
The Red Baron		British pilots		2008

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Air Date
Mail Call		U.S. WWI soldiers	Mounted on planes
Wings TV Series	Tim Woodward	2nd Lt. Alan Farmer	S02E08 "Officers and gentlemen" S02E01 "Forward Action" S01E08 "The Hunters" Mounted on plane	1977-1978
Wings TV Series	Nicholas Jones	Capt. Owen Triggers	S02E11 "Mutiny" Mounted on plane	1977-1978
Wings TV Series	Michael Cochrane	Lt. Charles Gaylion	Mounted on plane	1977-1978
Wings TV Series		British WW1 RFC fighter pilots	Mounted on planes	1977-1978

Anime

Title	Characters	Notation	Date
Porco Rosso		Mounted on a pirate plane	1992
Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door		Mounted on a Fairey Swordfish aircraft	2001
Mystic Archives of Dantalian, The	Pilot	Mounted on aircraft	2011