In the 1970s, he drifted from genre to genre, including one of the first "disaster movies" of the period, The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
The 200th anniversary of the first disaster was commemorated in Felling on 25 May 2012 by a parade from St Mary's Church at Heworth to the place of the entrance to the colliery at Mulberry Street.
Lasse tells me about his experiences after the Japanese tsunami – one of the first disasters to be shown live on television.
Even knowing how the story ended, QF32, the story of the first almost-disaster aboard the world's largest jetliner, was a gripping read.
Lin, who had travelled nearly 1,700km to Beijing from her home in the western province of Qinghai ahead of the second anniversary of the disaster, said she was convinced the truth was being concealed.
Ahead of the second anniversary of the disaster on Monday, Greenpeace is demanding that reactor operators and their suppliers, such as GE, Hitachi and Toshiba, be held fully responsible for potential nuclear accidents.
But if you visit the commission's Web site today, on the eve of the second anniversary of the Jan . 12disaster, this is what you see: "Please kindly note that the mandate of the I.H.R.C. expired on October 21, 2011.
Without a major forcing event such as the humanitarian disasters of the second world war, which gave us modern refugee law, that situation seems unlikely to change.
Word of the disaster first came, as is the case with every disaster these days, from witnesses.
The press tour of the site, the first since disaster struck March 11, appeared to be Tokyo Electric Power Company's way of declaring its confidence that it was close to stabilizing the plant.
