-- «The Best Years of Our Lives» (1946): This three - hour blockbuster about servicemen returning home from World War II and the adjustments they must make to civilian life is a thoughtful, challenging film with fine performances all around — including that of nonactor Harold Russell, who lost his hands in the war. (sfgate.com)
The character's name is Brady Blackburn, and he is portrayed by Brady Jandreau, a nonactor who suffered the same accident with the same results. (sfchronicle.com)
«You can just tell right away [when someone's a nonactor] because they're so much more natural than people like me,» he says with a laugh. (backstage.com)