Sentences with phrase «[as character actors»

In a throwaway line intended to highlight his perpetually boyish good looks, his agent Rick Yorn refers to DiCaprio as a character actor in a leading man's body.

Rockwell's career has been a roller - coaster ride because of Hollywood's trouble placing him as either a movie star or a character actor over the years.

Harrison could have been a superb character actor, a bearded, burly man with a disfigured left eye and a smoker's rasp who confided that when out in public with Nicholson he was sometimes mistaken for the actor's bodyguard.

In The Man Who Walked Around the World, Glaswegian character actor Robert Carlyle strides down a rugged mountain path, telling the story of young John Walker's rise from farm boy to shopkeeper to whisky magnate in a single, uninterrupted and utterly captivating 6 1/2 minute take.

For Dish, today's comments reveal merely a change in executive linguistics; the company, in its advertising, has been directly targeting traditional cable for some time, evidenced by its national campaign of TV ads starring tough - guy character actor Danny Trejo.

When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead.

Winona Ryder as Will's struggling single mother, character actor David Harbour as police Chief Hopper, and Matthew Modine as the secret government scientist are the most recognizable faces.

Manolas sprints into an ever - expanding tangle of substitutes, coaches, physios, officials, friends, family members, acquaintances, hangers - on, ballboys, passers - by, photographers, a bus load of lost tourists, a couple of minor royals, British character actor Toby Jones, a small mariachi band, and a man riding an elephant.

Cristiano Ronaldo went supernova, Wayne Rooney solidified his claim as one of the greatest Premier League players of all time, and Carlos Tevez played a leading man who was disguised as a character actor.

Famed character actor James Cromwell and about 50 other environmental activists staged a Valentine's Day - themed rally against Cuomo outside the Manhattan courthouse where the Percoco trial is taking place.

The 2008 presidential campaign of Fred Thompson, lawyer, lobbyist, character actor and former Senator from Tennessee began on September 5, 2007 after six months of speculation.

The scent was like a character actor; pleasant enough, vaguely familiar, but by no means the star of the show.

A character actor and bit part player in the 1930s, McGowan made his final screen appearance in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939).

A character actor with a unique name and specialty, British - born Skelton Knaggs was an expert in half - wit roles, but that was only a small part of his range onscreen.

Eldard, who's been more of a character actor in the films he's been in (Sleepers, Deep Impact, Ghost Ship), finally has a role that will stand out amongst those other films.

Narrated by Paul Robeson, the film employs a cast of familiar if not stellar character actors in a story of how certain enemies within the US have done their best to suppress their fellow citizens» rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and freedom from want.

British character actor Jack Warner began his film career in the early»40s.

In spite of his directorial success, Kramer was only known to Hollywood as a character actor.

The same goes for supporting cast members like Foster, as well as character actors Jesse Plemons and Rory Cochrane, who play two of Joe's longtime fellow officers.

And familiar character actors like Jeffrey Tambor and Philip Baker Hall (miles away from «Magnolia») again are mere props in Carreyland, even though they've proven themselves worthier than that.

He's surrounded by stereotypical, yet colorful characters played by recognizable character actors like Paul Rodriguez, Louis Anderson, Jamie Gertz, and pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne as Voodoo, a messenger who doesn't care about what he delivers, even if it is for the local drug runner, known as The Gypsy.

When jobs became scarce in films for highly specialized character actors in the 1950s, Pangborn thrived on television, guesting on a number of comedy shows, including an appearance as a giggling serial - killer in a «Red Skelton Show» comedy sketch.

«Deathly Hallows 2» also brings back, if only fitfully, many of the wonderful British character actors who have flitted in and out of the series, including Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, Jim Broadbent as potions professor Horace Slughorn, and Maggie Smith, whose Professor Minerva McGonagall crisply defends Hogwarts against Voldemort's looming hordes.

Director Mike Barker attends to the gorgeous Italian villas and costumes, and he fills the sidelines with elderly character actors rumbling amusingly, but he seems to think «Lady Windermere's Fan» is about the plot, and that's a major miscalculation.

Portrayed by comely character actor Dougray Scott, Jericho has a sad - eyed, semi-schizo, finger - pointing persona that automatically brings to mind Russell Crowe's John Nash in A Beautiful Mind, another film that changed a historical figure's Jewish relations and sexuality to make the character more «acceptable.»

Best known today for playing Officer Torch in Universal's Flash Gordon serials, American character actor Earl Leslie Askam had studied voice in Italy and appeared in numerous stage operettas prior to making his screen debut in 1930.

SNL madness but oh what glorious madness this is with an epic cast of comedy greats and character actors..., Aykroyd, Spade, Farley, Lovitz, Hartman, Sandler, Griffin, Sinbad, Drew Carey, Tom Arnold, Whip Hubley, Posey, DeGeneres and Jane Curtain, quite the list there.

This is the character actor's debut as a writer and director, and it's a good beginning as Buscemi is able to flesh out real people in an engaging character study, of characters who are not the inventions of Hollywood.

Once there was a film historian who opined that Wallace Ford was in more movies than any other character actor of his prominence.

More highly trained ears will be able to recognize Amy Sidaris, Cheri Oteri, Regis Philbin and other character actors in small roles.

His passing in 1953 was noted by far more journalists than would have been usual for character actors in that era.

John Doe is played by the terrific character actor Kevin Spacey, in a role similar to the one in The Usual Suspects.

He remained busy as a prominent character actor and supporting player — part of that category of performers that includes the likes of Richard Herd and James Cromwell — into the 1980s.

Most of the series» fabulous Brit character actors (Maggie Smith has some particularly righteous moments) appear in brief, bittersweet turns.

We also get the Wilson brothers, not only Owen — who co-wrote the screenplay with Anderson — and Luke, but also older brother Andrew, who has turned into more of a character actor in very small roles.

But, in a rarity for a star who's always been a character actor as much a leading man, there simply isn't anything to Gerry.

Actress Patricia Arquette is the granddaughter of Cliff Arquette, the daughter of character actor Lewis Arquette, and the sister of actors Rosanna Arquette, David Arquette and Alexis Arquette.

In films from 1921 through 1952, white - maned American character actor Erville Alderson was most closely associated with D.W. Griffith in his early movie years.

He's marvelous, as are all the British character actors — Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, David Thewlis — who pop up to reprise characters from earlier films, sometimes without speaking more than a line or two.

A character actor who caught audience's attention with the role of Adam on the landmark HBO series Girls, Adam Driver was an enlisted Marine before he ever became a professional actor.

Mr. Strong is transitioning from a substantial career as a character actor, and most of his writing and directing efforts thus far have been in television.

In the 1970s, Alvy Moore turned producer, teaming with another busy character actor, L.Q. Jones, to turn out the low - budget chiller Brotherhood of Satan (1971) and the cult classic A Boy and His Dog (1975).

The remainder of the roster is a who's who of character actors to round out the Post staff and their families, all making the most of what they have to work with - even if their screen time is minimal.

British character actor Richard Warner appeared onscreen from the»60s, he often played small - town cops.

Though seemingly born with a battered bulldog countenance and a rattly voice best suited to such lines as «We don't like you kind around these parts, stranger,» tough - guy character actor Kenneth Tobey was originally groomed for gormless leading man roles when he came to Hollywood in 1949.

A comedy of mortality and an endearing account of spry character actors carrying the bloody show

He was positioned as a leading man but he always behaved like a character actor.

American character actor Albert Paulsen has been in films from 1961.

Fine character actors (Gretchen Mol, Ethan Suplee, Robert John Burke, etc.) decorate the corners of the movie, providing weight and depth.

Best known as Steve, the boyishly charming nice - guy bartender (and the perfect complement to his onscreen romantic partner, snappish Miranda Hobbes) in HBO's blockbuster original series Sex and the City, the slightly diminutive, raven - haired American character actor David Eigenberg was born in Manhasset, NY, on May 17, 1964.