Sentences with phrase «1950s film appearances»

The best - remembered of his 1950s film appearances were in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) as the inquisitive son of Patricia Neal; On Moonlight Bay (1952), as Booth Tarkington's Penrod; and The Seven Little Foys (1955), in which he played the teenaged version of future film producer Bryan Foy.

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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.
Best known among her close to 100 film appearances, most for MGM, are Stella Dallas (1937), Test Pilot (1938), Too Hot to Handle (1938), The Women (1939), Another Thin Man (1939), I Take This Woman (1940), Susan and God (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Murder, He Says (1945), The Harvey Girls (1946), Summer Stock (1950), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), Rose Marie (1954), and Friendly Persuasion (1956).
Casares made her screen debut in Carne's Children of Paradise (1945), going on to make sporadic film appearances in which she dominated the screen with her dark beauty and charismatic personality; her notable roles include that of Death in Cocteau's Orpheus (1950).
Lorraine Toussaint — «Orange is the New Black» Sure, we know Toussaint's been around for a long time already and has never been less than a strong presence, whether in films like «The Soloist» or Ava Du Vernay's «Middle of Nowhere» or in any of her many TV appearances, notably as co-lead with Annie Potts in the 1950s - set interracial friendship drama «Any Day Now.»
Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)
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