Sentences with phrase «british film actors»

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The film features a little - known cast whose biggest names are the British actors Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg.

The British actor was perhaps best remembered for his role as Severus Snape in the «Harry Potter» films.

The renowned British actor starred in more than 200 films and TV series during an illustrious career which spanned six decades.

It will be the British actor's fifth Bond film, after Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre.

Daniel Craig is a very well - known British actor, but it wasn't until his early breakout roles in films like Layer Cake and Road to Perdition that he ever made it on the radar of American film watchers.

Bio: Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian film and television actor.

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

British stage actor William Stack made his first film appearance in 1918's The Girl From Downing Street.

Versatile Czechoslovakian actor George Pravda played character roles in many British films of the»60s,»70s, and»80s.

British actor and revue comedian Frankie Howerd was generally suppressed in his film appearances (starting with Runaway Bus [1954]-RRB-, and most fans felt he was never quite at his best without a live audience.

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.

He appeared in a handful of British films from 1930 - 35, but otherwise remained exclusively a stage actor.

British supporting actor Alan Howard is primarily a stage actor, but he also occasionally appears in feature films.

A purveyor of priggish military and law - enforcement types, British actor Ronald Fraser began his film and TV career in 1954 as a bit actor, then graduated to supporting roles.

An actor in British theater while still a teenager, Scottish - born Frank Lloyd came to the U.S. in 1913, and after acting in films he turned to writing and directing.

The film Creation, which some people take to refer to both the creation of the Origins book and the creation / evolution controversy, stars Paul Bettany, who is best known for his roles in popular movies such as «The Da Vinci Code,» «Master and Commander,» and «A Beautiful Mind» (in which he won the London Film Critics» Award for Best British Actor).

In addition to his star turn in Unbroken, he can be seen in the great British film» 71, as well as Starred Up, in which he gives the most powerful performance by a male actor in recent memory.

Rory Kinnear is an award - winning British actor, perhaps best known for his role as Bill Tanner in the James Bond films QUANTUM OF SOLACE, SKYFALL and SPECTRE.

Long after British - born actor Herbert Rawlinson had passed from the scene, film fans who'd grown up in the teens and twenties retained vivid memories of his virile good looks and the solid reliability of his characterizations.

As a British director who made his start in TV comedy, I can vouch for the fact that this film is one of the key texts for every single UK comedy writer, actor, and director of my generation.

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Today, the British actor is smiling for the nominations given to Grand Budapest Hotel — if not for himself as the lead in the film.

With vast mountain terrains and theatrical music, the fantasy film feel is only enhanced by the voice - over by British actor Charles Dance, best known for his role as the uncompromising Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones.

Like millions of others, British actor Eddie Redmayne still recalls the joy of watching the Harry Potter films.

Named for the frozen treat that appears in each film, the two comedies feature British actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost combining comedy with elements of the horror and action film genres.

But this is a year where Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Kaluuya, Josh O'Connor and Florence Pugh are nominated, where Simon Farnaby and Paul King's remarkable Paddington 2 screenplay is honoured (the film deserved a Best Film / Best British Film nod too), where Saoirse Ronan is celebrated, where Jamie Bell is justly remembered for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and where Hugh Grant is nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a family film about a CGI bear.

The spy thriller starring Gary Oldman has been nominated for 11 Bafta awards, including a best actor nod for Oldman, best director for Tomas Alfredson, best film, and outstanding British film.

COLIN FIRTH struggled through the filming of his new movie THE KING»S SPEECH as he battled ill health on set.The British actor plays stuttering...

Mark Rylance Ready Player One news: British actor joins the cast of Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the book, which goes into production soon.

British actor Taron Egerton, who appears in this year's Eddie the Eagle film as British underdog ski jumper Michael «Eddie» Edwards, will play Robin and Bridge of Spies actress Eve Hewson will play Maid Marian.

Special Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

The lineup, which recognises new film talent, also includes British actors Bel Powley and Taron Egerton

Five nominations The Big Short (film, director, adapted screenplay, supporting actor, editing) The Danish Girl (British film, actor, actress, costume design, makeup & hair) Ex Machina (British film, debut film, original screenplay, supporting actress, visual effects)

Being a Tarantino regular, he understands the style of the film better than the British actors do.

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM - Pride BEST ACTRESS - Gugu Mbatha - Raw — Belle BEST ACTOR - Brendan Gleeson — Calvary BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION - The Goob BEST DIRECTOR - Yann Demange --»71 BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM -...

Tolkienesque in look and language, the film employs a staggering array of British and Australian character actors, including Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill and Geoffrey Rush, who bluster on about nobility and the savagery of war in plummy accents, then take to the skies, with razored claws to tear each other to shreds.

The film stars British actors Luke Evans («Furious 7,» «Beauty and the Beast») and Rebecca Hall («The Town,» «The Prestige») as the psychologist, educator and inventor William Moulton Marston and his wife and co-developer of the lie detector test Elizabeth, and Australian Bella Heathcote («Fifty Shades Darker,» «The Man in the High Castle») as his student turned both Marstons» lover Olive Byrne.

Likewise, Danny Huston — not my favorite actor by any stretch of the imagination — is a lot stronger here than in some of his previous films (like Birth), playing Justin's co-worker who has his own sleazy interests in Tessa, something she uses to get information from him about the British government's dealings in Africa.

This special one day event will feature a series of films with famously mustachioed actors including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Groucho Marx, William Powell, Peter Sellers and Sean Connery, which segues into a tribute to British born actor Richard Harris who often sported a mustache as well as a full beard.

Armando Iannucci plays funny business with accents in his mordantly funny new film The Death of Stalin, as Russian Communist party apparatchiks are exhumed by a slew of British and American character actors who all retain their natural accents.

American film with most of the main roles going to British actors, well I say actors but none of them are really proper actors hehe Vinnie Jones, Tamer Hassan and Luke Goss, all Southerners and all pretty hard..

We spoke to Kaluuya, who knew he'd «kill it» in the role as soon as he read the script, about the prejudice depicted in the film, his own experiences of racism, and Samuel L Jackson's recent criticism of black British actors taking African American roles in Hollywood films.

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle also announced that actor John Cassini will be the recipient of this year's Ian Caddell Award for Achievement, a prize handed out to a British Columbian who has made a significant contribution to our province's film industry.

Features both the American and British versions of the film, commentary track by creator / actor Richard O'Brien and co-star Patricia Quinn, an audience participation picture - in - picture track with a live version of the show and a «callback» subtitle track that cues viewers to classic audience responses, featurettes, two deleted musical scenes, outtakes, alternate opening and ending, and other celebrations of the culture of «Rocky Horror.»

The film seems to be set in New York and yet its main characters, the Wishbones, are all voiced by British actors in British accents.

The film stars a host of prominent British and American actors as Stalin's underlings, including Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, Jeffrey Tambor as Stalin's heir apparent Georgy Malenkov, Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov, Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov, Simon Russell Beale as Lavrentiy Beria and Homeland star Rupert Friend as Stalin's son Vasily.

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

Neil Gaiman, destroyer of dreams, wants to set the record straight for any fans out there who thought his praise of Hiddleston's cheekbones meant the British actor was definitively cast to play Morpheus in the film adaptation of The Sandman.

British actor Mark Strong and Game Of Thrones actress Rose Leslie have helped to turn two forgotten film scripts by the late Harold Pinter into radio...

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.