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Michael Keaton plays Riggan, an aging actor who years ago starred in three Birdman superhero movies.

Michael Keaton plays Riggan, an aging actor who years ago starred in three Birdman...

The Oscar nominations for lead actor are in, and they include Michael Keaton, who in «Birdman» portrays an aging actor who once played a superhero; Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in «Theory of Everything»; and Benedict Cumberbatch as WWII code breaker Alan Turing...

The Oscar nominations for lead actor are in, and they include Michael Keaton, who in «Birdman» portrays an aging actor who once played a superhero; Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in «Theory of Everything»; and Benedict Cumberbatch as WWII code breaker Alan Turing in «The Imitation Game.»

Not exact matches

According to 2009's «The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use,» by Dawn Rae Downton, the actor who played Superman as an infant in the 1978 film, Lee Quigley, died at age 14 from inhalant abuse.

There have been three such shocks in my adult life «the sudden death at age 54 of actor J.T. Walsh who was to me big brother, uncle, and friend wrapped in one ferocious package.

In the 2002 film, «The Rookie,» actor Dennis Quaid plays a middle - aged high school baseball coach who tries out for a major league baseball team.

In an age like ours, when a Hollywood movie actor who was also head of the actors» union for a while became President of the United States, this prejudice might seem mere crankery.

Brad Pitt, the 53 - year old star is a Hollywood actor who decided to age gracefully following divorce from his wife Angelina Jolie.

Who: Liam James, actorWhat: «The Way, Way Back «Where: Today at Eccles at 3:30 p.m.. Most people know Liam James for his role as Mireille Enos» son on AMC's «The Killing,» but Sundance auds will see an entirely different side of the young actor in «The Way, Way Back,» a coming - of - age tale that marks the directorial debut of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, the Oscar - winning scribes of «The Descendants.»

Around the State Capitol there is a widely shared belief that Governor Andrew Cuomo's Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker was the real life inspiration for the fictional early 90s television program, «Doogie Howser MD.» For those who don't remember the show, which ran for four seasons on ABC beginning in 1989, Actor Neil Patrick Harris portrayed the child prodigy who graduated from medical school at age 14.

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

«When Ryan talked about doing this three years ago, before we actually got the ball rolling last year, I would joke with him saying, «Hey man, I would love to do this, but if you don't want me to do it with you, I defy you to find another guy who looks kind of like him, who's in the same age range, who's in your Rolodex of actors.

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Stars who date younger men — Robin Wright, 47, has found love with 33 - year - old actor Ben Foster, and she knows their age difference has raised Dating and relationships issues between younger men and older women.

Based on Philip Roth's novel, The Humbling tells the story of a legendary stage actor who has an affair with a lesbian woman half his age at a secluded country house in Connecticut.

The scenes with Spacey crackle — Hoult leans into the hero's attractive obnoxiousness and the older actor responds with one of his looser, funnier performances — and Zoey Deutch is unexpectedly good as Oona O'Neill, the brittle, sad - eyed debutante who toyed with the young writer before throwing him over to marry the aging Charlie Chaplin.

Mr. Wilson, a stage actor who played Julius Beaufort in «The Age of Innocence,» is extraordinary at capturing Gerardo's confusion, as he wonders if his wife is right or deranged.

«In the Company of Character» (10:23) celebrates the cast, starting with Day - Lewis» complete immersion and moving to the supporting actors, including Field (who acknowledges her age and explains how she got this job seemingly out of nowhere) and others, who describe their research and involvement.

The plot plays out like a very bad Silver Age comic, with a cringeworthy heavy - handed «Captain Planet» - esque anti-nuclear weapon message, beyond cheesy plot consisting of multiple meaningless subplots, mediocre effects - driven action sequences that induce laughter rather than suspense, and actors who seem more disinterested than the next.

Not even Blanchett and Rush — two of the finest actors working today, or Morton — who stirs me to impure thoughts even as a supposedly pious figure, or Owen — who almost makes a pair of puffy pants look butch, can drag «The Golden Age» out of the morass in which Kapur has sunk it.

Its a must see little Indie movie with amazing performances from James, Melissa and Kristen who at times steals the screen with her raw no holds barred acting, old school actors even though Kristen is young in age her performance is extremely mature.

In films from the age of 17, American actor Ralph Graves was a handsome, strapping young man who was most comfortable in comedy.

A handsome and talented young actor who cut his thespian chops on - stage, young Will Rothhaar was bitten by the acting bug early in life, making his feature debut at the age of nine in the gross - out kings Farrelly brothers» homage to the sleazy side of bowling, Kingpin (1996).

Comic actor Bob Saget served as producer and director of this made - for - TV film, inspired by the true story of Saget's sister Gay, who died in 1994 at the age of 47.

The story of an aging French actor who - after learning his family has been killed in an accident - still carries on with his career, enjoys his morning espresso and newspaper, appreciates the endless beauty that is Paris, and takes a stand against the philistinism that plagues his professional life.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

The actor who missed out on the last installment (Transformers: Age of Extinction) revealed to Entertainment Tonight at the BET Awards.

A female actor aged 18 — 37 is needed to portray Tracy, and a male actor aged 54 — 75 will depict a Chairman of the Parole Board, a «racist [who] holds a high position of power in the justice system.»

Here's one for Chicago - based fans of legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who died last month at the age of 91: A chance to see his final film, Lucky, for free during its run at the beautiful, historic Music Box theater.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

Variety writes, «With the exception of Eastwood, who's 29, Disney and Lucasfilm seem to be zeroing in on actors between the ages of 20 to 25.

British actor Roger Lloyd - Pack, who died today at the age of 69, will always be remembered for his lovable simpleton Trigger in Only Fools and Horses - here are his best bits.

The only person who gives me any enthusiasm for this project at all is Anthony Ingruber (a pretty much unknown actor who played a young Harrison Ford recently in Age of Adaline).

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

The actor Harry Dean Stanton, who died Sept. 15 at age 91, appeared in movies as diverse as «Paris, Texas» and «Pretty in Pink» but was consistently in a state of disrepair.

Morgan Freeman's mollycoddled and on meds, suffering the indignity of being infantlised by an idiot son, Kevin Kline's got a great wife but a boring life and is subsequently sexually dysfunctional and depressed, Robert De Niro's a widower whose only human contact is a soup making neighbour, while Michael Douglas, in a set up that must have presented the actor with the greatest challenge of his career, plays a rich old pervert who's eschewed commitment most of his adult life but is now about to settle for a woman less than half his age.

Pacino plays Simon Axler, a fading 65 - year - old stage and film actor (who looks and acts more like Pacino's real age of 74).

This news also comes a few days after the death of legendary musician and actor David Bowie, who also passed away from cancer at age 69.

It is even more delightful when those Oscar ™ - worthy performances come from actors who have not yet attained voting age.

Here, Wright regular (and co-writer) Simon Pegg stars as an alcoholic, middle - aged man - child who brings his gang of childhood friends back together (including actors Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan) in hopes of finally completing an epic pub - crawl they'd unsuccessfully attempted as youths.

He doesn't seem to be a real worst - nightmare physical (and psychological) threat: he is good for a lot of highly entertaining bluster and a touch of pity, but I could never stop feeling a Viggo Mortensen or Brendan Gleeson (an actor who, with the proper drawl, could make a swell middle - aged John Wayne) would have cut a more imposing figure.

Harry Dean Stanton, a prolific character actor who brought a soulful, hangdog presence to such varied films as «Alien,» «Paris, Texas,» «Repo Man» and «Pretty in Pink,» becoming a favorite of film fans and directors alike, died on Friday at age 91.

Radiant Julia Roberts plays Liz Gilbert, an ambivalent, well - to - do New Yorker who, after visiting an elderly guru (Hadi Subiyanto) in Bali, divorces her adoring husband Stephen (Billy Crudup) to embark on a New Age journey of self - discovery, beginning with a fling with a hunky, much younger actor, David (James Franco).

It's always a pleasure to watch Jean Reno, and he's an actor who has progressed effortlessly through his roles as he's aged, but the characters in Ca $ h are only here to double cross one another.

It's pretty sad when, out of two actors playing the same person (albeit at different ages), the one with much less experience and no expectations does a better job than the star, who wants his credibility to hinge on this film.

But the actor, who died yesterday in a freak automobile accident at the age of 27, went in the opposite direction, putting his franchise clout to work on movies by cult directors like Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive), Joe Dante (Burying the Ex), Paul Schrader (Dying of the Light) and Michael Almereyda (Cymbeline).

Strengths: Another movie that festival audiences adored is Paul McGuigan's «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» adapted from Peter Turner's memoir about Gloria Grahame, starring Annette Bening as the aging star who has an affair with a younger actor (Jamie Bell).

This Halloween marks the 20th anniversary of the death of actor River Phoenix, who succumbed to an accidental drug overdose outside a West Hollywood nightclub in 1993 at the age of 23.