Sentences with phrase «as guest actor»

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Colbert's new show debuted last Tuesday night with a premiere that featured actor George Clooney and Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush as guests, garnering ratings that crushed the late - night competition.

Actor John Travolta — best known as starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Grease — will be among the numerous celebrity attendees, serving as a special guest speaker.

MTV Sports also includes celebrity guests such as Bo Jackson, golfer John Daly, rapper / underwear hawker Marky Mark and actor Stephen Baldwin, who was featured in a June program racing a motorcycle at 150 mph while attending SuperBike School in California.

As an actor, Steines has guest starred on television shows including «CSI: NY,» «The Practice,» «Medium,» «Half & Half,» «America's Next Top Model,» «Handy Manny» and Sony Pictures» feature film «Nixon.»

The study was commissioned as a bit of fun by actor Colin Firth as part of his stint guest editing BBC Radio 4's Today programme — but has developed into a serious effort to discover if people's political views are encoded.

The young actors have chemistry together and you have to appreciate how the filmmakers had the good sense of also casting such comic geniuses as Eugene Levy as Jim's dad and Jennifer Coolidge as Stifler's mom, and now the conclusion of the epic trilogy takes the Chris - Guest - company thing one step further by giving the part of Michele's dad to Fred Willard!

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.

Christopher's won three Emmy awards — two for Outstanding Supporting actor in a comedy series for his role in both the 1982 and 1983 Seasons of Taxi and Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar&raactor in a comedy series for his role in both the 1982 and 1983 Seasons of Taxi and Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar&raActor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's «Avonlea» (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off - Broadway play «Kaspar».

Throughout the early 1970s the bulging, bald - domed actor made a comfortable living in TV commercials and TV guest - star assignments, and as a regular on the detective series Griff (1973) and Khan (1975).

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

In 2008, Turman scored his first Emmy ® win as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for IN TREATMENT.

The second full - length studio release for actor / rapper Donald Glover as Childish Gambino features guest appearances from Jhene Aiko, Azealia Banks, and Chance the Rapper.

He was nominated in 2012 and again in 2013 as part of the Best Ensemble Cast (HOMELAND) at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as individually for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama at the 2013 Emmy Awards.

The Wonder Years represented Mills's breakthrough; after it wrapped, she landed occasional guest parts on such series as NYPD Blue and Roseanne, and appeared infrequently in telemovies, such as Joyce Chopra's 1995 Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan.Off - camera, Mills made headlines when the never - before - married actress wed legendary Hollywood actor Orson Bean, 23 years her senior, not long after Years concluded.

He became an actor at a young age starting off with guest appearances on shows such as CSI and Close to Home.

Guest stars this series include two actors with «Star Trek» universe credits: Jeri Ryan as Pete's ex-wife, and Kate Mulgrew as Pete's mom.

In this universe rife with inside jokes and gems disguised as throwaway lines, Guest himself appears as the wondrously detached director of the film, who asserts his authority by not asserting it when dealing with addled actors or wounded first - time screenwriters (Bob Balaban and Michael McKean).

A director and screenwriter as well as an Oscar - nominated actor (and former «30 Rock» co-star of TODAY guest host Jane Krakowski), James Franco has a new project: a film adaptation of William Faulkner's classic «The Sound and the Fury.»

When, as a guest on «Inside The Actors Studio,» Gabriel Byrne was prompted for his favorite phrases, he chose prolix, an adjective connoting a superfluity of words, and bollocks, the Hibernian slang for testicles that can mean claptrap, rubbish, a series of lies, an idiotic person, or, in active form, the feat of fouling something up.

He first appeared as an actor in the made - for - TV thriller The Highwayman (1987), after which he gained substantial popularity as a guest star on the hit series Miami Vice.

Guests at this special midnight screening on will be actors Michael Stephenson, George Hardy, Jason Steadman and Darren Ewing, as well as the film's director / co-writer Claudio Fragasso, and co-writer Rossella Drudi, coming all the way from Italy.

Most of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance of a realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation of the song «Lover» for a musical film, and in the tape manipulation of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement of actors in a shot so as to highlight the presence of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a film - within - the - film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background of a shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).

But despite a couple of nominations and wins for guest actors over the next few seasons, the series was never able to break through again as competition in the drama races really started heating up.

According to a 2011 article from The Daily Mail, actor Dan Stevens took to heart the «comments on Twitter about how fat Matthew was looking,» and as the new trailer for Adam Wingard's The Guest suggests, the ditch from whence his character on Downtown Abbey rose led the actor to a Crunch.

The script (written by Guest and actor Jim Piddock, who also has a role as a retired mascot) fails to deliver the comedic commentary on the art of mascotry that this ridiculous activity provides.

Actor, author and musician Rhys Muldoon is our guest this month, as we look back at some of the key films of October 2016, including Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Woody Allen's Café Society, and Denis Villeneuve's Arrival.

An erudite, Jewish Ivy League graduate — and closeted gay man — who spoke nine languages and was a regular guest on a popular TV quiz show, Berg was an incredibly multifaceted character far removed from Rudd's recent efforts that would allow him to stretch as an actor, as he worked with language coaches and tried to tap into a man who wouldn't let himself be known.

It's been 36 years since Ed Asner took a guest role in the original Hawaii Five - 0 series in 1975, and now Deadline reports the veteran actor will return as that exact same character on CBS» series reboot.

Following in the same genre as his past efforts (Best In Show and Waiting for Guffman), and using many of the same actors, Christopher Guest presents this mockumentary where any resemblance to real people is purely coincidental — okay, not entirely coincidental... this is a spoof after all.

Idris Elba has been announced as a guest presenter at this year's Hyundai Mercury Prize.The world - renowned actor and DJ - who has worked with...

Levy and director Christopher Guest («This Is Spinal Tap») provided the basic structure for each scene but then allowed the actors to come up with their own lines as the cameras rolled.

Guest's humanistic approach extends to actors as well, Higgins says.

There are just enough throwaway absurdities (references to Chili guesting on a chatshow with Ariel Sharon, Harvey Keitel's Nick attempting to rap, Dwayne Johnson's would - be actor using a two - girl dialogue from cheerleader comedy «Bring It On» as his prepared audition piece, etc.) to keep things entertaining, but this is hardly satire.

Like Woodward, however, Rash is specifically listed as being «from the film,» distinct from a a seperate listing of actors attending the premiere as special guests.

Parts in the ensemble drama «Bobby» and Terry Zwigoff's «Art School Confidential» followed, as well as guest roles on «Six Feet Under» and the sitcom «Jake In Progress» and an appearance in the video for Regina Spektor «s «Fidelity,» but it was as the lead in the well - regarded «In Search of a Midnight Kiss» that the actor started to get noticed.

The USA medical dramedy has added Oscar nominee Michael O'Keefe (Michael Clayton), Shameless vet Nick Gehlfuss, Greek grad Spencer Grammer, Reaper's Tyler Labine, Betas actor Leonardo Nam and Entourage alum Brandon Quinn as guest stars for Season 6, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

See what this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees and guests are wearing as they arrive at L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium

Hideo Kojima will be present, as well as Yoji Shinkawa, Yuji Korekado, Atsushi Inaba and, as a special guest, Japanese Snake voice actor Akio Otsuka.

Spanish actor Oscar Jaenada, Spanish actor Sergi Lopez, British screenwriter Tony Grisoni, a guest, Spanish actor Jordi Molla, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma, US - British director Terry Gilliam, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard, French - Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko, US actor Adam Driver, Portuguese actress Joana Ribeiro, British actor Jonathan Pryce and producer Alessandra Lo Savio pose as they arrive on May 19, 2018 for the closing ceremony and the screening of the film «The Man Who Killed Don Quixote» at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France.

Guests who attended the Awards included the former President of Ireland Mary McAleese and Michael D. Higgins; actors Pierce Brosnan, Brendan Gleeson, Saoirse Ronan, Kim Cattrall, Joely Richardson, Colm Meaney, Stephen Rea, Amy Huberman, Charlene McKenna, Martin McCann, Ruth McCabe and Ruth Bradley; film and programme makers including PJ Dillon, Tom Hall, Juanita Wilson, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Morgan O'Sullivan, James Flynn, Joan Bergin and Tim Fleming; and television names such as Gay Byrne, Pat Kenny, Miriam O'Callaghan plus many more.

Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, best known for his work in films such as BIG FAN (2009), YOUNG ADULT (2011), and THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (2013), as well as voicing the star of Pixar's RATATOUILLE (2007), is set to guest star on a brand new episode of Marvel's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D later this season.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

Emmy voters went all - in for guest actors from This Is Us, and Gerald McRaney's performance as the doctor is integral to the heart of the show.

«Guffman» starred many of the same actors (Guest, Levy, Willard, O'Hara, Hitchcock and Posey), and in both films some of their dialogue seems based in improvisation, especially as conversations veer into revealing detours.

Kelli Giddish The «Law & Order: Special Victims Unit» actor guest stars on four episodes of the show as Sophia Russo, a private sector investigator who's romantically involved with Kalinda (Archie Panjabi).

There are her many appearances in Murphy's «American Horror Story,» plus, she is also one of four actors in this gallery who guest - starred on «ER,» joining the cast for the 15th and final season as a series regular — and yes, she did guest star on two episodes of «The Cosby Show,» which still streams today on Amazon Prime.

Additionally, SIFF brought in more than 350 filmmakers, actors, and industry professionals as guests of the Festival.

«In this heat, I'd like to think I'm as hot as James Marsden,» Koechner joked, referring to the heartthrob actor and Big Slick guest.

This new building, located on Spencer Dock, Dublin will play host to IFTA's nominees, winners, actors, TV personalities, directors, producers and guests as they walk the red carpet — celebrating the talent that exists within the film and television industries in Ireland and around the globe.

DOUG JONES While famous for working under prosthetics in iconic feature film roles, Doug Jones is also a versatile character actor who has performed as «himself» in guest star roles on shows like Arrow, The Flash, Teen Wolf, Z - Nation, The Neighbors, Criminal Minds, C.S.I. and NBC's horror anthology Fear Itself.