Sentences with phrase «as a character actor in»

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.

An Emmy winner for his work on the various Sid Caesar programs, he entered films as a character actor in 1959.

While Lee all but disappeared from show business, Gilford was able to make a slow comeback as a character actor in such Broadway plays as The Diary of Anne Frank, Romanoff and Juliet and The Beauty Part.

Jack Bender got his start in the entertainment business as a character actor in the»70s, but he soon moved on to directing and producing for television.

Not exact matches

He joins Chris Evans (Human Torch / Captain America), Peter Dinklage (X-Men's Bolivar Trask and a character in «Infinity War»), and actor Josh Brolin who plays the villain in not only «Infinity War,» but this summer's «Deadpool 2» as well.

As the actor who redefined what it means to be The Man in Hollywood with films like «Pulp Fiction,» he simply put too much into the role, making the Octopus one of his least memorable characters to date.

The spot, a parable about how easily we forget the true meaning of charity, opened with a perfect replica of da Vinci's The Last Supper, using actors posing as the characters in the painting.

Angels, visible in human form, appear as characters in the narrative and address the chief actors; an angel descends from heaven, rolls away the stone which sealed the rock tomb and sits upon it.

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

Just keep in mind that some people refused to see that movie over the race of some of the actors cast as nordic characters.

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He delivers a knockout performance in the lead role as Caesar that should cause critics to give pause and ponder the possibility of an actor playing a GC character being in contention this awards season.

Sonny has some actor in him, and against the Giants he was in true character, clasping his helmet in disbelief at officiating calls, scooping up a handful of dirt in disgust, either with himself or because of a dropped pass, and looking at times as if he would not be able to raise up from one knee after he had called a play in the huddle.

I'd wondered whether the Hollywood star Clint Eastwood, directing Hollywood actors Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon as the two leading characters, could possibly capture the essence, even the magic, of that final; of how it became such a unifying force for a society still in a fragile process of transition from white supremacy to majority rule, fear and hostility abounding.

«In my usual character, I am not disposed to taking issue with anyone or group, especially on a matter that I think could be settled internally, more so, when some of the key actors are not sincerely committed to bringing an end to the festering crisis that has set us back as a party.»

«With 37 governors races in 2010, this $ 10 million commitment — confirmed by Steve «Majors» Levy himself to the New York Post - must come as a serious shock to every single Republican gubernatorial candidate who is not 30 points down,» he said, alluding to the «Six Million Dollar Man» character portrayed by actor Lee Majors.

In the recent movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the face of the character Grand Moff Tarkin was constructed digitally, as the actor who had originally played him had died.

The actor proved his dedication to the role by staying in character throughout filming, which not only impressed Russell and Eklund, but will most likely surprise viewers as well.

Actors in this film have lent their vocal talents to other characters as well.

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

Too muted and pensive to work as a thriller, too withdrawn to be a character study, and too cold to evoke any sympathy, the film is instead a dull and alienating exercise in how to take a strong actor and interesting premise and mostly waste them.

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.

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.

Over the course of the series, as Voldemort gathered in power and corporeality, his wrenched, Medusa - like face eventually growing a body (though oddly losing its nose), the actor started to fill out the character with sharp, indelible gestures, a flick of the wrist, a twist of the mouth.

One year later, Apfel appeared again as an actor known for playing distinguished characters in films such as Romance of the Underworld (1928), and the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon.

In the 1990s, she made an impact as the title character in JACKIE BROWN, and was honored with Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and NAACP nominationIn the 1990s, she made an impact as the title character in JACKIE BROWN, and was honored with Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and NAACP nominationin JACKIE BROWN, and was honored with Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and NAACP nominations.

There's little doubt that Date Night fares best in its opening half hour, as the palpable chemistry between Carell and Fey is undoubtedly heightened by the ease with which the actors slip into their respective characters.

And while Radcliffe remains reined in as an actor, that is by this stage a feature of the character, and his performance has moments of quiet brilliance.

A 33 - year - old actor and comic best known for his long - running role as Maurice in the Britcom «The IT Crowd,» Ayoade has an evident gift for the kind of slightly offbeat comedy that's about the differences between a character's self - perception and the way the world sees him.

For his performance as the title character DEXTER, Hall (who served as an executive producer) won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in 2010 and the 2007 TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.

It's telling that her 2011 directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, was populated with international unknown actors and told in Bosnian and Serbo - Croatian languages, so as to embed the audience as deeply as possible into the characters» ordealIn the Land of Blood and Honey, was populated with international unknown actors and told in Bosnian and Serbo - Croatian languages, so as to embed the audience as deeply as possible into the characters» ordealin Bosnian and Serbo - Croatian languages, so as to embed the audience as deeply as possible into the characters» ordeals.

«Very Bad Things,» written and directed by the actor Peter Berg, is about as funny as the character who winds up a double amputee in its closing scene.

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.

discuss the film in detail; Audran dissects her character and praises Axel as a precise, exacting director who was nonetheless easy with his actors.

The British actor, best known as Loki in the «Thor» and «Avengers» series, disappears into the character's skinny body and twangy voice.

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.

However, until that happens, I'm content to watch this multi-talented actor / performer in whatever screen roles he chooses — Wolverine, an Australian drover, a deceitful partner — or, as in Real Steel, a struggling boxing promoter whose many character flaws include a willingness to sell his 11 - year - old son.

By shaping Roxanne Roxanne as a character profile, Larnell accentuates his actors» performances and crafts a nuanced community portrait, two strengths exhibited in his delightful first feature, «Cronies.»

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.

And while the movie's obvious highlight comes with Roma's brutal dressing - down of Kevin Spacey's officious manager, Mamet's screenplay affords virtually all of the actors their moment in the sun - with Lemmon's sad - sack of a character ultimately standing as the film's emotional center (ie despite his exceedingly slimy actions, Levene becomes a figure worthy of the viewer's sympathy).

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.

Here are five gifted actors at the top of their games as five characters in search of what makes a family.

The film will feature live performances by the lead actors and is rumored to have a documentary feel as it tracks one week in the life of the main character.

i hate every character as well as every actor in this movie, except for the one who died.

Biography: He is an American comedian, Virgina born but based in New York City, he has been a sketch character actor on shows as Late Night With Conan O'Brien, giving character such as Samir from The Shutterbugs sketch.

, a picture book devoted to Hollywood's favorite character actors, Blake is lumped together with such cinematic tarts as Veda Ann Borg and Olga San Juan in a chapter titled «My, Isn't She Cheap?»

And as Charley's father, Fimmel pulls off the same trick in reverse: his character is a plainly dreadful parent, but the genuine fondness and sense of fun the actor brings to him — plus the fact he looks like a stoned hyena with bed hair — make him impossible to dislike.

Actor / director James Franco has created as unique a character in The Disaster Artist as Johnny Depp did with his Jack Sparrow creation in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

What a stellar cast we have in Lawless, (Gary Oldman) as the gangster, (Guy Pearce) as the violent deputy from Chicago, (Tom Hardy) as the oldest bondurent brother, (Jessica Chastain) as the head waitress at the Bondurants restaurant, then finally (Shia LeBeouf) as the lead actor and most developed character in the film.