Sentences with phrase «bit role»

There are some smaller, quirky bit roles in the film.

Jenkins also charts his path to success in a business he knew he wanted to be in since he was a kid and recounts those many years riding the train from Illinois to play bit roles in New York - based TV shows and films.

Those were perhaps the highlights of a career mainly constituted by unbilled, bit roles as cops, military officers, small - time gangsters, and even the occasional sheriff (Oh, Susannah!

Every character, all of whom are aspiring or successful artists of a certain type, is nuanced and bring forth their own insights; even bit roles such as Frederick, the artist who is completely different than any other character in the film, expounding on how he can't sell his work to someone who only sees if for how it will work with his existing household decor.

Part of the reason why the film is crippled comes from some less - than - stellar casting of the lead role in Canadian Jeff Cooper, known primarily for bit roles on various TV series.

Orser is the sort of actor who has operated on the fringes of pop culture for twenty years, with notable bit roles in films like Seven and Saving Private Ryan and the Taken films, as well as quite a bit of television work, but Faults is a rare case of a director putting him in the driver's seat, and he proves himself equal to the task.

Married to Robert Zemeckis from 1980 to 2000, she also appeared in a few of his movies, one of which was Romancing the Stone of course, but also included bit roles in Back to the Future II, Death Becomes Her, and Forrest Gump.

After pursuing directorial work fervently and dauntlessly, but encountering mixed success and frustration about his own inability to get studio backing for projects, Danny Huston found himself being drawn, one assignment at a time, into bit roles before the camera.

With no other immediate options visible to him, Huston started accepting Hollywood friends» invitations to play on - camera bit roles — and scored tremendous success in this arena to rival anything prior in his career.

After stage work, Freeman began taking bit roles in major - studio features in 1948, seldom getting screen credit but always making a positive impression.

American actor Sherry Hall popped up in innumerable bit roles between 1932 and 1951.

It has become an unspoken trope of the comic actor's career that they must, at some point, try to «break out» — to land a role with enough dramatic weight that they might slip free of whatever one - liner or bit role previously defined them in the eyes of the audience.

Spattered about the place are bit roles filled by the likes of Terry Crews, Joel McHale, Kevin Nealon and Shaquille O'Neal (there's those mates we mentioned earlier), but really this comes down to Sandler and Barrymore first hating each other, and then slowly coming to love each other, because... Well, there's the problem.

But Twilight both established her persona on a mass level and got her bigger, better parts than she likely would have secured based only on her earlier bit roles and kid - actor parts.

After playing the same bit role in two of Tarantino's earlier projects, Parks is given a promotion and far more screen time as O.B. Jackson.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off Year: 1986 Director: John Hughes John Hughes» zeitgeist - y, fourth wall - busting ode to rich, entitled suburban youth vs. killjoy authority announced Matthew Broderick as a bona fide star, and gave us a chillingly prescient glimpse at Charlie Sheen's future in an admittedly funny bit role.

Matt Damon (Rounders, Dogma) and Ben Affleck (Forces of Nature, Armageddon) would serve as executive producers thanks to a deal they signed to develop films with Miramax, and would also have small bit roles themselves, and would give a co-starring nod to the relatively unknown Jay Lacopo, who is also the screenwriter, and previous star of Ben Affleck's first directorial gig, a short entitled, I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three - picture Deal at Disney.

Haydn is a Final Fantasy & Persona fanatic and can always be found talking about the next bit Role Playing game.

His father was an opera singer, and McTiernan made his theatrical debut at age seven playing bit roles in his father's shows.

Orser is the sort of actor who has operated on the fringes of pop culture for twenty years, with notable bit roles in films like

While he received earlier renown for bit roles in films like «Almost Famous» and the HBO miniseries «Band of Brothers,» the young comedian had reportedly turned down a large number of scripts before finally agreeing to work with director Tim Story on his latest comedy flop «Taxi.»

In the lower levels, this role is essential, but in the NFL it is probably more of a bit role.

Horrid analogies aside, the point is simple: Gerson's talent is undeniable, especially for a player his age, but thus far it hasn't translated to even a bit role with Luciano Spalletti's squad, leading many to speculate about a January loan move.

Even though I have been one of the greatest victims of the irresponsible section of the media, i.e. those who have created an industry from spewing calumnies, falsehoods and outright fabrications against my person, I do not regret one bit my role in repealing that old, discredited law.

In an ironic twist, an Indian news channel discovered a clip from an obscure 1991 Hindi flick titled Khooni Raat («bloody night») in which Kumar — who harbored ambitions of becoming a movie star — plays a bit role as an upstanding police officer.

Her electrifying performance in a bit role for David Fincher's highly acclaimed The Social Network caught...

After essaying a bit role in 1925's The Merry Widow, Don Ryan moved into screenwriting.

That, however, was it for Francis, who spent the remainder of her screen career in low - budget — and sometimes even «no - budget» — potboilers and bit roles.

His career continued well into the sound era but mainly in bit roles.

As a child, Nick Castle Jr. showed up in extra and bit roles in the films choreographed by his famous dancer father.

The thing is just terrible, though Justine Bateman has a bit role and delivers that well.

(It was a different actor who appeared in the bit role of Anne Baxter's suitor in O. Henry's Full House [1952].)

In 1935 he began appearing in bit roles in Westerns onscreen; by the early»40s Rogers had succeeded Gene Autry as «King of the Cowboys.»

Yet another misfire came from wasting Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) in a bit role as a school security officer.

Following her Oscar - winning performance in 12 Years a Slave — and subsequent red carpet domination — Nyong» o's legions of fans will relish the chance to finally see her face on the big screen again (apart from a bit role in 2014's Non-Stop).

After another bit role as Brad Pitt's wife in the David Fincher thriller, «Se7en,» Gwyneth began to receive more attention from the media, though her intimate relationship to the «Sexiest Man Alive» is probably more to blame.

The story construction is laudable; the supporting roles and even the bit roles are superbly cast and played.

Mara has some superhero movie experience, having played a bit role as an unnamed U.S. Marshall in Iron Man 2 and a hero in Zoom, a smaller - focus superhero film in 2006.

There are quite literally 10 actors ranging from co-leads to bit roles, coming from likely Best Picture nominees and likely one - off nominations for their films.

We have some of the best British actors with bit roles, like David Bradley, Bill Nighy and Pierce Brosnan, but the story doesn't really give them much to do.

Other familiar faces like J.K. Simmons (Spider - Man), Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien) and Sons of Anarchy star William Lucking all pop up here and there for some brief (but welcome) bit roles.

The film has helped to launch Kaluuya's career, whose biggest credits prior to Get Out were arguably an episode of Black Mirror and a bit role in Sicario.

Even the bit roles like friends Jessica (Anna Kendrick), Mike (Michael Welch), Angela (Christian Serratos) and Bella's dad Charlie (Billy Burke) are all relatively well fleshed out too.

She appears in this TV spot in some new footage, as well as Bruce Willis in another bit role.

The star - studded supporting cast of mostly respected actors in bit roles includes Kathy Bates, Toni Collette, Sandra Oh («Grey's Anatomy»), Gary Cole, Nat Faxon («The Way, Way Back») and Dan Aykroyd and Allison Janney as Tammy's parents.

For what also initially starts out as feeling noting more than a bit role, Diane Kruger does well as a rookie who may be in over her head and possibly succumbing to the other side.

Also turning up in bit roles — just a scene or two apiece — are Ralph Fiennes as Laurence Laurentz, an uppity director trying fruitlessly to whip Hobie into thespian shape; Scarlett Johansson as DeeAnna Moran, a swimsuit beauty a la Esther Williams who's more Bronx moll than angel; Jonah Hill as the ever - ready fall guy; Frances McDormand as the editing whiz toiling in her cave; and Channing Tatum as a Gene Kelly-esque song - and - dance man.