Sentences with phrase «bit roles in the film»

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

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.

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

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

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After debuting onscreen in a bit as a bellboy in Dead Heat on a Merry - Go - Round (1966), he played secondary roles, typically a cowboy, in several films of the late»60s and in such TV series as Gunsmoke, The Virginian, and Ironside.

A humorous bit - part as a conservative 12 - year - old facing the wrath of a group of lethal liberals in 1995's The Last Supper dropped a dollop of humor in the mix before Moss returned to more dramatic roles in Separate Lives (1995) and A Thousand Acres (1997), and the talented young actress continued her winning streak with roles in such diverse films as The Joy Riders and Mumford (both 1999).

His first film role was the bumptious backwoodsman Whitey in Buster and Billie (1974), after which he paid his dues in a series of villainous bit parts: shooting down Burt Reynolds at the end of Hustle (1975); beating up Kris Kristofferson in A Star is Born (1976); and so on.

A stint on Garry Shandling's breakthrough HBO series The Larry Sanders Show (for which she was nominated for an Emmy award in 1996) soon followed, and in 1994 Garofalo reunited with Stiller in the film comedy Reality Bites, a role which earned her the much - despised tag of «Generation X comedian.»

Most of Hale's talkie roles were unbilled bits, or guest cameos in films that spotlighted other silent movie veterans (e.g. Hollywood Boulevard and The Perils of Pauline).

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.

Really, the only area is which the film falls back a bit is in its reliance on visual effects to play a primary role in the action sequences, a common shortcoming in recent superhero movies.

(It also helps that the only men in the film are relegated quite conspicuously to the sidelines, reduced despite their bravado to the role of bit players; one of the film's most interesting qualities is that it is, in a way, a feminist horror film.)

While many of his talkie roles at Warners were bits, Blue was given choice supporting roles in such films as Across the Pacific (1942), Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and especially Key Largo (1948).

Rami Malek — who, in an amazing bit of timing, signed on to the film just before the debut of Mr. Robot — stars in a dual role as Jonah, a modest family man who works overnights at a hotel and dreams of buying a plot of land in the mountains, and as Buster, an anarchist vagrant who survives by breaking in to the empty vacation homes of wealthy part - time Montana residents.

But one still can't shake that feeling that Abramoff, as presented in this film, isn't just an excuse tor Spacey to engage us with his schtick, which includes several celebrity impressions and that sarcastic bite he's perfected over the many sneaky villain roles he's played.

Stoll gives a solid performance, even if his villain role is a bit generic, feeling more like Obadiah Stane from the original Iron Man film, complete with a prolonged climax in which supercharged hero and supercharged villain fight it out in their respective techno suits.

the Aliens or Prawns (derogetory term given to them by the humans) play a much larger emotional and dynamic role in the film than the trailer or bits of viral marketing let on.

District 9 is not only an action thriller, but a thought provoking critique on our own culture that can't be ignored as the Aliens or Prawns (derogetory term given to them by the humans) play a much larger emotional and dynamic role in the film than the trailer or bits of viral marketing let on.

In the bit, Spencer is recounting how many times she played a nurse in various films before winning her Oscar Award for The Help, and indeed one of those nurse roles placed her inside Haddonfield General Hospital and directly in the path of a decidedly angry Michael Myers in Zombie's 2009 sequel to his own 2007 Halloween remakIn the bit, Spencer is recounting how many times she played a nurse in various films before winning her Oscar Award for The Help, and indeed one of those nurse roles placed her inside Haddonfield General Hospital and directly in the path of a decidedly angry Michael Myers in Zombie's 2009 sequel to his own 2007 Halloween remakin various films before winning her Oscar Award for The Help, and indeed one of those nurse roles placed her inside Haddonfield General Hospital and directly in the path of a decidedly angry Michael Myers in Zombie's 2009 sequel to his own 2007 Halloween remakin the path of a decidedly angry Michael Myers in Zombie's 2009 sequel to his own 2007 Halloween remakin Zombie's 2009 sequel to his own 2007 Halloween remake.

Talking with «People» magazine about his role in the new horror film «Happy Birthday,» the singer reveals he's been bitten by the acting bug.

Cooper is a bit over-hyped in his role, while Adams is at her best in a role that is the film's most diverse.

While Bana is good in his role, it doesn't really require much of an acting stretch on his part, so I suspect he did the film just for a bit of fun to get away from the darker films he had been doing.

The real problem for me is that a Woody Allen film without Woody Allen in the central acting role is really a poor copy of his earlier films.Blanchet plays the crazed anxious neurotic, which is the part the Allen always played.No - body can do, the highly strung, manic neurotic part as well as him, and Blanchet whilst decent can not match him.A decent enough film, but perhaps a bit dry in it's delivery

I've seen this film twice already and I have to say what fine acting from the whole cast, hailee steinfeld was exceptional and jeff bridges managed to pull off such an iconic role, matt damon was there but surprisingly restrained in his bit.

In the education of aspiring filmmakers, when every single bit of available information builds upon the artist's craft and know - how, vital role was played by countless prize film magazines.

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.

The film will flush out Gadot's resume a bit and allow the world to see her in what is likely another action - type role.

On the Allen bits, it looks like Parker got her role after meeting Juliet Taylor, Allen's Casting Director, at a film festival in Krakow.

Chuck presents a bit of a dilemma in presenting the movie version of the true story that inspired another film, especially when the existence of that film plays such a key role in the real story.

While the film itself is a bit flimsy, Aphrodite is worth watching just for Sorvino's magnetic performance, in which she takes a hackneyed hooker - with - a-heart-of-gold character and injects it with enough humanity to transform the role into something truly special.

The movie isn't the biting satire that I'd expected, but Spade is great in the title role and the film does has some funny scenes.

Part of the reason is that Paul Kaye is extremely unlikable in the lead role, looking a bit like a cross between Marilyn Manson and Gary Oldman, without much charisma or romantic appeal, which is especially critical to make the romance, which constitutes a great deal of the film's short running time, fly.

Indeed, Offerman has quite a bit in common with his signature creation — like Swanson, he's a genuinely talented furniture maker — but in recent years he's broken from his man's man persona to branch out with more dramatic roles in films like The Founder and the second series of FX's «Fargo,» for which he received a Critics» Choice Television Award nomination.

Zoolander is an occasionally funny film that could have actually been better had Stiller not decided to star himself in the title role and instead cast someone a bit more believable as a male supermodel type.

Q: On another project, you've called your upcoming role as Nero in the Star Trek film a «cameo,» is it really just a bit part?

The film — and Bardem's role in it — changes quite a bit when Penélope Cruz shows up.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

And the film will mark a bit of a reunion for Coogan with a filmmaker who directed the actor in one of his best roles.

Cruise's first role was a bit part in the 1981 film «Endless Love.»

Keira, who was wearing a navy dress by Michael van der Ham, admitted the comedy had been a bit of light relief for her after heavy roles in films like Anna Karenina and A Dangerous Method.

While Rickman, who also starred in Miller's previous film, Bottle Shock, is fine in the role as the occasionally unlikeable Hilly, at 67 years old, he's a bit long in the tooth to be playing a man in his mid-40s, and his lack of connection with the music scene may result in a lack of connection with its intended audience as well.

Lane apart, the film has many other good actors turning up in bit roles, including Sizemore as Felt's FBI competitor Ben Sullivan, Tony Goldwyn as his friend and colleague Miller, and Bruce Greenwood as Time correspondent Sandy Smith.

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.

However, as the film carries on with MI6 hiring Lara to take down Ciaran Hinds weapons dealer (the actor usually is lumped with small bit - parts in cinema but it is nice to see Hinds grab a role he can truly tear into), who is planning on digging up Pandora's Box and using it as a bioweapon, it slowly moves away from the film that the fans want to see.

On the other end of the talent spectrum, Bruce Willis is not exactly the best person for his role (in fact, he is a bit of a liability in terms of the acting) but thankfully, doesn't do much damage, since it is the story that is the main source for the film's success (and it's one hell of a story).

The murder in question doesn't occur until a bit more than an hour into the film, and up to that point, Altman and screenwriter Julian Fellowes manage to establish efficient characterization for almost thirty equally important roles — important not in terms of plotting, but in terms of maintaining a fascinating perspective on early 20th century aristocratic society.

5:45 am (25th)-- TCM — Of Human Bondage Bette Davis won a Best Actress Oscar in 1935 for the film Dangerous, but it's widely believed that it was a bit of a consolation prize for not winning for this film the year before — one of her first prestigious leading roles, in an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel.

Gina and Gambit «s Channing Tatum worked together in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, where they do have a bit of a romantic encounter.The film which launched Gina's film career taking the lead role in it and had the actress beating the hell out of Magneto himself Michael Fassbender, it's cast also included Ant - Man «s Michael Douglas and A.O.S. actor Bill Paxton.

Her appearance and role in the film is a bit of redemption for the actress and her family.

Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard) struggles with a passion for acting hampered by a disapproving and controlling father («That»70s Show»'s Kurtwood Smith), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke, whose only credible role before this was as the lead in the bizarre sci - fi family film, Explorers) suffers from confidence issues and parents who don't seem to care about him, Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen) has a bit of a wild streak and wants to break free from the school he feels entrapped by.