Sentences with phrase «celebrated stage actor»

In the marvelous black comedy «The Humbling,» based on the 2009 Philip Roth novel, Al Pacino plays 67 - year - old Simon Axler, a celebrated stage actor for whom acting has become a sham.

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The actor's most celebrated stage role was as Dr. Frederick Treves in the original Broadway production of The Elephant Man, a role he re-created for television in 1982.

Celebrated as a fine stage actor, he recently had a triumphant return to Canada's renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival where he played two lead roles, Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by his wife, Donna Feore, and MacBeth.

To celebrate this release, the creators joined actors Chris Parnell («Saturday Night Live») and Sarah Chalke («Scrubs») at New York Comic Con where they sat down with the press just prior to taking the stage for their panel.

Sacha Guitry: Four Films 1936 - 1938 Limited Edition This impressive set brings together a quartet of 1930s features by Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957, the celebrated French filmmaker, playwright and actor of the stage and screen, each based on his earlier works.

In his much celebrated feature debut «Hedwig and the Angry Inch,» the actor / director pealed his own creation from the stage and molded it into a cinematic experience that became one of the most accomplished films of 2001.

As Ken Ward, the former deputy director of Greenpeace USA and an environmental strategist has so acutely observed, we must «stop seeking and celebrating dinky achievements» because «nothing that we are doing, nor even seriously contemplating, comes anywhere near such a massive transformation [as is necessary], yet every actor on the political stage... downplays the terrible realities and trumpets small - scale solutions wrapped in upbeat rhetoric... We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public.»