Sentences with phrase «character actor»

R. Lee Ermey, a veteran character actor who earned Golden Globe nomination for 1987's «Full Metal Jacket,» died Sunday, his longtime manager Bill Rogin announced on Twitter.

Despite all the famous character actor faces in The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Diane Wiest, M. Emmet Walsh, David Morse, Common...), the true star of the film is, perhaps not surprisingly, the titular twelve - year - old boy...

A Legendary Pictures production acquired by Netflix after the film parted ways with Universal earlier this year, Spectral is a big action movie with a tinge of sci - fi to it, anchored by an appealing collection of character actor or perennial supporting players at its centre (James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Root and Bruce Greenwood among them).

When Dale's retirement - age father and Brennan's well - preserved mother (veteran character actor Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen, aka Mrs Ted Danson, respectively) decide to get married, the two are forced to live together.

The story is so intimate that everything depends on the performances, and Jason Patric, Rachel Ward and Bruce Dern, and a character actor named George Dickerson, bring a grim, poetic sadness to the story.

The uber - recognizable character actor takes his first turn behind the camera in Lucky and he's called on the talents of perhaps the most famous character actor to do so.

British character actor Pete Postlethwaite lost his battle with cancer late Sunday, passing away in a hospital at the age of 64.

Sensational character actor Walter Goggins literally steals every scene he's in because of that charming witty prose as well as his monotone demeanor, a real nice touch from the talented actor.

The use of Chris Hemsworth, who has come into his own as a great, self - deprecating comedic character actor in some of his more recent movies, is also one of the film's greatest highlights, playing a extremely dumb but also extremely loveable hunk that Wiig's Erin can't get close enough to.

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Though Walter's sticky finger skills are utilized (and Eloise gets the credit for it later), Merchant's skills as a dynamic character actor are astoundingly underutilized.

Both roles are relatively small, but Pattinson is proving to be a strong character actor more than capable of fitting into an ensemble.

Weaver went on to TV fame as Chester on the Western series Gunsmoke, while Chapman prospered as a film character actor, playing such roles as Roy in East of Eden (1955), Rock in Baby Doll (1957), and Deke Carter in Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).

Written expressly for its 90 - year - old star by his old friend Logan Sparks, «Lucky» is the perfect goodbye to the legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who died this year at 91.

Later in the film, a cameo from Johnny Depp is liberating for both the sublime character actor inside of Depp (who has been sinking in wretched tentpole pictures) and the helter - skelter mood.

Connor Paolo does a fine job as our noble, if kinda one - note, hero, and character actor Nick Damici (Late Phases) displays all sorts of bad - ass anti-heroic coolness.

Barry, a much acclaimed character actor for his work in Dead Man Walking and Born on the Fourth of July, moves between menacing and feeble.

A disappointingly self - indulgent offering from veteran character actor - turned - writer - director Michael Biehn.

Possibly the greatest character actor of the past 40 years, the cantankerous stalwart for the smoking, drinking working fellow, Harry Dean Stanton passed on at the venerable age of 91.

Character actor Robert A. Silverman, a minor axiom of the Cronenbergian here playing a paranoid sculptor, is an early exemplar of the style, which is more or less totalized in the ensemble of Crash (96) and received one of its wittiest variations by Sarah Gadon in Cosmopolis (12).

He returned to Europe, where his mastery of four languages enabled him to thrive as a much in - demand character actor.

The unforgettable character actor Steve Buscemi has been developing a solid sideline career for himself as a director during the last decade.

And finally, the coup de grace of his career was in that bastion of character actor bliss, HBO's Deadwood where he was the rival saloon owner who was the boss of the marvelous Ricky Jay as a dealer of cards.

There's the great use of veteran character actor Benedict Wong as an acid - tongued librarian who is also a selflessly determined soldier in the fight against evil, the transformation of his character from the comic books to be enthusiastically celebrated.

An artful, mesmerising ode to the ultimate character actor's outlook on the industry and life in general,... Partly Fiction never teeters over into hagiographic adulation yet manages to convey the very uniqueness that has made Stanton the enigmatic force he is today.

The town of Ebbing might as well be called Character Actor Central, as roles are richly filled by John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Lucas Hedges (2016's «Manchester by the Sea») and Caleb Landry Jones playing, respectively, Mildred's ex-husband Charlie, Mildred's pool - playing buddy James, Mildred's teenage son Robbie, and Ebbing Advertising owner Red Welby.

Shandling chose well throughout the series» run and — from the veteran to the novice, the theater - trained acting teacher and character actor to the comedy troupe star in his most subtle role — they all tend to feel the way Tambor does: «It changed my career.

American character actor Stanley Price reportedly launched his screen career in 1922.

Hollywood's most reliable character actor, currently looking for love under duress in dystopian dating satire The Lobster, brings humanity to both drama and comedy

Since that time, he'd been given a number of roles both big and small that seemed to elude even so much a nomination and quickly gave him the stigma as a character actor.

The veteran character actor is so riveting as the down - on - his - luck attorney that it seems a near - certainty he'll walk away with an Emmy for his performance.

Walton Goggins is a character actor adept at juggling danger and humour in equal measure.

Shaye has proven herself to be a talented character actor in her 40 + years in film, often stealing scenes out from under high - paid leads.

An official press release for the upcoming horror comedy CRUST has been created, a story written by character actor Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs),...

Powers Boothe with his daughter Parisse (both acted in DEADWOOD) at a 2006 Emmy partyThe Emmy winning character actor Powers Boothe, best known for screen villains on TV (Deadwood, Nashville) and in movies (Sin City, Tombstone) died yesterday morning in his sleep from natural causes.

It's good news for those of us who have been fans of the character actor for years and were a little wary that he'd maybe try to jump into his own Taken - style franchise or something as a result of his boost in popularity.

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I've no idea what a character actor is.

Eric Stoltz, «Back to the Future» The legendary role of Marty McFly was almost portrayed by Stoltz, a character actor.

Besides bloopers, it includes ad libs and out - of - character actor banter.

It shows that he can be a strong character actor as much as a movie star.

But the real winner here is Spall, the ever great character actor, (best known for Mr. Turner and Secrets and Lies), as the romantic lead.

Character actor Dennis Burkley, who starred in My Name is Earl and most recently did voice work on King of the Hill, died at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. over the weekend, CNN reports.

George Clooney in a way often positions himself as a character and he clearly isn't a character actor.

Yes, it's the fine British character actor Roger Ashton - Griffiths, who has been cast in the role of Mace Tyrell, son to the Queen of Thorns, and father of Loras and Margaery.

Kawachi's presence hearkens viewers back to the golden age of Nikkatsu Action filmmaking, having starred in titles like The Warped Ones (1960) and Tokyo Drifter (1966), and Sugata is a familiar character actor from Kill Bill: Vol.

Then he broke into film, through television with Alan Clarke's The Firm, and Mike Leigh's Meantime, and with Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, Stephen Frears's Prick Up Your Ears, and Nick Roeg's Track 29 - five widely differing parts that proved him much more than just a colourful character actor able to do a lot of accents.

Surprise: Michael Kelly, «House of Cards» Supporting Actor - Drama The character actor scored his first Emmy nomination for playing political fixer Doug Stamper in Netflix's Washington, D.C. - set drama.

For instance, Sam Elliot, a veteran character actor, is truly a perfect fit for this role as an aging Western star.

Robert Easton, a character actor whose command of a vast array of foreign and American regional accents led to a flourishing second career as a dialect coach to Hollywood stars such as Charlton Heston and Anne Hathaway, has died.