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.
By the same token, Nolan is nearly
as adept at Tarantino at scripting plum
comeback roles for great
character actors long off of mainstream Hollywood's radar: Eric Roberts in The Dark Knight, Tom Berenger in Inception, and now Tom Conti, a 1984 Oscar nominee for the unduly forgotten Reuben, Reuben, here playing a wise old man in a faraway prison who, at Bruce Wayne's lowest moment, nurses him back to fighting form.