Sentences with phrase «known character actors»

Though the budget is low, there's considerable star power: Alan Cumming has a leading role, and several well - known character actors cameo.

Where Malick's recent films have boasted A-list casts, this one is dominated by lesser - known character actors.

Apart from capturing the fear and paranoia inherent to the material, director Phil Alden Robinson has assembled a fine cast of big - name stars and lesser - known character actors.

Not exact matches

No matter who is chosen to play the role of a character, someone will always resemble that actor, as there are a small number of genotype human appearance factors

Well - known Ethans: actor Ethan Hawke; director Ethan Coen; revolutionary Ethan Allen; Edith Wharton character Ethan Frome.

Well - known Henrys: Prince Henry («Harry») of Wales; Henry Huggins (character in children's books by Beverly Cleary); actor Henry Winkler («The Fonz»).

As one of the best known French actors working today, Vincent Cassel has a penchant for playing compelling characters driven by a deeper desire.

But now we know his Tony Stark, and how could he — actor or character — be more than he is?

In spite of his directorial success, Kramer was only known to Hollywood as a character actor.

When audiences and critics use such diverse words to describe one man's work, you know they are talking about an actor who completely transforms himself into whatever character he is called upon to play.

He's surrounded by stereotypical, yet colorful characters played by recognizable character actors like Paul Rodriguez, Louis Anderson, Jamie Gertz, and pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne as Voodoo, a messenger who doesn't care about what he delivers, even if it is for the local drug runner, known as The Gypsy.

Best known today for playing Officer Torch in Universal's Flash Gordon serials, American character actor Earl Leslie Askam had studied voice in Italy and appeared in numerous stage operettas prior to making his screen debut in 1930.

One year later, Apfel appeared again as an actor known for playing distinguished characters in films such as Romance of the Underworld (1928), and the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon.

Maïwenn brings up the dirty and dark side of Paris with the help of an excellent team of child actors - Malonn Lévana, the lovely little girl of «Tomboy» (where she plays the sister of the leading character) is someone to keep an eye on - and the best known actors of the French cinema of today: Marina Foïs, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Frédéric Pierrot, Karin Viard, Louis - Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing (L'heure d'été, Le père de mes enfants), Jérémie Elkaïm (La guerre est déclarée), Karole Rocher, and others.

A 33 - year - old actor and comic best known for his long - running role as Maurice in the Britcom «The IT Crowd,» Ayoade has an evident gift for the kind of slightly offbeat comedy that's about the differences between a character's self - perception and the way the world sees him.

Ah you know what time of year it is when name brand actors take on roles in which their characters all have reasons to be incredibly unlikable, from the audience point of view.

And then perhaps my favorite character, T'Challa's sister and tech expert Shuri (think Q in the James Bond movies), is played by the little - known British actor Letitia Wright, who's probably best known for a Black Mirror episode in the States.

The presence of Robert Redford gives the character weight, if not depth, because we bring to the film everything we know about the actor from other movies.

The British actor, best known as Loki in the «Thor» and «Avengers» series, disappears into the character's skinny body and twangy voice.

Best known as Steve, the boyishly charming nice - guy bartender (and the perfect complement to his onscreen romantic partner, snappish Miranda Hobbes) in HBO's blockbuster original series Sex and the City, the slightly diminutive, raven - haired American character actor David Eigenberg was born in Manhasset, NY, on May 17, 1964.

A full - blooded Oneida from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada, actor Graham Greene is best known for playing Native American roles; his characters are almost always positive and very dignified.

Trivia buffs and diehard fans of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront will know that the non-speaking cab driver in the film's famed «taxicab scene between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger was noted character actor Nehemiah Persoff.

The movie is enjoyable with his cliché characters and his predictable story.A lot of well - known actors are in this movie.The movie is funny and the actors are really good.

These aren't average actors — Dornan, like Chris Hemsworth, knows funny (see his parody with James Corden); Johnson can be heartrending when her character is crafted like a human being (see «Black Mass»).

All three of their characters suit the actors» known comedic style.

By contrast, the very fine character actor Catherine Keener is excellent as his no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»).

You know, in a show with such a good actor as the central character, it's tough to find any humanity in him.

I really really dislike the main character like he's actually in real life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks as an actor, uggh I don't know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not as bad of an actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the characters for themselves.

Like Kurosawa did before him, Altman used multiple cameras to film the big crowd scenes; the actors had to remain in character because they had no way of knowing what footage of them might be used.

The actor known for his intense and conflicted characters will be joined by Chris O'Dowd, who takes on the role of sportswriter David Walsh.

One of the industry's best method actors, Day - Lewis is known for learning all he can about his characters before playing them.

to son (and unrepentant ginger), Tim (Domnhall Gleeson — son of the great character actor Brendan Gleeson, but best known as a Weasley boy from Harry Potter).

SYNOPSIS: A has - been actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective series «Mindhorn» must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only -LSB-...]

With a terrific cast of character actors, a tense dynamic between Takakura and, well, everyone else in the movie, and Ishii's trademark no - nonsense direction, Abashiri Prison is a B - movie genre classic that heralded even better things to come in the series.

The single - disc DVD also includes the ten - minute «Larger Than Life: Adversaries,» with Mann and stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale discussing their characters and their research (actors love to show off their research — did you know Depp was born about 60 miles away from Dillinger's birthplace?).

The multi-talented and prolific actor, Richard Lynch, who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of many starkly villainous characters during his forty - year career,...

On the other hand, if voters don't feel like exporting the award, «The Fighter» «s well - liked, well - known assembly of stars and character actors would make for popular winners in the category.

The latest character posters for Mission Impossible 5 features the British actor known for playing icky villains or low - lives in small UK productions (remember his Drexl - type drug dealer in Harry Brown or his assassin in A Lonely Place To Die?)

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.

It had been known that the filmmakers wanted to skew younger with the cast of the film, but fans love when these actors reprise their roles as their characters.

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.

This might be like pain and gain in that in the end, no matter how much you like the actors, you don't care for the characters.

Several well - known actors provide the voices for these rough and tumble Scottish characters.

One of the most important jobs of the screenwriter is to leave the characters a little open for the actors to become comfortable in the role; here it felt like Everett knew that this was what he had to do, and just lived with it.

Mulan is a very likable character and all the side characters are all very well done comedically and are some of Disney's most memorable characters, and we all know what character we all love in this film Eddie Murphy does one of his funniest performances in this movie and Mushu is just one of those characters that I think Disney just chose a perfect actor to play this character.

Even an award - winning documentary is only seen by a relatively small number of people, so there's an argument to be made for dramatizing the story with expensive production values and well - known actors portraying the characters.

With more limited screen time than they're used to and even more limited elbow room, the actors and characters (in what at least some knew would be their swan songs in these costumes) snap off one - liners and sharp remarks with an extra edge of sarcastic disdain.

The same can not be said for «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» where coasting is all there is, in the hopes that these charismatic and talented actors can somehow make tandoori chicken salad out of a screenplay (by returning writer Ol Parker, no longer tethered to the novel by Deborah Maggoch) that's chock - full of unmotivated action, half - baked characters, and lazily - constructed conflicts so contrived they'd get booted out of the «Two and a Half Men» writer's room.

Great character actors go unsung no longer.

No, the white characters in «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much as the casting favors actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» series.