-- «The Best Years of Our Lives» (1946): This three - hour blockbuster about servicemen returning home from World War II and the adjustments they must make to civilian life is a thoughtful, challenging film with fine performances all around — including that
of nonactor Harold Russell, who lost his hands in the war.
The character's name is Brady Blackburn, and he is portrayed by Brady Jandreau,
a nonactor who suffered the same accident with the same results.
«You can just tell right away [when someone's
a nonactor] because they're so much more natural than people like me,» he says with a laugh.
««Aziz Ansari says
a nonactor's better than Robert De Niro!»