Sentences with phrase «playing oil tycoon»

Christopher Plummer stepped in to reshoot his scenes playing oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, and this new spot features footage of him already.

FX has set Donald Sutherland to play oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in Trust, a new anthology series revolving around the Getty dynasty, which is being directed by Danny Boyle from a script by Simon Beaufoy.

Not exact matches

Maybe we'll tell them about the night you proposed in the moonlight, kneeling in the grass with a mix tape playing Six Pence None the Richer songs on the portable CD player, holding up a ring paid for with the tips from Tulsa oil tycoons at the club where you worked.

This alternately gilded and grimy morality play — make that morality thriller — pits the richest man on Earth, international oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), against a valiant former daughter - in - law, Gail Harris Getty (Michelle Williams).

Donald Sutherland («Ordinary People») plays the cold, penny - pinching oil tycoon Getty who wields his wealth and power over the family with a cruel indifference.

Hammer, who played the fabulously wealthy Winklevoss twins in The Social Network — and is himself the great - grandson of the still - more - fabulously - wealthy oil tycoon Armand Hammer — is an amiable enough cinematic presence, and Fichtner is magnificent as Cavendish, snarling and sneering and eating the occasional human body part with demonic aplomb.

Canadian icon Christopher Plummer was parachuted in as Spacey's replacement to play billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.

Set in the midst of California's petroleum boom, Day - Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, a man who begins as a humble miner and evolves into a wealthy oil tycoon.

The shaggy - haired 16 - year - old boy, J. Paul Getty III, known as Paul (played by a young actor coincidentally named Charlie Plummer, though unrelated to Christopher), is chatting with prostitutes on a balmy evening in Rome when men pull up in a van and spirit him away, unaware that the boy and his parents are all but estranged from his paternal grandfather, the Getty oil tycoon.

A climate scientist flying to a conference to present her latest research is likely to do far more to help address the problem than, say, an oil tycoon flying to Hawaii to play golf.