Sentences with phrase «role as a gangster»

From 1945 through 1948, he was under contract to Sam Goldwyn, mostly playing secondary roles as gangsters.

Widowed in 1934, she entered films in 1937, repeating her Broadway stage role as the gangster's mother in Dead End (1937).

Both Robinson and Fred MacMurray played roles against type (Robinson gained notoriety for his role as a gangster in Little Caesar (1930), and MacMurray had previously played genial, lightweight, good - guy roles in comedies)- and their performances represented some of their best career work.

She won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as gangster Edward G. Robinson's moll in the classic «Key Largo» (1948, John Huston).

Not exact matches

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

Beyond O'Neill (excellent in his role), the cast includes Józef Pawlowski (Warsaw» 44) as Bartosz — that reformed gangster — and Susan Lynch (Here and Now) as the main antagonist, among many others in the strong ensemble.

In this capacity, Fausto Tozzi played supporting roles in such internationally distributed films as The Wonders of Aladdin (1960)(as the cowardly Grand Vizier), Constantine and the Cross (1961), The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965)(as one of the foremen overseeing the Vatican projects of Michelangelo), The Valachi Papers (1972)(as notorious gangster Albert Anastasia), Crazy Joe (1974) and March or Die (1977).

He also occasionally accepted such contemporary minor roles as a priest in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) and a gangster in Accidents Will Happen (1939).

After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

Discover why the roaring twenties played the crucial role as the heart and soul of gangster life.

Those were perhaps the highlights of a career mainly constituted by unbilled, bit roles as cops, military officers, small - time gangsters, and even the occasional sheriff (Oh, Susannah!

Legend stars Hardy in a dual role as identical twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious gangsters in British history.

«Breaking Bad» alum Jesse Plemons plays a central role in the new trailer for «Black Mass,» the upcoming crime drama starring Johnny Depp as gangster James «Whitey» Bulger.

She made her film debut in Brian DePalma's 1987 gangster flick The Untouchables and went on to become the darling of the indie film world with her stunning turn in 1998's High Art, followed by strong roles in such lauded films as Far from Heaven, The Station Agent, and Pieces of April.

Lou Diamond Phillips plays the young carjacker and mechanic, Ruben Blades has more of a stereotypical role admittedly as the Latino gangster type but damn if he doesn't do it well with those vibrant tones of his.

Known mostly for his role as the drug lord Russell «Stringer» Bell in HBO's The Wire, he has also appeared in films like American Gangster, Thor, and Prometheus over the last few years.

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

Warren Oates stars as Dillinger and it is great casting; not only does he resemble the real - life gangster but he brings a rugged charm to the role, whether cautioning bystanders and bank tellers during the robberies («This could be one of the big moments in your life,» he says at one point.

Director Jack Perez, who previously directed the John Landis - produced Some Guy Who Kills People, cast Dante and Landis in cameo roles in Blast Vegas, and Landis even had an in - joke in the credits for his gangster comedy Oscar, in which Joe Dante is billed as Face on the Cutting Room Floor.

But the film's real pleasure lies in McDonagh's verbal felicity — the naturalistic dialogue is a breath of fresh air — and while Farrell struggles to juggle his humorous «thick» persona with romantic pathos, Gleeson excels in his role as the weary gangster pondering the possibilities for his own shot at redemption.

The big story, however, is the cast, which includes former Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez trying to break free from their squeaky clean images with more adult roles, and James Franco continuing his bizarre acting career with a turn as a cornrowed, gold - toothed wannabe gangster that should make the movie worth seeing whether it's good or not.

Earlier, Muni was featured as an Al Capone - like gangster in Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1932), and in seven different roles in Seven Faces (1929) including Chopin's teacher Joseph Elsner, Napoleon and Franz Schubert.

Michael Stuhlbarg, primarily known as A Serious Man's put - upon nebbish Larry Gopnik and gangster Arnold Rothstein on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, splits the difference between those two roles to create something hypnotically transfixing.

The first teaser trailer has arrived online for Legend, which tells the story of British gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray and sees Tom Hardy starring in dual roles as the twins.

It stars Dustin Hoffman (74) as a weary gangster, his first lead role in a television series (he won an Emmy in 1986 for his performance as Willy Loman in a television adaptation of Death of a Salesman), Nick Nolte (70) as a trainer for whom the word grizzled appears to have been created and eye - catching supporting roles for Michael Gambon (71) and Dennis Farina (67).

The details: Tom Hardy plays a dual role as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the identical twins who became London's most notorious gangsters in the 1960s, hobnobbing with the famous and powerful and eventually becoming tabloid celebrities in their own right.

Meanwhile, actors like Viola Davis, John Ortiz (Fast & Furious) and Holt McCallany (Gangster Squad) are handed some pretty muddled roles as the U.S. law enforcement / intelligence liaisons assigned to Hathaway and his friends.

Earlier in that same year, Edward G. Robinson had made a splash in Little Caesar and became associated with gangster roles as well.

Glenn Ford is a cop working against his corrupt department, but the parts you'll remember from the film all belong to Gloria Grahame in a supporting role as a beaten - up gangster's moll.

Although Chazelle should get the lion's share of the credit as to why the film works, that shouldn't take away from the phenomenal performances, not only in acting, but also in singing, dancing, and playing instruments, to Crazy Stupid Love and Gangster Squad cast - mates Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, who took over the roles from the originally pitched Emma Watson (who was iffy on the project before ultimately being unavailable) and Whiplash star Miles Teller (who, reportedly, lost the gig trying to stall for a bigger paycheck).

The prospect of Tom Hardy playing dual roles as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, two legendary (hence the name) East London gangsters from the 1960's, seems like a slam dunk.

Paul Anderson, seen in titles like «The reborn», by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is popular for his role as Arthur Shelby, the English gangster in brutal ways and haircut of those who are not forgotten in the series «Peaky Blinders».

Popping up in small but chilling roles are Pete Postlethwaite as an Irish thug whose front is a florist shop (a nod to Prohibition gangster Dion O'Banion) and Chris Cooper as Doug's incarcerated father.

He has a small role in Paul Haggis» «In the Valley of Elah» with Tommy Lee Jones, and in early November appeared in Ridley Scott's 1970s crime epic «American Gangster» as New York detective Trupo.

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