Sentences with phrase «stage veteran»

While this film production of the play boasts performances by stage veterans Lord Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasance, as well as Frank Langella as the suavest of counts, it was neither a critical nor a box - office success, doubtlessly because expectations ran too high.

«I hope people will laugh, but I also hope it sparks a conversation about age profiling in this country,» says Vaughan, Gilster's wife, a New York stage veteran and a veteran of the APT production of «Dead Man's Cell Phone.»

Unfortunately, this ultra-glossy romantic drama derived from a best seller twists into very dark territory — a drastic tonal shift that neither its stars nor debuting director, Thea Sharrock, a respected stage veteran, manage with dramatic credibility.

In the Season 1 premiere, Sean and Beverly are shocked when they arrive in California to discover that their erudite, stage veteran star has been replaced by the network with Matt LeBlanc.

Directed by London stage veteran William Oldroyd, is an adaptation of Russian writer Nikolai Leskov's 1865 novella «Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk.»

A longtime stage veteran who also knows his way around a movie set, he somehow calibrates his delivery so it's just the right size for the awkward container Hooper has put him in.

Palestinian stage veteran Kamel El Basha was named best actor for Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri's drama «The Insult.»

Surprising himself, Jack seeks out the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto (Italian screen and stage veteran Paolo Bonacelli) and pursues ¬ † romancewith local woman Clara (Italian leading lady Violante Placido).

Unmarried and refuting his fatherhood of two children, Turner lived away from public attention and closely with two confidants, his father William (stage veteran Paul Jesson) and his longtime housekeeper Hannah Danby (frequent Leigh collaborator Dorothy Atkinson).

Set in 1953 Buffalo, Ludwig's showbiz satire depicts the behind - the - scenes unraveling of a matinee performance by a touring repertory company run by fading stage veterans George (David Ross Paterson) and Charlotte (Wendy Phillips), whose marriage is on the rocks.

It's a part that evokes the extreme physicality of Daniel Day - Lewis in «My Left Foot» and has already attracted a slew of attention for the 32 - year - old British stage veteran — while reigniting the, well, theory that British actors are just better than other actors at playing period drama.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

A stage veteran, Rawlinson entered films in 1911 with the appropriately titled one - reeler The Novice.

Years later, the actor is now on the brink of stardom but Brit helmer Crowley, a stage veteran behind the likes of «The Pillowman» and Hugh Jackman / Daniel Craig Broadway hit «A Steady Rain,» as well as the Michael Caine - starring «Is Anybody There» hasn't quite skyrocketed in the same way.

For instance, I sat poker - faced during the first Toronto public screening of Barry Levinson's The Humbling (Grade: C --RRB-, a shrill and rambling Philip Roth adaptation starring Al Pacino as a stage veteran losing his gifts and his marbles.

Parsons is forthright in admitting his initial hesitation, while Rannells, the stage veteran of the bunch, is endearingly confident.

Hugh Jackman is a stage veteran but his first appearance on Broadway was in 2004's The Boy From Oz.