This working-class romance costarring Richard Gere and Debra Winger (and the Oscar-winning track “Up Where We Belong”) was a gift to any actor who played the tough-as-nails sergeant supporting role. Gosset was
Also ranks #20 on All The Actors Who Played The Villain In 'Spider-Man' Movies Christopher Walken Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast, Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, Academy Award for Actor in a Supporting Role Christopher Walken, a prol...
William Conrad, who played the rotund district attorney in television's "Jake and the Fatman" and whose booming voice narrated such popular shows as "Rocky & His Friends" and "The Fugitive," died Friday (Feb. 11, 1994) following a heart attack. He was 73.Mr. Conrad played J.L. "...
Who Is Julianne Moore? Academy Award-winning actor Julianne Moore first became known for her role on the soap opera As The World Turns. Her later feature films include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Fugitive, Children of Men, and The Kids Are All Right. Moore earned Academy Award nom...
In 2012, Moore gave another compelling performance on the small screen. She earned raves from critics for her spot-on portrayal of former vice presidential candidateSarah Palinin the television movieGame Change. The real-life role gave Moore her first Emmy Award win. That same year, Moore appe...
VIENNA -Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in "Judgment at Nuremberg," has died. He was 83. Schell's agent, Patricia Baumbauer, said Saturday he died overnight at a hospit...
In “Philadelphia,” Hanks played attorney Andrew Beckett, who sues his law firm for firing him after discovering that he is gay and suffering from AIDS. Honoring Hanks was a way for the Academy to shed light on discrimination against both gay people and those with AIDS. The narrative was ...
walter was the brooklyn-born, queens-raised daughter of a soviet immigrant mother who was a teacher and a father who played bass in the nbc symphony orchestra. she graduated from new york’s high school of the performing arts and by her early 20s was an established actress who would wor...
. . . The banty-rooster-tough gangster, Tom Powers, who shoved that famous half grapefruit into the astonished face of his gun moll (played by Mae Clarke) in “The Public Enemy” in 1931. The scene, one of the most famous in Hollywood history, made Cagney an overnight sensation. ...
My short film, Verisimilitude, looks at the outdated practice of non-disabled people playingdisabled characters in films. It tells the story of a struggling disabled access – played by actressRuth Madeley, who has Spina Bifida – who gets a job advising a film star on how to act disabled ...