In 1984, West was appointed CBE for his services to drama in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. He was the winner of an RTS television award for his lead role in Churchill And The Generals, released in 1979, according to imdb.com. In his career, he played Winston Churchill three times,...
showing the difficulty of veterans readjusting. voight played a paraplegic veteran who falls in love with a married woman. richard dreyfuss (1977) image credit: rex/shutterstock “the goodbye girl” richard dreyfuss won as an actor playing an actor, in a rare comedy win, for this neil simon...
Career tribute hosannas arrived for Western legend John Wayne when he played Rooster Cogburn in True Grit—even from the very critics who challenged his politics. The New York Times called it “the richest performance of his long career,” while The Atlantic noted,“[w]hether or not John Way...
Olivier, responding to Winston Churchill's plea for a film to rally Britain in the final days of World War II, creates a ringingly, unambiguously heroic Henry for the ages, an idealized monarch who leads England to victory against France with commanding force tempered by humanity. Olivier'sHen...