It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

He became a favorite actor of director Billy Wilder, starring in his films Some Like It Hot ( for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti !, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy.

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

** Richard Masur, American actor, director and former president of Screen Actor Guild

At the 1999 ceremony Benigni received the award for Best Actor ( the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles ), the score by Nicola Piovani won Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which Benigni accepted as the film's director.

Actor Jiří Bartoška was invited to be the festival's president, and Eva Zaoralová became program director in 1995.

Actor Nicolas Cage, born Nicolas Coppola, chose a new last name to avoid comparisons to his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola, who gave him his big break in the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.

Actor / director Larry Hagman directed several episodes.

* Alison Sealy-Smith, Actor ; and founding member and founding director of Obsidian Theatre.

His Being An Actor ( 1984 ) was a critique of ' director dominated ' theatre, in addition to containing autobiographical sections relating to his early career as an actor.

* Paul Iacono, Actor, director ( The Hard Times of RJ Berger, Fame )

Actor John O ' Hurley and film director Peter Farrelly are graduates of Providence College, as are ESPN women's basketball commentator Doris Burke and sports journalist Sean McAdam.

Subotnick, however, did not stay with the move, but went to New York with the Actor ’ s Workshop to become the first music director of the Lincoln Center Rep Company in the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.

Actor and theater director Charles Nelson Reilly, who was thirteen years old at the time, survived the fire and dramatized it in the film of his stage show, " The Life of Reilly ".

In 1973, he became a producer and director, working on the high-profile documentary series, Omnibus, for which, in 1975, he made a famous film called Cracked Actor about the musician David Bowie.

Actor and artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre, Kevin Spacey, has argued the economic case for the arts in terms of providing jobs and being of greater importance in exports than manufacturing ( as well as an educational role ) in a guest column he wrote for The Times.

The film, released in 1973 by director Norman Jewison, catapulted Anderson's career with two Golden Globe nominations as " Most Promising Newcomer " and " Best Musical Actor ".

Actor and theater director Charles Nelson Reilly, who was thirteen years old at the time, survived the fire and dramatized it in the film of his stage show, " The Life of Reilly ".

Actor and film director, George Fairfax, having joined the project in 1972, was appointed the first General Manager of the Building Committee and then the Trust, a position he held until 1989.

Actor Michael Rosenbaum was originally cast to play Justin aka Grim, but when Rosenbaum wasn't able to commit to the shoot due to another production, Smallville, that was taking off, the role was filled by the director himself.

Actor / director Irving Pichel first suggested that Lane go into acting in 1929, and four years later Lane was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.

" His teaching style owed much to the Russian director, Stanislavsky, whose book, An Actor Prepares, dealt with the psychology of interpretation in acting.

Some of his more notable later performances include: Money Train, as a psychotic pyromaniac who terrifies toll booth operators ; Lone Star, in a rare leading role as a Texas sheriff charged with solving a decades-old case ; as Deputy Dwayne Looney in director Joel Schumacher's 1996 film A Time to Kill ( based on the John Grisham novel ); and as a homophobic Marine Corps colonel in American Beauty, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Actor Michael Crawford and former Genesis drummer and musician Phil Collins are self-confessed QPR supporters.

Actor and musician Evan Ross is her half-brother.

Among the child actors cast as the Beardsley and North children in the film, several went on to greater success, including Tim Matheson ( billed here as Tim Matthieson ) who went on to play the character Otter in the more adult oriented comedy Animal House, Morgan Brittany ( billed here as Suzanne Cupito ) appeared in many episodes of Dallas, Mitch Vogel appeared in " The Reivers " with Steve McQueen for which Vogel received a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor nomination in 1970 and Tracy Nelson, daughter of actor / musician Ricky Nelson who eventually starred in the series Father Dowling Mysteries beside Tom Bosley who portrayed the doctor in this movie.

* Nouman Javaid, Pakistani Actor and singer / musician

Actor, historian and musician Alice Garner is an occasional member of the Brains Trust.

In 2011, Nolte portrayed recovering alcoholic Paddy Conlon, dealing with his two estranged sons competing in an MMA tournament in the film Warrior, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Chaplin had originally been nominated for Best Production, Best Director in a Comedy Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing ( Original Story ) for The Circus.

His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.

John Huston won the Academy Award for direction and screenplay and his father won Best Supporting Actor, but the film had mediocre box office results.

He also has had an active career on the stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including Jerome Robbins ' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical.

* Actor Philip Michael Thomas was asked by television producers if he had ever played a police officer, and he replied " Yes, I was a cop in a feature film.

Actor Gary Lockwood, who also acted in the film, felt that " Kazan and Natalie were a terrific marriage, because you had this beautiful girl, and you had somebody that could get things out of her.

Ten years later, in 1955-1956, he had his biggest stage success as the crusading lawyer, Henry Drummond ( based on Clarence Darrow ), in Inherit the Wind, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.

Actor George Tobias, who played the commissar in Silk Stockings, also had a small role in Ninotchka as the man who gets punched by Leon for refusing him a visa.

In 2006, Grammer won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his role in " The Italian Bob "; he had previously won four awards in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series category for his portrayal of the title role on Frasier.

Astaire personally won the Emmy for Best Single Performance by an Actor but the choice had a controversial backlash because many felt that his dancing in the special was not the type of " acting " the award was designed for.

Kaufman cast Chief Dan George, who had been nominated for an Academy Award for Supporting Actor in Little Big Man as the old Cherokee Lone Watie.

Nolte had perhaps his greatest box office success in 1991, starring in The Prince of Tides with Barbra Streisand, for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

" Actor / comedian Steve Martin carries business cards which he hands to fans requesting an autograph ; the cards read " This certifies that you have had a personal encounter with me and that you found me warm, polite, intelligent and funny.

This is one of the few times that a film had multiple entries in the same category ( Tracy and Schell for Best Actor ) and Schell was the first Best Actor winner to be billed fifth.

For example, John Lodge had gone from writing powerfully reflective mystical or humanitarian themed pieces such as " House of Four Doors ", " Candle of Life " and " One More Time To Live " to quirkier items such as " Here Comes The Weekend ", " Rock and Roll Over You " and " Love is On The Run ( From Me )", while Hayward's songs seemed less the deeper drama of numbers such as " The Actor ", " Dawning is the Day ", " You Can Never Go Home ", " The Land of Make Believe ", etc., to pleasant ( and more radio-friendly ) perennial far simpler songs about lost love and romance (" Your Wildest Dreams ", " No More Lies ", " I Know You're Out There Somewhere " etc .).

Actor James Doohan claimed that Paramount chief Frank Mancuso, Sr. had fired Bennett following negative reaction from the core cast, Roddenberry, and fans.

She then had another substantial part when she appeared again with her husband in the screen version of Agatha Christie's play Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ) for which both received Academy Award nominations-she for the second time as Best Supporting Actress, and Laughton, also for the second time, for Best Actor.

* Actor Tom Hanks had an apartment in Hell's Kitchen in the late 1970s / early 80s.

Since the mid-1960s he has been known primarily for his work in the theatre ; he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in the film adaptation of The Dresser ( 1983 ), which he had performed on the West End and on Broadway.

" Actor George Raft stated at the beginning of the war, " Now it's going to be up to us to send to the men here and abroad real, living entertainment, the songs, the dances, and the laughs they had back home.

Actor Pitt joined Fincher in arguing for keeping this original scene, noting that his previous film Legends of the Fall had its emotional ending cut after negative feedback from test audiences, and refusing to do Seven unless the head-in-the-box scene remained.

Actor Alexis Denisof comments that Wesley and Giles come from very similar backgrounds, but have gone in different directions " with the tools that they had "; he was conceived as a " nemesis " for Giles and Buffy.