Brandon Routh himself stated, in an HBO First Look interview that he was playing three characters ; Clark Kent, the reporter / farm boy ; Superman, the protagonist and savior of Metropolis ; and Kal-El, the Last Son of Krypton.

* Lynn " Buck " Compton, First Lieutenant with Easy Company ( portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Neal McDonough ), later lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's murder trial of Robert Kennedy

First, the channel opted to carry more violent fare that HBO would only show at night, and then Cinemax decided it could compete by airing more adult-oriented movies that contained nudity and strong sexual content.

The Hitchhiker is a mystery anthology series that aired from 1983 to 1987 on HBO and First Choice in Canada.

Also in October 2008, she appeared as herself in the fifth season of the HBO series Entourage, appearing in the episodes First Class Jerk, Playing With Fire and Return to Queens Blvd, as the love interest of the character Sal ' Turtle ' Assante, portrayed by Jerry Ferrara.

Also in 1997 Epps was the star of the fact-based HBO movie First Time Felon.

Rock said in HBO First Look that he got the idea from the 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale, who chose Geraldine Ferraro — a woman — as his running mate.

First broadcast by HBO during the months leading up to the 1988 U. S. presidential election, it purports to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the campaign of a former Michigan U. S. representative Jack Tanner during his bid to secure the Democratic party's nomination for the national race for President of the United States.

She appeared as the FLOTUS Chief of Staff, assistant to the First Lady, in her brother Clark's feature film The Sentinel, and the 1984 HBO TV movie The Guardian with Lou Gossett and Martin Sheen.

Other acting credits include the BBC's critically acclaimed television series Our Friends in the North, the HBO series Game of Thrones, the films Hot Fuzz and Captain America: The First Avenger, and most recently an episode of Doctor Who.

* HBO First Look ( 1 episode )

Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

He is perhaps best known for his roles as Wild Bill Hickok in the HBO series Deadwood and FBI agent Frank Lundy in Dexter.

Messy's recent credits include music in The Crow III, What Lies Beneath, 2Gether, NBC ’ s Third Watch, Things Behind the Sun, Skechers USA, EVE. com, PlayStation 2, The Unreal Tournament sequel, Myst III ’ s " Exile " single, HBO, Disney, and an award-winning trailer for the Independent Film Channel.

* Liz Goldwyn, has a film on HBO called Pretty Things, featuring interviews with queens from the heyday of American burlesque ; her book, an extension of the documentary titled, Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens, was published in October 2006 by HarperCollins.

The song " Elements and Things " from the 1969 album "... Continued " features prominently during the horse-racing scenes in the 2012 HBO television series " Luck ".

As someone said to me the other day — they had seen the HBO special — and they said, " Are you really a sad obsessed person?

In June 2010, Sarandon joined the cast of the HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, in the role of Patty Atwood, a Broadway director / choreographer.

Film director James Mangold pitched a series concept to cable channel HBO, whilst consulting with Gaiman himself on an unofficial basis, but this proved to be unsuccessful.

Approached by HBO and producer Diane Keaton to craft a fictional film based on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the director chose to shoot in his hometown of Portland, employing dozens of untrained teen actors to chronicle an " ordinary " high-school day — albeit one underlined by an unexpected tragedy.

Directed by first time writer / director Pete Jones, Stolen Summer is the first film produced for Project Greenlight, an independent film competition created by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and sponsored by HBO.

Jeffrey Krolik graduated from Dartmouth College, which was his father's alma mater, before moving to San Francisco ; he became a regional sales director for HBO and was later appointed the general manager for Fox Sports Net Bay Area.

While deals at HBO and ABC did not lead to production of a film, Axelman introduced Stein to Keith Carradine and Alan Rudolph, director of the movie " The Moderns " with ultimately starred John Lone, Géraldine Chaplin, Keith Carradine and Linda Fiorentino.

In an HBO movie review, director Michael Mann stated that the film takes place on the night of January 24 to 25, 2004 from 6: 30 PM to 5: 40 AM.

Jeffrey " Jeff " Garlin ( born June 5, 1962 ) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, voice artist, director, writer and author, best known for his role as Jeff Greene on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Guggenheim joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a producer and director for the first season in 2004.

Since 1992, he has racked up over a thousand production credits, serving as writer, producer, and director on over 500 anime and live action titles, with projects distributed or broadcast by ADV Films, Anime Network, Cartoon Network, Crunchy Roll, Encore, Funimation, HBO, Madman, Media Blasters, The Movie Channel, The Right Stuf, SBS, Showtime Action, Switchblade Pictures and Siren Visual Entertainment.

* Tell Me You Love Me, HBO pilot and two episodes, director ( 2008 )

Dickerson joined the crew of HBO drama The Wire as a director for the series second season in 2003.

He has worked frequently with director Robert Altman, and gave his best-known performances for Altman as sleazy political operative John Triplette in Nashville and as presidential candidate Jack Tanner in the acclaimed 1988 HBO miniseries Tanner ' 88, a role he reprised in 2004's Sundance Channel miniseries Tanner on Tanner.

Minahan joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a director for the first season in 2004.

Robert Andrew " Andy " Ackerman ( born c. 1956 ) is an American director and producer and script editor who is best known for his work on Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine and the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The film developed a cult following from repeated airings on HBO and Showtime and the circulation of bootleg VHS copies at comic book conventions booths ( with Ralph Bakshi named as director ).

Despite having a lavish and promising acting career Thomas always had an interest in directing and these two experiences combined with her time spent on the set of Hill Street Blues learning about the craft of directing allowed her to direct further television series such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Arresting Behavior and several episodes of the HBO series Dream On the latter of which earned her an Emmy for best director.

Haynes wrote the script with Jon Raymond, and also served as an executive producer with Pamela Koffler, John Wells, Ilene S. Landress and Christine Vachon, along with HBO in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In addition to her starring role, Louis-Dreyfus also serves as a producer of the series .< small >< ref >" HBO Begins Filming of ' VEEP ' in Maryland <" October 05, 2011, Afro. com </ ref ></ small > In preparation for her role, Louis-Dreyfus spoke with several former vice presidents, including Al Gore.

However, in August 2008, series executive producer Mark Steven Johnson announced that the " Preacher " project was " dead at HBO.

Resnick also wrote and was co-executive producer of a season of The Larry Sanders Show for HBO.

) In 2008, she revived her role as Miranda Hobbes in the Sex and the City feature film, directed by HBO executive producer Michael Patrick King and co-starring the cast of the original series.

* In the HBO television series " The Newsroom ", a disgruntled executive producer Don Keefer quips about his replacement MacKenzie McHale: " She's like a sophomore poly sci major from Sarah Lawrence.

He has a television production company with Tom Fontana ( The Levinson / Fontana Company ) and served as executive producer for a number of series, including Homicide: Life on the Street ( which ran on NBC from 1993 – 1999 ) and the HBO prison drama Oz.

From 1992 to 1998 Torn played veteran television producer " Artie " on the HBO series The Larry Sanders Show, a satire about celebrity-driven Hollywood talk shows.

Campion was an executive producer for the 2006 documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story and is currently working on a 7 part mini-series, " Top of The Lake ( 2013 )" for HBO.

Richardson had become a producer, and was searching for projects for Edge City, Frank Darabont, Rob Fried and Chuck Russell's company created to make low budget genre movies for HBO.

When HBO approached Leonard B. Stern, former producer of Get Smart, about developing such a show, Stern recommended Spencer's " Sledge Hammer!

He is also the creator, writer and producer of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and True Blood.

He is co-creator, co-executive producer, writer and actor for the HBO series Enlightened.

In 2009, television executive producer Rob Weiss of the HBO show Entourage, and Mitch Davis, purchased the film rights to produce Pimp.

He was the executive producer of American Tragedy for CBS, Shot in the Heart for HBO Films, the independent film Jean and the documentary The Press Secretary for PBS.

On television, Garlin is a co-star and executive producer in the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In 1996, after a meeting with producer Tom Fontana, Zito joined the HBO prison drama Oz as Italian wise guy Chucky Pancamo.

As a supervising producer of the critically-acclaimed mini-series " Band of Brothers " for HBO in 2001, Jendresen was one of the recipients of that year's Emmy Award for " Outstanding Miniseries ", which he shared with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, among others.

Lippman is married to David Simon, another former Baltimore Sun reporter, and creator and an executive producer of the HBO series The Wire.

* In the prohibition-era HBO television series Boardwalk Empire ( with executive producer Martin Scorsese ), Canadian Club is the imported liquor of choice.