" Jack Nicholson gives a gigantic powerhouse performance "— The New York Times

In the 1997 Oscar winning film As Good as It Gets, the misanthropic character played by Jack Nicholson sings " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " as evidence of the character's change in attitude.

* In 1980, the film The Shining was released, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson.

" Actor Jack Nicholson once said, " When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one.

But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so.

Their son Hopper Jack Penn, born August 6, 1993, is named after two family friends, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

Burton cast Jack Nicholson as The Joker ( Tim Curry being his second choice ) in a move that helped assuage fans ' fears, as well as attracting older audiences not as interested in a superhero film.

Sympathetic portrayals are few but notable, such as the comedic but tortured protagonist David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London, and a less anguished and more confident and charismatic Jack Nicholson in the 1994 film Wolf.

* April 22 – Jack Nicholson, American actor

The third, The Passenger ( 1975 ), starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider, received critical praise, but also did poorly at the box office.

" It was presented to him by Jack Nicholson.

* She agreed to a date with actor Jack Nicholson to make Bogdanovich jealous.

* Ken Kesey's famed fictional character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest who was, in the movie, played by Jack Nicholson.

In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets ; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.

Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton, as Louise Bryant, and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O ' Neill.

Actors considered for the role The Continental Op were Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson.

In spite of initial difficulties, he started directing in the United States, and achieved success in 1975 with the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

Strasberg's students included many of America's most famous actors of the latter half of the 20th century, including Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, and many others.

It was used in Antonioni's film The Passenger as a backdrop for the first meeting between Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.

Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s ( the other one being Jack Nicholson ).

She finally scored a major box-office hit as Sukie Ridgemont in the 1987 adaptation of John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher and Susan Sarandon.

Since then only four people have equalled or surpassed this figure, Meryl Streep ( with seventeen nominations and three wins ), Katharine Hepburn ( twelve nominations and four wins ), Jack Nicholson ( twelve nominations and three wins ) and Laurence Olivier ( ten nominations and one win ).

O ' Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds about the life of John Reed.

Alfonso has been married twice and is the mother to two sons, Gino William ( born 1990 ) and Jack ( born 2002 ), in addition to her stepson Spartan.

Gino Tartaglia ) and Jack Kruschen ( as Sgt.

CAMORADI ’ s driver roster: Jim Rathman, Roger Ward, Carroll Shelby, Masten Gregory, Dan Gurney, Juan Fangio ( Parade lap at Cordova, Argentina 1960 ), Chuck Daigh, Jo Bonnier, Jack Mcafee, Jim Jeffords, Bill Weustoff, Fred Windridge, Joe Sheppard, Dick Dungan, Pinkie Windridge, Denise McCluggage, Umborto Maglioli, Nino Vaccarella, Nino Todaro, Gino Munaron, Georgio Scarlatti, Lucky Casner, Lee Lilley, Fred Gamble, Dave Lane, and Johnny Cuevas.

Later on in the night, he, Gino Martino and Jimmy Cash lost a six-man tag team match to Big Business, Don Vega and New Jack.

Joe Don Baker ( born February 12, 1936 ) is an American character actor and a life member of the Actors Studio, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in Final Justice, real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, brute-force-with-a-badge detective Mitchell in Mitchell, James Bond villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, CIA Agent Jack Wade in the James Bond films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies and the brilliant and tough NYPD Chief of Detectives Earl Eischied in television police drama, Eischied.

Louis " Two Gun " Alterie ( August 2, 1886 – July 18, 1935 ), born Leland A. Varain, and aka " Diamond Jack Alterie ", was a Californian who became a notorious hitman for the Chicago North Side Gang during the early years of Prohibition.

* Jack Whalen, American hitman

* Uncredited cast members include Eddie Acuff, Murray Alper, Ward Bond, Walter Brooke, Georgia Carroll, Glen Cavender, Spencer Charters, Wallis Clark, William B. Davidson, Ann Doran, Tom Dugan, Bill Edwards, Frank Faylen, Pat Flaherty, James Flavin, William Forrest, William Gillespie, Joe Gray, Creighton Hale, John Hamilton, Harry Hayden, Stuart Holmes, William Hopper, Eddie Kane, Fred Kelsey, Vera Lewis, Audrey Long, Hank Mann, Frank Mayo, Lon McCallister, Edward McWade, George Meeker, Dolores Moran, Charles Morton, Jack Mower, Paul Panzer, Francis Pierlot, Clinton Rosemond, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Dick Wessel, Leo White and Dave Willock.

* Dennis Christopher as Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay ( Uncredited or credited as ' Jack ' during the entire first and second seasons )