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Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but turned down the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award ( the first being George C. Scott for Patton ).
He returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, which saw him earn another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor ( Musical ).
* 1987: CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special-Sunday in the Park with George
The smash film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor George C. Scott ( he refused the Award ).
On screen, George VI has been portrayed by, among others, Colin Firth, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the role in the 2010 film The King's Speech, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The role was then given to George C. Scott, who won a Best Actor Oscar.
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.
Later, George C. Scott is shown winning a Best Actor Academy Award for a film of him being hit in the crotch by a football.
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.
It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Walter Huston ), Best Director, Best Film Editing for George Amy, Best Picture and Best Writing, Original Story.
* Actor George Lindsey ( Jasper )
He played the title character in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ) and later Professor Henry Higgins in the film version of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion ( 1938 ), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Picnic won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color ( William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley ) and Best Film Editing and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( O ' Connell, who reprised his stage role ), Best Director, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( George Duning ) and Best Picture.
The movie won the Academy Award for Best Actor ( Maximilian Schell ) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Spencer Tracy ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Montgomery Clift ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Judy Garland ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Rudolph Sternad, George Milo ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.
In the 1990s he won two more BAFTAs, one as Best TV Actor for The Fragile Heart, and one as Best Film Actor for The Madness of King George.
In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
** Golden Globe Award – Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy
George Lucas was so impressed by Oz's performance as Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back that he tried to get him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction ( Paul Sylbert, Edwin O ' Donovan, George Gaines ), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Warren Beatty ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Jack Warden ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Dyan Cannon ), Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Music, Original Score, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium ( Elaine May and Warren Beatty ).

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Actor George Raft was originally intended to play the Bogart part.

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Actor Andrew J. Robinson has also stated that his Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character, Elim Garak, was partially influenced by Bixby's character.
Actor Robert Wagner, who co-starred with Webb in the movies Stars and Stripes Forever and Titanic and considered the actor one of his mentors, stated in his memoirs, Pieces of My Heart: A Life, that " Clifton Webb was gay, of course, but he never made a pass at me, not that he would have.
During his acceptance speech for the Filmfare Best Actor award he received for his performance in Devdas ( 2002 ), Khan stated that emotionally he was a bit shaken as he was going in for a surgery that was described by him as a “ not a very good thing to go in for.
Actor Dominic Keating, for his part, stated at a science fiction convention that the possibility that his character would be gay was discussed, and rejected, although it is unclear what was the context of this discussion and who made the final decision.
On January 12, 2011 — according to her Twitter account — Clark stated that she was working on her third album, Strange Mercy, a follow up to Actor.
Actor Noah Wyle who portrays Jobs, stated in an interview with CNN, " These kids grew up 30 miles south of the ( University of California ) Berkeley campus, which was ripe with revolution [...] and they couldn't have cared less about the politics going on.
Anderson had previously stated that he wanted to work with Daniel Day-Lewis who starred in and won an Oscar for Best Leading Actor for his role.
In a workshop called “ Actor Network and After ”, Bruno Latour stated that there are four things wrong with actor-network theory: “ actor ”, “ network ”, “ theory ” and the hyphen.
Actor Bill Nighy has stated that this is his favourite film.
Actor James Belushi compared the series ( among others ) to the British TV serial The Prisoner, and stated: " It's very tough, very challenging – a lot of viewers probably won't dig it.
Actor Shia LaBeouf, who has worked with these writers for the films Disturbia and Eagle Eye, has previously stated that he is unwilling to play the role of Yorick.
Actor Oliver Hardy was known to have stated on many occasions, that after seeing the character Helpful Henry in a Georgia newspaper, it inspired him for his screen character.
Actor Will Friedle stated that, in his opinion, the reason Terry takes on a Batman voice is not just to strike terror into the hearts of criminals, but also to disguise the fact that he is an adolescent.
* Actor and professional wrestler The Rock stated that he was a long time Elvis fan.
Actor Peter Sellers is descended from one of Mendoza's cousins, and is not one of his descendants as previously stated.
At the time of his death, the Los Angeles Times erroneously stated in his obituary that Brodie had been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for 1949's Home of the Brave.

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She bore at least two children: Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by Zeus.
Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.
He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
French cinema continued its upward trend of earning awards at the Cannes Festival, including the prestigious Grand Prix for Of Gods and Men ( 2010 ) and the Jury Prize for Poliss ( 2011 ); the Best Director Award for Mathieu Amalric ( On Tour, 2010 ); the Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche ( Certified Copy, 2010 ); and the Best Actor Award for Jean Dujardin ( The Artist, 2011 ).
* Actor Richard Harris lived at the Savoy Hotel while in London.
He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts ( for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger ( for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award ), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing ( for which he won ' Best Actor ' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
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.
For this performance, he received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda's character falls in love.
His work in Seven, The Usual Suspects, and Outbreak earned him Best Supporting Actor honors at the 1995 Society of Texas Film Critics Awards.
Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou ( 1965 ), he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.
He also won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.
Brando Unzipped: A Revisionist and Very Private Look at America's Greatest Actor.
* Marlon Brando, Oscar-Winning Actor, Is Dead at 80
In February 2009, Wright and Penn attended the 81st Academy Awards together, at which Penn won Best Actor, but the couple announced separation again in April 2009, only to be withdrawn, and then again in May 2009.
It was also nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor ( De Niro ), and received the Palme d ' Or, at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
Actor John Malkovich first saw the film at the 1998 Cairo International Film Festival and subsequently adopted the film as a kind of post-facto executive producer ( the reissued film's titles read " John Malkovich Presents ").
Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).
* September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction near Cholame, California.
He earned his first award nominations for his role as Snape at the 2011 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards, 2011 Saturn Awards, 2011 Scream Awards and 2011 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category.
Actor Karl Malden became an early student at the Group Theater in 1937, where he first began acting under Kazan's direction.
DreamWorks launched a major campaign to increase American Beautys chances of Academy Award success ; at the 72nd Academy Awards the following year, the film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor ( for Spacey ), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

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