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Actor Mel Gibson was originally selected to play the role of Chandler Jarrell ; but when Gibson was unavailable, the producers selected Murphy and transformed the movie from a serious adventure drama into a comedy.
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Actor Rudy Youngblood of Mel Gibson's film, Apocalypto, graduated from Belton High School.
" Actor Mel Welles was scheduled to play a character named " Draco Cardala ", Jonathan Haze was scheduled to play " Archie Aroma ," and Jack Nicholson would have played a character named " Jocko ".
Actor Mel Gibson commented, “ Gallipoli was the birth of a nation.
Actor and author Bill Bailey ( the narrator in Mel Brooks's Haunted Honeymoon ) lives in Archway, as does actor, historian and True Crime author, Geoffrey Howse.
* Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics: Actor Training in Revolutionary Russia by Alma H. Law, Mel Gordon, McFarland & co, 1995
In 2008 he appeared with the Vancouver Arts Club Theatre Company playing Carmen Ghia in an extensive run of Mel Brooks ’ musical The Producers, for which he was nominated for a 2009 Jessie Richardson Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Actor Mel Gibson is prominently featured as a character in the episode.
Actor / director Mel Gibson, who was looking for several child actors to play his seven children in The Patriot, saw Morgan and asked him to audition for the movie.
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* 1998 Nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series ( Thomas Gibson )
* 1999 Nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series ( Thomas Gibson )
* Richard Gibson, Actor, best known as Herr Flick in the BBC series ' Allo ' Allo !.
Gibson was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
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The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.
Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.
Bixby was nominated for the Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1971.
In 1976, he was honored with two Emmy Award nominations, one for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in Drama or Comedy for The Streets of San Francisco and the other for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Series for Rich Man, Poor Man.
Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance.
Actor Richard Dix's best-remembered early role was in the silent version of DeMille's The Ten Commandments.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Leon in Dog Day Afternoon.
The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
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.
Another exploit was in 1998 when Roberto Benigni won three oscars for his movie Life Is Beautiful ( La vita è bella ) ( Best Actor, Best Foreign Film, Best Music ).
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.
In 1971, he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award again, this time for 1970's I Never Sang for My Father, working alongside Melvyn Douglas and Estelle Parsons.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in The Buddy Holly Story.
It won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the Nebula Award for Best Script, and was also nominated for ten Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Parisot, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Supporting Actor for Rickman, winning Best Actor for Allen.
* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )
The film was the highest-grossing film of 1941 and won two Academy Awards ( Best Actor and Best Editing ), as well as earning Hawks his only nomination for Best Director.
Bogart was nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role, but lost out to Paul Lukas for his performance in Watch on the Rhine.
The novel was made into a 1979 movie directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role and Melvyn Douglas, who won the award for Best Supporting Actor.
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.
Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for Mister Roberts ( 1955 ) and the Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger ( 1973 ), becoming the first actor to achieve this double.
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Chaplin had originally been nominated for Best Production, Best Director in a Comedy Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing ( Original Story ) for The Circus.
Beery played the savage convict " Butch ", a role originally intended for Lon Chaney, Sr., in the highly successful 1930 prison film The Big House, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Actor James Purefoy was originally signed to play the role, but he pulled out six weeks into filming.
Actor William Shatner did a number of television commercials for Loblaws in the 1970s, and finished the ad spots by saying originally, " At Loblaws, more than the price is right ; but, by gosh the price is right!
* Actor Dan Aykroyd and his wife Donna Dixon reside on the land originally settled by his great-grandfather Samuel-Cuthbert Aykroyd in the mid-19th century.
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 George Raft was originally intended to play the Bogart part.
Actor David Warner was originally being considered for the role, but the part was ultimately given to Frank Welker, who also does the voice of Soundwave.
Actor Matt Czuchry was originally slated to play the role of Willie Loomis, and portrayed the character as both self-sure and street wise, while at the same time, innocent of the evil that was Barnabas Collins.
Actor Vincent Price read Adonais on a Caedmon Records recording which was released, originally in 1956, as an LP record and a cassette recording, Caedmon CPN 1059 and TC 1059.
* The Actor model was inspired by the laws of physics and depends on them for its fundamental axioms, i. e. physical laws ( see Actor model theory ); the process calculi were originally inspired by algebra.
Actor Adam Silbar was originally cast in the lead role of Stan but, for unknown reasons, the role was later re-cast with Randall Batinkoff just weeks before the first day of production.
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