Bennett's critically acclaimed The History Boys won three Laurence Olivier Awards in 2005, for Best New Play, Best Actor ( Richard Griffiths ), and Best Direction ( Nicholas Hytner ), having previously won Critics ' Circle Theatre Awards and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor and Best Play.

Love Me or Leave Me won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( James Cagney ), Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Music, Song ( for Nicholas Brodzsky and Sammy Cahn for " I'll Never Stop Loving You "), Best Sound, Recording ( Wesley C. Miller ) and Best Writing, Screenplay.

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Dunne ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Homolka ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Bel Geddes and Corby ), and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( Nicholas Musuraca ).

Actor Nicholas King and a film editor William Cartwright visited the site in 1959, saw the neglect, and purchased the property for $ 3, 000 in order to preserve it.

He was nominated also for the 1994 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ( but lost out to Hugh Grant for his role in Four Weddings and a Funeral ), as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, ( where he again lost out to Grant ), and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, where he instead lost to Nicholas Hope.

Rees created the title role in the original production of the play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, winning both an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1982.

* Nicholas Tooley, Shakespearean Actor, Sharer of Globe Theatre Buried 5 June 1623

Bubby won four 1994 Australian Film Institute awards ; Best Director ( Rolf de Heer ), Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Nicholas Hope ), Best Original Screenplay ( Rolf de Heer ) and Best Editing ( Suresh Ayyar ).

In 2004, he originated the role of Hector ( the teacher ) in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys, directed by Nicholas Hytner, winning the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor.

LaVorgna starred as Nicholas Scamperelli in the highly praised series Brooklyn Bridge, for which he received the 1993 Youth in Film Award for Best Actor.

Since 1983, Nicholas Colasanto was Emmy-nominated three times as an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role of Coach, including his posthumous award nomination in 1985, but he did not win.

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

In his autobiography If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, cult star Bruce Campbell recalls a roommate who had a poorly functioning record player.

His best-known roles in television were as Burt Campbell in the sitcom Soap, for which he won a Best Actor Emmy Award, and as Dr. Harry Weston in the NBC series Empty Nest, a spinoff of The Golden Girls.

Actor and playwright Ken Campbell ( 1941 – 2008 ), nicknamed ' The Elf of Epping Forest ', lived in Baldwins Hill, Loughton.

Actor Bruce Campbell has appeared as a parody of himself in a series of commercials for the product line.

** If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell

The series ran for three seasons until 2002, during which time Campbell received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series.

* Bruce Campbell Actor, director, writer, producer and author

Actor Bruce Campbell ( he himself called " The King of B-Movies ", and maintaining a dedicated cult following for films such as The Evil Dead ) once contrasted " mainstream films " and " cult films " by defining the former as " a film that 1, 000 people watch 100 times " and the latter as " a film that 100 people watch 1, 000 times ".

Actor Campbell Scott remembered, " Everyone hung on to what they knew about their characters and just sort of threw it out there.

Campbell has made guest appearances on TV shows including Space: 1999, Airwolf, Blue Murder, ( Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role Dramatic Series in 2001 ) A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Street Legal, and Highlander: The Series.

* Voice Actor: Campbell Cooley

In the film he is played by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

In addition, Jason Alexander, who performed as Pseudolus in one scene in Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, also won a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.

Actor Chow Yun-Fat who portrayed Li Mu Bai

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.

The film was a success, securing three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Supporting Actor for Lemmon, who won.

Howard Rollins, who received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance, said, " I was frightened to meet Mr. Cagney.

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.

Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty ; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Falk, who played Reles again in the 1960 TV series The Witness, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in the film.

He was nominated for his first Tony Award ( Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play ) for this role, but lost out to his co-star Ian McKellen, who played Antonio Salieri.

In the film, he is played by Liam Neeson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal.

Michael Urie, who originated the role of Rudi Gernreich, received a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.

Rickman, who left the production on April 1, won the Broadway. com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Actor in a Play and was nominated for a Drama League Award.

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.

Eastwood's acting was noted by critics, but was overshadowed by Bridges who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Actor Sylvester Stallone starred as a troubled Vietnam war vet who becomes a " one man army " in the popular Rambo ( film series ) | Rambo action films.

Fonda shared the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations with co-producer Reginald Rose and won the 1958 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his performance as " Juror # 8 ", who with logic and persistence eventually sways all the jurors to an acquittal.

* Actor Milos Milos, the Serbian actor who played the Incubus, killed his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Thomason Rooney – the estranged fifth wife of Mickey Rooney – and himself in 1966, nine months before the film's premiere.

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.

On 24 May 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of Dr. No. Actor Toby Stephens, who played Die Another Day Bond villain Gustav Graves, played James Bond, while Dr. No was played by David Suchet.

In the 1964 film adaptation he was portrayed by John Gielgud, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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.

* Shared Performances: All three of the young actors who shared the duties of performing the lead character in Billy Elliot the Musical ( 2009 awards ) — David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish — also shared a single nomination, then shared the win, for Best Actor in a Musical.