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.

During 1936, the studio's film The Story of Louis Pasteur proved a box office success and Paul Muni, the film's star, won the Oscar for Best Actor in March 1937.

Quinn won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor by portraying the painter Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's van Gogh biographical film, Lust for Life ( 1956 ).

* Best Actor: Paul Muni

In 1932, Paul Muni returned to Hollywood to star in such harrowing pre-Code films as the original Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, for which he received his second Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Actor / comedian Michael Airington also plays Paul Lynde in the show Oh My Goodness it's Paul Lynde and An Evening with Paul Lynde, recreating Lynde's 1976 live show, and in Off Center: The Paul Lynde Show.

* Best Actor in a Leading Role – Paul Muni

In March 1987, Wise accepted the Academy Award for Best Actor, on behalf of his absent friend, Paul Newman, who won for his performance in The Color of Money.

Actor / comedian Paul Hogan wrote the screenplay and starred in the title role in his first film, Crocodile Dundee ( 1986 ), about a down-to-earth hunter who travelled from the Australian Outback to New York City.

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Walter Pidgeon ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Greer Garson ), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ( Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture, and Best Sound, Recording ( Douglas Shearer ).

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 ).

The play was nominated for the 1982 Tony Award for Best Play, Best Actor in a Play ( Tom Courtenay ) and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play ( Paul Rogers ).

Quiz Show was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director ( Robert Redford ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Paul Scofield ) and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Paul Attanasio ).

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor ( Paul Muni ) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Carl Anderson, William Kiernan ).

* Actor Paul Cavonis was born and raised in Hell's Kitchen ; his mother still resides there.

Despite this heavy acclaim, he lost the Academy Award for Best Actor to Paul Newman in The Color of Money ; a sequel to The Hustler.

Actor Paul D. Roberts made frequent appearances as Dick Clark, while Michael Burger played announcer Charlie O ' Donnell.

* Paul McGill, Actor, dancer ( Man on Wire, Fame, A Chorus Line ( Revival ))

* Paul Iacono, Actor, director ( The Hard Times of RJ Berger, Fame )

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.

McLaglen won Best Actor for his portrayal of Gypo Nolan, beating out Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone for the better-remembered Mutiny on the Bounty, and Ford won Best Director.

* Academy Award for Best Actor ( Harrison Ford, nominee )

* BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Harrison Ford, nominee )

* Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama ( Harrison Ford, nominee )

* Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor ( Harrison Ford, winner )

He is also the main character of the Godfather film trilogy that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which he was portrayed by Al Pacino, who was twice nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal ( Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather, and Best Actor for The Godfather Part II ).

After being nominated in 1957 and 1958, in 1962 Glenn Ford won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor for his performance in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles.

In 2007, his breakout year, Affleck gained recognition and critical acclaim for his work in Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

That same year, he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance The Hurricane, directed by John Ford.

* Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ( Glenn Ford, winner )

Carey wrote a book about his experiences working with Ford titled " Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company ", published in 1994.

* Carey, Harry Jr. Company of Heroes: My Life As An Actor in the John Ford Stock Company.

Actor Ward Bond had a minor role in the film that had him on camera for much of the movie and foreshadowed many future appearances in Wayne projects, especially in films directed by John Ford.

On April 18, 2010, Grammer made his Broadway musical debut playing the role of Georges in a revival of the Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

Actor Tom Hanks will be playing Disney in the upcoming film Saving Mr. Banks.

* December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

After two years in the role, he played the same part in the 1951 film version, this time playing opposite Vivien Leigh, where he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984, for playing the alien in Starman.

However, Nolte's co-star, James Coburn, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing the father of Nolte's character.

In 1989 Washington won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a defiant self-possessed ex-slave soldier in the film Glory.

* Actor Gary Burghoff, best known as playing Radar O ' Reilly on M * A * S * H, used to reside in Paradise.

* Shea Farrell, Actor and Producer noted for playing Mark Danning in the television show Hotel created by Aaron Spelling

* Freddie Smith, Actor, known for playing the first openly gay character Jackson " Sonny " Kiriakis of the daytime soap opera Days Of Our Lives.

Returning to London in January 1958 he appeared as Philip Lester in A Touch of the Sun ( N. C. Hunter ) at the Saville Theatre — Best Actor in the Evening Standard Awards 1958 — before rejoining the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company in June 1958, to play Hamlet and Benedick, also playing Hamlet with the company in Leningrad and Moscow in December 1958 ( while his wife Rachel Kempson played Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet ).

* John Terry: Actor known for playing Christian Shephard on Lost

* Treat Williams: Actor known for playing Dr. Andrew Brown in Everwood

Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty ( 1988 ), playing the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, and My Own Private Idaho ( 1991 ), playing a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother.

Following a four-year break from acting, Khan made his comeback playing the title role in the historical drama Mangal Pandey: The Rising ( 2005 ), and later won a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for his role in Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ).

He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners, and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Harry and Tonto.

He also won one Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Quo Vadis ( he set the Oscar and Globe statuettes up on his desk as if playing doubles tennis ; the game was also a love of his life, as was ocean yachting ).

In addition to Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles and A Catered Affair, Fierstein's Broadway acting credits include playing the mother, Edna Turnblad in Hairspray ( 2002 ), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ).

He guest-starred in ABC's Coach, for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series playing Kenny Montague in the 1996 episode " The Gardener ".

After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing Tom Hanks ' title character ’ s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film, The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

* Hayden Christensen – Actor, most notable for playing Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy

In the play, The Woman in Black, set in the Victorian era, the Actor playing Kipps tells Kipps ' We'll make an Irving of you yet ,' in Act 1, as Kipps is not a very good actor due to his inexperience.