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

In 1992, he played the sadistic sheriff " Little " Bill Daggett in the western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor.

Voight played Major-General Juergen Stroop, the German officer responsible for the destruction of the Jewish resistance, and received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

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 1993, Curry played Alan Swann in the Broadway musical version of My Favourite Year, earning him his second Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.

Actor Sean Bean made an one-off appearance in 1996 titled " I've Bean to Paradise " where the main character, unhappy with his long term relationship, attempts to seek out for more physically attractive women by undergoing a makeover as a lookalike of the actor ( played by himself ) and passing himself off as the actor with references to his past screen roles.

* Actor Philip Michael Thomas was asked by television producers if he had ever played a police officer, and he replied " Yes, I was a cop in a feature film.

Actor Kevin Tod Smith played popular character Ares, God of War, and Alexandra Tydings played his counterpart Aphrodite, Goddess of Love.

Actor Kevin McCorkle played Grissom in the third season finale of the NBC television show American Dreams.

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

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.

During the same time, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of the few times he played a villain.

* 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 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.

* Dennis Haskins: Actor who played Principal Richard Belding on Saved By the Bell.

He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), in which he played Marlon Brando's character's brother.

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.

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Friends ( in which he played the father of Ross Geller's much-younger girlfriend ).

Astaire played the role of Julian Osborne in the 1959 movie On the Beach and was nominated a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, losing to Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur.

Actor Patrick Malahide, who amongst other roles, played Inspector Chisholm in the popular television series Minder was also another Polruan resident.

Actor Will Lee ( who later played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street ) made a cameo appearance as a Coney Island photographer.

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.

Actor Richard Dix's best-remembered early role was in the silent version of DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

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.

* Guldbagge Awards, Sweden: Best Actress in a leading role ( won jointly by Alexandra Dahlström and Rebecka Liljeberg ); Best Direction ( won by Lukas Moodysson ); Best Film ; Best Screenplay ( won by Lukas Moodysson ); Best Supporting Actor ( Nominee, Ralph Carlsson ) ( 1999 )

Another supporting role, Buck Barrow in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in The Buddy Holly Story.

The role of Charlie Allnutt won Bogart his only Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1951.

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 was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film Missing in 1982, and for his roles in Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), The Apartment ( 1960 ), Days of Wine and Roses ( 1962 ), The China Syndrome ( 1979 ), and Tribute ( 1980 ).

At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, he was nominated for " Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie " for his role in Twelve Angry Men losing to Ving Rhames.

Jane Fonda won her second Best Actress award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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.

Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for his role.

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.

At the 2012 Golden Globe Awards Kelsey Grammer won the award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama for his role on Boss.

He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat Western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda.

De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John " Johnny Boy " Civello.

Critics voted him " Broadway's Most Promising Actor " for his role as an anguished veteran in Truckline Café, although the play was a commercial failure.

Brando brought his performance as Stanley Kowalski to the screen in Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for that role, and again in each of the next three years for his roles in Viva Zapata!

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

For the role, Crowe won an Australian Film Institute ( AFI ) award for Best Actor, following up from his Best Supporting Actor award for Proof in 1991.