* The Palm Beach Story was Rudy Vallee's first comedic role, and it garnered him a contract from Paramount, as well as an award for Best Actor of 1942 from the National Board of Review.

" 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 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.

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.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

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

He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish ( 1983 ) and The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

The film received Oscar nominations for composers Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and for co-star Peter Falk ( Best Supporting Actor ).

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.

Actor Tan Xinpei in The Battle of Dingjunshan ( film ) | The Battle of Dingjunshan, 1905

Sinatra also forged a highly successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, a nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate.

Category: Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe ( film ) winners

Category: Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe ( film ) winners

It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) became the first film to win all five top Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay ).

Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the character Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in The French Connection ( film ) | The French Connection, 1971

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.

At the 29th Golden Globe Awards, Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon received a nomination for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy film, respectively.

John Huston won the Academy Award for direction and screenplay and his father won Best Supporting Actor, but the film had mediocre box office results.

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 ).

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

I'm All Right Jack featured Peter Sellers and as a result, boosted his film career, winning him a BAFTA Best Actor Award.

Category: Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe ( film ) winners

He appeared in the comedy film A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Category: Best Drama Actor Golden Globe ( film ) winners

* John Dye ( 1963 – 2011 ) Actor, ( China Beach, Touched by an Angel ) graduated from Tupelo High School in 1981.

Actor Rip Torn graduated from Taylor High School.

Actor and Coen Brothers favorite Jon Polito has garnered both stage and screen awards, and NFL Hall of Famer, longtime FOX commentator and feature film actor Howie Long graduated in 1982.

* Actor Ty Burrell graduated from SOU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1993.

* Actor Joel Moore graduated from SOU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2001.

* Actor Paul Lieberstein, who plays Toby on the Emmy award winning show The Office, graduated from Staples High School.

* Sir Roger Moore, Actor ( never graduated ) ( 1945 )

Thereafter, he joined National School of Drama ( NSD ), New Delhi and graduated in 1976 ; here again he received the Best Actor Award.

The resulting documentary, Cracked Actor, featured a pasty and emaciated Bowie: the tour coincided with the singer's slide from heavy cocaine use into addiction, producing severe physical debilitation, paranoia and emotional problems.

* 1942 – Best Actor award from the National Board of Review for his performance in For Me and My Gal

Other New York portrayals of Hamlet of note include that of Ralph Fiennes's in 1995 ( for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor ) – which ran, from first preview to closing night, a total of one hundred performances.

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.

Actor Gunnar Hansen sought inspiration from special needs children to develop Leatherface's mannerisms.

The Sixth Sense has received numerous awards and nominations, with nomination categories ranging from those honoring the film itself ( Best Film ), to its writing, editing, and direction ( Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay ), to its cast's performance ( Best Actor / Actress ).

His film credits include Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, The Rite and he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Escape from Sobibor.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as in 2000, Hauer acted in several British and American television productions, including Inside the Third Reich ( as Albert Speer ); Escape from Sobibor ( for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor ); Fatherland ; Hostile Waters ; Merlin ; The 10th Kingdom ; Smallville ; Alias ; and ' Salem's Lot.

He has earned and been nominated for numerous awards during his career, including winning a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia and a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a People's Choice Award for Best Actor for his role in Forrest Gump, and earning the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the BAFTAs in 2004.

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.

* 1965 Best Actor, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Actor portraying Nikki Danjō, a villain from the kabuki play Sendai Hagi.

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.

He has been nominated for top awards many times, winning the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and from the Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Some of the awards that Depp has won include honors from the London Film Critics Circle ( 1996 ), Russian Guild of Film Critics ( 1998 ), Screen Actors Guild Awards ( 2004 ) and a Golden Globe for Best Actor.

Actor Colin O ' Donoghue from < i > The Rite </ i > has been cast for this role.

Despite the small budget, dire predictions, and little help from distributor Orion Pictures, Hoosiers grossed over $ 28 million and received two Oscar nominations ( Dennis Hopper for Best Supporting Actor and Jerry Goldsmith for Best Original Score ).< ref >

The film was awarded an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White ( Orry-Kelly ) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Jack Lemmon ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Ted Haworth, Edward G. Boyle ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Academy Award for Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The town of Alope, in Thessaly, was believed to have derived its name from her, where, however, Philonides speaks of an Alope as a daughter of Actor.

* Andy Devine – Actor, served as honorary mayor from 1938 to 1957.

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.