" Film critic David Richard Jones adds that Kazan, during the 1940s and 1950s, was one of America's foremost Stanislavskians, and " influenced thousands of contemporaries " in the theatre, film, and the Actors Studio that he helped found.

At a 1997 ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the blacklist, Richard Masur, then President of the Screen Actors Guild, apologized for the union's participation in the ban, noting: " Only our sister union, Actors ' Equity Association, had the courage to stand behind its members and help them continue their creative lives in the theater.

* Actors who have played Polonius on film and television include Ian Holm, Michael Redgrave, Ian Richardson, Oliver Ford Davies, Bill Murray, and Richard Briers.

** Two Shakespearean Actors by Richard Nelson

Actors Richard Jones, Thomas Downtown, and leader Edward Alleyn joined the troupe after leaving their positions in Lord Admirals Men at the rival playhouse The Rose.

When he joined the Screen Actors Guild, he was informed there was already a Richard Wilson, so he dropped his last name.

* Actors and entertainers including Jane Asher, Ed Byrne, Stephen Fry, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee, Tim Minchin and Warren Mitchell

Actors David Strathairn and Richard Lawson each appeared in about a third of the episodes ( both playing characters who were romantic interests for Molly ).

Actors and celebrities that guest starred during the series run are: Paula Abdul, Adrienne Barbeau, Beau Billingslea, Earl Billings, Johnny Brown, Orlando Brown, Angelle Brooks, Monica Calhoun, Héctor Camacho, Bill Cobbs, Kelly Coffield, Busta Rhymes, Gary Coleman, Dee Jay Daniels, Melissa De Sousa, Michael Clarke Duncan, Missy Elliott, Chip Fields, En Vogue, Antonio Fargas, Carmen Filpi, Gloria Gaynor, Pam Grier, Pat Harrington, Jr., Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Shari Headley, Sherman Hemsley, Roy Jones, Jr., Tamala Jones, Tracey Cherelle Jones, Andre Jamal Kinney, Tembi Locke, Kenny Lofton, Faizon Love, Barney Martin, Bernie Mac, Christopher Michael, Garrett Morris, Iona Morris, Elise Neal, Ron O ' Neal, Devika Parikh, Jack Plotnick, Richard Roundtree, Ronnie Schell, Kellita Smith, Nick Spano, BernNadette Stanis, Keith Sweat, Tammy Townsend, Thea Vidale, Steve Vinovich, Adam West, Kym Whitley and Fred Willard

Richard Treat Williams ( born December 1, 1951 ) is a Screen Actors Guild Award – nominated American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television.

Actors that have performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre include: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anna Neagle, Robert Helpmann, Vivian Leigh, Eileen Atkins, Leslie French, Bill Kenwright, Felicity Kendal, Anthony Andrews, Wayne Sleep, Ricky Tomlinson, Jeremy Irons, Zoë Wanamaker, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Lesley Garrett, Douglas Hodge, Richard E Grant, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Biggins, Jenny Galloway, Joanna Riding, Samantha Spiro, Jenna Russell, Liz Robertson, Toyah Willcox, Bernard Bresslaw ( who died in his dressing room at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, while performing the part of Grumio in the 1993 production of The Taming of the Shrew ), Nigel Planer, Nigel Harman, Su Pollard, Milton Jones, John Malkovich, Scarlett Strallen, Sheridan Smith, Summer Strallen, Topol, Millicent Martin, Janie Dee, Clive Rowe, Martha Wainwright, Hannah Waddingham and Helen Dallimore.

Important contributions to the implementation of Actors have been made by: Bill Athas, Russ Atkinson, Beppe Attardi, Henry Baker, Gerry Barber, Peter Bishop, Nanette Boden, Jean-Pierre Briot, Bill Dally, Peter de Jong, Jessie Dedecker, Travis Desell, Ken Kahn, Carl Hewitt, Henry Lieberman, Carl Manning, Tom Reinhardt, Chuck Seitz, Richard Steiger, Dan Theriault, Mario Tokoro, Carlos Varela, Darrell Woelk.

* Richard Beymer at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection

Actors with whom Stewart worked include Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Lionel Barrymore, William Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Lee Marvin, Richard Widmark, and Robert Mitchum.

Actors who have played Lord Fancourt Babberley in the West End include Richard Goolden, Leslie Philips, John Mills, Frankie Howerd, Tom Courtenay, and Griff Rhys Jones.

Actors that have worked with the company include Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Amanda Donohoe, Corin Redgrave, Diana Coupland, Stephen Mangan, Eva Pope, Barry Stanton and Honor Blackman.

* Richard Nelson's play Two Shakespearian Actors deals mainly with the event surrounding and leading up to the riot.

Actors Shawn Roberts, Scott Wentworth, Amy Lalonde, Michelle Morgan, and Joshua Close from Diary of the Dead appear in archival footage during the opening moments of the film.

On May 15, 2006, porn star Hillary Scott was the first guest on Inside the Porn Actors Studio on Howard 101, an hour-long program which parodied the television series Inside the Actors Studio, with Christy filling the role of James Lipton.

Important contributions to the semantics of Actors have been made by: Gul Agha, Beppe Attardi, Henry Baker, Will Clinger, Irene Greif, Carl Hewitt, Carl Manning, Ian Mason, Ugo Montanari, Maria Simi, Scott Smith, Carolyn Talcott, Prasanna Thati, and Aki Yonezawa.

Actors who have portrayed Mistoffelees onstage include Wayne Sleep, Louie Spence, Timothy Scott, Gen Horiuchi, Lindsay Chambers, Ryan Patrick Ferrell, Chris Mackenthun, Shane Hall, Eddie Buffum, George de la Peña, Guy-Paul Ruolt, Michael Barriskill, and Connor Sweeney.

Actors in this film, who went on to be part of the regular team in the series, were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor and Terry Scott.

While living in New York, Elwes studied acting at both the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Bogdanovich, drawing from his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, authored several critically lauded books, including Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week, which offered the lifelong cinephile's commentary on 52 of his favorite films, and Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors and Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors, both based on interviews with directors and actors.

The same year, both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild nominated DiCaprio twice in the Best Actor category for both of his 2006 features, and in addition, DiCaprio earned his third Academy Award nomination for Blood Diamond.

Ian McKellen has received widespread acclaim for his performance as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, particularly in The Fellowship of the Ring, for which he received both a Screen Actors Guild Award and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination under the same category ( making him the only individual cast member of the films to be nominated for an Oscar ).

In television he has won both a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of President Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown.

Actors Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels both took their positions as role models to children very seriously and tried their best to live by this creed.

She and her sister Danica were both students at the Diane Hill Hardin Young Actors Space school.

Although he did not win, he did receive a Golden Globe in both 2006 and 2007 for his work on the series and the Screen Actors Guild award in 2007 and 2009.

Being near to both Broadway theaters and Actors Studio training school the area has long been a home to actors learning and practicing their craft.

She attended Charles Laughton's Shakespeare classes and worked at the Actors Studio, both as student and teacher.

Though Haim had been one of the world's most bankable actors before he turned 21 due to his roles in Lucas, The Lost Boys and License to Drive, he was omitted from the " In Memoriam " tribute montage at both the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards and the 83rd Annual Academy Awards in the year following his death.

Actors must be able to make decisions, but need not be human: " An actor might be a person, a company or organization, a computer program, or a computer system — hardware, software, or both.

Actors were both Czechs and Germans and they all spoke their native language.

Actors Sean Gullette and Mark Margolis both spent many hours learning the game at the Brooklyn Go Club, and had the help of a Go consultant for the film.

Late in their lives both men wound up in the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey, an assisted living and nursing care facility available to those who have dedicated the major portion of their professional lives to the theatrical industry.

Edward Asner ( born November 15, 1929 ), commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant.

Actors and actresses of a certain age and stature were contacted to see whether they were both interested in and physically capable of playing the roles.

Throughout his career, Lederer, who studied with Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York, continued to take stage acting seriously, and he performed often both in New York and elsewhere.

He continued to appear on the New York stage both on Broadway ( Three Sisters, Two Shakespearean Actors, Arms and the Man ) and off-Broadway ( The Importance of Being Earnest, The Glass Menagerie, Sly Fox and Our Town ).

Reportedly, the series had significant enough ratings in its last season to be renewed ( it was in the ACNielsen top ten throughout its final month on the air ), but CBS declined to renew it largely because of controversies created by Asner in using both the series and his presidency of the Screen Actors Guild as political soapboxes.

* Comedy Actors / writers Rhys Thomas and Tony Way are both from Wickford.