Active double bass ensembles include L ' Orchestre de Contrebasses ( 6 members ), Bass Instinct ( 6 members ), Bassiona Amorosa ( 6 members ), the Chicago Bass Ensemble ( 4 + members ), The Bass Gang ( 4 members ), the London Double Bass Ensemble ( 6 members ) founded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London who produced the LP Music Interludes by London Double Bass Ensemble on Bruton Music records, Brno Double Bass Orchestra ( 14 members ) founded by the double bass professor at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and principal double bass player at Brno Philharmonic Orchestra-Miloslav Jelinek, and the ensembles of Ball State University ( 12 members ), Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Hartt School of Music.

Belgian player Jean " Toots " Thielemans is a well-known master of jazz chromatic harmonica, as well as a champion whistler, who has been recorded on many notable songs in film and television, such as the theme from Sesame Street, and the score from the Academy Award winning film Midnight Cowboy.

However, in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, which takes place after Episode 6, the player must fight Boba Fett in Ord Mantel.

He was also a minor character in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, helping the player during one mission.

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

In this mode, players begin as a rookie tennis player at the Royal Tennis Academy, who must build up his / her skill ( by leveling-up ) through training and practice matches before entering various tournaments.

* John Roosma ( 1900 – 83 ), captain of Ernest Blood's " Wonder Teams " who became the first college player to total 1, 000 points for his career while at the United States Military Academy.

" Cuba Gooding, Jr. won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rod Tidwell, the Arizona Cardinals football player who sticks with Maguire.

Robinson was never nominated for an Academy Award, but in 1973 he was awarded an honorary Oscar in recognition that he had " achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts, and a dedicated citizen ... in sum, a Renaissance man ".

He has earned positive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For ( 1995 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in Oliver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts ( 1997 ), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ), a conflicted priest in Quills ( 2000 ), a washed-up baseball player in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs ( 2002 ), the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater in the widely panned It's All About Love in 2003, a lovestruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village ( 2004 ), a disillusioned cameraman in Terry George's Hotel Rwanda ( 2004 ), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 ( 2004 ).

* Tom Hamilton ( American football ) ( 1905 – 1994 ), American naval aviator in WWII and American football player and coach at the U. S. Naval Academy

* Joe Bellino, Heisman Trophy winning football player at the United States Naval Academy

After his retirement as a player, Bradley became involved with West Ridge Academy, a coeducational private school for at-risk youths in West Jordan, Utah.

In the video game Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, one of the missions assigned to the player is the Kobayashi Maru scenario.

No matter how the player cheats, if he chooses this option the cheating is detected by Academy staff, and Forrester is offered a chance to avoid punishment by helping the authorities with an ongoing criminal investigation.

The player takes control of the character Jaden Korr, a student at the Jedi Academy under the tutelage of Kyle Katarn.

As a first / third person shooter set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Jedi Academy puts the player into combat wielding a variety of firearms from the universe, as well as lightsabers and Force powers.

Alternatively the player can choose to play as one of almost all of the existing characters from Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.

" Following a terrorist attack that destroys the city of Chicago, the player assumes the role of Alex D, a trainee at the Tarsus Academy, whose support is sought by several organizations.

* James Watson ( trumpeter ), a British trumpet player, conductor, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music

* David Robinson, U. S. Naval Academy ( Class of 1987 ) and National Basketball Association ( NBA ) Hall of Fame player

He was the principal bass player of the Midland Sinfonia, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and English Chamber Orchestra, a founder of the Nash Ensemble, and has been a principal player in other early music ensembles.

Perhaps the most notable alumni of Saint Leo University are Anastasio Somoza Debayle the former President of Nicaragua, his brother Luis ( also a Nicaraguan President ), Charles Henri Baker a Haitian industrialist and presidential candidate, musicians Stephen Stills and Desi Arnaz, the former General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays J. P. Ricciardi, the Academy Award-Winning actor Lee Marvin, and Major League Baseball player Bob Tewksbury.

He directed and starred in Easy Rider ( 1969 ), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer.

He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts ( for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger ( for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award ), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing ( for which he won ' Best Actor ' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

Lee starred and sang in the hit films The Jazz Singer, Disney's Lady and the Tramp, and Pete Kelly's Blues, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Williams had recently starred in Poltergeist and Lithgow in The World According to Garp, earning an Academy Award nomination.

Academy Award winning Japanese director Akira Kurosawa produced Yojimbo ( 1961 ), and Sanjuro ( 1962 ), which both starred Toshirō Mifune as a mysterious Samurai swordsman for hire.

In 1997, Hoffman starred opposite John Travolta in the Costa Gavras film Mad City and gained his seventh Academy Award nomination for his performance in Wag The Dog, in a role that allowed Hoffman the chance to work with both Robert De Niro and Denis Leary.

This led to a series of " Angry Young Man " roles in kitchen sink dramas, before he starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film Tom Jones.

She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1992, Deneuve starred opposite Vincent Perez in the romantic drama Indochine, for which she which won a second César Award and received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress ; Deneuve is one of the distinct few to receive an Oscar nomination for a non-English speaking role.

Bridges received his sixth Academy Award nomination for his role in True Grit, a collaboration with the Coen brothers in which he starred alongside Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and Hailee Steinfeld.

On Golden Pond, which also starred Katharine Hepburn, brought Henry Fonda his only Academy Award for Best Actor, which Jane accepted on his behalf, as he was ill and could not leave home.

In the 1970s, she starred in such films as Three Days of the Condor, Little Big Man, Chinatown, The Three / Four Musketeers, Eyes of Laura Mars, and Network, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress as the scheming TV executive Diana Christensen.

He starred in the film version of Berkeley Square ( 1933 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

The Nun's Story starred Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke, and was a critical and box office success, with Hepburn being nominated for Academy Award for the third time.

Many years later, in 1988, Hung starred in Alex Law's Painted Faces, a dramatic re-telling of his experiences at the China Drama Academy.

Hung has starred in 75 films, and worked on over 230, beginning as a child actor whilst still attending the China Drama Academy.

In 1987 Washington starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War ( 1987 ), Wild Wild West ( 1999 ), The Road to El Dorado ( 2000 ), Conspiracy ( TV ) ( 2001 ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ), Warm Springs ( TV ) ( 2005 ), Valkyrie ( 2008 ), Wallander ( TV series ) ( 2008 – present ), and My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ) as Laurence Olivier ( Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor ); and directed such notable films as Dead Again ( 1991 ) ( also starring ), Swan Song ( 1992 ) ( Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film ), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 ) ( also starring ), The Magic Flute ( 2006 ), Sleuth ( 2007 ), and the blockbuster superhero film Thor ( 2011 ).

Mingo Junction served as the Pennsylvania steel mill town in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and starred Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, and John Cazale.

Mercies starred Robert Duvall, who won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film.

Big Spring was also featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight and received the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1969.

McQueen also earned his only Academy Award nomination in 1966 for his role as an engine room sailor in The Sand Pebbles, in which he starred opposite Richard Attenborough and Candice Bergen.

It was not until he starred in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ) that his popularity rebounded.