Also recently, he appeared in Finding Amanda alongside Brittany Snow and Matthew Broderick, returned as Octavius in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and played Hades in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

But DePriest would not last long in the position, as Agnes Nixon would resume head writing duties by the end of that year – once again with Broderick and a returned Wisner Washam as her Associate Head Writers.

In November 2009, Broderick returned to All My Children at the request of her one-time mentor, Agnes Nixon – following the dismissal of outgoing head writer Charles Pratt Jr. – as part of ABC's concerted effort to increased ratings.

Ruck and Broderick had previously acted together in the Broadway production of Biloxi Blues.

A Broadway revival in the 1990s starring Matthew Broderick, essaying an Irish accent ( as did Montgomery ), rather than a Welsh one, performed respectably at the box office.

It has been frequently revived, including on Broadway in 1999 with Matthew Broderick and most recently in the West End with Jason Donovan.

** Cynthia Daniels ( engineer ), Hugh Fordin ( producer ), Mel Brooks ( composer / lyricist ) & the original Broadway cast with Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick for The Producers

Matthew Broderick ( born March 21, 1962 ) is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, voiced Simba in The Lion King, and portrayed Leo Bloom in the Hollywood and Broadway productions of The Producers.

Broderick reunited with his co-star from The Lion King and The Producers, Nathan Lane, in The Odd Couple, which opened on Broadway in October 2005.

The gravel-voiced actor is perhaps best known for the play and film Torch Song Trilogy, which he wrote and starred in both Off-Broadway ( with the young Matthew Broderick ) and on Broadway ( with Estelle Getty and Fisher Stevens ).

Besides his leading role in the film version of Torch Song Trilogy co-starring Matthew Broderick and Anne Bancroft, Fierstein's film roles include Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, Robin Williams ' makeup-artist brother in Mrs. Doubtfire, and Merv Green in Death to Smoochy, in addition to parts in Garbo Talks, Duplex, Kull the Conqueror, and Independence Day.

Although the role of Leo Bloom was originated on Broadway by Matthew Broderick, Mel Brooks first approached Short about doing the part opposite Nathan Lane.

A 2005 Broadway revival of the play featured Matthew Broderick as Felix.

Her Broadway theatre break came in 1985 when she was cast in the lead ( opposite Matthew Broderick ) in the Neil Simon play Biloxi Blues.

Ruck made his Broadway debut in 1985 in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues with Matthew Broderick.

In 2005, he played Leo Bloom in the Broadway version of Mel Brooks ' The Producers, a role also played by his Ferris Bueller co-star, Matthew Broderick.

He had an early success in the 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy playing David, the adopted son of the gay protagonist played by the show's writer Harvey Fierstein, and the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, where he succeeded Matthew Broderick in starring role of Eugene.

* Broadway ( 1942 ) with Pat O ' Brien and Broderick Crawford ( Raft plays himself as a young B ' way dancer )

On stage, she appeared in the 2005 Broadway production of The Odd Couple with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane.

Cryer's first professional acting effort was as David in the Broadway play Torch Song Trilogy, replacing Matthew Broderick, whom he closely resembled.

His seventh album 76 Trombones ( 2009 ) was a Broadway / Showtune themed album, featuring guest vocalists Matthew Broderick, Carol Channing, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Broderick played the role of Leopold “ Leo ” Bloom, an accountant who co-produces a musical designed to fail, but which turns out to be successful.

Swing Time is a 1936 RKO musical comedy film set mainly in New York City and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.

* Cast of The Producers musical: director Susan Stroman, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick

A security blanket was also featured quite prominently and used by main character, Leopold Bloom, portrayed by Gene Wilder in the 1968 Mel Brooks comedy The Producers, and its subsequent, 2005 musical remake The Producers in which the character is played by Matthew Broderick.

The only constant regular on Highway Patrol is star Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews.

Originally, Matthew Broderick and Charlie Sheen were to star in Point Break with Ridley Scott directing.

( She would also star with Broderick in the 1988 film version of that play.

This resemblance became something of a running joke, even referenced numerous times on his later hit series Two and a Half Men, where his character posed as Broderick in order to get star treatment, on numerous occasions.

The play made major stars of its writer ( and lead performer ) Harvey Fierstein and castmates Estelle Getty and Matthew Broderick -- but when it premiered, Crothers was better known than any of them and received star billing on posters, playbills, and even the tickets.

Judy Holliday ( in an Oscar-winning performance ), William Holden and Broderick Crawford star in the story of a corrupt tycoon who brings his showgirl mistress with him to Washington when he tries to buy a Congressman.

She has also had roles in several films including Angel Heart with Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke, Out on a Limb with Matthew Broderick, Little Giants, indie favorite Skin Walker, National Lampoon's Adam & Eve, Tobe Hooper's Mortuary, the Farrelly brothers ' comedy Say It Isn't So, and most recently the science-fiction thriller InAlienable with Walter Koenig and Richard Hatch, the psychological thriller The Road to Hell with Michael Paré and she's slated to star in the new film 2001 Maniacs: Beverly Hellbillys alongside Robert Englund and her sister Ashley Peldon.

The first misstep was to bring talent from ABC onto her shows ; she attempted to swiftly put her stamp on a revised As the World Turns by bringing in former ABC scriptwriter Lorraine Broderick and firing longtime ATWT actor Allyson Rice-Taylor, replacing her with former One Life to Live star Susan Batten.

In the 1990s, Broderick voiced the adult lion, Simba, in the successful animated film The Lion King, and also voiced Tack the Cobbler in Miramax's controversial version of The Thief and the Cobbler, which had originally been intended as a silent role.

While Broderick wrote for Guiding Light, the show received much critical acclaim, and the early 1990s are widely considered to have been a golden era for the show.

Truancy is a frequent subject of popular culture ; perhaps most famously Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which is entirely about the titular character's ( played by Matthew Broderick ) day of truancy in Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend.

Portions of the 1983 Hollywood movie WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick, were filmed in Newhalem ( most notably the scenes of the " Cheyenne Mountain Complex ", filmed in an abandoned gravel pit northwest of the town ).

His good looks quickly got him supporting roles, most notably as the son of Willie Stark played by Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men ( 1949 ), but he also enjoyed leads such as " Nick Romano " in Knock on Any Door ( 1949 ) opposite Humphrey Bogart ( who told him, " You look great, but kid, that's not enough "), " Brock Mitchell " in Fury at Showdown, and as Robin Hood in Rogues of Sherwood Forest ( 1950 ) with Alan Hale.

In early 1998, Broderick was hired at CBS Daytime's As the World Turns where her most notable story was the resurrection of evil David Stenbeck and the switch of Lily Snyder's baby with another baby.

Her most recent EP, ' Sparkle The Dark ', included a mixture of both solo and band tracks ( as Penny Broadhurst & The Maffickers ) and an accompanying booklet of short stories based on the lyrics to " The End " by several writers: Broadhurst herself, Danny Broderick, Robert Shearman, Danny Broderick, Benjamin Adams and Swithun Cooper.

* The film Glory ( starring Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, and Matthew Broderick ), shows events of 1863, notably the assault on Fort Wagner.

He also appeared on stage, notably in productions of Born Yesterday in the role Broderick Crawford originated on stage.

Most notably, the business leaders of Greater Seattle Inc., including its president George Gunn and vice-presidents R. C. “ Torchy ” Torrance, William Street and Erving Rable who combined in April of 1950 with the Seattle Salts led by Jerry Bryant and a committee that included Leo Weisfield, Emil G. Sick, R. J. Lamont and Henry Broderick.