Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

" Ash " Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L. A. and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

Leary has starred in many motion pictures, most recently as Captain George Stacy in Marc Webb's 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man.

* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )

" The film starred Monroe and Jane Russell as two gold digging, cabaret performer best friends that many critics point out is Hawks's only female version of his celebrated " buddy film " genre.

Hayling Island was also the birthplace and home of actress Stephanie Lawrence who starred in many West End musical shows, she was for many years close friends with Windsurfing inventor Peter Chilvers also from Hayling.

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

An homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of that genre's films of the 1970s.

In the following years, he starred in many action and Spaghetti Westerns together with his longtime colleague and friend Bud Spencer.

This became Muni's first of many later biographical roles, and in it he starred as a crusading scientist who fights derision in his native country to prove that his medical theories will save lives.

The sound still lives on in the Blues Brothers movie, in which many of the players themselves starred.

Another of Marsden's personas was Bea Clissold, Lady Counterblast, who starred in a series of sketches in the first series under the title The Clissold Saga, and who invariably managed to introduce her " many, many times " sexual innuendo.

Stagecoach was the first of many Westerns that Ford shot using Monument Valley, in the American Southwest on the Arizona-Utah border, as a location, many of which also starred John Wayne.

In a career mainly devoted to the classical theatre, Scofield starred in many Shakespeare plays and played the title role in Ben Jonson's Volpone in Peter Hall's production for the Royal National Theatre ( 1977 ).

These two were the first of many Lean films that starred Alec Guinness, whom Lean considered his " good luck charm ".

From 1935 to 1948 he starred in many British quota quickies.

He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more.

During the latter part of his career, celebrated actor John Barrymore starred in a radio program, Streamlined Shakespeare, which featured him in a series of one-hour adaptations of Shakespeare plays, many of which Barrymore never appeared in either on stage or in films, such as Twelfth Night ( in which he played both Malvolio and Sir Toby Belch ), and Macbeth.

The film starred Mitchum against type, as an idealistic young doctor, who marries an older nurse ( Olivia de Havilland ), only to question his morality many years later.

They starred in many coming of age films together in some fashion and became incredibly popular without being musicians.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote ( with longtime collaborator Monica Johnson ), directed and starred in a series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character.

The film starred Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and has been called " the screwiest of the screwball comedies " by film critic Andrew Sarris.

W. C. Fields conceived and starred in four famous Sennett-Paramount comedies.

In 1990 Charles Lane directed and starred in Sidewalk Stories, a low budget salute to sentimental silent comedies particularly Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.

She starred in a string of above average and successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup ( 1970 ), $ ( 1971 ), and Butterflies Are Free ( 1972 ).

After leaving Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd starred in a number of films ( mostly comedies ), with uneven results both commercially and artistically.

They wrote situation comedies such as The Army Game and Bootsie and Snudge for British television, and the BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams.

Both before and immediately after her dancing and acting partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Rogers starred in a number of successful dramas and comedies.

He starred in several comedies with Marie Dressler and Marjorie Main, but his career began to decline in his last decade.

Mr and Mrs Bancroft produced and starred in all the Thomas William Robertson comedies beginning in 1865: Society ( 1865 ), Ours ( 1866 ), Caste ( 1867 ), Play ( 1868 ), School ( 1869 ) and M. P.

" She starred in many comedies, such as Forsaking All Others ( 1934 ), and Four's a Crowd ( 1938 ), as well as dramas, including Craig's Wife ( 1936 ) ( which would be the film's second of three remakes ; Joan Crawford did the third ) and The Citadel ( 1938 ).

After his contract at MGM ended, Young starred in light comedies as well as in trenchant dramas for studios such as 20th Century Fox, United Artists, and RKO Radio Pictures.

In the late 1920s he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929.

In 1954, she starred opposite then-newcomer Jack Lemmon in his first two feature films, the popular comedies It Should Happen to You and Phffft!

Other well-known comedies included The Eagle Shooting Heroes, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Chinese Feast, where he starred opposite Anita Yuen.

Fields starred in a couple of short comedies, filmed in New York in 1915.

Dorothy Lamour starred in a number of movie musicals and sang in many of her comedies and dramatic films as well.

Knotts went on to star in a series of film comedies which drew on his high-strung persona from the TV series: he had a cameo appearance in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), and starred in The Incredible Mr. Limpet ( 1964 ), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken ( 1966 ), The Reluctant Astronaut ( 1967 ), The Shakiest Gun in the West ( 1968 ), The Love God?

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast him in a recurring role in its Dr. Kildare film series, and Monogram Pictures featured him in its Frankie Darro comedies and starred him as Mr. Wong in Phantom of Chinatown.

At the age of fourteen she starred opposite film comedian Harold Lloyd in a series of Lonesome Luke two-reel comedies starting with the 1915 film Giving Them Fits.

The Two Ronnies also starred in two spin-off silent films labelled The Two Ronnies Present ..., By the Sea and The Picnic, written by Barker, mainly silent comedies featuring a squabbling upper-class family with a 1920s feel about them.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Coward wrote a succession of popular hits, ranging from the operetta Bitter Sweet ( 1929 ) and the extravaganza Cavalcade ( 1931 ), requiring a large cast, gargantuan sets and a complex hydraulic stage, to the intimate comedies Private Lives ( 1930 ), in which Coward starred alongside Gertrude Lawrence, and Design for Living ( 1932 ).

His career now took off and he starred in television comedies including Only When I Laugh, The Irish R. M., The Bounder and Perfect Scoundrels.

In 1968 Esmonde and Larbey created one of their most popular comedies with Please Sir !, which starred John Alderton as a naive teacher thrown in at the deep end in a tough south London school.

She subsequently starred in many comedies and musicals, typecast as a ditzy, fluffy and feather-brained upper-class matron with her high-pitched voice.