He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational " mockumentary " films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

Matt Dillon and several others also starred in Coppola's related film, Rumble Fish, which was also based on a S. E. Hinton novel and filmed at the same time as The Outsiders on-location in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Jason Schwartzman has starred in several films, including Rushmore and Slackers.

He appears on several Leon Russell recordings, credited as playing drums under the names " Teddy Jack Eddy " and " Sprunk ", a character he created when he was a cast member of a local television comedy show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting on station KTUL ( which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as " Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi ").

The popular 1970s television variety show Hee Haw starred several well-known country and western singers and regularly lampooned the stereotypical hillbilly lifestyle.

Along with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Curry has starred in several live-action and animated films.

During the second half of the 1990s she starred in several films such as the ensemble romantic film ' Til There Was You ( 1997 ) with Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Thin Pink Line ( 1998 ), the animated feature The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and the critically acclaimed comedy Office Space ( 1999 ).

He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik.

Hollywood film studios even made several movies inspired by his exploits ; Marked Woman starred Humphrey Bogart as a Dewey-like DA and Bette Davis as a " party girl " whose testimony helps convict the gang boss.

He starred in several British television comedy shows, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards.

The other notable lead, Yvonne Craig, had starred in several films, and numerous television roles.

In the 1970s Collins made several films and then starred in the softcore film versions of her sister Jackie Collins's racy novels The Stud and The Bitch.

After the original Star Trek series, Nimoy starred in Mission: Impossible for two seasons, hosted the documentary series In Search of ..., and narrated Civilization IV, as well as making several well-received stage appearances.

Nevertheless, because Llewelyn was considered one of the franchise's major institutions and he was immensely popular among Bond fans, Llewelyn starred in several commercials, most recently to promote the video games GoldenEye 007 and Tomorrow Never Dies.

Denver further starred in films and several notable television specials in the 1970s and 1980s.

Rosenberg's production starred Jacob Adler in the title role ; the play would remain a signature piece in Adler's repertoire to the end of his stage career, the first of the several roles through which he developed the persona that he referred to as " the Grand Jew ".

American actor and singer Dean Reed, an expatriate who lived in East Germany, also starred in several films.

During the 1980s, she appeared in several Australian productions, including Emerald City ( 1988 ), and Bangkok Hilton ( 1989 ), and in 1989, Kidman starred in Dead Calm alongside Sam Neill and Billy Zane.

Kiley turned the role down and Wanger cast two relative newcomers in the lead roles: Kevin McCarthy, who had just starred in Siegel's An Annapolis Story, and Dana Wynter, who had done several major dramatic roles on television.

Bachelor Mother was adapted as a radio play on several occasions, including five broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater: the first starred Laraine Day, Henry Fonda and Charles Coburn ( February 1, 1942 ); the second starred Ann Sothern and Fred MacMurray ( November 23, 1942 ); the third starred Ginger Rogers, Francis X. Bushman and David Niven ( May 6, 1946 ); the fourth starred Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten and Charles Coburn ( April 28, 1949 ); the fifth starred Ann Sothern and Robert Stack ( April 20, 1952 ).

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.

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.