Recent acting performances can be seen in a 2006 episode of Crossing Jordan and the Sci Fi original film A. I.

The performances his actors gave were invariable portrayals of personalities developed into recognizable images of popular culture, “ their acting has the bold simplicity of an icon ...”

Kurt's acting performances and music coordination in several films includes Leon Kennedy ’ s Cry of the City and the hip hop film Krush Groove.

Despite announcing his retirement from acting in 1980, Brando subsequently gave supporting performances in movies such as A Dry White Season ( for which he was again nominated for an Oscar in 1989 ), The Freshman in 1990 and Don Juan DeMarco in 1995.

Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.

She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer ; after the release of the British horror film Trog in 1970, Crawford retired from the screen.

" Kempley applauded the acting performances:

It is implied that Thespis invented acting in the Western world, and that prior to his performances, no one had ever assumed the resemblance of another person for the purpose of storytelling.

Method acting is any of a family of techniques used by actors to create in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters, so as to develop lifelike performances.

Her occasional acting ventures were limited to theater and included performances on Broadway and in London in The Irregular Verb to Love ( 1963 ); The Kingfisher ( 1978 ) in which she co-starred with Rex Harrison, and Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All?

He also established annual Shakespeare festival from 1905 to 1913 that showcased a total over two hundred performances by his company and other acting troupes.

The series was introduced with a pilot TV movie that aired on November 8, 1969, and featured the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, as well as one of the last acting performances by Joan Crawford.

James Agee, in his review for The Dark Mirror ( 1946 ), noted the change, and stated that although she had always been " one of the prettiest women in movies ", her recent performances had proven her acting ability.

" Vincent Canby of The New York Times hailed the acting performances, especially from Sydow and Ullmann, which he found to hold " a kind of spontaneous truth, in look and gesture, that does a lot to relieve the otherwise programed nobility, truth and beauty.

Actors would generally be semi-professionals, and the player director oversaw the mounting of plays from the writing process all the way through to their performances, often-as was the case for Aeschylus for instance-also acting in them.

Stuart Jeffries of The Observer on The Piano Teacher: " This is surely one of the greatest performances of Huppert's already illustrious acting career, though it is one that is very hard to watch.

Clift's performance in the movie is regarded as one of the signature method acting performances.

Starting in 1962, she began to be credited as Andrea Darvi, which she used as a stage name until 1966, when she gave her last acting performances: an installment of I Spy and an unbilled role in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain.

In a review of the DVD critic Gary W. Tooze lauded Edward's direction and the acting, writing, " Blake Edwards's powerful adaptation of J. P. Miller's Playhouse 90 story, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in career performances, remains a variation in his body of work largely devoted to comedy ... Lemmon is at his best and ditto for Remick in this harrowing tale of people consumed by their mutual addiction.

Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, liked the film and the acting, and wrote, " This is one of Denzel Washington's great performances, on a par with his work in Malcolm X .... Washington as Hurricane Carter is spare, focused, filled with anger and pride ....

Divine would remain very proud of the work, seeing it as evidence that his acting skills were coming to wider recognition, and his performances were attended by such celebrities as Eartha Kitt, Elton John and Liza Minelli.

The experience, together with apparently good reviews of her performances, solidified her determination to continue acting.

The passion she had for acting was reflected in her performances and an unusual thing happened for her, “ an African-American actress around whom producers and directors built production ”.

One or two of the players are cast in the role of news anchor, presenting gag news items based on current events and acting as host ( s ) for occasional editorials, commentaries, or other performances by other cast members or guests.

* ViCE ( Vassar College Entertainment ) books outside entertainers for on-campus performances, with the College Campus Activities staff acting as facilitators.

Other classes may include mask work, improvisation, and acting for the camera.

His voice acting credits include Marlin the clownfish in Finding Nemo, and recurring guest voices for the animated television series The Simpsons, including Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie.

His acting credits include playing inmate Eugene Buffy in the ITV drama The Governor, and leading roles in the British films Fated and Clubbing to Death.

His acting credits include a Tony-nominated role as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!

As of build 1226, released on 30 July 2009, features that have been written and will be included in version 0. 8 include significant security improvements against both attackers acting on the network and physical seizure of the computer running the node.

: Prime broker: prime brokerage services include lending money, acting as counterparty to derivative contracts, lending securities for the purpose of short selling, trade execution, clearing and settlement.

Forms include poetry, prose, Bibliodrama ( the acting out of Bible stories ), murals, masks, and music, among others.

Criterion B differs for exhibitionism, frotteurism, and pedophilia to include acting on these urges, and for sadism, acting on these urges with a nonconsenting person.

These include the philosophers Albert Schweitzer, Owen Barfield and Richard Tarnas ; the writers Saul Bellow, Michael Ende, Selma Lagerlöf, Andrej Belyj, David Spangler, and William Irwin Thompson ; the artists Josef Beuys, Wassily Kandinsky, and Murray Griffin ; actor and acting teacher Michael Chekhov ; cinema director Andrei Tarkovsky ; and conductor Bruno Walter.

( Other acting appearances include Uli Lommell's Blank Generation, Nick Zedd's Geek Maggot Bingo, Rachel Amadeo's What About Me ?, and Rachid Kerdouche's Final Reward.

Examples of state capitalism include Corporatized government agencies ( agencies organized along corporate and business management practices ) and states that own controlling shares of publicly listed corporations, effectively acting as a large capitalist and shareholder itself.

Sedatives or hypnotics that alter higher cognitive function include ethanol, scopolamine, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, potent short or intermediate acting hypnotic benzodiazepines such as midazolam, flunitrazepam, temazepam, and various short and ultra-short acting barbiturates including sodium thiopental ( commonly known as sodium pentothal ) and amobarbital ( sodium amytal ) ( see figure at right ).

In network management, fault management is the set of functions that detect, isolate, and correct malfunctions in a telecommunications network, compensate for environmental changes, and include maintaining and examining error logs, accepting and acting on error detection notifications, tracing and identifying faults, carrying out sequences of diagnostics tests, correcting faults, reporting error conditions, and localizing and tracing faults by examining and manipulating database information.

Ballet dance works ( ballets ) are choreographed and performed by trained artists, include mime and acting, and are set to music ( usually orchestral but occasionally vocal ).

Other commonly seen gadgets in the series include a baby woolly mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner ; an adult woolly mammoth acting as a shower by spraying water with its trunk ; elevators raised and lowered by ropes around brontosauruses ' necks ; " automatic " windows powered by monkeys on the outside ; birds acting as " car horns ," sounded by the driver pulling on their tails or squeezing their bodies ; an " electric " razor made from a clam shell, vibrating from a honey-bee inside ; a pelican as a washing machine, shown with a beakful of soapy water ; and a woodpecker whose beak is used to play a gramophone record.

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.

He leaves the question open, however, whether it should include " to avoid acting wrongly " as our highest concern.

Other invented biographical details include years of college education at a variety of institutions, world travel, an acting tour of the United Kingdom, and success in high school athletics.

Besides his music career, Jon Bon Jovi started an acting career in the 90s, starring roles in several movies include Moonlight and Valentino and U-571 and also made appearances on TV Series include Sex and the City and Ally McBeal

Notable acting roles include the lead in the film Wilde, Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, the titular character in the the television series Kingdom, a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the crime series Bones and as Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V for Vendetta.

His inventions include the hydraulic press, which multiplied a smaller force acting on a larger area into the application of a larger force totaled over a smaller area, transmitted through the same pressure ( or same change of pressure ) at both locations.