* Heavy tanks-large, thickly armoured, powerfully gunned, but barely mobile tanks ; intended for the breakthrough role against fortified lines, particularly in support of infantry formations.

Schultz ' breakthrough role was the mentally unstable Captain " Howling Mad " Murdock on The A-Team.

Robinson's role remains similar in circumstance to Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Bogart's initial breakthrough which the studio had originally earmarked for Robinson.

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

A prominent supporting role in the science-fiction / action movie Demolition Man ( 1993 ) led to her breakthrough performance in Speed the following year.

Curry first became well known with his breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, reprising the role he played in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show, then later for his supporting roles as Rooster in the film adaption of Annie ( 1982 ), Lord of Darkness in the film Legend ( 1985 ), Wadsworth in the film Clue ( 1985 ) as well as a starring role as Pennywise the Clown in the horror TV miniseries It ( 1990 ), which is one of Curry's most acclaimed performances aside from Rocky Horror.

Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

This was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock, the title character in The Graduate.

" A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), an adaptation of the stage play which he had also directed, received 12 Oscar nominations, winning 4, and was Marlon Brando's breakthrough role.

Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business.

His first film appearance was a role in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer ( 1960 ), with Laurence Olivier, but he made his breakthrough with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film version of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

After playing the lead role in Two Nights with Cleopatra ( 1953 ), her breakthrough role was in The Gold of Naples ( 1954 ), directed by Vittorio De Sica.

His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless ( 1960 ), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave.

DiCaprio made his big screen breakthrough in 1992, when he was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in This Boy's Life, co-starring Ellen Barkin and De Niro himself.

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role.

That same year, she landed her breakthrough role as rich girl Darlene Merriman on the ABC sitcom Head of the Class.

Later, as " Tony Curtis ", he cemented his reputation with breakthrough performances such as in the role of the scheming press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ) with Burt Lancaster ( who also starred in Criss Cross ) and an Oscar-nominated performance as a bigoted white escaped convict chained to the black Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones.

Keitel had the starring role in Scorsese's Mean Streets, which also proved to be Robert De Niro's breakthrough film.

McGann's breakthrough role was Give us a Break devised by Geoff McQueen who also created the long running ITV series, The Bill.

In the early 2000s, Astin experienced a career breakthrough with his role as Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, released in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

He was renowned for his affinity with the works of Verdi, notably his breakthrough role of Ford in Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra in Simon Boccanegra and Iago in Otello.

After appearing mostly in TV films, such as the Ian McEwan-scripted The Ploughman's Lunch, and Martin Luther, Heretic, he achieved a breakthrough with his role as the subdued protagonist Sam Lowry in Terry Gilliam's 1985 film, Brazil.

His first ( pre-IHÉS ) breakthrough in algebraic geometry was the Grothendieck – Hirzebruch – Riemann – Roch theorem, a far-reaching generalisation of the Hirzebruch – Riemann – Roch theorem proved algebraically ; in this context he also introduced K-theory.

" At first I thought, despite everything that I saw with my own eyes, that the Soviet state was a breakthrough into the future, a kind of prototype for all countries ".

It was here where Marlborough made the breakthrough.

1987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when in the West Indies Youth Championships he scored 498 runs breaking the record of 480 by Carl Hooper set the previous year.

It was a moment ripe for a breakthrough.

His next important breakthrough was in the Opus 33 string quartets ( 1781 ), where the melodic and the harmonic roles segue among the instruments: it is often momentarily unclear what is melody and what is harmony.

It was voted remix of the year and is now regarded as both a hip hop classic and a breakthrough in the remix field.

The second was their breakthrough album, 2112, released the following year in 1976.

1: The Miracle and the Sleeper ", which was released on the band's 1992 breakthrough album, Images and Words, and is followed by the 2005 album " Octavarium ".

Rabid was a breakthrough with international distributors and his next two horror features gained stronger support.

It was also the first real breakthrough for sampling, as the bassline of Chic's " Good Times " laid the foundation for the song.

" Starman ", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song.

The action caused an uproar in Israel where the sale was regarded as an important breakthrough in Israels efforts to develop international markets for the Kfir.

The film was a breakthrough having a plot, action, and even a closeup of a hand pulling a fire alarm.

In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ) was Nicholas Ray's breakthrough ; his other noirs include his debut, They Live by Night ( 1948 ), and On Dangerous Ground ( 1952 ), noted for their unusually sympathetic treatment of characters alienated from the social mainstream.

A major breakthrough in the development of the modern facsimile system was the result of digital technology.

Kelly's first career breakthrough was in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life, which opened on October 25, 1939, where for the first time on Broadway he danced to his own choreography.

It was this musical film which persuaded Arthur Freed to allow Kelly to make On the Town, where he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time, creating a breakthrough in the musical film genre which has been described as " the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood.

An important technical breakthrough was the development of procedures for generation of stably transgenic hydras and sea anemones by embryo microinjection.

A key breakthrough was the invention of steam-powered cutting and dressing tools by Alexander MacDonald of Aberdeen, inspired by seeing ancient Egyptian granite carvings.

A great breakthrough in astronomy was made by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ), who proposed in 1543 the heliocentric model of the solar system.

This was a breakthrough as it was considered close to the end of the world, with difficult currents that did not encourage commercial enterprise.

Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.