Berman, whose fame has rested in recent years on his skills as a night club monologist, proved himself very much at home in musical comedy.

Italian companies also had a strong line in slapstick comedy, with actors like André Deed, known locally as " Cretinetti ", and elsewhere as " Foolshead " and " Gribouille ", achieving worldwide fame with his almost surrealistic gags.

With Dean MartinLewis initially gained fame with singer Dean Martin, who served as straight man to Lewis's zany antics in the Martin and Lewis comedy team.

Bacon's debut in the fraternity comedy Animal House in 1978 did not lead to the fame for which he had hoped, and Bacon returned to waiting tables and auditioning for small roles in theater.

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

Aykroyd gained fame on the American late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live, where he was a writer and the youngest cast member for its first four seasons, from 1975 to 1979.

He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III.

Douglas ' acting career was propelled to fame when he produced and starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone.

Created as a short sketch in Idle's UK television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, the Rutles gained fame after being the focus of the 1978 mockumentary television film, All You Need Is Cash ( The Rutles ).

Reynolds is writing a thesis on fame and in his research discovers a dissertation on comedy submitted by Carlton, a robotic secretary for two stand-up comedians on an interplanetary comedy circuit.

He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in comedy films such as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle Buck.

Surbiton's main claim to popular fame is as an icon of suburbia in such British television programmes as The Good Life ( starring Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington and Felicity Kendal ), though location filming was done in Northwood, North-West London ), and John Sessions ' comedy series Stella Street, which has on occasion led to the town being nicknamed " Suburbiton ".

Girlfriend From Hell is a 1989 comedy / horror B-movie starring actor Dana Ashbrook of Twin Peaks fame, and Liane Curtis of Sixteen Candles, as well as several B-movies of the 1980s.

He gained mainstream recognition and fame with the 2004 independent romantic comedy Sideways.

The film took on newfound fame in the 1990s after being featured on an episode of the comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Following Hayley's rise to fame in Pollyanna ( 1960 ) and the 1961 family comedy The Parent Trap, John and Hayley again starred together, in the 1965 teen sailing adventure The Truth About Spring, the 1964 drama The Chalk Garden ( with Deborah Kerr in the lead role ), and the 1966 comedy-drama The Family Way, in which John plays an insecure, overbearing father and Hayley plays his son's newlywed wife.

Carol Stewart and Gale Robbins were the vocalists and comedy was supplied by Pinky Lee and the team of Bob Sweeney and Hal March, later of quiz show fame.

Uttoxeter obtained minor fame as the setting of a recurring comedy sketch by comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in their BBC television series A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

She first achieved widespread fame as Peggy Bundy on the long-running Fox comedy series Married ... with Children, for which she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Television Series and two American Comedy Awards during the show's run.

Bubba Ho-tep is the title of a novella by Joe R. Lansdale which originally appeared in the anthology The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-Mortem ( edited by Paul M. Sammon, Delta 1994 ) and was adapted as a 2002 horror-black comedy film starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley — who escaped the pressures of his fame long ago by impersonating an Elvis impersonator and is now a resident in a nursing home.

Reiser starred for two years on television as one of two possible fathers of a teenage girl in the sitcom My Two Dads, and later rose to fame in North America as Paul Buchman on Mad About You, a long-running comedy series he helped create in which Helen Hunt co-starred as his wife.

His greatest fame comes from his role on La famille Plouffe, a very successful Quebec situation comedy.

They were subsequently paired up with the partnership of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis for a new topical comedy show for BBC Radio 1 called The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and its success led to a transfer to television which shot the quartet to fame.

Footage of the waves of the Andaman Islands also appeared in the film " Thicker than Water ", shot by cinematographer Jack Johnson, who later achieved worldwide fame as a popular musician.

Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

Devo gained some fame in 1976 when the short film The Truth About De-Evolution by Chuck Statler won a prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Eli Herschel Wallach ( born December 7, 1915 ) is an American film, television and stage actor who gained fame in the late 1950s.

His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather ( 1972 ), a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from critics and public alike.

That was how a young actress Pola Negri ( born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec ) gained fame in Germany and eventually became one of the European super-stars of silent film.

While the inceptive noir, Stranger on the Third Floor, was a B picture directed by a virtual unknown, many of the film noirs that have earned enduring fame were A-list productions by name-brand filmmakers.

Gone with the Wind brought Leigh immediate attention and fame ; but she was quoted as saying, " I'm not a film star – I'm an actress.

They made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound, and reached fame with their second film The Matrix ( 1999 ), for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director.

The musical brings overnight fame to bass-baritone William Warfield ( who sings Ol ' Man River in the film ).

At the height of Hauer's fame, he was even set to be cast as RoboCop in the film directed by old friend Verhoeven, although the role ultimately went to American everyman method actor Peter Weller.

The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was used for the 1962 film based on his World War I activities.

Keel had risen to fame in MGM film musicals, starring in Annie Get Your Gun, the 1951 Show Boat, and Kiss Me Kate, among others.

In 1986, his international fame grew as a result of his performance as a doomed, hunchbacked farmer in the film Jean de Florette.

In 1973, Seymour achieved international fame in her role as Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.

However, its fame has greatly increased mainly because of the many network telecasts of the 1939 film version of the book.

Weaver progressively received fame for her numerous contributions to the science fiction film history ( including minor roles in successful works such as Futurama, WALL-E and Paul ) and gained the nickname of " The Sci-Fi Queen ".

Abe Sapien of Hellboy fame was originally inspired by the film and its titular creature.

For instance, " Hollywood " is used as a metonym ( an instance of metonymy ) for the US cinema industry, because of the fame and cultural identity of Hollywood, a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, as the historical center of film studios and film stars.

Monterey showcased leading bands from several major music " scenes " including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the United Kingdom, and the resulting TV and film coverage gave national ( and international ) exposure to groups that had previously had only regional fame.

Boris Karloff ( who later found fame as a Horror film star ) had an uncredited role as a marauding Indian.