" 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.

Empire magazine praised the film saying " the gaudily gory, virtuoso, hyper-kinetic horror sequel / remake uses every trick in the cinematic book " and confirms that " Bruce Campbell and Raimi are gods " and Caryn James of The New York Times called it " genuine, if bizarre, proof of Sam Raimi's talent and developing skill.

A significant example is Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies, which were low-budget gorefests but had a very original plotline which was later praised by critics.

The company has contributed to the production of some American films, including Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan.

He began acting as an extra in his elder brother, director Sam Raimi's Super 8 films.

DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman's alleged son named Kid.

* In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, Aunt May was played by Rosemary Harris as a housewife who is widowed by the events of the first film.

The Coen brothers first met Sam Raimi when Joel Coen worked as an assistant editor on Raimi's The Evil Dead ( 1981 ).

The title track was included on the soundtrack to Sam Raimi's film The Gift, and " Porchlight " was featured on the soundtrack to The Slaughter Rule.

The song went on to further fame when it was used in two movies: Sam Raimi's cult classic Crime Wave, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film is debatably one of the strongest examples of that influence.

An even more popular film from 1981, Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, has actress Ellen Sandweiss ' character being attacked by the possessed woods she is walking in.

The film was produced in part by director Sam Raimi's production company, Ghost House Pictures.

* In Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, Cheryl Williams ( Ellen Sandweiss ) becomes a " deadite " and briefly levitates before stabbing Linda ( Betsy Baker ) in the ankle with a pencil.

After meeting with an agent in London, Davidtz moved to Los Angeles in 1992, and immediately landed a role in her first American film, Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness.

Development was fast tracked after director Sam Raimi's hiring, and principal photography began in Old Tucson Studios in Arizona on November 21, 1993.

He is best known for his roles on television as Dr. Emil Skoda in NBC's Law & Order ( and other shows in the Law & Order franchise ), Assistant Police Chief Will Pope in TNT's The Closer, neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger in the HBO prison drama Oz, on film as J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and the upcoming animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, Mac MacGuff in Juno, as the voice of Cave Johnson in Portal 2 and being the most recognizable ' that guy ' actor.

* Even though The Amazing Spider-Man and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film series are based on the mainstream comics, the films contain a few elements from the Ultimate Spider-Man comic books.

The title track was included on the soundtrack to Sam Raimi's film The Gift.

Later, one of the largest blockbusters of all time was released with Sam Raimi's Spider-Man ( 2002 ).

He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.

He wrote the first draft and then Raimi's brother, Ivan ( a doctor ), wrote drafts two through four with Sam.

( laugh ) I'm a huge fan of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead.

Rawlings appears in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 and a cameo appearance in the music video for Jim Jones ' " We Fly High " ( Ballin ' Remix ).

Aykroyd got director John Landis to include the Jake and Elwood Blues characters listening to " Hold On, I'm Comin '" and " Soothe Me " while riding in the Bluesmobile in the 1980 cult film The Blues Brothers as a tribute to Sam & Dave.

These include Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, whose cult fame has not led to financial success, as well as the 2CD Orphans of God, a tribute to Mark Heard, a singer / songwriter whose work has been praised by fellow artists such as Bruce Cockburn, Victoria Williams, Sam Phillips and T-Bone Burnett.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García ) is a 1974 American cult action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and featuring Warren Oates.

Other film assignments included George Pal's The War of the Worlds ( as Salvatore, one of the first three victims, a role he reprised on the Lux Radio Theater adaptation ), in Cecil B. DeMille's final film, The Buccaneer, as astronaut Sam Jacobs in the 1959 cult classic The Angry Red Planet, The Unsinkable Molly Brown ( as saloon owner Christmas Morgan ), Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Lover Come Back, McLintock!

series, Namco's Tales of Symphonia, where he voiced Governor-General Dorr, in Square's Kingdom Hearts series reprising the role of Goofy, Detective Date in the SEGA game Yakuza and Sam and others in cult classic adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road.

Mooney also wrote for Redd Foxx's Sanford and Son, Good Times, acted in several cult classics including Which Way Is Up ?, Bustin ' Loose, Hollywood Shuffle, and portrayed singer / songwriter Sam Cooke in The Buddy Holly Story.

One quip from Marx concerned his response to Sam Wood, the director of the classic film A Night at the Opera.

According to the show's producer, Sam Lovullo, the ratings showed improvement with these classic reruns ; however, the series was finally canceled in 1993 at the conclusion of its 25th season.

* Sam, born Elihu Nivens, is the classic Heinlein hero, multi-talented, independent, fiercely loyal to friends and an implacable enemy to foes.

's were the label's backing band for most of the classic hits that came out of Stax, by Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and many more.

Alexander Thomas, Stella Chess, Herbert G. Birch, Margaret Hertzig and Sam Korn began the classic New York Longitudinal study in the early 1950s regarding infant temperament ( Thomas, Chess & Birch, 1968 ).

Evolution features their first top 20 hit, " Lovin ', Touchin ', Squeezin '", which was inspired by the classic Sam Cooke tune " Nothin ' Can Change This Love ".

" May I Baby ", the b-side of " Soul Man ", is also regarded as a classic non-hot 100 song on the LP by Whitburn's " Top Pop Singles " guide, and was a popular live song performed frequently by Sam & Dave.

In the classic Knighty Knight Bugs Sam is a black knight with a fire breathing dragon who ends up going to the moon.

Yosemite Sam was one of the classic Looney Tunes characters who appeared as faculty members of Acme Looniversity in the 1990s animated series Tiny Toon Adventures.

Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

American director Sam Peckinpah was another classic lover of the use of slow motion.

In a surprising ending, where Richard refuses to be captured and leaps down to his death with the " wrong " closing line " Let us to't pell-mell ; if not to heaven, then hand-in-hand to hell ", his falling into the inferno is followed by the eerily upbeat tune " I'm Sitting On The Top Of The World " ( Ray Henderson, Joe Young and Sam Lewis ) in the classic version sung by Al Jolson.

The novel is structured as a series of long semi-independent chapters ; each a distinct story within a long campaign by the protagonist Sam – a classic trickster character – against the established gods of the world.

* Sam the Centaur: A " mythical critter " with a classic, chiseled profile and Apollo-like blonde mane, Sam is a Greek centaur who occasionally roams the mountains of Dogpatch instead of the mountains of Thessaly.

The March 9, 1951 episode of the Sam Spade radio program is entitled " The Spanish Prisoner " and includes a version and full description of the classic scam.

His general appearance and attitude may be an homage to Yosemite Sam, the classic Warner Brothers cartoon character.

Martin appeared in all three of the classic Westerns released in 1969: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch ( as Coffer, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter ); George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( as Percy Garris, the " colorful " Bolivian mine boss who hires the two title characters ); and Henry Hathaway's True Grit ( as Colonel Stonehill, a horse dealer ).

Platinum Dunes produced lucrative remakes of classic horror films and introduced new directors like Sam Bayer and Marcus Nispel to feature film audiences.

The parties featured classic stars like Meat Loaf, Jay and the Americans, Bo Diddley, Del Shannon Sam and Dave and Ricky Nelson.

Roberts recognised the film's classic structure ; his engaging outlaw, Sam Boone, counterpoints Scott's granite-faced Ben Brigade, maintaining the tension of whether they will work together or clash.