In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble.

According to Metro Pulse writer Jack Renfro, the incident occurred in 1952 and may have been witnessed by James Agee, who passed the story on to Mitchum – who not only starred in the movie, but also produced the film, co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself.

It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film, co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself.

A 1940 film version, based as much on the play as on the novel, starred Robert Montgomery as Peter and Constance Cummings as Harriet.

They also starred in an early 1965 film called Ferry Cross the Mersey ( sometimes referred to as " Gerry and the Pacemakers ' version of A Hard Day's Night "), for which Marsden wrote much of the soundtrack.

In 1986, Gordon starred in the movie Round Midnight as ' Dale Turner ', an expatriate jazz musician much like himself ; the role might even be a thinly veiled biography of him, though Lester Young and Bud Powell were its main inspirations.

The first was very much like a hardboiled detective series and starred Michael Rye ( credited as Rye Billsbury ) as Dillon ; the second starred Straight Arrow actor Howard Culver in a more Western, lighter version of the same script.

Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.

Famous for his creation Mr. Bean, the much celebrated comedian Rowan Atkinson starred in Johnny English ( 2003 ).

Tenney also starred nude in a 1965 silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between him and his then partner, the kinetic-theater artist Carolee Schneemann, called Fuses ; he did much other music for her, and participated in her events.

Anger then decided to use much of the footage created for Lucifer Rising in a new film of his, Invocation of My Demon Brother, which starred Beausoleil, LaVey, Jagger and Richards, as well as Anger himself, and the music for which had been composed by Jagger.

Wendt starred as Private Mosconi in a 1982 episode of M * A * S * H, where he suffered from having a pool ball stuck in his mouth for much of the episode.

Crime writer Paul Kinnet came up with a storyline which starred the Thompsons and had them investigate the disappearance of their farmer friend, on whose farm they can be seen working at the end of the book in much the same way as they did on the Sirius.

During breaks on filming of Melrose Place, Leighton starred in television films, including In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy as Laurette Wilder, a woman from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for a rich boy, much to the disgust of his grandparents.

A pastiche of Brian De Palma's Carrie, it conveyed much of the theatre of early Sluts of Trust gigs, and alongside other members of the Scottish Youth Theatre it starred Sean Biggerstaff and Paul Kelly of The Martial Arts.

Through the 1980s, Moriarty starred in such Larry Cohen movies as Q, The Stuff, It's Alive 3, and A Return to Salem's Lot ( much later, he appeared in Cohen's Masters of Horror episode " Pick Me Up "), as well as Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider and The Hanoi Hilton.

Next, the much in demand Cromwell starred in Tom Brown of Culver that year, as well.

Since then, she has starred in a number of critically acclaimed films, such as Satta ( 2003 ) and Dobara ( 2004 ), but has not had much box office success.

Faherty's Garden starred the eponymous Faherty a dog, plagued by an amateur crow magician ( Cornelius, who would often turn purple, much to his distress ) in a series of shorts featuring stop-motion models.

He guest starred in episode 10 — " Much Too Much " and had a much smaller part in episode 11 — " Owner of a Lonely Heart " in season two of Grey's Anatomy.

" A starred review in Publishers Weekly for the same title also highlighted the satirical elements in the work, declaring: " A big-bang ending caps the fast-paced novel, and there's much fun to be had watching Mamatas ... merrily skewer his targets.

The girls received much publicity from the commercial, and later starred in a few related commercials, videos and events.

In 1996, she starred in the BBC television adaptation of The Sculptress by Minette Walters receiving much critical acclaim for her performance.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

The original cast starred Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt and, in her Broadway debut, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree.

Kimble in this version was portrayed by actor Timothy Daly, whose father James had guest starred in two segments (" Running Scared " and " The Evil Men Do ") of the original series.

In 1988, Charlton Heston starred and directed in a made-for-television film that followed Bolt's original play almost verbatim, restoring for example the commentaries of " the common man ".

In 1959, he was in the original Broadway production of Sweet Bird of Youth with Geraldine Page and three years later starred with Page in the film version.

The original version was also featured in the 1978 film Superman, heard playing on a car radio just prior to Glenn Ford's final scene in the film ; Ford, as noted earlier, had starred in Blackboard Jungle.

He also guest starred as Sire Uri in the pilot episode of the original Battlestar Galactica television series.

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.

The series was created by Donald Bellisario, and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist from six years in the future ( during the series ' original run ) who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to " put right what once went wrong ".

It starred Mary Preston ( who then returned to England to take over the role of Anita in the original London production of West Side Story ).

Barry Humphries starred in the original performance as Sinon.

The original Broadway production starred Muriel Smith ( alternating with Muriel Rahn ) in the title role.

The film also starred Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Hank Worden, Noah Beery Jr. and Harry Carey, Jr. Borden Chase wrote the script with Charles Schnee, based on Chase's original story ( which was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1946 as " Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail ").

He also starred in the short-lived but critically lauded 1976 period detective series City of Angels and the 1979 – 1982 CBS series House Calls, first with Lynn Redgrave, and then later with actress Sharon Gless, who went on to co-star in the CBS-TV crime drama series Cagney and Lacey with actress Tyne Daly ( coincidentally, one of the House Calls co-stars was Roger Bowen who played the original Colonel Henry Blake in the MASH movie ).

In the fall of 1980, after all original SNL cast members departed from the show, Radner starred opposite Sam Waterston in the Jean Kerr play, Lunch Hour, as a pair whose spouses are having an affair, and in response invent one of their own, consisting of trysts on their lunch hour.

The original Broadway production starred Rosalind Russell in the title role.

The original Broadway production, which opened in 1955, was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie ; Ben Gazzara as Brick ; Burl Ives as Big Daddy ; Mildred Dunnock as Big Mama ; Pat Hingle as Gooper ; and Madeleine Sherwood as Mae.

The original run starred Paul Scofield as Thomas More, as well as Keith Baxter as Henry VIII, George Rose as the Common Man, Leo McKern as the Common Man in the West End production and Thomas Cromwell in the Broadway show ( a role originated in London by Andrew Keir and later taken over by Thomas Gomez ), and Albert Dekker as the Duke of Norfolk.

It starred original Fagin Ron Moody with Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Mark Lester and Harry Secombe.

The best-known example of this is its animated adaptation Star Trek: The Animated Series, which included scripts contributed by well-known science fiction writers and starred most of the original cast.

In 2008, she co-wrote and appeared in the Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock, which starred The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato.

* Khigh Dheigh ( 1910 – 1991 ), actor, starred in the original film version of The Manchurian Candidate.

A 1964 film remake was directed by Karel Reisz from a script by Clive Exton, and starred Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, and Sheila Hancock, but was not as successful as the original film.

The 1991 German film called Sisi / Last Minute ( original Sisi und der Kaiserkuß, ( Sisi and the emperor's kiss ) starred French actress Vanessa Wagner as Sisi, Nils Tavernier as Emperor Franz Joseph and Sonja Kirchberger as Helene.

* Rick Lyon-He created the puppets for the Tony-award winning musical Avenue Q and starred in the original Broadway cast.