After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan.

In Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation, Banquo is played by acclaimed stage actor Martin Shaw, in a style reminiscent of earlier stage performances.

Barrymore was born into acting: her great-grandparents Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, Maurice Costello and Mae Costello ( Altschuk ) and her grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were all actors ; John Barrymore was arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation.

At this time, on the more commercial side of production, the phenomenon of Totò, a Neapolitan actor who is acclaimed as the major Italian comic, exploded.

" Bacon was again acclaimed for a dark starring role playing an offending pedophile on parole in the 2004 film The Woodsman ; he was nominated best actor receiving the Independent Spirit Award.

In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, also starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune.

Jack Palance ( born Volodymyr Palahnyuk ) ( 1919 – 2006 ), the acclaimed film actor, was born in Lattimer.

His imposing bearing, acting range, facility with foreign languages and lengthy partnership with acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa made him the most famous Japanese actor of his time, and easily the best known to Western audiences.

Scott's more than 30 years as a motion picture actor resulted in his working with many acclaimed screen directors, including Henry King, Rouben Mamoulian, Michael Curtiz, John Cromwell, King Vidor, Alan Dwan, Fritz Lang, and Sam Peckinpah.

A veteran actor, Duvall has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and TV shows of all time, among them The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, To Kill a Mockingbird, THX 1138, Joe Kidd, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, MASH, Network, True Grit, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Natural and Lonesome Dove.

He made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II ( 1989 ), then landed a succession of larger roles that made him a critically acclaimed child actor by age 9, being nominated for several Young Artist Awards.

He had his initial success as a stage actor in classical roles, first winning stardom during a successful two seasons at the Old Vic Theatre from 1929 to 1931 where his performances as Richard II and Hamlet were particularly acclaimed, the latter being the first Old Vic production to be transferred to the West End for a run.

Marcel Marceau ( 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007 ) was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown.

He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting.

However, when they discovered that Catharine was the daughter of Austrian actor Peter Lorre, famous for his role as a child murderer in Fritz Lang's acclaimed film M, they let her go without incident.

The famous actor and movie star Albert Basserman also made a highly acclaimed movie in 1945 entitled " The Captain From Kopenick ".

During the flight, she was acclaimed for her weightless acrobatics and a playful sense of humor, once holding a sign reading " Hi Dad " up to the camera, and displaying a sticker on her flight locker that advertised her crush on actor Tom Selleck.

The concept of Asian values is the main theme of the 2002 film Hero which was directed by internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and starred famed martial arts actor Jet Li.

* The actor and playwright Mick Ford was a pupil at John Ruskin Grammar School in the late 1960s, during which time he played Hamlet in an acclaimed school production ; he was also a member of the National Youth Theatre

The group has toured worldwide, released acclaimed albums and a DVD ( see below ), and counts among its fans the late Yehudi Menuhin, the Kronos Quartet ( with whom it has recorded and performed ), actor Johnny Depp ( alongside whom the group appeared in the film The Man Who Cried ), fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto ( who invited the band to be models-cum-musicians for his Paris and Tokyo shows ), and many more.

Over the next 16 years, Ashby directed several acclaimed and popular films, including the off-beat romance Harold and Maude and the social satire Being There with Peter Sellers, resuscitating the career of a brilliant actor who many felt had lapsed into self-parody.

After this breakthrough, Williams became America's leading black film actor in the 1970s after starring in a string of critically acclaimed and popular movies, many of them in the Blaxploitation genre.

* Robert Carlyle, an acclaimed Scottish film actor

He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films including such classics as Sunday Too Far Away ( 1975 ), The Man from Snowy River ( 1982 ) and Breaker Morant ( 1980 ).

-the initials of acclaimed actor Laurence Olivier, ( 1907 – 1989 )

In the critically acclaimed The Men ( 1950 ), starring newcomer Marlon Brando as a paraplegic war veteran, Zinnemann filmed many scenes in a California hospital where real patients served as extras.

Famed producer Marlon “ Marley Marl ” Williams was the first in a long succession of acclaimed artists from “ The Bridge ”, which became one of the most prolific hip hop-producing neighborhoods in the country.

" The whole audience acclaimed him through standing ovations five times ; there were handkerchiefs in the air, hats, raised hands, so that Beethoven, who could not hear the applause, could at least see the ovation gestures.

Before facing Magnentius, Constantius first came to terms with Vetranio, a loyal general in Illyricum who had recently been acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.

He began playing the cello, spending a summer in France studying music under the acclaimed Nadia Boulanger, who also taught Morris ' future collaborator Philip Glass.

A favorite target of Poe's criticism was Boston's then acclaimed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was often defended by his literary friends in what would later be called " The Longfellow War ".

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

Ammianus, who was a participant in the battle, portrays Julian in charge of events on the battlefield and describes how the soldiers, because of this success, acclaimed Julian attempting to make him Augustus, an acclamation he rejected, rebuking them.

In the critically acclaimed CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, released in December 2005, Voight, who was raised a Catholic, portrayed the pontiff from the time of his election until his death, garnering an Emmy nomination for the role.

He is presently doing a pivotal role in a Tamil film titled ' Aravaan ', directed by Vasanthabalan, who is critically acclaimed for his earlier films Angaadi Theru and Veyil.

* Brian Humphries, the recording engineer, who started engineering Nirvana before going on to work with Traffic, Black Sabbath, McDonald and Giles and Pink Floyd ( eventually engineering their acclaimed Wish You Were Here and Animals albums ).

He had only just put on the red mantle and the Te Deum was being sung when an armed party of Frangipani supporters ( in a move pre-arranged with Cardinal Aymeric ) burst in, attacked the newly-enthroned Celestine, who was wounded, and acclaimed Lamberto as Pope.

Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument.

The movie is now critically acclaimed, after initially receiving negative publicity in the West for being partially funded by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who invested $ 35 million in the movie.

It was located at Windsor Castle, and its chapel of St Edward the Confessor was re-dedicated to St George, who was acclaimed in 1351 as patron of the English race.

The tale of a young lady who inherits her father's miserliness, it also became the most critically acclaimed book of his career.

Leone's distinctive cinematography style was widely acclaimed, even by critics who disparaged the acting in the film.

She knew that her rival, the duc d ' Orléans, who had given money and bread to the people during the winter, would be popularly acclaimed by the crowd much to her detriment.

The development of the leucotomy procedure was the work of the Portuguese physician and neurologist António Egas Moniz, who was highly acclaimed for his work on cerebral angiography ( radiographical visual of the blood vessels in the brain ) in 1927.

Quintilian extolled him as lex orandi (" the standard of oratory "), and Cicero said about him that inter omnis unus excellat (" he stands alone among all the orators "), and he also acclaimed him as " the perfect orator " who lacked nothing.

* Thomas Quasthoff, an internationally acclaimed bass-baritone, who describes himself: " 1. 34 meters tall, short arms, seven fingers — four right, three left — large, relatively well-formed head, brown eyes, distinctive lips ; profession: singer "

The magazine The Nation responded to the NYT obituary saying that " even though American papers had scorned and trivialized Derrida before, the tone seemed particularly caustic for an obituary of an internationally acclaimed philosopher who had profoundly influenced two generations of American humanities scholars.

According to those historians who believe that Olybrius was Petronius ' son, it was in 455 that Olybrius married Placidia, in particular between April 17, when Petronius was acclaimed Emperor, and May 31, when he died ; this would explain the marriage between Olybrius and Valentinian's younger daughter as a move to secure Petronius ' legitimacy as emperor.

The resulting aristocratic anarchy in the city provided the setting for the fantastic dreams of universal democracy of Cola di Rienzo, who was acclaimed Tribune of the People in 1347 and met a violent death in 1354.