A biopic of his life, The Babe, was released in 1992 and starred John Goodman in the title role.

Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a small but crucial role in the 2001 biopic Ali, which starred Will Smith as the controversial former heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

Since 1986, Doe has also maintained a busy second career as an actor, appearing in such films as Oliver Stone's Salvador, Allison Anders ' Border Radio and Sugar Town, the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Craig Mazin's The Specials, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and the independent feature Roadside Prophets, in which he starred with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.

In 2011, DiCaprio starred in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, a biopic about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial first director of the FBI.

The resultant biopic, Beyond the Sea, starred Spacey as Darin, with the actor using his own singing voice for the musical numbers.

In 1988, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the sculptor Camille Claudel.

* Michael Sheen played Ross in the 1997 biopic Wilde, which starred Stephen Fry as Wilde and Jude Law as Douglas.

She also starred in the 2008 biopic romantic thriller Death Defying Acts.

In 2008, starred alongside Guy Pearce and Saoirse Ronan in Death Defying Acts, a biopic about legendary escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s.

Christie starred in two other films released in 1965, first appearing as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy, a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O ' Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and ( uncredited ) John Ford.

Bolet provided the piano soundtrack for the 1960 biopic, Song Without End, which starred Dirk Bogarde as the legendary 19th-century piano virtuoso, Franz Liszt.

She starred as Jean Donovan in the biopic Choices of the Heart ( 1983 ), and as Anna Sheridan in three episodes of Babylon 5 with then husband Bruce Boxleitner in 1996.

In 1972, starred as Billie Holiday's husband Louis McKay in Motown Productions ' Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues.

Mohanlal's first non-Malayalam movie was the Tamil biopic Iruvar directed by Mani Ratnam in which he starred opposite debutant Aishwarya Rai.

In 2009, Allen starred as Georgia O ’ Keeffe in Lifetime Television ’ s biopic chronicling the artist ’ s life.

In 2007, Reilly starred in the biopic parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Van Dien starred in the 1997 James Dean biopic James Dean: Race with Destiny.

Among his film credits, Woodward starred as Police Sergeant Howie in the 1973 cult British horror film The Wicker Man, and in the title role of the 1980 Australian biopic Breaker Morant.

In 1995, de los Reyes starred with James Woods, Ed Harris and Sir Anthony Hopkins in Oliver Stone's controversial biopic, Nixon, playing convicted Watergate burglar, Eugenio Martínez.

As of mid-2005, its most recent release ( in a joint venture with Rhino Records ) was the soundtrack of the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, which starred Kevin Spacey and featured Spacey's renditions of Darin songs.

Following Charlie's Angels, Ladd remained a familiar face on television and has starred in more than 30 made for television films, including a coveted role as Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia heiress who became a Hollywood glamour girl and then a European princess, in a biopic that was begun shortly before Kelly's death.

She also starred in the reunion mini-series Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac in 1997, and portrayed Hollywood novelist Jacqueline Susann in the television biopic Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story in 1998.

" In 2004, Mario Van Peebles directed and starred as his father in BAADASSSSS !, a biopic about the making of Sweet Sweetback.

, Mirkin will write, direct and co-produce a biopic of businessman Richard Branson, based on his memoir Losing My Virginity.

That same year, he portrayed H. R. Haldeman in Nixon, the biopic of Richard M. Nixon, directed by Oliver Stone.

When they both did not get made, Stone turned his attention to a biopic about Richard Nixon.

Recognition has included biographies, a historic plaque at his birthplace, and a 1999 biopic about his life by the director Richard Attenborough.

She went on to appear as actress Paulette Goddard in Sir Richard Attenborough's big-budget biopic of Charles Chaplin, 1992's Chaplin.

He retired from directing after the release of Spy Sorge in 2003, a biopic on the life of Richard Sorge.

His transition from television to film scoring began in 1982 with Richard Attenborough's biopic Gandhi for which he was nominated — with his collaborator, Ravi Shankar — for the Original Music Score Academy Award.

According to the director's commentary on the 2-disc DVD release of the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, director Todd Haynes explained that much of the imagery for the town of Riddle in the Richard Gere segment of the film was inspired by Lesy's book of photographs.

In Ray, the biopic of Ray Charles, Jerry Wexler is portrayed by Richard Schiff.

The show was first performed in the UK by Imagine Production in Preston and was endorsed by Richard Attenborough, director of the biopic Chaplin.

Her success in film continued as Jane Shore in Laurence Olivier's Richard III ( 1955 ) and opposite Kirk Douglas in the Van Gogh biopic Lust for Life ( 1956 ).

He made two more Hollywood films before moving back to Europe: a biopic of Richard Wagner, Magic Fire ( 1955 ) for Republic Pictures and Omar Khayyam.

Badel portrayed Richard Wagner in Magic Fire ( 1955 ), a biopic about the composer, and Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg in the Paramount film Nijinsky ( 1980 ).

In the 1970s, Parker's friend and colleague Teddy Edwards shared his reminiscences of the saxophonist to Oliansky, who had wanted to make a biopic about Charlie Parker starring actor Richard Pryor.

Birth of The Beatles is a 1979 biopic motion picture, produced by Dick Clark's company ( Dick Clark Productions ) and directed by Richard Marquand.

A newly recorded version of the song ( again by Gabriel ) was used to promote the Richard Attenborough Biko biopic Cry Freedom, and its music video ( which consisted mostly of clips from the film ) was in heavy rotation on MTV during the film's premiere and run.

In 1995, Shelton appeared as a supporting role, Tricia Nixon Cox, in Oliver Stone's Nixon, a biopic film about the story of the political and personal life of former U. S. President Richard Nixon.