In 1994, the biopic Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, alleged that Wood and the filmmakers stole the mechanical octopus ( previously used in the film Wake of the Red Witch ) from the Republic Studios backlot, while failing to steal the motor which enabled the prop to move realistically, although, by the director's admission, the film preferred narrative interest over historical accuracy.

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

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.

The film company Ironbound Films produced a biopic about Downey entitled Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, which premiered April 19, 2012 at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

Crash is also featured on the cover of the film, a scene taken from their performance which was later recreated for the Rodger Grossman's Germs biopic What We Do Is Secret.

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.

Their affair was depicted in the HBO Pictures biopic, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, in which Preminger was portrayed by Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.

In 1997, Claude Berri produced the biopic Lucie Aubrac based on the life of the Résistance heroine of the same name, which was criticized for its Gaullist portrayal of the Résistance and over-emphasis on the relationship between Aubrac and her husband.

One of those was The Waltz King, a loosely adapted biopic of Johann Strauss, which aired as part of the Wonderful World of Disney in the U. S. in 1963.

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

She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

The song later served as the impetus for the best-selling biography ( 1976 ) and the Oscar-winning biopic starring Sissy Spacek ( 1980 ), both of which share the song's title.

I'll Cry Tomorrow ( 1955 ) is a biopic which tells the story of Lillian Roth, a Broadway star who rebels against the pressure of her domineering mother and reacts to the death of her fiancé by becoming an alcoholic.

In 2000, Turner ’ s screenplay for the Jackson Pollock biopic Pollock became a successful film which won an Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Marcia Gay Harden and a Best Actor nomination for Ed Harris.

The Steadicam was first used in the Best Picture-nominated Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory ( 1976 ), debuting with a shot that compounded the Steadicam's innovation: cinematographer Haskell Wexler had Brown start the shot on a fully elevated platform crane which jibbed down, and when it reached the ground, Brown stepped off and walked the camera through the set.

Lueger was the subject of a 1943 biopic Vienna 1910, in which he was played by Rudolf Forster.

In 1997, Kamal Haasan began his first directorial venture, the biopic of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, Marudhanayagam, which failed to complete its schedules with only half an hour and a trailer being recorded during its shoot.

Man on the Moon, a biopic of entertainer Andy Kaufman, includes a scene at Maharishi International University in which Kaufman is asked to leave a retreat because his behavior was unbecoming an enlightened individual.

* Tito was portrayed by Gerrick Winston in the 2004 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, the biopic of Michael Jackson which first aired on VH1 and was satirized by comedian Aries Spears in an episode of MadTV that featured La Toya Jackson as she played in a skit attacking TV host Jay Leno for his constant jokes on her family.

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.

Crash and the Germs are the subject of the 2007 biopic What We Do Is Secret which stars Shane West as Crash, Bijou Phillips as Lorna Doom, Rick Gonzalez as Pat Smear, and Noah Segan as Bolles.

Kristel found herself typecast as Emmanuelle and often played roles that capitalised upon that image, most notably starring in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1981 ) and a nudity filled biopic of World War I spy Mata Hari in which she played the title role.

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

Later he got some recognition when he depicted Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's biopic Che ( 2008 ) on the life of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara.

In a scene depicted in the biopic, Man on the Moon, comic performer and avid meditator Andy Kaufman was asked to leave a TM teacher training course because his performances were incompatible with the behavior expected of a TM teacher.

The bluff was depicted in the Stu Ungar biopic Stuey ; however, Straus is not a character in the film and the bluff is credited to another player.

* The song appears in the 2005 Elvis Presley biopic Elvis, where it shows him performing the song on The Milton Berle Show.

Since the release of his debut album, Hilton has ventured into acting, guest starring on The CW's One Tree Hill as the talented but somewhat arrogant Chris Keller, and playing the role of Elvis Presley in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.

* 1993: The biopic Sardar was produced and directed by Ketan Mehta and featured noted Indian actor Paresh Rawal as Patel ; it focused on Patel's leadership in the years leading up to independence, the partition of India, India's political integration and Patel's relationship with Gandhi and Nehru.

Their relationship was dramatized in the biopic about him.

Receiving a healthy dose of critical praise, Winkler re-teamed with Kline for the follow-up De-Lovely ( 2004 ), casting the actor as the lead in his elegant and sophisticated biopic of American composer Cole Porter centered on his unique relationship with his wife and muse ( Ashley Judd ).

The 2009 biopic on Keats ' life starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, focused on the final three years of his life and his relationship with Fanny Brawne.

Consuelo's relationship with Antoine was portrayed by Miranda Richardson and Bruno Ganz in the 1996 biopic Saint-Ex.

The biopic Little Ashes ( 2009 ) depicts the Residencia in the 1920s, and the relationship of Lorca, Dalí, and Buñuel who were there at the time.

In 2006 Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biopic of Potter ’ s life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

A biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker ' 48, Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando after the release of The Godfather Part II.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

The biopic starred Richard Hatch as Jan Berry and Bruce Davison as Dean Torrence, with cameo appearances by Dick Clark, Wolfman Jack, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, and Bruce Johnston ( who at that time was temporarily out of the Beach Boys ), as well as Berry himself ( near the end of the movie, he can be seen sitting in the audience, watching " himself " ( Richard Hatch ) perform onstage ).

Eisenstein was thence able to ingratiate himself with Stalin for ' one more chance ', and he chose, from two offerings, the assignment of a biopic of Alexander Nevsky, with music composed by Sergei Prokofiev.

Shooter Jennings arranged deals for a clothing line, while also launched a renewed website, and started talks with different producers about the making of a biopic.

In 2011, Eastwood directed J. Edgar, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role.

For a time, Lean was interested in a biopic of Gandhi, with Alec Guinness to play the title role and Emeric Pressburger writing the screenplay, but Lean eventually lost interest in the project.

Forging a collaboration with Scorsese, the two paired again for a biopic of the eccentric and obsessive American film director and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes in The Aviator ( 2004 ).

* Hearst's 1982 autobiography, Every Secret Thing, was made into the biopic Patty Hearst by Paul Schrader in 1988, with Natasha Richardson portraying Hearst.

Gettin Square also featured rising star David Wenham who demonstrated versatility with a string of critically acclaimed roles including the title role in Paul Cox's 1999 biopic Molokai: The Story of Father Damien and the 2001 thriller The Bank, directed by the politically conscious film director Robert Connolly.

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

A film biopic, Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines, has long been in pre-production ; director John Landis and screenwriter Joel Eisenberg have been attached to the project since 2008, with Feldstein as a creative consultant.

Patrol, opposite Nia Long, Tim Thomerson and Brian Keith ; Like Father Like Son ( 1987 ); White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon ( 1987 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ); the World War II film Memphis Belle ( 1990 ); Toy Soldiers ( 1991 ); Encino Man ( 1992 ); and the college football biopic Rudy ( 1993 ), about the life-changing struggles and rewards of the titular character, Daniel Ruettiger.

It was not until the early 1990s that he would branch back into television, starting with producing the TNT biopic Geronimo ( 1993 ).

For several years Powell continued as a television regular, with occasional forays into film, as the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in the Ken Russell biopic Mahler ( 1974 ) and Captain Walker in Russell's film version of Tommy ( 1975 ).

Schneider's breakthrough came with her portrayal of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, in the romantic biopic Sissi ( 1955 ) and its two sequels, Sissi – The Young Empress ( 1956 ) and Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress ( 1957 ), all with Karlheinz Böhm, who became a close friend.

Other performances have been: in What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1993 ), as a woman who is having an affair with the title character ( played by Johnny Depp ); the role of Hannah Nixon in the Oliver Stone biopic, Nixon ( 1995 ); and in the Will Ferrell 2003 comedy Elf, as a woman who discovers that her husband is the father of one of Santa's elves.