Milne had met Howard when the actor starred in Milne ’ s play Mr Pim Passes By in London.

It also starred Faye Dunaway and David Suchet as Inspector Japp, just before Suchet began to play the famous detective.

Also in 1973, he starred in Steambath, a play by author Bruce Jay Friedman, on PBS with Valerie Perrine and Jose Perez.

She starred in the off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore in February 2010.

Hungarian émigré Peter Lorre — who had starred in Lang's M — was top-billed, though he did not play the lead.

In 1964 Marx starred in " Time for Elizabeth ", episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, a truncated version of a play that Groucho Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

In contrast to Zeffirelli, whose Hamlet was heavily cut, Kenneth Branagh adapted, directed, and starred in a 1996 version containing every word of Shakespeare's play, combining the material from the F1 and Q2 texts.

Bogart starred in the Broadway play Invitation to a Murder at the Theatre Masque, now the John Golden Theatre, in 1934.

Spader starred as a lead character in Race, a play written and directed by David Mamet, alongside Richard Thomas, David Alan Grier and Kerry Washington.

Milford composed the music for Salome, based on the Oscar Wilde play and also starred in it as Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles in 1979.

He was also a fan of the Hercules films that starred Reeves — and would later play Hercules as well.

In the summer of 1976, Gordon starred in the leading role of her own play, Ho!

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 ".

He reached his greatest glory with the third Bernhardt play, La Tosca, which premiered in Paris on 24 November 1887, and in which she starred throughout Europe.

Over the spring and early summer of 1948 Otto renovated Wilde's play into The Fan, which starred Madeleine Carroll.

In 1984, Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of the 1949 Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, a role he reprised in a TV movie of the same name, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries.

After the success of Mogambo, Kelly starred in a TV play The Way of an Eagle, with Jean-Pierre Aumont before being cast in the film adaptation of Frederick Knott's Broadway hit Dial M for Murder.

Unhappy with the roles offered him, he returned to Broadway, where he starred in a major hit play, Counselor at Law.

Back in England he co-wrote, produced and starred in the successful 1924 play The Rat.

Coward had by now caught Novello up professionally, despite a joint disaster when Novello starred in Coward's play Sirocco in 1927, which was a débâcle, and closed within a month of opening.

Pertwee also voiced the character of " Spotty " in the 1980s cartoon series SuperTed and in 1985 he starred in Do You Know The Milkyway ?, a television adaptation of Karl Wittlinger's stage play in which he played Dr. Neuross and another nine characters.

In 1981, while at Juilliard, Kilmer co-authored and starred in the play How It All Began, which was performed at the Public Theatre at the New York Shakespeare Festival.

In the mid-1970s Nimoy wrote and starred in a one-man play called Vincent based on the play Van Gogh by Phillip Stephens.

He chose to play Sergius while William Redfield starred as Bluntschli.

Even today the play is rarely performed in its entirety, and has only once been dramatised on film completely, with Kenneth Branagh's 1996 version.

Kenneth Gross writes that " the play itself knows nothing about the Venetian ghetto ; we get no sense of a legally separate region of Venice where Shylock must dwell.

B. Priestley denounced the play and Leigh's performance ; and the critic Kenneth Tynan commented that Leigh was badly miscast because British actors were " too well-bred to emote effectively on stage ".

** Henry V ( 1989 film ), a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh's 2000 film relocated the setting to the 1930s and attempted to make the play more accessible by turning it into a musical.

Controversy arose in Britain in 1967 when the mooted premiere at Britain's National Theatre was cancelled, due to the intervention of the National Theatre board, despite the support for the play of Laurence Olivier, under pressure from his wife, and Kenneth Tynan.

Kenneth A. Spencer, whose father was among the founders of the company was to play an important role in Kansas and Missouri philanthropy.

In 1952, Kenneth Tynan, blaming the director for a badly-received Macbeth said he " seems to have imagined that Ralph Richardson, with his comic, Robeyesque cheese face, was equipped to play Macbeth.

On 7 September 2006, Kenneth Branagh announced at the Venice Film Festival his new film of the play, with the screenplay by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

In his later years, Gielgud played the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in productions of the play, first to Richard Burton's Melancholy Dane on the Broadway stage which Gielgud directed in 1964, then on television with Richard Chamberlain, and finally in a radio production starring Gielgud's protégé Kenneth Branagh.

Jacobi continued to play Shakespeare roles, notably in Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film of Henry V ( as the Chorus ), and made his directing debut as Branagh's director for the 1988 Renaissance Theatre Company's touring production of Hamlet, which also played at Elsinore and as part of a Renaissance repertory season at the Phoenix Theatre in London.

Another example is The First Real Target ( 1961 ) is a standard archery target with the title written across the top as a play on the paintings of targets by Kenneth Noland and Jasper Johns.

He was asked to guest on albums by friends George Harrison ( Gone Troppo from 1982 ) and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour ( 1983's About Face ), Cozy Powell ( Octopus in 1983 ) and to play on an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic, Wind in the Willows.

Love's Labour's Lost is a 2000 adaptation of the comic play of the same name by William Shakespeare, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh.

Hancock's story was the subject of a play, Dust, by Kenneth F. Yates, performed in Armley and at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in July 2009.

* Kenneth G. Ross: author of the musical play Norman Lindsay and his Push in Bohemia ( 1978 )

Even Kenneth Tynan, one of the saviours of Godot, felt that Happy Days was " a metaphor extended beyond its capacity ",; nevertheless, he admitted Beckett's strange, insinuating power and urged his readers to buy tickets for the play.

She starred with Judi Dench, Michael Gambon and Kenneth Branagh in a 1987 BBC adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play Ghosts ; with Maggie Smith and Rob Lowe in a 1993 BBC adaptation of Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams ; portrayed Zelda Fitzgerald in the 1993 television movie Zelda ; and starred in Haven ( 2001 ) on CBS and The Mastersons of Manhattan ( 2007 ) on NBC.

In 1988, Kenneth Branagh's stage production of the play, starring Frances Barber as Viola and Richard Briers as Malvolio, was adapted for Thames Television.

* Hawtrey was played by David Charles in the 2006 BBC Four television play Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

In the early spring of 1965, National Theatre dramaturge Kenneth Tynan commissioned Shaffer to write a one-act play to accompany a production of Miss Julie starring Maggie Smith and Albert Finney.

Andrew Keir, playing Quatermass, found making the film an unhappy experience, believing Baker had wanted Kenneth More to play the role.