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Marcello
Mastroianni |
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Leading
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(1924-1996) Born
September 28, Fontana Liri, Italy |
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"The
premier Italian actor of the postwar era, Marcello Mastroianni was among
the most popular international stars in movie history. A speculative,
almost introverted screen presence, he was the perfect foil for the
arid, often puzzling films of directors like
Michelangelo Antonioni
and
Federico Fellini,
with whom he achieved some of his greatest success."
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Key Films
La Dolce vita (1960), La Notte (1961), 8½ (1963),
The Organiser (1963), Dark Eyes (1987) Key Directors
Federico Fellini,
Ettore Scola,
Marco Ferreri
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Walter Matthau |
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Leading Player |
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(1920-2000) Born October 1,
New York, New York, USA |
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"Specializing
in playing shambling, cantankerous cynics, Walter Matthau, with his
jowly features, slightly stooped posture, and seedy, rumpled demeanor,
looked as if he would be more at home as a laborer or small-time
insurance salesman than as a popular movie star equally adept at drama
and comedy. An actor who virtually put a trademark on cantankerous
behavior, Matthau was a staple of the American cinema for almost four
decades."
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Key Films
Bigger Than Life (1956), A New Leaf (1971), Charley Varrick (1973), The
Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), The Bad News Bears (1976)
Key Directors
Billy
Wilder,
Herbert Ross
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Toshiro
Mifune |
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Leading Player |
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(1920-1997)
Born April 1, Tsingtao, China |
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"Mifune's
raw, unbridled masculinity was ideal for such
Kurosawa
films as Rashomon (1950) and The Seven Samurai (1954).
But as he matured artistically, the actor proved he was no one-trick
pony, as demonstrated by his low-key, carefully crafted performance as a
tormented business executive in High and Low (1963). The first
internationally popular Japanese film star since Sessue Hayakawa, Mifune
was held in as high esteem by the film industry as he was by the public."
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Key
Films
Rashomon (1950), Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961), High and Low (1962),
Red Beard (1965)
Key
Directors
Akira
Kurosawa
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Thomas
Mitchell |
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Leading
& Character
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(1892-1962) Born July 11, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA |
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"Entering
films in 1934, Mitchell's first role of note was as the regenerate
embezzler in
Frank Capra's
Lost Horizon (1937). Many film fans assume that Mitchell won
his 1939 Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the
blockbuster Gone With the Wind; in fact, he won the prize for
his performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach — one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939."
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Films
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Stagecoach (1939), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), High Noon (1952)
Key
Directors
Frank Capra,
John Ford,
Henry King Links
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Robert
Mitchum |
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Leading Player |
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(1917-1997) Born August 6, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA |
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"Mitchum
generally played macho heroes and villains who lived hard and spoke
roughly, and yet there was something of the ordinary Joe in him to which
male audiences could relate. Women were drawn to his physique, his deep
resonant voice, his sexy bad boy ways, and those sad, sagging eyes,
which Mitchum claimed were caused by chronic insomnia and a boxing
injury."
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Films
Out of the Past (1947), Pursued (1947), The Lusty Men (1952),
Angel Face (1953), The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Key
Directors
Otto Preminger,
William
Wellman,
Edward Dmytryk Links
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Yves Montand |
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Leading Player |
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(1921-1991) Born October 13, Monsummano Alto, Tuscany, Italy |
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"He
was discovered in 1944 by singer Edith Piaf, the first of Montand's many
celebrity lovers. After working in Piaf's nightclub act and appearing
with her in the 1946 film Star Without Light, Montand gained
stature as a solo actor/singer, proving his dramatic mettle in
Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear
(1955)."
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Key
Films
The Wages of Fear (1952), Z (1969), The Red Circle (1970), Tout va
bien (1972), Jean de Florette (1986)
Key
Directors
Constantin Costa-Gavras,
Claude Berri,
Claude Sautet Links
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Jeanne Moreau |
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Leading Player |
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"One
of the most recognizable faces of the French cinema, and also one of its
most celebrated, Jeanne Moreau is a legend in her own right. Combining
off-kilter beauty with strong character, Moreau came to embody
forthright, devil-may-care sensuality in such films as Jules and Jim
and The Bride Wore Black. Comparing her to some of her
best-known colleagues, Ginette Vincendeau noted, "Where Brigitte Bardot
was sex and Catherine Deneuve elegance, Moreau incarnated intellectual
femininity."
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Films The Lovers (1958), Jules et Jim (1961), La Notte
(1961), Bay of Angels (1963), The Trial (1963)
Key Directors
Orson Welles,
Louis
Malle,
François
Truffaut
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1,000 Greatest Films |
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Bill
Murray |
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Leading &
Character Player |
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(1950-
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"Of
the many performers to leap into films from the springboard of
the television sketch comedy series
Saturday Night Live,
Bill Murray has been among the most successful and
unpredictable, forging an idiosyncratic career allowing him to
stretch from low-brow slapstick farce to intelligent adult
drama... In 2003 Murray essayed the role that would offer what
was perhaps his most heartfelt combination of personal drama and
touching comedy to date in director
Sofia Coppola's acclaimed indie
film Lost in Translation."
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Films Ghostbusters (1984), Quick Change
(1990), Groundhog Day (1993), Rushmore (1998), Lost in
Translation (2003),
Key Directors
Wes Anderson,
Harold Ramis,
Ivan Reitman
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Paul
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Leading Player |
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(1925-2008) Born January 26,
Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA |
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"In
a business where public scandal and bad-boy behavior are the rule rather
than the exception,
Paul Newman
is as much a hero offscreen as on. A blue-eyed matinee idol whose career
successfully spanned five decades, he was also a prominent social
activist, a major proponent of actors' creative rights, and a noted
philanthropist."
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Films The Hustler
(1961), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969), The Sting (1973), The Verdict (1982)
Key Directors
George
Roy Hill,
Martin Ritt,
John Huston
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Leading
Player |
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Neptune, New Jersey, USA |
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"With
his cheshire-cat grin, devil-may-care attitude and potent charisma,
Jack Nicholson
emerged as the most popular and celebrated actor of his generation. A
classic anti-hero, he typified the new breed of Hollywood star —
rebellious, contentious and defiantly non-conformist. A supremely
versatile talent, he uniquely defined the zeitgeist of the 1970s, a
decade which his screen presence dominated virtually from start to
finish, and remained an enduring counterculture icon for the duration of
his long and renowned career.
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Five Easy Pieces (1970), Chinatown (1974), The Passenger (1975), One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Shining (1980)
Key Directors
Bob Rafelson,
James L. Brooks,
Tim Burton
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Laurence
Olivier |
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Leading Player |
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(1907-1989) Born
May 22, Dorking, Surrey, England |
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"Laurence
Olivier — Sir Laurence
after 1947, Lord Laurence after 1970 — has been variously lauded as the
greatest Shakespearean interpreter of the 20th century, the greatest
classical actor of the era, and the greatest actor of his generation.
Although his career took a rather desperate turn toward the end when he
seemed willing to appear in almost anything, the bulk of
Olivier's 60-year
career stands as a sterling example of extraordinary craftsmanship."
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Rebecca (1940), Henry V (1945), Hamlet (1948), Richard III (1955),
Spartacus (1960) Key Directors
Himself,
William Wyler,
Guy Hamilton
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Al Pacino |
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Leading Player |
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(1940- ) Born April 25,
South Bronx, New York, USA |
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"Brooding
and intense, Al Pacino has remained one of Hollywood's premier actors
throughout his lengthy career, a popular and critical favorite whose
list of credits includes many of the finest films of his era... As
Michael Corleone (in The Godfather), the son of an infamous crime
lord reluctantly thrust into the family business, Pacino shot to
stardom, earning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his
soulful performance."
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The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day
Afternoon (1975), Scarface (1983), The Godfather Part III (1990) Key Directors
Francis Ford Coppola,
Brian De Palma,
Michael Mann
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Gregory Peck |
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Leading
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Jolla, California, USA |
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"One
of the postwar era's most successful actors, Gregory Peck was long the
moral conscience of the silver screen; almost without exception, his
performances embodied the virtues of strength, conviction, and
intelligence so highly valued by American audiences. As the studios'
iron grip on Hollywood began to loosen, he also emerged among the very
first stars to declare his creative independence, working almost solely
in movies of his own choosing."
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Duel in the Sun (1946), Roman Holiday (1953), On the Beach (1959), To
Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Omen (1976)
Key Directors
Henry King,
William Wyler,
Robert Mulligan
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Leading
& Character Player |
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December 27, Paris, France |
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"Like
Hollywood's Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Gary Cooper, Piccoli was
possessed of that rare gift of being able to adapt himself to virtually
any kind of material without altering his essential screen persona. And
like those aforementioned actors, Piccoli's talents suited the
prerequisites of a wide variety of directors."
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Contempt (1963), Belle de jour (1967), Passion (1982), Mauvais
Sang (1986), La Belle noiseuse (1991)
Key Directors
Luis Buñuel,
Marco Ferreri,
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Vincent
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Leading
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Louis, Missouri, USA |
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"Lean,
effete, and sinister, Vincent Price was among the movies' greatest
villains as well as one of the horror genre's most beloved and enduring
stars... By the 1960s, Price was working almost exclusively in the
horror genre. For producer
Roger Corman,
he starred in a series of cult classic adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe
stories including 1960's The Fall of the House of Usher, 1963's
The Raven, 1964's The Masque of the Red Death, and
1968's The Conqueror Worm."
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Laura (1944), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), The Tingler (1959), The Masque
of the Red Death (1964), The Witchfinder General (1968)
Key Directors
Roger Corman,
William Castle,
John M. Stahl
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Anthony Quinn |
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April 21, Chihuahua, Mexico |
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"Earthy
and at times exuberant, Anthony Quinn was one of Hollywood's more
colorful personalities. Though he played many important roles over the
course of his 60-year career, Quinn's signature character was Zorba, a
zesty Greek peasant who teaches a stuffy British writer to find joy in
the subtle intricacies of everyday life in Zorba the Greek
(1964), which Quinn also produced."
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Key Films The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), La Strada (1954), Lawrence of Arabia
(1962), Zorba the Greek (1964), A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) Key Directors
Raoul Walsh,
William Wellman
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Robert
Redford |
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Leading Player |
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(1937- ) Born August 18,
Santa Monica, California, USA |
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"The
rugged, dashingly handsome
Robert Redford
was among the biggest movie stars of the 1970s. While an increasingly
rare onscreen presence in subsequent years, he remained a powerful
motion-picture industry force as an Academy Award-winning director as
well as a highly visible champion of American independent filmmaking."
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Jeremiah
Johnson (1972), All the President's Men (1976), The Natural (1984), Out of Africa (1985)
Key Directors
Sydney Pollack,
George
Roy Hill,
Michael Ritchie
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December 19, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England |
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"Sir
Ralph Richardson was one of the most esteemed British actors of the 20th
century and one of his country's most celebrated eccentrics. Well into
old age, he continued to enthrall audiences with his extraordinary
acting skills — and to irritate neighbors with his noisy motorbike
outings, sometimes with a parrot on his shoulder."
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Four Feathers (1939), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Heiress (1949), Outcast of the
Islands (1951), O Lucky Man! (1973)
Key Directors
Carol Reed,
David
Lean
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Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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"It
was his failure as a playwright that led Robert Ryan to a three-decade
career as an actor. He was a unique presence on both the stage and
screen, and in the Hollywood community, where he was that rarity: a
two-fisted liberal. In many ways, at the end of the 1940s, Ryan was the
liberals' answer to John Wayne, and he even managed to work alongside
the right-wing icon in Flying Leathernecks (1951)."
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The
Woman on the Beach (1947), The Set-Up (1949), On Dangerous Ground (1951), The Naked Spur
(1953), The Wild Bunch (1969) Key Directors
Anthony Mann,
Nicholas Ray,
Robert Wise
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Chishu
Ryu |
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Leading
& Character Player |
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(1904-1993) May
13, Kumamoto, Japan |
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"Chishu
Ryu was Ozu's
lifelong friend and the most regular member of the stock company of
actors he drew together. He is in
Ozu's earliest surviving film (his
eighth) Wakaki hi (1929), played his first major role in Daigaku yoitoko
(1936), and is in all the last 17 (and the star of
many) of the director's films. Just how consistent his contributions
were in between is somewhat difficult to determine, as many of the films
are lost or inaccessible."
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There Was a Father (1942),
Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1951), Tokyo Story (1953), An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Key Directors
Yasujiro
Ozu,
Akira Kurosawa,
Keisuke
Kinoshita
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George
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Character Player |
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(1906-1972) Born
July 3, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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"Throughout
much of his screen career, actor George Sanders was the very
personification of cynicism, an elegantly dissolute figure whose
distinct brand of anomie distinguished dozens of films during a career
spanning nearly four decades... With his portrayal of the world-weary
Lord Henry Wooten in 1945's The Portrait of Dorian Gray,
Sanders essayed the first of the rakish, cynical performances which
would typify the balance of his career."
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Rebecca (1940), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), All About Eve (1950),
Voyage in Italy (1953), Moonfleet (1955)
Key
Directors
Fritz Lang,
Joseph L. Mankiewicz,
Alfred Hitchcock
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Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan |
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"Whenever
asked to name his favorite actors, Japanese filmmaker
Akira Kurosawa
would cite, with reservations, the unpredictable Toshiro Mifune—then
would lavish unqualified praise upon Takashi Shimura. After a long stage
career, Shimura made his first film in 1935. Eight years later, he
worked for
Kurosawa
for the first time in Sanshiro Sugata (1943), going on to
appear in virtually all of the director's films until 1965."
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Stray Dog (1949), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952), The Seven Samurai
(1954), Throne of Blood (1957) Key Directors
Akira Kurosawa
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Leading Player |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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"Swiss-born
actor Michel Simon was one of the most popular and beloved actors of the
French cinema... His screen performances of the 1930s remain fresh and
alive even after six decades, largely due to Simon's sudden spurts of
improvisation;
Jean Renoir,
who directed Simon in La Chienne (1931) and Boudu Saved
From Drowning (1932), has credited the actor with introducing the "improv"
technique to French filmmaking."
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), La Chienne (1931), Boudu Saved from
Drowning (1932), L'Atalante (1934), Port of Shadows (1938)
Key Directors
Sacha Guitry,
Jean Renoir,
Marcel Carné
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Character Player |
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Irvine, Kentucky, USA |
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"A
perpetually haggard character actor with hound-dog eyes and the rare
ability to alternate between menace and earnest at a moment's notice,
Harry Dean Stanton has proven one of the most enduring and endearing
actors of his generation. From his early days riding the range in Gunsmoke and
Rawhide to a poignant turn in
David Lynch's
uncharacteristically sentimental drama The Straight Story,
Stanton can always be counted on to turn in a memorable performance no
matter how small the role."
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Alien (1979), Paris, Texas (1984), Repo Man (1984), The Last
Temptation of Christ (1988), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(1992) Key Directors
David Lynch,
Monte Hellman,
John Milius
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Leading Player |
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(1907-1990) Born July 16,
Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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"n
an industry of prima donnas, actress Barbara Stanwyck was universally
recognized as a consummate professional; a supremely versatile
performer, her strong screen presence established her as a favorite of
directors, including
Cecil B. De Mille,
Fritz Lang,
and Frank Capra...
In 1944, she delivered perhaps her most
stunning performance in Billy Wilder's
classic noir
Double Indemnity."
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Key Films
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), Stella Dallas (1937), The
Lady Eve (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), There's Always
Tomorrow (1956)
Key Directors
Frank Capra
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Leading Player |
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(1908-1997) Born May 20,
Indiana Pennsylvania, USA |
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"James
Stewart was the movies' quintessential Everyman, a uniquely all-American
performer who parlayed his easygoing persona into one of the most
successful and enduring careers in film history. On paper, he was
anything but the typical Hollywood star: Gawky and tentative, with a
pronounced stammer and a folksy "aw-shucks" charm, he lacked the dashing
sophistication and swashbuckling heroism endemic among the other major
actors of the era. Yet it's precisely the absence of affectation which
made Stewart so popular."
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Rear
Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Key Directors
Anthony
Mann,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Frank
Capra
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Meryl Streep |
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Leading
Player |
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(1949- ) Born June 22,
Summit, New Jersey, USA |
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"Sydney
Pollack — one of Meryl
Streep's collaborators time and again — once proclaimed her the most
gifted film actress of the late 20th century. Most insiders would concur
with this assessment. To avid moviegoers, she represents the essence of
onscreen dramatic art, and classifying her as a contemporary
reincarnation of Eleonora Duse or Sarah Bernhardt would not overstate
the case."
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Key Films
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of
Africa (1985), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Adaptation (2002)
Key Directors
Mike Nichols
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Donald
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Leading
& Character Player |
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"Certainly
one of the most distinctive looking men ever to be granted the title of
movie star, Donald Sutherland is an actor defined as much by his almost
caricature-like features as his considerable talent. Tall, lanky and
bearing perhaps the most enjoyably sinister face this side of Vincent
Price, Sutherland made a name for himself in some of the most
influential films of the 1970s and early '80s."
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Key Films
M*A*S*H (1970),
Don't Look Now (1973), Fellini's Casanova
(1976), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980)
Key Directors
John Landis
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Leading Player |
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(1900-1967) Born April 5,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
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"Universally
regarded among the screen's greatest actors, Spencer Tracy was a most
unlikely leading man. Stocky, craggy-faced, and gruff, he could never be
considered a matinee idol, yet few stars enjoyed greater or more
consistent success. An uncommonly versatile performer, his consistently
honest and effortless performances made him a favorite of both audiences
and critics throughout a career spanning well over three decades."
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Key Films
Man's Castle (1933), Fury (1936), Captains Courageous (1937),
Adam's Rib (1949), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Key Directors
Stanley Kramer,
Victor Fleming,
George Cukor
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1,000 Greatest Films |
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Max
von Sydow |
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Leading & Character Player |
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(1929- ) Born
April 10, Lund, Skåne, Sweden |
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"Standing
over six feet-four inches tall, the bony Swedish actor Max von Sydow
spent much of his acting career portraying stern, oppressive
characters... After starring in The Seventh Seal, von Sydow
went on to star in more than a dozen films with
Bergman, including
Wild Strawberries, Virgin Spring, Through a Glass
Darkly, and Winter Light."
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Key Films
The Seventh Seal (1957), The Virgin Spring (1959), Winter Light (1962), Hour of the Wolf (1968),
The Exorcist (1973) Key Directors
Ingmar Bergman,
Jan
Troell,
John Huston
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● Appears in 8 of the
1,000 Greatest Films |
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● Appears in 2 of the
21st Century's Most
Acclaimed Films |
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Christopher Walken |
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Leading &
Character Player |
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(1943- ) Born March 31,
Queens, New York, USA |
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"A
versatile character actor whose intense demeanor and slightly off-kilter
delivery served him well in both comedies and dramas, Christopher Walken
was at once one of the busiest and most respected actors of his
generation, appearing in as many as five films in a year while still
finding time for stage and occasional television work."
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Key Films
The Deer Hunter (1978), Heaven's Gate (1980), King
of New York (1989), The Addiction (1994), New Rose Hotel (1998)
Key Directors
Abel Ferrara,
Michael Cimino,
Tim Burton
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● Appears in 4 of the
1,000 Greatest Films |
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John
Wayne |
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Leading Player |
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(1907-1979) Born May 26,
Winterset, Iowa, USA |
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"Arguably
the most popular — and certainly the busiest — movie leading man in
Hollywood history, John Wayne entered the film business while working as
a laborer on the Fox lot during summer vacations from U.S.C., which he
attended on a football scholarship. He met and was befriended by
John Ford,
a young director who was beginning to make a name for himself in action
films, comedies, and dramas."
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Key Films
Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948), The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers
(1956), Rio Bravo (1959)
Key Directors
John Ford,
Howard
Hawks,
Henry Hathaway
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● Appears in 12 of the
1,000 Greatest Films |
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Orson
Welles |
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Leading Player |
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(1915-1985) Born May 6,
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA |
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"The
most well-known filmmaker to the public this side of
Alfred Hitchcock,
Orson Welles
was the classic example of the genius that burns bright early in life
only to flicker and fade later. The prodigy son of an inventor and a
musician,
Welles
was well-versed in literature at an early age — particularly Shakespeare
— and, through the unusual circumstances of his life (both of his
parents died by the time he was 12, leaving him with an inheritance and
not many family obligations), he found himself free to indulge his
numerous interests."
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Key Films
Citizen Kane (1941), The Lady from Shanghai
(1948), The Third Man (1949), Othello (1952), Chimes at Midnight (1966)
Key Directors
Himself,
John Huston
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● Appears in
9 of the
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Shelley Winters |
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Leading &
Character Player |
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(1920-2006) Born
August 18,
St. Louis, Illinois, USA |
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"The
breakthrough came with her role as a "good time girl" murdered
by insane stage star Ronald Colman in
A Double Life
(1947). Her roles became increasingly more prominent during her
years at Universal-International, as did her offstage abrasive
attitude; the normally mild-mannered James Stewart, Winters'
co-star in Winchester '73
(1950), said after filming that the actress should have been
spanked."
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Key Films
Winchester '73 (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), The Night of
the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), The Tenant (1976)
Key Directors
George Stevens,
Robert Wise,
George Cukor
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● Appears in
6 of the
1,000 Greatest Films |
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Top 5 Gallery
Targets by Decade...
1910s:
Lillian Gish, Robert Harron,
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Kate
Bruce.
1920s:
Buster Keaton,
Emil Jannings, Rudolf Klein-Rogge,
Charles Chaplin, Georg John.
1930s:
Marlene Dietrich, Edward Everett Horton, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Lionel
Barrymore.
1940s:
Humphrey Bogart, Ward Bond, George Sanders, Dana Andrews, Joseph Cotten.
1950s:
James
Stewart, Kirk Douglas, William Holden, Rock Hudson, James Mason.
1960s:
Jeanne
Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marcello
Mastroianni.
1970s:
Donald
Sutherland, Clint
Eastwood, Ned Beatty,
Jack Nicholson, Fernando Rey.
1980s:
Robert
De Niro, Harrison Ford, M. Emmet Walsh, Mickey Rourke, Gerard Depardieu.
1990s:
Steve Buscemi,
Harvey Keitel, Al Pacino, Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Leung.
2000s:
Matt
Damon, Christian Bale, Brian Cox, Cate Blanchett, Viggo Mortensen. |
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