X-Nico

unusual facts about Leading man


Leading man

Less frequently, the epithet has been applied to an actor who is often associated with one particular actress, for example, Errol Flynn was Olivia de Havilland's leading man in several films, Spencer Tracy had a similar association with Katharine Hepburn; used in this sense, however, the woman is usually described as the leading lady of the man.



see also

Alicia Vergel

She married Sampaguita Pictures leading man César Ramirez and had two children who are also celebrities in the Philippines: Ace Vergel (known as "the Bad Boy of the Philippines") and Beverly Vergel who is an actress, acting teacher and currently director of the ABS-CBN Center for Communication Arts, Inc. (more popularly known as WORKSHOPS@ABS-CBN).

Bessie Thomashefsky

She was the wife and stage partner of Boris Thomashefsky, the most popular Yiddish leading man of his era.

Carroll Nye

At the begin of his career he had a score of leading man roles in Hollywood opposite such silent screen stars as Anita Page and Corinne Griffith.

Daniel Kaluuya

In 2011 Kaluuya was leading man in Daniel Mulloy's Baby, which went on to win the Best Short Film Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as well as the Best Short Film Award at the British Independent Film Awards.

H.E. Fledderjohann Property

Soon after arriving, the elder Fledderjohann began laboring in the construction of the Miami and Erie Canal, and his diligency quickly led to him becoming a foreman and a leading man in the community.

John Pym

In the Short Parliament of 13 April to 4 May 1640 he made one of the speeches that led to its dissolution and "appeared to be the most leading man" according to Clarendon.

José Clímaco

He directed his wife in her film debut, and in several films afterwards which she had starred in with her leading man, the former child actor Narding Anzures.

Kyōko Kagawa

She played the love interest of Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa's favorite leading man, several times.

Lloyd Hughes

His first role as leading man was opposite Mary Pickford in Tess of the Storm Country.

Louisa Clein

At the beginning of 2010, Clein toured in the Oscar Wilde play Lord Arthur Savile's Crime as Sybil Merton with Lee Mead as her leading man, Lord Arthur.

Mark Cheng

Cinema City attempted to make Cheng a leading man in the mid-1980s.

Marumi Shiraishi

In 1978, Shiraishi auditioned for the part of leading man Hiromi Go's sweetheart on the TBS TV drama, Mū ichozoku and debuted as the girl in "Izakaya Hiromi."

Mike Zaher

Zaher has also dabbled in acting, featuring as the leading man in JoJo's music video for her 2006 single "Too Little Too Late".

Muhammad's views on Jews

Banu Qurayza were appointed Sa'd ibn Mua'dh, a leading man among the allied Aws, a tribe that converted to Islam, whom they believed would judge in their favour.

Russell Waters

Waters played the leading man in Richard Massingham's amusing instructional short subjects, among them Tell Me If It Hurts (1936), And So Work (1937), The Daily Round (1947) and What a Life! (1948).

State and Main

After the leading man's penchant for underage girls gets them banished from their New Hampshire location, the crew relocates to the small town of Waterford, Vermont, to finish shooting "The Old Mill".

Superdad

Superdad was featured in the biographical film Auto Focus, with Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) seeing his role as the leading man in this Disney film as a way to revive his career following the retirement of his hit series Hogan's Heroes.

Tep Rindaro

This first full-length feature film for cinema to be produced in Cambodia since 1975 featured Thai leading man Winai Kraibutr, and Tep Rindaro was offered role of Snake King, with his longtime acting partner Ampor Tevi as his lover.

The End of Twerk

Written by Michael Hitchcock, and directed by Wendey Stanzler, it aired on Fox in the United States on November 14, 2013, and features the return of special guest stars Ioan Gruffudd as Paolo San Pablo, the Funny Girl leading man, and Peter Facinelli as Rupert Campion, the show's director.

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday," a cocaine-shooting detective parody of Sherlock Holmes (a self-injecting cocaine addict in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 novel The Sign of Four) given to injecting himself with cocaine from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest and liberally helping himself to the contents of a hatbox-sized round container of white powder labeled "COCAINE" on his desk.

The Snake King's Child

The film was made as a co-production with investors from Thailand, and featured Thai leading man Winai Kraibutr, veteran Cambodian soap opera actress Ampor Tevi and 17-year-old debut Cambodian actress Pich Chanbormey.

Vincent Coleman

Coleman was eventually groomed by the studios to become a leading man and had starring roles in the 1921 George Fawcett directed remake of the 1914 Mary Pickford comedy film Such A Little Queen and The Magic Cup, released the same year before returning to Broadway in July 1921 to star in the Sam H. Harris produced play