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2 unusual facts about The Actor


Gleneagle Secondary School

Notable productions of the past include: The Grapes of Wrath (play), Parfumerie (play), The Actor's Nightmare (play), The Wizard Of Oz, Seussical (musical), Thoroughly Modern Millie as well as a number of student-written and director-written/adapted plays.

The Actor's Nightmare

When he is confronted by the stage manager, Meg, it becomes apparent that he is the understudy for an actor named Edwin (Edwin Booth) and as "Eddie" apparently broke both his legs, the man must perform in his stead.


George Spelvin

The one-act play The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang features a main character named George Spelvin, and the January 27, 1942, episode of Fibber McGee and Molly ("The Blizzard") features a visit by a stranger calling himself George Spelvin (played by Frank Nelson).

Iain Morris

Other writing credits include two episodes of HBO's Flight of the Conchords; Season One episode "The Actor" and Season Two episode "Unnatural Love".

Lincoln Theatre Guild

Recent shows include "Alice in Wonderland" and "Dearly Departed" in 2007 and The Actor's Nightmare, Li'l Abner, and And Then There Were None in 2008.

Omid Nooshin

In the late 1990s, Nooshin travelled to New York and spent much of his time at famed method acting institute The Actor’s Studio, watching luminaries such as Arthur Penn take drama classes.

Ruth Sobotka

After her resignation from the New York City Ballet in 1961, Sobotka choreographed for the American Shakespeare Festival in Stamford, Connecticut and studied acting under Herbert Berghof, Uta Hagen and later Lee Strasberg at The Actor's Studio.


see also

Alejo

The actor Diego Ruiz took part in the documentary film Algo habrán hecho por la historia de Chile, playing Alejo.

Andrei Kivinov

This series achieved very high ratings, with one episode featuring the actor Gérard Depardieu.

Arjunan Kadhali

The actor, who was filming for Vaamanan, Aval Peyar Thamizharasi, Adhe Neram Adhe Idam and Arjunan Kadhali at the time, revealed that only Vaamanan would do well and the rest would become financial failures.

Austin Ambassador

A fleet of red Austin Ambassadors was shown on a production line in a 1982 Not the Nine O'Clock News skit – all the actor employees on the line, including Rowan Atkinson, were known as Bob.

Bardney

Funded by Lord Harlech and the actor Stanley Baker (amongst others) it attracted 30,000 people to the venue, held at the nearby Tupholme Abbey ruins.

Billy Van Zandt

Van Zandt is the co-author and star of the Off-Broadway plays You've Got Hate Mail, Silent Laughter, Drop Dead!, and 20 other theatrical plays written with Jane Milmore, including A Night at the Nutcracker, Wrong Window, and summer stock perennial Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. He also wrote The Property Known as Garland for wife Adrienne Barbeau, which ran Off-Broadway at the Actor's Playhouse in 2006.

Brace Beemer

Beemer also appeared as the Ranger in public appearances because station owner George Trendle felt that Earle Graser, the actor who played the part on the radio, did not look right for the part.

Caterina Scorsone

He mentioned her to Shonda Rhimes and commented on the resemblance Scorsone had to Patrick Dempsey (the actor who plays Derek Shepherd).

Charizard

Shin-ichiro Miki, the actor who voices James in the original Japanese version of the Pokémon anime, voices Charizard in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the cartoon.

Charles Kean

Charles John Kean (18 January 1811 - 22 January 1868), was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of the actor Edmund Kean.

Eddie St. James

In 1995 Eddie worked concurrently on the second Jon Dunmore CD entitled Baptized by fire (Seagul/Semaphore records-1995), while also at the same time contributing guitar and backing vocals for the actor Richard Grieco (actor: 21 Jump Street, A Night at the Roxbury etc.) CD- Waiting for the sky to fall (Edel records-1995).

Elizabeth Barry

The actor Thomas Betterton said that her acting gave "success to plays that would disgust the most patient reader", and the critic and playwright John Dennis described her as "that incomparable Actress changing like Nature which she represents, from Passion to Passion, from Extream to Extream, with piercing Force and with easy Grace".

Emma de Caunes

De Caunes was born in Paris, the daughter of the actor and director Antoine de Caunes and the director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer.

Estela Renner

For television, she directed and wrote 12 episodes for the sitcom Mano a Mano, starring the actor Leandro Firmino.

Everett McGill

The actor is most widely recognized for his work with director David Lynch.

Fort Wool

Fort Wool even has an association with the actor Sir Alec Guinness, who was grounded in a minefield off the fort in World War II.

Fred Mertz

The Fred Mertz character, the actor who portrayed him (William Frawley), and some of their costumes are memorialized in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York (Lucille Ball's real-life hometown).

Gaylen Ross

Ross's documentaries include: Listen To Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman, a biography of the actor and Broadway performer, Not Just Las Vegas, about the rise of nation-wide gambling in the USA, To Russia For Love (GR Films), about the Russian Mail-order bride business, and a forthcoming book, on a specific terrible incident, involving this same "Russian Bride Business".

Geoffrey Burridge

He died in London from an AIDS-related illness in 1987, leaving behind a boyfriend, the actor Alec McCowen, who refused to appear on This Is Your Life unless the relationship was acknowledged.

Harry Rushakoff

He worked with Jim Belushi when the actor used 4xy to record some demos and play live dates.

Hüon und Amande

It was published in "Flensburg, Schleswig and Leipzig" in 1789 (the same year as Seyler's death), and was dedicated to the actor Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, a long-time friend and collaborator of Seyler and her husband Abel Seyler, the founder of the Seyler theatrical company (see also Seyler family).

Inland Waterways Association

The Association is governed by a Board of Trustees; among its members are the actor David Suchet and Sheila Suchet.

James Hewitt

Julie Cox and Christopher Villiers were the actress and the actor who played Diana, Princess of Wales and Hewitt respectively.

Jessops

The relaunch of the Oxford Street store in London received considerable media interest and was attended by celebrities including the actor James Corden.

John Till Allingham

George Henry Harlow painted a portrait of the actor as Mr. Wiggins in the farce of Mrs.

Jonathan Ashmore

His father was the actor Peter Ashmore and his mother was the actress Rosalie Crutchley.

Jonny Logan

The title character was inspired in his traits by the actor and comedian Lando Buzzanca, at the time at the peak of his popularity.

Juhan Viiding

It is not known whether Viiding intended to develop a second poetic voice in addition to that of Jüri Üdi, or that he simply realized that the Soviet era of ideological symbols—as described in his "Jüri’s Yarn"—was coming to an end and the actor Jüri Üdi could drop the mask to reveal Juhan Viiding’s true literary face.

Jurek Becker

After completing his national service in the East German army in the 1950s, during which time he became firm friends with the actor Manfred Krug, Becker studied philosophy in East Berlin but was expelled for expressing non-conformist views.

Kidnapping of Rajkumar

Kannada film actor Rajkumar was kidnapped by forest brigand Veerappan on July 30, 2000 during the course of an armed attack on a farmhouse belonging to the actor in Gajanur, Tamil Nadu, India.

La Fattoria 3

Barbara D'Urso confirmed to run, now an expert presenter of reality, while on location in Morocco has sent the actor Francesco Salvi.

Marianne Ackerman

The company also staged The Echo Project, a play developed by Robert Lepage from Ann Diamond's book of poetry, A Nun's Story and Ackerman worked with Lepage on Alienouidet, a play about the actor Edmund Kean in Canada.

Nicholas Dante

The actor who originated the role with the famous monologue, Sammy Williams, won a Best Featured Actor in a Musical award in 1976 for the role.

Paul Khanna

Director David Yates subsequently confirmed that the actor's new and powerful performance was the deciding factor in casting him.

Paulton, Illinois

Today the interior streets of the community are named McCartney (for the singer), Simon (for both the singer and the senator), Saint (for the early Christian Apostle), Pope (for the many Catholic leaders so named), Revere (for the patriot) and Newman (for the actor).

Poitier Meets Plato

The actor Sidney Poitier recites excerpts from Plato's works over music composed and conducted by Fred Katz.

Ray Bellew

He was in CBC Toronto's production of Macbeth with Sean Connery, before the actor was to star in his first James Bond film.

Rhondda Gillespie

With the actor Michael Gough she also gave the first complete performance in London of Liszt's dramatic recitations.

Rodney Sheppard

Rodney's admiration for the actor, and the entire Kung Fu genre, can be seen in his role in the video for Sugar Ray's "When It's Over" where he attempts karate with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro

Born and lived in the neighborhood some personalities of the country at different times as the actor André Villon, Senator Júlio Cesário de Melo, Senator Otacílio Câmara de Carvalho, the football player Thiago Silva, MMA fighter's Marcos Oliveira.

Sven Erixson

Son of Alfred and Mathilda Eriksson, he was married to Ingeborg Erixson with whom he had two children; a son, the artist Sverre Erixson (born 1932) and a daughter, the actor Irma Erixson (born 1937).

The Mysteries

The actor and musician John Tams and his Home Service band provided the folk music accompaniment and a selection of tracks from it was published on CD.

The Penultimate Truth

The story begins in one of the tanks, named Tom Mix (named after the actor Tom Mix).

The Stainless Steel Rat

Ezquerra drew Jim with an appearance modelled on the actor James Coburn.

Victorian Military Society

The Marquis of Anglesey, the distinguished historian of the British Cavalry, became the Society’s president and the late Stanley Baker, the actor and producer of the film Zulu, became the Society’s first vice-president.

Walter Wolf

The actor and vintage car collector L. Christian Mixon worked as a sales manager for this company briefly in 1993.

Wendover

The eminent physician Sir Thomas Barlow, who attended Queen Victoria on her deathbed, owned Boswells (a large country house to the South of Wendover) until his death in 1945 and the actor John Junkin lived in Wendover until his death in 2006.

Whitworth Gardens

Humphry had come up with the idea of a statue after seeing Hugh Whitemore's play Breaking the Code starring the actor Sir Derek Jacobi, and Jacobi became the patron of the fund.

Wilfred Thesiger

Viscount Chelmsford, future Viceroy of India was an uncle, and the actor Ernest Thesiger was a cousin.

William Macready

In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.