Originally a construction worker, Welling was discovered in 1998 at a party in Nantucket by iconic casting director Jennifer Starr who was there finding fresh faces for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign and suggested he try modeling. Welling modeled for Louisa Modeling Agency until 2000, when he relocated to Los Angeles. There he modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Calvin Klein while pursuing an acting career. In 2000, Welling appeared in Angela Via's music video "Picture Perfect" where he played Vía's love interest. Welling has said that he did not like modeling and that he was not good at it because it was all on the outside or from an external point of view.
Early career
Tom Welling
Tom Welling | Early career
Modeling for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign. Welling was discovered in 1998 at a party in Nantucket by iconic casting director Jennifer Starr. Welling was cast in the WB superhero drama "Smallville" after a nationwide search for an actor to play Clark Kent. He was discovered in 1998 at a party in Nantucket by iconic casting director Jennifer Starr who was there finding fresh faces for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign and suggested he try modeling.
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Season 4
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who played the above mentioned characters?
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Tom Welling and Erica Durance, respectively.
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what features were given to the second mentioned character, when designing the character?
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She has "sophisticated, worldly experience", considered to be more of an adult than the rest of the cast, has a lot of "nervous energy" from trying to "find herself".
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how did the first mentioned actor, debut in the entertainment industry?
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Although not a noteworthy actress, Clara Peller might be noted for having an even later start in entertainment, in her eighties. Richard Farnsworth became an actor after forty years as a stunt man, although he had had a few small uncredited roles when younger. Ellen Albertini Dow obtained her first screen credit when she was sixty-eight. Rodney Dangerfield was an actor/comedian who did not really start until he was forty-two. He had done clubs when he was younger, but stopped in order to work as a salesman. Zelda Rubinstein was forty-eight before she had her first role, a minor part in "Under the Rainbow", but is more known for her "debut" in the "Poltergeist" film series starting the following year.
Late bloomer | Acting
Initially an actor, he briefly worked as a stage manager on Orson Welles' touring production of "Othello", but refused to work on Welles' next production and found the theatre of the time unenthusing. In a career change of sorts, he joined ATV as a floor manager and, subsequently became a television director from 1957, on "Emergency Ward 10", a new ITV series.
Christopher Morahan | Early life and career
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee with the Professional Theatre Training Program's first class in 1981, Tom Hewitt worked with such regional powerhouses as Minneapolis's Guthrie Theatre, the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and the Berkshire Theatre Festival in New England before heading to New York and the commercial stage.
Tom Hewitt (actor) | Early life and career
He left school before his A-levels because he "couldn't stand the idea of that" and thought he "wouldn't survive it". As soon as he left school at 17, he wrote to an acting agency and got the first role he ever auditioned for. He attended dance school before being accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London when he was 18.
Tom Burke (actor) | Early life
He continued on to Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, where he earned a double first in Classics. During his second term at Cambridge, he was seen in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" by talent agent Lorraine Hamilton of Hamilton Hodell. He proceeded to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 2005.
Tom Hiddleston | Early life
He studied scriptwriting with Paddy Chayefsky, directing with Martin Ritt, and acting with Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio in New York.
Tim Burstall | Early career
He pursued acting because he wanted to express a range of emotions, but Welling still models occasionally and appeared in the May 2008 issue of "Vogue", the so-called "Superhero Issue". In his first major acting role, Welling played karate teacher Rob "Karate Rob" Meltzer, a younger love interest of Amy Gray (Amy Brenneman) in the second season of the CBS legal drama "Judging Amy", which aired in 2001. Welling was originally signed for three episodes; after receiving enthusiastic fan reviews, the producers kept him for three more. Welling also had a small role in the UPN science fiction sitcom "Special Unit 2", and he appeared in the pilot episode of the FOX sitcom "Undeclared".
Tom Welling | Early career
It was common for many actors to not get their big 'break' into the film industry until their late twenties or well into their thirties. Meryl Streep did not graduate Yale School of Drama until the age of twenty-seven. The actor Alan Rickman did not begin his career until he was twenty-eight, having operated a graphic-design company before then. He did not get his first real break into theatre until he was in his forties. Danny Aiello did not start acting until he was forty. Peg Phillips might be one of the best examples as she first pursued acting as a professional after her retirement from accounting; she started acting professionally in her late sixties.
Late bloomer | Acting
Ewell was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Martine (née Yewell) and Samuel William Tompkins. His family expected him to follow in their footsteps as lawyers or whiskey and tobacco dealers, but Ewell decided to pursue acting instead. He began acting in summer stock in 1928 with Don Ameche before moving to New York City in 1931. He enrolled in the Actors Studio. He made his Broadway debut in 1934 and his film debut in 1940, and for several years, he played comic supporting roles. His acting career was interrupted during World War II when he served in the United States Navy.
Tom Ewell | Early life and career
Morahan was born in London in 1929, the son of film production designer Tom Morahan and Nancy (née Barker), his wife. His mother was an artist. He was educated at Highgate School followed by his national service. Originally thinking about a career as an architect, he realised it would be some years before he could earn a living and thus settled on working in the film industry. The director Thorold Dickinson advised him to learn about acting and the theatrical repertoire instead. He trained for the stage at the Old Vic Theatre School from 1947 with actor/director Michel Saint-Denis, designer Margaret Harris, and director George Devine.
Christopher Morahan | Early life and career
Thomas Edward Hopper was born on 28 January 1985 in Coalville, Leicestershire. He attended Ashby School, where he first developed an interest in acting. He enrolled in a drama class and appeared in a production of the musical "Return to the Forbidden Planet". He studied acting at Rose Bruford College.
Tom Hopper | Early life
Originally a construction worker, Welling was discovered in 1998 at a party in Nantucket by iconic casting director Jennifer Starr who was there finding fresh faces for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign and suggested he try modeling. Welling modeled for Louisa Modeling Agency until 2000, when he relocated to Los Angeles. There he modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Calvin Klein while pursuing an acting career. In 2000, Welling appeared in Angela Via's music video "Picture Perfect" where he played Vía's love interest. Welling has said that he did not like modeling and that he was not good at it because it was all on the outside or from an external point of view.
Tom Welling | Early career
Tomblin was born in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. He began working in film as a runner at the age of 14. He worked on numerous productions, and (with an interruption for National Service in the Royal Marines), became a First Assistant Director in 1954. As well as films, he worked on a number of British-made TV series, including "William Tell", "One Step Beyond", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel", "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents" and "The Invisible Man".
David Tomblin | Early life and career
Tom Harper was born in 1977. He attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.
Tom Harper (actor) | Early life and education
Before his break in television, his first theatre appearances were in variety, where he appeared in venues throughout the country.
Des O'Connor | Early life
"But really I got started in acting because others helped me push into it. When I was a kid, it was other actors getting me to do it. Then I had a series of teachers who told me I was going to do it. John Houseman got me under his wing, and I went along with it happily."
David Schramm (actor) | Early life and education
But once he saw his first screenplay produced – he devoted his undivided attention to writing. Since then his writing has attracted a diverse array of well-known actors, including Kevin Bacon, Ben Foster, Michael Caine, Michael Shannon, Chris Rock, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Plummer, Til Schweiger, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Goode, Roy Scheider, Djimon Hounsou, Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Dolph Lundgren, John Lithgow, Tom Berenger, Peter Weller, Sylvester Stallone and Nick Nolte.
Kevin Bernhardt | Career
He first worked in TV production as a writer, producer and director.
Scott Ciencin | Biography
The film, produced on a modest budget of $450,000, largely featured unknown actors, with the exception of Richard Rober, Tom Powers, and Barry Kelly. This was the first leading role for Rober, a former stage actor who came to Hollywood in 1947 and appeared in a succession of B-movies and film noir-type films. "The Well" was also the only leading role for actress Maidie Norman, who played the little girl's mother.
The Well (1951 film) | Casting
He also worked as a bodyguard for businessman Howard Hughes, as well as a ranch hand, wrangler, and blacksmith. He then began shoeing horses for film and television. At the behest of his close friend and fellow actor Robert Duvall, he began acting in the 1960s as a riding extra and stunt man in Westerns. In 1979, he told the "Los Angeles Times" that the most he ever earned in a year as an actor was $20,000. He had no formal training as an actor, and his first experience in acting in front of a live audience was at the Los Angeles Actors' Theater.
Wilford Brimley | Early life
Tom Moore appeared in his first silent motion picture in 1908. He also directed 17 motion pictures in 1914 and 1915, including "The Secret Room" (1915).
Tom Moore (actor) | Introduction
He wound up penniless and resumed his butchery trade in London where he gained a new interest in freak show entertainment.
Tom Norman | Early life
Hasan made his first television appearance in a drama serial called "Kagojer Phool". In 2004, his first written screenplay for a drama serial "Boyosh Jokhon Ekush", was premiered. He debuted as a director in 2004 by directing a television drama called "Tomatei".
Rawnak Hasan | Career
Crichton started thinking about the subject of the film in 1975. He says he went to a Los Angeles computer company to find out how they could create copies in commercials without looking too ridiculous and discovered a company in Texas was already doing it, called tomography. "Looker" became an early production of The Ladd Company. It was Leigh Taylor-Young's first film in eight years. James Coburn later said "My part was pretty much on the cutting room floor. They really pissed that film away. They had Albert Finney running around in a security guard s uniform throughout the film.
Looker | Production
Among his contemporaries at Lancing was David Hare, later also a dramatist; poet Harry Guest was a teacher. From 1964, Hampton read German and French at New College, Oxford, as a Sacher Scholar. He graduated with a starred First Class Degree in 1968.
Christopher Hampton | Early life and theatrical debut
Mark got his start in the entertainment business working in the Art Department, Props and Production on features, TV and commercial projects, while training as an actor and director at the Beverly Hills Playhouse under Milton Katselas. As an actor, he has worked with Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven and Burt Reynolds in The Hollywood Sign. He has also worked in the TV shows Alias, Without A Trace, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Mark Gantt | Early career
Born in Kildare, Hickey began his career in 1963 at Deirdre O'Connell's Stanislavski Studio in Dublin where he trained in Stanislavski's system of acting. He has said that he sees his choice of profession as a "vocation", having decided to become an actor when he was five or six years old.
Tom Hickey (actor) | Early life
The series has been met with a positive response from critics upon its premiere. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 68% with an average rating of 6.3 out of 10, based on 59 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Sean Penn gives an intensely poignant performance as the driven but conflicted Tom Hagerty in "The First"s rather slow-moving first season." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 61 out of 100 based on 28 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." John Anderson of the "Wall Street Journal" wrote: "This is not a space show, or at least it won’t be till the end of the season.
The First (TV series) | Critical response
By 1901 he is listed on the Census as a Theatrical Actor.
Frank Westerton | Early career
The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Tom Welling throughout his acting career.
List of awards and nominations received by Tom Welling | Introduction
Donovan Rhynsburger. During rehearsals for that show, he made his first stage appearance—in a student production of Noël Coward's "Hands Across the Sea", directed by Jerry V. Tobias. He graduated from the university in 1953 with degrees in English and theater.
George C. Scott | Early life
His acting career began in 1945. He co-founded the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh in 1953 before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. That year he played the title role in William Gaskill's production of "Cymbeline". In 1965, he founded a company at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. He also became the director of The Scottish Theatre Company for most of its years in the 1980s. On television, he played the title role in the 1956 BBC children's series "Jesus of Nazareth". In 1983, he played the part of Lord Reith, the BBC's first Director General, in a two-part BBC production written by Roger Milner, entitled simply "Reith".
Tom Fleming (actor) | Acting career
He did his national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving from 1955 until 1957. He took up acting around 1956, joining the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Sidcup, where he met his first wife. He went on to become a professional actor in the late 1960s after the marriage broke down.
Tom Baker | Early life
Callender started in the entertainment industry as a member of Britain's National Youth Theatre and began his production career in 1974 at the Royal Court Theatre in London as stage manager working with directors such as Mike Leigh, David Hare and Sam Shepard. Later he joined Granada Television as a graduate trainee where he worked on "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" the Granada co-production with NBC starring Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner and Laurence Olivier.
Colin Callender | Early career
In 1956, he left his university studies to study film at the French national film school, IDHEC. After film school, he apprenticed under Yves Allégret, and became an assistant director for Jean Giono and René Clair. After several further positions as first assistant director, he directed his first feature film, "Compartiment Tueurs", in 1965.
Costa-Gavras | Early career
At the age of twelve Garnham appeared in the original cast of Stiles and Drewe's Honk! The Ugly Duckling, directed by Julia McKenzie, at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
Scott Garnham | Early career
Graeff was born in Ray, Arizona, to an engineer father and homemaker mother. When he was a toddler, the family relocated to Los Angeles, where a second son was born. As a teen, Graeff enrolled in the UCLA Theater Arts Program, where he studied film making and theater.
Tom Graeff | Early life
Tom Brodie (born 1978) is an English actor, who first appeared on British television screens as a young boy, and remained active into his early 20s.
Tom Brodie (actor) | Introduction
Nicholas' acting potential was discovered at the age of three by a theatre director during a performance of a play that starred Nicholas' brother. The director was impressed at Nicholas' ability to "concentrate well" and offered him a role in his next theatre production, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". Hoult began attending auditions and at the age of five was cast in the 1996 drama "Intimate Relations", his first feature-film role. He later appeared in the television programmes "Casualty", "Silent Witness", "The Bill", "Judge John Deed", and "Doctors", among others. Hoult initially treated acting as a hobby rather than a potential career option; in a March 2009 interview with "The Daily Telegraph", he said he was not "in love with it ...
Nicholas Hoult | Early career (1996–2005)
Welchman was born at Barnstaple, Devon, the son of an Army colonel. He was educated at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where he was a sporting boy, playing, as he said, "all the games", including hockey at county level. On leaving school at the age of eighteen he joined a touring musical comedy company led by Ada Reeve. When he was twenty he was spotted while playing in Christmas pantomime by the impresario Robert Courtneidge, under whose management he became a well known juvenile lead in such West End hit shows as "Tom Jones" (1907) "The Arcadians" (1909) and "Princess Caprice" (1912). In 1915 he made his first film, in the title role of "Mr.
Harry Welchman | Early life and career
He met his current manager at the age of ten when he first sought professional acting roles. Plummer eventually transferred to and attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan due to his demanding filming schedule on television shows.
Charlie Plummer | Early life
Tom Hooper was born in 1972 in London, England, the son of Meredith Jean (Rooney) and Richard Hooper. Meredith is an Australian author and academic and Richard is an English media businessman. Hooper was educated at Highgate School and Westminster School. His initial interest in drama was triggered by his English and drama teacher at Highgate, former Royal Shakespeare Company actor Roger Mortimer, who produced an annual school play. At the age of 12, Hooper read a book entitled "How to Make Film and Television" and decided he wanted to become a director. For the next year Hooper researched filmmaking from publications such as "On Camera" by Harris Watts.
Tom Hooper | Early life
After leaving Cambridge, Hytner's first "proper paid job" was as assistant to Colin Graham at English National Opera. Some of his earliest professional directing work was in opera, including at Kent Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and a production of "Rienzi" at English National Opera. His first theatre productions were at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter. He then directed a series of productions at the Leeds Playhouse, including "The Ruling Class" by Peter Barnes, an adaptation of "Tom Jones" and a musical version of "Alice in Wonderland". In 1985 he became an Associate Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, a position he retained until 1989.
Nicholas Hytner | Early career
Though many filmmakers begin directing in their late 20s or early 30s, many of the most notable directors in film history waited until their mid-to-late-30s to direct their first feature. These directors include Nicholas Ray, Alain Resnais, Edward Yang, Michael Mann, Frank Tashlin, Robert Aldrich, Satyajit Ray, Anthony Mann, Terry Gilliam, Jerry Lewis, Tsai Ming-liang, Don Siegel, Melvin Van Peebles, Gaspar Noé, Lloyd Bacon, Alexander Kluge, Mrinal Sen, Jean-Marie Straub, Ida Lupino, Sam Mendes, Alexander Payne, Ang Lee and Jacques Rivette. David Mamet directed his first feature at 40, having already found success and been awarded a Pulitzer Prize as a playwright.
Late bloomer | Filmmaking
It would be put on professionally in 1950 with the young Richard Burton in his first starring role.
Christopher Fry | Career
It was somewhat fortuitous and I happened to get the first 20 or so jobs I went for. This career was certainly not designed by me."
Samuel Johnson (actor) | Starting out
His transition from stage to film began in 1970.
Jeffrey Jones | Early career
Brady. Indeed, virtually all of the stage productions Cromwell participated in before he began his film career were produced by Brady. "The Painted Woman" (1913) marked Cromwell's first assignment as stage director. Written by Frederic Arnold Kummer, the play closed in two days. By 1914, he was acting in and co-directing productions, including "Too Many Cooks" (1914), which ran for 223 performances.
John Cromwell (director) | Early Acting Career, 1905-1912
This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release. Many film makers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of "Twelfth Night" in 1933 or his experimental short film "The Hearts of Age" in 1934. Often these early works were not intended for commercial release either by intent, such as film school projects or inability to find distribution. Subsequently, many directors learnt their trade in the medium of television as it became popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
List of directorial debuts | Introduction
He gave actors such as Patrick Stewart, Martin Jarvis, and many other household names, their first jobs. Following minor television roles between 1948 and 1965, he began to act on a regular basis during the 1970s, beginning with an appearance in a 1972 episode of "Holly". Minor roles in shows including The Nearly Man, ITV Playhouse, Flambards and Fallen Hero followed later on in the decade.
David Scase | Introduction
Born in the Pittsburgh suburb of East Liberty, Early graduated from Peabody High School and served in the U.S. Navy and Merchant Marine, before earning a bachelor of science degree in elementary education in 1971 from the University of Pittsburgh. In 1978, after a few years working in theater, he made his on-camera debut on "Dawn of the Dead". Although he had some guest spots on TV shows such as "Quincy, M.E.", "Tales from the Darkside", and "The West Wing", Early had always been known for cult classic films like "Creepshow" and "The Silence of the Lambs". Aside from acting, Early had also taught acting and worked on plays and short stories.
David Early | Life and career
Hartford-Davis was born in Ramsgate, Kent in 1923 as William Henry Davis; he changed his name on becoming a television director in 1955. His television career encompassed drama, comedy and entertainment shows. Bob, as he liked to be called, started his career as an electrician in a South London film studio, where he went on to develop his skills as a cameraman. During the fifties he made a number of short films. These were innovative with the choice of cast and script content. In the late fifties he became an agent and worked for Roy Rogers, amongst others (in England).
Robert Hartford-Davis | Filmography
York graduated from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Tom York (actor) | Early life and education
He soon switched to working behind the camera, aiming to be a director, and progressed up the line as "a messenger boy, as an assistant cutter, an assistant property man, a property man, an assistant director, second unit director and eventually...director." His first assignment as an assistant director for Bernie Durning provided him with a work ethic that he adopted for future film work. One strict rule that Durning enforced was no fraternization with screen femme fatales, which almost immediately Wellman broke, leading to a confrontation and a thrashing from the director. Despite his transgression, both men became lifelong friends, and Wellman steadily progressed to more difficult first unit assignments.
William A. Wellman | Film career
The first film he worked on was "Salette" in 1986.
David Tattersall | Career
Born in the Bronx, New York, Brecher's first professional involvement with movies came when he became an usher at a Manhattan, New York movie theater at age 19. Even as a teenager he was writing jokes, sending them to newspaper columnists Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan on postcards.
Irving Brecher | Early years
Despite favorable reviews, Bray Pictures deemed the process to be too expensive, and did not employ it again.
The Debut of Thomas Cat | Reception
Rowley started acting in his teens and spent many years in the Professional Workshops at the Independent Theatre. He was also trained at the Kennerdale Radio Acting School, which he eventually took over as principal. He studied Shakespeare with Broadway's classical actor Lawrence H. Cecil who was the first actor/director to present Shakespeare on radio in the United States in the 1930s.
Max Rowley | Early career
Welling made his directorial debut in 2006 with the "Smallville" episode "Fragile" (5.18). He also directed "Hydro" (6.10); the show's 150th episode, "Apocalypse" (7.18); "Injustice" (8.21); the second part ("Legends") of the two-hour episode "Absolute Justice" (9.11); and two episodes of "Smallville"'s final season, "Patriot" (10.09) and "Booster" (10.18).
Tom Welling | Directing
This led to him being given acting parts. Later he moved on to comedy roles.
Alf Goddard | Introduction
Stannage originally started out as an amateur actor and secondary school teacher.
James Stannage | Early life
Before becoming an actress, she worked as an editor and did motion graphics.
Noël Wells | Early life
He was cast in his first film, "Edward II", after being recommended to Derek Jarman by fellow actor Nigel Terry, with whom he had worked previously in a production of "Pericles" at the RSC.
Steven Waddington | Early life
At the Lyceum he was on 29 Aug. 1818 the first Wing in Peake's "Amateurs and Actors," the first Jenkins in "Gretna Green," and the first Sir John Freeman in "Free and Easy." In 1820, as Captain Somerville in "Capers at Canterbury," he made his first appearance at the Adelphi, where he made perhaps his greatest success on 26 November 1821 as Corinthian Tom in Moncrieff's "Tom and Jerry, or Life in London."
Benjamin Wrench | Acting career
After that 1965 debut role, he spent several years in San Francisco, acting with the American Conservatory Theater. Then, in 1968, he was asked by Hollywood director Mark Robson to audition for a movie role. His first movie appearance was in the 1969 suspense film "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting." He got good reviews, but his movie debut was overshadowed by another film that came out at the same time: "Midnight Cowboy." In August 1975 Hylands appeared onstage as Mercutio in the Los Angeles Free Shakespeare Society production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Pilgrimage Theatre in the Cahuenga Pass. He won some critical praise, both for his acting skill and for his good looks.
Scott Hylands | Career in the United States
Notable directors who did their first directorial work in this medium include Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, and Alfonso Cuarón. As commercial television advertising became more cinematic in the 1960s and 1970s, many directors early work was in this medium, including directors such as Alan Parker and Ridley Scott. With the success of MTV and the popularity of music video from the early 1980s, this gave another avenue for directors to hone their skills. Notable directors whose early work was in music videos include David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, and Spike Jonze. The following symbols indicate where a director has worked in another medium prior to directing commercially.
List of directorial debuts | Introduction
Initially a stage manager and understudy at the Whitehall Theatre for the first two years of "Reluctant Heroes", the first Whitehall farce, he subsequently spent a few years in weekly rep before returning to Brian Rix's company with his first play. "Dry Rot" (1954), which is about dishonest bookmakers, had a four-year run with 1,475 performances. Ray Cooney joined the cast in 1956 and first met the author at this time. Chapman followed this production with "Simple Spymen" (1958), which was staged 1,404 times over a three-year run.
John Chapman (screenwriter) | Early theatre career
Despite his mother throwing away the letter and telling him it would be a waste of time, he persisted. His mother relented and took the day off work and took Tom to the casting agency. Although unprepared, with only a wallet-sized photo in place of a portfolio with headshots, Tom auditioned for a number of roles including a young John F. Kennedy Jr. Eventually Tom was offered the role of a 9 to 12 year old John F. Kennedy Jr. which he accepted, going on to do the series.
Tom Krajewski | Early life
Born in New York City, Hewitt was educated there and entered Dartmouth College when he was 15, graduating in 1934. His acting debut was in a school production at age 10.
Alan Hewitt | Early years
He started out as an extra and was largely uncredited. He studied at the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, known for its left-wing political affiliation.
Harry Landers | Early life and career
He has also been involved behind the camera as an executive producer and a director. His films include "Cheaper by the Dozen" (2003), "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" (2005), "The Fog" (2005), "Draft Day" (2014) and "The Choice" (2016).
Tom Welling | Introduction
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Jeremy Boreing | Filmography
He continued his education at Guilford College in Greensboro, where he received a B.A. in Drama and studied abroad in London and Munich. At Guilford, Abrams acted in and directed a number of plays, including "Tartuffe", "Look Homeward Angel", "Endgame", "The Taming of the Shrew", "No Exit", and "Six Characters in Search of an Author".
Tom Abrams | Early life and education
Taylor started as a child actor with the Children of the Chapel in the first decade of the century. As he matured he remained in the profession, with the Lady Elizabeth's Men and Prince Charles's Men. With those companies, he developed into an important leading man.
Joseph Taylor (actor) | Early career
Television Film Short film
Thomas Jouannet | Selected filmography
My preparatory school was the Academy of Experience, and I was finished in the College of Hard Knocks! I come of a theatrical family – was born at a rehearsal on a one-night stand; so, you see, I had to be an actor – I couldn't help it.” His first appearance in a movie was in 1910 in "The Girl From Arizona". Years later, he remembered the experience: “When my first picture was finished I haunted the picture theaters, trying to see it, and when I finally did see it, oh, what a disappointment! It isn’t always pleasant to see yourself as others see you.
Crane Wilbur | Life and career
After several years in theater, including appearances on Broadway as Warner Oland, in 1912 he made his silent film debut in "Pilgrim's Progress", a film based on the John Bunyan novel. As a result of his training as a Shakespearean actor and his easy adoption of a sinister look, he was much in demand as a villain and in ethnic roles. Over the next 15 years, he appeared in more than 30 films, including a major role in "The Jazz Singer" (1927), one of the first talkies produced.
Warner Oland | Career beginnings
Fleming was born in Edinburgh and attended Daniel Stewart's College, where the performing arts centre was renamed in his honour shortly after his death.
Tom Fleming (actor) | Early life
He originally hoped to become an actor, but he reflected later: "I was fortunate to discover at a theatre school that I was so bad an actor [... that] I was reduced to an artist, and I made my peace with it.". Between 1975 and 1991, he was acting and directing in Johannesburg's Junction Avenue Theatre Company. In the 1980s, he worked on television films and series as art director.
William Kentridge | Early life and career
He was born in Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina. His father was Italian and his mother was from New England. He studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and went on to study filmmaking at New York University's Film School alongside Jim Jarmusch, Howard Brookner, Sara Driver and Spike Lee. Subsequently, he worked as an actor, then cinematographer, before making his own films.
Tom DiCillo | Early life
After Wimbledon College he attended The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. Holland first learned gymnastics during his time performing in "Billy Elliot the Musical". In his late teens, during a lull in his career, Holland briefly attended carpentry school in Cardiff, Wales.
Tom Holland (actor) | Early life
He taped his first scenes on September 4, for a first appearance on October 1.
Robert Adamson (actor) | Career
Cuarón began working on television in Mexico, first as a technician and then as a director. His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several film productions including "La Gran Fiesta", "" and "Romero", and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.
Alfonso Cuarón | Early career
Welling was born in Putnam Valley, New York. His family moved frequently, making stops in Wisconsin, Delaware, and Michigan. Welling attended Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan, where he started acting in plays, but then switched to sports. Welling played baseball and soccer, but his favorite sport is basketball. Welling is one of four children, with two older sisters, Rebecca and Jamie, and a younger brother, Mark Welling, who is also an actor.
Tom Welling | Early life
The first actor-managers, such as Robert Browne, appeared in the late 16th-century, to be followed by another Robert Browne (no relation) and George Jolly in the 17th-century. In the 18th-century, actor-managers such as Colley Cibber and David Garrick gained prominence. The system of actor-management generally produced high standards of performance, as demonstrated by such 19th-century actors as William Macready, Charles Wyndham, Henry Irving, Frank Benson and Herbert Beerbohm Tree, by husband-wife teams such as Squire Bancroft and Effie Bancroft, Frank Wyatt and Violet Melnotte, William Hunter Kendal and Madge Robertson Kendal and Thomas and Priscilla German Reed, and by women stars, such as Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, Selina Dolaro, Evelyn Millard, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Thorne, Gertrude Kingston, Emily Soldene, Laura Keene and Lydia Thompson, among many others.
Actor-manager | History
He continued to use this name for the rest of his film career.
Tom Keene (actor) | Introduction
His first job in the film and television industry was as a carpenter, building sets for advertisements and pop promos. From there he worked his way up the art department in a variety of roles, finishing up as an art director working on a number of BBC dramas and the feature film "The Young Americans", before returning to study direction at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield. Upon leaving three years later, his first directing jobs were "Edith's Finger", which won the BAFTA Cymru for Best Short Film, and the ITV series "Cold Feet", in 2000, with his three episodes receiving an average of 9 million viewers.
Jon Jones (director) | Early life, education and early career
Upon graduating from England's National Film and Television School in 1990, Hewitt flew to the United States with his BAFTA award-winning short film, "The Candy Show", in hand. Once there, he called executives from major Hollywood studios and asked if he could show them his film. Soon after, he landed an agent and made his feature film directorial debut with "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". Although not as big a success as the original, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", the movie made a profit. He turned to TV next, directing the first two hours of the miniseries "Wild Palms". He directed Disney's "Tom and Huck" in 1995 which was based on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
Peter Hewitt (director) | Career
In December 2003, Welling made his feature film debut as Charlie Baker, the oldest son and second-oldest in the Baker family which had 12 children, in the family comedy "Cheaper by the Dozen" with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, which is a remake of the 1950 movie starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, based on the 1948 book about the family of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and written by two of their children. Welling talked about why he was interested in the project in an interview with Paul Fischer: "The top three reasons I decided to do this film were, one, Steve Martin, two, Steve Martin and three, Steve Martin.
Tom Welling | Film
Newell was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, the son of amateur actors. Newell was educated at St Albans School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He then attended a three-year training course at Granada Television, with the intention of entering the theatre.
Mike Newell (director) | Early life
Nolan and Thomas made their first attempt at a feature in the mid-90s with a project called "Larry Mahoney", which was scrapped and never released. During this period in his career, Nolan had little or no success getting his projects off the ground; he later recalled the "stack of rejection letters" that greeted his early forays into making films, adding "there's a very limited pool of finance in the UK. To be honest, it's a very clubby kind of place ... Never had any support whatsoever from the British film industry."
Christopher Nolan | 1970–1997: Early life and career beginnings
It was the first time that the lead actor of a film adaptation of a novel appeared on the covers of all the works written by the author.
Toma Ikuta | Career
He worked as an assistant to agent Dick Hyland, a literary agent.
Roger Corman | Early film career
Stevens was born on June 24, 1987, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The child of a writer, Diane Stevens (née Ried) and a visual artist, David Stevens, Tom was always encouraged to nurture his creativity and began playing music and writing songs at a young age. He first began acting in high school plays and received positive responses, but succumbed to nerves before his audition to theatre school and gave up acting for several years. After a period of working jobs in the service sector, including as a janitor, Stevens felt unfulfilled and turned back to acting. He was admitted to the Theatre program at Douglas College in 2007 and graduated in 2009.
Tom Stevens (actor) | Early life
Prior to his professional debut, Humphrey appeared in numerous school productions. Humphrey began his acting career in television, his first role on "Neighbours", where he appeared on four episodes. He made his film debut in the historical drama musical film "The Greatest Showman", he played Charles Stratton, a dwarf performer who is also known by his stage name of General Tom Thumb. As he was taller than the real Tom Thumb, he had to walk on his knees and his voice was digitally altered to sound deeper. In 2017, Humphrey starred in the television film "Jeremy the Dud".
Sam Humphrey | Career
Thomas E. Freston (born November 22, 1945) is an American entertainment industry executive.
Tom Freston | Introduction
He began his career as an international model. During his time as a model, John became a friend of Andy Warhol. His first feature film as an actor came with a small role in 1981's "So Fine". His well-known roles came in the 1983 comedy film "Losin' It" as Spider; later that year, he starred in the John Carpenter horror film "Christine" as Dennis Guilder, and the 1985 comedy film, "My Science Project" as Michael Harlan. Also in 1985 he appeared in the poorly received "City Limits"; though unsuccessful at the box office, the film was later riffed in an episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000".
John Stockwell (actor) | Career
It ran for less than one season.
Tom Gammill and Max Pross | Early career
Atkins began his career in stage plays both on-and-off Broadway, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. His first movie role was in "The Detective", which starred Frank Sinatra. Talking of his experience working on his first feature film – and with Sinatra – Atkins says: "It was great! It was intimidating and frightening and scary but Frank was great. He was very easy to work with. He didn't like to do a lot of takes. But then it's not like we were doing Shakespeare." After many appearances in TV series and movies, including notably as Lt.
Tom Atkins (actor) | Career
After accompanying his sister Carol to auditions, Haim was noticed and was offered roles as a child actor. He broke into acting at the age of 10, playing the role of Larry in the Canadian children's educational comedy television series "The Edison Twins", which ran from 1982 until 1986. Haim made his feature film debut in the 1984 thriller "Firstborn" as a boy whose family comes under threat from his mother's violent boyfriend, played by Peter Weller. Haim's first day of shooting was with Weller, and he attempted to compliment the older actor on his performance. Weller collared Haim, threw him up against a wall, and demanded Haim never speak to him after a take.
Corey Haim | Early acting career