From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on charges related to drugs including cocaine, heroin, and marijuana and went through drug treatment programs unsuccessfully, explaining in 1999 to a judge: "It's like I have a shotgun in my mouth, and I've got my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal." He explained his relapses by claiming to have been addicted to drugs since the age of eight, due to the fact that his father, also an addict previously, had been giving them to him. In April 1996, Downey was arrested for possession of heroin, cocaine, and an unloaded .357 Magnum handgun while he was speeding down Sunset Boulevard.
1996–2001: Career troubles
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. | 1996–2001: Career troubles
From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on charges related to drugs and went through drug treatment programs unsuccessfully, explaining in 1999 to a judge From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on charges related to drugs including cocaine, heroin, and marijuana and went through drug treatment programs unsuccessfully. From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on charges related to drugs including cocaine, heroin and marijuana. From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on charges related to drugs.
who plays bad guy in iron man 2
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Justin Hammer
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which other actors are there in this film?
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The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, and Samuel L. Jackson.
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what is the storyline?
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It is a 2010 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man.
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where is it filmed?
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The bulk of the production took place at Raleigh Studios, few scenes were filmed at Edwards Air Force Base
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where is this air force base located?
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Kern County in Edwards, California
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who is the editor of the mentioned comics series?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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is there any themed park based on this comics?
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Yes.  Marvel Super Hero Island at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, which includes rides based on their iconic characters and costumed performers, as well as The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man ride cloned from Islands of Adventure to Universal Studios Japan.
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when was this island created?
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Marvel Super Hero Island was created in 1999
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can you explain the ride you mentioned in your previous answer?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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has it received it award?
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Its  won "Amusement Today"s Golden Ticket Award for Best Dark Ride for twelve consecutive years from 1999 through to 2010.
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the japanese studio you have mentioned above; is it also a themed park?
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Yes, located in Osaka, is one of six Universal Studios theme parks, owned and operated by , which is wholly owned by NBCUniversal (as of 2017).
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what are some of its attractions?
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Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Super Nintendo World,Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey.
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what is the price of its ticket?
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Studio one day passes start at ￥7,091 (￥7,800 with tax) for adults and ￥4,910 (￥5,400 with tax) for children. Seniors (65 years or over) start at ￥6,455 (￥7,100 with tax). Studio two day passes start at ￥14,000 (￥15,400 with tax) for adults and ￥9,546 (￥10,500 with tax) for children.
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the list of actors you have mentioned above; what trouble did the first actor face?
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At the time of the 1999 arrest, all of Downey's film projects had wrapped and were close to release. He had also been hired to provide the voice of the devil on the NBC animated television series "God, the Devil and Bob", but was fired when he failed to show up for rehearsals.
Robert Downey Jr. | 1996–2001: Career troubles
He taped his first scenes on September 4, for a first appearance on October 1.
Robert Adamson (actor) | Career
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
Winkler later wrote that his first "foray into Hollywood" was "with a famous male rock singer playing a dramatic role that had been written for a woman, a controlling, hostile manager, a story that took place in Europe and would be shot in Culver City, California, and a very nice director who could hardly walk up the stairs to meet me and who'd told me he was going blind." Elvis was paid $750,000 plus 40% of the profits.
Double Trouble (1967 film) | Background
In 1995, Ginnsz made Duo, his first film. Duo won both the Martin Scorsese and the "Warner Bros. Pictures Film Awards". It was also an official entry at the 1996 "Student Academy Awards", Finalist at the 1996 Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Winner of the 1996 Wasserman Award for best cinematography and nominated for a "TASH Media Award". Stephane Ginnsz, Alexandre's 12-year-old brother and star of Duo, became the first lead actor with Down syndrome in history.
Alexandre Ginnsz | Duo
The advent of talking pictures created a need in Hollywood for performers with stage experience, and Tannen appeared in his first film in 1935, when he did an uncredited bit in "Stranded". This set him upon his 25-year career as a character man, although his work frequently went without credit.
Julius Tannen | Career
Rock Hudson was approached but was soon to undergo heart surgery and had to pass up the chance to work with Stallone. Richard Crenna was quickly hired as a replacement; the role of Trautman became the veteran character actor's most famous role, a performance for which he received much critical praise.
First Blood | Pre-production
The plays opened ten days apart and were massive failures. In his preface to "Plays of Three Decades" Ardrey writes: No author in Broadway memory had attained two such failures on a scale quite so grand on evenings quite so close together. Had they opened six months apart, none would have noticed. Coming as they did, I became a kind of upside-down white-headed boy, a figure thundering toward literary glory in reverse gear. Hollywood, incapable of resisting the colossal, bid lavishly for my services. And Samuel Goldwyn, buyer of none but the best, bought me.
Robert Ardrey | Theater and film career
The cinema industry was larger than that for office machines. While only the 14th largest by revenue, it was second in the percentage of profits that its executives received. Top stars such as Bing Crosby and Claudette Colbert were paid more than $400,000 a year ($ today).
Studio system | Reign of the majors and the first decline
"Out of all the character DAYS has written for black males, it would be this one that I get." It was "destiny" he declared. Archey auditioned opposite his co-stars, Banus and Williams, and taped his first scenes the day after he got hired. The actor was relieved that most his audition material appeared in his first scripts so memorizing came easy. "It's taken forever!" Archey said of his debut as he had been filming for nearly six months. The actor reflected on his first day: "I was shaking in my boots. I was really nervous." He continued, "Now I'm much more comfortable and much more comfortable with the character.
Eli Grant | Creation and casting
Reagan asked SAG for a strike authorization in February and the actors agreed on a work-stop date for March 7, 1960, Hollywood's first-ever industry-wide strike. Starting with Universal Pictures, studios ended up agreeing to film residuals, but only for movies made after 1960s. They would issue a one-time payout of $2.25 million for movies made between 1948 and 1960, and movies made before 1948 would not be eligible for any residuals. (Unrelated to residuals, Reagan also secured health insurance and pensions for SAG actors.) This upset older actors like Mickey Rooney, Glenn Ford and Bob Hope, who blamed Reagan and the SAG board for weak negotiating, but in April 1960 SAG voted to accept the offer and returned to work.
Residual (entertainment industry) | Television
He subsequently enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Shortly thereafter, with the help of fellow Oklahoman Lonny Chapman, Kimbrough joined Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio, an incubator for acting talent. Kimbrough gained a reputation for his ability to understand the character he was asked to play. His work with The Actor's Studio resulted in his first film role, "The Strange One", which used a cast and crew entirely of Actor's Studio personnel. An appearance in "A Face in the Crowd" followed, and Kimbrough established a working relationship with director Elia Kazan that lasted ten years.
Clint Kimbrough | American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Actors Studio
The role involved signing, and the actor had doubts about accepting since he could not sing. He eventually took the role upon the urging of his brother Victor, a visual artist.
Óscar Jaenada | Career
"The Bing Boys Are Here" ran for 378 performances and occupied the Alhambra for more than a year. The theatrical press praised Robey as "the first actor of the halls". He made two films towards the end of the war: "The Anti-frivolity League" in 1916 and "Doing His Bit" the following year.
George Robey | Film debut and "The Bing Boys Are Here"
When Robert Redford first saw "Twenty-One" in the late 1950s, he was in his early 20s taking art and acting classes in New York City, the same city Rockefeller Center, the show's studio, was located. He recalled when he first saw Charles Van Doren on the show, "Watching him and the other contestants was irresistible. The actor in me looked at the show and felt I was watching other actors. It was too much to believe, but at the same time, I never doubted the show. I hadn't had evidence television could trick us. But the merchant mentality was already taking hold, and as we know now, there's little morality there." The filmmaker described the scandal as "really the first in a series of scandals .
Quiz Show (film) | Background
Upon original release, several theater chains refused to screen the film due to its lampooning of stage and screen. This resulted in a lawsuit by United Artists and Sid Kuller Productions against the A. B. C. Theatres Company.
Actor's and Sin | Controversy
You can reach out for help in kind of a half-assed way and you'll get it and you won't take advantage of it. It's not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems ... what's hard is to decide to do it." Downey got his first post-rehabilitation acting job in August 2001, lip-syncing in the video for Elton John's single "I Want Love". Video director Sam Taylor-Wood shot 16 takes of the video and used the last one because, according to John, Downey looked completely relaxed and "The way he underplays it is fantastic". Downey was able to return to the big screen after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey since both had co-starred in "Air America", paid Downey's insurance bond for the 2003 film "The Singing Detective" (directed by his "Back to School" co-star Keith Gordon).
Robert Downey Jr. | 2001–2007: Career comeback
Filming started in February 1969. The bulk of the film was made on Boracay Island in the Philippines by the same crew and using many of the same sets as Jack Starrett's "The Losers". The opening and closing segments were filmed outside the Subic Bay Naval Base using sailors and American civilians as extras. During filming, Robertson found out he won the Best Actor Oscar for "Charly". He had not insisted contractually that he could return for the Oscar ceremony so Frank Sinatra accepted it for him. "There was no flap", he said later. "If the absence was anybody's fault it was my own.": However he did complain a year later, saying that it only would have taken two days out of the production schedule and that he had offered to pay production costs but was refused as "a matter of ego".
Too Late the Hero (film) | Shooting
Perry gave him a shave and haircut at the Fox Studios barber shop to prove him wrong. In 1985, Como related the story of his first film role experience in "Something for the Boys". He sat ready to work in his dressing room for two weeks without being called. Perry spent the next two weeks playing golf, still not missed by the studio. It was five weeks before he was actually called to the set, despite the studio's initial urgent report for work notice. When Como finally appeared, the director had no idea who he was. At the time Como was signed, movie musicals were on the wane and he became a studio contract player, where the actors or actresses worked only when the studio needed to fill out a schedule.
Perry Como | Film career
The theater later closed due to lack of audience.
J. D. Walsh (actor) | Early life
The head of Two Cities Films, part of the Rank Organisation, Giudice, "looked me up and down... [and] concluded that I was just what the industry had been looking for." He was sent to see Josef Somlo for a contract, who immediately announced that he was "much too tall to be an actor." Somlo sent him to see Rank's David Henley and Olive Dodds, who signed him on a seven-year contract. A student at Rank's "Charm School," Lee and many of the others had difficulty finding work. He finally made his film début in Terence Young's Gothic romance "Corridor of Mirrors" (1947).
Christopher Lee | 1947–1957: Career beginnings
The first movie revolves around one Bob Gratton (played by Julien Poulin, who co-wrote and co-directed the movies with Falardeau) and his passion for Elvis Presley. Gratton's life goal is to win fame as an Elvis impersonator, and he achieves it through a local TV talent show contest whose prize is a cruise to the fictional island resort of Santa Banana. After his return from Santa Banana Gratton is called on to don his Elvis costume one more time, but because he has gained weight in the interim, he has trouble fitting into it and collapses on stage during a performance, seemingly dead.
Elvis Gratton | Plot
Because of the studio attitude toward child actors of the time, Herbert had a keen interest in the child actors of today. "I lost a lot more than the financial things. Financial things are way down the list for me. The way it’s set up in Hollywood is, I did 50 TV shows, the 20 movies, the commercials, "all" of that stuff... and when I turned 21, zero had been put away in the bank for me. It was not that way for every [kid actor]: If you signed a long-term contract--for instance, if you did "Lassie" or "The Donna Reed Show" or something--they put away like 5 percent for you.
Charles Herbert | Personal life
In early 1956, Bogart was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, and he died on January 14, 1957. Steiger recalled the actor's professionalism during production, even while coping with the disease: "Bogey and I got on very well. Unlike some other stars, when they had closeups, you might have been relegated to a two-shot, or cut out altogether. Bogey didn't play those games. He was a professional and had tremendous authority. He'd come in exactly at 9am and leave at precisely 6pm. I remember once walking to lunch in between takes and seeing Bogey on the lot. I shouldn't have because his work was finished for the day.
The Harder They Fall | Production
Scorsese's first choice for talk show host Jerry Langford was Johnny Carson, in what would have been his only acting role in a film. Carson refused the role, saying "you know that one take is enough for me". The entire Rat Pack was also considered—specifically Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin—before a decision was made to select Martin's old partner, Jerry Lewis.
The King of Comedy (film) | Casting
"He's the next Robert Redford", said Evans. "It's one of the best screen tests I've ever seen." Martin was reluctant to act and said yes "because Bob assured me this was the first film in Hollywood history with this kind of money behind which would show tennis in a totally authentic and good light."
Players (1979 film) | Development
According to the DVD extras documentary, on the very first shoot of the very first day of filming, all the male lead actors, including Paul Scofield who was playing Sir Randolph Nettleby, were to come into shot on a horse-drawn shooting-brake driven by the well-known film horse-master George Mossman. However as they turned the first corner, the brake-plank that Mossman was standing on broke in two and Mossman was hurled forward and down falling between the sets of wheels, taking the reins with him. He was struck by a horse's hoof and concussed. The horses then shied and broke into a gallop.
The Shooting Party | Production
Actor Robert Stack claimed in his 1980 autobiography that Chaney and drinking buddy Broderick Crawford were known as "the monsters" around the Universal Pictures lot because of their drunken behavior that frequently resulted in bloodshed.
Lon Chaney Jr. | Personal life
At the age of 10, he was living in England and studied classical ballet as part of a larger curriculum. He attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a teenager. When his parents divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California with his father, but in 1982, he dropped out of Santa Monica High School, and moved back to New York to pursue an acting career full-time.
Robert Downey Jr. | Early life and family
"Although Peter Lorre is occasionally able to give the film a frightening pathological significance," wrote Andre Sennwald in "The New York Times" on the film's release, "this is scarcely Dostoievsky's [sic] drama of a tortured brain drifting into madness with a terrible secret." Columbia offered him a 5 year contract at $1,000 a week, but he declined.
Peter Lorre | First years in Hollywood (1935–1940)
In the 1980s Elder became disillusioned with Hollywood. Perhaps a result of his efforts to change the way black people were depicted in films and television, he was kept on the payroll by studio employers but denied work on important projects. “They decided they were going to teach me a lesson, and for two years I couldn’t get arrested,” he told the Washington Post. Elder returned to the theatre bringing "Splendid Mummer" to The American Place Theater in New York starring Charles S. Dutton, a monodrama about the 19th century life of the first African-American Shakespearean actor, Ira Frederick Aldridge.
Lonne Elder III | Last years
In 1985, he received the National Medal of Arts from Ronald Reagan, becoming the first actor to receive that honor.
José Ferrer | Introduction
Jim Carrey, The Mask
1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards | Favorite Actor in a Comedy - Theatrical
"Zero" drove Downey into films with bigger budgets and names, such as "Chances Are" (1989) with Cybill Shepherd and Ryan O'Neal, "Air America" (1990) with Mel Gibson, and "Soapdish" (1991) with Sally Field, Kevin Kline, and Whoopi Goldberg. In 1992, he starred as Charlie Chaplin in "Chaplin", a role for which he prepared extensively, learning how to play the violin as well as tennis left-handed. He had a personal coach in order to help him imitate Chaplin's posture, and a way of carrying himself. The role garnered Downey an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor at the Academy Awards 65th ceremony, losing to Al Pacino in "Scent of a Woman".
Robert Downey Jr. | 1983–1995: Beginnings and critical acclaim
Nicholson first came to Hollywood in 1954, when he was seventeen, to visit his sister. He took a job as an office worker for animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at the MGM cartoon studio. They offered him an entry-level job as an animator, but he declined, citing his desire to become an actor. While accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 56th Golden Globe Awards, he recalled that his first day as a working actor was May 5, 1955, which he considered lucky, as "5" was the jersey number of his boyhood idol, Joe DiMaggio. He trained to be an actor with a group called the Players Ring Theater, after which time he found small parts performing on the stage and in TV soap operas.
Jack Nicholson | Early work
Young appeared in over 100 films between 1931 and 1952. In spite of having a "tier B" status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Hedy Lamarr, and Helen Twelvetrees. Yet most of his assignments consisted of short B movies, also known as "programmers," which required brief two- to three-week shooting schedules. Actors who were relegated to such hectic routines appeared, as Young did, in some six to eight movies per year. As an MGM contract player, Young was obligated to accept any film assigned to him or risk being placed on suspension—and many actors who were placed on suspension were prohibited from earning a salary from any endeavor at all, even those unrelated to the film industry.
Robert Young (actor) | Film career
The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Robert Downey Jr. throughout his acting career.
List of awards and nominations received by Robert Downey Jr. | Introduction
The film was made by 20th Century Fox at the cost of $17 million and is sometimes shown on HBO. The video and DVD received limited release in New York and Los Angeles. Its domestic gross was just $5,491, making it one of the greatest flops in movie history. Po Bronson played a cameo role in the film as one of many tuba players living in the same building as the main character. The tentative title for this movie during test screenings was "The Big Idea".
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest | Production
Khan and Verma performed their own stunts, and Kapoor subsequently did so as well despite initial reluctance. However, the cast did encounter problems during production. Khan faced difficulties with his superhero suit and prosthetic makeup, and injured his left knee. The decision to cast Rampal was met with scepticism due to "questionable acting abilities," a statement Sinha criticised. In addition, Rampal encountered back problems (which were treated by the time production began), prompting speculation of a possible replacement by Vivek Oberoi. Jackie Chan had initially been approached for the role of Aakaashi, but he declined the offer. Rajnikanth suffered from health problems which caused a delay in the filming of his cameo appearance.
Ra.One | Casting
Director Lasse Hallström admitted he was initially looking for a less good-looking actor, but cast DiCaprio when he contacted Caton-Jones and he had emerged as "the most observant actor" among all who auditioned. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. "The film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio", wrote "The New York Times" critic Janet Maslin, "who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch. The performance has a sharp, desperate intensity from beginning to end." Caryn James, also writing for "The New York Times", said of his performances in "This Boy's Life" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape": "He made the raw, emotional neediness of those boys completely natural and powerful." DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was in Sam Raimi's western film "The Quick and the Dead".
Leonardo DiCaprio | 1991–1996: Career beginnings
Ice Cold 3000's sequences were the first filmed, resulting in the character's energetic performance, and Johnny Vulture's were the last, so André, exhausted from the previous takes, sat on a stool for those sequences.
Hey Ya! | Background
Rupert Frazer admitted that he was the first to jump off, landing safely, but bruised. Now out of control, the horses turned to the right when confronted by a stone wall causing the shooting-brake to roll completely, catapulting the actors into a pile of scaffolding that had been stacked next to the wall. Robert Hardy stood up and realised to his amazement that he was unhurt. He looked across to see Edward Fox stand up, "turn completely green and collapse in a heap". He had broken five ribs and his shoulder-blade. He then noticed that Paul Scofield was lying very still on the ground, "and I saw that his shin-bone was sticking out through his trousers".
The Shooting Party | Production
His large screen debut was in "Restoration", with Robert Downey Jr. in 1995.
Mark Letheren | Career
A first attempt to create a theatrical movie was done in 1993. However, the film was cancelled as actor Carry Goossens decided to work for a competing broadcasting company (vtm) and actor Walter Michiels was fired due to his alcohol abuse. Furthermore, Jacques Vermeire had his own film plans and his movie Max was to be shot and released in same period. A new scenario was written in 2008 but rejected by most of the actors.
F.C. De Kampioenen | Failed attempts for a movie
With this film, Ralph Richardson became the first actor to win the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actor who did not receive an Oscar nomination.
The Sound Barrier | Academy Awards
In early 2009 till early 2010 he starred in his first leading role for the 3rd installment of the K.O. drama franchise "K.O.3an Guo" as a modern version of Chinese historical general Guan Yu. The drama was filmed as it aired. During the beginning filming period of "K.O.3an Guo" he was involved in a traffic accident while on his way to the film set. His left leg was injured, he relied on crutches or a wheelchair to get around for 3 month, because of his injury he was not able to perform much of his martial arts stunts for the early episodes of the drama.
George Hu | 2009-2010: First leading role and music career
Kennedy opened the special with a comedy monologue, which among others, included a joke relating to the "percentages" of 2012 (the 99%, 47%, and the 8% score of his last film on Rotten Tomatoes), along with joking that because of Psy, the packaging of a fortune cookie would no longer be the only thing people think about when they hear the words "Asian rapper". The special was plagued with technical problems throughout the night: a camera shot of Kennedy lingering on-stage was shown at the beginning of an interview with Shannon Elizabeth by Stu Stone, and issues with walkie-talkies affected the level of communication between the show's crew (also leading to several occasions where Kennedy was unsure of whether the show was live).
First Night 2013 with Jamie Kennedy | Synopsis
"I started at the top. My first professional acting role was in a starring role in a Universal Studios film," he said. "I didn't even get the chance to get my feet wet. So after that film, it was sort of a downward path." After appearing in his second film, "Yellowbeard" (1983), in which he portrayed the son of Graham Chapman's character, Hewitt spent the 1980s shooting forgettable B movies and doing the occasional TV guest spot. Of the films he appeared in during the '80s included: "April Fool", later to be titled "Killer Party" (1986); "The Falling" (1987); and "Two Moon Junction" (1988).
Martin Hewitt (actor) | Later acting career
Alfred Hitchcock described his work with Montgomery Clift in "I Confess" as difficult "because you know, he was a method actor". He recalled similar problems with Paul Newman in "Torn Curtain". Lillian Gish quipped: "It's ridiculous. How would you portray death if you had to experience it first?" Charles Laughton, who worked closely for a time with Bertolt Brecht, argued that "Method actors give you a photograph", while "real actors give you an oil painting." During the filming of "Marathon Man" (1976), Laurence Olivier, who had lost patience with method acting two decades earlier while filming "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957), was said to have quipped to Dustin Hoffman, after Hoffman stayed up all night to match his character's situation, that Hoffman should "try acting...
Method acting | America
"Two-Way Stretch" displays the more roguish side to some of the characters he played in this period. He continued to act on the stage and played opposite Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in the repertory performance of "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Antony and Cleopatra" in 1951. He also appeared on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award in 1956 for his role in "The Reluctant Debutante". His first Hollywood appearance came alongside Marilyn Monroe in the film "Let's Make Love" (1960), followed by other higher profile films, including "My Fair Lady" (1964).
Wilfrid Hyde-White | Early life and career
He had to find an inner balance to overcome obstacles that went far beyond his career. That's Tony Stark." Favreau faced opposition from Marvel in casting Downey, but would not take no for an answer, saying, "It was my job as a director to show that it was the best choice creatively ... everybody knew he was talented [and] certainly by studying the Iron Man role and developing that script I realized that the character seemed to line-up with Robert in all the good and bad ways." Downey earned $500,000 for the role. While preparing for filming, Favreau and Downey were given a tour of SpaceX by Elon Musk.
Iron Man (2008 film) | Pre-production
Casting of the killer proved to be a difficult challenge. "We needed intensity and passion as well as innocence, a combination of qualities we found to be rare among the many, many young actors we interviewed," Orr revealed. A young Vietnam veteran named Randolph Roberts was sent by his agent to audition for the role of Hank Lassiter (a minor part which ultimately went to Edd Byrnes). When Ore and Bare saw him, they knew they'd found their star. "It's impossible to believe that this is Randy's first motion picture," claimed Orr. "His experience in front of a camera is very limited.
Wicked, Wicked | Casting
When I hear the word ‘youth,’ I think of Yoo Ah-in. The true main character of this movie, I think, is [not Jong-dae but] Yoo Ah-in." Noh also recalled Yoo's audition in an interview, saying, "I fell for Yoo Ah-in at first sight. Of course, he also had good looks. But he had an extremely different feel from the other actors whom I had met during casting. Yoo Ah-in was nervous when he met me. Before his identity as an actor, he possessed twenty years of his natural self as Yoo Ah-in." Yoo's role as a boy looking for a gun in order to escape from his frustrating reality earned positive reviews, and he won the Best New Actor award at the Busan Film Critics Awards.
Yoo Ah-in | 2006–2009: Film debut
Robertson began his acting career by chance when he was in the United States Army. Stationed at San Luis Obispo, California, Robertson decided to have a photograph taken for his mother; so he and several other soldiers went to Hollywood to find a photographer. A large copy of his photo was later displayed in the photographer's shop window. He found himself receiving letters from film agents who wished to represent him. After the war, Robertson's war wounds prevented him from resuming his boxing career. He stayed in California to try his hand at acting. Hollywood actor Will Rogers, Jr., gave him this advice: "Don't ever take a dramatic lesson.
Dale Robertson | Early roles
When the play moved to Los Angeles in 1976, Reeve—to Hepburn's disappointment—dropped out. They stayed in touch for years after the play's run. Reeve later regretted not staying closer and just sending messages back and forth. Reeve's first role in a Hollywood film was a very small part as a junior submarine officer in the 1978 naval disaster movie "Gray Lady Down". He then acted in the play "My Life" at the Circle Repertory Company with friend William Hurt.
Christopher Reeve | Early career
"I think he thought I was going to be an usher." After auditioning for the Actors Studio in 1955, Landau and Steve McQueen were the only applicants accepted out of 500 who applied. While there, he trained under Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and eventually became an executive director with the Studio alongside Mark Rydell and Sydney Pollack.
Martin Landau | Early life
Barish and Monash first offered the project to Carpenter in July 1985. He had read the Goldman/Weinstein script and deemed it "outrageously unreadable though it had many interesting elements". To compete with rival production "The Golden Child"’s casting of box office draw Eddie Murphy, Carpenter wanted a big star of his own and both Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson were considered but were busy. The studio felt Kurt Russell was an up-and-coming star. Russell was initially not interested because he felt there were "a number of different ways to approach Jack, but I didn't know if there was a way that would be interesting enough for this movie".
Big Trouble in Little China | Casting
He didn't know which way to turn or which way to go or do anything". Lubin suggested that he attend drama classes and arranged for Eastwood's initial contract in April 1954, at $100 per week. After signing, Eastwood was initially criticized for his stiff manner and delivering his lines through his teeth, a lifelong trademark. In May 1954, Eastwood made his first real audition for "Six Bridges to Cross" but was rejected by Joseph Pevney. After many unsuccessful auditions, he was eventually given a minor role by director Jack Arnold in "Revenge of the Creature" (1955), a sequel to the recently released "Creature from the Black Lagoon".
Clint Eastwood | 1950s: Early career struggles
Wilke started as a stuntman in the 1930s and his first appearance on screen was in "San Francisco" (1936). He soon began to acquire regular character parts, mainly as a heavy, and made his mark when, along with Lee Van Cleef and Sheb Wooley, he played one of the "three men waiting at the station" in "High Noon" (1952).
Robert J. Wilke | Career
Anthony D'Alessandro of "Deadline Hollywood" stated that the under-performance was less a matter of any controversy involving the American flag and more to do with the 141 minute runtime and the film's focus on drama, although "Forbes" speculated the backlash played a factor. Michael Cieply, also of "Deadline", acknowledged that the flag controversy drew Internet criticism and that it could have hurt the film's performance at the box office. The film fell 47% in its second weekend, grossing $8.6 million and finishing fifth, and then made $4.9 million in its third week, finishing seventh.
First Man (film) | Box office
The defense argued he was the first American actor to ever be prosecuted by the federal government merely for appearing in a film, and he received considerable support from established Hollywood and New York celebrities during his trial, including Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Dreyfuss, Colleen Dewhurst, Rod McKuen, Ben Gazzara, Mike Nichols, Julie Newmar, Dick Cavett, George Plimpton, and Stephen Sondheim. Nicholson, Beatty, and Louise Fletcher were reportedly ready to testify on his behalf at his trial. His successful appeal was handled by Alan Dershowitz.. His autobiography "Here Comes Harry Reems" was published in 1975, in which he reported extensively on his first experience as an actor in adult movies.
Harry Reems | Trial and later years as an actor
In extreme cases, a single film's lackluster performance may push a studio into financial losses, bankruptcy or closure. Examples of this include: United Artists ("Heaven's Gate") and Carolco Pictures ("Cutthroat Island"). The underperformance of "The Golden Compass" was seen as a significant factor in influencing Warner Bros.'s decision to take direct control of New Line Cinema. In 2001, Square Pictures (the film division of Japanese video game company Square, now Square Enix) released its first film, "", an animated motion picture inspired by the "Final Fantasy" series of video games. It received mixed reviews from critics and failed to recover its $145 million cost.
Box-office bomb | Studios pushed into financial trouble
Favreau is credited as a screenwriter for the film The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest the premiered in 2002. In the fall of 2003, he scored his first financial success as a director of the hit comedy "Elf" starring Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, James Caan, and Peter Dinklage. Also in 2003, Favreau had a small part in "Something's Gotta Give" (a film starring Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson); Favreau played Leo, Harry Sanborn's (Nicholson) personal assistant, who visited Harry in the hospital. In 2005, Favreau directed the film adaptation of "Zathura". Favreau continued to make regular appearances in film and television.
Jon Favreau | 2001–2015: Actor–director
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Comedian and former "Mystery Science Theater 3000" host Michael J. Nelson named the film the second-worst comedy ever made.
Junior (1994 film) | Critical response
Parker, who had always dealt with Presley's film contracts and viewed the offer as a starting bid to earning more money, instead asked for a salary $1 million (US$ in dollars), 50% of the profits, plus another $100,000 (US$ in dollars) for expenses, and spoke of needing to arrange details of a soundtrack deal. First Artists, not used to such huge demands, didn't put forward a counter-offer and decided instead to offer the role, along with the original salary offer, to Kris Kristofferson who accepted. Parker later claimed that Presley had asked him to make the contract so demanding so that they would not offer him the part, although many of Presley's friends have contradicted Parker's statement because they had said Presley was furious at losing the role.
Colonel Tom Parker | 1975–1977
In 1938, he decided to try Hollywood again. His luck changed for the better when he actually began getting some bit parts in movies, but after the United States entered World War II he again served in the United States Merchant Marine. When the war was over he returned to Hollywood and eventually began getting bigger character roles.
Raymond Bailey | Success on the second try at acting
Because the producers wanted authenticity, co-stars Bacon, Slater, and Oldman spent some of their free time locked in jail cells while the movie was being filmed. Bacon lost twenty pounds for his role as Henri Young. Principal photography began on December 13, 1993. Production took place in San Francisco, California, and Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay, California. The courtroom sequences were filmed first, at Triscenic Production Services Inc. in Los Angeles, California. On January 17, 1994, during filming one of the courtroom scenes, filming was interrupted by the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Bacon, who was handcuffed to a large table, took refuge by hiding underneath the table, while an enormous crystal chandelier began to swing overhead (later, the studio was condemned).
Murder in the First (film) | Production notes
Simpson Jr., as he was then still formally known, attended the Miami Military School for fifth and sixth grade, and Key West High School for ninth grade. He dropped out in 1948, at the age of 14, due to the fact that he disliked school and was doing poorly there. In 1950, at the age of 16, he traveled with his family to Hollywood, California, where his first job was as a stunt man. He also worked at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, beginning as a doorman and working his way up to Assistant Manager by age 18. At the urging of friends, the up-to-then Simpson Jr.
Robert Fuller (actor) | Early life
It took him two and half years to realize he was an actor, rather than a personality.
Robert Leeshock | Biography
He moved into big-budget filmmaking with the surrealistic "Greaser's Palace" (1972). His most recent film was "Rittenhouse Square" (2005), a documentary capturing life in a Philadelphia park. Downey's films were often family affairs. His first wife, Elsie, appears in four of his movies ("Chafed Elbows", "Pound", "Greaser's Palace", "Moment to Moment"), as well as co-writing one ("Moment to Moment"). Daughter Allyson and son Robert Jr. each made their film debuts in the 1970 absurdist comedy "Pound" at the ages of 7 and 5, respectively; Allyson would appear in one more film by her father, "Up the Academy". Robert Jr.'s lengthy acting résumé includes appearances in eight films directed by his father ("Pound", "Greaser's Palace", "Moment to Moment", "Up the Academy", "America", "Rented Lips", "Too Much Sun", "Hugo Pool"), as well as two acting appearances in movies where his father was also an actor ("Johnny Be Good", "Hail Caesar").
Robert Downey Sr. | Career
In 1937 Ryan joined a little theater group in Chicago. The following year he enrolled in the Max Reinhardt Workshop in Hollywood. His role in the 1939 play "Too Many Husbands" brought an offer from Paramount. Although he had done a screen test for them in 1938 and been turned down as "not the right type", the studio offered him a $75 a week contract.
Robert Ryan | Early appearances
They did a lot of reverse shots, turned the camera upside down, changed camera speeds, and other things that most engineers wouldn't have considered as solutions. That movie went on to be nominated for an Oscar for the plant, and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1986.
Dave Elsey | Idols and First Breaks
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 debut film role was in "Kaew" (แก้ว) by director Piak Poster, which immediately made him one of the more popular actors of the time. His other works include a comedy "Khai Luk Kheuy" (ไข่ลูกเขย), "Khun Pu Su Sa, Khun Ya Sexy" (คุณปู่ซู่ซ่า คุณย่าเซ็กซี่).
Toon Hiranyasap | First performance
The director then suggested either Humphrey Bogart or Frank Sinatra tackle the part, but Jack L. Warner rejected both. Stewart Granger was the front runner for a period of time, but he backed out when he was unable to adjust to Cukor's habit of acting out scenes as a form of direction. James Mason eventually was contracted, and filming began on October 12, 1953. As the months passed, Cukor was forced to deal not only with constant script changes but a very unstable Garland, who was plagued by chemical and alcohol dependencies, extreme weight fluctuations, and real and imagined illnesses.
George Cukor | Later Hollywood career
The followup to 1962's "Tarzan Goes to India". This film was Jock Mahoney's second and final turn as the apeman. The film was filmed near Bangkok, Thailand and in the jungle near the Chiang Mai Province. Some scenes were shot in the Temple of Buddha's Footprint, the first film ever granted permission to shoot at this holy site. Crew members and cast removed their shoes and shot in almost total silence. Midway through the film, Mahoney contracted dysentery, dengue fever and finally pneumonia. His weight plummeted from to . Some critics, noting how thin and weary he appeared in some action scenes, said it undermined the film’s credibility.
Tarzan's Three Challenges | Production notes
"First to Fight" was notable in the number of major actors who were featured in starring and supporting roles. Although Marilyn Devin would star in only a few films, she went on to a career as a TV news anchor. Chad Everett appearing as one of the last contract actors in Hollywood was ably backed up by Oscar-winner Dean Jagger, actor and Jazz singer Bobby Troup, Claude Akins and James Best, both of whom would later find fame as TV stars.
First to Fight (film) | Reception
A dozen rough and ready comedians were practicing falls down a stairway. Lessley was on the payroll for $55 per week (compared to Normand's $500 weekly salary, and the head carpenter's $35.), and Arbuckle evidently worked him hard for his money, shooting 10,000 - 15,000 feet of film for a single two-reel comedy. The rough and tumble atmosphere on an Arbuckle shoot likely went far in preparing Lessley for his later work with Buster Keaton, who had standing orders for his cameramen to keep filming his risky stunts no matter what, until he either yelled "Cut" or was killed.
Elgin Lessley | The Sennett Years
After he left the Disney studios, Driscoll's parents withdrew him from the Hollywood Professional School, which served child movie actors, and sent him to the public West Los Angeles University High School instead. There his grades dropped substantially, he was the target of ridicule for his previous film career, and he began to take drugs. He said later, "The other kids didn't accept me. They treated me as one apart. I tried desperately to be one of the gang. When they rejected me, I fought back, became belligerent and cocky—and was afraid all the time." At his request, Driscoll's parents returned him the next year to Hollywood Professional School, where in May 1955 he graduated.
Bobby Driscoll | Post-Disney
The following week, the paper asked whether Sidney would be willing to try again; his mother, Mabel Finklestein, said no. Sidney attended North Western University as a pre-med student around 1929, he dropped out after two years to join the Goodman Theater. After completing the program he and another actor, Barry Kelley who starred later the movie, "Asphalt Jungle", moved to New York together, hoping to land parts on Broadway. Unfortunately, the Great Depression was in full swing, and life in the theater business was impossible. The two men made their way back home to Chicago despondent.
Sidney Slon | Family and early life
Milner had his first screen test and began his film career with his debut in the Warner Bros. film "Life with Father" (1947) in the role of John Day, the second oldest son of Clarence Day, played by William Powell, and Vinnie Day, portrayed by Irene Dunne. Less than two weeks after that film was completed in August 1946, Milner contracted poliomyelitis. He recovered within a year and had bit parts in two more films, then graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1949. He immediately landed a minor role in the film "Sands of Iwo Jima" starring John Wayne.
Martin Milner | Early years
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
Gibson's gamble paved the way for Downey's comeback and Downey returned to mainstream films in the mid-2000s with "Gothika", for which producer Joel Silver withheld 40% of his salary until after production wrapped as insurance against his addictive behavior. Similar clauses have become standard in his contracts since. Silver, who was getting closer to Downey as he dated his assistant Susan Levin, also got the actor the leading role in the comedy thriller "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", the directorial debut of screenwriter Shane Black.
Robert Downey Jr. | 2001–2007: Career comeback
Cuba Gooding Jr. – "Jerry Maguire"
1st Golden Satellite Awards | Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy
Paramount heavily marketed the film on the internet via a "First Contact" web site, which averaged 4.4 million hits a week during the film's opening run, the largest amount of traffic ever on a motion-picture site. The film premiered on November 18, 1996 at Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The main cast save Spiner were in attendance, as were Moore, Braga, Jerry Goldsmith, and producer Marty Hornstein. Other "Star Trek" actors present included DeForest Kelley, René Auberjonois, Avery Brooks, Colm Meaney, Armin Shimerman, Terry Farrell, Kate Mulgrew, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang and Robert Picardo.
Star Trek: First Contact | Release
After "The Next Generation" began, Stewart soon found that he missed acting on the stage. Although he remained associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the lengthy filming for the series had prevented him from participating in most other works, leaving a "gaping hole" of many years in his CV as a Shakespearean actor, causing him to miss opportunities to play such notable roles as Hamlet, Romeo, and Richard III. Instead, Stewart began writing one-man shows that he performed in California universities and acting schools. One of these—a version of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" in which he portrayed all 40-plus characters—became ideal for him as an actor as well, because of its limited performing schedule.
Patrick Stewart | Stage (1990–present)
The cast initially had concerns about an autistic actor coping with fast pace nature of filming. Upon working with Robertson they witnessed his acting talent which quashed any concern. The series producer Simon Harper added that the actor was "a joy to have around". Robertson initially found working on "Holby City" difficult because he found it stressful and physically exhausted. He felt that after he filmed his first block of episodes that he became more relaxed and comfortable with the role. Like the actor, Jason has Asperger syndrome. Robertson is the first non-neurotypical actor to play a non-neurotypical character in an ongoing BBC drama.
Jason Haynes | Casting
Noh decided to cast Yoo within five minutes of meeting him, saying, "I can't forget the first five minutes I met Yoo at the audition. When I asked other actors about Jong-dae character, they usually answered, 'I think he's going to wear something, have some hairstyle and some kind of personality'. But he stared out the window for a long time, and suddenly said one word as if he choked up slightly, 'It's sad.' At that moment, I thought, 'Jong-dae is him.'" During the film's press junket, Noh said, "In contrast to his noticeably good looks, he was filled with a furious energy.
Yoo Ah-in | 2006–2009: Film debut
"Face/Off" was a spec script which writers Mike Werb and Michael Colleary tried to sell to a studio from as early as 1990. It took numerous studios, producers and rewrites before John Woo became attached several years later. The first actors who were chosen to play Sean Archer and Castor Troy were Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger respectively but John Woo instead hired John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to play those characters. For the Archer character, Woo considered casting either Michael Douglas or Jean-Claude Van Damme with whom he had worked in "Hard Target". During development Douglas and Harrison Ford were attached to star.
Face/Off | Production
He was considered for the role of Duckie in John Hughes's film "Pretty in Pink" (1986), but his first lead role was with Molly Ringwald in "The Pick-up Artist" (1987). Because of these and other coming-of-age films Downey did during the 1980s, he is sometimes named as a member of the Brat Pack. In 1987, Downey played Julian Wells, a drug-addicted rich boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, in the film version of the Bret Easton Ellis novel "Less Than Zero". His performance, described by Janet Maslin in "The New York Times" as "desperately moving", was widely praised, though Downey has said that for him "the role was like the ghost of Christmas Future" since his drug habit resulted in his becoming an "exaggeration of the character" in real life.
Robert Downey Jr. | 1983–1995: Beginnings and critical acclaim
He performed the lead role with Leonard Graves and Patricia Morison in 1955 (when the movie was being filmed) at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Concerned that his education was inadequate, his mother withdrew him from the tour after a year and he attended Bell High School, then majored in political science at East Los Angeles College and Cerritos College.
Larry Ramos | Early years
An article with stage news in the "Los Angeles Times" of Sunday, January 5, 1969, reads: "Sal Mineo, now directing his first play, took the cast of John Herbert's "Fortune and Men's Eyes" which opens Thursday night at the Coronet Theater, to Chino Prison for a first hand rehearsal. The leads—Roger Garrett, Michael Greer, Don Johnson and James Oliver—were booked into the prison for the weekend. The idea was to see what prison atmosphere was really like." On a website about Mineo, it says, in reference to "Fortune and Men's Eyes", "The other character in the cell is Jan, or Mona, as he is called.
Roger Garrett (actor) | Acting career
Although he had successfully been involved in local Crawfordsville plays in his youth, Crane was the first to admit that his acting skills were less than par. In 1967, Crane would reflect, "To be honest, I was a very poor actor". Crane's daughter suggests that the abrupt end to her father's acting career may be attributed to his attraction to a Polish ballerina, who turned out to be Columbia Pictures President Harry Cohn’s girlfriend.
Joseph Stephen Crane | Film career
Robert Milasch (1885–1954) was an American character actor in the silent and sound periods. He was one of Hollywood's tallest actors hovering somewhere between 6'6" and 6'9". He began his career in 1903 at 18 at the Edison Manufacturing Company. One of his first Edison films was two appearances in the classic "The Great Train Robbery". In the sound era nearly every film appearance was uncredited.
Robert Milasch | Introduction
Unfortunately, Roarke was unable to keep up with O’Toole, and was hospitalized with delirium tremens before shooting was concluded. Word spread around Hollywood quickly, and Roarke had difficulty finding work as a result. However, an offer to work on a low-budget independent film brought him to Austin, Texas, in 1982. At the time, Texas had a burgeoning movie industry—billing itself as the "Third Coast"—but lacked any real opportunities for aspiring film actors to learn their craft from industry veterans. Recognizing this need, Roarke opened the "Film Actors Lab" in the Dallas Communications Complex at the Studios in Las Colinas. "Graduates" of his program include Darryl Cox, Benton Jennings, Lar Park Lincoln and Lou Diamond Phillips.
Adam Roarke | Life and career
The film was a financial failure, the first movie in CinemaScope to lose money. Dunne said he thought "it was too larded with Shakespeare".
Prince of Players | Reception
Amongst the problems caused by the adverse weather was the entire first day's film being scratched, to the point it was mostly unusable. The noise generated by the wind and rain meant that dialog was at times entirely inaudible, with many cast members struggling to deliver their lines due to coldness - notably Christopher Judge who at times was unable to maintain the deep imposing voice of his character, Teal'c. Many of the costumes worn by extras were soaking wet and covered in mud as the day went on. Problems continued over the following days as production moved to filming the teams escape the prison on Chulak.
Children of the Gods | Filming
Xie was also the first to receive five, six, and seven awards in 1999, 2003 and 2004 respectively.
List of actors with two or more Star Awards in acting categories | Introduction
With a production budget of $30 million, the film held the number one spot at the US box office in its first week in April 2010. The film starred Academy Award-nominee Jackie Earle Haley and introduced Rooney Mara in her first major studio role.
Samuel Bayer | Career
Clarke was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He decided at an early age that he wanted to be an actor, but nevertheless suffered from stage fright in his first school productions. He attended Kemper Military School and College, planning to make a career in the service, but dropped out after his asthma prevented his serving in World War II. He later attended the University of Oklahoma, where he acted in radio plays, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he appeared on stage. He did not graduate, but hitched a ride to California to try to break into the motion picture business.
Robert Clarke | Early life