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He experienced a career resurgence in 1980 with the crime-romance Atlantic City, winning the BAFTA for Best Actor and landing his fourth Oscar nomination. Starting in the late 1970s, he also appeared in television mini-series, including the award-winning Separate but Equal with Sidney Poitier. He continued acting into his late 70s, until a ...
Dustin Hoffman – actor, famous from late 1960s–early 1990s; Robert Redford – actor, famous from late 1960s–early 1990s; Peter Sellers – actor, famous from early 1960s–until his death in 1980; Anne Bancroft – actress, famous in the 1960s–1970s; Warren Beatty – actor, famous from late 1960s–early 1990s
Similar to spy films, the heist or caper film included worldly settings and hi-tech gadgets, as in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), Topkapi (1964) or The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). The spaghetti westerns (made in Italy and Spain), were typified by Clint Eastwood films, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965) or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...
A total of 922 actors appear in the list—508 males and 414 females. A total of 179 Academy Award winners for acting appear in the list—89 males and 90 females—and 181 non-winning nominees—100 males and 81 females. A total of 562 actors with no Academy Award nominations for acting appear in the list—319 males and 243 females.
Eduardo Ciannelli (1888–1969) was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals; Robert G. Vignola (1882–1953), born in Trivigno, Basilicata, Italy, one of the first Italian-American stars in cinema, later one of the silent screen's most prolific directors.
Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Charly.
African American filmmakers also found success in the 1970s with such hits as Shaft and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Like other sequels in the 1970s, Shaft went on to have two more adventures, each less successful than the last. An adaptation of a Mario Puzo novel, The Godfather, was a box-office and critical success in 1972.
Easton performed on many American television series and made-for-television movies from 1951 to the late 1980s, often portraying in his early roles slow-talking "country bumpkins". [4] His first appearance on television, in a brief uncredited role, was on an episode of The Jack Benny Program , which originally aired on November 4, 1951. [ 9 ]