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AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Lawrence James Tierney (March 15, 1919 – February 26, 2002) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and "tough-guys" in a career that spanned over fifty years. His roles mirrored his own frequent brushes with the law. [1]
Walter Jack Palance [1] (/ ˈ p æ l ən s / PAL-əns; born Volodymyr Ivanovych Palahniuk; [a] February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American screen and stage actor, known to film audiences for playing tough guys and villains.
Here is a look at the careers of 40 of the most prolific actors in Hollywood — and what they looked like when they were in their 20s: Tom Hanks was cast in a slasher film at age 23. Tom Hanks in ...
Mitchum appeared in a string of film noirs in the early 1950s. In Where Danger Lives (1950), he played a doctor who comes between a mentally unbalanced Faith Domergue and a cuckolded Claude Rains. The film received mixed reviews from critics. [149] He and Ava Gardner played star-crossed lovers in My Forbidden Past (1951), a box office flop. [150]
The prolific actor was best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films. Henry Silva, Known For Many Tough-Guy Roles, Dies At 95
Pages in category "Male Western (genre) film actors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 564 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Leo Vincent Gordon (December 2, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American character actor and screenwriter. [1] During more than 40 years in film and television he was most frequently cast as a supporting actor playing brutish bad guys but occasionally played more sympathetic roles just as effectively.