"Warner Bros. wanted to cast the then much better known Edward G. Robinson for the film adaptation; however Leslie Howard, who played the protagonist in both the play and the film, insisted on Bogart being given the part. His breakthrough came in 1941 when his performances in ""High Sierra"" and ""The Maltese Falcon"" made him a star. His first true romantic lead role came in 1942's ""Casablanca"", breaking his typecasting as a gangster. He and Lauren Bacall starred together in ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944). After they married, she also played his love interest in ""The Big Sleep"" (1946),"
"the twitchy Joel Cairo, a pairing that would prove durable. The two men appeared in some nine films altogether, including ""Casablanca"" (1942), with Greenstreet as crooked club owner Signor Ferrari (for which he received a salary of $3,750 per week for seven weeks), as well as ""Background to Danger"" (1943, with George Raft), ""Passage to Marseille"" (1944), reteaming him with ""Casablanca"" stars Bogart, Lorre, and Claude Rains, ""The Mask of Dimitrios"" (1944), ""The Conspirators"" (1944), with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid, ""Hollywood Canteen"" (1944), ""Three Strangers"" (1946) and ""The Verdict"" (1946). In the last two in the list, and ""The"
"survived by his only child, John Ogden Greenstreet (30 September 1920 – 4 March 2004), from his marriage to Dorothy Marie Ogden. Actor Mark Greenstreet is a distant relative. In 1941, Greenstreet was nominated for an Academy Award for Actor in a Supporting Role. Sydney Greenstreet Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (27 December 1879 – 18 January 1954) was a British actor. While he did not work in films until the age of 62, he had a run of significant films in a Hollywood career lasting for under a decade. He is best remembered for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart"
"let Huston choose his first subject. Huston kept the screenplay close to the novel, keeping much of Hammett's dialogue, and directing it in an uncluttered style, much like the book's narrative. He did unusual preparation for his first directing job by sketching out each shot beforehand, including camera positions, lighting, and compositional scale, for such things as closeups. He especially benefited by selecting a superior cast, giving Humphrey Bogart the lead role. Bogart was happy to take the role, as he liked working with Huston. In addition, the supporting cast included other noted actors: Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet"
"acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufmann and directed by the innovative Michael Gondry. Carrey starred opposite Kate Winslet as a man pursued through his memories as they are erased. Carrey received his fourth Golden Globe Award nomination, and was also nominated for his first BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Among his films in the 2000s were ""Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"", ""Fun with Dick and Jane"", ""The Number 23"", ""Horton Hears a Who!"", ""Yes Man"", ""I Love You Phillip Morris"" and ""A Christmas Carol"". In 2011, he starred in ""Mr. Popper's Penguins"" as a divorced real"
"Three Strangers Three Strangers is a 1946 American film noir crime drama directed by Jean Negulesco, written by John Huston and Howard Koch, starring Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Peter Lorre, and featuring Joan Lorring and Alan Napier. Crystal Shackleford (Geraldine Fitzgerald) lures two strangers, solicitor Jerome K. Arbutny (Sydney Greenstreet) and charming and erudite drunkard Johnny West (Peter Lorre) to her London flat on Chinese New Year in 1938 because of her belief that if three strangers make the same wish to an idol of Kwan Yin, Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny, the wish will be granted. Since"
"which Lorre and Greenstreet appeared together. Lorre's other films include Frank Capra's ""Arsenic and Old Lace"" (1944) and Disney's ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954). Frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner, his later career was erratic. Lorre was the first actor to play a James Bond villain as Le Chiffre in a TV version of ""Casino Royale"" (1954). Some of his last roles were in horror films directed by Roger Corman. Lorre was born László Löwenstein () on 26 June 1904, the first child of Alajos Löwenstein and his wife Elvira Freischberger, in the Hungarian town of Rózsahegy in Liptó"
"Peter Finch (""Network""), Victor Fleming (""The Wizard of Oz""), Janet Gaynor (""A Star Is Born""), Curtis Harrington (""Night Tide""), Zoltan Korda (""The Thief of Bagdad""), Darren McGavin (""The Man with the Golden Arm""), Adolphe Menjou (""Paths of Glory""), Paul Muni (""Scarface""), Dudley Nichols (""Stagecoach""), Maila Nurmi (""Plan 9 from Outer Space""), Nelson Riddle (""Lolita""), Vito Scotti (""The Godfather""), Ann Sheridan (""They Drive by Night""), Constance and Norma Talmadge (""Intolerance"", ""Camille""), Eddie Little (""Another Day in Paradise""), Eddie Bunker (""Straight Time""), Gregg Toland (""Citizen Kane""), Edgar G. Ulmer (""Detour""), Peter Lorre (""Casablanca""), Clifton Webb (""Laura""), William Hurlbut (""Bride of Frankenstein"") and"
"impressed itself on the heart and mind and soul of anyone who has seen it, to the extent that filmmakers of great originality and distinctiveness like Robert Altman and Sam Peckinpah can be said to have remade it again and again ... without compromising its uniqueness. Also in 1948 he directed his next film, ""Key Largo"", again with Humphrey Bogart starring. It was the story about a disillusioned returning veteran clashing with gangsters on a remote Florida key. It co-starred Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, Edward G. Robinson, and Lionel Barrymore. The film was an adaptation of the stage play by"
"Peter Stormare Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Peter Stormare (), is a Swedish American actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and musician. He is best known for playing the roles of Gaear Grimsrud in ""Fargo"" (1996), Dieter Stark in """" (1997), Vladimir in ""Playing God"" (1997) Uli Kunkel/Karl Hungus in ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998), Lev Andropov in ""Armageddon"" (1998), Jeff in ""Dancer in the Dark"" (2000), Dr. Solomon P. Eddie in ""Minority Report"" (2001), Alexi in ""Bad Boys II"" (2003), Lucifer in ""Constantine"" (2005), John Abruzzi in the Fox series ""Prison Break"" (2005–2007), Ghost"
"an adaptation of a Graham Greene novel co-starring Molly Ringwald and Robert Lindsay. That same year he made his last film appearance in a leading role, playing Prospero in ""Prospero's Books"", Peter Greenaway's adaptation of ""The Tempest"". Reviews for the film were mixed, but Gielgud's performance in one of his signature roles was much praised. He continued to work on radio, as he had done throughout his career; Croall lists more than fifty BBC radio productions of plays starring Gielgud between 1929 and 1994. To mark his ninetieth birthday he played Lear for the last time; for the BBC Kenneth"
"Invincible"" (1983), ""Always"" (1989) and ""Ghosts of Mars"" (2001). During McGrath's acting time in the U.S. he also appeared in several films alongside Clint Eastwood, including ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976), ""The Gauntlet"" (1977), ""Bronco Billy"" (1980) and ""Pale Rider"" (1985). Doug McGrath Doug McGrath (born April 13, 1935) is a Canadian actor whose most notable role was that of ""Peter"" in the acclaimed Canadian film ""Goin' Down the Road"" (1970) and its sequel ""Down the Road Again"" (2011). He also played in acclaimed Canadian films ""Wedding in White"" (1972), ""The Hard Part Begins"" (1973), the original ""Black Christmas"" (1974),"
"work on ""Birdman of Alcatraz""; Burnett Guffey, who had won an Oscar in 1954 for his work on ""From Here to Eternity"" and had been nominated in 1957 for ""The Harder They Fall"", and John Alton, who had worked with Lancaster on ""Elmer Gantry"" but was most known for the iconic film noir, ""The Big Combo"". With Lancaster in the lead, the rest of the cast featured Karl Malden, a two-time Oscar nominee, once for ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", another for ""On the Waterfront"", Thelma Ritter, a five-time Oscar nominee, Telly Savalas, Neville Brand, Edmond O'Brien, an Oscar winner for"
"star Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker. As of July 2018, Scorsese was no longer involved in the project. Todd Phillips Todd Phillips (born Todd Bunzl; December 20, 1970) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for writing and directing films, including ""Road Trip"" (2000), ""Old School"" (2003), ""Starsky & Hutch"" (2004), ""The Hangover Trilogy"" (2009, 2011, and 2013), ""Due Date"" (2010) and ""War Dogs"" (2016). For his work on the film ""Borat"", he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Huntington, New York, Phillips attended New"
"Wrote,"" ""Fantasy Island,"" and ""Diagnosis Murder."" Later, Cole appeared in Stephen King's two-part made-for-TV movie ""It"", which aired in 1990, as the older version of the disturbed Henry Bowers. In 1991, he joined the cast of ABC's ""General Hospital"" in the role of Harlan Barrett. But it was his role as Pete Cochrane, a troubled youth turned crime fighter in ""The Mod Squad"" (1968–1973), that made Cole an international celebrity. Cole's boyish good looks and brooding, deep-voiced personality meshed perfectly with his character's backstory—a ne'er-do-well son of wealthy parents who had evicted him from their home after he had stolen"
"father. Peter Stormare Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Peter Stormare (), is a Swedish American actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and musician. He is best known for playing the roles of Gaear Grimsrud in ""Fargo"" (1996), Dieter Stark in """" (1997), Vladimir in ""Playing God"" (1997) Uli Kunkel/Karl Hungus in ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998), Lev Andropov in ""Armageddon"" (1998), Jeff in ""Dancer in the Dark"" (2000), Dr. Solomon P. Eddie in ""Minority Report"" (2001), Alexi in ""Bad Boys II"" (2003), Lucifer in ""Constantine"" (2005), John Abruzzi in the Fox series ""Prison Break"" (2005–2007),"
"Collet-Serra. The film stars Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, C. C. H. Pounder and Jimmy Bennett. The plot centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious 9-year-old girl. DiCaprio continued his collaborative streak with Scorsese in the 2010 psychological thriller film ""Shutter Island"" (2010), based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. He played U.S. Marshal Edward ""Teddy"" Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility located on an island and comes to question his own sanity. The film grossed $294 million. Also in 2010, DiCaprio starred in director"
"Westgarth, a suburb of Melbourne, until late 2015. The mother of his second child is Australian actress Diana Glenn with whom he had a son, Massimo, in April 2014. The couple separated 2 months after the birth of Massimo. Colosimo has had some success on film, mainly in Australia. He made his film debut in the coming-of-age story ""Moving Out"" in 1983 and featured in 1984's ""Street Hero"". Other credits include the cult movie ""Chopper"" (2000), in which he played Melbourne drug dealer Neville Bartos opposite Eric Bana, ""The Wog Boy"" (2000) ""Lantana"" (2001), ""Walking on Water"" (2002), ""The Nugget"""
"was very successful in Europe, maintaining the #1 slot at the box office for many weeks in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Scandinavian countries. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, next to ""Crocodile Dundee"" and ahead of ""Happy Feet"". In 2013, Luhrmann adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Great Gatsby"", shot in 3D, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, and Australian newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker. In 2016, Luhrmann collaborated with award-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis on the Netflix series"
"Martin Scorsese. He was acclaimed for his performances in the political war thriller ""Blood Diamond"", the neo-noir crime drama ""The Departed"" (both 2006), the espionage thriller ""Body of Lies"" (2008), the drama ""Revolutionary Road"" (2008), the psychological thriller ""Shutter Island"" (2010), the science fiction thriller ""Inception"" (2010), the biographical film ""J. Edgar"" (2011), the western ""Django Unchained"" (2012), and the period drama ""The Great Gatsby"" (2013). DiCaprio's portrayals of Howard Hughes in ""The Aviator"" (2004) and Hugh Glass in ""The Revenant"" (2015) won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. His performance as Jordan Belfort"
"cartoonists. In particular, several Warner Bros. cartoons used a caricature of Lorre's face with an impression by Mel Blanc, including ""Hollywood Steps Out"", ""Birth of a Notion"", ""Hair-Raising Hare"" and ""Racketeer Rabbit"" among others. Actor Eugene Weingand, who was unrelated to Lorre, attempted in 1963 to trade on his slight resemblance to the actor by changing his name to ""Peter Lorie"", but his petition was rejected by the courts. After Lorre's death, however, he referred to himself as Lorre's son. Peter Lorre Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor. He"
"solved the problem by suggesting that Huston give a screen test to Sydney Greenstreet, a veteran stage character actor who had never appeared on film before. Greenstreet, who was then 61 years old and weighed between 280 and 350 pounds, impressed Huston with his sheer size, distinctive abrasive laugh, bulbous eyes, and manner of speaking. Greenstreet went on to be typecast in later films of the 1940s such as ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Mask of Dimitrios"" (1944), ""The Verdict"" (1946), and ""Three Strangers"" (1946). Greenstreet's characterization had such a strong cultural impact that the ""Fat Man"" atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki"
"Vincent D'Onofrio Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (; born June 30, 1959) is an American actor, producer, director, and singer. He is known for his roles as Private Leonard ""Gomer Pyle"" Lawrence in ""Full Metal Jacket"" (1987), Wilson Fisk / Kingpin in ""Daredevil"" (2015–2018), NYPD Detective Robert Goren in """", Edgar the Bug in ""Men in Black"" (1997), and Vic Hoskins in ""Jurassic World"" (2015). Among other honors, D'Onofrio is a Saturn Award winner and an Emmy Award nominee. D'Onofrio was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He is of Italian descent, with ancestors from Sicily. His parents, Gennaro and Phyllis D'Onofrio, an interior"
"William Hope (actor) William ""Bill"" Hope (born March 2, 1955) is a Canadian stage, film, television and voice actor. Most of Hope's stage work has been leading roles in a wide variety of regional, touring and West End theatres in England. Early on, he turned down a major role in Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"" for a lead role in James Cameron's ""Aliens"" (1986) as Lt. Gorman, for which he began to receive recognition. Soon after he appeared as Kyle MacRae in the horror film ""Hellbound: Hellraiser 2"" (1988), the sequel to Clive Barker's ""Hellraiser"" (1987). After ""Hellbound"", Hope went on"
"Key Largo (film) Key Largo is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. The supporting cast features Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. The film was adapted by Richard Brooks and Huston from Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play of the same name, which played on Broadway for 105 performances in 1939 and 1940. ""Key Largo"" was the fourth and final film pairing of married actors Bogart and Bacall, after ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944), ""The Big Sleep"" (1946), and ""Dark Passage"" (1947), although they also appeared together"
"He would go on to appears in films such as ""The Snake Pit"","" Sorry, Wrong Number"", ""Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd"", ""Invaders from Mars"", ""On the Waterfront"", ""A Gathering of Eagles"", ""Roustabout"", ""The Carpetbaggers"" and ""Mirage"". One of his more notable roles was as Deborah Kerr's macho husband in the stage and film versions of ""Tea and Sympathy"". He appeared with Greta Garbo, as her brother in ""Conquest"" (1937). He played the role of Pete, the vindictive boat engineer, in the 1951 remake of the famed musical ""Show Boat"". His final appearance in a feature film was in ""Twilight's"
"""The Reincarnation of Peter Proud"" (1975), about a man doomed to die the same kind of death twice. His film career as a leading man in mainstream cinema came to a close with his role in ""The Gumball Rally"" (1976), although he was later the lead in the obscure, poorly-reviewed Canadian mystery thriller ""Double Negative"" (1980). He also appeared in ""Joshua Then and Now"" (1985), the """" episode """" (1996), and ""The Outer Limits"" episodes ""I Hear You Calling"" (1996) and ""The Other Side"" 1999. He hosted the April 15, 1978, episode of ""Saturday Night Live"". Sarrazin was originally cast"
"such as """" and ""Party of Five"". He later starred in the ABC show ""Second Noah"". He lost out to Edward Norton for a role in ""Primal Fear"" and turned down the lead role in ""54"", which later went to Ryan Phillippe. He then went on to star in ""Disturbing Behavior"" opposite Katie Holmes and ""Gossip"" opposite Kate Hudson. He also appeared in the television series ""Ally McBeal"", as one of the main cast members during the first half of season 5, where he also showcased his singing abilities. He also starred in a 1998 episode of ""The Outer Limits""."
"director Scott Hicks on his films ""Call Me Mr. Brown"" and ""Sebastian and the Sparrow"", with Paul Hogan in ""Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles"", appeared in the French feature ""L'Amour En Embuscade"" for Carl Shultz, and the films ""The Outsider"", ""Darkness Falls"", ""The Condemned"", ""Save Your Legs"", and ""Crime & Punishment"". He is married to Australian soprano and musical theatre icon Marina Prior. They have 5 children in a blended family. Two of the children are biologically Piro’s from a former relationship, while three are biologically Prior’s from a former relationship. Grant Piro Grant Piro is an Australian actor. He"
"to a young De Niro, Brando and even Daniel Day-Lewis. In 2016 he was the lead role of Professor Goodman in the national Australian tour of Ghost Stories, directed by Jennifer Sarah Dean and Peter Snee. The play earned strong reviews and sold out many of its dates as it toured Melbourne, Adelaide, Wagga Wagga, Canberra, Perth and Geelong. Brennan won a BAFTA in 2011 for his performance in 'Risen'. He was the youngest ever recipient of the Award and the first Englishman to ever win the BAFTA Cymru for Best Actor. The World Boxing Council also recognised Brennan’s portrayal"
"and starred Bogart and Derek in the leading roles. Louise Brooks wrote in her essay ""Humphrey and Bogey"" that she felt it was the role of Dixon Steele in this movie that came closest to the real Bogart she knew. ""Before inertia set in, he played one fascinatingly complex character, craftily directed by Nicholas Ray, in a film whose title perfectly defined Humphrey's own isolation among people. ""In a Lonely Place"" gave him a role that he could play with complexity because the character's pride in his art, his selfishness, his drunkenness, his lack of energy stabbed with lightning strokes"
"reports, he is currently married. He resides with his family in a townhouse in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | Seattle International Film Festival ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | Saturn Awards Vincent D'Onofrio Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (; born June 30, 1959) is an American actor, producer, director, and singer. He is known for his roles as Private Leonard ""Gomer Pyle"" Lawrence in ""Full Metal Jacket"" (1987), Wilson Fisk / Kingpin in ""Daredevil"" (2015–2018), NYPD Detective Robert Goren in """", Edgar the Bug in ""Men in Black"" (1997), and Vic Hoskins in ""Jurassic World"" (2015). Among"
"It was one of the most notable gangster films of the decade. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci also starred in the film with Pesci earning an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards in all, including Best Picture and Best Director, making ""Goodfellas"" one of the most critically acclaimed crime films of all time. Following their collaboration in ""Goodfellas"", Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci would team up again in 1995's ""Casino"", based on Frank Rosenthal, an associate of the Chicago Outfit, that ran multiple casinos in Las Vegas during"