"for Newton Thomas Sigel. Both Del Toro and McQuarrie won in their categories. Bryan Singer won the Best Debut award at the 1st Empire Awards. ""The Usual Suspects"" was screened at the 1995 Seattle International Film Festival, where Bryan Singer was awarded Best Director and Kevin Spacey won for Best Actor. The Boston Society of Film Critics gave Spacey the Best Supporting Actor award for his work on the film. Spacey went on to win this award with the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review, which also gave the cast an ensemble acting award. On"
"Keyser Söze Keyser Söze ( ) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 film ""The Usual Suspects"", written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. According to petty con artist Roger ""Verbal"" Kint (Kevin Spacey), Söze is a crime lord whose ruthlessness and influence have acquired a legendary, even mythical, status among police and criminals alike. Further events in the story make these accounts unreliable, and, in a twist ending, a police sketch identifies Kint and Söze as one and the same. The character was inspired by real life murderer John List and the spy"
"of Kint specifically for him. McQuarrie said he wanted audiences to dismiss Kint as a minor character, as Spacey was not yet well-known. Spacey made it more obvious that the character is holding back information, though the depth of his involvement and nature of his secrets remain unrevealed. McQuarrie said that he approved of the changes, as it makes the character ""more fascinating"". ""The Usual Suspects"" consists mostly of flashbacks narrated by Roger ""Verbal"" Kint (Kevin Spacey), a con artist with cerebral palsy. Verbal has been granted immunity from prosecution provided he assists investigators, including Customs Agent David Kujan (Chazz"
"years later, Singer and McQuarrie collaborated again for film ""The Usual Suspects"" (1995), for which McQuarrie received best screenplay awards from ""Premiere Magazine"", the Texas Board of Review, and the Chicago Critics as well as the Edgar Award, The Independent Spirit Award, and the British and American Academy Awards. The film was later included on the ""New York Times"" list of the 1000 greatest films ever made, and the character Verbal Kint was included on AFI's list of the 100 greatest Heroes and Villains of all time. In 2006, the Writers Guild of America voted ""The Usual Suspects"" No. 35"
"believes Kint and Söze are the same person. Director Bryan Singer and writer Christopher McQuarrie originally conceived of ""The Usual Suspects"" as five felons meeting in a police line-up. Eventually, a powerful underworld figure responsible for their meeting was added to the plot. McQuarrie combined this plot with another idea of his based on the true story of John List, who murdered his family and started a new life. The name was based on one of McQuarrie's supervisors, though the last name was changed. 'KS' are also the initials of Kevin Spacey, who played the character. McQuarrie settled on Söze"
"first season of ""Billions"", the character ""Dollar"" Bill Stearn invokes Keyser Söze's name when metaphorically ""murdering"" his own family. In the third season of the American comedy fantasy show ""The Good Place"" Eleanor Shellstrop talks about her mother saying “When the time comes, she will rip this guy off and disappear like Keyser Söze—right after he admitted to groping all those people.” making a veiled reference to Kevin Spacey's sexual misconduct allegations. Keyser Söze Keyser Söze ( ) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 film ""The Usual Suspects"", written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by"
"plays the guitar and speaks German, Spanish, French, and English. August Diehl August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in ""Inglourious Basterds"" and Michael ""Mike"" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie ""Salt"", as well as for his leading role in the Academy Award-winning Austrian film ""The Counterfeiters"" (2007). He plays the title role in Raoul Peck's ""The Young Karl Marx"" (2017). Diehl was born in Berlin. His father is actor Hans Diehl, his mother is a costume designer and his brother is a composer. His family"
"boat heist to resemble Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. The ending's music was based on a k.d. lang song. Gramercy ran a pre-release promotion and advertising campaign before ""The Usual Suspects"" opened in the summer of 1995. Word of mouth marketing was used to advertise the film, and buses and billboards were plastered with the simple question, ""Who is Keyser Söze?"" The film was shown out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and was well received by audiences and critics. The film was then given an exclusive run in Los Angeles, where it took a combined"
"August Diehl August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in ""Inglourious Basterds"" and Michael ""Mike"" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie ""Salt"", as well as for his leading role in the Academy Award-winning Austrian film ""The Counterfeiters"" (2007). He plays the title role in Raoul Peck's ""The Young Karl Marx"" (2017). Diehl was born in Berlin. His father is actor Hans Diehl, his mother is a costume designer and his brother is a composer. His family was frequently moving around, while he grew up: the Diehls"
"cast in bigger roles, including the malevolent office manager in the ensemble film ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" (1992), one-half of a bickering Connecticut couple in the dark comedy film ""The Ref"" (1994), and a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire ""Swimming with Sharks"" (1995), gaining him positive notices by critics. His performance as the enigmatic criminal Verbal Kint in Bryan Singer's 1995 neo-noir film ""The Usual Suspects"" won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Spacey appeared in the 1995 thriller film ""Seven"", making a sudden entrance late in the film as the serial killer John Doe after going"
"mysterious crime lord—known as Keyser Söze—who controlled them. The film was shot on a $6 million budget and began as a title taken from a column in ""Spy"" magazine called ""The Usual Suspects"", after one of Claude Rains' most memorable lines in the classic film ""Casablanca"", and Singer thought that it would make a good title for a film. The film was shown out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, and then initially released in a few theaters. It received favorable reviews and was eventually given a wider release. McQuarrie won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay"
"role because he was impressed with Singer's ""The Usual Suspects"" and saw the role of Dussander as ""a nice, meaty part and difficult"". Singer, who enjoyed McKellen in John Schlesinger's 1995 film ""Cold Comfort Farm"", invited the actor to take the role. The character's language was written originally for ""a very stoic German"", but Singer felt that McKellen's ""complex"" personality could contribute to the character. The director said of choosing McKellen, ""I felt if I could combine his complexity, his colorfulness, to the stoic German character it would create a character that, although evil, would garner more sympathy and would"
"Simon Gosejohann, Elton, Timo Wopp, Christoph Sieber, Torsten Sträter, Ingmar Stadelmann, Abdelkarim, Friedemann Weise and Oliver Polak. Many popular German public figures have made cameo appearances on the show, for instance, Kai Pflaume as an “East German teenager,“ Hella von Sinnen as a “lesbian headteacher,“ or Karl Lauterbach as a “ZDF inspector.“ Oliver Kahn once played himself in his position as a ZDF-expert at the coverage of the international football match of Germany-Argentina in September 2014. He also once played a former FC Bayern football player through a video-call in a show of November 2015. Other cameo appearances were Rainer"
"Halbach), Hans Flächsner (Albert Speer), Günther von Rohrscheidt (Rudolf Hess), Egon Kubuschok (Franz von Papen), Robert Servatius (Fritz Sauckel), Fritz Sauter (Joachim von Ribbentrop), Walther Funk (Baldur von Schirach), Hanns Marx (Julius Streicher), Otto Nelte (Wilhelm Keitel), and Herbert Kraus/Rudolph Dix (both working for Hjalmar Schacht). The main counsels were supported by a total of 70 assistants, clerks and lawyers. The defense counsel witnesses included several men who took part in the war crimes during World War II, such as Rudolf Höss. The men testifying for the defense hoped to receive more lenient sentences. All of the men testifying on"
"humorous handling of abnormality. The trenchant verbal exchanges between Christine Urspruch, who portrays a woman of small stature, and Jan Josef Liefers are considered to contribute greatly to the success of the series. In 2009, the German television channel Norddeutscher Rundfunk produced a five-episode show called ""Zwei Kommissare auf Spurensuche"" (roughly: Two Commissioners Retracing Their Footsteps). Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers performed their roles, Thiel and professor Boerne, but kept their real names. They wandered through Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (east coast, Kühlungsborn, Usedom, Rügen, Fischland-Darß-Zingst, and Lake Schwerin), interacting with the locals while having their typical quarrels, well known from ""Tatort"
"voice actor, dubbing films into German, including Fred Astaire (""Funny Face"" and ""Daddy Long Legs""); Gary Cooper (""Cloak and Dagger"", among others); Errol Flynn (""The Adventures of Robin Hood"", ""Adventures of Don Juan"", among others); Cary Grant (""Crisis""); Rex Harrison (""Cleopatra""); Phil Silvers (""Cover Girl""); David Niven (""The King's Thief"", among others), Tyrone Power (""The Mark of Zorro"" and ""Prince of Foxes"", among others); James Stewart (in ""The Philadelphia Story"" and ""Anatomy of a Murder"", among others); Robert Taylor (""Quo Vadis)"", Spencer Tracy (""Malaya""); Orson Welles (""Citizen Kane"") and Trevor Howard (""The Third Man""). Hans Nielsen (actor) Hans Nielsen (30"
"a Leading Role. He is also known for his scene-stealing breakout role as the eccentric, unintelligible crook Fred Fenster in ""The Usual Suspects"" (1995), which won him his first Independent Spirit Award; Benny Dalmau in ""Basquiat"" (1996), which won him a second consecutive Independent Spirit Award; Dr. Gonzo in ""Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"" (1998); doomed gambleholic Franky Four Fingers in ""Snatch"" (2000); the predatory, unhinged antagonist Jackie Boy in ""Sin City"" (2005); revolutionary Che Guevara in ""Che"" (2008), a performance which earned him the Best Actor Award both at the Cannes Film Festival and at the Goya Awards;"
"of parts, such as a criminal in ""The Usual Suspects"" (1995) and a gangster in ""The Whole Nine Yards"" (2000). He also briefly hosted ""Celebrity Poker Showdown"" in its first season. His most substantial role to date was in ""Deterrence"" (1999), in which he played the main character, a Vice President who must take over for a deceased President and deal with a nuclear crisis. In December 2006, he played Karl Kreutzfeld in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries ""The Lost Room"". Through 2008, he had a recurring role as a District Attorney on the television series ""Shark"". In March 2008,"
"Primary Suspect Primary Suspect is a 2000 American action-thriller-mystery film written by D.Alvelo and Marc Bienstock and directed by Jeff Celentano. The film stars William Baldwin, Brigitte Bako, and Lee Majors. While on an undercover infiltration mission, Denver police detective Christian Box played by William Baldwin has to use some drugs, and is believed by many to have become an addict; it goes wrong, and his wife, also on the operation, is killed and Christian Box gets blamed. Thanks to Lieutenant Blake played by Lee Majors, Box is not officially charged, but instead is demoted to desk work. Two years"
"Reasonable Doubt (2014 film) Reasonable Doubt (also known as The Good Samaritan) is a 2014 Canadian-German crime thriller film directed by Peter Howitt and written by Peter A. Dowling. The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Erin Karpluk, Gloria Reuben and Ryan Robbins. It received generally negative reviews from critics. While driving home in a state of intoxication after celebrating winning a court case, ambitious young Chicago District Attorney Mitch Brockden (Dominic Cooper) is accidentally involved in a fatal hit and run. In an effort to preserve his legal career, he covers it up. Clinton Davis (Samuel L. Jackson),"
"played on numerous TV and film projects as a session player, including the Oscar-winning film ""The Usual Suspects"". His music was also featured on the Weather Channel's Local Forecast segments from 1986 to 1991. Dan Siegel (musician) Dan Siegel (born in Seattle, Washington) is a pianist, composer, and record producer. His earlier music has been described as new age, while his more recent work has been called contemporary jazz. Siegel was born in Seattle, Washington and raised in Eugene, Oregon. When he was eight, he began piano lessons, and at 12 he was performing professionally in a rock band. He"
"Jacques Bonnaffé Jacques Bonnaffé (born 22 June 1958) is a French actor and stage director. He has appeared in more than ninety films since 1980. Jacques Bonnaffé was formed at the Lille Conservatory after his high school years in Douai (North) where he practiced amateur theater. At 20, he started in the film ""Anthracite"" directed by Édouard Niermans. In 1995, he is the French voice of actor Kevin Spacey in the film The Usual Suspects. He is also dedicated to poetry and readings of Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Mousseron or other authors such as Ludovic Janvier, Valérie Rouzeau, or . He"
"to tell him the role was intended to be comedic. Klemperer remarked, ""I had one qualification when I took the job: if they ever wrote a segment whereby Colonel Klink would come out the hero, I would leave the show."" John Banner as Sergeant Schultz, Klink's main sergeant. He is a clumsy and inept man that often gives out information to the prisoners for bribes. Banner was, in reality, born to Jewish parents and was a U.S. Army sergeant during World War II. Ivan Dixon as Sergeant Kinchloe, the man responsible for contacting with the underground by electronic communications. Kinchloe"
"agent and the love interest of both Stauffer and Stauffer's well-connected second-in-command, Gestapo Standartenführer Karl Heiser (J. Edward Bromberg). According to their plan, Sorenson attempts to gain information from Heiser during a private dinner, with Griffin as witness. Inexplicably, Griffin uses his invisibility to play tricks on Heiser instead. Finally enraged when the dinner table mysteriously tips and soils his uniform, Heiser places Sorenson under house-arrest. Later, an apologetic Griffin demonstrates his existence to Sorenson by putting on a robe and smearing facial cream on his features. The two are attracted to each other. Conrad Stauffer returns from his efforts"
"ganz normale Wahnsinn"" in which Fischer for the first time got to play a manquéed playboy. The final breakthrough came in 1983 with Helmut Fischer's series ""Monaco Franze – Der ewige Stenz"". Again Helmut Dietl was the director, Patrick Süskind cooperated on the scripts to almost all episodes. In the series, which has now reached cult status among fans, Fischer alongside Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Christine Kaufmann, and in inimitable way embodied an easygoing dandy, charmer and ladies' men, who always manages to master awkward situations with a sheepy smile. Famous sayings by the character role like ""A bisserl was geht"
"the location of the story, for example ""Der Fälscher von London"" (""The Forger of London""), ""Der Bucklige von Soho"" (""The Hunchback of Soho"") and ""Die Tote aus der Themse"" (""The Dead Girl in the Thames""). The repeated casting of the same actors, generally for similar roles, is typical for the 60s Wallace movies as well. Among the most popular investigators are Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Drache and Siegfried Lowitz. Shady characters were mostly played by Fritz Rasp, Pinkas Braun, Harry Wüstenhagen and especially Klaus Kinski, while comic relief was offered by Eddi Arent, Siegfried Schürenberg and later Hubert von Meyerinck, or"
"punching a clock."" Frank Scheck of ""The Hollywood Reporter"" felt the film wasted the time of the audience and commented that Cooper never elicited the audience's sympathy for his character. Reasonable Doubt (2014 film) Reasonable Doubt (also known as The Good Samaritan) is a 2014 Canadian-German crime thriller film directed by Peter Howitt and written by Peter A. Dowling. The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Erin Karpluk, Gloria Reuben and Ryan Robbins. It received generally negative reviews from critics. While driving home in a state of intoxication after celebrating winning a court case, ambitious young Chicago District Attorney"
"is a Lou Reed devotee. ""The Man With a Load of Mischief"", ""Help the Poor Struggler"" and ""The Deer Leap"" were filmed for German and Austrian television under the titles ""Der Tote im Pub (The Dead Man in the Pub"") (2013), ""Mord im Nebel (Murder in the Fog"") (2015) and ""Inspektor Jury spielt Katz und Maus (Inspector Jury Plays Cat-and-mouse"") (2017). Fritz Karl as Jury, Götz Schubert as Plant and Katharina Thalbach as ""Lady"" Agatha Ardry. Melrose Plant Melrose Plant is a fictional character in Martha Grimes' series of Richard Jury mystery novels. Superintendent Richard Jury is a Scotland Yard"
"unusual is the portrayal of Himmler's personality. While Hitler is always impersonated by Heinz Schubert, Himmler's role is split into several actors, including Schubert among others, each indicating a different purported aspect about Himmler's personality, such as ""the esoterical ideologue"" (played by Rainer von Artenfels), dressed as an SS member, ""the military leader"" (leading a war for Nazism and Germany, against the Jews and other degenerated, ""un-German"" influences; played by Helmut Lange as well), dressed like an ordinary Wehrmacht officer, or ""Hitler's ideological adherent and loyal servant"" (dressed in an SS uniform, played by Peter Kern as well). Some continuity"
"ended with ""Das Rätsel des silbernen Halbmonds"" in 1972. The typical Krimi movie of the 60s contains a number of distinct stylistic traits, which not only makes the films a true series, but – seen in context with other, similar German crime movies of that time – marks them as part of a true film subgenre as well. In particular, the two directors Harald Reinl (five movies) and Alfred Vohrer (14 movies) made their mark. While Reinl preferred long dolly shots /pans and exterior shots, Vohrer's films are known for their slight overacting and their distinct zoom and editing styles."
"Ordinary Decent Criminal Ordinary Decent Criminal is a 2000 crime comedy film, directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, written by Gerard Stembridge, and stars Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorentino. The film is loosely based on the story of Martin Cahill, a famous Irish crime boss. Filmed in late 1998 and originally scheduled for a fall 1999 release, the movie was put out overseas first the following year but it never got a proper theatrical release in the United States, where it was released straight to video in January 2003, almost five years after filming began. Michael Lynch is one of Dublin's most"
"'Krauts' or 'Gerrys' spoke, they did so in German. Actor Robert Winston Mercy, who wrote one script and played a number of German officers, told me the uniforms were so precisely recreated with correct pipings and insignias that he would cause a stir among Jewish cafeteria workers when he strode in wearing his costume during lunch breaks."" Recurring Characters: Season 1 only (except Davis who appeared twice in Season 2) Note: Fletcher Fist, Dennis Robertson, William Harlow, Arnold Meritt and John Considine all played different characters in minor guest roles in Seasons 2-5. Prior to portraying Pvt. McCall, William Bryant"
"attention of DP Haskell Wexler, and the two spent several years developing what would become the 1985 film ""Latino"", his first feature film as director of photography. Sigel worked mostly on television films and as a second unit DP throughout the 1980s before shooting the comedy film ""Rude Awakening"". He regularly served under Robert Richardson on films like ""Platoon"" and ""The Doors.""Starting with ""The Usual Suspects"", he has become the regular cinematographer of director Bryan Singer. His father, Irving Sigel, was a psychologist who worked for the Educational Testing Service. He is married to Lisa Chang. Sigel is Jewish. Newton"