Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Birthdays: Actors



It is very easy to think of privileged moments that a number of actors born today have shared with me:

Jean-Pierre Leaud (born 1944): Repeating "Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel" into the bathroom mirror in Francois Truffaut's Stolen Kisses.

 

Michael Murphy (born 1938): Giving Jack Tanner's big off-the-cuff speech to his staff, captured on film unbeknownst to him, in Robert Altman's and Garry Trudeau's tremendous mini-series Tanner '88.

 

Vincent Kartheiser (born 1979): Dancing up a storm in perhaps the single most joyous scene in the entire run of Mad Men.

 
MAD MEN - Pete and Trudy Charleston - 3.03 por Bilindik_Hikayeler

Tyrone Power (1914-1958): Struggling with how to save the most lives in a severely overcrowded lifeboat in Richard Sale's brilliant Abandon Ship!



Richard E. Grant (born 1957): Doing the "elevator pitch" for the death-penalty thriller Habeas Corpus in Altman's The Player, a scene that will reverberate throughout the rest of the movie. (Tim Robbins' reactions here are priceless, too.)



Roger Rees (born 1944): On stage as Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby in the eight-hour Royal Shakespeare Festival production, one of my great theatrical memories.

 

Francois Truffaut's Adventures of Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows / Antoine & Collette / Stolen Kisses / Bed & Board / Love on the Run) (The Criterion Collection)

Tanner '88 (The Criterion Collection)

Mad Men: Season 1

Seven Waves Away ( Abandon Ship (Seven Seas Away) ) ( Seven Days from Now (7 Waves Away) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]

The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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