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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 23, 2017 0:01:51 GMT
Arthur Miller in Boomerang Jerzy Kosinski as Zinoviev in Reds Gore Vidal in Bob Roberts
 Edmund Trzcinski -- prisoner in the real life Stalag 17 and co-author of the play. I believe it. I believe it.  |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 23, 2017 0:28:53 GMT
Norman Mailer had an acting role in Ragtime 1981, and apparently in a movie called Cremaster 2 1999 as Harry Houdini
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 23, 2017 1:24:03 GMT
English playwright Noel Coward has 20 acting credits over at IMDb... with some great memorable performances particularly In Which We Serve (1942) and the Astonished Heart (1950)
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 23, 2017 1:26:32 GMT
English playwright Noel Coward has 20 acting credits over at IMDb... with some great memorable performances particularly In Which We Serve (1942) and the Astonished Heart (1950) I don't want to get too hung up on technicalities, but NC started as a boy actor. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 23, 2017 1:45:32 GMT
Erich Maria Remarque (w/ John Gavin) in A Time to Love and a Time to Die |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 23, 2017 2:10:15 GMT
English playwright Noel Coward has 20 acting credits over at IMDb... with some great memorable performances particularly In Which We Serve (1942) and the Astonished Heart (1950) I don't want to get too hung up on technicalities, but NC started as a boy actor. in theatre, Noel Coward began writing in his early teens, the focus of this board is Classic film, if we are going to be technical Arthur Miller may have appeared in a couple of obscure films in bit parts, hardly a writer who "became an actor" Wiki dosen't give him any credit for acting.. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 23, 2017 2:33:13 GMT
I don't want to get too hung up on technicalities, but NC started as a boy actor. in theatre, Noel Coward began writing in his early teens, the focus of this board is Classic film, if we are going to be technical Arthur Miller may have appeared in a couple of obscure films in bit parts, hardly a writer who "became an actor" Wiki dosen't give him any credit for acting.. Like I said, I don't want to get into a big argument in a just-for-fun thread, and I was unaware Coward did any serious pre- Vortex writing. But even if he did, I would still classify him as an actor who became a writer, rather than the other way around |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 23, 2017 5:26:15 GMT
Arthur Miller in BoomerangJerzy Kosinski as Zinoviev in RedsGore Vidal in Bob Roberts
Edmund Trzcinski -- prisoner in the real life Stalag 17 and co-author of the play. I believe it. I believe it. Sam Shepard. |
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 23, 2017 5:31:18 GMT
charles willeford in COCKFIGHTER (a movie based on a book which he wrote).
michel houellebecq
irvine welsh
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 23, 2017 5:54:40 GMT
Hardbolied novelist Jim Thompson ( The Getaway, The Killer Inside Me), who co-wrote the scripts of The Killing and Paths of Glory, plays the judge in the Mitchum remake of Farewell My Lovely:  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 23, 2017 6:42:55 GMT
Harold Pinter , Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. At the age of 12 Pinter began writing poetry. His first screen role, as Seeley was in a film adaption of his own play A Night Out in 1960 for the British TV series, Armchair Theatre under the pseudonym David Baron. Pinter continued acting and had many notable film appearances, pictured below as Saul Abrahams in Rogue Male which starred Peter O'Toole in 1976 which is an excellent remake of Lang's 1941 film Man Hunt... 
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 23, 2017 18:40:21 GMT
Truman Capote (w/Peter Falk and David Niven) in Murder by Death. I wish Vidal had played this role -- Capote was pretty awful.  |
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 23, 2017 19:27:24 GMT
Truman Capote (w/Peter Falk and David Niven) in Murder by Death. I wish Vidal had played this role -- Capote was pretty awful. I'm sure Vidal would have been--er--interesting in the part, Richard, but I'm going to have to disagree with you re: Capote. His limited acting abilities aside, I found him absolutely hilarious in the role. "It's a moose, you idiot, a moose!" |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 23, 2017 21:08:55 GMT
We'll have to agree to disagree on Capote. But: I'm sure Vidal would have been--er--interesting in the part I'll go one better. During Vidal's later, corpulent phase I think he would have made a great Nero Wolfe   He certainly had the vanity and superiority down pat. I think he could have handled Wolfe's childlike petulance. |
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 23, 2017 21:30:31 GMT
We'll have to agree to disagree on Capote. But: I'm sure Vidal would have been--er--interesting in the part I'll go one better. During Vidal's later, corpulent phase I think he would have made a great Nero Wolfe He certainly had the vanity and superiority down pat. I think he could have handled Wolfe's childlike petulance. Uh, well, OK, Richard... Uhh... Yeah. "Vanity," "superiority," and "petulance"? Yeah, those characterize Gore Vidal pretty well. But how about the character's likability, respect for individualism, and sense of justice? Those were fairly foreign to the late Mr. Vidal, great writer though he was. Anyway, who would play Archie? Bill Buckley?  |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 23, 2017 22:03:24 GMT
Uh, well, OK, Richard... Uhh... Yeah. "Vanity," "superiority," and "petulance"? Yeah, those characterize Gore Vidal pretty well. But how about the character's likability, respect for individualism, and sense of justice? Those were fairly foreign to the late Mr. Vidal, great writer though he was. Vidal had undeniable charm. And if you've read the books, you'll know the early Wolfe isn't all that likable. Stout softened him later. I definitely would have preferred Vidal as Wolfe to Maury Chaykin or William Conrad, both of whom were bulls in a china shop, lacking all charm and Wolfe's curious childlike quality. In case anyone cares the best Wolfe I've seen is Thayer David in the '70s TV movie/pilot. Ironically, and tragically, David's biggest flaw is he isn't fat enough. He'd been very ill and had lost a great deal of weight. He would die the next year, over a year before the Wolfe film was aired. You touch one of the odd things about Wolfe adaptations: Archie, not Wolfe, has been the difficult role to get right. The two Columbia films in the '30s had the preposterously miscast Lionel Stander. The WWII radio shows (I think one episode survives of each series) had William Powellish light comedians. The early '50s radio series w/ S. Greenstreet (very good) came close with radio vets Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell and especially Gerald Mohr, so good as Philip Marlowe. The Thayer David TVM has a barely adequate Tom Mason; as for Conrad's Lee Horsley, ditto. And as for Tim Hutton's Archie, the less said the better. We never got see two potentially interesting Archies. In the '70s it was rumored Orson Welles might join the NBC Mystery Movie series as Wolfe, w/Bill Cosby as Archie. And in the category of "Like a car wreck, you can't help but slow down and look", in the late '50s there were a handful of produced episodes of an unaired Wolfe series, w/ Kurt Kasznar as Wolfe -- and William Shatner as Archie. I'd love to see it someday -- in the same way I'd love to see the Let It Be outtakes where The Beatles argue and exchange vicious insults. |
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 23, 2017 22:17:50 GMT
Uh, well, OK, Richard... Uhh... Yeah. "Vanity," "superiority," and "petulance"? Yeah, those characterize Gore Vidal pretty well. But how about the character's likability, respect for individualism, and sense of justice? Those were fairly foreign to the late Mr. Vidal, great writer though he was. Vidal had undeniable charm. And if you've read the books, you'll know the early Wolfe isn't all that likable. Stout softened him later. I definitely would have preferred Vidal as Wolfe to Maury Chaykin or William Conrad, both of whom were bulls in a china shop, lacking all charm and Wolfe's curious childlike quality. In case anyone cares the best Wolfe I've seen is Thayer David in the '70s TV movie/pilot. Ironically, and tragically, David's biggest flaw is he isn't fat enough. He'd been very ill and had lost a great deal of weight. He would die the next year, over a year before the Wolfe film was aired. You touch one of the odd things about Wolfe adaptations: Archie, not Wolfe, has been the difficult role to get right. The two Columbia films in the '30s had the preposterously miscast Lionel Stander. The WWII radio shows (I think one episode survives of each series) had William Powellish light comedians. The early '50s radio series w/ S. Greenstreet (very good) came close with radio vets Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell and especially Gerald Mohr, so good as Philip Marlowe. The Thayer David TVM has a barely adequate Tom Mason; as for Conrad's Lee Horsley, ditto. And as for Tim Hutton's Archie, the less said the better. We never got see two potentially interesting Archies. In the '70s it was rumored Orson Welles might join the NBC Mystery Movie series as Wolfe, w/Bill Cosby as Archie. And in the category of "Like a car wreck, you can't help but slow down and look", in the late '50s there were a handful of produced episodes of an unaired Wolfe series, w/ Kurt Kasznar as Wolfe -- and William Shatner as Archie. I'd love to see it someday -- in the same way I'd love to see the Let It Be outtakes where The Beatles argue and exchange vicious insults. Oh, Vidal had charm, absolutely--in fact, I enjoy reading his books and articles just for how charming and well-written they are--but I stand by my criticisms above. Still, nil nisi bonum, so I'll henceforth be quiet. Yes, I've read the books, and you're right about the early Wolfe, but the characterization becomes solidified (I'm not sure about "softened") at about the time of Too Many Cooks. There's an incredible scene in which Wolfe gives a long (anti-racist) monologue about how much he loves the United States. He, Archie, and Stout were also all overwhelmingly supportive of WWII. (Stout was very liberal for his time, but, in our time, with how much we've changed, some people would undoubtedly call him a conservative!) That doesn't exactly seem Vidalian (to coin the word) to me. You're right about Archie, and I agree with you about the radio series' probably being the best Wolfe adaptation. (I absolutely love the Chaykin-Hutton series, though, so I'll be quiet about those too, judging from your comments! ) Bill Cosby and William Shatner. Wow. That's all I have to say. Wow. |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 24, 2017 17:23:55 GMT
Mickey Spillane, acted as "himself" in the circus movie Ring of Fear 1954, and as his own creation Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters 1963. Also an episode on Columbo tv-series 1974 called Publish or Perish.
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 24, 2017 17:32:00 GMT
Ally Sheedy wrote a best-selling book, She Was Nice to Mice,
before she became an actress. She
was 12 at the time.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 27, 2017 1:26:58 GMT
Kimitake Hiraoka (January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970) Pen/actor name Yukio Mishima
Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968 but the award that year went to a fellow countryman.
His avant-garde works blended modern and traditional aesthetics which broke cultural boundaries, with their focus on sexuality, death, and political change.
At twelve, Mishima began to write his first stories., publishing his first major work in 1949. Mishima wrote novels, popular serial novellas, short stories and literary essays, as well as highly acclaimed plays for the Kabuki theatre and modern versions of traditional Noh drama. In his short life Mishima wrote 34 novels, about 50 plays, about 25 books of short stories, and at least 35 books of essays.
Later in life Mishima also became an actor, his first major starring role was in Yasuzo Masumura's outstanding crime melodrama, Karakkaze yarô, Man of the Biting Wind (1960) pictured below with co-star Ayako Wakao...
Mishima lead a failed coup attempt in 1970 and committed seppuku (ritual suicide) soon after...
The Mishima Yukio Prize is a Japanese literary award presented annually it was established in 1988 to honour the memory of the great author.
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