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The Odd Couple  (1970 TV series) Felix and Oscar. The success of the 1968 film version of the stage play of The Odd Couple, which starred Jack Lemmon as Felix and Walter Matthau as Oscar, served as the catalyst to bringing the characters to television.
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- Peter Finch was the first actor to win an Academy Award posthumously. He received the Best Actor Oscar in 1977 for his electrifying performance as TV anchor Howard Beale in Network. Finch died of a heart attack on January 14, 1977, less than three months before the ceremony.
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Karl Malden, Oscar Winner and Acclaimed Character Actor, Dies at 97 Karl Malden, Oscar Winner and Acclaimed Character Actor, Dies at 97. Academy Award winner Karl Malden, who starred alongside friend Marlon Brando in such classic films at A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, and won another generation of fans with the TV show The Streets of San Francisco, has died. He was 97.
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- So sorry to hear that CBS has cancelled The Odd Couple. Perry and Lennon were perfectly cast as Oscar and Felix. I saw Perry in his play, The End of Longing, yesterday in NYC. He is such a gifted actor.
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- Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas star in this great action-thriller. Sylvester Stallone plays Robert Rath, who is supposed to kill this guy at a funeral, but someone beats him to it. He tracks the man and has a nice little talk with him. The other man is another assassin, Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas).
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Where do Oscar winners keep their Academy Awards? Holly Hunter reportedly keeps her best actress award, which she won for her portrayal of Ada McGrath in the 1994 New Zealand film, The Piano, at the New York offices of Joel and Ethan Coen. It sits alongside the statue Frances McDormand won for her role as the heavily-pregnant local police chief with the insatiable appetite, Marge Gunderson, in the Coens’ 1996 film Fargo.
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- Richard Anderson, the Emmy-nominated actor who played Oscar Goldman in both hit series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, died August 31. He was 91. Richard Anderson, the Emmy-nominated actor who played Oscar Goldman in both hit series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, died August 31.
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Ten Years Later: Welcome to Mooseport I confirmed with Lurie that he was the original director, but left the project for undisclosed reasons. When he was attached, Lurie said he wanted to cast Dustin Hoffman as the president. So if that version of Welcome to Mooseport happened, Runaway Jury would have been Gene Hackman’s last movie.
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Broadway legend Joel Grey memoir reveals secret gay affair with his temple's cantor, sex play as a child with cousin Broadway legend Joel Grey memoir reveals secret gay affair with his temple's cantor, sex play as a child with cousin. Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles and Joel Grey as Master of Ceremonies in a scene from Cabaret.. Grey won an Oscar for his performance. Broadway legend Joel Grey opens up about his closeted sexuality in the heartbreakingly honest memoir, Master of Ceremonies..
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- Storyline. Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is neat, tidy, and neurotic, whereas Oscar is slovenly and casual.
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Diff'rent Strokes The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two black boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato), for whom their deceased mother previously worked.
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Oldest and youngest Oscar nominees in years past Jessica Tandy graced the group of oldest Oscar nominees twice! At 80, she got a Best Actress nod for playing the saucy title character opposite Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy.
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The Popularization of Running in the United States It began in the United States as a sport enjoyed only in youth programs, colleges, or at professional levels. But in the 1970’s the nation rapidly grew interested in participating in the sport as amateurs. This heath kick did not become a fad, but a movement.
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oscarsAll Oscar Hosts Oscar hosts have included actors and actresses, film directors, musicians and comedians. Oh, and an animated Disney character. Yes, in 1958, Donald Duck co-hosted the Academy Awards alongside Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon and Rosalind Russell. Donald didn't actually appear on stage, only on film, but this marks the only time any animated character has officially hosted the Oscars.
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- Oscar-Winning Roles First on TV: The only two Best Actor winners who first played their Oscar-winning roles on TV were: 1  Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) [Note: Schell is the lowest-billed performer to win a Best Actor Academy Award.
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Is there anyone who has both acted in and directed a film and won an Oscar for best actor or best director? Lawrence Olivier, Hamlet (1948) Olivier won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( and was nominated for Best Director). The movie also won the Oscar for Best Film. Roberto Benigni, Life is Beautiful (1997) Same story. Benigni won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( and was nominated for Best Director).
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'He should have won the Oscar!' Oliver Twist actor Mark Lester pays tribute to Ron Moody who has died aged 91 Child star Mark Lester, who was famed for playing Oliver in the hit musical film, tonight led the tributes to his co-star Ron Moody, who has died aged 91. Mr Lester, who starred in Oliver Twist at the age of just eight, said his co-star ‘should have won an Oscar for Best Actor’ for his role as Fagin.
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Gary Burghoff From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gary Rich Burghoff (born May 24, 1943) is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene Radar O'Reilly in the film M*A*S*H, as well as the TV series. 1 Life and career.
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Isabelle Fuhrman Comment1 Share. Isabelle Fuhrman (born February 25, 1997) is an American actress. Fuhrman is best known for playing Esther in the 2009 horror film Orphan, and Clove, the female tribute from District Two, in The Hunger Games. Fuhrman was born in Washington, D.C. on February 25, 1997, and grew up in Atlanta.
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Felix the Cat: The Movie Felix The Cat: The Movie is a feature length film from The Renaissance Age of Animation, starring Felix the Cat, a Funny Animal who walks the earth and happens to own a Magic Bag Of Tricks, who travels into another dimension after being summoned by a sentient teardrop to save the Kingdom of Oriana and its Princess from her Evil Uncle, The Duke Of ...
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J.K. Simmons Wins Best Supporting Actor At The 2015 Oscars, Wants You To Call Your Mom J.K. Simmons won Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars on Sunday for his performance in Whiplash.. In the film, Simmons plays fearsome band teacher Terence Fletcher, who continuously abuses young jazz drummer Andrew (Miles Teller) as the student tries to prove his worth. This is the 60-year-old actor's first Oscar nomination and win.
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- Bening has been nominated four times for Oscars for her roles in “The Kids Are All Right,” “Being Julia,” “American Beauty,” and “The Grifters.” Of the eight Oscars that “American Beauty” was nominated for in 2000, Bening’s category (Best Actress in a Leading Role) was one of the three that the film didn’t take home. She lost to Hilary Swank for her performance in “Boys Don’t Cry.”
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- About The Odd Couple. THE ODD COUPLE stars Matthew Perry as endearing slob Oscar Madison and Thomas Lennon as uptight neat freak Felix Unger, two former college buddies who become unlikely roommates after the demise of their marriages. It’s not long after Oscar lets Felix move in that Oscar fears he’s made a monumental mistake.
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See All 15 Pairs of Oscar-Winning Siblings Both won an Oscar for Best Short Subject for A Time Out of War (1955). Denis also won Best Documentary for Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969), while Terry also won for Best Documentary Feature for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994).
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Tribute to Whoopi Goldberg and African-American Actors â Why We Need Black and Womenâs History Months He had been the first African-American nominated for a leading Oscar in 1958, and the first to win Best Actor, in Lilies of the Field, in 1963. It is also noteworthy that Whoopi Goldberg was the host for that historic ceremony.
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- Film and television work. Metcalf is well-known for his role in the 1978 college comedy Animal House, where he played the sadistic ROTC leader Douglas C. Neidermeyer. He played a similar character in the Twisted Sister music videos We're Not Gonna Take It, as the father, and I Wanna Rock, as a high school teacher.