John Turturro "He Got Game" (1998), "Summer of Sam" (1999), "She Hate Me" (2004), and "Miracle at St. Anna" (2008). Turturro has appeared in both comedy and drama films, and engaged in an extended collaboration with the Coen Brothers—he appeared in their films "Miller's Crossing" (1990), "Barton Fink" (1991, in the lead role), "The Big Lebowski" (1998), and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000). Turtutto has also appeared in several of Adam Sandler's movies, such as "Mr. Deeds" (2002) and "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" (2008). He played a severely disturbed patient of Jack Nicholson's character in the comedy "Anger Management"
Francis John Byrne Francis John Byrne Francis John Byrne (born 1934 - died 30 December 2017) was an Irish historian. Born in Shanghai where his father, a Dundalk man, captained a ship on the Yellow River, Byrne was evacuated with his mother to Australia on the outbreak of World War II. After the war, his mother returned to Ireland, where his father, who had survived internment in Japanese hands, returned to take up work as a harbour master. Byrne attended Blackrock College in County Dublin where he learned Latin and Greek, to add to the Chinese he had learned in his Shanghai childhood.