约翰·赫特生于1940年,在他19岁时,赢得了到中央圣马丁艺术与设计学院学习的机会。绘画的学习磨练了赫特的观察技巧。1962年进军戏剧和电影界,数年后以金像奖影片《良相佐国》的演出受到瞩目。1978年以《午夜快车》首次获奥斯卡最佳男配角奖提名,两年后主演的《象人》更广受好评,获...
布里奇特·芳达出身演艺世家,祖父亨利·方达,父亲彼得·方达,姑姑则是简·方达。布里奇特·芳达小时候的愿望是当一个画家,念高中时被选为学生剧的女主角而对演戏产生了兴趣。从纽约大学戏剧系毕业后进入李史崔斯堡研习表演,累积舞台和电视演出经验。1987年,布里奇特·芳达凭借多段...
伊安·麦克莱恩出生在英国北部的米尔敦。其父是当地的一名土木工程师。二战爆发前,他们全家搬到了南兰开夏的维根。伊安对戏剧的喜爱得益于父母的鼓励与支持。在他3岁的时候,父母就带他到曼彻斯特观看了名剧《彼得·潘》。他7岁那年的圣诞礼物是一个可以折叠的维多利亚风格...
A much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes, Leslie Phillips' heart was in acting from a very young age. He received elocution lessons as a child in order to lose his natural cockney accent (at that time a regional British accent was a major impediment to an aspiring actor) and he attended the Italia Conti School.
Ronald Fraser, the British movie and television character actor, was born on April 11, 1930 in Ashton-under-Lyme, England. He began his professional acting career in 1954 and began appearing in small roles in movies and television in 1957. His first major movie credit was as a soldier, Lance Corporal 'Mac' Macleish in The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961). He specialized in playing nasty, brutish types, such as the piggish Private Campbell in Robert Aldrich's World War II drama Too Late the Hero (1970), who robs a corpse, kills a fellow British solder, and deserts his compatriots to surrender to the Japanese before being strung up like a slaughtered hog by the enemy. He also appeared in Aldrich's The Killing of Sister George (1968) and gave a memorable performance as Sergeant Watson in the original The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), also directed by Aldrich. He was versatile enough as an actor to occasionally break type, such as his turn as Colonel Pickering in the 1981 Celebrity Playhouse: Pygmalion (1981), which starred Twiggy as Eliza Dolittle.