本名关家蒨,美国演员,生于吉隆坡。是首位在西方电影成名的亚洲女星,她的成功为以后打入西方电影的亚洲裔演员作出了很大的帮助。关南施在1960年代被认为是一个东方性感符号。 ...
1950年代崛起于舞台表演的苏珊娜·普莱薛特除了演过希区柯克的《群鸟》中女教师一角,最让影迷印象深刻的就是在电视情境喜剧影集《The Bob Newhart Show》里饰演心理医师巴布纽沃特的妻子,两度因该剧入围艾美奖。
生于明尼苏达州贝来肯,早期曾做过牙科护士和摄影模特儿。1941年被选中出演影片《不法之徒》(旧译《双枪太保》)中一名妖艳的女子,由此开始其银幕表演生涯。此片1943年曾短暂上映,引起轩然大波,1950年1月起遭到禁映。之后饰演一些玩世不恭的性格角色。1971年主演百老汇音乐剧《交际》。目前仍在一些影视片中断续出现。其主要影片还有《小寡妇》、《脂粉双枪侠》、《拉斯维加斯的故事》、《法国线条》、《火狐》、《热血》、《琥珀还要暗淡》等。
罗伯特·J·威尔克,Prolific American character actor of primarily villainous roles. The son of German parents, Cincinnati feed-store manager August Wilke and his wife Rose, Robert Joseph Wilke grew up in Cincinnati. He worked as a lifeguard at a Miami, Florida, hotel, where he made contacts in the film business.
From the grand old school of wisecracking, loud and lanky Mary Wickes had few peers while forging a career as a salty scene-stealer. Her abrupt, tell-it-like-it-is demeanor made her a consistent audience favorite on every medium for over six decades. She was particularly adroit in film parts that chided the super rich or exceptionally pious, and was a major chastiser in generation-gap comedies. TV holds a vault full of not-to-be-missed vignettes where she served as a brusque foil to many a top TV comic star. Case in point: who could possibly forget her merciless ballet taskmaster, Madame Lamond, putting Lucille Ball through her rigorous paces at the ballet bar in a classic I Love Lucy (1951) episode?
Stocky character actor Stanley Adams had a relatively minor career in motion pictures, with the possible exception of his baby-faced millionaire Rusty Trawler of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) fame. Otherwise, he played innumerable minor ethnic villains, bartenders and avuncular, fast-talking characters, known in the credits only by their first names. In other words, most of his roles were rather small. On television, conversely, he proved himself quite a scene-stealer, particularly in the 1960's and early 70's, when his face appeared on just about every major show. He was at his best as pool hustler Sure-shot Wilson in an episode of The Odd Couple (1970), Rollo, a quirky time-traveling scientist on The Twilight Zone (1959), and - famously - as 'asteroid detecting', tribble dealing galactic entrepreneur Cyrano Jones on Star Trek (1966). Alas, he was also a space carrot named Tybo on Lost in Space (1965)....