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Brad Dexter (born Boris Michel Soso; [1] April 9, 1917 – December 12, 2002) was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles, including the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven (1960), and producing several films for Sidney J. Furie such as Lady Sings the Blues.
Lawrence James Tierney (March 15, 1919 – February 26, 2002) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and "tough-guys" in a career that spanned over fifty years.
Palance's acting break came as Marlon Brando's understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski. (Anthony Quinn, however, gained the opportunity to tour the play.) [19] Palance appeared in two plays in 1948 with short runs, A Temporary Island and The Vigil. He made his television debut in ...
Ex-Peoria Rivermen tough guy Ryan Reaves learned he is the great-great-great grandson of renowned old west U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, now a TV series.
Raised in a working-class neighbourhood in Queens, the actor – who adopted the name Burt Young when he began acting – built a prolific career of more than 160 film and TV credits predicated ...
William Forsythe (born June 7, 1955) [1] is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of tough-guy, criminal characters, and has starred in films such as American Me (1992), Raising Arizona (1987), Dick Tracy (1990), Gotti (1996), The Rock (1996), and The Devil's Rejects (2005).
The Bronx-born, Queens-raised actor appeared in more than 90 films after making an uncredited appearance as “Soldier With Radio” in Billy Wilder’s 1963 rom-com Irma la Douce, starring Jack ...
He left MGM around 1940 but continued to work in mostly low-budget productions. He often played the tough guy in action and crime dramas, but was known as a comic actor as well as a dramatic lead. He gained great attention with a showy role in The Story of Dr Wassell and became a comedy star. He expressed interest in expanding into direction. [9]