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Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy is the first biography of the notorious and legendary screen actor Lawrence Tierney, written by Burt Kearns and published on 6 December 2022 by the University Press of Kentucky, [1] as part of its Screen Classics series.
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.
Danny Trejo (/ ˈ t r eɪ h oʊ /, Spanish:; born May 16, 1944) is an American actor.A native of Los Angeles, Trejo's film career began in 1985, when he landed a role in Runaway Train (1985).
He appeared in 30 Broadway plays, [1] and more than 100 films, during a 50-year career, [2] and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as Little Caesar and Key Largo. During his career, Robinson received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in House of Strangers .
Oscar-nominated actor Burt Young has died, aged 83. Young was best known for his role in the Rocky movies, in which he starred as Paulie, the butcher friend of Rocky Balboa (played by Sylvester ...
James Caan, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated leading man known for his no-nonsense, tough-guy demeanor on- and off-screen in such classics as The Godfather and Misery, died Wednesday night at age 82 ...
Walter Jack Palance [1] (/ ˈ p æ l ən s / PAL-əns; born Volodymyr Ivanovich Palahniuk; [a] February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American screen and stage actor, known to film audiences for playing tough guys and villains.
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).