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Dennis Dexter Haysbert (born June 2, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as baseball player Pedro Cerrano in the Major League film trilogy, Secret Service agent Tim Collin in the political thriller film Absolute Power, Sergeant Major Jonas Blane on the CBS military action drama series The Unit, God on the Netflix show Lucifer, and President David Palmer on the first five ...
Larson was born on February 8, 1928 [3] in Los Angeles, the son of Anita (Calicoff), a Western Union clerk, and George Larson, a milk truck driver.His father was of English and Swedish descent and his mother was from a Jewish family (from Germany and Russia).
He played the part of Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989). The same year he starred opposite Jeremy Irons in the television film adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's book Danny, the Champion of the World. [19] He co-starred with Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run (1990) and played the Pope in The Pope Must Die (1991). [16]
Shakespeare originally named Falstaff "John Oldcastle", a real historical personage who died in 1417. Lord Cobham , a descendant of Oldcastle, complained, forcing Shakespeare to change the name. Shakespeare's Henry IV plays and Henry V adapted and developed the material in an earlier play called The Famous Victories of Henry V , in which Sir ...
Robert Oliver Reed (14 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor, known for his upper-middle class, macho image [1] and his heavy-drinking, "hellraiser" lifestyle.
They were wonderful. They lent a real authenticity to their stuff, farmers complaining about their bills and all that." [1] Ted Moult, who played Harold Carter, was a real farmer in the 1940s but became a radio and television personality in the mid-1960s. He committed suicide in 1986, aged 60, after a period of depression after several weeks of ...
Eduard von Grützner's Falstaff with big wine jar and cup shows the traditional jolly and comical depiction of Falstaff that Welles rejected. Welles considered Falstaff "Shakespeare's greatest creation" [108] and said the role was "the most difficult part I ever played in my life."
Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. With a career spanning more than sixty years, he is noted for his roles on the screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction.