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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 25, 2018 14:38:39 GMT
I'm not just talking about the time in between two roles exactly but it can be that too - I mean more a relatively sustained career and stardom with many "high points" across movies, TV.
Christopher Plummer is an obvious one (and thriving in his 80s) and Redford and Beatty go back at a higher level of film stardom than him though you can argue not really sustained nowadays for Beatty maybe (more so than Redford who had All Is Lost).
Streep and Lange are at approximately 40 years.........! In the old days Jack Lemmon and Laurence Olivier were major over 40 years - I just watched Olivier's amazing TV King Lear.
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 25, 2018 14:53:20 GMT
Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.
Hanks was a major sitcom actor on Bosom Buddies in the early 80's before his big movie break with Splash in 1984, and Washington was a major ensemble cast member in the ER of the 1980's (St Elsewhere) and appeared in every single episode, even between movie engagements.
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Post by Viced on Feb 25, 2018 15:12:34 GMT
James Garner
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Post by ibbi on Feb 25, 2018 16:03:44 GMT
The Gish wasn't exactly sustained across the entire time, she did nothing but stage work for about 10 years, and who really knows how that went, but She managed strong work through multiple decades from 1915 to 1987. Borgnine was another one, from what, From Here To Eternity all the way through to being the only really memorable thing about the ER finale in 2009. What a career. Also, I'm currently watching A Bridge Too Far, and was just thinking about Olivier in this regard!  |
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Post by stephen on Feb 25, 2018 16:08:38 GMT
The Gish wasn't exactly sustained across the entire time, she did nothing but stage work for about 10 years, and who really knows how that went, but She managed strong work through multiple decades from 1915 to 1987. Borgnine was another one, from what, From Here To Eternity all the way through to being the only really memorable thing about the ER finale in 2009. What a career. Also, I'm currently watching A Bridge Too Far, and was just thinking about Olivier in this regard! Good pull for Big Ern. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 25, 2018 19:46:59 GMT
Dennis Hopper used to say he was in "a masterpiece (his word) a decade" for several decades - Giant (50s), Easy Rider (60s), Apocalypse Now (70s), Blue Velvet (80s) - his career lasted over 50 years too......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 13, 2019 0:47:39 GMT
Just something depressing to consider now, we may have seen the last of all of these big guys below, in front of the camera - maybe not, but just saying it's possible - no real big projects for any of them that I know of (?) except for the indefatigable Plummer who has Knives Out coming - which could be something. Although,Alan Arkin is quite active at 84 and the 82 year old Bruce Dern has 9 projects in completed or post-production according to his IMDB page  ?!?! Plummer, 89 Duvall, 88 Hackman, retired 88 Eastwood, 88 Redford, 82 Beatty, 81 Nicholson, 81 Dustin Hoffman, 81 |
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 13, 2019 1:32:55 GMT
Finney too, sadly likely won't work again. Caine at 85 is still pretty active, there's some great onset pics of him in one that he's currently filming called Medieval.
re Clint, I thought there'd be some sort of critical reappraisal of his career right now but it's been pretty quiet. He's a good example of someone sustaining stardom, a commercial appeal (starting in '59 with Rawhide - over 200 eps, I haven't seen any - right into the Leones with his first bonafide masterpiece). And how he's used his ability as director to reinforce, subvert, and challenge himself and his skill set—sometimes, not always. Actually, if we're looking at the expanse of his best performances, I'd say a version of his top five, from what I've seen, just so happens to jump decades: The Beguiled (70s) Tightrope (80s), Unforgiven (90s), Million Dollar Baby (00s), The Mule (10s).
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Post by stephen on Jan 13, 2019 20:26:31 GMT
He doesn't have a particularly strong (or even noteworthy) film career, but I genuinely think Andre Braugher could be in the conversation for giving two of the very best performances on television, both in drama and comedy.
Braugher's performance as Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street is truly one of the all-time greats. I'm not crazy about the way that the show kind of swept his stroke storyline off to the side, but his portrayal of a genius detective being sidelined by a debilitating illness and having to build himself back up is one of the most harrowing things I've seen on network television. Homicide suffered a bit in its later years for trying to be more commercial, but the ensemble was largely fantastic, and Braugher was the shining star of the season. "Three Men and Adena" still ranks as one of the greatest episodes of television ever produced.
And what's more, Braugher takes that no-nonsense cop character and plays it for laughs in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. His Captain Holt is one of my favorite deadpan characters of all time, easily worthy of an Emmy every season he's been on. I especially love the fact that you think at first that Holt is a largely static character in terms of character development, but his performance in the first few episodes is vastly different from what he's doing now. Braugher is a master of managing to calibrate his performance ever so slightly over time, so where you don't notice what he's doing until you go back to the start and realize he's completely changed the face of his character.
Braugher was also quite excellent on Thief as well, but Pembleton/Holt are both all-time great characters and performances.
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Post by cherry68 on Jan 13, 2019 20:50:11 GMT
Angela Lansbury.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 13, 2019 21:39:02 GMT
He doesn't have a particularly strong (or even noteworthy) film career, but I genuinely think Andre Braugher could be in the conversation for giving two of the very best performances on television, both in drama and comedy. Braugher's performance as Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street is truly one of the all-time greats. I'm not crazy about the way that the show kind of swept his stroke storyline off to the side, but his portrayal of a genius detective being sidelined by a debilitating illness and having to build himself back up is one of the most harrowing things I've seen on network television. Homicide suffered a bit in its later years for trying to be more commercial, but the ensemble was largely fantastic, and Braugher was the shining star of the season. "Three Men and Adena" still ranks as one of the greatest episodes of television ever produced. And what's more, Braugher takes that no-nonsense cop character and plays it for laughs in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. His Captain Holt is one of my favorite deadpan characters of all time, easily worthy of an Emmy every season he's been on. I especially love the fact that you think at first that Holt is a largely static character in terms of character development, but his performance in the first few episodes is vastly different from what he's doing now. Braugher is a master of managing to calibrate his performance ever so slightly over time, so where you don't notice what he's doing until you go back to the start and realize he's completely changed the face of his character. Braugher was also quite excellent on Thief as well, but Pembleton/Holt are both all-time great characters and performances. We've talked about him a bit and my respect for Homicide, quite the fan of him and the initial stroke storyline (you never see that, heart attacks all the time, stroke seemingly never - or when it is it's quite simple (like Flawless say - odd.) Periodically I watch some TV shows randomly - full episodes of TV shows - just to see what sort of actor techniques I can see or if anything strikes me in shows ...........(I know kind of a weird thing). I watched the Extreme Unction episode about 2 months ago - just this one episode (I've seen the show before obviously). In this episode and indeed in many episodes he does a great trick - that's not the right word, but a character trait and he does it consistently so it is a controlled choice within this character. Braugher will often laugh or smile at times it is not really appropriate to laugh or smile - that is one thing you see, if another actor was playing this part how would he seem different as a character than the actor playing it - can anyone play it? I say, nope. Here if he is challenged in an interrogation, if things aren't going his way, and he's in some ways "losing" then, rather than just lose it.........he will laugh. It's a rather brilliant choice actually - ie he's only really alive or joyous when he's being challenged, or prodded or pushed - its almost like he's bubbling over with his thinking and then his reacting - and also keeps others around him off-balance. I always look for things like that - not random things, that would just be mannered BS - but when there's a contradictory thing that is interesting and is part of the character conception and execution that's great fun to watch and an entry way to assess the performance......I quite dislike boring one note performances, and he's nothing of the kind there. I like Brooklyn Nine-Nine but would need to watch that one a bit more closely............ |
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Post by stephen on Jan 13, 2019 21:44:16 GMT
Braugher will often laugh or smile at times it is not really appropriate to laugh or smile - that is one thing you see, if another actor was playing this part how would he seem different as a character than the actor playing it - can anyone play it? I say, nope. Here if he is challenged in an interrogation, if things aren't going his way, and he's in some ways "losing" then, rather than just lose it.........he will laugh. It's a rather brilliant choice actually - ie he's only really alive or joyous when he's being challenged, or prodded or pushed - its almost like he's bubbling over with his thinking and then his reacting - and also keeps others around him off-balance. I've noticed that tool in Braugher's arsenal as well. He also does this thing where he starts off a sentence a bit forcefully, like you think he's going in for the clincher -- and then he pulls back with a slight hesitation, as if Frank is getting excited at the prospect of catching someone in a lie, but realizing in a split-second that if he just plays it cool, the perp will just hang himself with his own lies. None of it feels calculated in the least. Braugher's an idiosyncratic actor masquerading as the king of stoicism. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 17, 2019 23:19:35 GMT
We should mention that the two male actors who have the longest "streaks" here - Von Sydow and Trintignant both have new films in 2019 - Von Sydow who slightly predates Trintignant, has two even.
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