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Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot (, ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by the English writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is Christie's most famous and longest-running character, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (''Black Coffee (play), Black Coffee'' and ''Alibi (play), Alibi'') and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt (actor), John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh, Peter Dinklage and John Malkovich. Overview Influences Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes's Hercules Popeau and Frank Howel Evans's Monsieur Poiret, a retired French police officer living in London. Evans's Jules Poiret "was small and rather heavyset, hardly more than five feet, but moved with his head held high. The most remarkable features of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Suchet
Sir David Courtney Suchet ( ; born 2 May 1946) is an English actor. He is known for his work on stage and in television. He portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial '' Oppenheimer'' (1980) and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial '' The Way We Live Now'' (2001). International acclaim and recognition followed his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' (1989–2013), for which he received a 1991 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor nomination."The Actor Behind Popular 'Poirot" '''', 25 March 1992. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor. After graduating from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with a nomination for an Academy Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 Birthday Honours, 1998 for services to drama. Holm won the 21st Tony Awards, 1967 Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play ''The Homecoming''. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End (theatre), West End production of ''King Lear''. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear, and the HBO film ''The Last of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pál Mácsai
Pál Mácsai (born 31 March 1961) is a Hungarian actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1983. Selected filmography References External links * 1961 births Living people Hungarian male film actors {{Hungary-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Conti
Tommaso Antonio Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish actor. Conti has received numerous accolades including a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globe Awards. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play in role in ''Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play), Whose Life Is It Anyway?'' which he performed on Broadway (theatre), Broadway and the West End (theatre), West End in 1978 and 1979. He also directed the Frank D. Gilroy play ''Last Licks'' (1979) on Broadway. Conti returned to the West End portraying Jeffrey Bernard in the Keith Waterhouse play ''Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell'' (1989). Conti received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for ''Reuben, Reuben'' (1983). Conti also acted in such films as ''The Duellists'' (1977), ''Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence'' (1983), ''Saving Grace (1986 film), Saving Grace'' (1986), ''The Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansai Nomura
Nomura Mansai II (二世 野村 萬斎, ''Nisei Nomura Mansai''; born Takeshi Nomura (野村 武司); April 5, 1966) is a Japanese ''kyōgen'' and film actor. He played Abe no Seimei in '' Onmyoji'' and '' Onmyoji 2'', an original work by Baku Yumemakura. He received the Best Actor prize at the Blue Ribbon Awards for his work in '' Onmyoji''. Career His debut was at the age of three in the drama, ''Quiver of The Monkey''. Since then he has also been cast in the dramas: in ''Aguri'' in 1997, for which he played dadaist poet Eisuke Yoshiyuki and had won many awards, and in ''Hana no Ran'' in 1994. He also had a supporting role in Akira Kurosawa's last epic motion picture '' Ran'', as the blind flute playing hermit boy, Tsurumaru. He portrayed Godzilla through motion capture in '' Shin Godzilla''. Mansai was nominated by the Japanese Academy for best actor for his performance in '' The Floating Castle''. In March 2013, he appeared at the Japan Society and the Guggenheim Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirō Itō
is a Japanese actor, comedian and television presenter. Filmography Film * ''Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman'' (1971) * '' Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy'' (1974) * '' Princess from the Moon'' (1987) * '' A Taxing Woman'' (1987) * '' Minbo'' (1992) * '' Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie'' (2004) as Jinzo Hattori * ''The Uchōten Hotel'' (2006) * ''Talk Talk Talk'' (2007) * '' Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime'' (2008) * '' The Hovering Blade'' (2009) * ''The Hikita's Are Expecting!'' (2019) * ''The Woman of S.R.I. the Movie'' (2021) * '' Doctor-X: The Movie'' (2024) as Ryunosuke Busujima Television * '' Ten to Chi to'' (1969) * ''Oshin'' (1983–84) as Tanimura Sakuzo * ''Hōjō Tokimune'' (2001) as Hōjō Masamura * ''Okashina Keiji'' (2003-Now) (Lead role) * ''Shinsengumi!'' (2004) * '' Clouds Over the Hill'' (2009) * ''Onihei Hankachō'' as Amabiki no Bungorō (2009) * ''The Waste Land'' (2009) as Seizo Hisamatsu * ''Taira no Kiyomori'' (2012) as Emperor Shirak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony O'Donnell (actor)
Anthony O'Donnell (born 1949) is a Welsh actor. Career In 1982, he was awarded the London Critic's Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer in the Stratford Season. Filmography References External links * 1948 births Living people Welsh male film actors Welsh male stage actors Welsh male television actors {{UK-stage-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( ; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Berkshire, Branagh trained at RADA in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. List of awards and nominations received by Kenneth Branagh, His accolades include an Academy Award, four British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTAs, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Laurence Olivier Award, Olivier Award. He was appointed a Knights Bachelor, Knight Bachelor in 2012, and was given Freedom of the City in his native Belfast in 2018. In 2020, he was ranked in 20th place on ''The Irish Times'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Branagh has directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including ''Henry V (1989 film), Henry V'' (1989), ''Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film), Much Ado About Nothing'' (1993), ''Othello (1995 film), Othello'' (1995), ''Hamlet (1996 film), Hamlet'' (1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Durr
Jason Durr (born 2 December 1967) is a British actor of theatre, television and film. Durr made his television debut as Alex Hartman in 1990 in the sci-fi drama '' Jupiter Moon'' in 1990 and went on to star as Mike Bradley in the Yorkshire-based police drama series '' Heartbeat'' from 1997 until 2003. Between 2016 and 2023, he appeared in the medical drama series ''Casualty'' as David Hide. Early life Durr was born on 2 December 1967 in Singapore. After leaving Leighton Park School, Durr trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Career In his early career Durr worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company under director Trevor Nunn. From 1997 to 2003, he starred as Mike Bradley in the Yorkshire-based police drama series '' Heartbeat''. In 2009, he appeared in a two-part British television drama, '' Above Suspicion''. He received favourable reviews for his performance as murder suspect Alan Daniels. In 2012, Durr starred as Guy Littleton in Noël Coward's ''Volcano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Powell
Robert Thomas Powell ( ; born 1 June 1944) is an English actor who is known for the title roles in '' Mahler'' (1974) and '' Jesus of Nazareth'' (1977), and for his portrayal of secret agent Richard Hannay in '' The Thirty Nine Steps'' (1978) and its subsequent spinoff television series. Other major screen roles have included Tobias "Toby" Wren in the BBC science-fiction programme '' Doomwatch'' (1970), David Briggs in the sitcom '' The Detectives'' (1993–1997) with Jasper Carrott, and Mark Williams in the medical drama '' Holby City'' (2005–2011). Powell's distinctive voice has become well known as a narrator of documentaries, especially those concerning the Second World War, including ''World War II in HD Colour'', '' Hitler's Bodyguard'', ''The Story of the Third Reich'' and ''Secrets of World War II''. Powell was nominated for a Best Actor BAFTA TV Award for ''Jesus of Nazareth'' in 1978 and won a Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina (born Alfredo Molina; 24 May 1953) is a British and American actor. He is known for his leading roles and character actor roles on the stage and screen. In a career spanning over five decades he has received a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a British Independent Film Award, an Independent Spirit Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards. He first rose to prominence in the West End, earning a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his performance in the production of '' Oklahoma!'' in 1980. He received Tony Award nominations for his roles on Broadway playing Yvan in '' Art'' (1998), Tevye in '' Fiddler on the Roof'' (2004), and Mark Rothko in '' Red'' (2009). He returned to Broadway playing Professor Serebryakov in a revival of '' Uncle Vanya'' (2024). On film, he made his debut as Satipo in '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981). He went on to receive tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Raikin
Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin (; July 8, 1950) is a Russian actor and theatre director, the head of the Moscow Satyricon Theatre (since 1988). Konstantin Raikin has been honoured with the titles Meritorious Artist of Russia (1985) and the People's Artist of Russia (1993). Among his accolades are the Russian State Prize (1995), the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (III, IV – 2000, 2010) and the Golden Mask award (1995, 2000, 2005, 2008). He is the son of Arkady Raikin, the legendary Soviet actor and stand-up comedian. Biography Early life and education Konstantin Raikin was born July 8, 1950, in Leningrad in the family of People's Artist of the USSR Arkady Raikin and actress Ruth Raikina-Ioffe (Roma). Konstantin studied at the Physics and Mathematics School for gifted children at the Leningrad University. He studied in a class with a biological major, and all his free time he spent at the Leningrad Zoo, where he cleaned after the animals. At the end of the school, he e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
