Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2012 October 20

= October 20 =

Name of actress
What is the name of the other actress in this photograph besides Audrey Hepburn? Kaldari (talk) 07:47, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like it's Dominique Minot. Kaldari (talk) 08:03, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Is there any non British actor in the Harry Potter films?
Thank you. Iowafromiowa (talk) 19:33, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * It doesn't say so outright, but the strong implication from List of Harry Potter cast members is that it's all about British actors. All of the major roles - except the two mentioned below by Nicknack - have certainly been taken by Brits.
 * However, all but one of the directors have played cameo roles, and not all of them are British. --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  19:46, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Looking at the cast list for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone at IMDB, I noticeRichard Harris, who was Irish, and Verne Troyer, who is American. --Nicknack009 (talk) 19:49, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you both!. Iowafromiowa (talk) 19:49, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I was surprised when Gary Oldman appeared in them, since I was absolutely sure he was American. I had never seen him in any movie before that where he used his actual accent. Adam Bishop (talk) 20:33, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I think that's a variety of British English he speaks in Sid and Nancy. -- Jayron  32  00:14, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * And Prick Up Your Ears and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  00:20, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes but the key is that I never saw those :) (And TTSS is more recent than Harry Potter.) Adam Bishop (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Brendan Gleeson, Fiona Shaw, Geraldine Somerville, and Devon Murray are Irish. Clémence Poésy is French. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 01:14, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * And Stanislav Ianevski is Bulgarian. 69.62.243.48 (talk) 03:13, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Evanna Lynch is Irish. Britmax (talk) 13:57, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Canada's most famous and renowned actor?
Thank you. Iowafromiowa (talk) 19:44, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * William Shatner, obviously. --Michig (talk) 20:03, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Christopher Plummer? Adam Bishop (talk) 20:39, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Donald Sutherland, Martin Short, John Candy, Michael J. Fox, Mary Pickford to name a few more. Bielle (talk) 20:41, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Most famous and renowned in her/his era would have to be Mary Pickford, hands down. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:56, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Walter Pidgeon. --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  21:33, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Raymond Massey? His brother was Governor-General, after all.  69.62.243.48 (talk) 03:16, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Australia's most famous and renowned actor?
Thank you. Iowafromiowa (talk) 19:45, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Of this or any age? Stage, film, TV, radio?  Some are/were huge in one field but nobody much (or nobody at all) in the other genres.  Same issues apply to the Canadian question. --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  19:50, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, I mean of this age. Living people and of films. Thank you again. Iowafromiowa (talk) 19:52, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * So it's too late to nominate Skippy :-( HiLo48 (talk) 20:11, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * If you want a single name, I doubt there'd be universal agreement. The top few would have to include Geoffrey Rush, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe.  Guy Pearce and Anthony LaPaglia too, but they've done a lot of TV.  Maybe Paul Hogan would be in the mix somewhere, but he's really only famous for one film and its sequel, not for his entire film career, which is pretty abysmal apart from the obvious standout.   --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  20:00, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Also, List of Australian Academy Award winners and nominees might be of interest. --   Jack of Oz  [Talk]  20:11, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * It's impossible to name the most famous. Dunno how you measure that, and it would depend where and who you asked too. Mel Gibson and Jack Thompson are two more that immediately come to mind. And some might argue for Kylie Minogue, who began her public career acting(?) in Neighbours. HiLo48 (talk) 20:30, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Of course, Mel is only an Australian when it suits us to claim him as such. When he was the darling of the film world, he was a true-blue Aussie boy who was raised here and did his training here and it was only an accident of history that he wasn't born here.  Why, he was even given an Order of Australia award (it was an honorary award because of his American citizenship, but that was just a pedantic technicality) .  But when he descended to the lower depths, he became that despicable American actor.  --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  21:30, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * And when Russell Crowe does his regular going off the deep end, we like to remind ourselves he was born in New Zealand. If Nicole Kidman ever disgraced herself, we'd be quick to point out she was born in Hawaii.  --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  21:37, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Hawaii? Where's the proof? —Tamfang (talk) 23:18, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

America's most famous and renowned actor?
Of this age and of the film genre? Thank you. Iowafromiowa (talk) 19:53, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * According to whom? This is really very subjective and not at all answerable as asked.  Dismas |(talk) 20:10, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Britain's most famous and renowned actor?
This is my last question. Of this age and of the film genre. Thank you. Iowafromiowa (talk) 19:56, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * According to whom? This is really very subjective and not at all answerable as asked.  Dismas |(talk) 20:10, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure how you would quantify that. A few suggestions; Ian McKellen, Hugh Grant, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Ben Kingsley,Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Helena Bonham Carter and probably many others that I can't think of at the moment.Alansplodge (talk) 20:15, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Exactly. All we can do is throw names up and still never come to a concrete and definitive answer.  Dismas |(talk) 20:18, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

I understand, thank you. Iowafromiowa (talk) 20:21, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and Kenneth Branagh and Michael Gambon.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:23, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Lord Olivier. 69.62.243.48 (talk) 03:18, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * He died and is no longer of "this age" as per q. --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  03:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * He may be dead, but his films are still being shown regularly on TV and, of course, available through Netflix etc. So I reckon he certainly is "of this age". --TammyMoet (talk) 09:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, he's one of the immortals so in that sense he's always with us. I watched him in Marathon Man only 2 nights ago- hammy German accent and all.  But when we talk of actors, writers, composers etc "of this age", we mean living people.  Otherwise Dickens and "Shakespeare" and Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and Dali and Rodin and Michelangelo and zillions of other dead people would figure in lists of artists "of this age".  --   Jack of Oz   [Talk] 18:49, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * America's most ... actor? Strange that all those mentioned so far are British.  Astronaut (talk) 16:03, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That's because someone removed a sub-heading here. I've reverted.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:09, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Hollywood's all time most famous and renowned actor?
Thank you. Iowafromiowa (talk) 20:09, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * According to whom? This is really very subjective and not at all answerable as asked.  Dismas |(talk) 20:10, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * A starting point might be AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:25, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The question is in concept answerable as asked, since I read it to be a request for sourced information (a survey or whatever). The problem is that it's difficult to compare fame over time; the number of people in the world, and the number who watch Hollywood movies, changes over time, and it's hard to make noncontemporaneous comparisons of fame even if populations stay static.  A second problem is what the question means:  If one actor is better known worldwide, but a second actor has a bigger reputation in Hollywood itself (e.g., because he's more successful in the U.S. market), who wins?  But perhaps there is information available based on such things as who has been seen by more people in his or her movies.  Inflation-adjusted information on payment per picture might also be relevant.  John M Baker (talk) 20:07, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

name of an Italian 1970s timetravel film?
I saw it on tv as a kid, here in Aus - it had been dubbed, not that I knew about dubbing back then. It seemed to me then to have a dark tone and a claustrophobic feel, likely a result of the very low budget. The time travel device is big, in a chamber - our heroes enter it and travel to the far future, manifesting as people standing on v tall platforms in darkness - they have godlike and inimical powers and do something to screw everything up for the protags. All goes ill for them, as I remember - the film ends with them outside of time, in an inchoate space, never to return to reality...

Can anyone go back or forward in time to help me?

THanks Adambrowne666 (talk) 23:31, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah, Adambrowne666, it's actually not an Italian film at all, as you might have discovered with the briefest google search - in fact, it's Journey to the Center of Time, made in the US in 1967.Adambrowne666 (talk) 23:41, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks - question answered - sorry to have wasted everyone's time! Adambrowne666 (talk) 23:41, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * What made you think Italian? —Tamfang (talk) 04:22, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Good question - I got that impression when I last saw it over 30 years ago - did it look dubbed? Dunno. Maybe I conflated it with something else? Am going to get hold of a copy and then maybe I can let you know. Adambrowne666 (talk)


 * It looks cheap. No Italian connection that I noticed. None of the main actors had an accent. (Hah! How did I miss Lyle Waggoner as an Alien?)Clarityfiend (talk) 09:46, 21 October 2012 (UTC)