Click on the name of an actor or a movie to go directly to the actor page / movie review post in question.
Note: All actor pages currently feature biographical sketches – where applicable, incorporating text from the respective actors’ English language Wikipedia entries – as well as extensive filmographies, a listing of the major awards won by the respective actor, links to online author biographies, as well as links to other sites providing further information.
If an actor’s name is marked with a double asterik (**), I have reviewed in depth at least one of their major films, which in turn will then also be marked by a double asterisk in the “movies” list below. Review posts are hyperlinked to the relevant movies names in the individual actor pages’ “Filmography” section, as well as in the “movies list” list below. Further reviews will be added as time permits.
Featured Actors
- Lauren Bacall **
- Humphrey Bogart **
- Kenneth Branagh **
- Jeremy Brett **
- Sean Connery **
- Robert De Niro **
- Marlene Dietrich **
- Ralph Fiennes **
- Colin Firth **
- Morgan Freeman **
- John Gielgud **
- Joan Hickson **
- Anthony Hopkins **
- Jeremy Irons **
- Derek Jacobi **
- Ian McKellen **
- Paul Newman **
- Robert Redford **
- Alan Rickman **
- Susan Sarandon **
- Maggie Smith **
- Kevin Spacey **
- David Suchet **
Featured Movies
- The Age of Inncoence **
- All the President’s Men **
- Amadeus
- American Gigolo
- An Awfully Big Adventure
- Ben-Hur
- The Big Sleep **
- Boyz N the Hood **
- Braveheart **
- Bull Durham
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid **
- Cadfael (ITV) **
- Casablanca **
- Chinatown **
- A Christmas Carol **
- The Client **
- The Color of Money **
- Elizabeth **
- The English Patient **
- Evelyn **
- Gandhi **
- The Godfather Trilogy
- Gone With the Wind
- Good Morning Vietnam **
- Gosford Park **
- The Grapes of Wrath **
- Hamlet **
- Havana **
- Heat **
- Henry V
- High Noon
- The House of Spirits
- Howards End **
- I, Claudius (BBC)
- Impromptu **
- Insomnia
- Interview With the Vampire **
- King Lear
- Knight Moves **
- L.A. Confidential **
- The Last Emperor
- The Lion in Winter
- Little Women
- Local Hero **
- Longitude **
- Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Features (BBC) **
- Luther
- The Maltese Falcon **
- A Man for All Seasons
- Memento
- Mephisto
- Michael Collins **
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil **
- Midsomer Murders **
- Miss Marple (BBC) **
- Much Ado About Nothing **
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Name of the Rose
- Oscar Wilde Collection **
- Out of Africa **
- Outbreak **
- Partners in Crime (ITV) **
- Philadelphia **
- The Pianist
- Poirot (ITV) **
- Pretty Woman
- Pride and Prejudice
- Primal Fear **
- Pulp Fiction
- Rain Man **
- The Red Violin **
- The Remains of the Day
- Richard III **
- A River Runs Through It **
- Rob Roy **
- Ronin **
- Schindler’s List
- Sense and Sensibility **
- Se7en **
- Shadowlands **
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (BBC) **
- Sherlock Holmes (ITV) **
- Smilla’s Sense of Snow **
- Spy Game **
- The Sting **
- A Streetcar Named Desire **
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