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Roman copy of Greek original from post 4th century BC. Made c100AD, Rome, Quirinal Hill. It shows an actor wearing the woollen costume of Silenus from an Attic satyr play of the classical period. Antikensammlung, Berlin.
Aspiring actor and model. I've been stepping out of my comfort zone and doing more photo shoots lately. Watch out for Matthew, I believe he has it in him to do well in the business. Learn more about him here
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana
.... Paul Muni (October 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor who grew up in Chicago. Muni was a five-time Academy Award nominee, with one win. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater. During the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio, and was given the rare privilege of choosing which parts he wanted. He made 22 films and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1936 film 'The Story of Louis Pasteur'. He also starred in numerous Broadway plays and won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a play for his role in the 1955 production of 'Inherit the Wind' ....
No sé si alguna vez se ha hecho el merecido homenaje a los caballos que han participado en tantos y tantos westerns.
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Tabernas, Almería.
British postcard in the Picturegoer series, London, no. 167.
Big, burly Scottish-born character actor Ernest Torrence (1878-1933) appeared in many Hollywood films form 1916 on. A towering figure, he frequently played cold-eyed and imposing heavies, but played most of his bad guys with tongue firmly in cheek. Torrence’s films include including Tol'able David (1921) opposite Richard Barthelmess, Mantrap (1926) with Clara Bow, and Sherlock Holmes (1932) in one of his last roles as Holmes’s nemesis Professor Moriarty.
Ernest Thayson Torrance-Thompson was born to Colonel Henry Torrence Thayson and Jessie (née Bryce) in 1878, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His younger brother was the actor David Torrence. As a child, Ernest was an exceptional pianist and operatic baritone and he graduated from the Stuttgart Conservatory, Edinburgh Academy before earning a scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Music. He toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in such productions as The Emerald Isle (1901) and The Talk of the Town (1905) before disarming vocal problems set in and he was forced to abandon this career path. Sometime prior to 1900, he changed the spelling of Torrance to Torrence and dropped the name Thomson. Both Ernest and his actor brother David Torrence went to America, in March 1911, directly from Scotland prior to the First World War. Focusing instead on a purely acting career, Ernest and his brother developed into experienced players on the Broadway New York stage. Ernest received significant acclaim with Modest Suzanne in 1912, and a prominent role in The Night Boat in 1920 brought him to the attention of the early Hollywood filmmakers.
Ernest Torrence played the moronic, twitch-eyed thief Luke Hatburn in Tol'able David (Henry King, 1921) opposite Richard Barthelmess and made his mark as a cinema villain. He settled into films for the rest of his career and life. He next played Colleen Moore’s abusive husband in Broken Chains (Alan Holubar, 1922). Torrence gave a sympathetic portrayal of a grizzled old codger in the acclaimed classic western The Covered Wagon (James Cruze, 1923) and gained attention from his roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley, 1923) as Clopin, king of the beggars, opposite Lon Chaney, and in Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon, 1924) as an outrageous Captain Hook opposite Betty Bronson as Peter. Bob Eddwards: “Walt Disney used Torrance as the model for Hook in his own 1953 animated version of Peter Pan.” He played an Army General who escapes into the circus world and becomes a clown in The Side Show of Life (Herbert Brenon, 1924). In an offbeat bit of casting he paired up with Clara Bow in Mantrap (Victor Fleming, 1926), unusually as a gentle, bear-like backwoodsman in search of a wife. He appeared in other silent film classics such as the epic The King of Kings (Cecil B. DeMille 1927) as Peter, and Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928) as Buster Keaton's steamboat captain father.
During the course of his twelve-year film career, Ernest Torrence made 49 films, both silent and sound films. Torrence made the transition into sound films very well, starring in the Western Fighting Caravans (Otto Brower, David Burton, 1931) with Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. He was able to play a notable nemesis, Dr. Moriarty, to Clive Brook's Sherlock in Sherlock Holmes (William K. Howard, 1932) in one of his last roles. Filming for I Cover the Waterfront (James Cruze, 1933), in which he starred as a smuggler opposite Ben Lyon and Claudette Colbert in New York, had just been completed when he died suddenly on 15 May 1933. He was only 54. While en route to Europe by ship, Torrence suffered an acute attack of gall stones and was rushed back to a New York hospital. He died of complications following surgery. Ernest Torrence was married to Elsie Reamer Bedbrook and he had one child, Ian Torrence. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: “He was the man you loved to hiss. This towering (6' 4"), highly imposing character star with cold, hollow, beady eyes and a huge, protruding snout would go on to become one of the silent screen's finest arch villains.”
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Bobb Edwards (Find A Grave), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Silent Hollywood.com, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Rivertown
Kenner, Louisiana
Here at the University of Kansas, I have had the pleasure of working with a number of college actors and actresses. Aden is one of my most recent clients, and I had a great time working with him!
Strobist info: 1 Nikon SB-26 on 1/4 power for two of the photos; bare bulb and bouncing off the walls. Triggered via Cactus V5's. Note: for the photo on the left, subject was positioned in front of a large window; the outside was over-exposed.
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Actors for crowd scene in a new ITV drama, Houdini & Doyle, in which the Sherlock Holmes creator will be joined by Harry Houdini as an odd couple pair of super sleuths.
The scene was filmed in Rodney Street, part of Liverpool's historic Georgian quarter which contains more than 60 Grade II listed buildings.
Pictured in 1956 - Terence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American actor. Called "The King of Cool", his "anti-hero" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s and made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. Wikipedia
Greek actor George Roussakis. Part of a commissioned photo shoot for the actor's portfolio and promotion.
Strobist info: 1 speedlight 1 meter away right and a little above the model.
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, HAL!
I posted this on Feb 17, 2015, actor Hal Holbrook's 90th birthday.
Hal died on Jan 23, 2021 about a month short of his 96th birthday.
Photo taken at a book signing at Elmira College's
Mark Twain Conference, 2013
My husband took this photo of Hal signing his book for me. (Yes, that is me on the left.)
The book is a memoir: "Harold, The Boy Who Became Mark Twain."
As an amateur Mark Twain scholar, I usually attend the Twain conference, held every 4 years at Elmira College during the month of August. I missed the one in 2017. The next one will be in 2021.
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More about Hal and his career:
Para nada, soy un hombre de Casa.... escuchando música y degustando un buen Merlot, detrás tengo mi joyita, una Radio Original RCA Victor del año 65, eso si enchulada con parlantes más nuevos y un equipo Pioneer en su interior, jajaja, suena la raj........los que la ven creen que aún está sonando la Radio a tubos.
My First paparrazi moment (not on purpose) I was walking down Venice Beach and there he was, filming a new program for Showtime called Californication... had to do it folks. :-))
Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director and producer. Howard also wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Wikipedia