"It's great for audiences to be able to come and see a film actor in stage, " added Lloyd.
So did the fact that Mrs Arroyo had been trained as an economist, whereas Mr Estrada's main qualification for the presidency was his fame as a film actor.
In this ledger, Mr Singson said, the president is referred to as Asiong Salonga the name of a gangster Mr Estrada once portrayed in his previous career as a film actor.
And certainly when you're a film actor, despite the fact that you're constantly, you know, being reached for and grabbed at and photographed--when you're working, you're alone on the set with the director and, you know, a handful of grips, and that's that.
But he is a famous film actor who feeds a popular yearning for heroes, even fictional ones.
If it costs a lot to film a real actor in a car crash--or if you want to create an effect a human couldn't do safely--use a computerized actor .
Though Price was most famous as a horror film actor, he was also an alumnus of the prestigious Courtauld Institute of Art, and he took his curatorial role seriously.
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Phoenix starred with Wahlberg in Gray's "The Yards" some years back, and watching him in these pictures you appreciate what a great film noir actor he would have made.
For the Great British Railway stamps, users are treated to a short film of English actor Bernard Cribbins reading W.H.
"The only way I can sum it up is like when you're trying to remember the name of a famous actor or film star and it's on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't get it, " he said.
Mr Ramos's successor, President Joseph Estrada (a former tough-guy film actor) has shown far less patience.
Years later, he became a film critic for Time, wrote a biography of the actor, Marlon Brando, and became friends with the man who directed both the play and the film, Elia Kazan.
He won the role after attending auditions advertised on a Jobcentre wall and was the first black actor to play the role in a film based on Emily Bronte's novel.
The movie is the first Chinese film to star a major Hollywood actor.
Readers suspecting in this novel an anti-fiction fifth column will not be surprised to hear that Mr Rezza is better known as a comic actor and short-film maker.
George Clooney, up for a best actor award for his film "Up in the Air, " will host a telethon on Friday to raise money for the devastated island nation.
The comedian and actor narrates a special animated film telling the story behind the games official mascot, which will be unveiled on Thursday.
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Christoph Waltz won his second Oscar for best supporting actor in a Quentin Tarantino film, this time for playing a German bounty hunter in the slave revenge story Django Unchained.
Authorities in India's Tamil Nadu state have lifted a ban on actor Kamal Haasan's film Vishwaroopam.
According to Billy Wilder, a film director, Frank Sinatra had talent but did not have the discipline to be a great actor.
Enrique Iglesias, who was rejected by several major labels at the start of his career but who has since sold more than 3 million CDs worldwide, recently got a call at home from actor Will Smith asking him to contribute a song to Smith's upcoming film Wild Wild West.
"(Cassel) is viewed in France as a very good actor with charisma and intelligence, " Agnes Poirier, a London-based French film critic told CNN.
After a sprightly first ten minutes, the magic simply evaporates from the surface of the film, and one actor after another comes to grief: Will Ferrell overheats as a fading star called Jack, who fancies himself as a Darren de nos jours, while Shirley MacLaine is handed the part of Endora and pretty much abandoned to her fate.
"Bradford is a city that has played a significant part in my film career, " said the actor.
Hollywood actor Al Pacino has been honoured at a film festival in Dublin.
The father and son - and Michael's father, veteran actor Kirk Douglas - star in a new film which opens in the US on Friday.
He was less than impressed, for example, when the moderator of the press conference - who was sitting beside Reeves - accepted a glass of water the actor had intended for the film's director, Scott Derrickson.
Similar groups have demanded a ban on actor-director Kamal Haasan's new film Vishwaroopam, prompting the star to complain about "cultural terrorism".
It says something that the only star in the film (the popular actor Kenneth More) played a comparatively lowly, though heroic, character Second Officer Herbert Lightoller, who managed to keep thirty men alive while they all stood on an overturned lifeboat.
The film stars 127 Hours actor James Franco as Diggs, a con-man who finds himself in Oz after being caught up in a Baum-esque freak tornado.
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