He wasn't a superstar athlete, a successful entrepreneur or a famous actor.
"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.
But he is a famous film actor who feeds a popular yearning for heroes, even fictional ones.
Ge You and Feng Xiaogang (a famous movie actor and director in China) both know this.
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Their father, Sir Michael Redgrave, was a famous Shakespearean actor.
Likewise, don't base your investment on gut instinct or the fact that a famous director or actor is involved in the project.
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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Years before the name became synonymous with racial segregation laws, Jim Crow was a showbiz act a performance first made famous in New York City by a young white actor named Thomas D.
Bachchan has starred in more than 100 films and was once dubbed the "most famous actor of the millennium" in a BBC News website readers' poll.
The Bahamas are bursting with Bond history: Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, lived on the islands, and Sean Connery, perhaps the most famous actor to play Bond, had a home there too.
And like a Hollywood actor waiting for his big break, he waited tables for 20 years prior to becoming board game famous.
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There is Ben Affleck the famous actor and director, and there is less-well-known side of the man: a thoughtful, committed advocate for change in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a war-torn, long-misruled nation that many have written off as a basket case.
Truth be told, the best way to sell a pitch (or to become an actor, director, or producer) is to be the related to somebody famous.
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