Directors liked his craggy, lived-in face, his menacing stillness, and his ability to dominate the screen while remaining silent.

ECONOMIST: Charles Bronson

In that stillness his heartbeat gradually slows and memory brings back images of the day.

NEWYORKER: Labyrinth

There's a stillness to his performance that anchors the film.

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Then his hands froze and he lifted his head, gazed off to the side in a fugue of stillness, listening.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

His figures, too, had a medieval solidity, dignity and stillness about them.

ECONOMIST: Michael Lassen