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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being unable to hit a curve ball. And in the just-released Cat Ballou, he does a double parody, first as the silver-nosed gun fighter and then as a wildly comic former gunman so booze-ridden he can barely ride. Either way, he seems sure of a supporting-actor Oscar nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man for Vicaries | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...ingrained. After getting bounced from eleven different prep schools, he tried war. As a Marine scout-sniper, he made 21 Pacific island landings until "some Jap bastard on Saipan" got him just below the spine; he spent 13 months learning how to move again. "You Finked Out." As an actor, he specialized in killers, but he became best known as a cop. Lieut. Ballinger of TV's M Squad. Even there he was tough-"no broads, no mother, no sleep, no eat, just a dumb, fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man for Vicaries | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Comic Jonathan Winters and Actor Robert Morley are guests, along with Singer Robert Goulet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 28, 1965 | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...been alleged that John Lithgow is a giraffe. Those who maintain this position malign his genius. He is the best comic actor at Harvard, not for any physical peculiarity, but because his sense of timing, his vocal and muscular control, are more refined than anyone else...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Two Comedies | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

...Forced Marriage at the Loeb--execute a full turn while balanced bow-legged on the balls of his feet, and time it to match the pace of the scene. He can remain articulate while speaking at absurd speeds, and communicate the rhythm of his speech to the actor he's arguing with, so that the dialogue sounds slightly like a patter song...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Two Comedies | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

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