How about Max Steiner? The front-and-back ‘S’ sounds line up, sure as he got his face on a postage stamp and a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame…
Sure, as long as there’s a “front-and-back-symbiosis-of-splendour”, we’re all good.
not-my-favourite Jeff Foxworthy already mentioned?
Post #43. What, you maybe prefer the comedy schtick of Father Guido Sarducci? Because it looks like Don Novello earned himself half-a-dozen Emmy nominations just for what he did on SNL and SCTV…
Hmm, well, the Brit comic Rob Beckett* usually gets the job done for me.
*Actually I have no freaking idea what his shtick is.
ETA - “Arrivederci, America!” ::waves, stubs out cig::
I remember enjoying Tim McInnerny’s performance in BLACKADDER.
Lois Smith, who’s been in on the ensemble-cast accolades of LADY BIRD, has done quite well on Broadway but has really carved out a niche for herself on screen: sure, you cast Anna Paquin was the lead on TRUE BLOOD — and so you cast Smith as her grandmother. And if Michael Douglas is the lead in a movie, then you cast Smith as his mother; or if Susan Sarandon is the lead, Smith as her mother. And she’s also been Martin Sheen’s mother, and Ben Affleck’s mother; Geena Davis? Check. Loni Anderson? Check. If you remember FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, Smith was Mama Threadgoode in that one; for the exception that proves the rule, she was in MINORITY REPORT as the ‘mother’ of the project, delivering heartfelt exposition at her greenhouse. And so on.
(Now, that’s of course not all she can do; she was Jack Nicholson’s sister, and she was Mary Astor’s daughter; she’s had a loooong career, is what I’m saying.)
Actress and acting teacher Stella Adler
Singer and songwriter Joss Stone
Journalist and satirist Malcolm Muggeridge
Writer and director Adam McKay: he wrote and directed the ANCHORMAN flicks, and did that same one-two punch for Will Ferrell with TALLADEGA NIGHTS and STEP BROTHERS and THE OTHER GUYS — and, when taking a break from doing Ferrell stuff, he wrote and directed THE BIG SHORT, winning an Oscar for his efforts.
(He wrote for, and directed, Christian Bale and Steve Carell in that one; this year, he’s got another written-and-directed-by film set to hit theaters, with Bale as Dick Cheney and Carell as Donald Rumsfeld — and with Sam Rockwell, as George W. Bush!)
Three-time Wimbledon champ John Newcombe “is one of the few men to have attained a world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. At the majors he won seven singles titles and an all-time record 17 men’s doubles titles.”
Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont.
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Paul Lukas picked up an Oscar for Best Actor back in the ‘40s, but folks may know him better from 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA — he’s the third-billed guy standing next to James Mason and Kirk Douglas? — or from Hitchcock’s THE LADY VANISHES, where he picked up third billing after Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave; or maybe from KIM, where he got billed third after Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell?
Lukas did a lot of name-on-the-poster pictures, is my point: LITTLE WOMEN, starring Katharine Hepburn; and CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY, starring Edward G Robinson; and STRANGE CARGO, starring Clark Gable; and LORD JIM, starring Peter O’Toole; and plenty more, including a number where he was the top-billed star.
Fictional bunny Peter Rabbit
Fiction writer Philip Pullman
Speaking of which: I’d mentioned THE BIG SHORT a little while ago, but didn’t mention that the book had been written by bestselling author Michael Lewis. Also written by Michael Lewis: MONEYBALL. Also written by Michael Lewis: THE BLIND SIDE.
Which reminds me of British opera singer Michael Langdon.
You mentioned a guy who acts and sings, so — Nick Cannon?
Fifty years ago, Bob Beamon earned a gold medal and his place in the Hall of Fame by setting what’s still the Olympic record in the long jump.
Three-time Emmy nominee Scott Thompson, of KIDS IN THE HALL fame.