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Steve Buscemi and 8 Other Serious Actors Who Tried Comedy
12 March 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Steve Buscemi is a Golden Globe-winning thespian responsible for such indelible characters as Nucky Thompson on "Boardwalk Empire," Carl Showalter in "Fargo" and Mr. Pink in "Reservoir Dogs." He's a serious man who makes serious films. And so it's only natural that this week he's about to co-star in his latest gritty drama: "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone"?
Okay, so Buscemi isn't exactly a complete stranger to comedy, either. After all, he was one of the main characters in the legendary 1998 cult classic "The Big Lebowski." But it's still jarring to see someone like Buscemi get dolled up as a Vegas magician and go toe to toe with the likes of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell in an all-out farce.
And that got us thinking: What other "serious" actors have taken a stab at comedy? Sure, funny folks like Carrey and Bill Murray have long transitioned to serious roles, but it's »
- Scott Harris
'South Pacific' actor John Kerr dies, aged 81
13 February 2013 11:57 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
John Kerr has died, aged 81.
The American actor was best known on screen for his role as Lieutenant Joseph Cable in the 1958 musical film South Pacific.
He was also known for his part in the 1953 Broadway production of Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, which earned him a Tony Award.
His TV roles included Peyton Place from 1965-66, and The Streets of San Francisco throughout the 1970s.
His son Michael confirmed that he died of heart failure on Saturday (February 9) at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.
Kerr won plaudits for his turn as a struggling school boy who was bullied over his suspected homosexuality in the Broadway run of Tea and Sympathy.
He reprised the role in the 1956 film version opposite Deborah Kerr (no relation), who also starred in the Broadway production.
Kerr later featured in Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, based on the original stories of Edgar Allan Poe. »
John Kerr obituary
11 February 2013 4:05 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Actor who starred as the troubled pupil in Tea and Sympathy on stage and screen
The actor John Kerr, who has died aged 81, won a Tony award in his first starring role on the Broadway stage, as Tom in Tea and Sympathy in 1953, and subsequently appeared in the 1956 film version directed by Vincente Minnelli. Robert Anderson's play, in which a schoolboy "confesses" to his housemaster's wife that he might be homosexual – only to be seduced out of the notion by the sympathetic listener – was considered so controversial that it was restricted to a "members only" theatrical run in London, and Minnelli's film received an X certificate, despite modification, notably in the suggestion that the housemaster was gay.
Kerr starred as the boy, although by then he was in his 20s. Born in New York, son of the actors Geoffrey Kerr and June Walker, he had already graduated from Harvard, »
- Brian Baxter
Kerr's Biggest Box-Office Hit: Musical About Romance and Racism During WWII
9 February 2013 3:23 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Kerr in the 1958 box-office blockbuster musical South Pacific (seen above with love interest France Nuyen) and his (few) other post-Tea and Sympathy efforts [Please check out the previous article: "The Two Kerrs in the stage and film versions of Tea and Sympathy."] Director Curtis Bernhardt's Gaby (1956) was a generally disliked remake of Waterloo Bridge, with Kerr and leading lady Leslie Caron in the old Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh roles (1940 movie version -- and even older Douglass Montgomery and Mae Clarke roles in the 1931 film version). Jeffrey Hayden's The Vintage (1957), starring Kerr and Mel Ferrer absurdly cast as Italian brothers, also failed to generate much box-office or critical interest. MGM leading lady Pier Angeli played Ferrer's love interest in the film, while the more mature and married French star Michèle Morgan (a plot element similar to that found in Tea and Sympathy) is Kerr's object of desire. (Pictured above: South Pacific cast members John Kerr and France Nuyen embracing.) Also in the mid-'50s, John Kerr »
- Andre Soares
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