The Spirit of St. Louis is a film which starred an actor who was contracted as a major contract player with whom?
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The Spirit of St. Louis (film) The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 aviation biography film in CinemaScope from Warner Bros., directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Leland Hayward, that stars James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his historic flight, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
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James Stewart James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, which helped him often portray American middle-class men struggling in crisis. Many of the films he starred in have become enduring classics.
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Paul Birch (actor) Paul Birch (born Paul Lowery Smith; January 11 1912 – May 24, 1969) was an American actor. He was a film of 50 stage dramas, and numerous television series, including the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" (1951).
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Louis Bennison Louis Bennison (October 17, 1884 – June 9, 1929) was an American stage and silent film actor, known for westerns. Born in Oakland, he attended the University of California, and performed in plays such as "The Unchastened Woman" and "Johnny Get Your Gun". His films include "Damaged Goods" (1914), "Pretty Mrs. Smith" (1915), "Oh, Johnny!" (1918) and "Speedy Meade" (1919). In the 1920s he developed a relationship with actress Margaret Lawrence, and on June 9, 1929, the two were found dead in Lawrence's New York apartment, the result of a murder-suicide.
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Tony Burton Anthony "Tony" Burton (March 23, 1937 – February 25, 2016) was an American actor, boxer, and football player. He was known for his role as Tony "Duke" Evers in the "Rocky" franchise. He, Sylvester Stallone and Burt Young are the only actors who have appeared in every Rocky installment (not counting "Creed").
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Bruce Dern Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Coming Home" (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for "Nebraska" (2013). His other film appearances include "The Cowboys" (1972), "Black Sunday" (1977), "Monster" (2003), and "The Hateful Eight" (2015).
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Leonard Penn Leonard Penn (November 13, 1907 — May 20, 1975) was an American film, television and theatre actor.
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I Hired a Contract Killer I Hired a Contract Killer is a film directed, produced and written by the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki in 1990. It is a Finnish-British-German-Swedish co-production and stars the renowned French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. The film also features cameo appearances by Joe Strummer as a guitar player and by Kaurismäki as a sunglasses salesman.
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Steve Clemente Steve Clemente (born Esteban Clemento Morro November 22, 1885 – May 7, 1950) was a Mexican-born American actor known for his many villainous roles. He began acting in his teens, signing up for his first movie, "The Secret Man", in 1917. His later roles were usually bit parts.
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Bigelow Cooper Bigelow Cooper (December 21, 1867-1953) was an American stage and screen character actor prominent in the silent film era. He was born Jackson Bigelow Cooper in Springfield, Ohio. He began in films in 1911 and worked for such companies as Edison and Vitagraph.
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Pat Harmon Plummer Hull Harman (February 3, 1886 – November 26, 1958), known professionally as Pat Harmon, was an American film actor. He appeared in 134 films between 1920 and 1947. He was born in Lewistown, Illinois and died in Riverside, California.
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Bruce Cabot Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972) was an American film actor, best remembered as Jack Driscoll in "King Kong" (1933) and for his roles in films such as the 1936 version of "Last of the Mohicans", Fritz Lang's "Fury" and the western "Dodge City". He was also known as one of "Wayne's Regulars", appearing in a number of John Wayne films beginning with "Angel and the Badman".
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Baby LeRoy Baby LeRoy (12 May 1932 – 28 July 2001) was a child actor who appeared in films in the 1930s. When he was sixteen months old, he became the youngest person ever put under term contract by a major studio.
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Drummond Erskine James Drummond Erskine III (April 7, 1919 – March 21, 2009) was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 75 films during his decades long acting career, which spanned over 50 years.
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Victor Potel Victor Potel (October 12, 1889 – March 8, 1947) was an American film character actor who began in the silent era and appeared in over 430 films in his 38-year career.
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Booth Colman Booth Colman (March 8, 1923 – December 15, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor. In his later years he played older authority figures, such as doctors and lawyers. Colman appeared in films since 1952, when he debuted (uncredited) in "The Big Sky" directed by Howard Hawks.
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List of James Earl Jones performances American actor James Earl Jones has had an extensive career in film, television, and theatre. He started out in film by appearing in the 1964 political satire film "Dr. Strangelove" as Lt. Lothar Zogg. He then went on to star in the 1970 film "The Great White Hope" as Jack Jefferson, a role he first played in the Broadway production of the same name. The film role earned him two Golden Globe nominations, one for Best Actor and winning one for New Star of the Year. He also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. His other work in the 1970s included playing the title character in "Malcolm X" (1972), Johnny Williams in "The River Niger" (1976), Nick Debrett in "Swashbuckler" (1976), and Malcolm X again in "The Greatest" (1977).
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Fred MacMurray Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.
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Lon Chaney Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1923) and "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925). His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques he developed earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces".
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Chick Chandler Fehmer "Chick" Chandler (January 18, 1905 – September 30, 1988) was an American film character actor and bit player who appeared in more than 130 films from 1925 through the mid-1950s.
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Sam Melville (actor) Samuel Gardner "Sam" Melville (August 20, 1936 – March 9, 1989) was an American actor who appeared as a guest star on many popular television programs of the 1960s and 1970s. He portrayed Officer Mike Danko in four seasons of Aaron Spelling's ABC series, "The Rookies", and The Bear in the classic 1978 surfing movie, "Big Wednesday", with Celia Kaye as his unnamed "bride."
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Ernie Hudson Earnest Lee "Ernie" Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American character actor. Having appeared in dozens of film and television roles throughout his career, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the "Ghostbusters" film series, Sergeant Darryl Albrecht in "The Crow" (1994), and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's "Oz". Hudson has also acted in movies like "Leviathon" (1989), "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992), "Airheads" (1994), "The Basketball Diaries" (1995), "Congo" (1995), and "Miss Congeniality" (2000). He had a cameo in the remake of "Ghostbusters" (2016).