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	CHARACTER - LoveToKnow Article on CHARACTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		From the latter usage a character becomes almost identical with reputation ; and in the sense of giving a servant a character, the word involves a written testimonial.
		A further development is the use of character to mean an odd or eccentric person ; or of a character actor, to mean an actor who plays a highlycoloured strange part.
		Well-known examples of such characters are those of Theophrastus and La Bruyre, and in English, of Joseph Hall (1574-1656) and Sir Thomas Overbury.
	88.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHARACTER.htm (128 words)

	Building Character
		The Actor is a character distinct from the player, with its own personality, characteristics, and, to some extent, mind (Figure 1).
		Because the character (the Actor) on the screen is a separate entity and dissociated from the player, it's not too disturbing when the Actor acts of its own accord in certain situations.
		Any design that objectifies the character (that is, encourages you to think of it as an object rather than a living being) will prevent players from empathizing with it and relating to it.
	www.gamasutra.com /features/20000720/gard_pfv.htm (3720 words)

	The Actor's Roadmap - Character Acting - B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The director is disappointed that she isn’t as good an actor as he thought when he cast her, and she’s embarrassed that her work is false.
		Then the actor does a peculiar bit of alchemy when she conjoins her simple action (dismissal) with her character’s action (trying to get a date) with her character’s words ("Is that your real hair?").
		In the context of your real life, the self-righteousness was understandable, but in the context of the play, it’s evident that your character is going crazy, because she has no apparent reason for being so self-righteous and turning that self-righteousness into murder against an innocent person.
	home.earthlink.net /~actorsroadmap/pages/12b.htm (1957 words)

	Joe Pantoliano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He says that leading actors such as Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman and Marlon Brando are character actors.
		Regardless, Pantoliano is one of those actors whose face you always remember and who inevitably makes an invaluable and memorable contribution to whatever he’s appearing in.
		The 46-year-old actor shows some signs of middle age when he admits that he could relate to the movie’s theme of memory loss.
	www.citylinkmagazine.com /lester/040401lester1.html (936 words)

	Modern Character Actors \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Interesting character actor trivia: Richard Edson, perhaps most famous for his role as the joyriding garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, was the first drummer for Sonic Youth.
		I usually think of character actors as the talented actors who play a variety of supporting roles and actually act, as opposed to movie stars, who basically play themselves.
		It's often been said that British actors are all character actors by default, and there does seem to be something to that.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/22323 (2952 words)

	The Actor's Roadmap - Character Acting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This is a good start, because it immediately gets the actor away from thinking of the character as divorced from himself, someone he "puts on," and, therefore, someone who will exist only in two dimensions, without any fundamental life force.
		a "serious" actor being someone who is interested in exploring how deeply and broadly they can mine their own experiences and sensibilities to exploit them creatively in the acting craft.
		I see a lot of "method actors" who are quite believable as long as their characters are close to home, but they have a hard time when the text requires a stretch.
	home.earthlink.net /~actorsroadmap/pages/12.htm (742 words)

	Variety.com - An action actor of character
		Not when you consider the characters' importance in movie history and to Ford's career as well as to thousands of other moviemakers' careers, from carpenters, among whose ranks Ford once toiled, to Steven Spielberg.
		He also has a contemporary sensibility and is the most modern of Ford's three serial characters, since Han Solo, despite his futuristic status, is really a throwback to the cynical Americans of past pulp culture.
		Ford's believability as an adventure hero is also aided by the obvious fact that he does most of his own stunts, which adds to the credibility of his characters and detracts from his health.
	www.variety.com /article/VR118861?categoryid=13&cs=1 (1579 words)

	Character Actors
		But nowadays the line between being a star and being a character actor is beginning to blur as films enter their second century – their third, actually.
		Character actors rarely win Oscars, but Ruth Gordon (whom we salute in this summer’s tribute to the character actor) did, for her exceptional performance as Minnie Castavet in Rosemary’s Baby.
		One of my favorite character actors from the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s is Martin Balsam, who was equally at home on stage, big screen or little screen.
	www.filmnight.org /character.htm (780 words)

	The steady ascent to stardom of a chameleon character actor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Now the British-born actor is appearing in "Art," a London hit that has arrived on Broadway with Alan Alda and Victor Garber in the comedy's two other roles.
		I'm still making mistakes but you know when a writer makes a decision to give a character that amount of dialogue in one go, there is a reason for it.
		Not that the road to steady employment as an actor was smooth.
	www.jsonline.com /letsgo/movies/0227alfred.stm (984 words)

	Amrish Puri, a character actor of class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Versatile actor Amrish Puri, whose role as 'Mogambo' in movie 'Mr India' became the metaphor for ugliness and greed lurking behind the psyche of every man, was not only a trademark villain but a character actor of class.
		The actor first gave his screen test for a hero's role in 1954 but the producer rejected him saying he had a "crude, harsh face".
		Puri was known to delve into the depths of the character, study its nuances and then present it in his maverick style.
	web.mid-day.com /news/city/2005/january/101365.htm (523 words)

	Character vs. Actor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Of course, the character was Diana Miller (Jack's mother) and when I flicked on an episode of The Bold and the Beautiful and saw Lesley Anne Down yelling at Sean Kanan (Deacon) I thought 'That's what Diana is like.
		I've sort of envisioned some of the characters as the opposite of the role the portrayer is use to playing.
		I don't think readers would be able to identify fully with the characters that I've chosen with or wthout the picture because most of my characters aren't actors/actresses, they're mostly singers, so readers probably wouldn't be able to picture them as actors/actresses.
	oswmagazine.4.forumer.com /a/character-vs-actor_post36.html (2168 words)

	TheFanlistings.org Message Board > Character/Actor Images
		The character and the actor are two entirely seperate things (though I do say such and such played this character very well etc).
		There's one character fanlisting out there (which shall not be named) and the layouts always, without fail feature the actress and not the character, as do almost all of the codes.
		Even if they are made with good intentions, if an actor fanlisting only features the actor as one character in the layout, it makes me wonder if the owner really just likes that character and isn't an overall fan of the actor.
	www.thefanlistings.org /board/lofiversion/index.php/t39841.html (1260 words)

	Modern Character Actors \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Poopy: I meant character actors like him are often the only watchable thing about bad movies.
		Character actors just play supporting roles, although that's basically the same as playing the same character over and over.
		Although actors who started out with small parts are interesting, real character actors, like some mentioned here, live and die without really registering in the public consciousness.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/22323 (2952 words)

	Character actor Jack Elam dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jack Elam, a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-guy cowboys with his crazy grin, wild eyes and remorseless gunslinging in films such as “Rawhide” and “Wichita,” has died, a family friend said Tuesday.
		Most biographies list the actor as 86 years old, but Hassan said he was actually 84, having lied about his age as a youngster to get work.
		The actor’s own cockeye was the result of a childhood fight in Phoenix.
	www.msnbc.com /news/983452.asp?0si=- (453 words)

	[Deathwatch] Royce Applegate, character actor, 63 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Character actor dies in H'wood house fire Thursday, January 2, 2003 Posted: 4:19 PM EST (2119 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/02/death.applegate.reut/index.html LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Television and film actor Royce Applegate, who appeared in such movies as "Splash" and "The Rookie," died in a New Year's Day blaze that left two firefighters seriously burned, authorities said Thursday.
		Applegate, 63, was found dead in the bedroom of his Hollywood Hills home after the blaze was put out and firefighters entered the house Wednesday morning, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.
		Character actor Dennis Patrick, a regular on "Dallas" and the daytime horror soap opera "Dark Shadows," perished in a blaze at his Hollywood Hills home in October.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2003-January/000344.html (356 words)

	Fametracker :: Hey! It's That Guy! :: J.K. Simmons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There are certain character actors who seem to pop up in every other movie; then there are character actors like J.K. Simmons.
		Skoda is a refreshing change from the previous psychologist, Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, who was always complaining about something or other and getting herself tangled up in the psychosis of the criminals she interviewed.
		We'd argue that, of all the character actors working today, Simmons might be the one most likely to fill the formidable and too-long-empty shoes of the late, great J.T. Walsh.
	www.fametracker.com /hey_its_that_guy/simmons_j_k.shtml (496 words)

	Halfbakery: Best Character Actor Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And I'm not sure "character actor" is the right term anyway; you could easily class someone like Steve Buscemi as a "character actor" even in films like Ghostworld where his role is fairly central.
		It's more about the actor and their choice of roles, it seems to me, than about one particular role in one particular movie.
		The actor who played the old man hinge-maker, who survived getting shot because the soldier's gun jammed, is the sort of character actor I'm talking about.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Best_20Character_20Actor_20Award (547 words)

	Playbill News: John Randolph, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Dead at 88
		John Randolph, an accomplished character actor whose career include Broadway collaborations with Orson Welles and the Lunts, as well as a Tony Award-winning performance in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, died Feb. 24 at his home in Hollywood, the New York Times reported.
		As in many another Randolph performance, the character was far from shy, plain-spoken and wielded his gravelly Bronx accent for purposes both comical and menacing.
		The actor worked steadily throughout the '50s and '60s, despite having been fllisted for having refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955.
	web.playbill.com /news/article/84670.html (660 words)

	Character actor is all heart, no noise, in planned local film - 1997-09-08 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Character actor is all heart, no noise, in planned local film
		The actor's solo concert film, Michael Winslow Live, which premiered at the 1997 Florida Film Festival, is close to being picked up by a distributor McChesney says.
		Other actors who have been signed include Branscombe Richmond (star of the syndicated TV series Renegade), Leslie Easterbrook (the Police Academy films), Tommy Krappweis (who stars in the Saturday Night Live equivalent on German TV), James Sang Lee (a local martial arts expert), nightclub comedian Michael Aronin and professional wrestler Hugh Morris.
	www.bizjournals.com /orlando/stories/1997/09/08/newscolumn2.html (775 words)

	ACTING @ Theatre with Anatoly
		In fact, actor is the first to be seen in three-dimensional space in front of you.
		Actor must not only know logic of feelings, but also a logic of thought.
		In his "Rules for Actors" he writes: "In ordinary life, too, the actor must remember that he is to be part of a public presentation."[3] Artist is always there, artist "acts" all the time.
	www.vtheatre.net /thr/act.html (2283 words)

	Character and Actor Biographies
		James originally wanted to play pro football and even though he was well built and fast, he wasn't heavy enough to withstand the constant physical punishment of the sport.
		The 1967 produced series was full of stunts, action and believable stories, which captured the viewer, but unfortunately not enough to keep them because its run was to last only 17 episodes.
		Character actor of films and television, Paul Brinegar specialized in playing fiesty, grizzled cowboy sidekicks.
	mylancerpage.com /bios.html (1510 words)

	The Character Actor - Jun. 29, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Such technique, Fons explains, lets the actor focus not on the delivery of his lines but on the expression of feeling developed by immersion in the personality of the character.
		He says he was more focused on maintaining a state of mind required by the character he was playing.
		Catch this consummate character actor in action and see more of the style that has made his 30-second appearances such hits in themselves.
	www.inq7.net /mag/2003/jun/29/mag_2-2.htm (598 words)

	character actor - infos
		The old-fashioned term "character actor" used to refer to those who...
		A character actor is an actor who predominantly performs supporting parts, often in similar roles...
		A character actor may be very short, extremely...
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/ang2/13/character-actor.html (184 words)

	Psychology Today: Character/actor - John Malkovich - Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In terms of being an actor, I don't think, "Oh, I would never do this or that." I have a tendency to view the world as the character views the world.
		There's our understanding of what a character says, and the understanding that they say this or that because they really mean it.
		I remember a rather hack director, saying to me, You know, you could be good if you got some vocal training.' What I did was, the we had our own little theater, where he and people like him have no power over us.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_n4_v27/ai_15544694 (1610 words)

	TidBit: 'Mass Appealing Character Actor'! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However, this is the second film where Srihari is doing a character role after NVNV.
		Even in his next film with Sumanth, he plays a character role.
		The performance of this movie at the box office will decide whether he sticks to doing character roles or takes up lead roles.
	www.greatandhra.com /movies/news/jun2005/mass_appeal.html (121 words)

	Psychology Today: Character/actor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Summary: Interviews actor and director John Malkovich who stands out as the character actor of our times.
		He discusses the characters he has played, the chameleon aspect of acting, his psychoanalysis, the neurotic edge of creativity, and more.
		If Malkovich the actor excels at playing elusive characters who never let you in, the same turns out to be true of Malkovich the man.
	cms.psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-19940701-000024.html (2174 words)

	Matching Character and Actor Trivia, Quizzes, Quiz Questions, Fun Facts, Information
		Match the character to the actor, actor to character, or even character from one show to a role the actor played on another show.
		Many actors that have appeared on 'Buffy, the Vampire Slayer' have also appeared on another 'teen' show, mostly 'Dawson's Creek.' I'll give you the characters they played on 'Buffy' and another show, and you pick the actor/actress.
		I will give you the name of the character and you will choose what their real name is. If you like my quiz please rate it.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/television/characters_and_actors/matching_character_and_actor.html (423 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Character (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Character, the 1997 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is an Oedipal struggle both primal and epic with a Dickensian sweep and a dark Kafka-esque center.
		With an impossibly jutting jaw and unique mode of speech, he is the ultimate character actor.
		To me "character" is who you are without threat of punishment or promise of reward.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007KK52?v=glance (1599 words)

	Interview: Steve Buscemi - character actor - Interview
		SB: The main thing was watching how they treated the actors and the crew, and the atmosphere that they set up.
		But I wrote myself a good part and I enjoyed acting it - I think this character is the closest to myself that I've ever played - and I liked being the one who decided if we were going to do another take.
		BS: Your character, Tommy, says that he'd be different if he'd had a kid.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n10_v26/ai_18839018 (1413 words)

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