Dan Loeser, the shirtless actor beside him, performs additional parts.
But even "the great Gambon," as he has been called by fellow actors, pales beside the onscreen performance of Jack MacGowran, for whose eyes and face Beckett had written "Eh Joe," and who appeared in the 1966 television film of it.
Anita Gates Correction: October 22, 2000, Sunday A picture caption on the Critic's Choice movie page of the Television section last Sunday misidentified the actor standing beside Erich von Stroheim in the film "Grand Illusion".
Regardless of the authenticity – or lack thereof – of those performances by straight actors, they pale beside the still astonishing impact of Bogarde's shockingly truthful performance back in 1961 as a barrister embroiled in a secret gay affair in Victim.
After a few detail shots of the hardware, we begin to notice the presence of a few quirky looking actors standing next beside CPU stations as if they were at a car show.
Paddington himself, created entirely by C.G.I., is woven into recognizable settings amid live action and beside live actors with a wizardry of an astounding ordinariness.
The characters play second fiddle to the environment in the Italian episode of "I Vinti"; the actors seem to shrink beside the awesomely looming, coldly oppressive images of modern buildings going up quickly in grandiose modern urbanistic projects.
Instead of the painstaking task of drawing and painting characters frame by frame, the technique perfected by Walt Disney in the 1930's and 1940's, animators are now doing just about everything with the click of a mouse -- melding hand-drawn characters into computer-generated backgrounds or placing lifelike animals made of pixels on the screen beside human actors.
Besides, the actors are not exactly paragons.
The camera rolls along a specially-constructed track beside the two actors.
