If 1968 best picture winner "In the Heat of the Night" is remembered as a progressive touchstone, it's less for the material than for Sidney Poitier's impassioned, distinguished star turn — which received a subtle assist from the film's cinematographer.
One key aspect that distinguished "Star Trek" music from that of many other TV series in the '80s, '90s and beyond was the producers' insistence that it be performed by musicians, not with synthesizers, which was becoming the norm at the time.
"Bonnie and Clyde" also crystallized the fame of two of America's most distinguished stars: Warren Beatty, who portrayed the smooth-talking stud Clyde Barrow, and Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker, the disenchanted waitress who lit up when the duo's Depression-era crime spree took off.
Almost unrecognizable as the town's bearded sheriff is the distinguished Nicholas Campbell, star of "Da Vinci's Inquest" and a four-time winner of Canada's top television award, the Gemini.
An amateur but distinguished astronomer, star of television programmes including GamesMaster, prolific author, composer and manic xylophone player, he was a true, quite unselfconscious British eccentric – and a populariser of science without equal in an era of great but often abstruse discovery.
Gooding isn't the only distinguished black star to weigh in on the issue.
Years later, while filming "The Quatermass Conclusion," the young Mr. MacCorkindale introduced his father to his distinguished co-star John Mills.
The TNT film, which has its premiere tonight, opens with a scene in which Dean is making his first film, Elia Kazan's "East of Eden," and meeting his distinguished co-star Raymond Massey Edward Herrmannn) for the first time.
Salmon, 49, is one of a growing group of distinguished black British stars making big budget US film and television projects to supplement a British acting career.
At any rate, its distinguished actors have all starred in far higher profile films which were far less entertaining.
And Mr. Bergman, who in his late 80s still cuts a distinguished figure, was movie-star handsome as a younger man.
