The film, directed by Michael Madsen — a Danish Conceptual artist, not the American tough-guy actor — takes an unusually long view.
"I'd put her toughness against any tough-guy actor out there," said Todd Lieberman, a "Proposal" producer.
Takeshi Kitano, the Japanese tough-guy actor and comedian, stars as an irresponsible loudmouth gambler accompanying a 9-year-old boy on a search for his real mother.
When he was hired to decorate the home of the tough-guy actor James Coburn, Mr. Duquette dressed ceiling beams with seashells.
Elsewhere on the album, Russell applies his surgical songwriting skills and gruff vocals to other American folk heroes: there's Cliff Edwards (a.k.a. Ukulele Ike), who voiced Jiminy Cricket in "Pinocchio"; the tough-guy actor Sterling Hayden; and Elizabeth Taylor.
Robert Aldrich's The Big Knife from 1955 is a fine noir that pulls no punches: its protagonist, wonderfully played by Jack Palance, is a vain, tough-guy actor who has killed someone while drunk-driving.
The candidate has been accompanied of late by Chuck Norris, the tough-guy actor and martial arts icon whose face, Mr. Huckabee said, "would be on Mount Rushmore except the granite wasn't strong enough for his beard".
Now Chow Yun-Fat, the tough-guy actor best known for his roles in films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and hard-boiled Hong Kong gangster movies, has been lined up to play the ancient scholar in a state-funded film that aims to bring his thinking to the masses.
October 10, 1926 June 14 , 1997Richard Jaeckel, American baby-faced tough-guy actor whose 54-year career took him from roles mainly as stereotypical characters in war films and westerns to parts in television series, most recently "Baywatch"; he received an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in the 1971 film Sometimes a Great Notion (b. Oct. 10, 1926--d. June 14 , 1997.
Chandler reportedly said that his favorite screen incarnation of the character was Dick Powell (in Edward Dmytryk's "Murder, My Sweet," an adaptation of "Farewell, My Lovely"); but here's Chandler, in a 1946 letter, about Humphrey Bogart (in Howard Hawks's "The Big Sleep"): Bogart … is also so much better than any other tough-guy actor that he makes bums of the Ladds and the Powells.
On Monday, on the eve of Israel's closely-fought election, incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu found himself the recipient of such aid when the 75-year-old tough guy actor declared his support "I watched Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech before Congress, and I saw a man who loves his country with all his heart and soul.
