His irascible demeanour might have given him a questionable reputation off-screen, but it has helped Tommy Lee Jones carve a niche as a formidable and frequently frowny presence on film.
Saeed Jaffrey's screen reputation was very much forged in the west.
Ms. Blethyn, the English actress who made her screen reputation in Mike Leigh's "Secrets and Lies," is no less amazed.
Lately, however, the company has made a big push into the notebook computer market on the strength of its reputation as a screen maker.
It proved a blessing in disguise, as Buckley has since graduated from Rada and is now carving out a growing stage and screen reputation, excelling as pious Princess Marya Bolkonskaya in the BBC's handsome adaptation of War and Peace, where she met her boyfriend, on-screen brother James Norton.
The resulting film was a commercial and critical success that earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and created his screen reputation.
The line between Mr. Hopper's on-screen delivery and his off-screen reputation seems too thin, it makes you squirm, as do many of his later, greater roles.
Mark Spangenthal, the chef at Kutsher's, won a reputation at the Screening Room and other restaurants for doing a lot with food that didn't sound like much.
The likability of these flat and boring characters hold the actresses' off screen reputations in good stead but reinforce the very norms that imprison and render so many Indian women vulnerable, as they did Deepika, to disrespect and sexism.
More recently, however, he's rekindled his reputation with small-scale screen successes such as Bug and Killer Joe.
