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With a poetic sensibility, “Distant Voices, Still Lives” echoed his Liverpool upbringing, and “The House of Mirth” put Edith Wharton’s novel on the screen.

With a poetic sensibility, “Distant Voices, Still Lives” echoed his Liverpool upbringing, and “The House of Mirth” put Edith Wharton’s novel on the screen.

Beginning with a doeskin bikini in “One Million Years B.C.,” she built a celebrated show business career around sex appeal and, sometimes, a comic touch.

She began her career in her native Italy and, although she achieved fame in America worked more often in Europe. She later had a second...

The filmmaker David Lynch turned to his haunting work again and again, for “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive” and other neo-noir films.

She was largely unknown to the public when she was cast as what the American Film Institute called one of cinema’s most memorable villains.

She was best known for commanding movie roles in the 1960s but received the greatest plaudits for playing heroines of the ancient stage.

She was best known for commanding movie roles in the 1960s but received the greatest plaudits for playing heroines of the ancient stage.

A would-be singing star, he found success in Hollywood playing a variety of roles, but they were often quiet, dangerous men, like Paulie Cicero in...

He appeared in “Secret Honor,” “Boogie Nights,” “Seinfeld” and dozens of other movies and television shows.