Word: typecast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways. Lockley is the most unconvincing character in Report to the Commissioner. He is too lofty in his ideals, too typecast in his youthful confusions and contradictions, and ultimately, too naive to be a detective who has made it through the police academy, even if on his father's name. But he is also a rending figure, a person lost in the murky realitics of city life and unfulfillment. His only fulfillment--the successful pursuit of The Stick and finding his "search object", Det. Butler--ends in disaster. A case is brought against him by the Department for Butler...
Died. George Sanders, 65, cynical, sinister film smoothie for more than three decades; by his own hand (sleeping pills); in Castelldefels, Spain. Though he began his career as a singer, Sanders moved easily into movies during the '30s and was quickly typecast as the unctuous villain in such pictures as Lloyds of London and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He called his autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad and pooh-poohed his own acting ability, but won an Academy Award in 1950 for his role as the bitchy, jaded critic in All About Eve. His suicide note was totally...
...State Department. He remained for six years, then left to resume his law practice until he was appointed Secretary by Truman in 1949. His success was partly due to his keen analytical mind, but it owed something as well to the impression he created. Acheson seemed to be typecast for Secretary of State, the Continental beau ideal of a diplomat-correct, precise, immaculately attired, imperious or witty as the occasion demanded, ever so slightly condescending...
Died. Horace McMahon, 64, bullnecked, gravel-voiced character actor who was long one of Hollywood's favorite heavies; in Norwalk, Conn. After several years as a bit player and a starring role on Broadway, McMahon went West and was soon typecast as a mobster-a bread-and-butter persona that he relished in many of his 135 films. "I was a jailbird," he said, "behind bars so often that Western Costume Company had a 'Horace McMahon' tag sewn into a convict's striped suit." In 1949 he exchanged his prison number for a badge number, returning...
...screen career as a gangster's moll in the 1930 film classic Little Caesar. She went on to wisecrack her way through scores of Hollywood movies, including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1937 and the Torchy Blane series. Weary of being typecast, she made a deft transition in the 1950s to motherly roles on television and Broadway...