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...cted and written by [[Toshio Matsumoto]], loosely adapted from ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' and set in the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo. It stars [[Peter The film was released by A.T.G. ([[Art Theatre Guild]]) on 13 September 1969 in Japan; however, it did not receive a United States rel ...

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...f Canada|CM]] (11 June 1922 – 6 October 2009) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]]-based stage [[actor]]. He was born in [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]]. ...n 1953, and King Oedipus in the stage and screen production of ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' in 1954. He appeared many times at Stratford in the fifty years that fo ...

...to Britain, he gained experience as a local radio broadcaster and appeared on television in plays and documentaries. ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929042529/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee292d7 |archive-date=29 September 2017}}</ref> He was also ...

...characters#Kolp|Kolp]] in the fourth and fifth ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' films.<ref name="Sullivan">{{cite web|title=Severn Darden, 65, a Master of Improv ...ty of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226113456|via=Google Books}}</ref> Sills went on to found The Second City in 1959 and brought in many of the comedians from ...

...es]]'' (''Bara no soretsu''). The film was loosely inspired by ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'', featuring a [[transgender woman]] (portrayed by [[Peter (actor)|Peter] Matsumoto lived in Tokyo until his death on 12 April 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.japantrends.com/pioneering-fi ...

...s.com/2024/02/22/theater/outsiders-broadway-musical-se-hinton.html|title = On the Road With 'The Outsiders,' Where the Greasers and Socs Rumbled|last = R ...sical film]] ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'', based on the music of [[the Beatles]]. ...

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...s West End and played the title role in [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' on BBC TV in 1985. In 2006, he premièred his second one-man show, this one on Shakespeare, ''Sweet William'', and in 2009 he worked with Peter Brook for ...

...remaining in existence. Both these theatres were based, in large measure, on the {{lang|it|Teatro Olimpico|italic=no}}. It is still used several times a Palladio died in August 1580, only six months after construction had started on the theatre. Still, construction continued with Palladio's sketches and dra ...

* {{Marriage|[[Rex Harrison]]|1943|1957|reason=divorced}} ...86) was a German actress and writer. After beginning her career in British films in the 1930s, she would later transition to major [[Cinema of the United St ...

...r simply '''Valli''', was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, spanning from the 1930s to the early 2000s. She was on ...e]]''; 1960), [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] ([[Oedipus Rex (1967 film)|''Oedipus Rex'']]; 1967), [[Mario Bava]] (''[[Lisa and the Devil]]''; 1972), [[Bernardo B ...

...lo secondo Matteo'''}}) is a 1964 [[epic film|epic]] [[List of films based on the Bible|biblical drama]] film, written and directed by [[Pier Paolo Pasol ...the film employed a cast of mostly amateur actors, and was filmed entirely on-location throughout [[Southern Italy]]. The dialogue is taken directly from ...

...national exposure through his [[stand-up comedy]] routines and appearances on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]''. Townsend has worked with t ...|date=2019-07-06 |title=How 'Cooley High' changed the landscape for black films in 1975 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |url=https://www.latim ...

| based_on = {{Based on|''[[Old Boy (manga)|Old Boy]]''|[[Garon Tsuchiya]]|[[Nobuaki Minegishi]]}} ...ntury-so-far |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2008, ''Oldboy'' was placed 64th on an ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' list of the top 500 movies of all time. ...

...in municipal theatres throughout Prague. He appeared in many Czechoslovak films, and was the official Czech-language [[Dubbing (filmmaking)|dubber]] of [[J ...lm)|''Apt Pupil'']] (1998, [[Bryan Singer]]), as well as guest appearances on ''[[Highlander: The Series]]'' (1996), and ''[[Highlander: The Raven]]'' (1 ...

Since the effectiveness of a plot twist usually relies on the audience's not having expected it, revealing a plot twist to readers or ...plot twists as a theme in every episode and some base their whole premise on the twist; for example, ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' and ''[[Tales of the Unex ...

...Destination London]]'' (2004). He has appeared in numerous [[Rob Zombie]] films, his roles including Morris Green in ''[[The Devil's Rejects]]'' (2005), '' ...V series)|Matlock]]'' (1992–1995); Officer (then ex-officer) Rick Bettina, on the TV series ''[[Nash Bridges]]'' (1996–2001); [[Jay Leno]] in the made-fo ...

...talents.{{sfn|Fordin|1996|p=409}} The song is the only time Astaire danced on-screen with a black dancer, the uncredited [[Leroy Daniels]].<ref>{{Cite bo ...lisher=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref> In 2006, this film ranked number 17 on the [[American Film Institute]]'s [[AFI's 100 Years of Musicals|list of bes ...