My favorite of all time has to be Vincent Price.
The trend lately seems to be recruiting British actors to play American characters.
One of TV's biggest hits this season features two Brits (Dominic West and Ruth Wilson) playing a New Yorker and a Long Islander. Another show has a Brit (Rupert Friend) playing an American CIA operative. Last year's The Lone Ranger featured Wilson as an American (I think). Benedict Cumberbatch was a supporting actor in the distinctly middle-American film August: Osage County (2013).
How about Tim Allen? [video=youtube;OWzJFiAbi98]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWzJFiAbi98[/video]
I've performed on stage w/o mics, and it really helped my speaking voice. If you're not loud and clear enough, there's a producer and / or director to let you know (hopefully getting things straightened out before opening night).
The trend lately seems to be recruiting British actors to play American characters.
One of TV's biggest hits this season features two Brits (Dominic West and Ruth Wilson) playing a New Yorker and a Long Islander. Another show has a Brit (Rupert Friend) playing an American CIA operative. Last year's The Lone Ranger featured Wilson as an American (I think). Benedict Cumberbatch was a supporting actor in the distinctly middle-American film August: Osage County (2013).
I have no idea who Ed Harris is.
I LOVE Ed Harris... He has been in a host of movies... he was in "Apaloosa"... "A Beautiful Mind"... "Enemy At The Gates"... "Apollo 13"... "The Firm"... "The Right Stuff"... and I think it was rumored that he was 'the voice' in "Field of Dreams"...
~shoes~
You mean the guy from that horrible movie The Abyss? :doh:
There is nothing new about this trend. British actors have been playing Americans - far better than Americans can play Brits - for decades. Australian actors too. Just recently there's been Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, Matthew Goode, Naomi Watts, Cate Blanchett, Carey Mulligan, etc.
My favorite currently working character actor has long been Tom Wilkinson, and he plays American in at least half his roles. Besides just having been the railroad magnate villain of the aforementioned The Lone Ranger, some of his other performances as an American include: Batman Begins (crime boss Carmine Falcone), In The Bedroom, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Green Hornet, Michael Clayton, Recount, The Kennedys (as Joseph Kennedy), John Adams (Ben Franklin - best actor Emmy), and many more!
That said, I was particularly amazed by Cumberbatch's portrayals of an American in August: Osage County and 12 Years A Slave. And soon he'll be portraying an American superhero especially dear to my heart, Doctor Strange! Best. Casting. Ever.
Actor, writer, and gourmet, Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was born in St Louis, Missouri, to Marguerite Cobb (Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, Sr., president of the National Candy Company. He traveled through Europe, studied at Yale and became an actor.
Ive never heard of anybody with a voice like Vincent Price that was born in St Louis , Missouri? maybe he picked up his accent from traveling through europe and attending Yale?
Was he in that? I dunno... I didn't see it... Good actors make horrible movies sometimes... professional athletes make stupid plays... great musicians make crappy music...
... so maybe he was...
~shoes~