Ward Bond as "John Dodge" alongside John Fordon the set of THE WINGS OF EAGLES.
Sometime ago I ran a series of posts on this blog about real-life people who have been portrayed by actors in films. One of my regular readers - Ray - has come up with a similar themed question : Real life film directors who have been depicted in films. Let me make it clear that I don't mean film directors who have taken character roles in films - although we might get around to that in the future - because actor/directors are fairly common (i.e.Clint Eastwood). What I mean is film directors who have been played by actors. I will accept examples where a director has played himself in a dramatic presentation as in my first example listed below. I've done no research into this yet but have listed a few examples that immeadiatly come to mind.Please feel free to add to this list via the comment facility or e-mail and I'll list them on the blog proper. Here's my initial list :
Cecil B. DeMille as Cecil B.DeMille in SUNSET BOULEVARD
Ward Bond as "John Dodge" (John Ford) in THE WINGS OF EAGLES
John Malkovich as F.W. Murnau in SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE
John Depp as Edward Wood Jr. in ED WOOD
Ian McKellan as James Whale in GODS AND MONSTERS
Clive Revill as Charles Chaplin in THE SCARLETT O'HARA WAR
George Furth as George Cukor in THE SCARLETT O'HARA WAR
Martin Ferrero as George Cukor in GODS AND MONSTERS
Robert Downey Jr. as Charles Chaplin in CHAPLIN
Eddie Izzard as Charles Chaplin in THE CAT'S MEOW
Cary Elwes as Thomas Ince in THE CAT'S MEOW
Colm Feore as D.W.Griffith in AND STARRING PANCHO VILLA AS HIMSELF
Michael McKean as Christy Cabanne in AND STARRING PANCHO VILLA AS HIMSELF
Kyle Chandler as Raoul Walsh in AND STARRING PANCH VILLA AS HIMSELF
2 comments:
Of course, your omission of ME AND ORSON WELLES was simply an oversight. However, don't forget Vincent D'Onofrio as Orson in ED WOOD. Oh, and that Johnny Depp guy as Ed Wood himself.
As far as Welles goes it was not Not an oversight, I was just seeing if you were awake...obviously you were only half awake because Johnny Depp WAS on my list as Ed Wood. Welles must hold some sort of record as an director depicted on the screen by others as he has appeared as a character in over 3o films. A few other names have been coming in and I'll do an update in the near future.
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