The Career Defining Moment

[SirOllyBolly]

My first candidate for this would be Errol Flynn as Captain Blood - who went from an unknown contract player to an overnight sensation in his first starring role as Captain Blood (1935).



Certainly a defining moment in Errol's career - but who else has had such a defining moment in their career?



Or gave the performance for which they'll always be remembered?

[TimR]

Julie Christie in Darling, followed within a few months by Doctor Zhivago



Hayley Mills in Whistle Down the Wind



Albert Finney in Tom Jones



Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia

[batman]

Marlon Brando's first five films .....



The Men

A Streetcar Named Desire

Viva Zapata

Julius Caesar

On The Waterfront



Michael Caine .....



Zulu

The Ipcress File

Alfie



Sean Connery .....



Dr No



Humphrey Bogart .....



The Maltese Falcon

[Gerald Lovell]

Despite his being in films for ten years before it, a notable performance as The Creature in The Curse of Frankenstein, and especially despite his own feelings on the matter, Christopher Lee in Dracula (1958).

[batman]

Following on from Mr Lovell's post ....



Karloff in Frankenstein



Lugosi in Dracula

[zettel45]

The famous close-up of Wayne in Stagecoach. He'd made films before, but that was the moment he was announced as a star.

[Mark O]

Roddy McDowall in Cleopatra, he probably gave the best performance of the lot.

[wadsy]

Humphrey Bogart, "The Petrified Forest".



Alan Ladd "This Gun For Hire".

[Moor Larkin]

Oddly, I never once have read McGoohan in interviews, even mention this movie, but it almost certainly got him his Rank Contract and quite possibly led to his refusing the offer of playing James Bond some years later.



Certainly not what he is remembered for, but equally certainly a defining moment. They're not always the most famous moments.

[Kitty Whiskers]

Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects



Terrence Stamp in Billy Budd



Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Simon Baker in L.A. Confidential

[ShirlGirl]

Richard Todd as the Rev. Peter Marshall in "A Man Called Peter".....?



He had made quite a few movies before that, but this is the first one that really stands out, I think.



(Well, it does for me, having been in love with him ever since!)

[CaptainWaggett]

[batman]

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Humphrey Bogart, "The Petrified Forest".

I debated this with someone the other day and he thought I was talking rubbish!



As good as Bogart is in The Petrified Forest it didn't really do the business for him at Warners or with the public. Although it was the first of his classic roles, he was subsequently cast in minor films and suppported the likes of Cagney. His real breakthough role was High Sierra but even then the defining image of him as the 'Bogie' character didn't really appear until The Maltese Falcon.



But, of course, that's only my opinion.

[batman]

For the first time on screen Max runs a comb through his ample barnet, this was during a successful campaign to woo Ann Todd in Daybreak ....







.... he repeated this slick cinematic technique with Laurence Harvey in There Is Another Sun with, surprisingly, less success.

[Mr Sloane]

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For the first time on screen Max runs a comb through his ample barnet, this was during a successful campaign to woo Ann Todd in Daybreak ....







.... he repeated this slick cinematic technique with Laurence Harvey in There Is Another Sun with, surprisingly, less success.

but who knows what happened off camera

[GoggleboxUK]

Christopher Reeve in Superman,

Harrison Ford in Star Wars

Jenny Agutter in The Snow Goose

[Marky B]

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I am surpised that was allowed in those days . I believe a man and his wife were not

allowed to share a bed together in films,let alone two men.

Thanks for the pic,Captain,two of my favourite characters in film and one of my favourites

of Hitch.

Ta Ta

Marky B

[batman]

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but who knows what happened off camera

Oh Gawd ... think of all those rattling bones!

[jimw1]

Gene Hackman The French Connection











John Hurt The Naked Civil Servant TV Film











Harvey Keitel The Duellists











Holly Hunter The Piano



Anna Paquin The Piano







Tim Roth Made in Britain TV Play

[Mr Sloane]

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Oh Gawd ... think of all those rattling bones!

Reminds me of the quote about Patrick Moore playing the xylophone "sound like two skeletons copulating on a tin roof"