Category:Actors

Keira Knightley, Doctor Zhivago, TV, 2001.     The Irish singer and was offered Lara Antipova in Granada’s totally unecessary re-tread. She had won her first movie role from director Alan Parkder after her family band, The Corrs, were rejected for The Commitments. Parker next put her into Evita – not for long after Madonna …
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Michelle Pfeiffer, Grease 2, 1981.      Broadway’s 1977 Annie was short-listed – and around the right age, 18, for high schooler Stephanie Zinone. Unlike singers Kim Carnes and Debbie Harry at…34!  McArdle was also London’s) Annie, 1978, and NBC’s Judy Garland in Rainbow, 1978. Pfeiffer was 23 with a surprise quirky quality said director …
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Peter Frampton, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1977.       With The Bee Gees substituting The Beatles, the musical was over before it began. . At least, baby brother Andy had the grace to follow Paul McCartney’s lead and refused to play Billy Shears in the what critics pounded as a mindless morass …
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  Pat Boone,  State Fair, 1962.     Auditioned.  And that’s all.   Well, Andy’s one big claim to movie fame was being booked to dub Lauren Bacall singing “How Little We Know” in To Have and Have Not, 1944.      Birth year: Death year: Other name: Usual occupation: SingerCasting Calls:  1