The Actor Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Actors

References and Recommended Viewing

229 i References and Recommended Viewing The following list of films, stage shows, and books served as research material for my interviews with the actors featured here. It does not represent the actor’s entire body of work. To get the most out of these profiles I recommend viewing the actor’s films/shows and particularly their signature performances. All these films and many of the TV shows are readily available. recommended viewing Ed Asner El Dorado (1967) Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) Mary Tyler Moore (TV series 1970–1977) Rich Man, Poor Man (TV mini-series 1976) Roots (TV mini-series 1977) Daniel (1983) Up (2009) Shelley Berman Inside Shelley Berman (Comedy Album 1959) Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV series 2002–2009) Meet the Fockers (2004) Boston Legal (TV series 2006–2008) Don’t Mess with the Zohan (2008) Ellen Burstyn The Last Picture Show (1971) The Exorcist (1973) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) Twice in a Lifetime (1985) How to Make an American Quilt (1995) The Spitfire Grill (1996) Requiem for a Dream (2000) Stockard Channing The Girl Most Likely To (1973) Grease (1978) Six Degrees of Separation (1993) 230 References and Recommended Viewing Smoke (1995) The West Wing (TV series 1999–2006) Where the Heart Is (2000) The Business of Strangers (2001) James Cromwell Babe (1995) The Education of Little Tree (1997) L.A. Confidential (1997) The Green Mile (1999) Angels in America (TV mini series 2003) Six Feet Under (TV series 2003–2005) W. (2008) Ruby Dee Edge of the City (1957) A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Purlie Victorious (1963) Do the Right Thing (1989) American Gangster (2007) Steam (2007) Charles Durning The Sting (1973) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The Best Little Whore House in Texas (1982) Tootsie (1982) Everybody Loves Raymond (TV series 1998–2002) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Hector Elizondo The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) American Gigolo (1980) The Flamingo Kid (1984) Pretty Woman (1990) Necessary Roughness (1991) Chicago Hope (TV series 1994–2000) Tortilla Soup (2001) The Princess Diaries (2001, 2004) Frances Fisher Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (TV movie 1991) Unforgiven (1992) Titanic (1997) References and Recommended Viewing 231 House of Sand and Fog (2003) The Kingdom (2007) In The Valley of Elah (2008) Teri Garr Young Frankenstein (1973) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) One from the Heart (1982) Tootsie (1982) The Black Stallion Returns (1983) After Hours (1985) Elliott Gould M*A*S*H (1968) The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) Getting Straight (1970) The Touch (1971) The Long Goodbye (1973) Bugsy (1991) Friends (TV series 1994–2007) Ocean’s Eleven; Twelve; and Thirteen (2001, 2004, 2007) The Caller (2008) Ed Harris The Right Stu√ (1983) Places in the Heart (1984) Sweet Dreams (1985) The Abyss (1989) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) The Firm (1993) Apollo 13 (1995) The Truman Show (1998) Pollock (2000) A Beautiful Mind (2001) The Hours (2002) A History of Violence (2005) Appaloosa (2008) Marcia Gay Harden Used People (1992) The Spitfire Grill (1996) Meet Joe Black (1998) 232 References and Recommended Viewing Pollock (2000) Mystic River (2003) Mona Lisa Smile (2003) Home (2008) God of Carnage (Broadway stage, 2010) Bill Irwin Stepping Out (1991) Fool Moon (Broadway stage 1992–1999) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Igby Goes Down (2002) Lady in the Water (2006) Rachel Getting Married (2008) Waiting for Godot (Broadway stage 2009) Lainie Kazan One from the Heart (1982) My Favorite Year (1982) Beaches (1988) 29th Street (1991) The Nanny (TV series 1995–1999) My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) Don’t Mess with the Zohan (2008) Piper Laurie Son of Ali Baba (1952) Johnny Dark (1954) Days of Wine and Roses (TV series 1957) The Hustler (1961) Carrie (1976) The Bunker (Television, 1981) The Thorn Birds (TV mini series 1983) Children of a Lesser God (1986) Norman Lloyd Saboteur (1942) A Walk in the Sun (1945) The Southerner (1945) Spellbound (1945) Limelight (1952) St. Elsewhere (TV series 1982–1988) Dead Poets Society (1989) Age of Innocence (1993) In Her Shoes (2005) References and Recommended Viewing 233 William H. Macy Homicide (1991) Fargo (1996) Pleasantville (1998) Magnolia (1999) Door to Door (TV movie 2002) The Cooler (2003) Seabiscuit (2003) The Wool Cap (TV movie 2004) Edmond (2005) Shameless (TV series 2011) Amy Madigan Places...