Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Wallace Shawn - pencil drawing























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Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American character actor, voice actor, playwright and essayist. His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn (a fictionalized version of himself) in the Louis Malle directed comedy-drama My Dinner with Andre (1981), John Lahr in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. James Hall in Clueless (1995) and providing the voice of Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) and Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl (2008–2012).

His plays include Obie Award winning Aunt Dan and Lemon (1985), The Designated Mourner (1996) and Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2008). He also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and he scripted A Master Builder (2013), a film adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen, which he also starred in.[2] His book Essays was published in 2009 by Haymarket Books. Source: Wikipedia

Monday, December 10, 2018

Steve Harvey 734

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Steve Harvey 734

Pencil portrait sketch combined...
Broderick Stephen Harvey (born January 17, 1957) is an American comedian, television host, producer, radio personality, actor and author. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, the Steve talk show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, Little Big Shots and its spinoff Little Big Shots: Forever Young, Steve Harvey's Funderdome, Showtime at the Apollo and since 2015, the Miss Universe pageant.

Harvey is the author of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, which was published in March 2009, and the book Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find and Keep a Man. He starred in The Steve Harvey Show, and was featured in The Original Kings of Comedy. He is a six-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, two-time Marconi Award winner, and a 14-time NAACP Image Award winner in various categories.


Sunday, October 28, 2018

Actor Tom Skerritt

Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is known for his film roles in M*A*S*H, Alien, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences.
Source: Wikipedia

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Bill Withers


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Bill Withers... Sketch of the Day.
William Harrison Withers Jr.
(born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985.
He recorded several major hits, including
"Lean on Me",
"Ain't No Sunshine",
"Use Me",
"Just the Two of Us",
"Lovely Day",
"Grandma's Hands".
Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for four more. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Still Bill.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.


Monday, April 16, 2018

Art Linkletter

Radio and TV personality, Art Linkletter

Monday, April 9, 2018

Vincent D

Vincent D'Onofrio
American actor
Vincent Philip D'Onofrio is an American actor, producer, and singer. He is known for his roles as Private Leonard Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket, Wilson Fisk in Daredevil, Det. Wikipedia
Born: June 30, 1959 (age 58), Bensonhurst, New York City, NY
Height: 6′ 4″

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Vincent Schiavelli


The first time I saw Vincent Schiavelli was in the 1990 film "Ghost". He was a believable troubled spirit haunting the subway when "Sam" Patrick Swayze ran into him and learned how to navigate between the spirit world and the earthly world. -Greg

Monday, February 26, 2018

Jason Bateman

Pencil Sketch of the Day...
Jason Bateman

Quote:
I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face. — Jason Bateman

Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director, and producer. He began acting on television in the early 1980s on Little House on the Prairie, Silver Spoons, and The Hogan Family.

In the 2000s, he became known for his role of Michael Bluth using deadpan comedy in the sitcom Arrested Development, for which he won a Golden Globe and a Satellite Award.

He has also had starring roles in the films Juno (2007), Hancock (2008), Up in the Air (2009), Extract (2009), The Switch (2010), Paul (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), The Change-Up (2011), Identity Thief (2013), Bad Words (2013), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), The Gift (2015), Office Christmas Party (2016) and Zootopia (2016), as well as the 2017 Netflix series Ozark.

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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Earl Holliman

Earl Holliman

(born September 11, 1928) is an American actor. He is well known for his many character roles in films, mostly westerns and dramas, in the 1950s and 1960s, winning a Golden Globe Award for the 1956 film The Rainmaker. He also portrayed the role of Police Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama Police Woman throughout its 1974–1978 run.

Source: Wikipedia

Friday, February 23, 2018

Henry Dunant (1828-1910), Founder of the International Red Cross.

Pencil on vellum textured bristol paper.
Henry Dunant (1828-1910), Founder of the International Red Cross.