As with previous Face Time posts, there’s no theme or organizing principle to these photos of actors, other than that they all have the Look, faces that hold the screen and our attention, then and now. Looking at these images today, much of their power comes from our shared history of seeing these people on the screen and the roles they played, the films they made, and the associations that come with that. I’ve included a few directors as well. Some shots are candid, most are posed. In many of these shots, it’s about their eyes, looking directly into the camera, and at us, making contact. I’ve indicated photographer credits when I know who took the shot.

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Yul Brynner, displaying his trademark intensity as Rameses in The Ten Commandments (1956).

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Gena Rowlands

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Boris Karloff, in the 1920s, and later.

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Vincent Price and Anna May Wong, 1937.

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Anna Magnani

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Sofia Coppola

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Marilyn Monroe, top photo by Carl Perutz, 1958. Showing something more vulnerable below that.

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Robert Redford

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Two Dames – Maggie Smith and Judi Dench.

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Michael and Shakira Caine. Below, with Candace Bergen for The Magus (196).

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Isabella Rossellin, photographed by Mikael Jansson, 1998.

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Rachel Weisz, photographed by Alasdair McLellan.

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Charlotte Rampling

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Jeanne Moreau

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Oskar Werner

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Harry Dean Stanton, photographed by Gabriel Olson.

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Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces (1970).

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Ben Gazzara and Alain Delon

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Buster Keaton, photographed by Richard Avedon, 1952. Below, David Bowie with Keaton biography.

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Sterling Hayden

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Jenny Agutter, then (1976), and now, Call the Midwife.

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William Shatner

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Tallulah Bankhead

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Monica Vitti

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Dennis Hopper, Polaroid by Andy Warhol, 1977.

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David Lynch

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Natalie Wood

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Elizabeth Taylor

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Juliette Binoche

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Julie Christie, Fahrenheit 451 (1966).

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Two views of Catherine Deneuve.

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Audrey Hepburn

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Natasha Kinski

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Peter Cushing, photographed by Terry Fincher, 1983.

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Claudia Cardinale

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Tuesday Weld

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Isabelle Adjani

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Okay, that’s enough for now. See you next time, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!! – Ted Hicks

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Previous Face Time posts may be accessed here:

Face Time – The Classics, Part 1 (11/11/2021)

Face Time – The Classics, Part 2 (11/12/2021)

Face Time – The Classics, Part 3 (11/16/2021)

Face Time – The Latest Edition (6/30/2024)

Face Time – The Next Batch (9/26/2024)

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