As with previous Face Time posts, the actors in these photos all have the Look, faces that held 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 two directors and a former First Lady as well. Some shots are candid, most are posed, or of actors in character for a film. I’ve indicated photographer credits when I know who took the shot.

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Gene Hackman

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Warren Oates

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Warren Beatty

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Sam Neill

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Alain Delon

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Paul Newman

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Frank Sinatra

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Anna Karina in Alphaville (1965)

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David Hemmings in Blow-Up (1966)

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Peter Lorre in M (1931)

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Bengt Ekerot in The Seventh Seal (1957)

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Ernest Thesiger

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Boris Karloff, 1913 and later

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Conrad Veidt, photo by Edward Steichen

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Veidt in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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Veidt in The Man Who Laughs (1928)

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Veidt as Major Strasser in Casablanca (1942)

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Whit Bissell

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And as Dr. Frankenstein in I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Fritz Lang

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Catherine Deneuve

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Simone Signeret

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Setsuko Hara

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Isabelle Adjani, photo by Giancarlo Botti, 1974

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Liv Ullmann

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Jane. Fonda, London, 1965

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Ingrid Bergman

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Gena Rowlands, photo by Gene Trindl, 1967

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Diane Keaton

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Gene Tierney with portrait masks, photo by Horst P. Horst, 1940

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Monica Vitti

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Natalie Wood & Steve McQueen

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Donald Sutherland in Fellini’s Casanova (1976)

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John Malkovich

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Eleanor Roosevelt, photo by Paul Calvert, 1938

Okay, she’s not a movie person, but this is a really great photograph of a really great face, right?   Had to include it.

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That’s all for this one. See you next time. Stay tuned. — Ted Hicks

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