As the legendary actor turns 86 on Saturday, we rate decades of his most celebrated roles – from grinning wrong ’uns to lovable rakes and crazed murderers
that established 32-year-old Nicholson’s unique position in movies: intense, distinctive and seductive, the hair already starting to thin and the alligator grin beginning to make itself felt. Nicholson is more than a character player, but hardly a pretty-boy lead. He is the wealthy, alcoholic human-rights lawyer George Hanson, who helps out the two counterculture bikers Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, but is always getting thrown in the drunk tank himself.
ce and jewel of the American New Wave features a wonderfully subtle and introspective performance from Nicholson – the kind that he was later increasingly unwilling or unable to attempt. He is David, a gloomy and self-important radio talkshow host in Philadelphia, given to long, literary, self-indulgent monologues about his life and opinions.
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