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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh and American actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Anthony Hopkins
Old Rick Wayne
for Old Rick Wayne in Man And His Cat
Suggested by jakubduda
Douglas Smith found an abandoned kitten, took him home, he with wife, Rose, named him Mikey. He was often in the garden or at home, but mostly he was gone. They loved and took care of him. When Mikey was still a kitten, Douglas was taking him to the lake, sitting on a bench, watching the swans, talking to him. When Mikey was bigger, he wasn't much home anymore, he spent the whole day elsewhere, but always at exactly 12:00 he came to the bench by the lake where Douglas was already waiting for him. Mikey and Douglas always met at 12:00, Douglas stroked him, read him a news, sometimes took a rod and caught him a fish. Once, when Mikey was 3 years old, he was hunting butterflies in a meadow, suddenly an old Rick Wayne was driving a tractor and had a radio on, and the presenter said it was 11:30, Mikey heard it and set out for Douglas on the bench. Mikey was walking along the side of the road as a drunken driver of a large SUV drove by, ignore and knock Mikey down. Douglas was waiting for him on the bench, but he didn't come. SUV left with blood on the car. Douglas sat waiting for hours. He went home and with Rose looking for Mikey. Douglas then went to the bench for another 10 years, hoping Mikey would show up one day. Mikey was noticed 10 years ago by another man, took him home to Alabama and treated him. Next day, Douglas came to the bench to sit sadly again, hoping that Mickey would return after 10 years. When he saw him sitting on a bench, waiting for him, he cried.
