Create Fictive Actors And Their Careers (but not give yourself an acting career)

[Airwings]

Hello guys. I hope this is the right board for this. I was suspecting that the thread would be deleted or locked over at Misc Films.

What I want to is for you to invent a movie star that doesn't exist. You have to come up with a name and a birth year, where he is from and what kind of career he has, or had when alive.
You can give him any roles you want, either in existing films, which creates an alternative timeline, or you can invent films that was never made, which doesn't interfere too much with film history as we know it.

I start out with Edward Moore, from GB. He started at the musical stage in the mid 1930s, at a very young age. First at smaller venues, before getting to West End. It didn't take long before he started to appear in films, as well.

After the war, he slowly got a career in the US. Known for his youthful appearance, he was very popular on both sides of the Atlantic. It was all about musicals for him. You know, the old fashioned ones (more like Sound of Music and Wizard of Oz, than Jesus Christ Superstar and Grease, if you know what I mean).
Moore's image was the nice and polite young gentleman. There weren't any scandals around him, with girls or wild party life.

In the beginning of the 50s, he debuted successfully at Broadway. At the same time, he tried new stuff. First he did a sci fi similar to the others in the genre by that time. Then he went to England to star in a kitchen and sink film. Neither of them got any success, despite Moore showing a broader acting range than before.
He returned to musicals, which he though was safe. But as he got older, and with the new rock & roll hype going around the world, the audience lost interest in him, more by every year.

During the 60s, he didn't do more than a couple of films, which were both failures. He toured with a big band for some time, but his heydays were over since long.

Now you are free write your own stuff here. You can also ask me questions about Edward Moore.

 

[knowsbleed]

Is Edward Moore dead or alive?

Does Edward Moore like men or women?

What kind of drugs has Edward Moore partaked in over the course of his lifetime?

Has Edward Moore ever done something he felt that he should go to hell for?

 

[Schlosser85]

Sammy Thomas (born Stavros Tavoularis around 1960) was an American actor who had his heyday in some action flicks in the 1980s, usually as rebellious anti-heroes.

He was born into a very conservative, traditional Greek Orthodox family in Brooklyn, and became a child model after being spotted by a talent agent. At first, he submitted to his father's wishes to attend high school and college and have a normal upbringing, but he ended up dropping out of college and moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

There, he gave in to his manager's pressure to go by the "more American" professional name Sammy Thomas. This also did not please his already upset, very proud Greek father, and they became estranged. While never showing great acting range, Sam/Stavros was darkly handsome and had a charismatic screen presence, and landed a recurring role on a popular soap opera, became a heartthrob to young women across America, and used that as a stepping stone into a string of action flicks where he became typecast as a brooding loner rogue anti-hero. For a few years he was seen as something of an 80's James Dean/Marlon Brando with his attitude and looks, though he never gained anything near Brando's acting acclaim.

Unfortunately, the temptations and pressures of Hollywood took their toll on Sam/Stavros. Behind the scenes, he fell into the hard-partying lifestyle of alcohol, drugs, and girls, girls, girls, becoming known as a bad boy who was difficult to work with, showed up late on sets and sometimes drunk or stoned when he did, and tried to put his hands on any girl who crossed his path. He overestimated his own career momentum and thought he was popular enough to get away with it, but his career offers dried up. Depressed by this, he only spiraled further into drug addiction and alcoholism.

Meanwhile, Stavros was dealing with other issues that no one knew about. Despite his womanizing, he was a closeted homosexual, and his drug-binging and alcoholism (and constant skirt-chasing) was also motivated by his self-loathing and the knowledge that his family would never accept this.

Stavros left a Hollywood party one night around 1990, heavily intoxicated, and got into a car accident which caused severe facial injuries. When police (and paps) arrived on the scene, snooping reporters leaked the fact that he had been receiving oral sex from a male hooker he'd picked up on the way.

His deepest secret blown, and his good looks ruined by facial reconstruction and plastic surgery which left him almost unrecognizable as his old self, Stavros was now completely washed up. Six months later, he was found dead of a drug overdose in his Hollywood home.

So yea. Nice little depressing Hollywood tragedy that one turned into.

 

[Airwings]

Schlosser85: : Really good story. And tragically enough, realistic too.

Nice that you focused a lot on his life behind the cameras. Two thumbs up!

Is Edward Moore dead or alive?

Does Edward Moore like men or women?

What kind of drugs has Edward Moore partaked in over the course of his lifetime?

Has Edward Moore ever done something he felt that he should go to hell for?

1. He's dead. Who wouldn't be if he was born in 1919 (London).

2. He liked women. Or should I say ladies? He sort of lived in older times

3. He didn't take any heavy drugs. But he enjoyed a glass of fine wine now and then. Also champagne. Just normal drinking. He wasn't an alcoholist.

4. No. But he regrets some career choices. One example is turning down Bond two times. First time he couldn't imagine playing a spy, so Barry Nelson was cast instead. Then in 1962, because the studio wanted him to perform songs in Dr No, but he wanted it to be more serious (as he had gotten older and wiser). The script had to be re-written because of Sean Connery getting he role, but one one song is left, though shortened. It's when Bond sings Underneath the Mango Three at the beach.
Edward Moore was already yesterday's news by then, so maybe it's a good thing he wasn't the first cinematic Bond (but he could have been the television version, actually)

 

[Schlosser85]

This is fun. I might make up someone else.

Also, feel free to ask if you have any questions about Sammy/Stavros.

 

[Schlosser85]

By the way, when did Edward Moore die? Did he have a family?

 

[Airwings]

He died towards the end of the 90s. I think he only had a wife, no children.

But he did a comeback during the second half of the 70s. How?
By doing the first film in more than a decade, and it was the old type of musical again. Surprisingly enough, it became a minor success. The other roles followed:

*Stage version of his latest musical film.
*Fred Astaire inspired Las Vegas show.
*Old-school dance film where Moore showing off his step dance talents
*A more modern musical, and it was about the greek gods. It was written by Lloyd-Webber. First came the stage version, then the film adaption.
*Drama about an aged jazz singer on a come back tour of Europe, Australia and North America.

All of this went on well into the 80s. He also did more stuff than mentioned above. Feel free to ask more about it.

Also, feel free to ask if you have any questions about Sammy/Stavros.

Did Sammy Thomas ever meet Edward Moore? I guess they exist in the same "world".

 

[Enriquespy]

Nachos starr.

His acting career started very early, like at 6 o'clock in the morning, when he was caugth bathing by a voyeur. His nude body became a sensation in the media, he was soon aproached to appear in nudie magazines and hot movies. He refused to make porno, for the fear of falling in love with the actreses he had scenes with.

His body was so famous he got a role in a elementary school video about anatomy. Surprisingly his personality was magnetic to the children, an effect that didn't get unnoticed by the film industry: he soon started appearing in child movies all around the world. He was also the man with more appereances ever in Sesame Street.

Then the unthinkable happened: Aliens came to our world. Who would be choosen to be our ambassador to the aliens? It had to be someome with great range of presence. Who better than Nachos Starr?

Not only did he manage to get a treaty of peace and prosperity with the aliens but he also fell in love and married one of the lady aliens (they where very humanoid, so it's not so creepy).

They had 2 sons, both of which tried to appear too in elementary anatomy videos, but failed due to not be enterily human. One day a stranger gave them a map and asked them to fold it, they died of the blood loss from the paper cuts.

Nacho then became a spokesman for google maps.

He also finally appeared in a porno with his wife. Alien porno? It was a great success!!!

 

[DarkSentinel]

Heh. Edward Moore's got nothing on Nate Baxter

 

[Schlosser85]

Did Sammy Thomas ever meet Edward Moore? I guess they exist in the same "world".

No, totally different genres and social circles (Sammy living a stereotypical wild Hollywood party boy lifestyle, which Edward had no part of), and Sammy came up as Edward's career was ending.

 

[Airwings]

Sammy came up as Edward's career was ending.

Edward was a star again the last decade of his career, and then he retired.

Heh. Edward Moore's got nothing on Nate Baxter

Who's Nate Baxter?

 

[DarkSentinel]

Nate Baxter was the indie Errol Flynn of the '80s. Didn't you know?