Walliams to play Frankie Howerd
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Little Britain star David Walliams is to portray Up Pompeii comedian Frankie Howerd in a BBC biopic.
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Keith David is set to  star as leader of a secret police squad in Spike TV's pilot
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Adrien Brody who played the lead actor in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village is all set to play a detective in his upcoming movie.
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"Titantic" star Kate Winslet is to appear in British comedian Ricky Gervais's follow-up to cult sitcom "The Office," The Sun newspaper reported on Saturday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Jim Carrey has been cast   as Horton and Steve Carell as the Mayor of Who-Ville in "Horton   Hears a Who," a computer-animated feature based on Dr. Seuss'   classic 1954 children's book.
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Sir Ian McKellen is to voice the  character of Zebedee in a film of the TV classic The Magic Roundabout.
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The Hollywood Reporter says that Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis are set to lend their voices to Flushed Away, while Hugh Jackman (Van Helsing) is in early negotiations to join them.
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Playbill - Iggie Wolfington, the portly character actor who snagged a 1958 Tony Award nomination for playing Prof. Harold Hill's pal, Marcellus Washburn, died of natural causes Sept. 30 in Southern California, according to published reports. He was 84.
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EastEnders actor John Bardon, who plays Jim Branning in the soap, is taken to hospital following a suspected stroke.
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Actor Stephen Fry is to play The Guide in the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
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Check out the new Thums Up ad featuring the star.
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Former Top Of The Pops presenter Reggie Yates will star in the new series of Doctor Who.
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Britain&#39;s best-known soccer player, David Beckham, has signed up for a small part in a Hollywood movie, Sky News reported Monday.
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The hottest news for adolescent male teens and middle-aged men is that Jessica Simpson, singer and ditzy reality star, will make her acting debut as Daisy Duke in the feature film adaptation of &#39;The Dukes of Hazzard&#39; alongside Seann William Scott and
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Scarlett Johansson to star opposite Ewan McGregor.  Plus news in brief on Sandra Bullock and the Black Eyed Peas.
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Actor Jude Law will appear as Heath Ledger's character, along with Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell, in the unfinished film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," Law's spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Hugh Grant says he's lost interest in acting and is heading into retirement. Grant, who plays heartthrob Daniel Cleaver in "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," was quoted Thursday by the Evening Standard's Metro magazine as saying film acting is a "miserable experience."