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Actor: Cary Elwes

Cary Elwes played Westley in The Princess Bride and trained for months in fencing so that the duel with Mandy Patinkin could be shot in long takes with no doubles, which is why it remains the best sword fight in American film.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights then parodied the same persona, and he has moved between the two registers since.

Glory, Twister and Saw filled out a varied career, and the Saw performance is generally considered the weakest thing in a very successful film.

He wrote a memoir about The Princess Bride that is unusually generous about everyone involved.

Saw (2004) film posterCary Elwes

Saw (2004)

Two men wake chained in a filthy bathroom and discover they are pawns in a sadistic puzzle designed by the Jigsaw killer. Saw is James Wan's 2004 American horror film depicting two men who wake chained in a filthy bathroom…

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Liar Liar (1997) film posterCary Elwes

Liar Liar (1997)

Liar Liar is Tom Shadyac's 1997 American comedy. The work is one of the principal Carrey commercial productions of the mid-1990s and one of the strongest entries in the high-concept comedy subgenre.

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Glory (1989) film posterAndre Braugher

Glory (1989)

Matthew Broderick plays Colonel. Denzel Washington won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar playing Private Trip, a runaway slave with no patience for white officers.

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The Princess Bride (1987) film posterCary Elwes

The Princess Bride (1987) Review

The Princess Bride is one of the most quoted films in American popular culture and one of the most enduring family films of the past forty years. The Princess Bride extended his range into family adventure territory that his previous…

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