Popeye

…direction of Paramount’s big-budget musical Popeye (1980), with Robin Williams in the title role, seemed to have kept the filmmaker in the Hollywood mainstream. That Altman was an unusual choice for the project seemed immaterial until the film failed to deliver the sort of big profits the studio had expected.…

…small part in Robert Altman’s Popeye (1980). In her second movie appearance Hunt was cast as the diminutive male Chinese-Australian photographer Billy Kwan in Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), set in 1965 in Indonesia near the end of the Sukarno regime. Hunt’s portrayal of the complex and…

…movie appearances included leads in Popeye (1980) and The World According to Garp (1982), but his first major role came with Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), in which he portrayed the irreverent military disc jockey Adrian Cronauer. The role earned Williams his first Academy Award nomination. His second came soon after…