''Even in a wider frame with other actors, your eye goes to Ed.'' -- JAMES CAMERON

He's memorable for making himself forgettable; his roles seem to swallow him from the inside out until, in The Right Stuff, for example, he seems more like John Glenn than John Glenn. But those characters do share some remarkable traits: They all have the ice-blue vise-grip gaze, the sinewy smile, and an electrifying sex appeal, courtesy of their creator, now 47.

DON'T MISS: Jacknife (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998)

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