That familiar face in the movies: Select performances of Steve Inwood

Movie fans of the '70s and the '80s may have recognized him: Gaunt but chiseled, and with a head of thick, tousled hair, he rendered short but striking performances on film.

His name is Steve Inwood, and although moviegoers of this generation do not recognize the name nor the face, for it has been awhile since he appeared on television or the movies, his career, however, is marked with remarkable performances.

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Though appearing in only a few scenes in the popular ‘80s movie "Fame," he figured in one of the film's critical scenes. Pretending to be photographer at Times Street, he was trying to convince the film heroine, the naïve Coco (played by Irene Cara), to pose nude for him.

Inwood also starred in the 1983 movie "Staying Alive". He acted alongside John Travolta and had Sylvester Stallone as his director. Inwood played the ego-maniacal director of the Broadway show "Satan's Alley."

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But perhaps his best performance to date is in the Sidney Lumet-helmed crime drama "Prince of the City" (1981), where he played a lawyer who commiserates with the lead character Daniel Ciello (played by Treat Williams), a narcotics detective, as he fights his own demons and struggles to expose his own role in corruption marring the local police.
 

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Inwood may have not been visible on the small and big screen these days, but he did display big talent in even the smallest opportunity, a proof of Constantin Stanislavski's oft-used adage: "There are no small parts, only small actors".

Appearing in some of the most popular movies and TV shows in the 1970s and the 1980s, Steve Inwood is an actor who has been a voting member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1983. For more about the world of entertainment, follow this Twitter account.