As the legendary actor turns 86 on Saturday, we rate decades of his most celebrated roles – from grinning wrong ’uns to lovable rakes and crazed murderers
Despite being a colossal platform for Warren Beatty as its director-star – perhaps the high point of his Hollywood prestige – this epic about John Reed and the October Revolution featured Jack Nicholson on scene-stealing, smouldering form as the dramatist Eugene O’Neill, who was painfully in love with Reed’s lover and then wife Louise Bryant, played by Diane Keaton.
