Chara has also specialized in offbeat roles, from a manic-depressive brat who dresses like a crow in Picnic to a Chinese hooker who becomes a nightclub singer in Iwai's Swallowtail.
But after the American Robert Peary claimed to have reached it in 1909, both men hastily altered their plans, instead they would aim for the last big prize: the South Pole.
My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms.
In the end, the most dramatic change in the old Arab order in years was inspired by Mohamed Bouazizi, the 26-year-old university graduate who could find work only as a fruit and vegetable vendor.
Just like Emil Jannings, the first Academy Award winner in history received the prize for his outstanding performance in two films, the Last Command and the Way of All Flesh.