Original sentence: (April 3 1924 – July 1 2004) was a two-time Academy Award-winning actor whose body of work spanned over half a century
Edited sentence: (April 3 1924 – July 1 2004) was an iconic, two-time Academy Award-winning actor whose body of work spanned over half a century, which along with his defiant, rebellious attitude towards Hollywood conventions and popularising the Stanislavski method of acting, is often thought as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century