Question: City of Angels is a 1998 American romantic fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling and starring an American actor, who early in his career starred in what 1983 film?

Context articles: Nicolas Cage
Casper (film)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Beauty and the Beast (1962 film)
City of Angels (film)
Meet Joe Black
Land of the Lost (film)
Wings of Desire
Moonlight Mile (film)
10 Items or Less (film)

Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor, director and producer.
 During his early career, Cage starred in a variety of films such as "Valley Girl" (1983), "Racing with the Moon" (1984), "Birdy" (1984), "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986), "Raising Arizona" (1987), "Moonstruck" (1987), "Vampire's Kiss" (1989), "Wild at Heart" (1990), "Fire Birds" (1990), "Honeymoon in Vegas" (1992), and "Red Rock West" (1993).
Casper is a 1995 American live-action/computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Brad Silberling loosely based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost created by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo.
 The film stars Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle and Amy Brenneman, and also features the voices of Malachi Pearson as the title character as well as Joe Nipote, Joe Alaskey and Brad Garrett.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 American dark comedy film directed by Brad Silberling.
 It is a film adaptation of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket, covering the first three novels "The Bad Beginning", "The Reptile Room", and "The Wide Window".
 The film stars Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Cedric the Entertainer, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge and Meryl Streep, as well as Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket.
Beauty and the Beast is a 1962 American romantic fantasy film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Joyce Taylor and Mark Damon.
 It is based on the 18th century fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and features title creature make-up by the legendary Jack Pierce.
City of Angels is a 1998 American romantic fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling and starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan.
 Set in Los Angeles, California, the film is a loose remake of Wim Wenders' 1987 film "Wings of Desire" ("Der Himmel über Berlin"), which was set in Berlin.
 As with the original, "City of Angels" tells the story of an angel (Cage) who falls in love with a mortal woman (Ryan), and wishes to become human in order to be with her.
 With the guidance of a man (Dennis Franz) who has already made the transition from immortality, the angel falls and discovers the human experience.
Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American romantic fantasy film directed and produced by Martin Brest, and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani.
 The screenplay by Bo Goldman, Kevin Wade, Ron Osborn and Jeff Reno is loosely based on the 1934 film "Death Takes a Holiday".
Land of the Lost is a 2009 American adventure comedy film directed by Brad Silberling, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft and Jimmy Miller, written by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas, distributed by Universal Pictures, co-produced by Relativity Media, Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures and Mosaic Media Group and starring Will Ferrell, Danny McBride and Anna Friel, loosely based on the 1974 Sid and Marty Krofft television series of the same name.
 The film was theatrically released on June 5, 2009 by Universal Pictures.
Wings of Desire (German: Der Himmel über Berlin , 'The Heavens Over Berlin' ) is a 1987 romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders.
 The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its human inhabitants, comforting those who are in distress.
 Even though the city is densely populated, many of the people are isolated or estranged from their loved ones.
 One of the angels, played by Bruno Ganz, falls in love with a beautiful, lonely trapeze artist, played by Solveig Dommartin.
 The angel chooses to become mortal so that he can experience human sensory pleasures, ranging from enjoying food to touching a loved one, and so that he can discover human love with the trapeze artist.
Moonlight Mile is a 2002 American romantic drama film written and directed by Brad Silberling.
 This film was loosely inspired by writer/director Brad Silberling's own experience.
 He was dating actress Rebecca Schaeffer at the time she was killed by an obsessed fan in 1989.
10 Items or Less is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Brad Silberling and starring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega.
 Shot in fifteen days, "10 Items or Less" made its release as a digital download – the first such release via the Internet – while it was still in theaters.