Name	Josh Peck
Birth name	Joshua Michael Peck
Birth date
Birth place	Hell's Kitchen, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, voice actor, comedian, director, producer
Years active	1996–present

Joshua Michael "Josh" Peck (born November 10, 1986) is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Drake & Josh. He began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on The Amanda Show. He has since acted in films such as Mean Creek, Drillbit Taylor, The Wackness, and Red Dawn.

Early life

Peck was born in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan, New York City, where he attended The Professional Performing Arts School. His parents were unmarried at the time of his birth and Peck never knew his biological father. He grew up with his mother, Barbara, who is a career coach and his maternal grandmother. Peck had asthma during his childhood, and often stayed indoors watching old sitcoms. Peck has described himself as a "Jewish kid that grew up in New York City just trying to hustle and make it in life". He performed in children's musical theater at New York's TADA! Youth Theater when he was nine years old. He was inspired to become involved in stand-up comedy when he was eight years old.

Career

Peck subsequently appeared in local children's theater, as well as performed stand-up comedy at the Caroline's Comedy Club for the Audrey Hepburn foundation. At the age of 14, he was offered a role on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show and, at his mother's suggestion, accepted the part and moved to Los Angeles to further pursue an acting career.

Peck made his film debut in the 2000 film, Snow Day (film) and appeared regularly on The Amanda Show until the end of its run in 2002. He also starred opposite Alex D. Linz and Zena Grey in the theatrical film, Max Keeble's Big Move, which was released on October 5, 2001. In 2001, he guest starred in an episode of the popular NBC drama ER called Thy Will Be Done. During this time period, Peck appeared in several independent films, including Spun and 2004's Mean Creek, for which he received critical praise. He was cast as Josh Nichols, opposite Drake Bell's Drake Parker, in another Nickelodeon sitcom, Drake & Josh, which began airing in 2004 and gained Peck recognition among young audiences. Josh's character, Josh Nichols, was smart, funny, and organized. In Drake and Josh, Josh was always being tormented along with Drake Bell's character Drake Parker by Miranda Cosgrove's character Megan Parker. Both characters sing in a remake of the song "Soul Man" by Sam and Dave. In 2006, Bell and Peck starred in their own TV movie called Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, and in 2007, they starred in a sequel called . Josh was nominated for Favorite Television Actor at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for his work on Drake & Josh. Peck also made his debut as a director in the Drake & Josh episode, Battle of Panthatar. He has also appeared in the series finale of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, an episode of called Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E., and the direct-to-video New Line Cinema film Havoc. Peck also performed in "Merry Christmas, Drake and Josh" as Josh Nichols. He also appeared as the voice of Eddie in Ice Age 2 & 3.

In 2006, Peck appeared in the independent film Special, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and he voiced Eddie, one of two possum brothers, in the animated sequel, , which was released on March 31 of that year. Peck played a high school bully in 2008's Drillbit Taylor, and starred in the films The Wackness (released July 2008), American Primitive, Safety Glass, and . Josh Peck will also star in a new movie called The Hearts of Men, which said to be released this year. He will also appear in the 2010 remake of Red Dawn.

Personal life

Josh Peck's favorite actors and inspirations are Richard Pryor, Oprah Winfrey, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Lewis, Bill Cosby, Ben Kingsley, and Morgan Freeman. Peck, like his real-life best friend Drake & Josh co-star Drake Bell, plays the piano. In the third season of Drake & Josh, Peck was significantly thinner than he used to be, and by the fourth season of the show, he had lost even more weight. According to a 2006 interview, Peck stated that:

Filmography

{| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Film |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! Year ! Film ! Role ! Notes |- |rowspan="2"|2000 |The Newcomers |Slim | |- |Snow Day |Wayne Alworth | |- |2001 |Max Keeble's Big Move |Robert "Robe" | |- |2002 |Spun |Fat Boy | |- |2004 |Mean Creek |George Tooney | |- |2005 |Havoc |Josh Rubin | |- |rowspan="2"|2006 |Special |Joey | |- | |Eddie |Voice role |- |rowspan="3"|2008 |The Wackness |Luke Shapiro | |- |Drillbit Taylor |Ronnie | |- Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh || Josh Nichols || (TV Movie) |- |American Primitive |Spoke White | |- |rowspan="3"|2009 |What Goes Up |Jim Lement | |- | |Eddie |Voice role |- |Aliens in the Attic |Sparks |Voice role |- |rowspan="2"|2011 |Red Dawn |Matt Eckert |Completed |- |The Hearts of Men | | |- |Bunnicula |Toby Monroe | |- |2012 | |Eddie |Voice Role/Filming |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Television |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |2000–2002 |The Amanda Show |Regular performer | |- |2002–2003 |Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? |Lenny |Voice role |- |rowspan="3"|2001 |ER |Nick Stevens |Episode: |- |Family Guy |Charlie the bully |Uncredited voice roleEpisode: The Kiss Seen Around the World |- |Samurai Jack |S KidPig #3Alien Kid |Episode: Aku's Fairy Tales |- |rowspan="2"|2002 |MADtv |Jeffrey Lugz |Episode: 7.24 |- |Fillmore! |Randall Julian |Episode: To Mar a Stall |- |2003–2004 |The Guardian |Chris Rapp |Episode: SwimmingEpisode: Blood In, Blood Out |- |2004–2008 |Drake & Josh |Josh Nichols | |- |rowspan="3"|2006 |Drake & Josh Go Hollywood |Josh Nichols |Nickelodeon TV-Movie |- | |Numbuh |Voice roleEpisode: |- |What's New, Scooby-Doo? |DamianKidZombie Kid #2 |Voice roleEpisode: |- |2007 | |Josh Nichols |Nickelodeon TV-Movie | |-

References

External links

Josh Peck at Nick.com

Interview on "The Wackness" (alongside director Jonathan Levine) at IFC.com

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Name	Drake Bell
Landscape	no
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Jared Drake Bell
Born	June 27, 1986
Origin	Santa Ana, California, U.S.
Instrument	Vocals, guitar, piano, bass, drums, ukulele
Genre	Pop rock
Occupation	Film actor, television actor, comedian, guitarist, producer, singer-songwriter, television director, pianist
Years active	1994–present
Label	Nine Yards (2005)Motown (2006–2007)TBA (2010–present)
Associated acts
Url	Official Website

Jared Drake Bell His cousin is San Diego Padres closer Heath Bell. On December 29, 2005, Bell was involved in a car accident on Los Angeles's Pacific Coast Highway. He was driving with a friend when a truck ran a red light and caused a head-on collision. This resulted in a fractured neck, a jaw broken in three places, six missing teeth and several facial lacerations.

Career

Acting

Bell appeared in the film Jerry Maguire as Jesse Remo in 1996, and had a small role in the Seinfeld episode "The Frogger" in 1998. In 1999, he acted in a commercial for Pokémon Red and Blue and in the movie . In 2000, he was nominated for the Young role as Cage Redding in the made-for-television film The Jack Bull. During the early 2000s, Bell was a featured performer on The Amanda Show and made a guest appearance on the series The Nightmare Room, before being cast as Drake Parker alongside real life best friend and former Amanda Show costar Josh Peck on the Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh, which began airing in 2004. During this time period, he made a guest appearance as himself on Nickelodeon's Zoey 101 and won the first of three consecutive "Blimp Awards" at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in the "Favorite TV Actor" category. In 2005, Bell co-starred alongside fellow Drake & Josh actress Miranda Cosgrove with Dennis Quaid in Yours, Mine and Ours. In the spring of 2008, Bell had a starring role in the comedy spoof film Superhero Movie. In August 2008, he co-starred in the comedy College, which was shot on location in New Orleans. Bell has signed a producing deal with Virtus Entertainment and will star in The Miracle of Santa Rosa. Bell will also be in another Virtus Entertainment production, this one a mini-series titled Flying Tigers. Bell recently starred in Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh alongside Josh Peck, which began production in July 2008, and premiered on December 5, 2008. He recently guest starred in the online webseries titled I Heart Vampires. In 2010, he made a cameo appearance in an iCarly episode entitled "iBloop".

He will star as Timmy Turner in the live-action TV-movie adaptation of its hit animated series The Fairly Odd Parents, , to be released in 2011.

Music

Bell was first professionally associated with music when he was in the 2001 movie Chasing Destiny. In the film, he co-starred with The Who lead singer Roger Daltrey, who gave him his first guitar lessons. Bell performed on television for the first time in 2002 when he performed his first original song, "Lost A Lover", on The Amanda Show. He also performed part of this song on an episode of "The Nightmare Room", and "So Little Time". Another one of his songs, "Found a Way", is featured as the theme song for Drake & Josh. The song is included on Drake & Josh soundtrack, along with two other compositions he wrote and performed, that were on his debut album, Telegraph, which was released independently on September 27, 2005.

In 2005, Bell performed with Hawk Nelson in a video for the Hawk Nelson song called "Bring 'Em Out," which was featured in the movie Yours, Mine and Ours. Bell and then-band-mates Michael Corcoran (Backhouse Mike) and C.J. Abraham (The Super Chris), worked on music for Drake & Josh, Zoey 101, and iCarly. In 2006, Bell signed with Universal Records. He released his first single, "I Know", on October 17, 2006. The video for "I Know" was filmed in October 2006. Bell's second album, entitled It's Only Time, was released on December 5, 2006, reaching Number 81 on Billboard's Top 200. Bell performed live on MTV's TRL the day after it was released. In the summer of 2007, he went on a Nextfest tour in support of It's Only Time, opening up alongside Corbin Bleu for Aly & AJ.

On October 16, 2007, the Radio Disney single edit version of his song "Makes Me Happy", was released on iTunes. This was the second single for Bell's album It's Only Time. He also wrote with band-mates Michael Corcoran (Backhouse Mike), and C.J. Abraham (The Super Chris), and sang the theme song for the show iCarly, "Leave It All to Me," with Miranda Cosgrove. The music video for the song premiered on May 24, 2008. Bell has recorded a theme song featuring Sara Paxton for his movie Superhero Movie called "Superhero! Song". He performed some Christmas songs in the Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh movie.

Bell has described his music as being heavily influenced by The Beatles and The Beach Boys, with the Beatles being his main influence. He says that two of his other influences are Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly.

A DVD entitled "Drake Bell In Concert" was released on December 16, 2008. The video was unable to crack the 2008 or 2009 Top 100. The DVD contains footage of him and his band live on stage while they toured in Mexico, in October 2008. It also features 2 new songs and 5 covers, all of which are exclusive to the DVD.

In late 2007, Bell was working on his third studio album, originally intended for a spring 2008 release. This album will most likely not be produced by his current label Universal Motown, as said by CJ Abraham in an interview. A few new songs have been heard, and in interviews he has explained, "It's kind of a conceptual double album. The first record is kind of like Magical Mystery Tour in the air, like a 1960's Pan Am flight with all this cool orchestral music and if there is turbulence on the flight, there will be a cool rock and roll song or if there's a special thing we're going through then you'll hear like Mr. Kite type music. And the other side is all about the sea. It's a story, kind of like The Princess Bride where a guy leaves his girl in a town and goes off to sea and crashes on an island and all these legends come back about him becoming this great pirate and ruling the seas. She thinks 'oh, man. He left me!' and really he's just on this island trying to get back to her so it's this back and forth love story about love lost and all that. Hopefully we're gonna try and do a movie alongside it".

And in another interview it was described that he says he drew inspiration for an in-the-works conceptual double CD from the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" and "Magical Mystery Tour." He said, "There's a whole movie I'd like to shoot alongside it that we're writing right now," he says. "It's a 'Princess Bride'-'Romeo and Juliet'-type story with monsters and pirates with big beards. It's very Jellyfish and Jon Brion, Harry Nilsson's 'Popeye' soundtrack. That type of music with a Michel Gondry look to it."

"Sea Song", and another called "All Alone at the Disco" can be seen on his "Live In Concert" DVD. In some other concerts he has played "Our Love" and "Yesterday's Fool", which can also be heard on a SayNow message. He announced "Here am I" on another SayNow message. He released a minute of a Spanglish edit of "All Alone at the Disco" and one minute thirty seconds of "Unbelievable" on his official MySpace. |align="center"| 83 | align="left"| iCarly |}

Video albums

Awards

References

External links

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Jonathan A. Levine (born 18 June 1976 in New York City) is an American film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Levine won the Audience Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival for his film The Wackness. In January 2010, it was announced that he will direct a project entitled Warm Bodies. It is based on a novel with the same name from writer Isaac Marion

Director

Shards (2004)

Love Bytes (2005)

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)

The Wackness (2008)

Live with It (2010)

Warm Bodies (TBA)

Education

MA - American Film Institute

BA - Brown University

Elementary school - St. Bernard's School, New York City

References

External links

Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:American film directors Category:American screenwriters Category:People from New York City

Image size	150px
Caption	Kingsley at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Birth name	Krishna Pandit Bhanji
Birth date	December 31, 1943
Birth place	Snainton, England
Years active	1966–present
Occupation	Actor
Spouse	Angela Morant (1966–1972)Alison Sutcliffe (1978–1992)Alexandra Christmann (2003–2005)Daniela Lavender (2007–present)

Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji (Gujarati:કૃષ્ણા પંિડત ભાનજી); 31 December 1943) is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Early life

Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snainton, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, the son of Anna Lyna Mary (née Goodman), an actress and model, and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor.

Kingsley's father, born in Kenya, is of Gujarati Indian descent; Kingsley's paternal grandfather was a spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar, where Kingsley's father lived until moving to England at the age of 14. Ben Kingsley's mother, born out of wedlock, was "loath to speak of her background"; she was the daughter of an English mother who worked in the garment district of East London, and a father who was believed by the family to have been a Russian or German Jew.

Kingsley grew up in Pendlebury, near Salford. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, an independent school in Manchester in north-west England, where one of his classmates was the actor Robert Powell. He later studied at the University of Salford and at Pendleton College, which later became home to the Ben Kingsley Theatre.

Film and television career

Kingsley began his acting career on stage, but made a transition to film roles early on. Despite this focus on film, he continued to act on the stage, playing Mosca in Peter Hall's 1977 production of Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Royal National Theatre, and in Peter Brook's acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At about this time, he changed his name from Krishna Bhanji to Ben Kingsley, fearing that a foreign name would hamper his career; he took his stage surname from his paternal grandfather's nickname, "King Clove".

Kingsley's first film role was a supporting turn in Fear Is the Key, released in 1972. Kingsley continued starring in bit roles in both film and television, including a role as Ron Jenkins on the soap opera Coronation Street from 1966 to 1967 and regular appearances as a defence counsel in the long-running British legal programme Crown Court. In 1975 he starred as Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the BBCs historical drama The Love School. He found fame only years later, starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi in 1982, his best-known role to date.

Honours

Kingsley was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000. He was made a knight bachelor in the 2002 New Year's Honours (the award was announced on 31 December 2001, his 58th birthday). His demand to be called 'Sir' was documented by the BBC, to some criticism. Since then, Kingsley appears to have altered his stance; credits for his latest films refer to him only as 'Ben Kingsley'. Penelope Cruz was unsure what to call him during the filming of Elegy as someone had told her she needed to refer to him as "Sir Ben". One day it slipped out as such, and she called him that for the rest of the shoot.

In 1984, he won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Recording for The Words of Gandhi. He was awarded the Indian civilian honor Padma Shri in 1985.

In May 2010, Kingsley was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal life

Kingsley has been married four times and has four children: Thomas Bhanji and artist Jasmin Bhanji, with actress Angela Morant, and Edmund Kingsley and Ferdinand Kingsley, both of whom became actors, with theatrical director Alison Sutcliffe. In 2005, he divorced German-born Alexandra Christmann, having been "deeply, deeply shocked" after pictures of her kissing another man surfaced on the internet. On 3 September 2007, Kingsley married Daniela Lavender, a Brazilian actress, in North Leigh, Oxfordshire.

He currently lives in Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England, where he has lived for more than ten years.

Filmography

{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;" |-style="background:#B0C4DE;" ! Year ! Film ! Role ! Notes |- | 1972 || Fear Is The Key || || |- | 1982 || Gandhi || Mohandas Gandhi ||Academy Award for Best ActorBAFTA Award for Best NewcomerBAFTA Award for Best ActorEvening Standard British Film Award for Best ActorGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - MaleKansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best ActorLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNational Board of Review Award for Best ActorNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |- | 1983 || Betrayal || Robert ||The film version of Harold Pinter's playEvening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor |- | 1984 || Oxbridge Blues || Geoff Craven || Episode: "Sleeps Six"Nominated — CableACE Award for Actor in a Dramatic Series |- |rowspan="2"| 1985 || Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe || Silas Marner || Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actor |- | Harem || Selim || |- | 1986 || Turtle Diary || William Snow || Screenplay by Harold Pinter |- |rowspan="2"| 1987 || The Secret of the Sahara || Sholomon || TV |- | Maurice || Lasker-Jones || |- |rowspan="3"| 1988 || Pascali's Island || Basil Pascali || |- | Without a Clue || Dr. John Watson || |- | Testimony — The Story of Shostakovich || Dmitri Shostakovich || |- | 1989 || Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story || Simon Wiesenthal || Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a MovieNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |- | 1990 || The 5th Monkey || Cunda || |- | 1991 || Bugsy || Meyer Lansky ||Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture |- |rowspan="2"| 1992 || Sneakers || Cosmo || |- | Freddie as F.R.O.7 || Freddie The Frog || Voice |- |rowspan="3"| 1993 || Searching for Bobby Fischer || Bruce Pandolfini || |- | Dave || Vice President Gary Nance || |- | Schindler's List || Itzhak Stern || Evening Standard British Film Award for Best ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |- | 1994 || Death and the Maiden || Dr. Roberto Miranda || |- |rowspan="3"| 1995 || Species || Xavier Fitch || |- | Joseph || Potiphar || Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Miniseries or a Movie |- | Moses || Moses || |- | 1996 || || Feste ||From the play by William Shakespeare |- |rowspan="3"| 1997 || Weapons of Mass Distraction || Julian Messenger || TV |- | The Assignment || Amos || |- | Photographing Fairies || Minister Templeton || |- | 1998 || The Tale of Sweeney Todd || Sweeney Todd || TVNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |- |rowspan="2"| 1999 || Alice in Wonderland || Major Caterpillar || TV |- | The Confession || Harry Fertig || |- |rowspan="3"| 2000 || What Planet Are YOU From? || Graydon || |- | Rules of Engagement || Ambassador Mourain || |- | || Narrator || Voice |- |rowspan="3"| 2001 || || Otto Frank || Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television MovieNominated — American Film Institute TV Award for AFI Actor of the Year - Male - Movie or Mini-SeriesNominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a MovieNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |- | Sexy Beast || Don Logan ||Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActorBritish Independent Film Award for Best ActorBroadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorEuropean Film Award for Best ActorFlorida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActorPhoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorSan Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorSatellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion PictureSoutheastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Performance, MaleNominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion PictureNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role |- | AI: Artificial Intelligence || Specialist || Voice |- |rowspan="2"| 2002 || The Triumph of Love || Hermocrates ||Marivaux's play |- | Tuck Everlasting || Man in the Yellow Suit || |- | 2003 || House of Sand and Fog || Massoud Behrani||Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Male LeadNominated — London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the YearNominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleNominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor |- |rowspan="2"| 2004 || Thunderbirds || "The Hood" ||loosely based on the super-marionation programme created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson |- | Suspect Zero || Benjamin O'Ryan || |- |rowspan="4"| 2005 || A Sound of Thunder || Charles Hatton || |- | Oliver Twist || Fagin || |- | Mrs. Harris || Herman Tarnower || Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a MovieNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |- | BloodRayne || Kagan || Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor |- |rowspan="2"| 2006 || The Sopranos || Himself || TVSeason 6, Episode 72 – "Luxury Lounge" |- | Lucky Number Slevin || The Rabbi || |- |rowspan="3"| 2007 || You Kill Me || Frank Falenczyk || Nominated — Prism Award for Best performance in a Feature FilmNominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- | The Last Legion || Ambrosinus || |- | The Ten Commandments || Narrator || Voice |- |rowspan="7"| 2008 || Elegy || David Kepesh || Nominated — London Film Critics' Circle Award Best British Actor of the Year |- | War, Inc. || Walken || Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor |- | The Love Guru || Guru Tugginmypudha || Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor |- | The Wackness || Dr. Squires || Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor |- | Transsiberian || Grinko || |- | China's Stolen Children || Narrator || Voice |- | Fifty Dead Men Walking || Fergus || |- |rowspan="2"| 2009 || || Narrator || Voice |- | Journey to Mecca || Narrator || Voice |- |rowspan="4"| 2010 || | Shutter Island || Dr. John Cawley || Nominated — Scream Award for Best Supporting Actor |- | || Nizam || |- |Whispers Like Thunder|| Vice President Charles Curtis || pre-production |- | Teen Patti || Perci Trachtenberg || |- |rowspan="2"| 2011 || | Hugo Cabret|| Georges Méliès || filming |- | Taj || Shah Jahan || pre-production |- |}

References

External links

Ben Kingsley's SBK announces slate, By TATIANA SIEGEL, Mon., 17 Nov. 2008

Interview, 9/27/05, Cinema Confidential

Interview, 9/22/05, Dark Horizons

Interview, 7/28/04, IGN Films

Interview, 12/16/93, Charlie Rose (Kingsley talks about his experience making "Schindler's List" with director Steven Spielberg).

He is appearing in The Children’s Monologues, a star-studded theatrical event at London's Old Vic Theatre on Sunday 14 November 2010 directed by Danny Boyle and starring Gemma Arterton and Benedict Cumberbatch, produced by Dramatic Need.

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Name	Jim Fairchild
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Kirby James Fairchild
Born	October 08, 1973Fresno, California
Instrument	Singer, guitar
Genre	Indie rock
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, musician
Years active	1992–present
Label	V2, Dangerbird Records
Associated acts	Grandaddy, All Smiles, Modest Mouse
Url	allsmilesmusic.com

Jim Fairchild (born Kirby James Fairchild October 8, 1973 in Fresno, California) is an American singer-songwriter. He records under the name All Smiles.

Biography

Jim Fairchild moved to Modesto at the age of two, and began to play guitar at the age of 14. He has lived in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon where he began to work under the name "All Smiles". As of 2009 he lives in San Francisco.

Fairchild joined Grandaddy as guitarist in 1995, and remained with the band until they broke up in 2006. He is featured on the Giant Sand release, Cover Magazine. In 2001, he was the touring guitarist with Giant Sand, who were the opening act for PJ Harvey. In 2006 Fairchild toured as guitarist with Modest Mouse before Johnny Marr joined the band. He released his first solo album, Ten Readings of a Warning, which he arranged to be carbon neutral, in 2007, as well as a single, "Moth in a Cloud of Smoke". Musicians on the album include Solon Bixler, Joe Plummer, Danny Seim, and Janet Weiss. The album art was created by Natasha Wheat. Fairchild rejoined Modest Mouse in February of 2009, and has continued to tour with them both nationally and internationally. Fairchild released his second album, Oh for the Getting and Not Letting Go, on 30 June 2009. Band members on the album were Solon Bixler, Mike Cresswell, Nik Freitas, and Joe Plummer. After recording in Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Modesto, and Portland, All Smiles released the EP Fall Never Fell on 17 November 2009. The EP was recorded with musicians Solon Bixler, Mike Cresswell, Nik Freitas, Chico Jones, Dave Osborne, Joe Plummer, Danny Seim, Rachel Stolte, and Alance Ward.

In 2010 Fairchild was selected to lead a project at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and was credited on Admiral Radley's first album, I Heart California.

Discography

Albums released as All Smiles:

Ten Readings of a Warning (Dangerbird Records, 2007)

Oh for the Getting and Not Letting Go (Small Aisles, 2009)

Fall Never Fell EP (Small Aisles, 2009)

With Grandaddy:

Under the Western Freeway (V2 Records, 1997)

The Broken Down Comforter Collection (V2 Records, 1999)

The Sophtware Slump (V2 Records, 2000)

Sumday (V2 Records, 2003)

The Ham and Its Lily (2003)

* The Ham and Its Lily was a humorous release by Grandaddy under the band name "Arm of Roger"

Other releases:

Howe Gelb, "Can't Help Falling in Love with You" (1998)

Giant Sand, Cover Magazine (on selected tracks, 2002)

The Band of Blacky Ranchette, "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (2003)

Goldcard, "The Rabbit Song" (2003)

Earlimart, Treble and Tremble (Palm Pictures, 2004)

Peter Walker, Young Gravity (Dangerbird Records, 2006)

Dappled Cities, Granddance (Dangerbird Records, 2007)

Admiral Radley, "I Heart California" (The Ship, 2010)

References

External links

www.myspace.com/allsmilesmusic

www.allsmilesmusic.com

live video November, 7th 2009 Rouen, France

Pitchfork Review of Ten Reading of a Warning

E-forests Al Smiles goes Carbon Neutral

Modesto Famous

Musician Guide

Friends In High Places Friends in High Places

Interviews and press

Pitchfork interview

Chicago Reader interview

interview on Stereogum

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