name | Robert Ryan |
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birthname | Robert Bushnell Ryan |
birth date | November 11, 1909 |
birth place | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
death date | July 11, 1973 |
death place | New York City, New York, USA |
yearsactive | 1940–73 |
spouse | Jessica Cadwalader (1939-72) (her death) }} |
Ryan attempted to make a career in show business as a playwright, but had to turn to acting to support himself. He studied acting in Hollywood and appeared on stage and in small film parts during the early 1940s.
In January 1944, after securing a contract guarantee from RKO Radio Pictures, Ryan enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served as a drill instructor at Camp Pendleton, in San Diego, California. At Camp Pendleton, he befriended writer and future director Richard Brooks, whose novel, ''The Brick Foxhole'', he greatly admired. He also took up painting.
Ryan's breakthrough film role was as an anti-Semitic killer in ''Crossfire'' (1947), a film noir based on Brooks's novel. The role won Ryan his sole career Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor. From then on, Ryan's specialty was tough/tender roles, finding particular expression in the films of directors such as Nicholas Ray, Robert Wise and Sam Fuller. In Ray's ''On Dangerous Ground'' (1951) he portrayed a burnt-out city cop finding redemption while solving a rural murder. In Wise's ''The Set-Up'' (1949), he played an over-the-hill boxer who is brutally punished for refusing to take a dive. Other important films were Anthony Mann's western ''The Naked Spur'', Sam Fuller's uproarious Japanese set gangland thriller ''House of Bamboo'', ''Bad Day at Black Rock'', and the socially conscious heist movie ''Odds Against Tomorrow''. He also appeared in several all-star war films, including ''The Longest Day'' (1962) and ''Battle of the Bulge'' (1965), and ''The Dirty Dozen''. He also played John the Baptist in MGM's Technicolor epic ''King of Kings'' (1961) and was the villainous Claggart in Peter Ustinov's adaptation of ''Billy Budd'' (1962).
In his later years, Ryan continued playing significant roles in major films. Most notable of these were ''The Dirty Dozen'', ''The Professionals'' (1966) and Sam Peckinpah's highly influential brutal western ''The Wild Bunch'' (1969).
Ryan appeared several times on the Broadway stage. His credits there include ''Clash by Night'', ''Mr. President'' and ''The Front Page'', the comedy drama about newspapermen. Among his rare stage appearances, Ryan starred opposite Katherine Hepburn at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut where he played Antony to Katherine Hepburn's Cleopatra in the summer of 1960.
He appeared in many television series as a guest star, including the role of Franklin Hoppy-Hopp in the 1964 episode "Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree?" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, ''The Eleventh Hour''. Similarly, he guest starred as Lloyd Osment in the 1964 episode "Better Than a Dead Lion" in the ABC psychiatric series, ''Breaking Point''. In 1964, Ryan appeared with Warren Oates in the episode "No Comment" of CBS's short-lived drama about newspapers, ''The Reporter'', starring Harry Guardino in the title role of journalist Danny Taylor. Ryan appeared five times (1956–1959) on CBS's ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater'' and twice (1959 and 1961) on the ''Zane Grey'' spin-off ''Frontier Justice''. He appeared three times (1962–1964) on the western ''Wagon Train''.
In the late 1940s, as the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC) intensified its anti-communist attacks on Hollywood, he joined the short-lived Committee for the First Amendment. Throughout the 1950s, he donated money and services to civic and religious organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, and United World Federalists. In September 1959, he and Steve Allen became founding co-chairs of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy's Hollywood chapter.
By the mid-1960s, Ryan's political activities included efforts to fight racial discrimination. He served in the cultural division of the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and, with Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Sidney Poitier, and other actors, helped organize the short-lived Artists Help All Blacks.
Ryan's film work often ran counter to the political causes he embraced. He was a pacifist who starred in war movies, westerns, and violent thrillers. He was an opponent of McCarthyism who nevertheless served the anticommunist cause by playing a nefarious Communist agent in ''I Married a Communist''. Even in films like ''Crossfire'' and ''Odds Against Tomorrow'', which ultimately promoted racial tolerance, he played bigoted bad guys. Ryan was often vocal about this dichotomy. At a screening of ''Odds Against Tomorrow'', he appeared before black and foreign press representatives to discuss "the problems of an actor like me playing the kind of character that in real life he finds totally despicable."
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name | Nanette Fabray |
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birthname | Ruby Bernadette Nanette Fabares |
birth date | October 27, 1920 |
birth place | San Diego, California, U.S. |
occupation | Actress |
yearsactive | 1924–1994 |
spouse | Dave Tebet (1947-1951)Ranald MacDougall (1957-1973) }} |
Nanette Fabray (born October 27, 1920) is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, and activist. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and then became a musical theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in ''Love Life''. She became a household name during the mid 1950s as comedy partner to Sid Caesar on ''Caesar's Hour'' for which she won three Emmy Awards. From 1979-1984 she starred as Grandma Katherine Romano on ''One Day at a Time''.
Fabray overcame a significant hearing impairment to pursue her career and has been a long-time advocate for the rights of the deaf and hard of hearing. Her honors representing the handicapped include the President's Distinguished Service Award and the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award. She is the aunt of actress/singer Shelley Fabares.
Fabray's parents divorced when she was nine years old but her parents continued to live together for financial reasons many years after. During the Great Depression, her mother turned their home into a boarding house which Fabray and her siblings helped her to run. In her early teenage years she attended the Max Reinhardt School of the Theatre on a scholarship. She also attended Hollywood High School where she graduated in 1939. She entered Los Angeles Junior College in the Fall of 1939 but withdrew after only a few months. She had always had difficulty as a student in school due to an undiagnosed hearing impairment which made learning significantly difficult for her. She eventually was diagnosed with a hearing problem in her 20s after an acting teacher encouraged her to get her hearing tested. Of the experience Fabray said, "It was a revelation to me. All these years I had thought I was stupid, but in reality I just had a hearing problem."
Fabray appeared on several series as the mother of a main character: on ''One Day at a Time'' she was Ann Romano's mom; on ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' she was mother to Mary Richards, and on ''Coach'', she played mother to real-life niece Shelley Fabares. She also made appearances on ''The Carol Burnett Show'', ''Burke's Law'', ''Love, American Style'', ''Maude'', ''The Love Boat'', ''What's My Line?'', and ''Murder, She Wrote''. Her brief, eponymous 1961 comedy series was cancelled after 13 episodes. On the PBS program, ''Pioneers of Television: Sitcoms'', Mary Tyler Moore credited her well-known "crying" takes to mimicking Fabray's style of comic crying.
In 1953, Fabray played her most famous screen role as a Betty Comden-like playwright in MGM's ''The Band Wagon'' with Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan. Their performance included a classic musical number, "Triplets", that was eventually included in ''That's Entertainment Part II''. Additional film credits include ''The Subterraneans'' (1960), ''The Happy Ending'' (1969), ''Amy'' (1981), and ''Teresa's Tattoo'' (1994) among others.
Fabray's most recent work was in 2007, when she appeared in ''The Damsel Dialogues'', an original revue by composer Dick de Benedictus, with direction/choreography by Miriam Nelson. The show focused on women's' issues with life, love, loss and the work place. The play was performed at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, California.
Nanette Fabray is a resident of Pacific Palisades, California. In 2001 she wrote to Dear Abby to decry the loud background music used on television programs today.
Nanette is the aunt of singer/actress, Shelley Fabares .
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Team | Dallas Cowboys |
Birth date | December 13, 1962 |
Birth place | Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States |
College | Southwestern Oklahoma State |
Position | Defensive Coordinator |
Coach | yes |
Coachingyears | 1987 1988 1989-1993 1994-1995 1996 1997-1999 2000-2003 2004-2008 2009-2010 2011-Present |
Coachingteams | Western Kentucky (Assistant) Ohio State (Outside Linebackers) Tennessee State (RBs, LBs, DL) Arizona Cardinals (Defensive Backs) Hutchinson Community College (Defensive Coordinator) Oklahoma State (Defensive Coordinator) New England Patriots (Linebackers) Oakland Raiders (Defensive Coordinator) Cleveland Browns (Defensive Coordinator) Dallas Cowboys (Defensive Coordinator) }} |
In 1974, they moved back to the United States to live with their father.
He attended Stevenson High School in Linconshire, Illinois.
In 1999, they were ranked 10th in the nation in total defense. In 1998, they were second in the nation with 41 sacks. In his first season at Oklahoma State, the Cowboys defense finished among the nation top-20 in turnover margin, rushing defense, scoring defense and total defense, allowing just 302.7 yards per game. It was an over 100-yard improvement per game from the year before and helped the Cowboys produce an 8–4 mark and capping the 1997 season with a berth in the Alamo Bowl.
In 2003, Ryan's squad helped the New England Patriots defense rank first in the NFL in fewest points allowed 238 while ranking seventh overall in the NFL in total defense. Ryan's unit also contributed to one of the best scoring defenses in franchise history in 2001, as the Patriots allowed just 17 points per game and produced Pro Bowlers Willie McGinest and Tedy Bruschi.
In 2006, the Oakland Raiders ranked 3rd in yards allowed per game and 18th in pts allowed per game.
Former Cleveland Browns head coach Eric Mangini named Ryan as his defensive coordinator on January 14, 2009
He was officially named the Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator on January 19, 2011.
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name | Aldo Ray |
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birth name | Aldo DaRe |
birth date | September 25, 1926 |
birth place | Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA |
death date | March 27, 1991 |
death place | Martinez, California, USA |
occupation | Film actor |
yearsactive | 1951-91 |
spouse | Shirley Green (1947-53) (divorced) 1 childJeff Donnell (1954-56) (divorced)Johanna Ray (1960-67) (divorced) 3 children }} |
Aldo Ray (born Aldo DaRe; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor.
While constable of Crockett, CA, Aldo drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film "Saturday's Hero." Director David Miller was more interested in Aldo, because, it is rumored, of his voice, than in his brother, and hired him for the small role of a cynical soccer player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed. Columbia Pictures wasted no time in signing Ray to an exclusive contract, and despite having no acting experience, Aldo soon appeared in several films under his birth name, Aldo DaRe.
Ray’s work in ''Pat and Mike'' led to his nomination, along with Richard Burton and Robert Wagner, for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. Burton won the award that year, but Ray’s career was launched. Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn liked Ray and wanted him for the role in ''From Here to Eternity'' that Fred Zinneman insisted that Montgomery Clift have.
The following year, 1953, Aldo’s personal life didn’t go nearly as well as his professional life. Although he and first wife Shirley Green were divorced, he starred opposite Rita Hayworth in ''Miss Sadie Thompson'', a remake of the W. Somerset Maugham story ''Rain''. This began the most productive period of Aldo’s career, preceded by his marriage to actress Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell in 1954, a marriage that would only last two years.
In 1955, Ray appeared in starring roles in ''Battle Cry'', ''Three Stripes in the Sun'', and one of his best loved films, ''We're No Angels'', in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett. By then he was firmly associated with the macho roles that would continue to characterize his work.
During 1956, in between appearances in ''Three Stripes In The Sun'' and ''Men in War'', Ray tried his hand at radio, working as a personality and announcer at Syracuse, New York hit music station WNDR. A photo of Ray with a colleague in the WNDR studios, taken as part of a station promotional package, survives and can be found on a WNDR tribute website, although it's not known if any aircheck tapes of his radio shows still exist. By 1957, in any event, he had left WNDR and the radio business and returned to Hollywood. He would appear in 11 films during the following 11 years (1957–68), the busiest period of his film career.
On January 31, 1957, Ray appeared on NBC's ''The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford''. He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit from a foxhole.
Author Richard Matheson said his best known work, ''The Incredible Shrinking Man'', was inspired by a scene in Aldo Ray's ''Let's Do It Again'' in which a character puts on someone else's hat and it sinks down past his ears; "I thought, what if a man put on his own hat and that happened?" he recounted in an interview for Stephen King's non fiction work ''Danse Macabre''.
This period of Ray’s career would culminate with a starring role in ''God's Little Acre'' (1958), an honest adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s steamy novel. The film featured Robert Ryan, with whom Ray had also worked in ''Men in War'', and a young Tina Louise in her big screen debut. He was also memorable in ''The Naked and the Dead'', a gritty adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel.
In 1959 he starred in ''Four Desperate Men'' (''The Siege of Pinchgut''), The film was filmed on location in Sydney Harbour, Australia. 'Pinchgut' is actually 'Fort Denison' located in the Harbour. The film was the last produced by Ealing Studios, a small British Studio which lasted from 1939 to 1959.
Aldo also did two pilots for television in the 1960s. Although neither was ever picked up, one, an American adaptation of the British comedy ''Steptoe and Son'', was eventually reworked by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear as a vehicle for Redd Foxx as ''Sanford and Son.''
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name | Jean-Louis Trintignant |
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birth date | December 11, 1930 |
birth place | Piolenc, Vaucluse, France |
occupation | actor |
years active | 1951–present |
spouse | Stéphane Audran (div.)Nadine Marquand (div.) }} |
Jean-Louis Trintignant (born 11 December 1930) is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
Trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and resumed his work in film.
thumb|left|225px|Trintignant in ''Un homme et une femme''Trintignant had the leading male role in the art-house classic ''Un homme et une femme'', which at the time was the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market.
In Italy, he was always dubbed into Italian, and his work stretched into collaborations with renowned Italian directors, including Valerio Zurlini in ''Summer Violent'' and ''The Desert of the Tartars'', Ettore Scola in ''La terrazza'', Bernardo Bertolucci in ''The Conformist'', and Dino Risi in the cult film ''The Easy Life''.
Throughout the 1970s, Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, ''Under Fire''. Following this, he starred in François Truffaut's final film, ''Confidentially Yours''.
In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski's last film, ''Three Colors: Red''.
Though he takes an occasional film role, he has, as of late, been focusing essentially on his stage work.
Trintignant was nominated to receive the César four times: in 1987, 1995, 1996, and in 1999.
His first wife was actress Stéphane Audran. His second wife, Nadine Marquand, was also an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. They had three children: Vincent Trintignant, Pauline (who died of crib death in 1969) and Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003). At the age of 17, Marie performed in ''La terrazza'' alongside her father and later became a successful actress in her own right. She was killed at the age of 41 by her boyfriend, singer Bertrand Cantat, in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Trintignant is good friends with Anouk Aimée. It was he who recommended Aimée to film director Claude Lelouch for the female lead in ''Un homme et une femme''.
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