name	Mineo
official name	Comune di Mineo
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coordinates display	title
region	Sicily
province	Catania (CT)
frazioni	Borgo Pietro Lupo
mayor	Giuseppe Castania (since May 27, 2005)
area total km2	244
population total	5432
population as of	2005
population demonym	Menenini or (dialect) Minioli
elevation m	511
saint	Agrippina of Mineo
day	Last two Sundays in August
postal code	95044
area code	0933
website
footnotes	}}

Mineo (, Greek: ''Menaion'' and ''Menai'', Latin: ''Menaeum'' and ''Menaenum'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Catania, part of the Sicily region in southern Italy. It lies 64 km southwest of Catania, 56 km from Ragusa, 54 km from Gela, and 22 km from Caltagirone. There are approximately 5600 citizens living there.

It serves as the center of the cult of Saint Agrippina of Mineo and the church Church of Sant’ Agrippina. Although Mineo is located in Sicily, its peoples' ancestry has its origin in Portugal.

Category:Municipalities of the Province of Catania

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name	Sal Mineo
birth name	Salvatore Mineo, Jr.
birth date	January 10, 1939
birth place	The Bronx, New York, United States
death date	February 12, 1976
death place	West Hollywood, California, United States
other names	The Switchblade Kid
website	http://www.salmineo.com }}

Salvatore Mineo, Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976), better known as Sal Mineo, was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his performance opposite James Dean in the film ''Rebel Without a Cause''.

Early career

Mineo was born in The Bronx, the son of Sicilian coffin makers. His mother enrolled him in dancing and acting school at an early age. He had his first stage appearance in ''The Rose Tattoo'' (1951), a play by Tennessee Williams. He also played the young prince opposite Yul Brynner in the stage musical ''The King and I''. Brynner took the opportunity to help a young Mineo better himself as an actor.

As a teenager, Mineo appeared on ABC's musical quiz program ''Jukebox Jury'', which aired in the 1953-1954 season. Mineo made several television appearances before making his screen debut in 1955 in the Joseph Pevney film ''Six Bridges to Cross''. He beat out Clint Eastwood to the role. Mineo had also successfully auditioned for a part in ''The Private War of Major Benson'' as a cadet colonel opposite Charlton Heston.

Rebel Without A Cause

His breakthrough then came in ''Rebel Without A Cause'', in which he played John "Plato" Crawford, the sensitive teenager smitten with Jim Stark (played by James Dean). His performance resulted in an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor, and his popularity quickly developed. Mineo's biographer, Paul Jeffers, recounted that Mineo received thousands of letters from young female fans, was mobbed by them at public appearances and further wrote, "He dated the most beautiful women in Hollywood and New York."

Mineo played a Mexican boy in ''Giant'' (1956), but many of his subsequent roles were variations of his role in ''Rebel Without a Cause'', and he was typecast as a troubled teen. In the Disney adventure ''Tonka'', for instance, Mineo starred as a young Sioux named White Bull who traps and domesticates a clear-eyed, spirited wild horse named "Tonka" who becomes the famous Comanche.

In ''Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment'' (2006), Douglas Brode states that the casting of Mineo as White Bull again "ensured a homosexual subtext". By the late 1950s the actor was a major celebrity, sometimes referred to as the "Switchblade Kid"—a nickname he earned from his role as a criminal in the movie ''Crime in the Streets''.

In 1957, Mineo made a brief foray into pop music by recording a handful of songs and an album. Two of his singles reached the Top 40 in the United States Billboard Hot 100. The more popular of the two, "Start Movin' (In My Direction)", reached #9 on ''Billboard'''s pop chart. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. He starred as drummer Gene Krupa in the movie ''The Gene Krupa Story'', directed by Don Weis with Susan Kohner, James Darren and Susan Oliver.

Mineo made an effort to break his typecasting. His acting ability and exotic good looks earned him roles as a Native American boy in ''Tonka'', and as a Jewish emigrant in Otto Preminger's ''Exodus'', for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received another Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

Attempted resurgence

By the early 1960s, he was becoming too old to play the type of role that had made him famous and was not considered appropriate for leading roles. He auditioned for David Lean's film ''Lawrence of Arabia'' but was not hired. Mineo was baffled by his sudden loss of popularity, later saying "One minute it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle, the next, no one wanted me." He did appear on ''The Patty Duke Show'' in its second season (1964). The episode was called "Patty Meets a Celebrity". There are stories he attempted to revive his career by camping out on the front lawn of Francis Ford Coppola's home for a chance to win the role of Fredo in ''The Godfather'', but the role went to John Cazale.

His role as a stalker in ''Who Killed Teddy Bear?'', co-starring Juliet Prowse, did not seem to help. Although his performance was praised by critics, he found himself typecast anew, now as a deranged criminal. (He never entirely escaped this; one of his last roles was a guest spot on the 1975 TV series ''S.W.A.T.'' playing a Charles Manson-like cult leader.) He returned to the stage to produce the 1971 gay-themed ''Fortune and Men's Eyes'' (starring Don Johnson). This play gathered positive reviews in Los Angeles but was panned during its New York run, and its expanded prison rape scene was criticized as excessive and gratuitous. A small role in ''Escape from the Planet of the Apes'' (1971) as the chimpanzee Dr. Milo was Mineo's last appearance in a motion picture. In 1973, Mineo appeared as Rachman Habib, assistant to the president of a Middle Eastern country, in the episode "A Case of Immunity" on the NBC crime drama ''Columbo''. He also appeared in two episodes of ''Hawaii Five-O'', in 1968 and 1975.

His murder

By 1976, Mineo's career had begun to turn around. Playing the role of a bisexual burglar in a series of stage performances of the comedy ''P.S. Your Cat Is Dead'' in San Francisco, Mineo received substantial publicity from many positive reviews, and he moved to Los Angeles along with the play. Arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, Mineo was stabbed to death in the alley behind his apartment building in West Hollywood, California. He was 37 years old. Mineo was stabbed just once, not repeatedly as first reported, but the knife blade struck his heart, leading to immediate and fatal internal bleeding. Mineo's remains were interred in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

Arrest and conviction in Mineo's murder

After a lengthy investigation pizza deliveryman Lionel Ray Williams was arrested for the crime. In March 1979 he was convicted, and sentenced to 57 years in prison for killing Mineo and for committing 10 robberies in the same area. Although there was considerable confusion as to what witnesses had seen in the darkness on the night Mineo was murdered, it was later revealed that prison guards had overheard Williams admitting to the stabbing. Williams had claimed that he had no idea who Mineo was. Williams was paroled in the early 1990s, but he was imprisoned again soon for criminal activity.

Art

Sal Mineo was the model for Harold Stevenson's painting ''The New Adam''. The painting is currently part of Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection, and is considered "one of the great American nudes".

Opera

Mineo's career included involvement with opera. On May 8, 1954, he portrayed the Page (lip-synching to the voice of mezzo-soprano Carol Jones) in the NBC Opera Theatre's production of Richard Strauss' ''Salome'' (in English translation), set to Oscar Wilde's play. Elaine Malbin performed the title role, and Peter Herman Adler conducted Kirk Browning's production.

In December 1972, Mineo stage directed Gian Carlo Menotti's ''The Medium'', in Detroit. Muriel Costa-Greenspon portrayed the title character, Madame Flora, and Mineo himself played the mute Toby.

Selected filmography

Feature films

''Crime in the Streets'' ''Dino (film) ''Tonka (film) ''A Private's Affair'' ''Exodus (1960 film) ''Escape from Zahrain'' ''Cheyenne Autumn'' ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' ''Krakatoa, East of Java'' ''Escape from the Planet of the Apes''

Year			! Role	! Notes
rowspan="3">1955 in film	1955	''Six Bridges to Cross''
''The Private War of Major Benson''
''Rebel Without a Cause''
rowspan="4"	1956	|	Angelo "Baby" Gioia, a.k.a. Bambino
''Somebody Up There Likes Me (film)	Somebody Up There Likes Me''	Romolo
''Giant (1956 film)	Giant''	Angel Obregón II
''Rock, Pretty Baby''	Angelo Barrato
rowspan=2	1957	Dino'' ||	Dino Minetta
''The Young Don't Cry''	Leslie "Les" Henderson
1958 in film	1958	Tonka'' ||	White Bull
rowspan="2"	1959	|	Luigi Maresi
''The Gene Krupa Story''	Gene Krupa
1960 in film	1960	Exodus'' ||	Dov Landau	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
rowspan=2	1962	|	Ahmed
''The Longest Day (film)	The Longest Day''	Pvt. Martini
1964 in film	1964	|	Red Shirt
rowspan=2	1965	|	Uriah
''Who Killed Teddy Bear''	Lawrence Sherman
rowspan=2	1969	|	Leoncavallo Borghese
''80 Steps to Jonah''	Jerry Taggart
1971 in film	1971	|	Dr. Milo

References

Sources

Frascella, Lawrence and Weisel, Al ''Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause'' (Touchstone, 2005) ISBN 0-7432-6082-1

Gilmore, John, ''Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip'' (Amok Books, 1998) ISBN 1-878923-08-0

Johansson, Warren & Percy, William A. ''Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence.'' (Harrington Park Press, 1994), p. 91.

Further reading

Jeffers, H. Paul. ''Sal Mineo: His Life, Murder, and Mystery'', Running Press, 2002.

Michaud, Michael Gregg. ''Sal Mineo: A Biography'', Harmony, 2010.

External links

Official Website http://www.salmineo.com

Hadleigh interview with Sal Mineo, 1972

''Cavalier'' (February, 1970): Sal Mineo interviewed by Bob Abel

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birth name	Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
birth date	December 13, 1929
birth place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
years active	1953–present
occupation	Actor
spouse	Tammy Grimes (1956–60; divorced; 1 child, Amanda Plummer)Patricia Lewis (1962–67; divorced)Elaine Taylor (1970–present) }}

Arthur Christopher Orne Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts, Plummer is perhaps best known for his performances as Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical ''The Sound of Music'' and as Mike Wallace in ''The Insider''. His most recent film roles include the Disney-Pixar 2009 film ''Up'' as Charles Muntz, the Shane Acker production ''9'' as 1, ''The Last Station'' as Leo Tolstoy, and ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'' as Doctor Parnassus.

Early life

Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Isabella Mary (née Abbott) and John Orme Plummer, who was secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University. His maternal great-grandfather was Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott. Plummer was an only child. His parents were divorced shortly after he was born, and he was brought up at the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec, outside Montreal. He is bilingual. He studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age, and began acting in high school. Plummer took up acting after seeing Laurence Olivier's film ''Henry V'' (1944). He travelled by train to gain experience with the Canadian Repertory Theatre (the CRT) in Ottawa.

Theatre

Plummer has played most of the great roles in classic repertoire. In 1953, Plummer was the understudy to Tyrone Power in ''The Dark is Light Enough'', in a production by Katharine Cornell in which she also starred. In his biography, Plummer states that Cornell was his 'sponsor.' In 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac in ''Cyrano'', a musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' by Anthony Burgess (libretto and lyrics) and Michael J. Lewis (music). For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.

In 1971 he appeared at the National Theatre in the play ''Amphitryon 38'', directed by Sir Laurence Olivier.

In 2002, he appeared in a lauded production of ''King Lear'', directed by Jonathan Miller and performed at the Stratford (Canada) Shakespeare Festival. The production came to New York City's Lincoln Center in 2004, where Plummer's performance as Lear garnered him his sixth Tony nomination.

He returned to Broadway in 2007 as Henry Drummond in a revival of ''Inherit the Wind,'' winning a Drama Desk Award nomination as well as his seventh Tony nomination.

Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff; this production was videotaped and shown in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 (with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo! in Canada. Plummer once again returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in ''The Tempest'' as the lead character, Prospero.

Film

Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1958 when Sidney Lumet cast him as a young writer in ''Stage Struck''. Since then he has appeared in a vast number of notable films which include ''Oedipus the King'', ''The Man Who Would Be King'', ''The Fall of the Roman Empire'', ''Jesus of Nazareth'', ''The Return of the Pink Panther'', ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun'', ''Battle of Britain'', ''Waterloo'', ''The Silent Partner'', ''Dragnet'', ''Shadow Dancing'', ''Inside Daisy Clover'', ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'', ''Malcolm X'', ''Dolores Claiborne'', ''Wolf'', ''12 Monkeys'', ''The Insider'', ''Murder by Decree'', ''Somewhere in Time'', ''Syriana'', ''The New World'', ''The Lake House'' and ''International Velvet''.

One of Plummer's most critically acclaimed roles was that of television journalist Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated ''The Insider'', for which he won Boston, Los Angeles, and National Society of Film Critics Awards for 'Best Supporting Actor'; he was also nominated for Chicago and Las Vegas Film Critics Awards, as well as a Satellite Award. Predictions of an Oscar nomination circulated, but such recognition only came in January 2010 when Plummer received his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of author Leo Tolstoy in ''The Last Station''. Speaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview that aired on March 7, 2010, Plummer appeared slightly irritated that it had taken so long to receive a personal Academy Award nomination, saying, "Well, I said it's about time! I mean, I'm 80 years old, for God's sake. Have mercy." Still, on Oscar night, March 7, 2010, Plummer lost the Best Supporting Actor nomination to Christoph Waltz in the Quentin Tarantino 2009 war film ''Inglourious Basterds''.

Other recent successes include his roles as Dr. Rosen in Ron Howard's Academy Award winning ''A Beautiful Mind'', Arthur Case in Spike Lee's 2006 film ''Inside Man'', and the philosopher Aristotle in ''Alexander'', alongside Colin Farrell. In 2004, Plummer played John Adams Gates in ''National Treasure''.

Plummer has also done some voice work, such as his role of Henri the pigeon in ''An American Tail'', the villainous Grand Duke of Owls in ''Rock-a-Doodle'', the antagonistic Charles Muntz in ''Up'' and the elder leader 1 in the Tim Burton-produced action/science fiction film ''9''.

In 1963, he was the subject of a short National Film Board of Canada documentary, ''30 Minutes, Mister Plummer'', directed by Anne Claire Poirier.

In 2011, Plummer appeared in the feature length documentary ''The Captains''. The film, which was written and directed by William Shatner sees Shatner interview Plummer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theatre where they talk about their young careers, long lasting friendship, and Plummer's role as General Chang in ''Star Trek VI''. The film also mentions how Shatner was Plummer's understudy for a production of ''Henry V'' at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and that after Plummer had fell ill Shatner was forced to take the stage and thus earned his first big break.

''The Sound of Music''

Owing to the box office success and continued popularity of ''The Sound of Music'' (1965), Plummer remains best known for his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp, a role he reportedly disliked. He declined to attend the 40th Anniversary cast reunion, but did provide commentary on the 2005 DVD release. Plummer relented in 2010 for the 45th anniversary, and appeared with the full cast on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'' on October 28, 2010.

Said Plummer of the movie and his role in a December 2009 interview, “I was a bit bored with the character (of Captain Von Trapp)," said Plummer. “Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse. And the subject matter is not mine. I mean, it can’t appeal to every person in the world." However, Plummer admits the movie itself was well made and, despite his reservations, is proud to be associated with a film with such mass appeal. "The world has seen (''The Sound of Music'') so many times. And there’s a whole new generation every year—poor kids—that have to sit through it ''(laughs)''. But it was a very well-made movie, and it’s a family movie and we haven't seen a family movie, I don't think, on that scale for ages. I don’t mind that. It just happened to be not my particular cup of tea."

Television

Among his television appearances, which number almost a hundred, are the Emmy-nominated BBC production ''Hamlet at Elsinore'', the five-time Emmy winning ''The Thorn Birds'', the Emmy-winning ''Nuremberg'', the Emmy-winning ''Little Moon of Alban'' and the Emmy-winning ''Moneychangers''. In 1956, he appeared with Jason Robards and Constance Ford in an episode entitled "A Thief There Was" of CBS's anthology series ''Appointment with Adventure''.

He co-starred in ''American Tragedy'' as F. Lee Bailey (for which he received a Golden Globe Nomination), and appeared in ''Four Minute Mile'', ''Miracle Planet'', and a documentary by Ric Burns about Eugene O'Neill. He received an Emmy nomination for his performance in ''Our Fathers'' and reunited with Julie Andrews for a television production of ''On Golden Pond''. He also played Herod Antipas in the miniseries, ''Jesus of Nazareth'' and was the narrator for ''The Gospel of John''. He also co-starred with Gregory Peck in ''The Scarlet and The Black''.

He narrated the animated television series ''Madeline'', for which he received an Emmy, as well as the animated television series ''David the Gnome''.

Plummer has also written for the stage, television and the concert-hall. Plummer and Sir Neville Marriner rearranged Shakespeare’s ''Henry V'' with Sir William Walton’s music as a concert piece. They recorded the work with Marriner's chamber orchestra the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

He performed it and other works with the New York Philharmonic and symphony orchestras of London, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Ohio, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. With Marriner he made his Carnegie Hall debut in his own arrangements of Mendelssohn's incidental music to ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.

Honours and awards

Plummer has won many honours in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Austria. He was the first winner of Canada's Genie Award, for Best Actor in ''Murder by Decree'' (1980) and has received three other Genie nominations. Plummer has won two Tony Awards (from seven nominations), and two Emmy Awards (six nominations) in the United States, and Great Britain's ''Evening Standard'' Award.

In 1968, he was invested as Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour. In 2001, he received the Canadian Governor General's Lifetime Achievement Award. He was made an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at New York's Juilliard School and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, McGill University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Ottawa, and most recently the University of Guelph. Plummer was inducted into the American Theatre's Hall of Fame in 1986 and into Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1997.

His awards include the following:

London Evening Standard Award as Best Actor (1961), for his portrayal of King Henry II in the stage play, ''Becket''

Genie Award (1980), for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in ''Murder by Decree''

Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical (1974), for his lead role in ''Cyrano''

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (1997), for his lead role in ''Barrymore''

Emmy Award (1976), as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for '' Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers''

Emmy Award (1994), for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work on the Family Channel's ''Madeline'' children's series

Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)

Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre (2002)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award (1999) for ''The Insider''

Boston Society of Film Critics Award (1999) for ''The Insider''

Personal life

Plummer has been married three times. His first marriage, to Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes, was in 1956 and lasted four years. The couple's daughter, Amanda Plummer (born 1957), is an acclaimed actress in her own right, but (as he mentions in his autobiography) he had no contact with her during her early and teenage years. They now maintain a friendly relationship. Plummer was married to journalist Patricia Lewis from May 4, 1962 until their divorce in 1967. He and his third wife, British dancer and actress Elaine Regina Taylor, have been married since 1970 and live in a 100-year-old converted farm house in Connecticut.

In a 2005 interview with ''Entertainment Weekly'', Plummer maintained that in their early days he and his fellow actors did not drink to excess "because we had problems...Nonsense! Actually, I was taught as a child to drink. I came from a family that loved wine. I was twelve, I think, when I was drinking wine with dinner."

Plummer's memoir, ''In Spite of Myself'', was published by Knopf Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in November 2008.

Filmography

''Wind Across the Everglades'' '''' ''Playdate'' ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' '''' ''Hamlet at Elsinore'' '''' ''Inside Daisy Clover'' ''Triple Cross (1966 film) '''' ''Oedipus the King'' ''Nobody Runs Forever'' ''Battle of Britain (film) '''' ''Lock Up Your Daughters!'' ''Waterloo (1970 film) ''Don Juan in Hell'' '''' ''After the Fall (play) '''' '''' '''' ''Conduct Unbecoming (film) '''' '''' ''Aces High (film) ''Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers'' ''Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries) '''' '''' ''Silver Blaze'' '''' ''International Velvet (film) ''Starcrash'' ''Murder by Decree'' ''Riel (film) ''Hanover Street (film) ''Desperate Voyage'' '''' ''Somewhere in Time (film) ''When the Circus Came to Town'' ''Eyewitness (1981 film) '''' ''Little Gloria... Happy at Last'' '''' '''' ''Prototype'' ''Lily in Love'' ''Dreamscape (film) ''Highpoint'' ''Terror in the Aisles'' ''Ordeal by Innocence'' ''Játszani kell'' '''' ''Rumpelstiltskin (1985) '''' ''Crossings'' '''' '''' ''Spearfield's Daughter'' ''Vampire in Venice'' ''Dragnet (1987 film) '''' '''' '''' ''Light Years (film) ''Shadow Dancing (1988 film) '''' ''I Love N.Y.'' ''Souvenir (1989 film) ''Nabokov on Kafka'' ''Mindfield'' ''Kingsgate'' ''Where the Heart Is (1990 film) '''' ''Red Blooded American Girl'' ''Money (film) ''Madeline (TV series) ''Counterstrike (1990 TV series) ''Firehead'' ''Young Catherine'' '''' ''Rock-a-Doodle'' ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' ''Berlin Lady'' '''' ''Secrets (1992 film) ''Impolite'' ''Malcolm X (film) ''Liar's Edge'' ''Sidney Sheldon's A Stranger in the Mirror'' '''' ''Madeline'' ''Wolf (film) ''Crackerjack (1994 film) ''Dolores Claiborne (film) ''Harrison Bergeron (film) ''12 Monkeys'' ''We the Jury'' ''Skeletons'' '''' '''' ''Babes in Toyland (1997 film) ''Winchell'' ''Hidden Agenda'' '''' '''' ''Celebrate the Century'' ''Madeline: Lost in Paris'' '''' ''Nuremberg (2000 film) '''' ''Possessed (2000 film) ''American Tragedy (film) ''Dracula 2000'' ''Star Trek: Klingon Academy'' ''Leo's Journey'' ''On Golden Pond (2001 film) ''Lucky Break'' ''Blackheart'' '''' ''Full Disclosure (film) ''Night Flight (TV series) ''Ararat (film) ''Agent of Influence'' ''Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) ''Tma'' ''Blizzard (film) '''' ''Cold Creek Manor'' ''National Treasure (film) ''Alexander (film) ''Our Fathers (film) ''Must Love Dogs'' ''Syriana'' '''' ''Inside Man'' '''' ''Man in the Chair'' ''Closing the Ring'' ''Emotional Arithmetic'' ''Already Dead'' '''' ''Caesar and Cleaopatra'' ''Up (2009 film) ''My Dog Tulip'' ''9 (2009 film) '''' '''' ''Priest (2011 film) ''Beginners'' ''''

Year	! Film	! Role	! Notes
1958	Stage Struck (film)>Stage Struck''	Joe Sheridan
1958	|	Walt Murdock
1959	|	Torvald Helmer
1961	|	Host
1962	|	Cyrano de Bergerac
1964	|	Commodus
1964	|	Hamlet
1965	|	Georg Ludwig von Trapp>Captain von Trapp
1966	|	Raymond Swan
1966	Triple Cross'' ||	Eddie Chapman
1967	|	Field Marshal Irwin Rommel
1968	|	Oedipus
1968	|	Sir James Quentin
1969	Battle of Britain'' ||	Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
1969	|	Atahualpa
1969	|	Lord Foppington
1970	Waterloo'' ||	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1971	|	Don Juan
1973	|	Dt. Sgt. Jim Henderson
1974	After the Fall'' ||	Quentin
1974	|	The Happy Prince
1975	|	Dr. Joe Sherman
1975	|	Sir Charles Litton
1975	Conduct Unbecoming'' ||	Maj. Alastair Wimbourne
1975	|	Rudyard Kipling
1975	|	Archduke Ferdinand of Austria
1976	Aces High'' ||	Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
1976	|	Roscoe Heyward	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie>Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie
1977	Jesus of Nazareth'' ||	Herod Antipas
1977	|	Captain Behounek
1977	|	Deverell
1977	|	Sherlock Holmes
1978	|	Harry Reikle
1978	International Velvet'' ||	John Seaton
1979	|	Emperor
1979	|	Sherlock Holmes	Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
1979	Riel'' ||	John A. Macdonald
1979	Hanover Street'' ||	Paul Sellinger
1980	|	Burrifous
1980	|	Brian
1980	Somewhere in Time'' ||	William Fawcett Robinson
1981	|	Duke Royal
1981	Eyewitness'' ||	Joseph
1981	|	Professor Lakos	Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
1982	|	Reggie Vanderbilt
1983	|	Col. Herbert Kappler
1983	|	Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese	Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Miniseries or a Movie
1983	|	Dr. Carl Forrester
1984	|	Fitzroy Wynn/Roberto Terranova
1984	Dreamscape'' ||	Bob Blair
1984	|	James Hatcher
1984	|	Archival appearance
1984	|	Leo Argyle
1985	|
1985	|
1985	Rumpelstiltskin'' ||	Narrator
1986	|	Knox
1986	|	Armand DeVilliers
1986	|	Mr. Roalvang
1986	|	Henri	Voice talent
1986	|	Lord Jack Cruze
1986	|	Professor Paris Catalano
1987	Dragnet'' ||	Reverend Jonathan Whirley
1987	|	Sir Giles Staverley
1987	|	Narrator
1987	|	Narrator
1988	Light Years'' ||	Metamorphis
1988	Shadow Dancing'' ||	Edmund Beaumont
1988	|	Narrator
1988	|	John Robertson Yeats
1989	Souvenir'' ||	Ernst Kestner
1989	|	Vladimir Nabokov
1989	|	Doctor Satorius
1989	|
1990	Where the Heart Is'' ||	Jerry
1990	|	The Grand Duke Ivan
1990	|	Dr. John Alcore
1990	Money'' ||	Martin Yahl
1990	Madeline'' ||	Narrator
1990	Counterstrike'' ||	Alexander Addington
1991	|	Col. Garland Vaughn
1991	|	Sir Charles
1991	|	Alfred Stieglitz
1991	|	Grand Duke	Voice talent
1991	|	Chang (Star Trek)>General Chang
1991	|	Wilhem Speer
1991	|	Victor Abakumov
1992	Secrets'' ||	Mel Wexler
1992	|	Naples O'Rorke	Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
1992	Malcolm X'' ||	Chaplain Gill
1992	|	Harry Weldon
1993	|	Clifton Lawrence
1993	|
1993	|		Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
1994	Wolf'' ||	Raymond Alden
1994	Crackerjack'' ||	Ivan Getz
1995	Dolores Claiborne'' ||	Det. John Mackey
1995	Harrison Bergeron'' ||	John Klaxon
1995	|	Dr. Goines
1996	|	Wilfred Fransiscus
1996	|	R. Carlyle
1996	|	Joseph Wakeman
1997	|	George Hees
1997	Babes in Toyland'' ||	Barnaby Crookedman	Voice talent
1998	|	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1998	|	Ulrich Steiner
1998	|	Narrator
1998	|	Mr. Caruthers
1999	|
1999	|	Narrator
1999	|	Mike Wallace (journalist)>Mike Wallace	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActorLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated – Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
2000	Nuremberg'' ||	David Maxwell-Fyfe>Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
2000	|	Hump Hinton
2000	Possessed'' ||	Archbishop Hume
2000	American Tragedy'' ||	F. Lee Bailey	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2000	|	Abraham Van Helsing
2000	|	Chang (Star Trek)>General Chang
2001	|	Narrator
2001	On Golden Pond'' ||	Norman Thayer
2001	|
2001	|	Holmes
2001	|	Dr. Rosen	Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2001	Full Disclosure'' ||	Robert Lecker
2002	Night Flight'' ||	'Flash' Harry Peters
2002	Ararat'' ||	David	Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
2002	|	John Watkins
2002	Nicholas Nickleby'' ||	Ralph Nickleby	National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
2002	|
2003	Blizzard'' ||	Santa Claus	Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
2003	|	Narrator
2003	|	Mr. Massie
2004	National Treasure'' ||	John Adams Gates
2004	Alexander'' ||	Aristotle
2005	Our Fathers'' ||	Cardinal Bernard Law	Television filmNominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Miniseries or a MovieNominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2005	|	Bill Nolan
2005	|	Dean Whiting
2005	|	Captain Newport
2006	|	Arthur Case
2006	|	Simon Wyler
2007	|	Flash Madden
2007	|	Jack
2007	|	David Winters	Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
2007	|	Dr. Heller
2008	|	P.J. Aimes	TV Miniseries: 2 Episodes
2009	|	Julius Caesar	also executive producer
2009	Up'' ||	Charles Muntz	voice talent
2009	|	J. R. Ackerley	voice talent
2009	9'' ||	1	voice talent
2009	|	Doctor Parnassus
2009	|	Leo Tolstoy	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion PictureNominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting MaleNominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
2011	Priest'' ||	Monsignor Orelas
2011	|	Hal
2011	|	Henrik Vanger	''filming''

References

External links

Christopher Plummer at the Canadian Film Encyclopedia

Confessions of Captain Von Trapp: An Interview With Christopher Plummer

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name	Natalie Wood
birth name	Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
birth date	July 20, 1938
birth place	San Francisco, California
death date	November 29, 1981
death place	Santa Catalina Island, California
other namess	Natasha GurdinNatalie Wood Wagner
occupation	Actress
years active	1943–81
spouse	}}

Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (); July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress.

Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and became a successful child actor in such films as ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947). A well received performance opposite James Dean in ''Rebel Without a Cause'' (1955) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and helped her to make the transition from a child performer. She then starred in the musicals ''West Side Story'' (1961) and ''Gypsy'' (1962). She also received Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in ''Splendor in the Grass'' (1961) and ''Love with the Proper Stranger'' (1963).

Her career continued successfully with films such as ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'' (1969). After this she took a break from acting and had two children, appearing in only two theatrical films during the 1970s. She was married to actor Robert Wagner twice, and to producer Richard Gregson. She had one daughter by each: Natasha Gregson and Courtney Wagner. Her younger sister, Lana Wood, is also an actress. Wood starred in several television productions, including a remake of the film ''From Here to Eternity'' (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

Wood drowned near Santa Catalina Island, California at age 43. She had not yet completed her final film, the science fiction drama ''Brainstorm'' (1983) with Christopher Walken, which was released posthumously.

Early life and childhood stardom

Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko in San Francisco, to Russian immigrant parents Maria Stepanovna (née Zudilova) (1912–1998) and Nikolai Stepanovich Zacharenko. As an adult, she stated, "I'm very Russian, you know." She spoke in Russian and English. Her father was born in Vladivostok and he, his mother, and two brothers, immigrated to Montreal, Quebec and later to San Francisco. There, he worked as a day laborer and carpenter. Her paternal grandfather Stepan worked in a chocolate factory in Russia and was killed in street fighting between Red and White Russian soldiers in 1918. After doing another film directed by Pichel, her mother signed her to a role with 20th Century Fox studio for her first major role, the Christmas classic ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947), which made her one of the top child stars in Hollywood. Within a few months after the film's release she was so popular that Macy's invited her to appear in the store's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.

She would eventually appear in over 20 films as a child, appearing opposite such stars as Gene Tierney, James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Bette Davis and Bing Crosby. As a child actor, her formal education took place on the studio lots wherever she was acting. California law required that until age 18, actors had to spend at least three hours per day in the classroom, notes Harris. "She was a straight A student," and one of the few child actors to excel at arithmetic. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who directed her in ''The Ghost and Mrs. Muir'' (1947), said that "In all my years in the business, I never met a smarter moppet." Wood remembers that period in her life:

I always felt guilty when I knew the crew was sitting around waiting for me to finish my three hours. As soon as the teacher let us go, I ran to the set as fast as I could.

Teen stardom

Wood successfully made the transition from child star to ingenue at age 16 when she co-starred with James Dean and Sal Mineo in ''Rebel Without a Cause'', Nicholas Ray's film about teenage rebellion. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She followed this with a small but crucial role in John Ford's western ''The Searchers'' which starred John Wayne and also featured Wood's sister, Lana, who played a younger version of her character in the film's earlier scenes.

In the 1953-1954 television season, Wood played Ann Morrison, the teenaged daughter in the ABC situation comedy, ''The Pride of the Family'', with Paul Hartman cast her father, Albie Morrison; Fay Wray, as her mother, Catherine, and Robert Hyatt, as her brother, Junior Morrison.

Wood graduated in 1956 from Van Nuys High School.

Signed to Warner Brothers, Wood was kept busy during the remainder of the decade in many 'girlfriend' roles that she found unsatisfying. The studio cast her in two films opposite Tab Hunter, hoping to turn the duo into a box office draw that never materialized. Among the other films made at this time were 1958's ''Kings Go Forth'' and ''Marjorie Morningstar''. As Marjorie Morningstar, she played the role of a young Jewish girl in New York City who has to deal with the social and religious expectations of her family, as she tries to forge her own path and separate identity.

Adult career

After appearing in the box office flop ''All the Fine Young Cannibals'', Wood's career was salvaged by her casting in director Elia Kazan's ''Splendor in the Grass'' (1961) opposite Warren Beatty, which earned Wood Best Actress Nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards. Also in 1961 Wood played Maria in the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise musical ''West Side Story'' which was a major box office and critical success, however, the singing parts were sung by Marni Nixon. Wood did sing when she starred in the 1962 film, ''Gypsy.'' She co-starred in the slapstick comedy ''The Great Race'' (1965), with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Peter Falk. Wood then received her third Academy Award nomination and another Golden Globe award in 1964 for ''Love with the Proper Stranger'', opposite Steve McQueen.

Although many of Wood's films were commercially profitable, her acting was criticized at times. In 1966 she won the Harvard Lampoon Worst Actress of the Year Award. She was the first performer in the award's history to accept it in person and the ''Harvard Crimson'' wrote she was "quite a good sport." Conversely, director Sydney Pollack said "When she was right for the part, there was no one better. She was a damn good actress." Other notable films she starred in were ''Inside Daisy Clover'' (1965) and ''This Property Is Condemned'' (1966), both of which co-starred Robert Redford and brought subsequent Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. In both films, which were set during the Great Depression, Wood played small-town teens with big dreams. After the release of the films, Wood suffered an emotional breakdown and sought professional therapy. During this time, she turned down the Faye Dunaway role in ''Bonnie and Clyde'' because she didn't want to be separated from her analyst.

After three years away from acting, Wood played a swinger in ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'' (1969), a comedy about sexual liberation. The film was one of the top ten box office hits of the year, and Wood received ten percent of the film's profits. After becoming pregnant with her first child, Natasha Gregson, in 1970, she went into semi-retirement and only acted in four more theatrical films during the remainder of her life. She made a very brief cameo appearance as herself in ''The Candidate'' (1972), reuniting her for a third time with Robert Redford. She also reunited on the screen with Robert Wagner in the television movie of the week ''The Affair'' (1973) and in an adaptation of ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1976) broadcast as a special by NBC in which she also worked with Sir Laurence Olivier. She made cameo appearances on Wagner's prime-time detective series ''Switch'' in 1978 as "Bubble Bath Girl" and ''Hart to Hart'' in 1979 as "Movie Star." During the last two years of her life, Wood began to work more frequently as her daughters reached school age.

Film roles Wood turned down during her career hiatus went to Ali MacGraw in ''Goodbye, Columbus'', Mia Farrow in ''The Great Gatsby'' and Faye Dunaway in ''The Towering Inferno''. Later, Wood chose to star in misfires like the disaster film ''Meteor'' (1979) with Sean Connery and the sex comedy ''The Last Married Couple in America'' (1980). She found more success in television, receiving high ratings and critical acclaim in 1979 for ''The Cracker Factory'' and especially the miniseries film ''From Here to Eternity'' with Kim Basinger and William Devane. Wood's performance in the latter won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 1980. Later that year, she starred in ''The Memory of Eva Ryker'' which proved to be her last completed production.

At the time of her death, Wood was filming the sci-fi film ''Brainstorm'' (1983), co-starring Christopher Walken and directed by Douglas Trumbull. She was also scheduled to star in a theatrical production of ''Anastasia'' with Wendy Hiller and in a film called ''Country of the Heart'', playing a terminally ill writer who has an affair with a teenager, to be played by Timothy Hutton. Due to her untimely death, both of the latter projects were canceled and the ending of ''Brainstorm'' had to be re-written. A stand-in and sound-alikes were used to replace Wood for some of her critical scenes. The film was released posthumously on September 30, 1983, and was dedicated to her in the closing credits.

She appeared in 56 films for cinema and television. Following her death, ''Time'' magazine noted that although critical praise for Wood had been sparse throughout her career, "she always had work."

Personal life

Marriages

Natalie Wood's two marriages to actor Robert Wagner were highly publicized. Wood said she had a crush on Wagner since she was a child and on her 18th birthday she went on a studio-arranged date with the 26-year old actor. They married a year later on December 28, 1957, which met with great protest from Wood's mother. In an article in February 2009, Wagner recalled their early romance:

I saw Natalie around town but she never seemed interested. She was making ''Rebel Without a Cause'' and hanging out with James Dean; I was with an older crowd. The first time I remember really talking to her was at a fashion show in 1956. She was beautiful, but still gave no hint about the mad crush she had on me. I later found out she had signed with my agent simply because he was my agent. A month later, I invited Natalie to a premiere on what turned out to be her 18th birthday. At dinner, we both sensed things were different. I sent her flowers and the dates continued. I remember the instant I fell in love with her. One night on board a small boat I owned, she looked at me with love, her dark brown eyes lit by a table lantern. That moment changed my life.

A year after their wedding, Wood expressed her feelings in a letter to her new husband:

: "You are my husband, my child, my strength, my weakness, my lover, my life."

Wood and Wagner separated in June 1961 and divorced in April 1962.

On May 30, 1969, Wood married British producer Richard Gregson. The couple dated for two and a half years prior to their marriage, while Gregson waited for his divorce to be finalized. They had a daughter, Natasha Gregson (born September 29, 1970). They separated in August 1971 after Wood overheard an inappropriate telephone conversation between her secretary and Gregson. The split also marked a brief estrangement between Wood and her family, when mother Maria and sister Lana told her to reconcile with Gregson for the sake of her newborn child. She filed for divorce, and it was finalized in April 1972.

In early 1972, Wood resumed her relationship with Wagner. The couple remarried on July 16, 1972, just five months after reconciling and only three months after she divorced Gregson. Their daughter, Courtney Wagner, was born on March 9, 1974. They remained married until Wood's death nine years later on November 29, 1981.

Other relationships

Biographer Suzanne Finstad writes that Wood had a relationship with director Nicholas Ray, director of ''Rebel Without a Cause'', when she was 16 and he was 43. During her teens, Wood went on studio-arranged dates with older men, including actors Tab Hunter and Nick Adams, and dated actor Raymond Burr, when she was 17 and he was 38. Wood also dated actors Michael Caine, Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty and Dennis Hopper, singer Elvis Presley, director Henry Jaglom, and politician Jerry Brown.

Among her celebrity friends were fellow child performers Margaret O'Brien, Carol Lynley and Stefanie Powers, .

Death

In September and October 1981, Wood stayed in Raleigh, North Carolina where she, Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher and other cast members did location work for the science-fiction film ''Brainstorm''. Although her husband Robert Wagner had a commitment to his series ''Hart to Hart'' in Los Angeles, he visited Wood in Raleigh once. Wood spent most of November in California shooting interior scenes, many of them utilizing special effects, with other cast members on the MGM lot in Culver City.

Wood spent Thanksgiving at her Beverly Hills home with her husband, parents, sister Lana and secretary Mart Crowley. The next day, the Wagners and Christopher Walken went to Catalina Island for the weekend. On Saturday night, November 28, the Wagners' yacht (''Splendour'') was anchored in Isthmus Cove. Also on board was the boat's skipper, Dennis Davern, who had worked for the couple for many years. The official theory is that Wood either tried to leave the yacht or to secure a dinghy from banging against the hull when she accidentally slipped and fell overboard. When her body was found, she was wearing a down jacket, nightgown, and socks. A woman on a nearby yacht said she heard calls for help at around midnight. The cries lasted for about 15 minutes and were answered by someone else who said, "Take it easy. We'll be over to get you." "It was laid back," the witness recalled. "There was no urgency or immediacy in their shouts." There was much partying going on in the waters of Isthmus Cove, though, and while it has never been proven that the woman calling for help was, indeed, Natalie Wood, no other person has ever been identified or come forward as having called out for help on that night. An investigation by Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi resulted in an official verdict of accidental drowning. Noguchi concluded Wood had drunk "seven or eight" glasses of wine and was intoxicated when she died. Noguchi also wrote that he found Wood's fingernail scratches on the side of the rubber dinghy indicating she was trying to get in. Wood was 43 at the time of her death and is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. On March 11, 2010 Wood's sister Lana stated that she is going to ask that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reopen the case of her death.

Scores of international media and photographers and thousands of ordinary spectators tried to attend Wood's funeral at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. All were required to remain outside the cemetery walls. Among the notable attendees were Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Gene Kelly, Elia Kazan and Sir Laurence Olivier. Olivier flew from London to Los Angeles to attend.

Filmography

Film

Notes
1943		Little girl who drops ice cream cone	uncredited
1946	''The Bride Wore Boots''	Carol Warren
1946	''Tomorrow Is Forever''	Margaret Ludwig
1947	''Driftwood''	Jenny Hollingsworth
1947	''The Ghost and Mrs. Muir''	Anna Muir as a child
1947	''Miracle on 34th Street''	Susan Walker
1948	''Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!''	Bean McGill
1949	''Father Was a Fullback''	Ellen Cooper
1949	''The Green Promise''	Susan Anastasia Matthews
1949	''Chicken Every Sunday''	Ruth Hefferan
1950		Nancy 'Nan' Howard
1950	''The Jackpot''	Phyllis Lawrence
1950		Penny Macaulay
1950	''No Sad Songs for Me''	Polly Scott
1951	''The Blue Veil''	Stephanie Rawlins
1951	''Dear Brat''	Pauline Jones
1952		Gretchen Drew
1952	''Just for You'	Barbara Blake
1952	''The Rose Bowl Story''	Sally Burke
1954		Helena as a child
1955	''Rebel Without a Cause''	Judy	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1955	''One Desire''	Seely Dowder
1956	''The Girl He Left Behind''	Susan Daniels
1956	''The Burning Hills''	Maria Christina Colton
1956	''A Cry in the Night''	Liz Taggert
1956		Debbie Edwards (older)
1957	''Bombers B-52''	Lois Brennan
1958	''Kings Go Forth''	Monique Blair
1958		Marjorie Morgenstern
1960	''All the Fine Young Cannibals''	Sarah 'Salome' Davis
1960	''Cash McCall''	Lory Austen
1961		Maria
1961	''Splendor in the Grass''	Wilma Dean Loomis
1962		Louise	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1963	''Love with the Proper Stranger''	Angie Rossini	Nominated—Academy Award for Best ActressNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1964		Helen Gurley Brown
1965	''Inside Daisy Clover''	Daisy Clover	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—World Film Favorite – Female
1965	''The Great Race''	Maggie DuBois
1966		Penelope Elcott
1966	''This Property Is Condemned''	Alva Starr	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1969	''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice''	Carol Sanders
1972		Herself	cameo
1973	''The Affair''	Courtney Patterson	TV movie
1975	''Peeper''	Ellen Prendergast
1976	''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof''	Maggie	TV movie
1979		Karen Holmes	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
1979	''The Cracker Factory''	Cassie Barrett	TV movie
1979		Tatiana Nikolaevna Donskaya
1980	''The Last Married Couple in America''	Mari Thompson
1980	''The Memory of Eva Ryker''	Eva/Claire Ryker	TV movie
1980	''Willie & Phil''	Herself	(cameo)
1983		Karen Brace	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress

Television

Notes
1953	''Jukebox Jury''	as Herself	Guest appearance
1953	''Pride of the Family''	Ann Morrison	One season
1954		Rene Marchand	One episode, "Return of the Dead"
1969	''Bracken's World''	Cameo	Guest appearance
1978		Girl in the Bubble Bath	Guest Appearance
1979	''Hart to Hart''	Movie Star	Pilot episode, as Natasha Gurdin

Other awards

Most Talented Young Actress of 1946 National Association of Theatre OwnersGolden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Grauman's Chinese Theatre Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Mar del Plata Film FestivalNew York Film Critics Circle Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Globe Award Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Golden Laurel Awards Hollywood Chamber of Commerce

Year !! Organization !! Award !! Film !! Result
1946	Box Office Magazine	|	''Tomorrow Is Forever''	Won
1956	|	Star of Tomorrow Award		Won
1957	Golden Globe Award ||	New Star Of The Year – Actress	''Rebel Without a Cause''	Won
1958	|	Top Female Dramatic Performance	Marjorie Morningstar (film)>Marjorie Morningstar''	Nominated
1958	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (13th place)
1959	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (7th place)
1960	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (9th place)
1961	|	Handprint Ceremony		Inducted
1961	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (14th place)
1962	|	Top Female Dramatic Performance	''Splendor in the Grass''	Nominated
1962	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (5th place)
1963	|	Top Female Musical Performance	Gypsy (1962 film)>Gypsy''	Nominated
1963	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (2nd place)
1964	|	Best Actress	''Love with the Proper Stranger''	Won
1964	|	Best Actress	''Love with the Proper Stranger''	Nominated
1964	|	Top Female Dramatic Performance	''Love with the Proper Stranger''	Nominated
1964	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (3rd place)
1965	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (6th place)
1966	|	World Film Favorite		Won
1966	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (8th place)
1967	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (3rd place)
1968	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (12th place)
1970	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (9th place)
1971	|	Top Female Star		Nominated (9th place)
1987	|	Hollywood Walk of Fame		Inducted

Bibliography

Frascella, Lawrence and Al Weisel. ''Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause''. Touchstone, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-6082-1.

Nickens, Christopher. ''Natalie Wood: A Biography in Photographs''. Doubleday, 1986. ISBN 0-385-23307-8.

Noguchi, Thomas T. ''Coroner''. Simon & Schuster (October 1983). ISBN 0671467727.

Rulli, Marti and Dennis Davern. ''Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour''. Medallion, 2009. ISBN 1597776394.

Wood, Lana. ''Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister''. Putnam Pub Group, 1984. ISBN 0-399-12903-0.

References

External links

'Natalie Wood Style and Beauty Page'

Natalie Wood at Who2

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name	Juliet Prowse
birth name	Juliet Anne Prowse
birth date	September 25, 1936
birth place	Bombay, India
death date	September 14, 1996
death place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
occupation	Actress/Dancer
years active	1957–95
spouse	Eddie Frazier (1969-70)John McCook (1972-79) (1 child) }}

Juliet Anne Prowse (September 25, 1936 – September 14, 1996) was a South African dancer, whose four-decade career included stage, television and film.

Early life

Prowse was born in Bombay, India and brought up in South Africa. She began studying dance at the age of four. In her early twenties she was dancing at a club in Paris when she was spotted by a talent agent and eventually signed to play the part of "Claudine" in the 1960 Walter Lang film, ''Can-Can''.

Career

It was during the filming of ''Can-Can'' in 1959 that she captured the international spotlight. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited the set of the film and after Prowse performed a rather saucy can-can for the Russian leader, he proclaimed her dance "immoral". Little did Khrushchev know that he was a great press agent, because the publicity brought Prowse considerable attention in the United States. From there, her career took off.

Film and television

Prowse met Frank Sinatra on the set of ''Can-Can''. ''Time'' magazine did not care for the movie but said that Prowse was the best thing in it: "In fact, the only thing really worth seeing is Juliet Prowse, a young South African hoofer who puts some twinkle in the stub-toed choreography. And the only thing really worth hearing is the crack that Frank flips back at Juliet when she whips a redoubtable hip in his direction. "Don't point", he gasps. "It's rude." She would go on to appear with Sinatra and other notable guests such as Ella Fitzgerald, Peter Lawford, Hermione Gingold, the Hi-Lo's, Red Norvo, Nelson Riddle and his orchestra on the 1959, ''Frank Sinatra Show.'' She at times would sing in the chorus with other guests or Sinatra would sing to her.

Sinatra and Prowse announced their engagement in 1962. Soon afterwards, they broke up reportedly because Prowse wanted to concentrate on her career. Prowse later admitted, "I was as much flattered as I was in love. He (Sinatra) was a complex person, and after a few drinks he could be very difficult."

Prowse went on to co-star alongside Elvis Presley in ''G.I. Blues''. During shooting of the film they had a short and intense fling. "Elvis and I had an affair.... We had a sexual attraction like two healthy young people, but he was already a victim of his fans. We always met in his room and never went out."

She starred in her own NBC sitcom for one season: 1965's ''Mona McCluskey'', which was produced by George Burns. She also did other feature films, including ''The Fiercest Heart'' (1961) and ''Who Killed Teddy Bear?'' (1965) with Sal Mineo and Elaine Stritch.

Although her film and television career did not make her as big a star as predicted, Prowse had a rather philosophical way of looking at it. "Things generally happen for the best... I never worry about what happens in my career, because I can always do something else." Prowse would later go on to headline successful Las Vegas shows, commanding a very high salary. Stating that Las Vegas was the most demanding place she ever worked, she won ''Entertainer of the Year'' for the Vegas run of ''Sweet Charity''. She would later show off her famous dancer's legs in a series of lucrative nationwide commercials for a number of advertisers, including L'eggs hosery and Mannington flooring.

Prowse was the first guest to appear on an episode of ''The Muppet Show''.

In the late 1980s, she was mauled by an 80-pound leopard – twice. Once, while filming a scene for ''Circus of the Stars'' in 1987 and later that same year rehearsing a promotional stint on ''The Tonight Show'', when the same leopard attacked her. The later attack was more serious, requiring upwards of twenty stitches to reattach her ear.

Throughout the mid 1980s and 1990s, Prowse hosted the ''Championship Ballroom Dance Competition'' on PBS.

Death

In 1994, Prowse was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In 1995, she went into remission and was well enough to tour with Mickey Rooney in ''Sugar Babies''. The cancer subsequently returned and she died on September 14, 1996.

She was survived by her son and her mother, and also her ex-husband, TV actor John McCook, who is the father of her only child, Seth.

Filmography

Film

''G.I. Blues'' (1960) as Lili

''Can-Can'' (1960) as Claudine

''The Second Time Around'' (1961) as Rena Mitchell

''The Right Approach'' (1961) as Ursula Poe

''The Fiercest Heart'' (1961) as Francina

''Una Moglie americana'' (1965) as Jenny

''Dingaka'' (1965) .... Marion Davis

''Who Killed Teddy Bear?'' (1965)

''Second Chance'' (1972) (TV) as Martha Foster

Television

''Adventures in Paradise'' as Simone (season 2, episode 6 "A Whale of a Tale")

''The Red Skelton Show'' as Daisy June (season 12, episode 2 in 1962)

''Burke's Law'' as Angel Crown /(2 episodes, 1963–1964)

''Mona McCluskey'' as Mona Carroll McCluskey (2 episodes, 1965–1966)

''The Danny Thomas Hour'' as Aphrodite (1 episode, 1967)

''The Name of the Game'' as Aja Fowler (1 episode, 1968)

''The Carol Burnett Show in London'' (1970) (TV) as guest performer

''The Muppet Show'' as Herself (1 episode, 1976)

''Musical Comedy Tonight II'' (1981) (TV)

''The Love Boat'' as Samantha Bricker (3 episodes, 1979–1984)

''Fantasy Island'' (1 episode, 1983)

''Glitter'' (1984) (TV)

''Murder, She Wrote'' as Valerie Bechet (1 episode, 1987)

References

External links

Time/Life photos of Juliet Prowse

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