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Arena Theatre
Arena Theatre (Slovak: Divadlo Aréna) is one of the oldest theatres in Bratislava. It was established in 1828 on the right bank of Danube. In the beginning it served as an open summer amphitheatre, hence the name Arena. The current building was built in 1898.
From its establishment till the end of the Second World War, many Hungarian, Austrian and German theatre companies performed there. After the war, the theatre was gradually closed and served as a storehouse for state-owned Slovak Television.
The theatre was revived by a group of people around mime artist Milan Sládek, opening performance took place in 1997. The repertoire consisted of several pantomimic performances, an annual pantomimic festival took place there.
In 2003, renowned Slovak actor Juraj Kukura became managing director and focus of the theatre shifted to drama. Performance The Goat or Who is Sylvia? was nominated for DOSKY Award 2004 in categories best performance and best director, Juraj Kukura and Emília Vášáryová won the categories for best actor/actress. A year later, monodrama Tiso was voted the best performance. Marián Labuda, who was performing Jozef Tiso, won the prize for best actor.
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Argentina
Argentina
i/ˌɑrdʒənˈtiːnə/, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina [reˈpuβlika aɾxenˈtina]), is a country in South America, the continent's second largest by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations.
Argentina's continental area is between the Andes mountain range in the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the east. It borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south. Argentine claims over Antarctica, as well as overlapping claims made by Chile and the United Kingdom, are suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. Argentina also claims the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which are administered by the United Kingdom as British Overseas Territories.
A recognised middle power, Argentina is Latin America's third-largest economy, with a "very high" rating on the Human development index. Within Latin America, Argentina has the fifth highest nominal GDP per capita and the highest in purchasing power terms. Analysts have argued that the country has a "foundation for future growth due to its market size, levels of foreign direct investment, and percentage of high-tech exports as share of total manufactured goods", and it is classed by investors as middle emerging economy. Argentina is a founding member of the United Nations, Mercosur, the Union of South American Nations, the Organization of Ibero-American States, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization, and is one of the G-15 and G-20 major economies.
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Belasco Theatre
Coordinates: 40°45′23.1″N 73°59′0.5″W / 40.756417°N 73.983472°W / 40.756417; -73.983472
The Belasco Theatre is a Broadway theatre opened in 1907 at 111 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Originally known as the Stuyvesant Theatre, it was designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco. The interior featured Tiffany lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and expansive murals by American artist Everett Shinn, and a ten-room duplex penthouse apartment that Belasco utilized as combination living quarters/office space.
The theatre opened as the Stuyvesant Theatre on October 16, 1907 with the musical A Grand Army Man with Antoinette Perry. The theatre was outfitted with the most advanced stagecraft tools available including extensive lighting rigs, a hydraulics system, and vast wing and fly space. Meyer R. Bimberg was the actual owner of the Stuyvesant/Belasco. He made his fortune selling political campaign buttons.
In 1910 Belasco attached his own name to the venue. After his death in 1931, it was leased first by actress Katharine Cornell and then playwright Elmer Rice. Marlon Brando had his first widely noticed success in this theater, in a production of Maxwell Anderson's "Truckline Cafe", which opened on Feb. 27th, 1946. He played the small but crucial role of Sage MacRae. The play flopped, but the press celebrated Brando as a new genius actor; occurring before his noted film performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire". The Shuberts bought it in 1949 and leased it to NBC for three years before returning it to legitimate use.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (
/ˈbweɪnəs ˈɛəriːz/ or /ˈaɪrɪs/,Spanish: [ˈbwenos ˈaiɾes]) is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after Greater Sao Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent. Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the third-largest conurbation in Latin America, with a population of around thirteen million.
The city of Buenos Aires is not a part of Buenos Aires Province, nor is it the Province's capital, but an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalised and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores (both are currently neighborhoods of the city). The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a Chief of Government (i.e. Mayor) in 1996; before, the Mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.
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California
California (pronouncedi/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Houston
Houston ( /ˈhjuːstən/) (Alibamu: Yosti ) is the largest city in the state of Texas, and the fourth-largest city in the United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of 656.3 square miles (1,700 km2). Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown, which is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 6.08 million people as of July 1st, 2011.
Houston was founded in 1836 on land near the banks of Buffalo Bayou. It was incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837, and named after then-President of the Republic of Texas—former General Sam Houston—who had commanded at the Battle of San Jacinto, which took place 25 miles (40 km) east of where the city was established. The burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the city's population. In the mid-twentieth century, Houston became the home of the Texas Medical Center—the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions—and NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located.
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Maryland
Maryland (i/ˈmɛrɨlənd/) is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and three nicknames for it (the Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State) are occasionally used. Maryland is the 9th smallest state by area, but the 19th most populous and the 5th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's most populated city is Baltimore. Its capital is Annapolis. It was named after Queen Henrietta Maria.
Maryland has an area of 12,406.68 square miles (32,133.2 km2) and is comparable in overall area with the European country of Belgium (11,787 square miles (30,530 km2)). It is the 42nd largest/9th smallest state, and is closest in size to Hawaii (10,930.98 square miles (28,311.1 km2)), the next smallest state. The next largest state, Maryland's neighbor West Virginia, is almost twice the size of Maryland (24,229.76 square miles (62,754.8 km2)).
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Music Box Theatre
Coordinates: 40°45′31.34″N 73°59′13.62″W / 40.7587056°N 73.9871167°W / 40.7587056; -73.9871167
The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan.
The once most aptly named theater on Broadway, the intimate Music Box was designed by architect C. Howard Crane and constructed by composer Irving Berlin and producer Sam H. Harris specifically to house Berlin's famed Music Box Revues. It opened in 1921 and hosted a new musical production every year until 1925, when it presented its first play, Cradle Snatchers, starring Humphrey Bogart. The following year, Chicago, the Maurine Dallas Watkins play that served as the basis for the hit musical, opened here. It housed a string of hits for the playwriting team of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, from their first collaboration Once in a Lifetime to their hit play The Man Who Came to Dinner. Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin also presented shows here.
In the 1950s, playwright William Inge found a home at the Music Box, where he had success with Picnic, Bus Stop, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (i/nuː ˈmɛksɨkoʊ/) is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. New Mexico is the 5th most extensive, the 36th most populous, and the 6th least densely populated of the 50 United States.
Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, New Mexico has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics, including descendants of Spanish colonists and recent immigrants from Latin America. It also has the second-highest percentage of Native Americans, after Alaska, and the fourth-highest total number of Native Americans after California, Oklahoma, and Arizona. The tribes in the state consist of mostly Navajo and Pueblo peoples. As a result, the demographics and culture of the state are unique for their strong Hispanic and Native American influences. The flag of New Mexico is represented by the red and gold colors, which represent Spain, as well as the Zia symbol, an ancient Native American symbol for the sun.
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New York
New York (/njuː ˈjɔrk/; locally IPA: [nɪu ˈjɔək] or [nuː ˈjɔɹk] (
listen)) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
New York City, with a population of over 8.1 million, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York state. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, New York City is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both the state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.
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Oval Office
The Oval Office, located in the West Wing of the White House, is the official office of the President of the United States.
The room features three large south-facing windows behind the president's desk, and a fireplace at the north end. It has four doors: the east door opens to the Rose Garden; the west door leads to a private smaller study and dining room; the northwest door opens onto the main corridor of the West Wing; and the northeast door opens to the office of the president's secretary.
Presidents generally change the office to suit their personal taste, choosing new furniture, new drapery, and designing their own oval-shaped carpet to take up most of the floor. Paintings are selected from the White House’s own collection, or borrowed from other museums for the president’s term in office.
The Oval Office has become associated in Americans' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and daughter Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to brighten President Jimmy Carter's day.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Virginia
Virginia (i/vərˈdʒɪnjə/), officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state located in the South Atlantic region of the United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond; Virginia Beach is the most populous city and Fairfax County the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealth's population is over eight million.
The area's history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony. Slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colony's early politics and plantation economy. Virginia was one of the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution and joined the Confederacy in the American Civil War, during which Richmond was made the Confederate capital and Virginia's northwestern counties separated to form the state of West Virginia. Although the Commonwealth was under conservative single-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, both major national parties are competitive in modern Virginia.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; Jefferson's colonnades connected the new wings. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946, creating additional office space. By 1948, the house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal load-bearing steel frame constructed inside the walls. Once this work was completed, the interior rooms were rebuilt.
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Adolf Eichmann
Karl Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962) was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was charged by Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe.
After the war, he fled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross. He lived in Argentina under a false identity, working for Mercedes-Benz until 1960. He was captured by Mossad operatives in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was found guilty and executed by hanging in 1962. He is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court.
Adolf Eichmann was born to a Lutheran family in Solingen, Germany. His parents were businessman and industrialist Adolf Karl Eichmann and Maria née Schefferling. After his mother died in 1914, his family moved to Linz, Austria. During the First World War, Eichmann's father served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. At the war's conclusion, Eichmann's father moved the family back to Linz where he operated a business. Eichmann left high school—Realschule—without having graduated and began training to become a mechanic, which he also discontinued. In 1923, he started working in the mining company of his father. From 1925 to 1927 he worked as a sales clerk for the Oberösterreichische Elektrobau AG and then until spring 1933 Eichmann worked as district agent for the Vacuum Oil Company AG, a subsidiary of Standard Oil. During this time he was a member of the Jungfrontkämpfervereinigung, the youth section of Hermann Hiltl's right-wing veterans movement. In July 1933 he moved back to Germany.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and more than 15 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple), and her successful West End plays.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly four billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the most widely published books. According to Index Translationum, Christie is the most translated individual author, with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her. Her books have been translated into at least 103 languages.
Agatha Christie published two autobiographies: a posthumous one covering childhood to old age; and another chronicling several seasons of archaeological excavation in Syria and Iraq with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. The latter was published in 1946 with the title, Come, Tell Me How You Live.
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːnɵ/; born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law — as a police officer, a detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1993 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year.
He made his feature film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the leading role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle Park. Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor were for Dick Tracy and Glengarry Glen Ross. Oscar nominations for Best Actor include The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, ...And Justice for All and Scent of a Woman.
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Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, musician and singer. He is known for starring in such films as Wait Until Dark, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Marley & Me, and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2006. He is the father of actors Adam Arkin, Anthony Arkin, and Matthew Arkin.
Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Beatrice (née Wortis), a teacher, and David I. Arkin, a painter and writer who mostly worked as a teacher. Arkin was raised in a Jewish family with "no emphasis on religion"; his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Odessa, Ukraine. The family moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles when Arkin was 11 years old, but an eight-month Hollywood strike cost Arkin's father a set designer job he had wanted to take. During the 1950s Red Scare, Arkin's parents were accused of being Communists, which led to David losing his job when he refused to answer questions about his political affiliation. David challenged the dismissal and was ultimately vindicated, but only after his death.
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Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor of stage and screen. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His breakout performance was as the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman is known for his film performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, Éamon de Valera in Michael Collins, and Metatron in Dogma.
Rickman has also had a number of other notable film roles such as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply, P.L. O'Hara in An Awfully Big Adventure and Colonel Brandon in Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. More recently, he played Judge Turpin in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Rickman was born in South Hammersmith, London, to a working class family, the son of Margaret Doreen Rose (née Bartlett), a housewife, and Bernard Rickman, a factory worker. Rickman's mother was from Wales and a Methodist, and his father was of Irish Catholic background. He has one elder brother, David (b. 1944), a graphic designer, a younger brother, Michael (b. 1947), a tennis coach, and a younger sister, Sheila (b. 1949). Rickman attended Derwentwater Primary School, in Acton, a school that followed the Montessori method of education.
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Albert Finney
Albert Finney (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor. He achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, and has maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television.
A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich (2000).
Finney is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His career began in the theatre; he made his first appearance on the London stage in 1958 in Jane Arden's The Party, directed by Charles Laughton, who starred in the production along with his wife, Elsa Lanchester. Then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier (as Coriolanus), Edith Evans and Vanessa Redgrave.
His first film appearance was a role in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (1960), with Laurence Olivier, but he made his breakthrough with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film version of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. This led to a series of "Angry Young Man" roles in kitchen sink dramas, before he starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film Tom Jones. Prior to this, Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's production of Lawrence of Arabia, but the actor quit after four days of shooting.
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Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher (born July 1, 1962) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Thomas Searles in the film Glory, as the fiery detective Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street from 1993 to 1998 and again in the 2000 made-for-TV film, and as Owen Thoreau Jr. on the TNT show Men of a Certain Age.
Braugher, the youngest of four children, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Sally, a postal worker, and Floyd Braugher, a heavy-equipment operator. He attended St. Ignatius College Prep and later graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in theater in 1984. He then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division (Group 17: 1984-1988), graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1988. He was acknowledged as the Most Outstanding Theater Student at graduation.[citation needed]
Braugher's first film role was in the 1989's Glory as Thomas Searles, a free, educated black from the North who joins the first black regiment in the Union Army.
He subsequently moved on to a role on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street as Det. Frank Pembleton, a self-righteous, fiery, unyielding, Jesuit-educated police detective. Playing opposite Kyle Secor (who portrayed Det. Tim Bayliss), Braugher became the series' breakout star. He received Television Critics Association awards for individual achievement in drama in 1997 and 1998. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for best actor in a drama series in 1996 and 1998, winning in the latter year.
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Angelo My Love
Angelo My Love is a 1983 American drama film about New York City gypsies, directed by Robert Duvall. It was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
Duvall first saw the lead actor, Angelo, in 1977 when he was 8 years old, having an argument with an older woman on Columbus Avenue that "sounded like a lovers quarrel" The screenplay for Angelo My Love was written by Mr. Duvall, with some dialogue improvised by the gypsy actors, most of whom play themselves. His mother had a fortune-telling business.
Besides Angelo are his older brother Michael, his mother, his sister Debbie, and his girlfriend Patricia (Katerina Ribaka); his father Tony Evans, from the movie might have been thought to be absent, but is actually in a couple of scenes.
"Angelo is a kind of idealized sum-total of all New York street kids no matter what their ethnic backgrounds. He is physically small but he has such a big, sharply defined personality that he seems to be a child possessed by the mind and experiences of a con man in his 20's. Then, as the movie goes on, one sees Angelo moving from glib, smarttalking self-assurance to childhood tears and back again, all in the space of a few seconds of screen time. This, too, may be part of Angelo's con, but it's also unexpectedly moving as well as funny. Angelo, among other things, is scared of ghosts."
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Anthony Andrews
Anthony Corin Gerald Andrews ( /ˈæntəni ˈændruːz/; born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited.
Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes (née Cooper), a dancer, and Stanley Thomas Andrews, a musical arranger and musical conductor. He grew up in the North Finchley district of London. At the age of eight he undertook dancing lessons, making his stage debut as the White Rabbit in a stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
After a series of short term "fill-in" jobs that included catering, farming and journalism, he secured a position at the Chichester Theatre where he worked as an assistant stage manager and later as a stand-in producer. He auditioned in 1968 for a production of Alan Bennett's new play, Forty Years On, which featured John Gielgud as the headmaster of a British public school during the First World War period. Andrews was cast as Skinner, one of twenty schoolboys; the role gave him the opportunity at an early age of working with Gielgud.
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Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937), best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television, and a composer. Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Other prominent film credits include The Lion in Winter, Magic, The Elephant Man, 84 Charing Cross Road, Dracula, Legends of the Fall, The Remains of the Day, Amistad, Nixon, The World's Fastest Indian, and Fracture. Hopkins was born and brought up in Wales. Retaining his British citizenship, he became a U.S. citizen on 12 April 2000. Hopkins' films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. As well as his Academy Award, Hopkins has also won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys and the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe Award. Hopkins was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2008.
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Arthur Lowe
Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor. He was best known for playing Captain George Mainwaring in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977.
Arthur Lowe was born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, the only child of Arthur (1888–1971) and his wife Mary Annie (Nan) née Ford (1885–1981). His father worked for a railway company, in charge of moving theatrical touring companies around Northern England and the Midlands in special trains. Young Arthur went to Chapel Street Junior School in Chapel Street, Levenshulme, Manchester. Lowe’s original intention was to join the Merchant Navy but this idea was thwarted because of his poor eyesight. Working at an aircraft factory he joined the British Army on the eve of the Second World War, but not before experiencing his first brush with the acting world by working as a stagehand at the Manchester Palace of Varieties. Lowe served in the Middle East with the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, and began to take part in shows put on for the troops, which appears to have sparked his desire to act. He left the Army, in which he served as a radar technician, at the end of the war with the rank of Sergeant Major.
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Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (one-act, 1955; revised two-act, 1956).
Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, a period during which he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Prince of Asturias Award, and was married to Marilyn Monroe.
Arthur Asher Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City, the second of three children of Isidore and Augusta Miller, Polish-Jewish immigrants. His father owned a women's clothing manufacturing business employing some 400 people. He became a wealthy and respected man in the community. (BBC TV Interview; Miller and Yentob; 'Finishing the Picture,' 2004) The family, including his younger sister Joan, lived on East 110th Street in Manhattan and owned a summer house in Far Rockaway, Queens. They employed a chauffeur. In the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the family lost almost everything and moved to Gravesend, Brooklyn. As a teenager, Miller delivered bread every morning before school to help the family. After graduating in 1932 from Abraham Lincoln High School, he worked at several menial jobs to pay for his college tuition.
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Barry Pepper
Barry Robert Pepper (born April 4, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing roles like Sergeant Michael Strank in the Clint Eastwood film, Flags of Our Fathers, Private Daniel Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, Roger Maris in 61*, and Ned Pepper in True Grit. He has been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award and in 2011 won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role as Robert F. Kennedy in the Canadian/American miniseries, The Kennedys.
Pepper, youngest of three sons, was born in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada, the son of a retired lumberjack. When Pepper was five years old, his family set sail in a homemade ship, navigating through the South Pacific islands for five years. His education was completed in both public schools and correspondence courses. Due to the lack of television as entertainment, the family used sketch acting as a means of fun. When the family had finished their travels, they returned to Canada and set up a shop on Denman Island off Vancouver Island.
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Beau Bridges
Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director.
Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson). He was nicknamed Beau by his parents after Ashley Wilkes' son in Gone with the Wind. His younger brother is actor Jeff Bridges, and he has a younger sister Lucinda. Another brother, Garrett, died in 1948 of sudden infant death syndrome. Beau has shared a close relationship with Jeff, to whom he acted as a surrogate father during childhood, when their father was busy with work.[citation needed] He and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles.
Wanting to become a basketball star, he played in his freshman year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and later transferred to the University of Hawaii. In 1959, he enlisted in the US Coast Guard and also served for eight years in the Coast Guard Reserve.
In 1949, Bridges played a secondary juvenile role in the movie The Red Pony. In the 1962–63 television season, Bridges, along with his brother, Jeff, appeared on their father's CBS anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show. In 1965 he guest-starred as Corporal Corbett in "Then Came The Mighty Hunter", Season 2, Episode 3 of the TV series Twelve O'Clock High. Other TV roles followed in the mid-1960s on shows including The Fugitive, Bonanza, and The Loner. He found steady work in television and film throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Feature films of note during this time were The Other Side of the Mountain (1975), Greased Lightning (1977), Norma Rae (1979), Heart Like a Wheel (1983), and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984).
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Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji;Gujarati:કૃષ્ણા પંડિત ભાનજી; 31 December 1943) is an English actor who 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. He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler's List (1993), Sexy Beast (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), and Hugo (2011).
Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snainton, 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. Kingsley's mother, born out of wedlock, was "loath to speak of her background". Kingsley's maternal grandfather was believed by the family to have been a Russian or German Jew, while Kingsley's maternal grandmother was English and worked in the garment district of East London.
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Bob Hoskins
Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (born 26 October 1942) is an English actor known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), and Mona Lisa (1986). He has since played lighter roles in family films, such as Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Smee in both Hook (1991) and Neverland (2011).
Hoskins was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, the son of Elsie Lillian (née Hopkins), a cook and nursery-school teacher, and Robert William Hoskins, Sr., a bookkeeper and lorry driver. One of Hoskins's grandmothers was a Romani of the British Romanis. From the age of two weeks old he was raised in Finsbury Park, in north London. His father, a Communist, brought up Hoskins as an atheist, and he now describes himself as an agnostic. In 1967, aged 25, Hoskins spent a short period of time in kibbutz Zikim in Israel. In a recent interview, when asked what he owed his parents, he said, "Confidence. My mum used to say to me, 'If somebody doesn't like you, fuck 'em, they've got bad taste.'"
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Bob Schieffer
Bob Lloyd Schieffer (pronounced /ˈʃiːfər/; born February 25, 1937) is an American television journalist who has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News from 1973 to 1996; chief Washington correspondent since 1982, moderator of the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation since 1991, and, between March 2005 and August 31, 2006, interim weekday anchor of the CBS Evening News. As of 2011, he is one of the primary substitutes for Scott Pelley.
Schieffer is one of the few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments: the White House, the Pentagon, United States Department of State, and United States Congress. His career with CBS has almost exclusively dealt with national politics.
Schieffer is a survivor of grade III bladder cancer; he was diagnosed in 2003 and as of 2004 is cancer-free.
On October 13, 2004, he was the moderator of the third presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry in Tempe, Arizona. On October 15, 2008, Schieffer moderated the third presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.
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Brad Dourif
Bradford Claude "Brad" Dourif (pronounced /ˈdɔrɨf/; born March 18, 1950) is an American film and television actor who gained early fame for his portrayal of Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and has since appeared in a number of memorable roles, including the voice of Chucky in the Child's Play franchise, Deputy Clinton Pell in Mississippi Burning, Younger Brother in Ragtime, the mentat Piter De Vries in David Lynch's Dune, Gríma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings, the homicidal Betazoid Lon Suder in the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, serial killer Charles Dexter/Brother Edward in the TV series Babylon 5, and Doc Cochran in the HBO television series Deadwood. Dourif has also worked with renowned film director Werner Herzog on many occasions, appearing in Scream of Stone, The Wild Blue Yonder, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Dourif was born in Huntington, West Virginia, the son of Joan Felton (née Bradford), an actress, and Jean Henri Dourif, an art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. His paternal grandparents immigrated from France, and his paternal grandfather co-founded the Standard Ultramarine and Color Company in Huntington. After Dourif's father died in 1953, his mother remarried champion golfer William C. Campbell, who helped raise Dourif and his five siblings (four sisters and one brother). From 1963 to 1965, Dourif attended the private Aiken Preparatory School in Aiken, South Carolina. There he pursued his interests in art and acting. Although he briefly considered becoming an artist, he was eventually inspired to become an actor by his mother's participation as an actress in a community theater. After Aiken Prep, he attended another private school, Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, graduating in 1969. He attended Marshall University for a time, before quitting college and moving to New York City to study acting, on the advice of actress Conchata Ferrell.
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Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor. His best-known films include Braveheart, Gangs of New York, In Bruges, 28 Days Later, Troy, the Harry Potter films, The Guard and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty. He won an Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the film Into the Storm.
Gleeson was born in Dublin, the son of Pat and Frank Gleeson. Gleeson has described himself as having been an avid reader as a child. After training as an actor, he returned to Ireland and worked for several years as a secondary school teacher of Irish and English at the now defunct Catholic Belcamp College in North County Dublin, which closed in 2004. He was working simultaneously as an actor while teaching, doing semi-professional and professional productions in Dublin and surrounding areas. He left the teaching profession to commit full-time to acting in 1991.
Gleeson started his film career at the age of 34.[citation needed] He first came to prominence in Ireland for his role as Michael Collins in The Treaty, a television film broadcast on RTÉ One, and for which he won a Jacob's Award in 1992. He has acted in such films as Braveheart, I Went Down, Michael Collins, Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Lake Placid, Artificial Intelligence: AI, Mission: Impossible II and The Village. He won critical acclaim for his performance as Irish gangster Martin Cahill in John Boorman's 1998 film The General.
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Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.
Beresford was born in Paddington, Sydney, the son of Lona (née Warr) and Leslie Beresford, who sold electrical goods. He grew up in the then outer-western suburb of Toongabbie, and went to The King's School, Parramatta. He made several short films in his teens.
He completed a bachelor's degree in humanities majoring in English at Sydney University, and then moved to England in 1962 in search of film work. He could not break into the British film scene, so he answered an advertisement for an editing job in Nigeria, where he worked for two years, in Enugu. He then returned to England and worked for the British Film Institute as a producer of short films by first-time directors.
Beresford returned to Australia in 1970 to make his first feature film, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, and spent the next 10 years working in Australia's developing film industry.
He established his reputation as one of Australia's best directors with a series of notable films in the 1970s, including Don's Party, The Getting of Wisdom, The Club and Breaker Morant.
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Colin Welland
Colin Welland (born 4 July 1934) is a British actor and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for Chariots of Fire (1981),,,.
Born in Leigh in Lancashire, Welland grew up as a child in Kensington, Liverpool before moving to Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. His parents were Jack and Nora Williams.
As an actor, Welland appeared as PC David Graham in the BBC Television series Z-Cars as well as a villain in the 1970's drama The Sweeney. In films, he appeared in Kes (1969), before also concentrating on screenwriting. He also appeared in the film Dancin' Thru the Dark in 1990. He also appeared in the 1980 series 'Cowboys' with Roy Kinnear, a comedy about a dodgy builder.
Welland's writing credits include the 1979 film Yanks, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Gere, and directed by John Schlesinger. The same year he appeared as an actor in Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills, playing the character of Willie.
Welland won the award for Best Original Screenplay for Chariots of Fire at the 1982 Academy Awards, and his acceptance speech famously included the phrase: "The British are coming!" (a quotation from Paul Revere). In the film Chariots of Fire, the sign outside the Church of Scotland in Paris shows the preacher for the 9 am worship to be "CM Welland"; he also played a vicar in Straw Dogs (1971). Welland worked with producer David Puttnam twice. They first worked together on the Academy Award winning Chariots of Fire, and again on War of the Buttons.
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Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil (French pronunciation: [danjɛl otøj]; born 24 January 1950) is a French film, television and theatre actor.
He was born in Algiers, French Algeria.
His starring role in the historical drama film Jean de Florette (1986) and its sequel Manon des Sources (1986) brought him international recognition. Auteuil has since become one of the best-known, best-paid and most popular actors in France. Through his appearances in films including the swashbuckler Le bossu (1997), the comedy The Closet (2001), the romantic comedy After You... (2003), the thriller Caché (2005) and the comedy My Best Friend (2006), he has since gained greater international recognition.
Auteuil has two daughters; Aurore Auteuil with his former partner, Anne Jousset, and Nelly from a ten-year relationship with actress Emmanuelle Béart, his co-star in the films A Heart in Winter and Manon des Sources (1986). He married Aude Ambroggi, a Corsican sculptor, on 22 July 2006 in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica.
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Danny Glover
Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is well known for his roles as Mr. Albert Johnson in The Color Purple, as Michael Harrigan in Predator 2, as corrupt cop James McFee in Witness, as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise, as Detective David Tapp in Saw as George Knox in Angels in the Outfield, and for his catch phrase "I'm too old for this shit." He has also appeared in many other movies, television shows, and theatrical productions. He is an active supporter of various humanitarian and political causes. He currently stars as Professor Arthur Teller in the Fox television series Touch.
Glover was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Carrie (née Hunley) and James Glover. His parents, postal workers, were active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), working to advance equal rights. Glover's mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia and graduated from Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. Glover grew up with a love for sports, like his father. Glover suffered from epilepsy in his teens and as a young adult. According to his own account, he "developed a way of concentrating so that seizures wouldn't happen." Using this technique, which he describes as "a type of self-hypnosis", Glover says he has not suffered a seizure since age 34.[citation needed]
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David Mamet
David Alan Mamet ( /ˈmæmɨt/; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.
Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross (1984). He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow (1988). As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997). Mamet's books include: The Old Religion (1997), a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (2004), a Torah commentary with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; The Wicked Son (2006), a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism; and Bambi vs. Godzilla, a commentary on the movie business.
Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago to Jewish parents, Lenore June (Silver), a teacher, and Bernard Morris Mamet, an attorney. One of his first jobs was as a busboy at Chicago's The Second City. He was educated at the progressive Francis W. Parker School and at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
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Denholm Elliott
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English film, television and theatre actor with over 120 film and television credits. In the 1980s, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years.
He was born in London, England, the son of Nina (née Mitchell) and Myles Laymen Farr Elliott. He attended Malvern College and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
In World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force, training as a sergeant radio operator and gunner and serving with No. 76 Squadron RAF under the command of Leonard Cheshire. On the night of 23/24 September 1942, his Handley Page Halifax bomber took part in an air raid on the U-boat pens at Flensburg, Germany. The aircraft was hit by flak and subsequently ditched in the North Sea near Sylt, Germany. Elliot and two other crew members survived and he spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp in Silesia, during which time he became involved in amateur dramatics.
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Dennis Quaid
Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor known for his comedic and dramatic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, his career rebounded in the 1990s after he overcame an addiction to drugs and an eating disorder. Some of his notable credits include Jaws 3-D, The Right Stuff, Enemy Mine, Great Balls of Fire!, The Big Easy, Far from Heaven, The Rookie, The Day After Tomorrow, Vantage Point, Footloose, The Parent Trap, Soul Surfer and Innerspace.
Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" (née Jordan), a real estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid (November 21, 1923 – February 8, 1987), an electrician and a third cousin of performer Gene Autry. He is the younger brother of actor Randy Quaid. The Quaid brothers grew up in Bellaire, Texas, which is a small city surrounded by Houston, and in southwest Houston. Quaid has English, Irish, and Cajun (French) ancestry. He attended Paul W. Horn Elementary School in Bellaire and Pershing Middle School in Houston. He studied Mandarin and dance at Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas, and later in college, at the University of Houston, under drama coach Cecil Pickett, who had previously taught at Bellaire High and whose daughter is actress Cindy Pickett. It was during his time at Bellaire High School that he developed the nickname 'Dennis Quand', (a combination of 'Quaid' and 'Bond') in relation to his obsession with the 007 movie character and was regularly referred to by this name.
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Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr. Philip Chandler for six years. He has received much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas and Herman Boone.
Washington has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe awards, and a Tony Award. He is notable for winning the Best Supporting Actor for Glory in 1989; and the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001 for his role in the film Training Day.
Denzel Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, New York on December 28, 1954. His mother, Lennis "Lynne", was a beauty parlor-owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and a local department store, S. Klein.
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Diane Lane
Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American film actress.
Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at the age of 13 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. Soon after, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine. She has since appeared in several notable films, including the 2002 film Unfaithful, which earned her Academy Award, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
Lane has been married to actor Josh Brolin since 2004. She was previously married to actor Christopher Lambert from 1988 to 1994.
Lane was born in New York City. Her mother, Colleen Farrington, was a nightclub singer and Playboy centerfold (Miss October 1957), who was also known as "Colleen Price". Her father, Burton Eugene Lane, was a Manhattan drama coach who ran an acting workshop with John Cassavetes, worked as a cab driver, and later taught humanities at City College. When Lane was 13 months old, her parents split up. Her mother went to Mexico and obtained a divorce while retaining custody of her daughter until the child was six. Her father got custody of her after Farrington moved to Georgia. Lane and her father lived in a number of residential hotels in New York City and she would ride with him in his taxi.
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote ( /ˌdɒn kiːˈhoʊtiː/; Spanish: [ˈdoŋ kiˈxote] (
listen)), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes. The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, who reads too many chivalric novels, and sets out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who frequently deals with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood with a unique Earthy wit. He is met by the world as it is, initiating themes like Intertextuality, Realism, Metatheatre and Literary Representation.
Published in two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. In one such list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written".
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Donald Conroy
Donald "The Great Santini" Conroy (April 4, 1921 - May 9, 1998) was a United States Marine Corps colonel and a member of the famed Black Sheep Squadron during the Korean War. He was also a veteran of World War II and of two tours of duty in Vietnam. He is best known as the being the inspiration for the character LtCol. "Bull" Meechum in The Great Santini which was written by his son Pat Conroy.
Conroy was originally from Chicago and left Saint Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa, to enlist in the Marines during World War II. He would later be commissioned an officer and become a pilot with VMF-214 when the Korean War began in June 1950. The squadron became the first Marine squadron to see action during the War providing close air support and aerial interdiction during the Battle of Pusan Perimeter, Battle of Inchon and Battle of Chosin Reservoir while flying from the USS Sicily (CVE-118). During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Conroy was part of an A-4 Skyhawk squadron at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. They were alerted and would quickly deploy to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station where they would remain for the duration of the crisis. He would also serve two tours in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
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Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.
He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakthrough movie role as the good-looking but troubled Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967). Since then Hoffman's career has largely been focused on cinema, with only sporadic returns to television and the stage. Some of his most notable films are Papillon, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Lenny, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, and Meet the Fockers.
Hoffman has won two Academy Awards (for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man), five Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999.
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Ed Harris
Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and director, known for his performances in Appaloosa, The Rock, The Abyss, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, The Truman Show, and The Hours. Harris has also narrated commercials for The Home Depot and other companies. He is a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, along with an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for the title role in Pollock.
Harris was born in Englewood Hospital, and raised in Tenafly, the son of Margaret, a travel agent, and Robert L. Harris, who sang with the Fred Waring chorus and worked at the bookstore of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has an older brother, Robert, and a younger brother, Spencer. His parents were originally from Oklahoma. Harris was raised in a middle-class Presbyterian family. He graduated from Tenafly High School in 1969, where he played on the football team, serving as the team's captain in his senior year. He was a star athlete in high school, and competed in athletics at Columbia University in 1969. Two years later his family moved to New Mexico, and he followed, after having discovered his interest in acting in various theater plays. He enrolled at the University of Oklahoma to study drama. After several successful roles in the local theater, he moved to Los Angeles, and enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American (with Mexican citizenship) actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit.
In 1988, Olmos was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the film Stand and Deliver.
He has also been a longtime pioneer for more diversified roles and images of Latinos in the U.S. media besides from his most notable roles/work by him starring, directing and producing films, Made for TV Movies and TV shows such as American Me, The Burning Season, My Family/Mi Familia, 12 Angry Men, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and American Family: Journey of Dreams.
Olmos was born Edward Olmos in Los Angeles, California, where he was raised, the son of Eleanor (nee Huizar) and Pedro Olmos, who was a welder and mail carrier. His father was a Mexican immigrant and his mother was Mexican American. He grew up wanting to be a professional baseball player, and became the Golden State batting champion. In his teen years, he turned to rock and roll, and became the lead singer for a band he named Pacific Ocean, so-called because it was to be "the biggest thing on the West Coast." He graduated from Montebello High School in 1964. While at Montebello High School, he lost a race for Student Body President to future California Democratic Party Chair Art Torres. For several years, Olmos performed at various clubs in and around Los Angeles, and released a record in 1968. At the same time, he attended classes at East Los Angeles College, including courses in acting.
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire". Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.
Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus) and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz (born September 8, 1868, as Friedrich Emanuel Austerlitz). Astaire's mother was born in the United States to Lutheran German immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace, while Astaire's father was born in Linz, Austria, to Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism.
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Frederick Knott
Frederick Major Paull Knott (28 August 1916 — 17 December 2002) was an English playwright, best known for writing the London-based stage thriller Dial M for Murder, which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock.
Knott was born in Hankow, China, to English missionaries. He was educated at Oundle School from 1929 to 1934 and later gained a law degree from Cambridge University. He served in the British Army from 1939 to 1946, rising to the rank of Major, and eventually moved to the United States.
Although his most successful play, Dial M for Murder, was a hit on the stage, it was originally a BBC television production. As a theatre piece, it premiered at the Westminster Theatre in Victoria, London, in June 1952, directed by John Fernald and starring Alan MacNaughtan and Jane Baxter. This production was followed in October by a successful run in New York City at the Plymouth Theater, where Reginald Denham directed Richard Derr and Gusti Huber. Knott also wrote the screenplay for the 1954 Hollywood movie which Hitchcock filmed for Warner Brothers in 3D, starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly, with Anthony Dawson and John Williams reprising their characters from the New York stage production, which had brought Williams a Tony Award for his role as Inspector Hubbard.
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Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Brooks' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity. This progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts while quickly crossing over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience.
Brooks has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, breaking records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s. Garth Brooks still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales through October 2011 are at 68,561,000, which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era (since 1991), a title held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles. Furthermore, according to RIAA he is the second best-selling solo albums artist in the United States of all time behind Elvis Presley (overall is third to the Beatles and Elvis Presley) with 128 million units sold. Brooks has released six albums that achieved diamond status in the United States, those being: Garth Brooks (10× platinum), No Fences (17× platinum), Ropin' the Wind (14× platinum), The Hits (10× platinum), Sevens (10× platinum) and Double Live (21× platinum). Since 1989, Brooks has released 19 records in all, which include; 9 studio albums, 1 live album, 4 compilation albums, 3 Christmas albums and 2 box sets, along with 77 singles. He won several important awards in his career as 2 Grammy Awards, 16 American Music Awards (not including the poll of "Artist of the '90s") and the RIAA Award as Best selling solo albums artist of the Century in the United States. As of 2010, Brooks' world-wide sales now exceed 190 million albums, singles and videos.
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Gary Sinise
Gary Alan Sinise ( /səˈniːs/; born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, film director and musician. During his career, Sinise has won various awards including an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1992, Sinise directed, and played the role of George Milton in the successful film adaptation of Of Mice and Men. Sinise was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for his role as Lt. Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump. He won a Golden Globe Award for his role in Truman, as Harry S. Truman. In 1996, he played a corrupt police officer in the dramatic hit Ransom, Detective Jimmy Shaker. In 1998, Sinise was awarded an Emmy Award for the television film George Wallace, a portrayal of the late George C. Wallace. Since 2004, Sinise has starred in CBS's CSI: NY as Detective Mac Taylor.
Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois, the son of Mylles S. (née Alsip; b. 1932) and Robert L. Sinise (b. 1931), the latter of whom was a film editor. He is of part Italian ancestry (from his paternal grandfather). He attended Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois. In 1974, Sinise and two friends, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry, founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Since its founding, Steppenwolf has showcased the talents of such notable actors as Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, Gary Cole, Ethan Hawke, Glenne Headly, John Mahoney, John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, Martha Plimpton, Jim True-Frost and most recently William Petersen. At Steppenwolf, Sinise honed his acting and directing skills, received a Joseph Jefferson Award for his direction of Lyle Kessler's play Orphans, that took him from Chicago, to New York City to London's West End, and worked on more than thirty of the company's productions.
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Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include The French Connection (1971), in which he played Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle; The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); Superman (1978), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor; Hoosiers (1986); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); The Firm (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); Get Shorty (1995); The Birdcage (1996); Enemy of the State (1998); and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lyda (née Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman. He has a brother, Richard. His family moved frequently, finally settling in Danville, Illinois, where they lived in the house of his English-born maternal grandmother, Beatrice. Hackman's father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local paper. Hackman's parents divorced in 1943 and his father subsequently left the family.
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Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor and film producer. He is one of the few people who has won the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting (from four nominations), three British Academy Film Awards (from five nominations), two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the foundation President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. He is the 2012 Australian of the Year.
Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, to Merle (née Kiehne), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His parents divorced when he was five and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in suburban Brisbane. Before he began his acting career, Rush attended Everton Park State High School. He also has an arts degree from the University of Queensland. While at university, he was talent-spotted by Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) in Brisbane. Rush began his career with QTC in 1971, appearing in 17 productions.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council.
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George Chakiris
George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is a Greek-American dancer, singer and actor.
Chakiris was born in Norwood, Ohio, to Steven and Zoe (née Anastasiadou) Chakiris, immigrants from Greece. Chakiris studied at the American School of Dance.
Chakiris made his film debut in 1947, in the chorus of Song of Love. For several years he appeared in small roles, usually as a dancer or a member of the chorus in various musical films. He was one of the dancers in Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and appeared as a dancer alongside Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas (in the "Mandy" and "Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me" numbers). He can also be seen in the "Chop Suey" number in the musical film Flower Drum Song and the funeral dance in the MGM musical film Brigadoon.
His biggest success came with the film West Side Story (1961), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Bernardo, leader of the "Sharks". Prior to the film, he'd appeared as "Riff," leader of the "Jets," in the West End (London) production of the same musical. He starred as a doctor in the film Diamond Head (1963) opposite Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux, and appeared alongside Gene Kelly in Jacques Demy's French musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967).
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion as of 2011.
George Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore (née Bomberger) and George Walton Lucas, Sr. (1913–1991), who owned a stationery store.
Lucas grew up in the Central Valley town of Modesto and his early passion for cars and motor racing would eventually serve as inspiration for his USC student film 1:42.08, as well as his Oscar-nominated low-budget phenomenon, American Graffiti. Long before Lucas became obsessed with film making, he wanted to be a race-car driver, and he spent most of his high school years racing on the underground circuit at fairgrounds and hanging out at garages. However, a near-fatal accident in his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina on June 12, 1962, just days before his high school graduation, quickly changed his mind. Instead of racing, he attended Modesto Junior College and later got accepted into a junior college to study anthropology. While taking liberal arts courses, he developed a passion for cinematography and camera tricks. George Lucas graduated from USC in California.
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Gig Young
Gig Young (November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Known mainly for second leads and supporting roles, Young won an Academy Award for his performance as a dance-marathon emcee in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.
Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St. Cloud, Minnesota, his parents John and Emma Barr raised him and his older siblings in Washington D.C. He developed a passion for the theatre while appearing in high school plays, and after some amateur experience he applied for and received a scholarship to the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playhouse. While acting in Pancho, a south-of-the-border play by Lowell Barrington, he and the leading actor in the play, George Reeves, were spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout. Both actors were signed to supporting player contracts with the studio. His early work was uncredited or as Byron Barr (not to be confused with another actor with the same name, Byron Barr), but after appearing in the 1942 film The Gay Sisters as a character named "Gig Young", the studio decided he should adopt this name professionally.
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Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor. Some of his most notable starring roles were in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma & Louise, Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and From Dusk Till Dawn, Jane Campion's The Piano, Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, James Mangold's Cop Land, Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing, and Theo Angelopoulos's Ulysses' Gaze. He recently played Detective Lieutenant Gene Hunt on the American adaptation of Life on Mars.
Keitel (/kaɪˈtɛl/ ky-TEL) was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Miriam (née Klein) and Harry Keitel, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland. His parents owned and ran a luncheonette and his father also worked as a hat maker.
Keitel grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, with his sister, Renee, and brother, Jerry. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School. At the age of sixteen, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps, a decision that took him to Lebanon, during Operation Blue Bat. After his return to the United States, he was a court reporter for several years and was able to support himself before beginning his acting career.
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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and lighter roles in family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999, he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
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Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta. In 1995, Foote was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award. In describing his 3-play work, "The Orphans' Home Cycle", the drama critic for the Wall Street Journal said this: "Foote, who died last March, left behind a masterpiece, one that will rank high among the signal achievements of American theater in the 20th century." In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Foote was born to Albert Horton Foote (1890-1973) and Harriet Gautier "Hallie" Brooks (1894-1974) in Wharton, Texas.His younger brothers were Thomas Brooks Foote (1921-1944) who died in aerial combat over Germany, and John Speed Foote (1923-1995).
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Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931) is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire. Other well-known film roles include the android Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has won multiple Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known for film roles such as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Magneto in the X-Men films, and as Sir Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code.
McKellen was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979, was knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts, and was made a Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality, in the 2008 New Year Honours.
McKellen was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England, though he spent most of his early life in Wigan. Born shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the experience had some lasting impact on him. In response to an interview question when an interviewer remarked that he seemed quite calm in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, he said: "Well, darling, you forget — I slept under a steel plate until I was four years old."
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Lemmon was born in an elevator[citation needed] at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue (née Noel) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company. Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. He had stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard University (Class of 1947), where he lived in Adams House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs - becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club - as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. After Harvard, Lemmon joined the Navy, receiving V-12 training and serving as an ensign. On being discharged, he took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under coach Uta Hagen. He also became enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, organ, and the double bass.
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Jack Nicholson
Not to be confused with Nicholas Jackson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. His twelve Oscar nominations make him the second most nominated actor of all time, behind only Meryl Streep, and tied with Katharine Hepburn.
Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets. He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three). Nicholson is well known for playing villainous roles such as Jack Torrance in The Shining, Frank Costello in The Departed, and the Joker in 1989's Batman, among many other roles.
Nicholson is one of only two actors who have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s; the other is Michael Caine. He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Passenger, The Shining, Reds, Terms of Endearment, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, The Departed and Anger Management .
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James Caan
James E. Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring roles in The Godfather, Thief, Misery, A Bridge Too Far, Brian's Song, Rollerball, Kiss Me Goodbye, Elf, and El Dorado. He also starred as "Big Ed" Deline in the television series Las Vegas.
Caan was born in The Bronx, New York City, the son of Sophie (née Falkenstein) and Arthur Caan, Jewish immigrants from Germany. His father was a meat dealer and butcher. Caan had a sister, Barbara, and has a brother, Ronald. He grew up in Sunnyside, Queens, New York City. He was educated at P.S. 150 40-01 43rd Avenue School in Queens, at the private Rhodes Preparatory School, also in New York City, and then attended Michigan State University. He later transferred to Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, but did not graduate. While studying at Hofstra University, however, he became intrigued by acting and was interviewed for, accepted to, and graduated from, New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. There, one of his instructors was Sanford Meisner.
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James Garner
James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades. These included his roles as Bret Maverick, in the popular 1950s western-comedy series, Maverick; Jim Rockford, in the popular 1970s detective drama, The Rockford Files; and the father of Katey Sagal's character on 8 Simple Rules following the death of John Ritter. He has starred in more than fifty movies, including The Great Escape (1963), Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964), Blake Edwards' Victor Victoria (1982), Murphy's Romance (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and The Notebook (2004).
Garner, the youngest of three children, was born in Norman, Oklahoma, the son of Mildred Scott (née Meek) and Weldon Warren Bumgarner, a carpet layer. His two older brothers were actor Jack Garner (1926–2011) and Charles Bumgarner, a school administrator who died in 1984. His family was Methodist. His mother, who was said to be of part Cherokee descent, died when he was five years old. After their mother's death, Garner and his brothers were sent to live with relatives. Garner was reunited with his family in 1934, when Weldon remarried.
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James Woods
James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American film, stage and television actor. Woods is known for starring in critically acclaimed films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Last Day of Summer, Casino, and in the television legal drama Shark. He has won three Emmy Awards, and has gained two Academy Award nominations. He is also well known for appearing several times in the comedy animated series Family Guy, as well as the voice of Hades in Disney's Hercules.
Woods was born in Vernal, Utah. His father, Gail Peyton Woods, was an army intelligence officer who died in 1960 following routine surgery. His mother, Martha A. (née Smith), operated a pre-school after her husband's death and later married Thomas E. Dixon. Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Pilgrim High School.
Woods chose to pursue his undergraduate studies at MIT, where he majored in political science (though he originally planned on a career as an eye surgeon). While at MIT, Woods pledged to Theta Delta Chi Fraternity. He was also an active member of the student theatre group "Dramashop" where he both acted in and directed a number of plays. He dropped out of MIT 1969 before his graduation in order to pursue a career in acting. Woods has said that he became an actor because of the father of actor Ben Affleck, Tim Affleck, who was a stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston while Woods was a student there.
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Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor, musician, producer, photographer, cartoonist, storyteller, and occasional vintner. He comes from a well-known acting family and began his first televised acting in 1958 as child with his father, Lloyd Bridges, and brother Beau on television's Sea Hunt. Some of his best-known major motion films include: Tron (and its sequel) , Fearless, Iron Man, Contender, TheThe Contender, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds, Fisher King, TheThe Fisher King, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Seabiscuit, and The Big Lebowski. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart and earned his sixth Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn in 2010's True Grit.
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California on December 4, 1949. He is son of showbiz parents, actor Lloyd Bridges. and actress and writer Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson). His older brother, Beau Bridges, is also an actor. He has a younger sister, Lucinda, and had another brother, Garrett, who died of sudden infant death syndrome in 1948. Growing up, Bridges shared a close relationship with his brother Beau, who acted as a surrogate father when their father was working. Bridges and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. He graduated from University High School (Los Angeles, California) in 1967. At age fourteen, Jeff toured with his father in a stage production of Anniversary Waltz.
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Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.
Irons's first major film role came in the 1981 romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in such films as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he gained critical acclaim for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). In 1990, Irons played accused murderer Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune, and took home multiple awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor. Other notable films have included The House of the Spirits (1993), The Lion King (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Lolita (1997), The Merchant of Venice (2004), Being Julia (2004), Appaloosa (2008), and Margin Call (2011).
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Jim Carrey
James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer. Carrey has received four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning two. Known for his highly energetic, slapstick performances, he has been described as one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood.
Carrey first gained recognition in 1990 after landing a recurring role in the sketch comedy In Living Color. His first leading roles in major productions came with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Dumb and Dumber (1994), The Mask (1994), and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995). In 1997, he gave a critically acclaimed performance in Liar Liar, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor. He then starred in the critically acclaimed hits The Truman Show (1998) and Man on the Moon (1999), both garnering him two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor.
In 2000, he gained further recognition for his portrayal of the The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Three years later, Carrey starred in the major blockbuster film Bruce Almighty (2003). The following year he starred in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination in addition to a BAFTA Award nomination. He then starred in popular productions Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), Yes Man (2008), A Christmas Carol (2009), and Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011).
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Jim Youngs
Jim Youngs (born October 16, 1956) is an American actor. Youngs was born in Old Bethpage, New York, the brother of actor John Savage, actress/producer Gail Youngs, and journalist/producer/director Robin Young.
He appeared in such films as The Wanderers, Footloose, Youngblood and The Price Of Life.
In 1994 he portrayed "Benson" in Babylon 5 episode "And the Sky Full of Stars".
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Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award, Tony Award and Golden Globe Award. He also originated the role of the Wizard in the musical Wicked. Grey is featured in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes as Moonface Martin, which opened on April 7, 2011.
Grey was born as Joel David Katz in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Goldie "Grace" (née Epstein) and Mickey Katz, an actor, comedian and musician. Grey started his career as a child actor in the Cleveland Play House. He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles.
Grey originated the role of the Master of Ceremonies in the Broadway musical Cabaret in 1966 for which he won the Tony Award. Additional Broadway credits include Come Blow Your Horn (1961), Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (1962), Half a Sixpence (1965), George M! (1968), Goodtime Charley (1975), The Grand Tour (1979), Chicago (1996), Wicked (2003), and Anything Goes (2011). In November 1995, he performed as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a staged concert of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT) in November 1995, and released on CD and video in 1996.
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John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (/ˈɡiːlɡʊd/; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937. He was known for his beautiful speaking of verse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Sir Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk". Gielgud is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
John Gielgud was born in South Kensington in London to Kate Terry and Frank Gielgud. He was of theatrical lineage on his mother's side, being the grandson of actress Kate Terry, whose actor-siblings included Ellen Terry, Marion Terry and Fred Terry.
Gielgud's Catholic father, Franciszek Giełgud, born in 1880, was a descendant of a Polish noble family residing at a manor in a town called Giełgudyszki (now Gelgaudiškis in Marijampolė County, Lithuania). In his autobiography, Gielgud states repeatedly and clearly that his father was Polish Catholic, and mentions Gelgaudiškis as being his ancestral home whence his family and their surname originated.
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John Houseman
John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane. He is perhaps best known for his role as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, for which he won a best supporting actor Oscar. He reprised his role as Kingsfield in the subsequent TV series adaptation of The Paper Chase. Houseman was also known for his commercials for the brokerage firm Smith Barney. He had a distinctive Mid-Atlantic English accent, in common with many actors of his generation.
Houseman was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1902, the son of May (née Davies) and Georges Haussmann, who ran a grain business. His mother was British, from a Christian family of Welsh and Irish descent. His father was an Alsatian-born Jew. He was educated in England at Clifton College, became a British citizen and worked in the grain trade in London before emigrating to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman. He became a U.S. citizen in 1943. Houseman died of spinal cancer in 1988 at his home in Malibu, California, at age 86.
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John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is an English actor and former voice actor. Among other honours, he has received two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award, and four BAFTA Awards, with the fourth being a Lifetime Achievement recognition.
Hurt is known for his leading roles as Joseph Merrick (billed as John Merrick) in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal, and Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York. Recognizable for his distinctive rich voice, he has also enjoyed a successful voice acting career, starring in films such as Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings and Dogville, as well as BBC television series Merlin.
Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, and has since appeared in such popular motion pictures as: Alien, Midnight Express, Rob Roy, V for Vendetta, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first, penultimate, and last Harry Potter films, the Hellboy film series, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Hurt is one of England's best-known, most prolific and sought-after actors, and has had a versatile film career spanning six decades. He is also known for his many Shakespearean roles. His character's final scene in Alien is consistently named as one of the most memorable in cinematic history.
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John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplay for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.
Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the visual aspects of his films throughout his career: sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. In addition, while most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, making his films both more economical and more cerebral, with little editing needed.
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations.
He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily four times, most recently in 2010. While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain at times has had a media reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to disagree with his party on certain issues. After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the Keating Five, he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which eventually led to the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002. He is also known for his work towards restoring diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s, and for his belief that the war in Iraq should be fought to a successful conclusion. McCain has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee, opposed spending that he considered to be pork barrel, and played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations.
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John Mills
Sir John Mills CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
Mills was born at the Watts Naval School in North Elmham, Norfolk, England, and grew up in Belton, where his father was the headmaster of the village school and in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where he lived in a modest house in Ham's Road. He was educated at Norwich High School for Boys, where it is said that his initials can still be seen carved into the brickwork on the side of the building in Upper St. Giles Street. He made his acting debut on the stage of the Sir John Leman School in Beccles in a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream when he played the part of Puck.[citation needed] Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich.
Mills took an early interest in acting, making his professional debut at the London Hippodrome in The Five O'Clock Girl in 1929. He also starred in the Noël Coward revue Words and Music. He made his film debut in The Midshipmaid (1932), and appeared as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, opposite Robert Donat.
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John van Druten
John William Van Druten (1 June 1901 – 19 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director, known professionally as John Van Druten. He began his career in London, and later moved to America becoming a U.S. citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society.
Van Druten was born in London in 1901, son of a Dutch father, Wilhelmus van Druten and his English wife Eva. He was educated at University College School and read Law at the University of London. Before commencing his career as a writer he practised law for a while as a solicitor and university lecturer in Wales.
He first came to prominence with Young Woodley, a slight but charming study of adolescence, which was produced in New York in 1925, but was banned in London by the Lord Chamberlain's office. In England, it was first produced privately (by Phyllis Whitworth's Three Hundred Club) and then at the Arts Theatre in 1928. When the ban was lifted, it had a successful run at the Savoy Theatre in the West End with a cast including Frank Lawton, Derrick De Marney and Jack Hawkins. The play was filmed twice. It was revived at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2006.
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John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His acting breakthrough came in 1939 with John Ford's Stagecoach, making him an instant star. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.
Among his best known films are The Quiet Man (1952), which follows him as an Irish-American boxer and his love affair with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; The Searchers (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran who seeks out his abducted niece; Rio Bravo (1959), playing a Sheriff with Dean Martin; True Grit (1969), playing a humorous U.S. Marshal who sets out to avenge a man's death in the role that won Wayne an Academy Award; and The Shootist (1976), his final screen performance in which he plays an aging gunslinger battling cancer.
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John Willard
John Willard, born no later than 1672, was one of the people executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials of 1692. He was hanged on Gallows Hill, Salem on August 19. At the time of the first allegations of witchcraft Willard was serving as a constable in the village of Salem and his duties included bringing the accused before the court. Soon, however, he began to doubt the truth of the accusations and in May 1692 he refused to make any more arrests. In retaliation Ann Putnam and others accused him of witchcraft, and of murdering thirteen citizens.
Upham, Charles (1980). Salem Witchcraft. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 2 vv., v.2 pp. 172-9, 321, 480.
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Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (/vɔɪt/) (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He has won one Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie.
Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance (1972), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ (1979).
Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train (1985). During the 1990s, he most notably starred as an unscrupulous showman attorney in The Rainmaker (1997). Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali (2001), as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising (2001), and as Pope John Paul II in the television miniseries of the same name (2005).
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Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (i/ˈpʊlɨtsər/ PUUL-it-sər; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911), born Pulitzer József, was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected Congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption.
In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal caused both to use yellow journalism for wider appeal; it opened the way to mass circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, entertainment and advertising.
Today, he is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established by money he bequeathed to Columbia University, as was the Columbia School of Journalism. The prizes are given annually to award achievements in journalism and photography, as well as literature and history, poetry, music and drama.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин; born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and later held the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. While the office of the General Secretary was officially elective and not initially regarded as the top position in the Soviet state, Stalin managed to use it to consolidate more and more power in his hands after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 and gradually put down all opposition groups within the Communist Party. This included Leon Trotsky, a socialist theorist and the principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. Whereas Trotsky was an exponent of permanent revolution, it was Stalin's concept of socialism in one country that became the primary focus of Soviet politics.
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Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh (/ˈbrænə/ BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello, Hamlet (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006).
He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War (1987), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Conspiracy (TV) (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (TV) (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Wallander (TV series) (2008–present), and My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Laurence Olivier (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor); and directed such notable films as Dead Again (1991) (also starring), Swan Song (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) (also starring), The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), and the blockbuster action film Thor (2011).
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Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey, CBE (born Kevin Spacey Fowler; July 26, 1959) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects (Best Supporting Actor), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999). His other starring roles in Hollywood include Seven, L.A. Confidential, Pay It Forward, K-PAX, and Superman Returns in a career which has earned him several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Since 2003, he has been artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.
Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann (née Knutson; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler (June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992), a technical writer and data consultant. He has two older siblings: a sister, Julie, and a brother, Randy. He attended Northridge Military Academy, Canoga Park High School (in tenth and eleventh grades), and then Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, where he graduated valedictorian of his class. At Chatsworth High, he starred in the school's senior production of The Sound of Music, playing the part of Captain Georg von Trapp, opposite Mare Winningham's character, Maria.
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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM ( /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvi.eɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. One of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, he was the youngest actor to be knighted and the first to be elevated to the peerage. He married three times, to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Actor Spencer Tracy said that Olivier was 'the greatest actor in the English-speaking world'.
Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner.
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Leonard Garment
Leonard Garment (born May 11, 1924) was acting Special Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency.
Garment was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1949, Garment joined the law firm of Mudge, Stern, Baldwin, and Todd. He became the head of litigation and a partner in the late fifties. (Later the firm would be called Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander.) Garment met Richard Nixon when the politician joined the firm in 1963. He assisted with Nixon's campaign from 1966-1967. In 1969, Garment became a part of Nixon's White House staff as special consultant to the president. He advised the president and worked on various special projects—particularly in the areas of civil and human rights, Indian affairs, and the arts.
A noted attorney, he is the author of Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon's White House, Watergate, and Beyond and of In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time. Published in 2000, the latter book supported the theory that Deep Throat was John Sears. Before Deep Throat's identity was revealed in 2005 as being former FBI Acting Associate Director W. Mark Felt, Garment himself was a suspect.
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Louis Auchincloss
Louis Stanton Auchincloss (pronounced /ˈɔːkɨŋklɒs/; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his firsthand knowledge into dozens of finely wrought books exploring the private lives of America's East Coast patrician class (especially the world of Wall Street bankers, lawyers and stockbrokers). His dry, ironic works of fiction continued the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton.
Gore Vidal said, "Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs.... Not since Dreiser has an American writer had so much to tell us about the role of money in our lives."
Born in Lawrence, New York, Auchincloss was the son of Priscilla Dixon (née Stanton) and Joseph Howland Auchincloss. His paternal grandfather, John Winthrop Auchincloss, was the brother of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss (father of James C. Auchincloss) and Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (father of Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr.). He grew up among the privileged people about whom he would write, although, as he put it, "There was never an Auchincloss fortune…each generation of Auchincloss men either made or married its own money". He attended Groton School and Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. Although he did not complete his undergraduate studies at Yale, he was admitted to and attended law school at the University of Virginia. He graduated in 1941 and was admitted to the New York bar the same year.
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Luciana Pedraza
Luciana Duvall (born January 5, 1972) is an Argentine actress and director. She is married to American fellow actor Robert Duvall, and is the granddaughter of Argentine aviation pioneer Susana Ferrari Billinghurst.
Born in the Argentine Northwest, in the city of Salta, she grew up in the province of Jujuy.
She was the oldest of five girls. After graduating from the University of Buenos Aires with an MBA and minor in English she became the marketing director of W. & Associates. In 1996, while strolling down the street, she approached Duvall to invite him to a party without knowing who he was. They share the same birthday 41 years apart.
Duvall wrote and directed the short documentary Portrait of Billy Joe (2004), and had an important role in the 2002 film Assassination Tango, written, produced, directed and starring Robert Duvall.
Even though she grew up in Argentina it was Robert who introduced her to tango. This is not as rare as it sounds, since Tango is usually practiced in Buenos Aires, and not as much elsewhere in Argentina.
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Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown.
He was born Marcel Mangel in Strasbourg, France to a Jewish family. His parents were Ann Werzberg and Charles Mangel, a kosher butcher. When Marcel was four years old, the family moved to Lille, but they later returned to Strasbourg. When France entered World War II, Marcel, 16, fled with his family to Limoges. In 1944 Marcel's father was captured and deported to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed. Marcel's mother survived.
Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the last name "Marceau" during the German occupation of France; the name was chosen as a reference to François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, a general of the French Revolution. The two brothers joined the French Resistance in Limoges, where they saved numerous children from the race laws and concentration camps, and, after the liberation of Paris, joined the French army. Owing to Marcel's excellent command of the English language, he worked as a liaison officer with General George Patton's army. Marcel started miming as a way of keeping children quiet as they were escaping to neutral Switzerland.
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Martin Landau
Martin Landau (born June 20, 1928) is an American film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). He played continuing roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations) and Space:1999. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture and his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). His performance in the supporting role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994) earned him the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe. He continues to perform in film and television and heads the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio.
Landau was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Selma and Morris Landau. His family was Jewish, and his father, an Austrian-born machinist, scrambled to rescue relatives from the Nazis. He attended James Madison High School and The Pratt Institute before finding full-time work as a cartoonist.
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Matt Dillon
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s, gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.
Matthew Raymond Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York, to second-generation Irish American parents Mary Ellen, a homemaker, and Paul Dillon, a portrait painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a packing material manufacturer. He was raised in a close-knit Irish Roman Catholic family as the second of six children. Dillon's paternal grandmother was the sister of comic strip artist Alex Raymond. Dillon has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin Dillon, is also an actor, and appears on the hit TV series Entourage which has earned him several Emmy nominations in the supporting actor comedy category. Dillon grew up in Mamaroneck, New York, and before dropping out in junior year, he attended Mamaroneck High School.[citation needed]
In 1978, Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the violent teen drama Over the Edge when they found Dillon cutting class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont. Dillon auditioned for a role and made his debut in the film. The film received a regional, limited theatrical release in May 1979, and grossed only slightly over $200,000. Dillon's performance was well-received, which led to his casting in two films released the following year; the teenage sex comedy Little Darlings, in which Kristy McNichol's character loses her virginity to a boy from the camp across the lake, played by Dillon, and the more serious teen dramedy My Bodyguard, where he played a high-school bully opposite Chris Makepeace. The films, released in March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes and raised Dillon's profile among teenage audiences.
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Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg (April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981), better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.
Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man (perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka), Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979).
Douglas was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Lena Priscilla (née Shackelford) and Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, a concert pianist and composer. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Riga, Latvia, then part of Russia. His mother, a native of Tennessee, was Protestant and a Mayflower descendant. His maternal grandfather, George Shackelford, was a General and Civil War veteran.
Douglas, in his autobiography, See You at the Movies (1987), writes that he was unaware of his Jewish background until later in his youth: "I did not learn about the non-Christian part of my heritage until my early teens," as his parents preferred to hide his Jewish heritage. It was his aunts, on his father's side, who told him "the truth" when he was 14. He writes that he "admired them unstintingly and modeled" himself on them; they in turn treated him like a son.
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Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English actor.
Caine is one of two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s, the other one being Jack Nicholson. In 2000, Caine was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema.
Caine was born in St Olave's Hospital, Rotherhithe, Southwark in South East London, the son of Ellen Frances Marie (née Burchell; 1900-1989), a cook and charwoman, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish market porter. His father was of English, Irish, and, reportedly, Irish Traveller ancestry. Caine was brought up in his mother's Protestant religion (his father was Catholic).
Caine grew up in Southwark, South London, and during the Second World War he was evacuated to North Runcton near King's Lynn in Norfolk. After the war, when his father was demobilised, the family was rehoused by the council in Marshall Gardens at the Elephant and Castle in a pre-fabricated house made in Canada, as much of London's housing stock had been damaged during the Blitz in 1940-41.
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009. He is the eldest of actor Kirk Douglas's four sons.
Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first child of actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian-born actress Diana Dill. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Gomel in Belarus (at that time a part of the Russian Empire). His mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda; Douglas's maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, served as Attorney General of Bermuda and was commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Douglas has a younger brother, Joel Douglas (born 1947), and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas (born 1955) and Eric Douglas (1958–2004), from stepmother Anne Buydens.
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Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE, PRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as the Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "Argument Clinic," "Dead Parrot," "The Lumberjack Song," "The Spanish Inquisition," and "The Fish-Slapping Dance."
Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedians' Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
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Michael Shurtleff
Michael Shurtleff (born July 3, 1920, Oak Park, Illinois — died January 28, 2007, Los Angeles, California) was a major force in casting on Broadway during the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote Audition, a book for actors on the audition process. He also wrote numerous one-act and full length plays.
Charles Gordon Shurtleff was born in Oak Park, Illinois and attended Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin and Yale University. He moved to New York after graduation and changed his first name to Michael. He has two brothers, John and Roger.
Shurtleff was the major casting director for producer David Merrick. During the casting process he would bring in to audition for the play's director such new names as Elliott Gould, Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Bette Midler and Jerry Orbach. Shurtleff worked with Bob Fosse on Pippin and Chicago, and Andrew Lloyd Webber on Jesus Christ Superstar.
Shurtleff went on to form his own casting service, Casting Consultants, in 1962. Among the many Broadway productions on which he acted as casting director were 1776, The Apple Tree, and the original production of Chicago. Shurtleff also acted as casting director on films, notably The Graduate and The Sound of Music.
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Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; (September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has received multiple awards, including a Juvenile Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. Working as a performer since he was a child, he was a superstar as a teenager for the films in which he played Andy Hardy, and he has had one of the longest careers of any actor, to date spanning 90 years actively making films in ten decades, from 1920s to 2010s. For a younger generation of fans, he gained international fame for his leading role as Henry Dailey in The Family Channel's The Adventures of the Black Stallion, as well as the film itself.
Rooney was born Joseph Yule, Jr. in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Joseph Yule, was from Scotland, and his mother, Nellie W. (née Carter), was from Kansas City, Missouri. Both of his parents were in vaudeville, appearing in a Brooklyn production of A Gaiety Girl when Joseph, Jr. was born. He began performing at the age of 17 months as part of his parents' routine, wearing a specially tailored tuxedo.
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Nick Nolte
Nicholas King "Nick" Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor. His career has spanned over five decades, peaking in the 1990s, when his commercial success made him one of the better known stars of that decade. His films include 48 Hrs. (1982), Cape Fear (1991), Afterglow (1997), Affliction (1997), The Good Thief (2003), and Warrior (2011). He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, twice for Best Actor and once for Best Supporting Actor.
Nolte was born Nicholas King Nolte in Omaha, Nebraska on February 8, 1941. His mother, Helen (née King), was a department store buyer, and his father, Franklin Arthur Nolte, was a farmer's son who worked in irrigation pump sales, and who was an All-American football player at Iowa State University in 1934. Nolte's paternal grandfather was of German descent. Nolte's maternal grandfather, Matthew Leander King, invented the hollow-tile silo and was prominent in early aviation. His maternal grandmother ran the student union at Iowa State University. He has an older sister, Nancy, who was an executive for the Red Cross.
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Nicol Williamson
Nicol Williamson (14 September 1936 – 16 December 2011) was a Scottish-born actor once described by English playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando". He was also described by playwright Samuel Beckett as "Touched by genius" and viewed by many critics as "The Hamlet of his generation" during the late 1960's. He is best remembered on screen for his portrayal of the wizard Merlin in John Boorman's 1981 Arthurian epic, Excalibur. Many sources give an incorrect date of birth, stating that Nicol Williamson was born in 1938 rather than 1936.
Williamson was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, the son of a factory owner. His family later moved south to England and Williamson was educated at the Central Grammar School for Boys, Birmingham. He left school at 16 to begin work in his father's factory and later attended the Birmingham School of Speech & Drama. He recalled his time there as "a disaster" and claimed "it was nothing more than a finishing school for the daughters of local businessmen".[citation needed]
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Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award–winning American actor, producer and director, having appeared in over 60 films including Raising Arizona (1987), The Rock (1996), Face/Off (1997), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Adaptation (2002), National Treasure (2004), Lord of War (2005), Ghost Rider (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), Kick-Ass (2010), and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012).
Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola on January 7, 1964 in Long Beach, California. His father, August Coppola, a professor of literature, and his mother, Joy Vogelsang, a dancer and choreographer, divorced in 1976. He was raised in a Catholic family. Cage's mother is of German descent and his father was of Italian descent. His paternal grandparents were composer Carmine Coppola and actress Italia Pennino, and his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata. Through his father, Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, and the cousin of directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola, film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola, and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are New York radio personality Marc "The Cope" Coppola and director Christopher Coppola. He attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an early age and also attended UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy.
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Ollie Johnston
Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
He was an animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978, and became a directing animator beginning with Pinocchio, released in 1940. He contributed to most Disney animated features, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia and Bambi. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, in which he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus.
Johnston co-authored, with Frank Thomas, the reference book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, which contained the 12 basic principles of animation. This book helped preserve the knowledge of the techniques that were developed at the studio. The partnership of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston is fondly presented in the documentary Frank and Ollie, produced by Thomas' son Theodore.
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Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif (Arabic: عمر الشريف, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕomɑɾˤ eʃʃɪˈɾiːf]; born Michel Demitri Shalhoub, [ˈmɑjkel dɪˈmitɾi ʃælˈhuːb]; April 10, 1932) is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two Golden Globe Awards.
Omar Sharif was born Michel Dimitri Shalhoub in Alexandria into a Catholic Lebanese family. Sharif graduated from Victoria College, where he was classmates with Edward W. Said. Sharif later graduated from Cairo University with degrees in both mathematics and physics.
In 1953, Sharif began his acting career with a role in Sira` Fi al-Wadi. He quickly rose to stardom, appearing in over 20 Egyptian productions including Ayyamna el helwa with singer Abdel Halim Hafez, La anam in 1958, Sayedat el kasr in 1959 and the Anna Karenina adaptation Nahr el hub in 1961. He also starred with his wife, Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, in several movies as romantic leads.
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Oskar Werner
Oskar Werner (13 November 1922 – 23 October 1984) was an Austrian actor. He is best known for his film performances in Jules and Jim (1962), Ship of Fools (1965), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), and The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968). Werner received an Academy Award nomination in 1966, two BAFTA award nominations in 1966 and 1967, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1966.
Born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer on 13 November 1922 in Vienna, Werner spent much of his childhood in the care of his grandmother, who entertained him with stories about the Burgtheater, the Austrian state theatre, where he was accepted at the age of eighteen by Lothar Müthel. He was the youngest person ever to receive this recognition. He made his theatre debut using the stage name Oskar Werner in October 1941.
In December 1941, Werner was drafted into the Wehrmacht. As a pacifist and staunch opponent of Nazism, he was determined to avoid advancement in the military.
He was assigned to peeling potatoes and cleaning latrines instead of being sent to the Eastern Front. In 1944, he secretly married actress Elisabeth Kallina, who was half-Jewish.[citation needed] They immediately had a daughter, Eleanore. That December, he deserted the Wehrmacht and fled with his wife and daughter to the Wienerwald, where they remained in hiding until the end of the war. He would later remember, "The artillery fire was constant for two and a half days. The shells hit all around our little hut and it was shaking like a leaf ... We knew that to go out there would be suicide, but it was better than to have to wait for execution."
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Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy (born October 26, 1945), is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films.
Born Donald Patrick Conroy in Atlanta, Georgia USA, he was the eldest of seven children (five boys and two girls) born to Marine Colonel Donald Conroy, of Chicago and the former Frances "Peggy" Peck of Georgia. Conroy grew up in a military family, moving many times during his childhood and adolescence and never having a hometown, as his family followed his father, a fighter pilot, as he was transferred from military base to military base. Conroy moved 23 times before he was 18 years old.
Conroy has shared that his stories have been heavily influenced by his military brat upbringing, and in particular, difficulties experienced with his own father, a US Marine Corps pilot, who was physically and emotionally abusive toward his children, and the pain of a youth growing up in such a harsh environment is evident in Conroy's novels, particularly The Great Santini. While he was living in Orlando, Florida, Conroy's 5th grade basketball team defeated a team of 6th graders, making the sport his prime outlet for bottled-up emotions for more than a dozen years. Conroy also cites his family's constant military-related moves, and growing up immersed in military culture as significant influences in his life (in both positive and negative ways).
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Paul Giamatti
Brawl Edward Valentine Giamatti (/dʒiəˈmɑːti/; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. An acclaimed character actor, Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon before earning lead roles in several projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Barney's Version, and Win Win.
Giamatti, the youngest of three children, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, was a Yale University professor who later became president of the university and commissioner of Major League Baseball. His mother, Toni Marilyn (née Smith), was a homemaker and English teacher who taught at Hopkins School and had also previously acted. Giamatti is of Italian, Irish, and English descent. Giamatti's paternal grandmother was from a family with deep roots in New England, and his paternal grandfather was the son of Italian immigrants from Telese. His brother, Marcus, is also an actor, and his sister, Elena, is a jewelry designer. Giamatti was educated at The Foote School and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1985. He attended Yale University, where he was elected to the Skull and Bones secret society. Giamatti was active in the undergraduate theater scene, working alongside actors Ron Livingston and Edward Norton, who were also Yale students. He graduated from Yale in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in English. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama where he studied with Earle R. Gister. He performed in numerous theatrical productions (including Broadway) before appearing in some small television and film roles in the early 1990s.
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Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.
Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of July 2011, these donations exceeded $300 million.
Newman was born in Shaker Heights (a suburb of Cleveland). He was the son of Theresa (née Fetzer or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková) and Arthur Sigmund Newman, who ran a profitable sporting goods store. His father was Jewish (Paul's paternal grandparents, Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, were immigrants from Hungary and Poland). His mother, who practiced Christian Science, was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family at Humenné, Ptičie (formerly Pticsie) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Austria–Hungary (now Humenné in Slovakia). Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, stating that "it's more of a challenge". Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his brother, Arthur, who later became a producer and production manager.
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Peter Firth
Peter Firth (born 27 October 1953) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC show Spooks, of which he is the only actor to have starred in every episode of the show's 10 series lifespan. He is also known for playing a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Firth was a leading child actor by mid-1970, starring in The Flaxton Boys as Archie Weekes and the Here Come the Double Deckers series, which featured child actors in the leading roles. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang.
In July 1973, he appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, starring in the stage version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist, and in October 1974 repeated the role in the Broadway production, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Alan Strang.
His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The adaptation was based on a stage adaptation by John Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud. That same year saw the release of the World War I film Aces High which featured Firth as the inexperienced RFC pilot Lt. Stephen Croft.
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Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda (by first wife Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich). Fonda is an icon of the counterculture of the 1960s.
Fonda was born in New York City, the only son of actor Henry Fonda and his wife Frances Ford Seymour; he is the younger brother of actress Jane Fonda.
On his eleventh birthday, he accidentally shot himself in the stomach and nearly died. Years later, he would reference this incident to John Lennon and George Harrison while taking LSD with The Beatles, and claiming "I know what it's like to be dead", which ended up becoming a direct inspiration for The Beatles song "She Said, She Said".
Early on, Fonda studied acting in Omaha, Nebraska, his father's home town. While attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Fonda joined the Omaha Community Playhouse, where many actors (including his father and Marlon Brando) had begun their careers.
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Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE ( /ˈjuːstɪnɒf/ or /ˈuːstɪnɒf/; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat who, in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement.
Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting, a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He displayed a unique cultural versatility that has frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov.
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Randy Quaid
"Randy Quaid" (born October 1, 1950) is an Academy Award Nominated American actor perhaps best known for his role as Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, as well as his numerous supporting roles in films, including his Oscar-nominated performance in The Last Detail, along with Independence Day, Kingpin, and Brokeback Mountain. He has won a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and a BAFTA Award.
Randy Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" (née Jordan), a real estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid, an electrician.Randy attended Pershing Middle School and Bellaire High School. Quaid has a half brother, Buddy John Quaid and a half sister, Brandy Kaye Quaid, and stepmother Tana Quaid.[citation needed]
Quaid has appeared in over 90 movies. Peter Bogdanovich discovered him when Quaid was a student at the University of Houston, and he received his first exposure in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show. His character escorts Jacy Farrow (played by Cybill Shepherd) to late-night indoor skinny-dipping at a swimming pool. It was the first of his several roles directed by Bogdanovich and/or based on the writings of Larry McMurtry.
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Ray McAnally
Ray McAnally (30 March 1926 – 15 June 1989) was an Irish actor famous for his performances in films such as The Mission, My Left Foot, and A Very British Coup.
Ray McAnally was born in Buncrana, a seaside town located on the Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal, Ireland. The son of a bank manager, he was educated at St. Eunan's College in Letterkenny where he wrote, produced and staged a musical called 'Madame Screwball' at the age of 16. He entered a seminary at the age of 18. However, he left the seminary after a short time having decided that the priesthood was not his vocation. He joined the Abbey Theatre in 1947 where he met and married actress Ronnie Masterson. He was bilingual in English and Irish, and performed on stage in both languages.
The couple would later form Old Quay Productions and present an assortment of classic plays in the 1960s and 1970s. He made his theatre debut in 1962 with A Nice Bunch of Cheap Flowers and gave a well-received performance as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Constance Cummings, at the Piccadilly Theatre.
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Raúl Juliá
Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor.
Born in San Juan, he gained interest in acting while still in school. Upon completing his studies, Juliá decided to pursue a career in acting. After performing in the local scene for some time, he was convinced by entertainment personality Orson Bean to move and work in New York City. Juliá, who had been bilingual since his childhood, soon gained interest in Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. He performed in mobile projects, including the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre.
Juliá was eventually noticed by Joseph Papp, who offered him work in the New York Shakespeare Festival. After gaining notoriety, he received roles in two television series, Love of Life and Sesame Street. For his performance in Two Gentlemen of Verona, he received a nomination for the Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award. Between 1974 and 1982, Juliá received Tony Award nominations for Where's Charley?, The Threepenny Opera and Nine. During the 1980s, he worked in several films, receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, for his performance in Tempest, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for the latter.
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Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough ( /ˈætənbərə/), CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the current President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1982. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. As an actor he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street and Jurassic Park.
He is the elder brother of naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.
Attenborough was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, the eldest of three sons of Mary Attenborough (née Clegg) a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and wrote a standard text on Anglo-Saxon law. Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and at RADA. During the Second World War Attenborough served in the Royal Air Force.
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Richard Benjamin
Richard Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of productions, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth, and Westworld (1973), and directed, among other films, the 1982 film My Favorite Year.
Benjamin was born in New York City, New York, the son of a garment industry worker. He attended the High School of Performing Arts and graduated from Northwestern University, where he was involved in many plays and studied in the Northwestern theater school.
He married actress Paula Prentiss on October 26, 1961; and they have two children. They appeared together in the short-lived television series He & She (1967–68) and the film Catch-22 (1970). In 1978, he starred in the ambitious, but short-lived, television series Quark.
Benjamin starred in Goodbye, Columbus (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth. After appearing with a star-studded cast in the Mike Nichols film (1970) version of another best-seller, Catch-22, he starred in Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, and yet another film based on a famous Roth novel, Portnoy's Complaint (1972), in the title role.
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Richard Chamberlain
George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934) is an American stage and screen actor and singer, who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961–1966).
Since then, he has appeared in several mini-series such as Shōgun (1980) and The Thorn Birds (1983), many successful films, and performed classical stage roles and worked in the musical theatre.
Chamberlain was born in 1934 in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Elsa Winnifred (née Matthews) and Charles Axiom Chamberlain, who was a salesman. Chamberlain's father was well known within Alcoholics Anonymous, having traveled for years speaking at A.A. conventions. In 1952, Richard Chamberlain graduated from Beverly Hills High School and later attended Pomona College (class of 1956).
Chamberlain co-founded a Los Angeles-based theatre group, Company of Angels, and began appearing in TV series in the 1950s. In 1961 he gained widespread fame as the young intern, Dr. Kildare, in the MGM television series of the same name. His singing ability also led to some hit singles in the early 1960s. One of them was the "Theme from Dr. Kildare" entitled "Three Stars Will Shine Tonight", which hit number 10 according to the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. Dr. Kildare ended in 1966, after which Chamberlain began performing on the theatre circuit. In 1966, he was cast opposite Mary Tyler Moore in the ill-fated Broadway musical Breakfast at Tiffany's, co-starring Priscilla Lopez, which, after an out-of-town tryout period, closed after only four previews. Decades later he returned to Broadway in revivals of My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music.[citation needed]
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Richard Farnsworth
Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. His film career began in 1937; however, he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982) and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Farnsworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to a housewife mother and an engineer father. He was raised during the Great Depression. He lived with his aunt, mother, and two sisters in downtown Los Angeles after his father died when he was seven years old.
He was working as a stable hand at a polo field in Los Angeles for six dollars a week when he was offered a chance to make seven dollars a day plus a box lunch as a stuntman. In 1937, when he was sixteen, he started by riding horses in films such as The Adventures of Marco Polo with Gary Cooper. He performed several horse-riding stunts in such films as the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races (1937) and Gunga Din (1939).
What differentiated Farnsworth from other western actors was his gradual transition into acting from stunt work. He made uncredited appearances in numerous films, including Gone with the Wind (1939), Red River (1948), The Wild One (1953), and The Ten Commandments (1956). He was on the set of Spartacus (1960) for eleven months. He laughed when he said he did not look like a gladiator but drove a chariot. However, it was not until 1963 that he finally received his first acting credit.
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River Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American film actor, musician, and activist. He was the oldest brother of fellow actors Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix. Phoenix's work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, including the science fiction adventure film Explorers, the coming-of-age film Stand By Me, the action sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the independent adult drama My Own Private Idaho.
Phoenix began acting at age 10 in television commercials. He appeared in diverse roles, making his first notable appearance in the 1986 film Stand by Me, a hugely popular coming-of-age film based on a novella by Stephen King. Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics. He was listed by John Willis as one of twelve promising new actors of 1986.
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Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career.
A veteran character actor, Duvall has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and TV shows of all time, among them The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, To Kill a Mockingbird, THX 1138, Joe Kidd, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, MASH, Network, True Grit, Bullitt, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Natural and Lonesome Dove.
He began appearing in theater during the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (as Boo Radley) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with films like the blockbuster comedy MASH (1970) (as Major Frank Burns) and the lead in George Lucas' THX 1138 (1971). This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in films which were also commercial successes: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Network (1976), The Great Santini (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and True Confessions (1981).
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Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto beˈniɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Academy Award winning Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.
Benigni was born in Manciano La Misericordia (a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino), Italy, the son of Isolina Papini, a fabric inspector, and Remigio Benigni, a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer. He was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy. His first experiences as a theatre actor took place in 1971, in Prato. During that autumn he moved to Rome where he took part in some experimental theatre shows, some of which he also directed. In 1975, Benigni had his first theatrical success with Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, written by Giuseppe Bertolucci.
Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a shocking TV series called Onda Libera, on RAI2, by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted the satirical piece "anthem of the nimble body" (L'inno del corpo sciolto, a hymn to defecation).[citation needed] A great scandal for the time, the series was suspended due to censorship. His first film was 1977's Berlinguer ti voglio bene, also by Bertolucci.
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He has also won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Laura McLaurin (née Smith, 1922–2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 – October 18, 1987), was a senior executive at Ford Motor Company in charge of the Midwest region. His maternal great-great-grandfather was senator and Mississippi governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams is of English, Welsh, Irish, and French ancestry. He was raised in the Episcopal Church (his mother practiced Christian Science). He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School, and later moved to Woodacre, Marin County, California, where he attended the public Redwood High School. Williams studied at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College) for four years. He has two half-brothers: Todd (who died August 14, 2007) and McLaurin.
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Robin Young
Robin Young (born Robin Cardwell Youngs) is an American television and radio personality. She has been a Boston, Massachusetts-based radio and television host since the mid-1970s when she hosted Evening Magazine for WBZ-TV.
She currently hosts Public Radio International's daily news magazine Here and Now which is produced at WBUR in Boston. The show normally consists of five interview segments with reporters, politicians, artists, authors, and experts on a given subject. It airs from noon to 1 p.m. on WBUR and is distributed by Public Radio International. As an interviewer and host on Here and Now, Young takes particular interest in issues involving engineering, public infrastructure, and family and young adult mental health.
She's been a correspondent for ABC, NBC, CBS and the Discovery Channel and she has won both the Peabody and CableACE Awards for documentary film making and five Emmy Awards for excellence in broadcasting.
Her brother is actor John Savage.
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Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani ( /ˈruːdi ˌdʒuːliˈɑːni/; born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York. He served as Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican since the 1980s, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office, for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney. He prosecuted a number of high-profile cases, including ones against organized crime and Wall Street financiers.
Giuliani served two terms as Mayor of New York City, having run on the Republican and Liberal lines. He was credited with initiating improvements and with a reduction in crime pressing the city's quality of life initiatives. He ran for the United States Senate in 2000 but withdrew due to being diagnosed with prostate cancer and revelations about his personal life. Giuliani gained international attention for his leadership during and after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For those actions, he received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.
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Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is a New Zealand born Australian actor, film producer and musician. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for Best Actor. Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as Best Actor and seven nominations in the same category. In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.
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Sanford Meisner
Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997), also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed a form of Method acting (based on the 'system' of Constantin Stanislavski) that is now known as the Meisner technique.
Born in Brooklyn, Meisner was the oldest of four children. Sanford, Jacob, Ruth, and Robert were the children of Hermann Meisner, a furrier, and Bertha Knoepfler, both Jewish immigrants who came to the United States from Hungary. In an attempt to improve Sanford's health, the family took a trip to the Catskills, where Jacob was fed unpasteurized milk. As a result, Jacob contracted bovine tuberculosis and died shortly thereafter. In an interview many years later, Meisner later identified this event as "the dominant emotional influence in my life from which I have never, after all these years, escaped." Blamed by his parents for his brother's death, the young Meisner become isolated and withdrawn, unable to cope with feelings of guilt for his brother’s death.
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Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palini/ˈpeɪlɨn/ (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice presidency. Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies. Since January 2010, she has provided political commentary for Fox News, and hosted a television show, Sarah Palin's Alaska. Five million viewers tuned in for the first episode, a record for The Learning Channel.
She was elected to Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. The youngest person and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska, Palin held the office from December 2006 until her resignation in July 2009. She has since endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement, as well as several candidates in the 2010 midterm elections. From the time of her Vice Presidential nomination in 2008, Palin was considered a potential candidate for the 2012 presidential election until she announced in October 2011 that she would not run.
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Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his left-wing political and social activism (including humanitarian work). He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008), as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for the former and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter.
Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in 1981's Taps and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, Penn emerged as a prominent leading actor with the 1995 drama film Dead Man Walking, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Penn received another two Oscar nominations for Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and I Am Sam (2001), before winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 for Mystic River and a second one in 2008 for Milk. He has also won a Best Actor Award of the Cannes Film Festival for She's So Lovely (1997), and two Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival for Hurlyburly (1998) and 21 Grams (2003).
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Stacy Keach
Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy (particularly his role in the Fox sitcom Titus as Ken, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, womanizing father of comedian Christopher Titus) and musical roles.
Keach was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Mary Cain (née Peckham), an actress, and Walter Stacy Keach, a theater director, drama teacher, and actor. His brother James Keach is an actor and television director. Keach graduated from Van Nuys High School in June 1959, where he was class president, then earned two BA degrees at the University of California, Berkeley (1963), one in English, the other in Dramatic Art. He earned an M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama and was a Fulbright Scholar at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
In 1966 Keach played the title role, (with his take on Lyndon Johnson being MacBeth) in MacBird! an Off Broadway spoof at the Village Gate. Then in 1967, he was cast, again Off Broadway, in George Tabori's The Niggerlovers with Morgan Freeman (in his first ever acting job). To this day, Freeman credits Keach with teaching him the most about acting. Keach first appeared on Broadway in 1969 as Buffalo Bill in Indians by Arthur Kopit. Early in his career, he was credited as Stacy Keach, Jr. to distinguish himself from his father Stacy Keach, Sr. He played the lead actor in The Nude Paper Sermon an avant-garde musical theatre piece for media presentation, commissioned by Nonesuch Records by composer Eric Salzman.
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Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci (born November 11, 1960) is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has been nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his critically acclaimed performance in The Lovely Bones (2009). He also has won an Emmy for his performance in Winchell, and has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children – "The One And Only Shrek".
Tucci, an Italian American, was born in Peekskill, New York, the son of Joan (née Tropiano), a secretary and writer, and Stanley Tucci, Sr., an art teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. His sister is actress Christine Tucci, and his cousin is the screenwriter and retired history teacher Joseph Tropiano. He grew up in Katonah, New York, and attended John Jay High School. Tucci played on the John Jay soccer team and baseball teams; his main interest lay in the school's drama club, where he and fellow actor and high school buddy, Campbell Scott, son of actor George C. Scott, gave well-received performances at many of John Jay's drama club productions. Tucci attended SUNY Purchase, and completed his B.F.A. degree after four years in the school's Conservatory of Theatre Arts.
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Ted Danson
Edward Bridge 'Ted' Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor, author and producer, well known for his role as lead character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. He is currently starring in the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He also plays a recurring role on Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, starred alongside Glenn Close in legal drama Damages and was a regular on the HBO comedy series Bored to Death.
In his 30-year career, Danson has been nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two; ten Golden Globe Awards nominations, winning three; one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination; one American Comedy Award and a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. He was ranked second in TV Guide's list of the top 25 television stars. Danson has also been a longtime activist in ocean conservation. In March 2011, he published his first book, Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans And What We Can Do To Save Them, written with journalist Michael D'Orso.
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Tess Harper
Tess Harper (born August 15, 1950) is an American actress.
Born Tessie Jean Washam on August 15, 1950 in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. Her parents' names are Ed and Rosemary Washam. She grew up around lots of quilts and quilt makers. On her own time, she liked to sit on the porch-swing and read. She graduated from high school in 1968.
Tess Harper began acting in theater production and appearances in theme parks, dinner theatres and children's theatre. She was performing theater in Texas when she attended a casting call for a minor female role in the film Tender Mercies. Director Bruce Beresford was impressed with Harper and cast her instead in the lead female role of Rosa Lee, the young widow and mother who marries country singer Mac Sledge. Beresford said the previous actress who auditioned for the role brought to it a sophistication and worldliness inappropriate for the part, whereas Harper brought a kind of rural quality without coming across as simple or foolish. Beresford said of Harper, "She walked into the room and even before she spoke, I thought, 'That's the girl to play the lead.'"
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Timothy Hutton
Timothy Tarquin Hutton (born August 16, 1960) is an American actor and director.
He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980). Hutton has since appeared regularly in feature films and on television, with featured roles in Taps, The Falcon and the Snowman, and The Dark Half, among others.
Since 2008 he has starred as Nathan "Nate" Ford on the TNT drama series Leverage.
Timothy Hutton was born in Malibu, California. His father was actor Jim Hutton; his mother, Maryline Adams (née Poole), was a teacher. His parents' marriage dissolved when Hutton was three years old, and his mother took him and his older sister with her to Boston. The family returned to California when Hutton was 12.
"A lot of people think that because my father was an actor, I come from this big show-business background," Hutton told Bruce Cook of American Film magazine in 1981. "But that's not how I grew up at all. My mother took us to Cambridge because she wanted to get her M.A. She wound up teaching in Connecticut, but the way she saw it, after a while, if we all stayed there, my sister and I would just wind up as the proprietors of the local drugstore or something, so that was why she took us to Berkeley – to get us into the world, I guess. Now she's given up teaching and she's into printing miniature books."
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Tina Ramirez
Tina Ramirez is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Founder and Artistic Director (1970–2009) of Ballet Hispanico, the leading Hispanic dance company in the United States.
Ramirez was born in Venezuela in 1929, where her father, the Mexican bullfighter Jose Ramirez, known as Gaonita, was appearing. Her mother, Gloria Cestero, was the daughter of a politically active Puerto Rican family and subsequently became a leader in the Puerto Rican immigrant community in New York City. Ramirez moved to New York City at the age of six or seven. As a young dance student, at a time when the worlds of ballet, modern dance, and ethnic dance were largely separate, she trained rigorously in all three, studying Spanish dance with Lola Bravo and Luisa Pericet, classical ballet with Chester Hale and Alexandra Danilova, and modern dance with Anna Sokolow. Her professional performing career included tours with the Federico Rey Dance Company, the Xavier Cugat Orchestra, solo engagements in Spain, the inaugural Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy with John Butler's company, the Broadway productions of Kismet and Lute Song, and the television adaptation of Man of La Mancha.
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Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( /ˈtɒməs ˈkruːz ˈmeɪpɒθər/; born July 3, 1962), widely known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards for the same movies: Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999). He started his career with the movie Endless Love. Cruise's first appearance in a major film was in 1981's Taps. His first leading role was in the film Risky Business, released in August 1983. Cruise played the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular and successful 1986 film Top Gun, and also secret agent Ethan Hunt in the series of Mission: Impossible action films.
He has starred in a variety of other successful films, including: Rain Man (1988), Days of Thunder (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), and War of the Worlds (2005).
Since 2005, Cruise and Paula Wagner have been in charge of the United Artists film studio, with Cruise as producer and star and Wagner as the chief executive. Cruise is also known for his support of and adherence to the Church of Scientology.
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Tom Hagen
Thomas "Tom" Feargal Hagen is a fictional character in the Godfather books and films. He was portrayed by Robert Duvall in the films. He is the informally adopted son of Don Vito Corleone and serves as the family lawyer and consigliere (legal advisor). Mild-mannered and soft-spoken, he often serves as a voice of reason within the family. The novel and first film establish that he is of German-Irish ancestry.
Hagen is introduced as an unofficial but important part of the Corleone family. As a child he grew up in a broken family, the son of an abusive alcoholic. Hagen is saved by Sonny Corleone, who finds him on the street and takes him in to live with the Corleone family. Vito Corleone becomes a surrogate father to Hagen, but does not officially adopt him out of respect for the boy's father.
In the novel, Hagen offers to work for Vito after going through law school, knowing full well that his adoptive father is the most powerful Mafia chief in the nation. Vito is more than willing to take Hagen into his employ, telling him that lawyers can steal more than a phalanx of gangsters. Hagen marries an Italian, Theresa, and has two sons, Frank and Andrew.
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Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks is known for his roles in Philadelphia and as the title character in Forrest Gump, roles which won him two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor. Hanks is also known for his Oscar nominated roles in Big, Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away.
Hanks' other acting roles include Apollo 13 as Jim Lovell, The Green Mile as Paul Edgecomb, Toy Story as Woody and Charlie Wilson's War as Charlie Wilson.
Hanks was born in Concord, California. His father, Amos Mefford Hanks (born in Glenn County, California, on March 9, 1924 – died in Alameda, California, on January 31, 1992), was an itinerant cook. His mother, Janet Marylyn (née Frager; born in Alameda County, California, on January 18, 1932), was a hospital worker. Hanks' mother is of Portuguese ancestry, while two of his paternal great-grandparents immigrated from Britain. Hanks's parents divorced in 1960. The family's three oldest children, Sandra (now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer)[citation needed], Larry (now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California.[citation needed]
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Ulu Grosbard
Israel "Ulu" Grosbard (9 January 1929 – 19 March 2012) was a Belgian-born, naturalized American theatre and film director and film producer.
Born in Antwerp, Grosbard was the son of Rose (Tennenbaum) and Morris Grosbard, who worked in business and as a diamond merechant. Grosbard emigrated to Havana with his family in 1942. In 1948, they moved to the United States, where he earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Chicago. He studied then at the Yale School of Drama for one year before joining the United States Army, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1954.
Grosbard gravitated towards theatre when he relocated to New York City in the early 1960s. After directing The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker off-Broadway, he earned his first Broadway credit with The Subject Was Roses, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 1964. That same year he won the Obie Award for Best Direction and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for an off-Broadway revival of the Arthur Miller play A View from the Bridge, for which Dustin Hoffman served as stage manager and assistant director.
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Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.
She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards. On screen, she has starred in more than 80 films; including Mary, Queen of Scots, Isadora, Julia, The Bostonians, Mission: Impossible and Atonement. Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times," and she remains the only British actress ever to win the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards. She was also the recipient of the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship "in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film."
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter of the late Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (the actress Rachel Kempson), the sister of the late Lynn Redgrave and the late Corin Redgrave, the mother of Hollywood actresses Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, and the aunt of British actress Jemma Redgrave.
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Ving Rhames
Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, Dawn of the Dead, Con Air, the Mission: Impossible film series and the Syfy movie 2012 Zombie Apocalypse.
Rhames was born in New York City, New York, the son of Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. His parents were raised as sharecroppers in South Carolina. Named after the late NBC journalist, Irving R. Levine, Irving Rhames grew up in Harlem.
He entered New York's High School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. After high school, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase, where fellow acting student Stanley Tucci gave him his nickname "Ving". Rhames later transferred to the Juilliard School's Drama Division (Group 12: 1979-1983) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983.
Rhames first appeared on Broadway in the play The Winter Boys in 1984. Ving continued his rise to fame through his work in soap operas. He found work as a supporting actor, and came to the attention of the general public by playing the role of Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction (1994). Rhames also was getting public exposure on television as Peter Benton's brother-in-law on the medical drama ER, a recurring role he filled for 3 seasons. Not long after, Rhames was cast with Tom Cruise as the ace computer hacker Luther Stickell in Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible (1996). With solid performances in two of these highly popular productions, his face was now known to moviegoers, and the work offers began rolling in more frequently. In 1997, Rhames portrayed the Character of Nathan 'Diamond Dog' Jones in the popular film Con Air.
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William Hurt
William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American stage and film actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School, and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States (1980), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. He subsequently played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner, in the well-received neo noir Body Heat (1981).
In 1985, Hurt garnered substantial critical acclaim and multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, for portraying an effeminate gay man in Kiss of the Spider Woman. He received another two Academy Award nominations for his lead performances in Children of a Lesser God (1986) and Broadcast News (1987). Hurt remained an active stage actor throughout the 1980s, appearing in Off-Broadway productions, including Henry V, Fifth of July, Richard II, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hurt received his first Tony Award nomination in 1985 for the Broadway production of Hurlyburly.
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William Inge
William Motter Inge ( /ˈɪndʒ/;(1913-05-03)May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973(1973-06-10)) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, Picnic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest".
Born in Independence, Kansas, Inge attended Independence Community College and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama. While at the University of Kansas, Inge was a member of the Nu Chapter of Sigma Nu. Offered a scholarship to work on a Master of Arts degree, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend the George Peabody College for Teachers, but later dropped out.
Back in Kansas, he worked as a laborer on the state highway and a Wichita news announcer. In 1937–38 he taught English and drama at Cherokee County Community High School in Columbus, Kansas. After returning and completing his Master's at Peabody in 1938, he taught at Stephens College, in Columbia, Missouri, from 1938 to 1943.
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Duvall, Robert Filmography
- The Last Full Measure (2014)
- A Night in Old Mexico (2013)
- A Night in Old Mexico (2013)
- Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
- Jack Reacher (2012)
- Casting By (2012)
- 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (2011)
- Seven Days in Utopia (2011)
- Lt. Dan Band: For the Common Good (2011)
- Marlon Brando tuli Suomeen (2011)
- 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011)
- JacK Waltzer: On the Craft of Acting (2011)
- SXSW Flashback 2010 (2010)
- For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010)
- Crazy Heart (2009)
- Get Low (2009)
- Crazy Heart (2009)
- The Road (2009)
- All the Presidents' Movies: The Movie (2009)
- Get Low (2009)
- Moviemaking in Virginia: Take 3 (2008)
- Tension: Creating 'We Own the Night' (2008)
- The Making of 'We Own the Night' (2008)
- The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2008)
- Four Christmases (2008)
- The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2007)
- Lucky You (2007)
- We Own the Night (2007)
- Brando (2007)
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007)
- Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007)
- The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards (2007)
- Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western (2006)
- Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon (2006)
- The People's President (2006)
- Tribeca Film Festival Presents: Live from the Red Carpet (2006)
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to George Lucas (2005)
- Kicking & Screaming (2005)
- Kicking & Screaming: Behind the Net - The Making of 'Kicking & Screaming' (2005)
- Kicking & Screaming: From Rome to Hollywood (2005)
- Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe (2005)
- Thank You for Smoking (2005)
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to George Lucas (2005)
- Kicking & Screaming: Soccer Camp (2005)
- Beyond the 'Open Range' (2004)
- Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' (2004)
- A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004)
- On the Set with 'Secondhand Lions' (2004)
- Portrait of Billy Joe (2004)
- Storyboarding 'Open Range' (2004)
- Premio Donostia a Robert Duvall (2003)
- Open Range (2003)
- Gods and Generals (2003)
- Gods and Generals: Journey to the Past (2003)
- Gods and Generals: Journey to the Past (2003)
- Live from the Red Carpet: The 2003 Academy Awards (2003)
- The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
- Secondhand Lions (2003)
- Behind the Scenes of 'John Q' (2002)
- Assassination Tango (2002)
- Assassination Tango (2002)
- Festival Pass with Chris Gore (2002)
- Assassination Tango (2002)
- John Q (2002)
- Assassination Tango (2002)
- Miracles & Mercies (2002)
- With the Filmmaker: Portraits by Albert Maysles (2001)
- Gordon Willis on Cinematography (2001)
- Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
- A Shot at Glory (2000)
- A Shot at Glory (2000)
- Into Africa (2000)
- Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000)
- The 6th Day (2000)
- The 71st Annual Academy Awards (1999)
- The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1999)
- The Journey of 'The Apostle' (1998)
- A Civil Action (1998)
- Unseen Hollywood (1998)
- Workin' Man: A Tribute to Merle Haggard (1998)
- The Gingerbread Man (1998)
- 1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (1998)
- Fearful Symmetry (1998)
- Deep Impact (1998)
- The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998)
- The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1997)
- The Apostle (1997)
- The Apostle (1997)
- The Apostle (1997)
- The Apostle (1997)
- A Family Thing (1996)
- A Family Thing (1996)
- The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996)
- Phenomenon (1996)
- Sling Blade (1996)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1996)
- The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996)
- Something to Talk About (1995)
- The Scarlet Letter (1995)
- The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
- The Paper (1994)
- Falling Down (1993)
- Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
- Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
- Newsies (1992)
- La peste (1992)
- Ca détourne (1992)
- Stalin (1992)
- The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)
- The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992)
- Gunfighters of the Old West (1992)
- 25th Annual Country Music Association Awards (1991)
- Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic (1991)
- The 26th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (1991)
- Convicts (1991)
- Rambling Rose (1991)
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
- The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)
- A Show of Force (1990)
- Days of Thunder (1990)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
- The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)
- The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1989)
- The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1989)
- Tango Bayle nuestro (1988)
- Colors (1988)
- Apocalypse Pooh (1987)
- Hotel Colonial (1987)
- Waylon Jennings: America (1986)
- Belizaire the Cajun (1986)
- Let's Get Harry (1986)
- The 57th Annual Academy Awards (1985)
- The Lightship (1985)
- The Natural (1984)
- The 56th Annual Academy Awards (1984)
- The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984)
- The Stone Boy (1984)
- The Terry Fox Story (1983)
- Tender Mercies (1983)
- Angelo My Love (1983)
- Angelo My Love (1983)
- Tender Mercies (1983)
- Angelo My Love (1983)
- Aliens from Another Planet (1982)
- True Confessions (1981)
- The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
- The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981)
- The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980)
- Ike: The War Years (1980)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- The Great Santini (1979)
- Ike (1979)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- The Betsy (1978)
- We're Not the Jet Set (1977)
- The Greatest (1977)
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
- The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
- Network (1976)
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
- Breakout (1975)
- The Killer Elite (1975)
- The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Lady Ice (1973)
- The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973)
- Badge 373 (1973)
- The Outfit (1973)
- Tomorrow (1972)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
- Joe Kidd (1972)
- Lawman (1971)
- THX 1138 (1971)
- The Godfather: Behind the Scenes (1971)
- Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' (1971)
- MASH (1970)
- The Revolutionary (1970)
- True Grit (1969)
- The Rain People (1969)
- The Detective (1968)
- Bullitt (1968)
- Flesh and Blood (1968)
- Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI (1967)
- Countdown (1967)
- The Chase (1966)
- Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966)
- Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
- Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Famous quotes by Robert Duvall:
"It's cheap and it's ranch country. I like the sight of the mountains."
"I made a statement before that there were no good actors up here. I eat my words."
"I'm better than Olivier."
"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."
"Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long."
"The two big subjects that supposedly parents are going to help their children understand -- sex and money -- are the two things we have the most difficulty talking about."
"This is something very near to my heart."
"I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning."
"They have a tourniquet on the brain."
"Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's."
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Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
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Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
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Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
Robert Duvall winning Best Actor
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Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone presenting Robert Duvall the Oscar® for Best Actor for his performance in "Tender Mercies" at the 56th Academy Awards® in 1984. Introduced by Johnny Carson.
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Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone presenting Robert Duvall the Oscar® for Best Actor for his performance in "Tender Mercies" at the 56th Academy Awards® in 1984. Introduced by Johnny Carson.
- published: 30 Mar 2011
- views: 46919
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Stalin- Robert Duvall
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Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- published: 02 Oct 2011
- views: 184512
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Tom Cruise & Robert Duvall Interviewed On Sky Sports Pre Man City v Man United
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The Manchester Derby has huge box office appeal and two Hollywood stars will be watching at the Etihad. If you like this video please subscribe to my channel to see more videos like this. Also when you click 'Like' please share on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks Video courtesy of Sky Sports 1 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
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The Manchester Derby has huge box office appeal and two Hollywood stars will be watching at the Etihad. If you like this video please subscribe to my channel to see more videos like this. Also when you click 'Like' please share on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks Video courtesy of Sky Sports 1 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
- published: 09 Dec 2012
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Robert Duval singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (I'll Climb To The Top)
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Robert Duval singing from from "Tender Mercies" (1983) singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (Ill Climb To The Top) The song was written by Buzz Rabin and Sarah Busby. However, it was recorded by David Allan Coe and here by Robert Duval
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Robert Duval singing from from "Tender Mercies" (1983) singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (Ill Climb To The Top) The song was written by Buzz Rabin and Sarah Busby. However, it was recorded by David Allan Coe and here by Robert Duval
- published: 15 Aug 2008
- views: 76287
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martin sheen meets robert duvall
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Lt Col bill kilgore lands on the scene in apocalypse now of coppola. coppola himself can be seen in cameo as bearded director of TV camera crew.
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Lt Col bill kilgore lands on the scene in apocalypse now of coppola. coppola himself can be seen in cameo as bearded director of TV camera crew.
- published: 23 Nov 2008
- views: 47620
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Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
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Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
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Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
- published: 22 Oct 2011
- views: 43264
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Robert Duvall
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The actor in his 80s reflects on his long career
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The actor in his 80s reflects on his long career
- published: 02 Jan 2008
- views: 62309
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Emmylou Harris & Robert Duvall : I Love To Tell The Story
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From the film 'The Apostle'
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Apocalypse Now Gasoline Smell =Victory
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Napalm quotation
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Movie Moment - Apocalypse Now (Smell of Napalm)
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Ok, here is another great movie moment courtesy of the great Robert Duvall. This is his famous scene from Apocalypse Now where he utters that famous line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...".
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Ok, here is another great movie moment courtesy of the great Robert Duvall. This is his famous scene from Apocalypse Now where he utters that famous line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...".
- published: 22 Jun 2008
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ROBERT DUVALL TRIBUTE
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Robert Duvall Will Have a 'Fun' Funeral
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Actor Robert Duvall talks about his latest role in 'Get Low,' where he plays a hermit who throws himself a funeral party - and the star reveals what his own memorial might be like. (July 29)
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Actor Robert Duvall talks about his latest role in 'Get Low,' where he plays a hermit who throws himself a funeral party - and the star reveals what his own memorial might be like. (July 29)
- published: 29 Jul 2010
- views: 7156
- author: AssociatedPress
Robert Duvall promo for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum (Long Version)
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Robert Duvall's promo spot for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. Long Version
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Robert Duvall's promo spot for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. Long Version
- published: 30 Apr 2010
- views: 11118
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Charlie Rose - Robert Duvall
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Robert Duvall January 5, 2011 www.CharlieRose.com
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Robert Duvall January 5, 2011 www.CharlieRose.com
- published: 11 Jan 2011
- views: 6064
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Diane Lane and Robert Duvall - Lonesome Dove
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Cut for a Poke:)
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Robert Duvall Toasts George Lucas at the AFI Life Achievement Award
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Robert Duvall toasts George Lucas at the 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award (2005). CONNECT WITH AFI: facebook.com twitter.com AFI.com AFI FACEBOOK APP: apps.facebook.com
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Robert Duvall toasts George Lucas at the 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award (2005). CONNECT WITH AFI: facebook.com twitter.com AFI.com AFI FACEBOOK APP: apps.facebook.com
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To Kill a Mockingbird (10/10) Movie CLIP - Scout Meets Boo Radley (1962) HD
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To Kill a Mockingbird Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Scout (Mary Badham) meets Boo Radley (Robert Duvall) for the first time, and they are very happy to see each other. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Robert Duvall, Frank Overton, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham Director: Robert Mulligan MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Alan J. Pakula Screenwriter: Harper Lee, Horton Foote Film Description: Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by Gregory Peck. Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), a black man accused of rape. The trial and the events surrounding it are seen through the eyes of Finch's six-year-old daughter Scout (Mary Badham). While Robinson's trial gives the film its momentum, there are plenty of anecdotal occurrences before and after the court date: Scout's ever-strengthening bond with older brother Jem (Philip Alford), her friendship with precocious young Dill Harris (a character based on Lee's childhood chum Truman Capote and played by John Megna), her father's no-nonsense reactions to such life-and-death crises as a rampaging mad dog ...
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To Kill a Mockingbird Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Scout (Mary Badham) meets Boo Radley (Robert Duvall) for the first time, and they are very happy to see each other. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Robert Duvall, Frank Overton, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham Director: Robert Mulligan MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Alan J. Pakula Screenwriter: Harper Lee, Horton Foote Film Description: Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by Gregory Peck. Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), a black man accused of rape. The trial and the events surrounding it are seen through the eyes of Finch's six-year-old daughter Scout (Mary Badham). While Robinson's trial gives the film its momentum, there are plenty of anecdotal occurrences before and after the court date: Scout's ever-strengthening bond with older brother Jem (Philip Alford), her friendship with precocious young Dill Harris (a character based on Lee's childhood chum Truman Capote and played by John Megna), her father's no-nonsense reactions to such life-and-death crises as a rampaging mad dog ...
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 135419
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Interview: Lucas Black & Robert Duvall Talk Zen Relationship in 'Utopia'
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We interview Lucas Black and Robert Duvall on their role in Seven Days in Utopia For more entertainment news and interviews visit www.buzzfocus.com
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We interview Lucas Black and Robert Duvall on their role in Seven Days in Utopia For more entertainment news and interviews visit www.buzzfocus.com
- published: 08 Sep 2011
- views: 8144
- author: buzzfocus
Get Low with Bill Murray and Robert Duvall
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www.blacktree.tv For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). People say hes done all manner of unspeakable things -- that hes killed in cold blood; that hes in league with the Devil; that he has strange powers -- and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral. Its not your usual funeral for the dead Felix wants. On the contrary, he wants a living funeral, in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black), to win over Felixs business. Buddy is no stranger to Felixs dark reputation, but what he discovers is that behind Felixs surreal plan lies a very real and long-held secret that must get out. As the funeral approaches, the mystery which involves the widow Maddie Darrow (Sissy Spacek), the only person in town who ever got close to Felix, and the Illinois preacher Charlie Jackson (Bill Cobbs), who refuses to speak at his former friends funeral only deepens. But on the big day, Felix is in no mood to listen to other people spinning made-up anecdotes about him. This time, hes the one who is going to do the telling about why he has been hiding out in the woods. An 8-year labor of love for producer Dean Zanuck (Road to ...
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www.blacktree.tv For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). People say hes done all manner of unspeakable things -- that hes killed in cold blood; that hes in league with the Devil; that he has strange powers -- and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral. Its not your usual funeral for the dead Felix wants. On the contrary, he wants a living funeral, in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black), to win over Felixs business. Buddy is no stranger to Felixs dark reputation, but what he discovers is that behind Felixs surreal plan lies a very real and long-held secret that must get out. As the funeral approaches, the mystery which involves the widow Maddie Darrow (Sissy Spacek), the only person in town who ever got close to Felix, and the Illinois preacher Charlie Jackson (Bill Cobbs), who refuses to speak at his former friends funeral only deepens. But on the big day, Felix is in no mood to listen to other people spinning made-up anecdotes about him. This time, hes the one who is going to do the telling about why he has been hiding out in the woods. An 8-year labor of love for producer Dean Zanuck (Road to ...
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Robert Duvall on Coppola and 'The Godfather'
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Complete video at: fora.tv Actor Robert Duvall gives praise to Francis Ford Coppola's relaxed directing style and describes the playful atmosphere on the film set of The Godfather. "In this day and age I think the directors want to turn it around and see what you do," says Duvall. "And Coppola was one of the first of those big time directors that would do that." ----- Legendary actor Robert Duvall is interviewed by Annette Insdorf. In addition to clips from his previous work, Get Low (2010) is screened. Duvall plays an ornery hermit who begins to return to life after planning a funeral party for himself. Co-starring Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek, Get Low is directed by Aaron Schneider. Robert Duvall began his career with To Kill a Mockingbird, and has been known for iconic performances ever since in The Godfather (I and II), The Great Santini, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Apostle (which he also directed), Lonesome Dove and countless other films.
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Complete video at: fora.tv Actor Robert Duvall gives praise to Francis Ford Coppola's relaxed directing style and describes the playful atmosphere on the film set of The Godfather. "In this day and age I think the directors want to turn it around and see what you do," says Duvall. "And Coppola was one of the first of those big time directors that would do that." ----- Legendary actor Robert Duvall is interviewed by Annette Insdorf. In addition to clips from his previous work, Get Low (2010) is screened. Duvall plays an ornery hermit who begins to return to life after planning a funeral party for himself. Co-starring Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek, Get Low is directed by Aaron Schneider. Robert Duvall began his career with To Kill a Mockingbird, and has been known for iconic performances ever since in The Godfather (I and II), The Great Santini, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Apostle (which he also directed), Lonesome Dove and countless other films.
- published: 26 Jul 2011
- views: 4110
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Magazine: 14 Actors Acting - Robert Duvall - nytimes.com/video
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Performers who defined cinema in 2010 capture classic screen types. For more actors: nyti.ms/14actors
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Performers who defined cinema in 2010 capture classic screen types. For more actors: nyti.ms/14actors
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 78102
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You Hold the Ladder/ William Ward (Robert Duvall/David Allan Coe)
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Relive the Robert Duvall and David Allan Coe's classic with William Ward's take on "You Hold the Ladder." Available for download on Amazon.com and iTunes today. If you like the music, show us your support by liking it on Facebook. Visit us at: www.facebook.com today!
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Relive the Robert Duvall and David Allan Coe's classic with William Ward's take on "You Hold the Ladder." Available for download on Amazon.com and iTunes today. If you like the music, show us your support by liking it on Facebook. Visit us at: www.facebook.com today!
- published: 13 Dec 2011
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Stalin- Robert Duvall
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Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- published: 02 Oct 2011
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Secondhand Lions 2003 Full film
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Secondhand Lions 2003 (Full movie) DvDrip[Eng]-greenbud1969 Follow me twitter.com American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tim McCanlies, tells the story of an introverted young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is sent to live with his eccentric uncles (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) on a farm in Texas. Starring Haley Joel Osment Robert Duvall Michael Caine Kyra Sedgwick
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Secondhand Lions 2003 (Full movie) DvDrip[Eng]-greenbud1969 Follow me twitter.com American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tim McCanlies, tells the story of an introverted young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is sent to live with his eccentric uncles (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) on a farm in Texas. Starring Haley Joel Osment Robert Duvall Michael Caine Kyra Sedgwick
- published: 25 Oct 2012
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ROBERT DUVALL Hand And Footprint Ceremony January 5, 2011
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***This footage is available for licensing*** www.maximotv.com http Academy Award winning actor Robert Duvall was honored with historic hand and footprint ceremony to celebrate his "50 years of excellence in film" with special guests James Caan (The Godfather, Las Vegas), Andy Garcia (City Island), Billy Bob Thornton (Faster, Friday Night Lights) and Robert Duvall's wife Luciana Pedraza (Argentine Actress) atGrauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, Ca USA January 5, 2011 Robert Duvall (Outstanding performance as Felix Bush in Sony Pictures Classics' GET LOW) is nominated for a SAG "Best Actor" award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association "Critic's Choice" award for "Best Actor." He recently won "The Best Actor Award" at the Hollywood Film Festival, followed by a Career Tribute by the Gotham Awards. He will soon be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival in early 2011 with the "Career Achievement Award." GET LOW is a magical and moving blend of folk tale, fable and real-life legend. GET LOW is a movie spun in the Southern storytelling tradition about the mysterious 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party, while he was still alive. The film arrives on Blu-ray® and DVD February 22, 2011 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Robert Duvall won the Academy Award® as Best Actor for his role in Tender Mercies, and has earned Golden Globes for his performances in Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, Lonesome Dove and Stalin. More ...
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***This footage is available for licensing*** www.maximotv.com http Academy Award winning actor Robert Duvall was honored with historic hand and footprint ceremony to celebrate his "50 years of excellence in film" with special guests James Caan (The Godfather, Las Vegas), Andy Garcia (City Island), Billy Bob Thornton (Faster, Friday Night Lights) and Robert Duvall's wife Luciana Pedraza (Argentine Actress) atGrauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, Ca USA January 5, 2011 Robert Duvall (Outstanding performance as Felix Bush in Sony Pictures Classics' GET LOW) is nominated for a SAG "Best Actor" award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association "Critic's Choice" award for "Best Actor." He recently won "The Best Actor Award" at the Hollywood Film Festival, followed by a Career Tribute by the Gotham Awards. He will soon be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival in early 2011 with the "Career Achievement Award." GET LOW is a magical and moving blend of folk tale, fable and real-life legend. GET LOW is a movie spun in the Southern storytelling tradition about the mysterious 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party, while he was still alive. The film arrives on Blu-ray® and DVD February 22, 2011 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Robert Duvall won the Academy Award® as Best Actor for his role in Tender Mercies, and has earned Golden Globes for his performances in Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, Lonesome Dove and Stalin. More ...
- published: 06 Jan 2011
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OPEN RANGE - Kevin Costner/Robert Duvall
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Also starring Annette Bening. A movie about property, territory, friendship, murder & revenge. Costner also directed this film.
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Also starring Annette Bening. A movie about property, territory, friendship, murder & revenge. Costner also directed this film.
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 71632
- author: Greg Green
Robert Duvall Interview with Bill Boggs
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- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
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Howard Stern - Robert Duvall Interview 6-14-06
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- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
I love Robert. He is always a great guest.
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Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, and Sissy Spacek SXSW 2010 Interview with Chase Whale & Co.
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- Duration: 24:55
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Subscribe on YouTube: bit.ly Follow on Twitter twitter.com
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Subscribe on YouTube: bit.ly Follow on Twitter twitter.com
- published: 09 Sep 2012
- views: 405
- author: Chase Whale
World Over - Art and Faith - Raymond Arroyo with Robert Duvall - 07-30-2010
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World Over - Art and Faith - Raymond Arroyo with Robert Duvall - 07-30-2010
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World Over - Art and Faith - Raymond Arroyo with Robert Duvall - 07-30-2010
- published: 02 Aug 2010
- views: 3080
- author: EWTN
Movie Geek United Interview: ROBERT DUVALL
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- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Movie Geeks United chats with legendary actor Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Tender Mercies, Lonesome Dove) on the occasion of the release of his film Get Low. For more information on Movie Geeks United, and to listen to our archive of over 600 filmmaker interviews, visit our website at www.moviegeeksunited.net.
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Movie Geeks United chats with legendary actor Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Tender Mercies, Lonesome Dove) on the occasion of the release of his film Get Low. For more information on Movie Geeks United, and to listen to our archive of over 600 filmmaker interviews, visit our website at www.moviegeeksunited.net.
- published: 14 Apr 2012
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Phenomenon
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John Travolta, delivers another critically acclaimed performance in...Phenomenon. Travolta plays George Malley, an easy-going car mechanic who's hopelessly in love with a pretty newcomer in town (Kyra Sedgwick -- Something To Talk About)...a woman who wants nothing to do with relationships. Then on George's birthday, a mysterious force bestows on him special telekinetic powers and genius mental abilities. It's a phenomenon that will begin to alienate him from his lifelong friends... but it might just bring him closer to the woman he loves. Boasting a hit soundtrack and featuring the talents of Robert Duvall and Forest Whitaker, Phenomenon is an inspiring story of love, courage and friendship that will touch your heart. © 1996 Touchstone Pictures
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John Travolta, delivers another critically acclaimed performance in...Phenomenon. Travolta plays George Malley, an easy-going car mechanic who's hopelessly in love with a pretty newcomer in town (Kyra Sedgwick -- Something To Talk About)...a woman who wants nothing to do with relationships. Then on George's birthday, a mysterious force bestows on him special telekinetic powers and genius mental abilities. It's a phenomenon that will begin to alienate him from his lifelong friends... but it might just bring him closer to the woman he loves. Boasting a hit soundtrack and featuring the talents of Robert Duvall and Forest Whitaker, Phenomenon is an inspiring story of love, courage and friendship that will touch your heart. © 1996 Touchstone Pictures
- published: 23 May 2012
- author: OrigFilmFactory
Robert Duvall Visits 7-19-10
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- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Robert Duvall Visits 7-19-10
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Principia College Duvall Theatre Talk
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- Duration: 64:58
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Robert Duvall talks to the Theatre majors at the Principia College about his life as an actor.
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Robert Duvall talks to the Theatre majors at the Principia College about his life as an actor.
- published: 25 Jan 2008
- views: 8096
- author: principiacollege
"Stalin" (The Gravedigger of the Revolution) With: Robert Duvall
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- Duration: 173:23
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
communist Stalin
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Robert Duvall at the Aero Theater 10-27-2010
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- Updated: 30 Jan 2012
Robert Duvall discusses his life and career after a showing of "Get Low."
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Robert Duvall discusses his life and career after a showing of "Get Low."
- published: 30 Jan 2012
- views: 95
- author: FlipInterviews
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bad Actor (1962) Robert Duvall and Carole Eastman FULL EPISODE
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- Duration: 22:12
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
Bart Collins is a frustrated actor who hasn't had much success in landing roles lately. He's in line for a part in a play but Bart parties hard and shows up late for his audition. He finds he's in competition with another actor, Jerry Lane and in a rage, strangles Jerry in his apartment. Before he can dispose of the body he is visited by a detective looking into Jerry's disappearance. Bart's odd behavior however, gives him away. www.imdb.com
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Bart Collins is a frustrated actor who hasn't had much success in landing roles lately. He's in line for a part in a play but Bart parties hard and shows up late for his audition. He finds he's in competition with another actor, Jerry Lane and in a rage, strangles Jerry in his apartment. Before he can dispose of the body he is visited by a detective looking into Jerry's disappearance. Bart's odd behavior however, gives him away. www.imdb.com
- published: 02 Dec 2012
- views: 5
- author: CharlieChaplinMovie
Kraft Suspense Theatre: "Portrait of an Unknown Man" (1964)
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- Duration: 45:32
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
Season 1 episode 22, written by Robert Guy Barrows and directed by Alan Crosland Jr., with Clint Walker, Mala Powers, Robert Duvall, Jay C. Flippen, Ron Foster, Rico Alaniz, EJ André, House Peters Jr., George Chandler. Original air date: 16 April 1964.
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Season 1 episode 22, written by Robert Guy Barrows and directed by Alan Crosland Jr., with Clint Walker, Mala Powers, Robert Duvall, Jay C. Flippen, Ron Foster, Rico Alaniz, EJ André, House Peters Jr., George Chandler. Original air date: 16 April 1964.
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 2783
- author: GR160289
World Over - The End and the Beginning - Raymond Arroyo with George Weigel - 01-31-2011
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- Duration: 53:51
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
EWTN Global Catholic Television Network: World Over - Raymond Arroyo - George Weigel and Robert Duvall - George Weigel comments on his book "The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II - The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy". Robert Duvall comments on "Get Low" (2010)
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EWTN Global Catholic Television Network: World Over - Raymond Arroyo - George Weigel and Robert Duvall - George Weigel comments on his book "The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II - The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy". Robert Duvall comments on "Get Low" (2010)
- published: 01 Feb 2011
- views: 2108
- author: EWTN
Geronimo: An American Legend
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- Duration: 115:10
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Wes Studi is Geronimo with Jason Patric his nemesis, US Army Lt. Charles Gatewood, in this classic story of the legendary Apache warrior. In 1881, the Chiricahua Apache were the only indigenous tribe who remained resistant to the wave of Manifest Destiny, living a nomadic and desperate existence in the unforgiving deserts of the Southwest. Under Geronimo, a respected leader and medicine man, they fought for five more years against a formidable force of 5000 US Army troops and 3000 Mexican soldiers. With Gene Hackman as Gatewood's commanding officer, Robert Duvall his head tracker and Matt Damon a young officer narrating the action, the film focuses on the US Army's campaign of 1885-86, chronicling Geronimo's determination to battle the government's advance westward and the relocation of the Apache from their homeland. Ultimately, he fights to prevent the death of a nation's spirit. Watch GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND and hundreds of other free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com Crackle Twitter twitter.com Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com
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Wes Studi is Geronimo with Jason Patric his nemesis, US Army Lt. Charles Gatewood, in this classic story of the legendary Apache warrior. In 1881, the Chiricahua Apache were the only indigenous tribe who remained resistant to the wave of Manifest Destiny, living a nomadic and desperate existence in the unforgiving deserts of the Southwest. Under Geronimo, a respected leader and medicine man, they fought for five more years against a formidable force of 5000 US Army troops and 3000 Mexican soldiers. With Gene Hackman as Gatewood's commanding officer, Robert Duvall his head tracker and Matt Damon a young officer narrating the action, the film focuses on the US Army's campaign of 1885-86, chronicling Geronimo's determination to battle the government's advance westward and the relocation of the Apache from their homeland. Ultimately, he fights to prevent the death of a nation's spirit. Watch GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND and hundreds of other free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com Crackle Twitter twitter.com Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com
- published: 01 Aug 2012
- views: 6489
- author: Crackle
THR Actors Roundtable (Full Hour)
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- Duration: 65:54
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Actors Jesse Eisenberg ('The Social Network'), James Franco ('127 Hours'), Mark Ruffalo ('The Kids Are All Right'), Colin Firth ('The King's Speech'), Ryan Gosling ('Blue Valentine'), and Robert Duvall ('Get Low') sit down for an hour-long roundtable discussion with The Hollywood Reporter. www.backstage.com
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Actors Jesse Eisenberg ('The Social Network'), James Franco ('127 Hours'), Mark Ruffalo ('The Kids Are All Right'), Colin Firth ('The King's Speech'), Ryan Gosling ('Blue Valentine'), and Robert Duvall ('Get Low') sit down for an hour-long roundtable discussion with The Hollywood Reporter. www.backstage.com
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 163775
- author: BackStageCasting
Open Range
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- Duration: 138:53
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Packed with epic action, OPEN RANGE is a powerfully gripping story that's never been told until now, and stars Academy Award(R) winners Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner and Annette Bening. A group of free grazers, four men trying to escape their past, are driving cattle and living off the land on the open range -- a place where nature makes the only laws. When a ruthless, evil rancher tries to run them out of town, the men's peaceful existence takes a tumultuous turn and ends in the grittiest, most explosive gunfight on film as two men battle a town for honor, justice, and a way of life that's quickly disappearing.
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Packed with epic action, OPEN RANGE is a powerfully gripping story that's never been told until now, and stars Academy Award(R) winners Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner and Annette Bening. A group of free grazers, four men trying to escape their past, are driving cattle and living off the land on the open range -- a place where nature makes the only laws. When a ruthless, evil rancher tries to run them out of town, the men's peaceful existence takes a tumultuous turn and ends in the grittiest, most explosive gunfight on film as two men battle a town for honor, justice, and a way of life that's quickly disappearing.
- published: 17 Mar 2012
- author: OrigFilmFactory
Gene Hackman,Dustin Hoffman,Robert Duvall,James Caan,Samuel L.,Steve Buscemi,Danny DeVito.avi
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- Duration: 115:15
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
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Clint Eastword - JOE KIDD (1972)
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Espanol not English! Joe Kidd is a 1972 western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges. The film is about an ex-bounty hunter hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan to track down Mexican revolutionary leader Luis Chama, who is fighting for land reform. It forms part of the Revisionist Western genre. Plot Clint Eastwood stars as Joe Kidd, a former bounty hunter who is in jail for hunting on Indian land and disturbing the peace in the New Mexican town of Sinola. Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a peasant revolt against the local landowners, who are throwing the poor off land that rightfully belongs to them. When a posse — financed by wealthy landowner Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall) — is formed to capture Chama, Kidd is invited to join but prefers to remain neutral. Harlan persists and Kidd finally relents when he learns that Chama's band has raided his own ranch and attacked one of the workers. The posse rides into a village and forces the villagers into the church at gunpoint. They threaten to kill five Mexican hostages unless Chama surrenders. Harlan throws Kidd into the church to prevent him from helping Helen and the Mexicans. Kidd manages a daring escape and saves the hostages, determined to find Chama himself and see that justice is done. But when he does capture Chama and delivers him to Sheriff Mitchell (Gregory Walcott) Harlan is already waiting for them in ...
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Espanol not English! Joe Kidd is a 1972 western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges. The film is about an ex-bounty hunter hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan to track down Mexican revolutionary leader Luis Chama, who is fighting for land reform. It forms part of the Revisionist Western genre. Plot Clint Eastwood stars as Joe Kidd, a former bounty hunter who is in jail for hunting on Indian land and disturbing the peace in the New Mexican town of Sinola. Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a peasant revolt against the local landowners, who are throwing the poor off land that rightfully belongs to them. When a posse — financed by wealthy landowner Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall) — is formed to capture Chama, Kidd is invited to join but prefers to remain neutral. Harlan persists and Kidd finally relents when he learns that Chama's band has raided his own ranch and attacked one of the workers. The posse rides into a village and forces the villagers into the church at gunpoint. They threaten to kill five Mexican hostages unless Chama surrenders. Harlan throws Kidd into the church to prevent him from helping Helen and the Mexicans. Kidd manages a daring escape and saves the hostages, determined to find Chama himself and see that justice is done. But when he does capture Chama and delivers him to Sheriff Mitchell (Gregory Walcott) Harlan is already waiting for them in ...
- published: 24 May 2012
- views: 778152
- author: ccmrtv
THX 1138
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- Duration: 88:03
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Master filmmaker George Lucas ("Indiana Jones," "Star Wars" trilogies) makes his directorial debut in this futuristic sci-fi thriller. Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Robert Duvall ("Falling Down," "A Civil Action") stars in this story of a computerized subterranean world, where sex is forbidden and emotions have been eradicated. When one computer-matched couple discovers love, this perfectly controlled world is turned upside down. Co-starring "Tarzan'"s Johnny Weismuller. MPAA Rating: R (c) 1971 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Master filmmaker George Lucas ("Indiana Jones," "Star Wars" trilogies) makes his directorial debut in this futuristic sci-fi thriller. Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Robert Duvall ("Falling Down," "A Civil Action") stars in this story of a computerized subterranean world, where sex is forbidden and emotions have been eradicated. When one computer-matched couple discovers love, this perfectly controlled world is turned upside down. Co-starring "Tarzan'"s Johnny Weismuller. MPAA Rating: R (c) 1971 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
- published: 03 Oct 2011
- author: warnervoduk
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Robert Duvall Interview with Bill Boggs
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- Duration: 20:35
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
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Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
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- Duration: 6:30
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
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Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
- published: 23 Feb 2010
- views: 39723
- author: fivealex2010
Robert Duvall winning Best Actor
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- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone presenting Robert Duvall the Oscar® for Best Actor for his performance in "Tender Mercies" at the 56th Academy Awards® in 1984. Introduced by Johnny Carson.
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Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone presenting Robert Duvall the Oscar® for Best Actor for his performance in "Tender Mercies" at the 56th Academy Awards® in 1984. Introduced by Johnny Carson.
- published: 30 Mar 2011
- views: 46469
- author: Oscars
Howard Stern - Robert Duvall Interview 6-14-06
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- Duration: 49:34
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
I love Robert. He is always a great guest.
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NETWORK - William Holden and Robert Duval face off
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
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martin sheen meets robert duvall
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- Duration: 4:41
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Lt Col bill kilgore lands on the scene in apocalypse now of coppola. coppola himself can be seen in cameo as bearded director of TV camera crew.
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Lt Col bill kilgore lands on the scene in apocalypse now of coppola. coppola himself can be seen in cameo as bearded director of TV camera crew.
- published: 23 Nov 2008
- views: 47442
- author: knotrat
Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now), 1991
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- Duration: 6:47
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now), 1991
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Stalin- Robert Duvall
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- Duration: 173:23
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- published: 02 Oct 2011
- views: 183326
- author: truesemite
Robert Duval singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (I'll Climb To The Top)
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Robert Duval singing from from "Tender Mercies" (1983) singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (Ill Climb To The Top) The song was written by Buzz Rabin and Sarah Busby. However, it was recorded by David Allan Coe and here by Robert Duval
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Robert Duval singing from from "Tender Mercies" (1983) singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (Ill Climb To The Top) The song was written by Buzz Rabin and Sarah Busby. However, it was recorded by David Allan Coe and here by Robert Duval
- published: 15 Aug 2008
- views: 76164
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Tom Cruise & Robert Duvall Interviewed On Sky Sports Pre Man City v Man United
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
The Manchester Derby has huge box office appeal and two Hollywood stars will be watching at the Etihad. If you like this video please subscribe to my channel to see more videos like this. Also when you click 'Like' please share on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks Video courtesy of Sky Sports 1 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
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The Manchester Derby has huge box office appeal and two Hollywood stars will be watching at the Etihad. If you like this video please subscribe to my channel to see more videos like this. Also when you click 'Like' please share on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks Video courtesy of Sky Sports 1 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
- published: 09 Dec 2012
- views: 51457
- author: Beanyman62Sports
Robert Duvall interview for We Own the Night
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- Duration: 3:25
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
Chuck the Movieguy interviews Robert Duvall for the movie We Own the Night
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Chuck the Movieguy interviews Robert Duvall for the movie We Own the Night
- published: 07 Apr 2008
- views: 7792
- author: chuckthemovieguy
Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
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- Duration: 1:41
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
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Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
- published: 22 Oct 2011
- views: 42362
- author: TheMidnightRider11
Emmylou Harris & Robert Duvall : I Love To Tell The Story
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- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
From the film 'The Apostle'
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ROBERT DUVALL TRIBUTE
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- Duration: 6:24
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
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Robert Duvall promo for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum (Long Version)
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- Duration: 1:31
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Robert Duvall's promo spot for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. Long Version
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Robert Duvall's promo spot for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. Long Version
- published: 30 Apr 2010
- views: 11087
- author: wccctv
The Howard Stern Show - 1/4 Robert Duvall 7-19-10
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- Duration: 14:52
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
Part 1 Of 4 Howard Interviews Robert Duvall.
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Apocalypse Now Gasoline Smell =Victory
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- Duration: 1:05
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Napalm quotation
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Movie Moment - Apocalypse Now (Smell of Napalm)
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- Duration: 1:19
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Ok, here is another great movie moment courtesy of the great Robert Duvall. This is his famous scene from Apocalypse Now where he utters that famous line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...".
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Ok, here is another great movie moment courtesy of the great Robert Duvall. This is his famous scene from Apocalypse Now where he utters that famous line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...".
- published: 22 Jun 2008
- views: 18336
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Charlie Rose - Robert Duvall
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- Duration: 2:29
- Updated: 14 Jul 2012
Robert Duvall January 5, 2011 www.CharlieRose.com
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Robert Duvall January 5, 2011 www.CharlieRose.com
- published: 11 Jan 2011
- views: 6057
- author: CharlieRose
Diane Lane and Robert Duvall - Lonesome Dove
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- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Cut for a Poke:)
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Robert Duvall
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
The actor in his 80s reflects on his long career
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The actor in his 80s reflects on his long career
- published: 02 Jan 2008
- views: 62291
- author: MonacoRevue
Robert Duvall Will Have a 'Fun' Funeral
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Actor Robert Duvall talks about his latest role in 'Get Low,' where he plays a hermit who throws himself a funeral party - and the star reveals what his own memorial might be like. (July 29)
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Actor Robert Duvall talks about his latest role in 'Get Low,' where he plays a hermit who throws himself a funeral party - and the star reveals what his own memorial might be like. (July 29)
- published: 29 Jul 2010
- views: 7154
- author: AssociatedPress
Get Low with Bill Murray and Robert Duvall
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- Duration: 2:05
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
www.blacktree.tv For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). People say hes done all manner of unspeakable things -- that hes killed in cold blood; that hes in league with the Devil; that he has strange powers -- and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral. Its not your usual funeral for the dead Felix wants. On the contrary, he wants a living funeral, in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black), to win over Felixs business. Buddy is no stranger to Felixs dark reputation, but what he discovers is that behind Felixs surreal plan lies a very real and long-held secret that must get out. As the funeral approaches, the mystery which involves the widow Maddie Darrow (Sissy Spacek), the only person in town who ever got close to Felix, and the Illinois preacher Charlie Jackson (Bill Cobbs), who refuses to speak at his former friends funeral only deepens. But on the big day, Felix is in no mood to listen to other people spinning made-up anecdotes about him. This time, hes the one who is going to do the telling about why he has been hiding out in the woods. An 8-year labor of love for producer Dean Zanuck (Road to ...
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www.blacktree.tv For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). People say hes done all manner of unspeakable things -- that hes killed in cold blood; that hes in league with the Devil; that he has strange powers -- and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral. Its not your usual funeral for the dead Felix wants. On the contrary, he wants a living funeral, in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black), to win over Felixs business. Buddy is no stranger to Felixs dark reputation, but what he discovers is that behind Felixs surreal plan lies a very real and long-held secret that must get out. As the funeral approaches, the mystery which involves the widow Maddie Darrow (Sissy Spacek), the only person in town who ever got close to Felix, and the Illinois preacher Charlie Jackson (Bill Cobbs), who refuses to speak at his former friends funeral only deepens. But on the big day, Felix is in no mood to listen to other people spinning made-up anecdotes about him. This time, hes the one who is going to do the telling about why he has been hiding out in the woods. An 8-year labor of love for producer Dean Zanuck (Road to ...
- published: 26 Apr 2010
- views: 27025
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Stalin- Robert Duvall
Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Sovi...
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Stalin- Robert Duvall
Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- published: 02 Oct 2011
- views: 171057
- author: truesemite
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Secondhand Lions 2003 Full film
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Secondhand Lions 2003 Full film
Secondhand Lions 2003 (Full movie) DvDrip[Eng]-greenbud1969 Follow me twitter.com American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tim McCanlies, tells the story of an introverted young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is sent to live with his eccentric uncles (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) on a farm in Texas. Starring Haley Joel Osment Robert Duvall Michael Caine Kyra Sedgwick
- published: 25 Oct 2012
- views: 9345
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ROBERT DUVALL Hand And Footprint Ceremony January 5, 2011
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author: maximotv
ROBERT DUVALL Hand And Footprint Ceremony January 5, 2011
***This footage is available for licensing*** www.maximotv.com http Academy Award winning actor Robert Duvall was honored with historic hand and footprint ceremony to celebrate his "50 years of excellence in film" with special guests James Caan (The Godfather, Las Vegas), Andy Garcia (City Island), Billy Bob Thornton (Faster, Friday Night Lights) and Robert Duvall's wife Luciana Pedraza (Argentine Actress) atGrauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, Ca USA January 5, 2011 Robert Duvall (Outstanding performance as Felix Bush in Sony Pictures Classics' GET LOW) is nominated for a SAG "Best Actor" award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association "Critic's Choice" award for "Best Actor." He recently won "The Best Actor Award" at the Hollywood Film Festival, followed by a Career Tribute by the Gotham Awards. He will soon be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival in early 2011 with the "Career Achievement Award." GET LOW is a magical and moving blend of folk tale, fable and real-life legend. GET LOW is a movie spun in the Southern storytelling tradition about the mysterious 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party, while he was still alive. The film arrives on Blu-ray® and DVD February 22, 2011 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Robert Duvall won the Academy Award® as Best Actor for his role in Tender Mercies, and has earned Golden Globes for his performances in Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, Lonesome Dove and Stalin. More ...
- published: 06 Jan 2011
- views: 1110
- author: maximotv
132:59
OPEN RANGE - Kevin Costner/Robert Duvall
Also starring Annette Bening. A movie about property, territory, friendship, murder & reve...
published: 01 Sep 2012
author: Greg Green
OPEN RANGE - Kevin Costner/Robert Duvall
Also starring Annette Bening. A movie about property, territory, friendship, murder & revenge. Costner also directed this film.
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 71632
- author: Greg Green
20:35
Robert Duvall Interview with Bill Boggs
...
published: 28 Mar 2012
author: BillBoggsTV
Robert Duvall Interview with Bill Boggs
- published: 28 Mar 2012
- views: 845
- author: BillBoggsTV
49:34
Howard Stern - Robert Duvall Interview 6-14-06
I love Robert. He is always a great guest....
published: 19 Dec 2011
author: Clausfarre
Howard Stern - Robert Duvall Interview 6-14-06
I love Robert. He is always a great guest.
- published: 19 Dec 2011
- views: 4827
- author: Clausfarre
24:55
Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, and Sissy Spacek SXSW 2010 Interview with Chase Whale & Co.
Subscribe on YouTube: bit.ly Follow on Twitter twitter.com...
published: 09 Sep 2012
author: Chase Whale
Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, and Sissy Spacek SXSW 2010 Interview with Chase Whale & Co.
Subscribe on YouTube: bit.ly Follow on Twitter twitter.com
- published: 09 Sep 2012
- views: 405
- author: Chase Whale
56:21
World Over - Art and Faith - Raymond Arroyo with Robert Duvall - 07-30-2010
World Over - Art and Faith - Raymond Arroyo with Robert Duvall - 07-30-2010...
published: 02 Aug 2010
author: EWTN
World Over - Art and Faith - Raymond Arroyo with Robert Duvall - 07-30-2010
World Over - Art and Faith - Raymond Arroyo with Robert Duvall - 07-30-2010
- published: 02 Aug 2010
- views: 3080
- author: EWTN
20:41
Movie Geek United Interview: ROBERT DUVALL
Movie Geeks United chats with legendary actor Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather...
published: 14 Apr 2012
author: moviegeeksunited
Movie Geek United Interview: ROBERT DUVALL
Movie Geeks United chats with legendary actor Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Tender Mercies, Lonesome Dove) on the occasion of the release of his film Get Low. For more information on Movie Geeks United, and to listen to our archive of over 600 filmmaker interviews, visit our website at www.moviegeeksunited.net.
- published: 14 Apr 2012
- views: 143
- author: moviegeeksunited
118:25
Phenomenon
John Travolta, delivers another critically acclaimed performance in...Phenomenon. Travolta...
published: 23 May 2012
author: OrigFilmFactory
Phenomenon
John Travolta, delivers another critically acclaimed performance in...Phenomenon. Travolta plays George Malley, an easy-going car mechanic who's hopelessly in love with a pretty newcomer in town (Kyra Sedgwick -- Something To Talk About)...a woman who wants nothing to do with relationships. Then on George's birthday, a mysterious force bestows on him special telekinetic powers and genius mental abilities. It's a phenomenon that will begin to alienate him from his lifelong friends... but it might just bring him closer to the woman he loves. Boasting a hit soundtrack and featuring the talents of Robert Duvall and Forest Whitaker, Phenomenon is an inspiring story of love, courage and friendship that will touch your heart. © 1996 Touchstone Pictures
- published: 23 May 2012
- author: OrigFilmFactory
64:58
Principia College Duvall Theatre Talk
Robert Duvall talks to the Theatre majors at the Principia College about his life as an ac...
published: 25 Jan 2008
author: principiacollege
Principia College Duvall Theatre Talk
Robert Duvall talks to the Theatre majors at the Principia College about his life as an actor.
- published: 25 Jan 2008
- views: 8096
- author: principiacollege
173:23
"Stalin" (The Gravedigger of the Revolution) With: Robert Duvall
communist Stalin...
published: 23 Aug 2012
author: amsterdam78
"Stalin" (The Gravedigger of the Revolution) With: Robert Duvall
communist Stalin
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 1960
- author: amsterdam78
38:05
Robert Duvall at the Aero Theater 10-27-2010
Robert Duvall discusses his life and career after a showing of "Get Low."...
published: 30 Jan 2012
author: FlipInterviews
Robert Duvall at the Aero Theater 10-27-2010
Robert Duvall discusses his life and career after a showing of "Get Low."
- published: 30 Jan 2012
- views: 95
- author: FlipInterviews
Vimeo results:
5:38
The Make Our House Edit
"Pretend Inferiority and encourage his arrogance"- Sun Tzu
Riders: Jambul, Josh Roberts,...
published: 17 Feb 2012
author: Seventies Distribution
The Make Our House Edit
"Pretend Inferiority and encourage his arrogance"- Sun Tzu
Riders: Jambul, Josh Roberts, Shaun Hadlington, Chicken and the Count
Song: Fugazi- Steady Diet
Filmed in the only way BMX should be with a Sony VX 1000 and a Mark 1 Century Optics Death Lens
Edited by Orlando in his Kitchen under the influence of Duval Belgian Ale for the Make and Seventies Distribution.
Special thanks to the "Our House" locals for letting us hit the place for a day, Ben Hennon for the lift and Colin for the crate of Stella
http://www.themakebmx.com
http://www.seventies.co.uk
5:02
Robert Duvall Interview
Bonnie Steiger gets the low down from Robert Duvall for his latest movie Get Low....
published: 02 Aug 2010
author: Douglas Robertson
Robert Duvall Interview
Bonnie Steiger gets the low down from Robert Duvall for his latest movie Get Low.
6:12
Robert Duvall Tribute Reel
This is a reel I edited for Robert Duvall in 2010 when he was honored for the Peter Owen's...
published: 30 Nov 2011
author: Ben Zweig
Robert Duvall Tribute Reel
This is a reel I edited for Robert Duvall in 2010 when he was honored for the Peter Owen's Acting Award for the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Youtube results:
22:12
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bad Actor (1962) Robert Duvall and Carole Eastman FULL EPISODE
Bart Collins is a frustrated actor who hasn't had much success in landing roles lately. He...
published: 02 Dec 2012
author: CharlieChaplinMovie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bad Actor (1962) Robert Duvall and Carole Eastman FULL EPISODE
Bart Collins is a frustrated actor who hasn't had much success in landing roles lately. He's in line for a part in a play but Bart parties hard and shows up late for his audition. He finds he's in competition with another actor, Jerry Lane and in a rage, strangles Jerry in his apartment. Before he can dispose of the body he is visited by a detective looking into Jerry's disappearance. Bart's odd behavior however, gives him away. www.imdb.com
- published: 02 Dec 2012
- views: 5
- author: CharlieChaplinMovie
45:32
Kraft Suspense Theatre: "Portrait of an Unknown Man" (1964)
Season 1 episode 22, written by Robert Guy Barrows and directed by Alan Crosland Jr., with...
published: 05 Jul 2012
author: GR160289
Kraft Suspense Theatre: "Portrait of an Unknown Man" (1964)
Season 1 episode 22, written by Robert Guy Barrows and directed by Alan Crosland Jr., with Clint Walker, Mala Powers, Robert Duvall, Jay C. Flippen, Ron Foster, Rico Alaniz, EJ André, House Peters Jr., George Chandler. Original air date: 16 April 1964.
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 2783
- author: GR160289
53:51
World Over - The End and the Beginning - Raymond Arroyo with George Weigel - 01-31-2011
EWTN Global Catholic Television Network: World Over - Raymond Arroyo - George Weigel and R...
published: 01 Feb 2011
author: EWTN
World Over - The End and the Beginning - Raymond Arroyo with George Weigel - 01-31-2011
EWTN Global Catholic Television Network: World Over - Raymond Arroyo - George Weigel and Robert Duvall - George Weigel comments on his book "The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II - The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy". Robert Duvall comments on "Get Low" (2010)
- published: 01 Feb 2011
- views: 2108
- author: EWTN
115:10
Geronimo: An American Legend
Wes Studi is Geronimo with Jason Patric his nemesis, US Army Lt. Charles Gatewood, in this...
published: 01 Aug 2012
author: Crackle
Geronimo: An American Legend
Wes Studi is Geronimo with Jason Patric his nemesis, US Army Lt. Charles Gatewood, in this classic story of the legendary Apache warrior. In 1881, the Chiricahua Apache were the only indigenous tribe who remained resistant to the wave of Manifest Destiny, living a nomadic and desperate existence in the unforgiving deserts of the Southwest. Under Geronimo, a respected leader and medicine man, they fought for five more years against a formidable force of 5000 US Army troops and 3000 Mexican soldiers. With Gene Hackman as Gatewood's commanding officer, Robert Duvall his head tracker and Matt Damon a young officer narrating the action, the film focuses on the US Army's campaign of 1885-86, chronicling Geronimo's determination to battle the government's advance westward and the relocation of the Apache from their homeland. Ultimately, he fights to prevent the death of a nation's spirit. Watch GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND and hundreds of other free full-length streaming movies and TV shows on www.crackle.com Crackle Twitter twitter.com Be a Facebook Fan! www.facebook.com
- published: 01 Aug 2012
- views: 6489
- author: Crackle
20:35
Robert Duvall Interview with Bill Boggs
...
published: 28 Mar 2012
author: BillBoggsTV
Robert Duvall Interview with Bill Boggs
- published: 28 Mar 2012
- views: 1000
- author: BillBoggsTV
6:30
Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2...
published: 23 Feb 2010
author: fivealex2010
Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Marlon Brando), 1991. Part 1 of 2
- published: 23 Feb 2010
- views: 39723
- author: fivealex2010
4:16
Robert Duvall winning Best Actor
Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone presenting Robert Duvall the Oscar® for Best Actor for...
published: 30 Mar 2011
author: Oscars
Robert Duvall winning Best Actor
Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone presenting Robert Duvall the Oscar® for Best Actor for his performance in "Tender Mercies" at the 56th Academy Awards® in 1984. Introduced by Johnny Carson.
- published: 30 Mar 2011
- views: 46469
- author: Oscars
49:34
Howard Stern - Robert Duvall Interview 6-14-06
I love Robert. He is always a great guest....
published: 19 Dec 2011
author: Clausfarre
Howard Stern - Robert Duvall Interview 6-14-06
I love Robert. He is always a great guest.
- published: 19 Dec 2011
- views: 5072
- author: Clausfarre
3:21
NETWORK - William Holden and Robert Duval face off
...
published: 28 Jan 2011
author: CrossWay206
NETWORK - William Holden and Robert Duval face off
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 6099
- author: CrossWay206
4:41
martin sheen meets robert duvall
Lt Col bill kilgore lands on the scene in apocalypse now of coppola. coppola himself can b...
published: 23 Nov 2008
author: knotrat
martin sheen meets robert duvall
Lt Col bill kilgore lands on the scene in apocalypse now of coppola. coppola himself can be seen in cameo as bearded director of TV camera crew.
- published: 23 Nov 2008
- views: 47442
- author: knotrat
6:47
Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now), 1991
Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now), 1991...
published: 23 Feb 2010
author: fivealex2010
Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now), 1991
Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now), 1991
- published: 23 Feb 2010
- views: 52877
- author: fivealex2010
173:23
Stalin- Robert Duvall
Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Sovi...
published: 02 Oct 2011
author: truesemite
Stalin- Robert Duvall
Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- published: 02 Oct 2011
- views: 183326
- author: truesemite
3:05
Robert Duval singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (I'll Climb To The Top)
Robert Duval singing from from "Tender Mercies" (1983) singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder...
published: 15 Aug 2008
author: vidstuff007
Robert Duval singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (I'll Climb To The Top)
Robert Duval singing from from "Tender Mercies" (1983) singing "If You'll Hold The Ladder (Ill Climb To The Top) The song was written by Buzz Rabin and Sarah Busby. However, it was recorded by David Allan Coe and here by Robert Duval
- published: 15 Aug 2008
- views: 76164
- author: vidstuff007
3:28
Tom Cruise & Robert Duvall Interviewed On Sky Sports Pre Man City v Man United
The Manchester Derby has huge box office appeal and two Hollywood stars will be watching a...
published: 09 Dec 2012
author: Beanyman62Sports
Tom Cruise & Robert Duvall Interviewed On Sky Sports Pre Man City v Man United
The Manchester Derby has huge box office appeal and two Hollywood stars will be watching at the Etihad. If you like this video please subscribe to my channel to see more videos like this. Also when you click 'Like' please share on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks Video courtesy of Sky Sports 1 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
- published: 09 Dec 2012
- views: 51457
- author: Beanyman62Sports
3:25
Robert Duvall interview for We Own the Night
Chuck the Movieguy interviews Robert Duvall for the movie We Own the Night...
published: 07 Apr 2008
author: chuckthemovieguy
Robert Duvall interview for We Own the Night
Chuck the Movieguy interviews Robert Duvall for the movie We Own the Night
- published: 07 Apr 2008
- views: 7792
- author: chuckthemovieguy
1:41
Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot...
published: 22 Oct 2011
author: TheMidnightRider11
Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
Never Disrespect your Elders - Lonesome Dove Shot
- published: 22 Oct 2011
- views: 42362
- author: TheMidnightRider11
3:38
Emmylou Harris & Robert Duvall : I Love To Tell The Story
From the film 'The Apostle'...
published: 09 Jul 2009
author: 1000Magicians
Emmylou Harris & Robert Duvall : I Love To Tell The Story
From the film 'The Apostle'
- published: 09 Jul 2009
- views: 60456
- author: 1000Magicians
Vimeo results:
5:38
The Make Our House Edit
"Pretend Inferiority and encourage his arrogance"- Sun Tzu
Riders: Jambul, Josh Roberts,...
published: 17 Feb 2012
author: Seventies Distribution
The Make Our House Edit
"Pretend Inferiority and encourage his arrogance"- Sun Tzu
Riders: Jambul, Josh Roberts, Shaun Hadlington, Chicken and the Count
Song: Fugazi- Steady Diet
Filmed in the only way BMX should be with a Sony VX 1000 and a Mark 1 Century Optics Death Lens
Edited by Orlando in his Kitchen under the influence of Duval Belgian Ale for the Make and Seventies Distribution.
Special thanks to the "Our House" locals for letting us hit the place for a day, Ben Hennon for the lift and Colin for the crate of Stella
http://www.themakebmx.com
http://www.seventies.co.uk
5:02
Robert Duvall Interview
Bonnie Steiger gets the low down from Robert Duvall for his latest movie Get Low....
published: 02 Aug 2010
author: Douglas Robertson
Robert Duvall Interview
Bonnie Steiger gets the low down from Robert Duvall for his latest movie Get Low.
6:12
Robert Duvall Tribute Reel
This is a reel I edited for Robert Duvall in 2010 when he was honored for the Peter Owen's...
published: 30 Nov 2011
author: Ben Zweig
Robert Duvall Tribute Reel
This is a reel I edited for Robert Duvall in 2010 when he was honored for the Peter Owen's Acting Award for the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Youtube results:
1:31
Robert Duvall promo for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum (Long Version)
Robert Duvall's promo spot for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. Lo...
published: 30 Apr 2010
author: wccctv
Robert Duvall promo for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum (Long Version)
Robert Duvall's promo spot for The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. Long Version
- published: 30 Apr 2010
- views: 11087
- author: wccctv
14:52
The Howard Stern Show - 1/4 Robert Duvall 7-19-10
Part 1 Of 4 Howard Interviews Robert Duvall....
published: 02 Aug 2010
author: complexkid
The Howard Stern Show - 1/4 Robert Duvall 7-19-10
Part 1 Of 4 Howard Interviews Robert Duvall.
- published: 02 Aug 2010
- views: 11201
- author: complexkid
1:05
Apocalypse Now Gasoline Smell =Victory
Napalm quotation...
published: 11 May 2008
author: digitalnova01
Apocalypse Now Gasoline Smell =Victory
Napalm quotation
- published: 11 May 2008
- views: 384251
- author: digitalnova01
1:19
Movie Moment - Apocalypse Now (Smell of Napalm)
Ok, here is another great movie moment courtesy of the great Robert Duvall. This is his fa...
published: 22 Jun 2008
author: MovieMomentsDotOrg
Movie Moment - Apocalypse Now (Smell of Napalm)
Ok, here is another great movie moment courtesy of the great Robert Duvall. This is his famous scene from Apocalypse Now where he utters that famous line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...".
- published: 22 Jun 2008
- views: 18336
- author: MovieMomentsDotOrg
photo: AP / BP
16 Jan 2013
IN what could be the first spillover from France's intervention in Mali, Islamist militants attacked and occupied a natural gas complex partly operated by energy company BP in southern Algeria. Two foreigners were killed and dozens of others, including Americans, were taken hostage ... It said it was holding 41 foreigners, including seven Americans ... Recommended Coverage. Al-Qaeda seize hostages in Algeria. End of sidebar ... . ....(size: 7.4Kb)
photo: Creative Commons / INABA Tomoaki
16 Jan 2013
YURI KAGEYAMA. AP Business Writers= TOKYO (AP) — Boeing Co.'s 787 planes were grounded for safety checks Wednesday by two major Japanese airlines after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet ... The 787, known as the Dreamliner, is Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced jet, and the company is counting heavily on its success ... The grounding was done voluntarily by the airlines ... The U.S ... U.S....(size: 11.1Kb)
photo: French MoD photo
16 Jan 2013
BAMAKO, Mali -- After a punishing bombing campaign failed to halt the advance of al-Qaida-linked fighters, France pledged Tuesday to triple the size of its force in Mali, sending in hundreds more troops as it prepared for a land assault to dislodge the militants occupying the country's northern half ... On Tuesday, France announced that it was increasing the number of troops from 800 to 2,500 ... "We have one objective ... On Tuesday, U.S ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster
16 Jan 2013
JULIE PACE. Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades, pressing a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting ... "And Congress must act soon." ... World news....(size: 9.2Kb)
photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny
15 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON. Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic ... Last year’s total is the highest since the Pentagon began closely tracking suicides in 2001 ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
The Examiner
16 Jan 2013
Rating for "Jack Reacher" Music By Joe Kraemer. 5. "Jack Reacher". Music By Joe Kraemer. La-La Land Records LLLCD1240. 13 Tracks/Disc Time. 61.48 Grade A- ... The film has had a lot of positive things going for it aside from the film's performances' by Cruise, Pike and Robert Duvall. The real standout has to be the surprising and exciting score by composer Joe Kraemer, that should be added to the Best of 2012 plain and simple ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
15 Jan 2013
Rural and relaxed, Virginia's tranquil atmosphere doesn't surprise Douglas Rogers. Less expected, however, is the state's status as a culinary pioneer. The Blue Ridge Mountains seen from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia Photo ... As for the food, horsey villages such as Middleburg and The Plains (where Robert Duvall has an estate) are dotted with bistros and gastropubs serving the latest in local, seasonal, farm-to-table fare ... ... ....(size: 26.2Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
14 Jan 2013
Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 13, 2013. ThinMist weight loss spray, a product that was developed by Jesse Cannone, Robert Duvall, and Steve Hefferon of the Healthy Back Institute in an effort to promote weight loss without the need for pills or surgery has caught the attention of HealthAvenger.com's Stan Stevenson, prompting an investigative review ... Thin Mist weight loss spray is currently available on the official ThinMist website....(size: 3.9Kb)
AV Club
10 Jan 2013
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, January 3, 2013. All times are Eastern. TOP PICK. Elementary (CBS, 10 p.m.) ... M with the munching mouth ... REGULAR COVERAGE. Last Resort (ABC, 8 p.m.) ... In his mid-60s, Robert Duvall directed (from a script he wrote) and starred in this morality play about a Texas preacher who flies off the handle and starts a new life—and it eventually earned him an Oscar nod for Best Actor ... ....(size: 10.1Kb)
Stuff
07 Jan 2013
Jack Reacher (M)(130 min). Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog. Let's get the height thing out of the way early ... But it just doesn't matter ... He is no fool ... Meanwhile Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, and – yay!- Werner Herzog are all manfully holding back the laughter and parading their various shades of decrepit hard-assery up and down the stage ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
The Examiner
07 Jan 2013
The 6th Annual Houston Film Critics Society Awards celebrating the best films of 2012 took place yesterday, January 5th at the Museum of Fine Arts at 4.00pm ... It was also great to see "Holy Motors" win Best Foreign Film.View slideshow ... Photo credit. ... Best Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables" Lifetime Achievement - Robert Duvall Best Supporting Actor - Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln" Technical Achievement - "The Hobbit ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
Houston Chronicle
07 Jan 2013
By Andrew Dansby . January 6, 2013 . Updated. January 6, 2013 11.06pm. Comments (0) E-mail Print. Tweet. Page 1 of 1. Top 10 films. The Houston Film Critics Society's picks for 2012.. 1. "Argo". 2. "Lincoln". 3. "Les Misérables". 4. "Moonrise Kingdom". 5. "Cloud Atlas". 6. "Zero Dark Thirty". 7. "The Master". 8. "Silver Linings Playbook". 9. "Beasts of the Southern Wild". 10. "Django Unchained" ... Robert Duvall received the HFCS's Lifetime Achievement award ... Tweet....(size: 13.6Kb)
The Examiner
06 Jan 2013
The Houston Film Critics Society has also weighed in with their awards today, naming Ben Affleck's "Argo" the Best Film of 2012. The film also received Best Director for Affleck ... It's a shame that it's not getting much attention elsewhere ... Best Picture. Argo ... Bernie ... Robert Duvall. ....(size: 1.8Kb)
The Examiner
06 Jan 2013
5 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, Calif ... The Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala also presented awards to the cast of "Argo," Helen Hunt, Naomi Watts, director Robert Zemeckis, composer Mychael Danna, director Tom Hooper, Helen Mirren, Bradley Cooper and Richard Gere ... Past Career Achievement Award honorees include Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren ... Thank you! ... ....(size: 5.6Kb)
The Examiner
06 Jan 2013
In 2012, it was a sincere pleasure to interview Henry Darrow. Henry is a charming and very gracious man, so it makes perfect sense that he would select someone with similar qualities to write his biography. Jan Pippins is that person and she has brought his story to life, with the passion and love it so richly deserves ... The Meeting ... We hit it off ... "My favorites are any with Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, Burt Lancaster or Lee Marvin ... ....(size: 6.5Kb)
MSNBC
05 Jan 2013
These people of the present and past were born on this date.. Former U.S. vice president, senator and presidential candidate Walter Mondale is 85. Classical pianist Alfred Brendel is 82. Actor Robert Duvall is 82. Hall of Fame football coach Chuck Noll is 81. Football Hall of Famer Jim Otto is 75 ... Advertise . AdChoices. Advertise . AdChoices. Advertise . AdChoices ... Actress and director Luciana Pedraza, the wife of actor Robert Duvall, is 41 ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
05 Jan 2013
Past Chairs chosen included Halle Berry, Tom Cruise, Benicio Del Toro, Robert Duvall, Jodie Foster, Danny Glover, Harvey Keitel, Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee, Julianne Moore, Martin Scorsese and John Travolta ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
The Miami Herald
05 Jan 2013
Actor Robert Duvall is 82. Talk-show host Charlie Rose is 71 ... ....(size: 0.6Kb)
| Robert Duvall | |
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.jpg) Duvall at the premiere of The Road during the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. |
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| Born | Robert Selden Duvall (1931-01-05) January 5, 1931 (age 81) San Diego, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Severn School |
| Alma mater | Principia College |
| Occupation | Actor and director |
| Years active | 1952–present |
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Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career.
A veteran character actor, Duvall has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and TV shows of all time, among them The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, To Kill a Mockingbird, THX 1138, Joe Kidd, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, MASH, Network, True Grit, Bullitt, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Natural and Lonesome Dove.
He began appearing in theater during the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (as Boo Radley) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with films like the blockbuster comedy MASH (1970) (as Major Frank Burns) and the lead in George Lucas' THX 1138 (1971). This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in films which were also commercial successes: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Network (1976), The Great Santini (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and True Confessions (1981).
Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies (1983) (for which he won an Academy Award), The Natural (1984), Colors (1988), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989), Stalin (1992), The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996), A Family Thing (1996), The Apostle (1997) (which he also wrote and directed), A Civil Action (1998), Gods and Generals (2003), Broken Trail (2006) and Get Low (2010).
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Early life[link]
Duvall was born in San Diego, California, the son of Mildred Virginia (née Hart), an amateur actress and relative of American Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and William Howard Duvall, a Virginia-born U.S. Navy admiral.[1][2] Duvall was raised in the Christian Science religion and has stated that while it is his belief, he does not attend church.[3] Duvall grew up in the traditional life of a career military family, moving frequently from military base to military base, living for a time in Annapolis, Maryland, near the United States Naval Academy. He attended Severn School in Severna Park, Maryland and The Principia in St. Louis, Missouri and graduated, in 1953, from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. He served in the United States Army from 19 August 1953 to 20 August 1954, leaving as Private First Class. While stationed at Camp Gordon (now known as Fort Gordon) in Georgia, Duvall acted in an amateur production of the comedy "Room Service" in nearby Augusta.
In the winter of 1955 he began studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York under Sanford Meisner on the G.I. Bill. He was there for two years. Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and James Caan were some of his classmates.[4][5][6][7] He was there in 1957 attending Meisner's classes.[8] While working to become an actor, he worked as a Manhattan post office clerk. Duvall is friends with actors Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman whom he knew during their years as struggling actors.[9] In 1955, Duvall roomed with Hoffman in a New York City apartment while they were studying at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.[10]
Career[link]
Early career in theatre, television and film: 1952–1969[link]
Duvall began his professional acting career with the Gateway Playhouse, an Equity summer theatre based in Bellport, Long Island, New York. Arguably his stage debut was in its 1952 season when he played the Pilot in Laughter In The Stars at the Gateway Theatre[disambiguation needed 
]. After a two-year absence when he was with the U.S. Army (1953-1954), he returned to Gateway in its 1955 summer season, playing: Eddie Davis in Ronald Alexander's Time Out For Ginger (July 1955), Hal Carter in William Inge's Picnic (July 1955), Charles Wilder in John Willard's The Cat And The Canary (August 1955), Paris in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (August 1955), and John the Witchboy in William Berney and Howard Richardson's Dark Of The Moon (September 1955). The playbill of Dark Of The Moon indicated that he had portrayed the Witch Boy before and that he will "repeat his famous portrayal" of this character for the 1955 season's revival of this play. For Gateway's 1956 season (his third season with the Gateway Players), he played the role of Max Halliday in Frederick Knott's Dial M For Murder (July 1956), Virgil Blessing in Inge's Bus Stop (August 1956), and Clive Mortimer in John van Druten's I Am A Camera (August 1956). The playbills for the 1956 season described him as "an audience favorite" in the last season and as having "appeared at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and studied acting with Sandy Meisner this past winter." In its 1957 season, he appeared as Mr. Mayher in Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution (July 1957), as Hector in Jane Anouilh's Thieves Carnival (July 1957), and the role which he once described as the "catalyst of his career" - as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge (from July 30 to August 3, 1957 and directed by Ulu Grosbard who was by then a regular director at the Gateway Theatre).[11] Miller himself attended one of Duvall's performances as Eddie and also during this performance he met important people that allowed him to, in two months, land a "spectacular lead" in the Naked City television series.[7] When appearing at the Gateway Theatre in the second half of the 1950s, he was also appearing at the Augusta Civic Theatre, the McLean Theatre in Virginia and the Arena Theatre in Washington, D.C.. The 1957 playbills also described him as "a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse" (so he must have completed his studies there by the Summer of 1957), "a member of Sanford Meisner's professional Workshop" and as having worked with Alvin Epstein, a mime and a member of Marcel Marceau's Company. By this time also (July 1957) his noteworthy theatrical credits already included performances as Jimmy in The Rainmaker and as Harvey Weems in Horton Foote's The Midnight Caller.[12][13] Already receiving top-billing at the Gateway Playhouse, in the 1959 season he appeared in lead roles as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee William's Streetcar Named Desire (July–August 1959), Maxwell Archer in Once More With Feeling, Igor Romanoff in Peter Ustinov's Romanoff and Juliet, and Joe Mancuso in Kyle Crichton's The Happiest Millionaire (all in August 1959).[14]
At the Neighborhood Playhouse, Meisner cast him in Tennessee William's Camino Real and the title role of Harvey Weems in Foote's one-act play The Midnight Caller. The latter was already part of Duvall's performance credits by mid-July 1957.[12][15][13][16][17][18][19]
He made his Off-Broadway debut at the Gate Theater as Frank Gardner in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession on June 25, 1958. This play closed three days later (June 28) after five performances. His other early Off-Broadway credits include the role of Doug in the premiere of Michael Shurtleff's Call Me By My Rightful Name on January 31, 1961 at One Sheridan Square and the role of Bob Smith in the premiere of William Snyder's The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker on September 17, 1962 until June 9, 1963 at the Sheridan Square Playhouse. His most notable Off-Broadway performance, for which he won an Obie Award in 1965 and which he considers his "Othello", was as Eddie Carbone (again) in Miller's A View From the Bridge at the Sheridan Square Playhouse from January 28, 1965 to December 11, 1966. It was directed again by Ulu Grosbard with Dustin Hoffman. On February 2, 1966 he made his Broadway debut as Harry Roat, Jr in Frederick Knott's Wait Until Dark at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. This played at the Shubert Theatre and George Abbott Theatre and closed on 31 December 1966 at the Music Box Theatre. His other Broadway performance was as Walter Cole in David Marnet's American Buffalo, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 16 February 1977 and closed at the Belasco Theatre on 11 June 1977.[20][21][22]
In 1959, Duvall made his first television appearance on Armstrong Circle Theater in the episode The Jailbreak. He appeared regularly on television as a guest actor during the 1960s, often in action, suspense, detective, or crime dramas. His appearances during this time include performances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, The Untouchables, Route 66, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, T.H.E. Cat, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel and The Mod Squad.
Duvall's screen debut was as Boo Radley in the critically acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He was cast in the film on the recommendation of screenwriter Horton Foote, who met Duvall at Neighborhood Playhouse during a 1957 production of Foote's play, The Midnight Caller. Foote, who would collaborate with Duvall many more times over the course of their careers, said he believed Duvall had a particular love of common people and ability to infuse fascinating revelations into his roles. Foote has described Duvall as "our number one actor."[23]
After To Kill a Mockingbird, Duvall appeared in a number of films during the 1960s, mostly in mid sized parts but also in a few larger supporting roles. Some of his more notable appearances include the role of Capt. Paul Cabot Winston in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), Chiz in Countdown (1968), and Gordon in The Rain People. Duvall has a small part as a cab driver who ferries McQueen around just before the chase scene in the film Bullitt (1969). He was the notorious malefactor "Lucky" Ned Pepper in True Grit (1969), in which he engaged in a climactic shootout with John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn on horseback.
Mid career: 1970–1989[link]
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Duvall (left) as Tom Hagen in The Godfather.
Duvall became an important presence in American films beginning in the 1970s. He drew a considerable amount of attention in 1970 for his portrayal of Major Frank Burns in the film MASH and for his portrayal of the title role in the cult classic THX 1138 in 1971. His first major critical success came portraying Tom Hagen in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). The former film earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1976 Duvall played supporting roles in The Eagle Has Landed and as Dr. Watson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution opposite Nicol Williamson, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.[24]
Duvall received another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and won both a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for his role as Lt. Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979). His line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" from Apocalypse Now is now regarded as iconic in cinema history. The full text is as follows:
You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. But the smell! You know - that gasoline smell... the whole hill! Smelled like... victory.
(Pause)
Some day this war is going to end...
Duvall received a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of television executive Frank Hackett in the critically acclaimed film Network (1976) and garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in The Great Santini (1979) as the hard-boiled Marine LtCol. "Bull" Meechum. The latter role was loosely based on a Marine aviator, Colonel Donald Conroy, the father of the book's author Pat Conroy. He also portrayed United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the television miniseries Ike (1979).
In 1977 Duvall returned to Broadway to appear as Walter Cole in David Mamet's American Buffalo. For his performance he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play. To date, Duvall has not returned to the New York stage.
"You can't concoct or push ahead something other than what you have at that moment as yourself, as that character. It's you at that moment in time. ... Between action and cut, it's a nice world, but you can't force that any more than you can force it in life.."
Robert Duvall on acting[23]
Duvall continued to appear in important films during the 1980s, including the roles of cynical sportswriter Max Mercy in The Natural (1984) and Los Angeles police officer Bob Hodges in Colors (1988). He won an Oscar for Best Actor as country western singer Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies (1983). Foote was rumored to have written the part for Duvall, who had always wanted to play a country singer and contributed ideas for the character. Foote denied this, claiming he found it too constraining to write roles for specific actors, but he did hope Duvall would be cast. Duvall was said to have written the music, but the actor said he wrote only a few "background, secondary songs." Duvall did do his own singing, insisting it be added to his contract that he sing the songs himself; Duvall said, "What's the point if you're not going to do your own (singing)? They're just going to dub somebody else? I mean, there's no point to that."[23]
Actress Tess Harper, who co-starred, said Duvall inhabited the character so fully that she only got to know Mac Sledge and not Duvall himself. Director Bruce Beresford, too, said the transformation was so believable to him that he could feel his skin crawling up the back of his neck the first day of filming with Duvall. Beresford said of the actor, "Duvall has the ability to completely inhabit the person he's acting. He totally and utterly becomes that person to a degree which is uncanny."[23] Nevertheless, Duvall and Beresford did not get along well during the production and often clashed during filming, including one day in which Beresford walked off the set in frustration.[23]
In 1989, Duvall appeared in the landmark mini-series Lonesome Dove in the role of Augustus "Gus" McCrae. He has stated in several forums, including CBS Sunday Morning, that this particular role was his personal favorite. He won a Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy Award[25] nomination. For his role as a former Texas Ranger peace officer, Duvall was trained in the use of Walker revolvers by the Texas marksman Joe Bowman.
Later career: 1990–present[link]
Duvall has maintained a busy film career, sometimes appearing in as many as four in one year. He received Oscar nominations for his portrayals of evangelical preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey in The Apostle (1997) — a film he also wrote and directed — and lawyer Jerome Facher in A Civil Action (1998).
He directed Assassination Tango (2002), a thriller about one of his favorite hobbies, tango. He portrayed General Robert E. Lee in Gods and Generals in 2003; he is a relative of the Confederate general.
Other roles during this period that displayed the actor's wide range included that of a crew chief in Days of Thunder (1990), a retiring cop in Falling Down (1992), an Hispanic barber in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), a New York tabloid editor in The Paper (1994), a rural doctor in Phenomenon (1996), an abusive father in 1996's Slingblade, an astronaut in Deep Impact (1998), a trail boss in Open Range (2003), a soccer coach in the comedy Kicking & Screaming, an old free spirit in Secondhand Lions (2003), a Las Vegas poker champion in Lucky You and a New York police chief in We Own the Night (both 2007).
He has been referred to as "The King of Action". He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 18, 2003.[citation needed]
Duvall has periodically worked in television during the last two decades. He won a Golden Globe and garnered an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Joseph Stalin in the 1992 television film Stalin. He was nominated for an Emmy again in 1997 for portraying Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann. In 2006, he won an Emmy for the role of Prentice "Print" Ritter in the revisionist Western miniseries Broken Trail.
In 2005, Duvall was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President George W. Bush at the White House.[26]
Duvall founded a production company, Butcher's Run Films, but it appears to have ceased operation.
Personal life[link]
Marriages[link]
Duvall has been married four times. His first wife was Barbara Benjamin, to whom he was married from 1964 until 1975. His second wife was Gail Youngs, to whom he was married from 1982 to 1986. His marriage to Youngs temporarily made him the brother-in-law of John Savage, Robin Young, and Jim Youngs). His third wife was Sharon Brophy. His marriage to Brophy was for 5 years, from 1991 to 1996.
In 2005, Duvall wed his fourth wife, Luciana Pedraza, granddaughter of famous Argentine aviator Susana Ferrari Billinghurst. He met Pedraza on a street in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were both born on January 5, but Duvall is 41 years older. They have been together since 1997. He produced, directed, and they acted together in Assassination Tango, with the majority of filming in Buenos Aires.
Duvall and Pedraza have been active supporters of Pro Mujer, a non-profit charity organization dedicated to helping Latin America's poorest women (with Duvall and Pedraza concentrating on Pedraza's home of northern Argentina) help themselves through micro-credit, business training and health care links.[27][28]
Activism[link]
Politics[link]
Duvall's political views are variously described as libertarian or conservative.[9] He was personally invited to Republican President George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. In September 2007, he announced his support for Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.[29] Duvall worked the floor at the GOP's 2008 national convention[30] and, according to an August 29, 2008 MSNBC article, Duvall narrated most of the videos for the convention. In September 2008, he appeared on stage at a John McCain-Sarah Palin rally in New Mexico.
Charity work[link]
In May 2009 he spoke for historic preservation against Wal-Mart's proposal to build a store across the road from the entrance to the Wilderness Battlefield national park in Orange County, Virginia.
In 2011, Duvall appeared at a record-breaking Houston charity event when he was interviewed by Bob Schieffer for 'An Evening with a Texas Legend'.[31] The event raised over $9 million for Texas Children's Cancer Center.[31]
Filmography[link]
| Title | Year | Role | Medium | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Circle Theater | 1959 | Berks | TV series | Season 10, episode 2: "The Jailbreak" |
| Armstrong Circle Theater | 1960 | TV series | Season 10, episode 16: "Positive Identification" | |
| Playhouse 90 | 1960 | TV series | Season 4, episode 8: "John Brown's Raid" | |
| Defenders, TheThe Defenders | 1961 | Al Rogart | TV series | Season 1, episode 12: "Perjury" |
| Great Ghost Tales | 1961 | William Wilson | TV series | Season 1, episode 1: "William Wilson" |
| Shannon | 1961 | Joey Nolan | TV series | Season 1, episode 10: "The Big Fish" |
| Cain's Hundred | 1961 | Tom Nugent | TV series | Season 1, episode 6: "King of the Mountain" |
| Route 66 | 1961 | Roman | TV series | Season 1, episode 25: "The Newborn" |
| Route 66 | 1961 | Arnie | TV series | Season 2, episode 4: "Birdcage on My Foot" |
| Naked City | 1961 | Lewis Nunda | TV series | Season 2, episode 13: "A Hole in the City" |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Arthur "Boo" Radley | Feature film | |
| Naked City | 1962 | L. Francis 'Frank' Childe | TV series | Season 3, episode 23: "The One Marked Hot Gives Cold " |
| Naked City | 1962 | Johnny Meigs | TV series | Season 4, episode 6: "Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring" |
| Naked City | 1962 | Barney Sonners | TV series | Season 4, episode 8: "Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long " |
| Untouchables, TheThe Untouchables | 1963 | Eddie Moon | TV series | Season 4, Episode 17: "Blues for a Gone Goose" |
| Defenders, TheThe Defenders | 1963 | Luke Jackson | TV series | Season 2, episode 24: "Metamorphosis" |
| Route 66 | 1963 | Lee Winters | TV series | Season 3, episode 18: "Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain" |
| Twilight Zone, TheThe Twilight Zone | 1963 | Charley Parkes | TV series | Season 4, episode 8: "Miniature" |
| Virginian, TheThe Virginian | 1963 | Johnny Keel | TV series | Season 1, episode 24: "The Golden Door" |
| Stoney Burke | 1963 | Joby Pierce | TV series | Season 1, episode 23: "Joby" |
| Arrest and Trial | 1963 | Morton Ware | TV series | Season 1, episode 10: "The Quality of Justice" |
| Fugitive, TheThe Fugitive | 1963 | Eric Christian | TV series | Season 1, episode 4: "Never Wave Goodbye" |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | 1963 | Capt. Paul Cabot Winston | Feature film | |
| Lieutenant, TheThe Lieutenant | 1964 | TV series | Season 1, episode 25: "Man with an Edge" | |
| Kraft Suspense Theater | 1964 | Harvey Farnsworth | TV series | Season 1, episode 22: "Portrait of an Unknown Man" |
| Outer Limits, TheThe Outer Limits | 1964 | Louis Mace | TV series | Episode 31: "The Chameleon" |
| Outer Limits, TheThe Outer Limits | 1964 | Adam Ballard | TV series | Episodes 42 and 43: "The Inheritors" |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | 1965 | Zar | TV series | Season 1, episode 20: "The Invaders" |
| Combat! | 1965 | Karl | TV series | Season 3, episode 16: "The Enemy" |
| Defenders, TheThe Defenders | 1965 | Bill Andrews | TV series | Season 4, episode 30: "Only a Child" |
| Fugitive, TheThe Fugitive | 1965 | Leslie Sessions | TV series | Season 2, episode 16: "Brass Ring" |
| Nightmare in the Sun | 1965 | Motorcyclist | Feature film | |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1966 | Frank Reeser | TV series | Season 3, episode 15: "Guilty or Not Guilty" |
| F.B.I., TheThe F.B.I. | 1966 | Johnny Albin | TV series | Season 2, episode 5: "The Scourge" |
| Combat! | 1966 | Peter Halsman | TV series | Season 5, episode 14: "Cry for Help" |
| Hawk | 1966 | Dick | TV series | Season 1, episode 6: "The Theory of the Innocent Bystander" |
| Felony Squad | 1966 | Albie Froehlich | TV series | Season 1, episode 8: "Death of a Dream" |
| Shane | 1966 | Tom Gary | TV series | Season 1, episode 9: "Poor Tom's A-Cold" |
| T.H.E. Cat | 1966 | Scorpio | TV series | Season 1, episode 9: "Crossing at Destino Bay" |
| Fame Is the Name of the Game | 1966 | Eddie Franchot | television film | |
| Chase, TheThe Chase | 1966 | Edwin Stewart | Feature film | |
| Time Tunnel, TheThe Time Tunnel | 1967 | Raul Nimon | TV series | Season 1, episode 24: "Chase Through Time" |
| Cimarron Strip | 1967 | Joe Wyman | TV series | Season 1, episode 18: "The Roarer" |
| Wild Wild West, TheThe Wild Wild West | 1967 | Dr. Horace Humphries | TV series | Season 3, episode 10: "The Night of the Falcon " |
| F.B.I., TheThe F.B.I. | 1967 | Ernie Milden | TV series | Season 2, episodes 25 and 26: "The Executioners" |
| T.H.E. Cat | 1967 | Laurent | TV series | Season 1, episode 24: "The Long Chase" |
| Combat! | 1967 | Michel | TV series | Season 5, episode 25: "The Partisan" |
| Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI | 1967 | Ernie Milden | television film | |
| Flesh and Blood | 1968 | Howard | television film | |
| CBS Playhouse | 1968 | Dr. Margolin | TV series | Season 2, episode 1: "The People Next Door" |
| Run for Your Life | 1968 | Richard Fletcher | TV series | Season 3, episode 19: "The Killing Scene" |
| Judd, for the Defense | 1968 | Raymond Cane | TV series | Season 1, episode 24: "Square House" |
| F.B.I., TheThe F.B.I. | 1968 | Joseph Troy | TV series | Season 4, episode 9: "The Harvest" |
| Detective, TheThe Detective | 1968 | Nestor | Feature film | |
| Countdown | 1968 | Chiz | Feature film | |
| Bullitt | 1968 | Cab driver | Feature film | |
| Mod Squad, TheThe Mod Squad | 1969 | Matt Jenkins | TV series | Season 1, episode 23: "Keep the Faith, Baby" |
| F.B.I., TheThe F.B.I. | 1969 | Gerald Wilson | TV series | Season 5, episode 2: "Nightmare Road" |
| True Grit | 1969 | Ned Pepper | Feature film | |
| Rain People, TheThe Rain People | 1969 | Gordon | Feature film | |
| MASH | 1970 | Frank Burns | Feature film | |
| Revolutionary, TheThe Revolutionary | 1970 | Despard | Feature film | |
| THX 1138 | 1971 | THX 1138 | Feature film | |
| Lawman | 1971 | Vernon Adams | Feature film | |
| Godfather Part I, TheThe Godfather | 1972 | Tom Hagen | Feature film | |
| Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, TheThe Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | 1972 | Jesse James | Feature film | |
| Tomorrow | 1972 | Jackson Fentry | Feature film | |
| Joe Kidd | 1972 | Frank Harlan | Feature film | |
| Outfit, TheThe Outfit | 1973 | Earl Macklin | Feature film | |
| Badge 373 | 1973 | Eddie Ryan | Feature film | |
| Lady Ice | 1973 | Ford Pierce | Feature film | |
| Conversation, TheThe Conversation | 1974 | The Director | Feature film | Uncredited |
| Godfather Part II, TheThe Godfather Part II | 1974 | Tom Hagen | Feature film | |
| Killer Elite, TheThe Killer Elite | 1975 | George Hanson | Feature film | |
| Breakout | 1975 | Jay Wagner | Feature film | |
| Eagle Has Landed, TheThe Eagle Has Landed | 1976 | Oberst Max Radl | Feature film | |
| Seven-Per-Cent Solution, TheThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution | 1976 | Dr. Watson | Feature film | |
| Network | 1976 | Frank Hackett | Feature film | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| Greatest, TheThe Greatest | 1977 | Bill McDonald | Feature film | |
| We're Not the Jet Set | 1977 | n/a | Documentary | Director |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Priest on swing | Feature film | Uncredited |
| Betsy, TheThe Betsy | 1978 | Loren Hardeman III | Feature film | |
| Ike | 1979 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | TV mini-series | |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore | Feature film | |
| Great Santini, TheThe Great Santini | 1979 | Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum, USMC | Feature film | |
| Ike: The War Years | 1980 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | television film | |
| True Confessions | 1981 | Thomas Spellacy | Feature film | Venice Film Festival Pasinetti Cup for Best Actor |
| Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, TheThe Pursuit of D.B. Cooper | 1981 | Gruen | Feature film | |
| Tender Mercies | 1983 | Mac Sledge | Feature film | |
| Terry Fox Story, TheThe Terry Fox Story | 1983 | Bill Vigars | television film | Nominated—CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Presentation |
| Angelo My Love | 1983 | n/a | Feature film | Producer/Director |
| Stone Boy, TheThe Stone Boy | 1984 | Joe Hillerman | Feature film | |
| Natural, TheThe Natural | 1984 | Max Mercy | Feature film | |
| Let's Get Harry | 1986 | Norman Shrike | Feature film | |
| Belizaire the Cajun | 1986 | The Preacher | Feature film | |
| Waylon Jennings: America | 1986 | Doctor | Video short | |
| The Lightship | 1986 | Calvin Caspary | Feature film | Venice Film Festival Pasinetti Cup for Best Actor |
| Hotel Colonial | 1987 | Roberto Carrasco | Feature film | |
| Colors | 1988 | Officer Bob Hodges | Feature film | |
| Lonesome Dove | 1989 | Augustus "Gus" McCrae | TV mini-series | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie |
| Show of Force, AA Show of Force | 1990 | Howard | Feature film | |
| Days Of Thunder | 1990 | Harry Hogge | Feature film | |
| Handmaid's Tale, TheThe Handmaid's Tale | 1990 | The Commander | Feature film | |
| Rambling Rose | 1991 | Daddy Hilyer | Feature film | Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male |
| Convicts | 1991 | Soll | Feature film | |
| Stalin | 1992 | Joseph Stalin | television film | |
| Newsies | 1992 | Joseph Pulitzer | Feature film | |
| Peste, LaLa Peste | 1992 | Joseph Grand | Feature film | |
| Falling Down | 1993 | Martin Prendergast | Feature film | |
| Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | 1993 | Walter | Feature film | |
| Geronimo: An American Legend | 1993 | Al Sieber | Feature film | |
| Paper, TheThe Paper | 1994 | Bernie White | Feature film | |
| Something to Talk About | 1995 | Wyly King | Feature film | |
| Stars Fell on Henrietta, TheThe Stars Fell on Henrietta | 1995 | Mr. Cox | Feature film | |
| Scarlet Letter, TheThe Scarlet Letter | 1995 | Roger Chillingworth | Feature film | |
| Sling Blade | 1996 | Karl's father | Feature film | Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| Man Who Captured Eichmann, TheThe Man Who Captured Eichmann | 1996 | Adolf Eichmann | television film | |
| Family Thing, AA Family Thing | 1996 | Earl Pilcher Jr. | Feature film | Producer |
| Phenomenon | 1996 | Doc Brunder | Feature film | |
| Apostle, TheThe Apostle | 1997 | Euliss 'Sonny' Dewey — The Apostle E.F. | Feature film |
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| Gingerbread Man, TheThe Gingerbread Man | 1998 | Dixon Doss | Feature film | |
| Civil Action, AA Civil Action | 1998 | Jerome Facher | Feature film |
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| Deep Impact | 1998 | Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner | Feature film | |
| Saturday Night Live | 1998 | various | TV series | Season 23, episode 14, hosted by Garth Brooks |
| Gone in 60 Seconds | 2000 | Otto Halliwell | Feature film | |
| 6th Day, TheThe 6th Day | 2000 | Dr. Griffin Weir | Feature film | |
| Shot at Glory, AA Shot at Glory | 2000 | Gordon McLeod | Feature film | Producer |
| John Q | 2002 | Lt. Frank Grimes | Feature film | |
| Assassination Tango | 2002 | John J. Anderson | Feature film | Producer/Writer/Director |
| Gods and Generals | 2003 | Gen. Robert E. Lee | Feature film | |
| Secondhand Lions | 2003 | Hub | Feature film | |
| Open Range | 2003 | Boss Spearman | Feature film | |
| American Experience | 2005 | Narrator | TV series, documentary | Season 17, Episode 10: "The Carter Family: Will the Circle" |
| Kicking & Screaming | 2005 | Buck Weston | Feature film | |
| Thank You for Smoking | 2005 | Doak "The Captain" Boykin | Feature film | |
| Broken Trail | 2006 | Prentice "Print" Ritter | TV mini-series |
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| Lucky You | 2007 | Mr. Cheever | Feature film | |
| We Own the Night | 2007 | Albert Grusinsky | Feature film | |
| Four Christmases | 2008 | Howard | Feature film | |
| Crazy Heart | 2009 | Wayne Kramer | Feature film | Executive Producer |
| Road, TheThe Road | 2009 | Old Man (Eli) | Feature film | Nominated—St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| Get Low | 2010 | Felix Bush | Feature film |
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| Seven Days in Utopia | 2011 | Johnny Crawford | Feature film | |
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | 2012 | Russian General[32] | television film | filming |
| Jayne Mansfield's Car | 2012 | Jim Caldwell | Feature film | post-production |
| Man Who Killed Don Quixote, TheThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote | 2012 | Don Quixote | Feature film | pre-production |
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| Name | Duvall, Robert |
| Alternative names | Duvall, Robert Selden (birth name) |
| Short description | American actor |
| Date of birth | January 5, 1931 |
| Place of birth | San Diego, California, USA |
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