name	Brubaker
director	Stuart Rosenberg
producer	Ron SilvermanTed Mann }}

| screenplay = W. D. Richter | story = W. D. RichterArthur Ross | based on = book byTom MurtonJoe Hyams | starring = Robert RedfordYaphet KottoJane AlexanderMorgan Freeman | music = Lalo Schifrin | cinematography = Bruno Nuytten | editing = Robert Brown | distributor = 20th Century Fox | released = June 20, 1980 | runtime = 132 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} ''Brubaker'' is an American 1980 film about a prison in distress and the Warden Henry Brubaker (Robert Redford) who attempts to reform the system.

The film boasts a large supporting cast of stars including Yaphet Kotto, Tim McIntire, Nathan George, David Keith, Everett McGill, Murray Hamilton, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh and Jane Alexander, with an early appearance by Morgan Freeman. Nicolas Cage appears as an extra in his very first film.

Plot

A mysterious man (Redford) arrives at a prison as an inmate and witnesses rampant abuse and corruption, including open and endemic sexual assault, torture, worm-ridden diseased food, insurance fraud and a doctor charging inmates for care, amongst other things. During a dramatic standoff, he reveals himself to be the new prison warden, Henry Brubaker, to the amazement of both prisoners and officials alike.

With ideals and vision, he attempts to reform the prison, with an eye towards prisoner rehabilitation and human rights. He recruits several long-time prisoners, including Larry Lee Bullen (Keith) and Richard "Dickie" Coombes (Kotto), to assist him with his reformation. Their efforts improve the prison conditions, but his stance inflames several corrupt officials on the prison board who have profited from graft for decades. When he discovers multiple unmarked graves of prisoners on the property, he attempts to unravel the mystery, leading to political scandal. When a trustee realizes that he might be held accountable for killing another inmate, he decides to make a run for it, the resulting gunfight proves to be the final ammunition that the prison board (acting with the tacit approval of the governor) needs to fire Brubaker.

A statement before the credits explains that two years after Brubaker was fired, twenty four inmates sued the prison. The court ruled that the treatment of the prisoners was unconstitutional and the prison system was ultimately reformed. Meanwhile, the governor was not reelected.

The movie is based on the real-life experiences of Thomas Murton, author of the novel upon which the movie is based and one-time warden in the Arkansas state prison system. Much of the squalid conditions, violence and corruption depicted in the film was the subject of a 1970 federal court case, Holt v. Sarver, in which the federal court ruled that Arkansas' prison system violated inmates' constitutional rights, and ordered reform.

Locations

Filmed at The Junction City Prison Farm in Junction City, Ohio, Bremen, Ohio, New Lexington, Ohio, and at the Fairfield County Fairgrounds in Lancaster, Ohio.

Cast and characters

Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker

Yaphet Kotto as Richard 'Dickie' Coombes

Jane Alexander as Lillian Gray

Murray Hamilton as John Deach

David Keith as Larry Lee Bullen

Morgan Freeman as Walter

Matt Clark as Roy Purcell

Tim McIntire as Huey Rauch

Richard Ward as Abraham Cook

Jon Van Ness as Zaranska

M. Emmet Walsh as C.P. Woodward

Albert Salmi as Rory Poke

Linda Haynes as Carol

Everett McGill as Eddie Caldwell

Joe Spinell as Floyd Birdwell

Val Avery as Wendel

''William Newman'' (credited as William M. Newman) as Dunfield

A. Daniel Parrish as Prisoner

James Keane as Pinky

Nicolas Cage as an uncredited extra

Robbie DeVol as War Buff

Awards

Wins

Motion Picture Sound Editors: Golden Reel Award. Best Sound Editing.

Nominations

Academy Awards: Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen; W.D. Richter (screenplay/story) and Arthur A. Ross (story).

See also

List of American films of 1980

Arkansas Prison scandal

External links

Roger Ebert review, ''Brubaker''

Category:1980 films Category:20th Century Fox films Category:American films Category:1980s drama films Category:English-language films Category:Films set in the 1960s Category:Prison films Category:Films directed by Stuart Rosenberg Category:Films shot in Ohio

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birth name	Charles Robert Redford, Jr.
birth date	August 18, 1936
birth place	Santa Monica, California, United States
occupation	Actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist
years active	1959–present
spouse	Lola van Wagenen(1958–85; divorced)Sibylle Szaggars(2009–present)
children	Scott (deceased), Shauna, Jamie, Amy }}

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing ''Ordinary People'', and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. His popular films include ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969), ''Jeremiah Johnson'' (1972), ''The Candidate'' (1972), ''The Sting'' (1973), ''The Way We Were'' (1973), ''The Great Gatsby'' (1974), ''Three Days of the Condor'' (1975), ''All the President's Men'' (1976), ''The Natural'' (1984), ''Out of Africa'' (1985), and ''Sneakers'' (1992). As a filmmaker, his notable films include ''Ordinary People'' (1980), ''A River Runs Through It'' (1992), ''The Horse Whisperer'' (1998), and ''The Legend of Bagger Vance'' (2000).

Early life

Redford was born in Santa Monica, California. His mother, Martha W. (née Hart), was born in Texas, and his father, Charles Robert Redford, Sr. (November 19, 1914 – April 2, 1991), was a milkman-turned-accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He has a step-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage. Redford is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish ancestry (his surname originates in England).

Redford's family moved to Van Nuys while his father worked in El Segundo. He attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball player Don Drysdale. He has described himself as having been a "bad" student, finding inspiration outside the classroom, and being interested in art and sports. He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up. After high school, he attended the University of Colorado for a year and a half, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. While there, he worked at the restaurant/bar The Sink. After being asked to leave the University of Colorado, he traveled in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

Acting career

Television

Redford's career — like that of almost all major stars who emerged in the 1950s — began in New York, where an actor could find work both in television and on stage. Starting in 1959, he appeared as a guest star on numerous programs, including ''The Untouchables'', ''Whispering Smith'', ''Perry Mason'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', ''Route 66'', ''Dr. Kildare'', ''Playhouse 90'', ''Tate'', and ''The Twilight Zone'', among others. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''The Voice of Charlie Pont'' (ABC, 1962). One of his last television appearances was on October 7, 1963, on ''Breaking Point,'' an ABC medical drama about psychiatry.

Theater

Redford's Broadway debut was in a small role in ''Tall Story'' (1959), followed by parts in ''The Highest Tree'' (1959) and ''Sunday in New York'' (1961). His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simon's ''Barefoot in the Park'' (1963).

Film

While still largely an unknown, Redford made his screen debut in ''War Hunt'' (1962), co-starring with John Saxon in a film set during the last days of the Korean War. This film also marked the debuts of director Sydney Pollack and actor Tom Skerritt. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. In ''Inside Daisy Clover'' (1965), he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her for Pollack's ''This Property Is Condemned'' (1966) — again as her lover. The same year saw his first teaming with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's ''The Chase''. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the big screen version of ''Barefoot in the Park'' (1967) and were again co-stars in Pollack's ''The Electric Horseman'' (1979).

Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image and turned down roles in ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' and ''The Graduate''. Redford found the property he was looking for in George Roy Hill's ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film was a huge success and made him a bankable star, cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy.

Redford suffered through a few films that did not achieve box office success during this time, including ''Downhill Racer'' (1969); ''Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here'' (1969); ''Little Fauss and Big Halsy'' (1970), and ''The Hot Rock'' (1972). But his overall career was flourishing with the critical and box office hit ''Jeremiah Johnson'' (1972); the political satire ''The Candidate'' (1972); ''The Way We Were'' (1973); and ''The Sting'' (1973), for which he was nominated for an Oscar.

Between 1974 and 1976, exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office name. His hits included ''The Great Gatsby'' (1974), ''The Great Waldo Pepper'' (1975), and ''Three Days of the Condor'' (1975). The popular and acclaimed ''All the President's Men'' (1976), directed by Alan J. Pakula and scripted once again by Goldman, was a landmark film for Redford. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter — the Watergate scandal — also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes.

He also starred in the war film ''A Bridge Too Far'' (1977) and the baseball film ''The Natural'' (1984). Redford continued his involvement in mainstream Hollywood movies, though projects became fewer. Sydney Pollack's ''Out of Africa'' (1985), with Redford in the male lead role opposite Meryl Streep, won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Redford continued acting throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance ''Up Close & Personal'', and with Kristin Scott Thomas in ''The Horse Whisperer'', which he also directed. Redford also continued work in films with political context, such as ''Havana'' (1990), playing Jack Weil, a professional gambler in 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as ''Sneakers'' (1992), ''Spy Game'' (2001), and ''Lions for Lambs'' (2007).

He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the political thriller ''The Last Castle'' (2001), directed by Rod Lurie, someone else with a strong interest in politics. Redford, a leading environmental activist, narrated the IMAX documentary ''Sacred Planet'' (2004), a sweeping journey across the globe to some of its most exotic and endangered places. In ''The Clearing'' (2004), a thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream.

Redford stepped back into producing with ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto "Che" Guevera, and his friend Alberto Granado. It also explored political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. With five years spent in the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released.

Back in front of the camera, Redford received good notices for his role in director Lasse Hallstrom's ''An Unfinished Life'' (2005) as a cantankerous rancher who is forced to take in his estranged daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez) — whom he blames for his son's death — and the granddaughter he never knew he had when they fled an abusive relationship. The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichéd and overly sentimental. Meanwhile, Redford returned to familiar territory when he signed on to direct and star in an update of ''The Candidate''.

Director

Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the lens. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for ''Downhill Racer''. His first outing as director was in 1980's ''Ordinary People'', a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Redford did not direct again until ''The Milagro Beanfield War'' (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest. ''The Milagro Beanfield War'' is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico, (based on the real town of Truchas in northern New Mexico) overcoming big developers who set about to ruin their community and force them out because of tax increases. Other directorial projects have included the period family drama ''A River Runs Through It'' (1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella, and the exposé ''Quiz Show'' (1994), about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. In the latter film, Redford worked from a screenplay by Paul Attanasio with noted cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and a strong cast that featured Paul Scofield, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes. Redford handpicked Morrow for his part in the film (Morrow's only high-profile feature film role to date), because he liked his work on ''Northern Exposure''. Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in ''The Legend of Bagger Vance'' (2000).

Honors

Redford attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an Honorary Degree in 1983.

In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards.

In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

In December 2005, he received honors at the Kennedy Center for his contributions to American culture. The Honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television.

In 2008 he was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life."

The University of Southern California (USC) School of Theater announced the first annual ''Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists'' in 2009. According to the school's web site, the award was created "to honor those who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work, but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events, and to inspiring and empowering young people."

Robert Redford received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Brown University at the 240th Commencement exercises on May 25, 2008. He also spoke during the ceremonies.

On 14 October 2010, he was appointed ''Chevalier'' of the Légion d'honneur.

Sundance

With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' and ''Downhill Racer'', Redford bought an entire ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah called "Timp Haven," which was renamed "Sundance". Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Portions of the movie ''Jeremiah Johnson'' (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, were shot near the ski area. He founded the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Cinemas, Sundance Catalog, and the Sundance Channel, all in and around Park City, Utah, 30 miles (48 km) north of the Sundance ski area. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in the United States and has received recognition from the industry as a place to open films. In 2008, Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more than 50,000 attendees. The name Sundance comes from his character, the ''Sundance Kid''. In addition, Redford owns a celebrated restaurant called Zoom, located on Main Street in the former mining town of Park City.

Independent films

Since founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City, in 1981, Redford has been deeply involved with independent film. Through its various workshop programs and popular film festival, Sundance has provided much-needed support for independent filmmakers. In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films — the Sundance Channel premiered on February 29, 1996.

Personal life

On August 9, 1958, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Redford married Lola Van Wagenen, who dropped out of college to marry him. They had four children: David James "Jamie", Shauna, Amy Redford, and Scott Anthony Redford. Scott — their first child — was born September 1, 1959, and died of sudden infant death syndrome on November 17, 1959, at age 2½ months. His remains have been buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. Lola and Redford divorced in 1985. He has five grandchildren: Dylan and Lena Redford (of son Jamie), Mica and Conor Schlosser (of daughter Shauna) and Eden August (of daughter Amy).

In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the luxurious Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. She had moved in with Redford in the 1990s and shares his Sundance, Utah, home.

Political activity

Redford is politically liberal, and has supported environmentalism, Native American rights, and the arts. Most of his federal political contributions have been to Democrats (61%) or advocacy groups (34.6%), such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America. Redford has on occasion also supported Republicans, including Brent Cornell Morris in his unsuccessful 1990 race for Utah's 3rd congressional district seat. Redford also supported Gary R. Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor (he is currently the Governor of Utah). Redford is an avid environmentalist and is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Redford has been a vocal critic of Barack Obama for his lack of follow through on environmental policies. He wrote, "One reason I supported President Obama is because he said we must protect clean air, water and lands. But what good is it to say the right thing unless you act on it?"

Filmography

Actor

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1960	''Tall Story''	Basketball Player
1962	''War Hunt''	Private Roy Loomis
1962	''The Twilight Zone''	Harold Beldon	1 episode: "Nothing in the Dark"
1965	''Inside Daisy Clover''	Wade Lewis
1965	''Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious''	Captain Hank Wilson
1966	''This Property Is Condemned''	Owen Legate
1966		Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
1967		Paul Bratter
1969	''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''		BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Rolealso for ''Downhill Racer'' and ''Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here''
1969	''Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here''	Deputy Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Rolealso for ''Downhill Racer'' and ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''
1969	''Downhill Racer''	David Chappellet	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Rolealso for ''Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here'' and ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''
1970	''Little Fauss and Big Halsy''	Halsy Knox
1972		Jeremiah Johnson
1972		Bill McKay
1972		John Archibald Dortmunder
1973	''The Sting''	Johnny Hooker	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
1973	''The Way We Were''	Hubbell Gardiner
1974		Jay Gatsby
1975	''Three Days of the Condor''	Joseph Turner/The Condor
1975	''The Great Waldo Pepper''	Waldo Pepper
1976		Bob Woodward
1977		Major Julian Cook
1979	''The Electric Horseman''	Norman 'Sonny' Steele
1980	''Brubaker''	Henry Brubaker
1984		Roy Hobbs
1985		Denys Finch Hatton
1986	''Legal Eagles''	Tom Logan
1990		Jack Weil
1992		Narrator	Voice onlyUncreditedAlso Producer/Director
1992		Martin "Marty" Bishop
1992	''Incident at Oglala''	Narrator
1993	''Indecent Proposal''	John Gage
1993	''La Classe américaine''	Steven
1996	''Up Close & Personal''	Warren Justice
1998	''The Horse Whisperer''	Tom Booker	Also Producer/Director
2001	''Spy Game''	Nathan D. Muir
2001	''The Last Castle''	Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
2004	''The Clearing''	Wayne Hayes
2004	''Sacred Planet''	Narrator
2005	''An Unfinished Life''	Einar Gilkyson
2006		Ike	Voice only
2007	''Lions for Lambs''	Dr. Stephen Malley	Also Producer/Director

Director

! Year	! Title	Notes
1980	''Ordinary People''	Academy Award for Best DirectorDirectors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing — Feature FilmGolden Globe Award for Best Director
1988	''The Milagro Beanfield War''	Academy Award - Best Music, Original Score	Political Film Society - Democracy	Nominated - Golden Globes - Best Original Score - Motion Picture	Nominated - Political Film Society - Exposé
1992		Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director
1994	''Quiz Show''	Nominated — Academy Award for Best DirectorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best FilmNominated — Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing — Feature FilmNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director
1998	''The Horse Whisperer''	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director
2000	''The Legend of Bagger Vance''
2007	''Lions for Lambs''
2010	''The Conspirator''

References

External links

Movie, Museum Exhibits Shine New Light on US Civil War is an April 2011 radio and internet report on the Robert Redford movie "The Conspirator." The report aired on The Voice of America and was written by VOA's Special English branch.

Redford interviewed about his life, independent film making and political activism. January 2010, 45 minute video and audio interview with transcript.

Dublin">Cinema Retro covers Robert Redford at Trinity College in Dublin

Sundance Resort

The Sundance Institute

Robert Redford slideshow at AMCtv.com

Redford Teams up to Train Minority Filmmakers ''NY Daily News'', May 15, 2009

Robert Redford: Through the Years - slideshow by ''Life magazine''

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Lalo Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations. Schifrin, associated with the jazz music genre, is also noted for work with Clint Eastwood in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, particularly the Dirty Harry films.

Biography

Schifrin was born Boris Claudio Schifrin in Buenos Aires to Jewish parents. His father, Luis Schifrin, led the second violin section of the orchestra at the Teatro Colón for three decades. At the age of six, Schifrin began a six-year course of study on piano with Enrique Barenboim, the father of the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. At age 16, Schifrin began studying piano with the Russian expatriate Andreas Karalis, former head of the Kiev Conservatory, and harmony with Argentine composer Juan Carlos Paz. During this time, Schifrin also became interested in jazz.

Although Schifrin studied sociology and law at the University of Buenos Aires, it was music that captured his attention. At age 20, he successfully applied for a scholarship to the Paris Conservatoire. While there, he attended Olivier Messiaen's classes and formally studied with Charles Koechlin, a disciple of Maurice Ravel. At night he played jazz in the Paris clubs. In 1955, Schifrin played piano with Ástor Piazzolla and represented his country at the International Jazz Festival in Paris.

After returning home to Argentina, Schifrin formed a jazz orchestra, a 16-piece band that became part of a popular weekly variety show on Buenos Aires TV. Schifrin also began accepting other film, television and radio assignments. In 1956, Schifrin met Dizzy Gillespie and offered to write an extended work for Gillespie's big band. Schifrin completed the work, ''Gillespiana'', in 1958 (it was recorded in 1960). Later that year Schifrin began working as an arranger for Xavier Cugat's popular dance orchestra.

While in New York in 1960, Schifrin again met Gillespie, who had by this time disbanded his big band for financial reasons. Gillespie invited Schifrin to fill the vacant piano chair in his quintet. Schifrin immediately accepted and moved to New York City. Schifrin wrote a second extended composition for Gillespie, ''The New Continent'', which was recorded in 1962. In 1963, MGM, which had Schifrin under contract, offered the composer his first Hollywood film assignment with the African adventure, ''Rhino!''. Schifrin moved to Hollywood late that year. He also radically re-arranged the theme song for the popular NBC-TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., altering original composer Jerry Goldsmith's theme to a jazzy melody emphasizing flutes and exotic percussion, which wound up winning the Emmy award for Best TV Theme in 1965.

One of Schifrin's most recognizable and enduring compositions is the theme music for the long-running TV series ''Mission: Impossible.'' It is a distinctive tune written in the uncommon 5/4 time signature.

Schifrin's "Tar Sequence" from his ''Cool Hand Luke'' score (also written in 5/4) was the longtime theme for the ''Eyewitness News'' broadcasts on New York station WABC-TV and other ABC affiliates, as well as National Nine News in Australia. CBS Television used part of the theme of his ''St. Ives'' soundtrack for its golf broadcasts in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Schifrin's score for ''Coogan's Bluff'' in 1968 was the beginning of a long association with Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Schifrin's strong jazz blues riffs were evident in ''Dirty Harry'' and, although similar to ''Bullitt'' and ''Coogan's Bluff'', the score for ''Dirty Harry'' stood out for the sheer fear it generated when released.

Schifrin's working score for 1973's ''The Exorcist'' was rejected by the film's director, William Friedkin. Schifrin had written six minutes of difficult and heavy music for the initial film trailer, but audiences were reportedly frightened by the combination of sights and sounds. Warner Bros. executives told Friedkin to instruct Schifrin to tone it down with softer music, but Friedkin did not relay the message. Schifrin's final score was thrown out into the parking lot. Schifrin reported in an interview that working with Friedkin was the one of the most unpleasant experiences in his life.

In the 1998 film ''Tango'', Schifrin returned to the tango music he had grown familiar with while working as Ástor Piazzolla's pianist in the mid-1950s. He brought traditional tango songs to the film as well as introducing compositions of his own in which tango is fused with jazz elements.

In 1997, the composer founded Aleph Records.

He also wrote the songs for ''Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow''.

Schifrin made a cameo appearance in ''Red Dragon'' (2002) as an orchestra conductor.

He is also widely sampled in hip-hop and trip-hop songs, such as Heltah Skeltah's "Prowl" or Portishead's "Sour Times". Both songs sample Schifrin's "Danube Incident", one of many themes he composed for specific episodes of the ''Mission: Impossible'' TV series.

On April 23, 2007, Lalo Schifrin presented a concert of film music for the Festival du Film Jules Verne Aventures (aka Festival Jules Verne), at Le Grand Rex theatre in Paris, France – Europe's biggest movie theater – that was caught superbly by Festival leaders for a 73 and a half minute CD named "Lalo Schifrin: Le Concert à Paris."

In 2010, a fictionalised account of Lalo Schifrin's creation of the ''Mission: Impossible'' tune was featured in a Lipton TV commercial aired in a number of countries around the world.

Awards

To date, Lalo Schifrin has won four Grammy Awards (with twenty-one nominations), one Cable ACE Award, and received six Oscar nominations, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Discography

Solo albums

1962: ''Piano Strings And Bossa Nova'' (MGM Records)

1962: ''Bossa Nova'' (Audio Fidelity)

1963: ''Samba Para Dos'' (Verve Records) (with Bob Brookmeyer)

1964: ''New Fantasy'' (Verve Records)

1966: ''The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past as Performed By the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis De Sade'' (Verve Records)

1968: ''There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On'' (Dot Records)

1971: ''Rock Requiem'' (Verve Records)

1976: ''Black Widow'' (CTI Records)

1977: ''Towering Toccata'' (CTI Records)

1978: ''Gypsies'' (Tabu Records)

1979: ''No One Home'' (Tabu Records)

1982: ''Ins And Outs'' (Palo Alto Records)

As sideman

With Dizzy Gillespie

''Gillespiana'' (1960, Verve Records)

''An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet'' (1961, Verve Records)

''A Musical Safari'' (1961)

''The New Continent'' (1962, Limelight Records)

''New Wave'' (1963, Philips Records)

With Sarah Vaughan

''Sweet 'n' Sassy'' (1963 Roulette Records)

Film scores

1964: ''Rhino!''

1965: ''The Cincinnati Kid''

1965: ''The Liquidator''

1965: ''Once a Thief''

1966: ''Murderers' Row''

1967: ''The Fox''

1967: ''The President's Analyst''

1967: ''Cool Hand Luke''

1968: ''Bullitt''

1968: ''The Brotherhood''

1968: ''Hell in the Pacific''

1968: ''Coogan's Bluff''

1968: ''Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows''

1969: ''Che!''

1970: ''Kelly's Heroes''

1970: ''WUSA''

1971: ''THX 1138''

1971: ''The Beguiled''

1971: ''Dirty Harry''

1971: ''The Hellstrom Chronicle''

1971: ''Pretty Maids All in a Row''

1972: ''Prime Cut''

1972: ''Joe Kidd''

1972: ''Rage''

1972: ''The Wrath of God''

1973: ''Magnum Force''

1973: ''Enter the Dragon''

1973: ''Charley Varrick''

1973: ''Harry in Your Pocket''

1973: ''Hit!''

1974: ''The Four Musketeers''

1976: ''The Eagle Has Landed''

1976: ''Voyage of the Damned''

1977: ''Rollercoaster''

1977: ''Telefon''

1978: ''Return from Witch Mountain''

1978: ''The Cat from Outer Space''

1978: ''The Manitou''

1979: ''The Amityville Horror''

1979: ''Escape to Athena''

1979: ''The Concorde ... Airport '79''

1979: ''Boulevard Nights''

1979: ''Love and Bullets''

1980: ''Brubaker

1980: ''The Big Brawl''

1980: ''When Time Ran Out''

1980: ''The Competition''

1980: ''Serial''

1980: ''The Nude Bomb''

1981: ''Caveman''

1981: ''Loophole''

1982: ''Amityville II: The Possession''

1982: ''The Seduction''

1983: ''Sudden Impact''

1983: ''The Osterman Weekend''

1983: ''Doctor Detroit''

1983: ''The Sting II''

1984: ''Tank''

1985: ''Bad Medicine''

1985: ''The Mean Season''

1986: ''The Ladies Club''

1986: ''Black Moon Rising''

1987: ''The Fourth Protocol''

1988: ''The Dead Pool''

1989: ''Return From the River Kwai''

1991: ''F/X2''

1993: ''The Beverly Hillbillies''

1996: ''Scorpion Sting''

1997: ''Money Talks''

1998: ''Tango''

1998: ''Rush Hour''

1998: ''Something to Believe In''

2001: ''Rush Hour 2''

2003: ''Bringing Down the House''

2004: ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey''

2004: ''After the Sunset''

2006: ''Abominable''

2007: ''Rush Hour 3''

Television themes and scores

1964: ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''

1966: ''T.H.E. Cat''

1966: ''Mission: Impossible''

1967: ''Mannix''

1969: ''Medical Center''

1974: ''Planet of the Apes''

1975: ''Starsky and Hutch''

1976: ''Most Wanted''

1982: ''Chicago Story''

1984: ''Glitter''

1987: ''Sparky's Magic Piano''

References

External links

Lalo Schifrin's official website

Cinema Retro attends Lalo Schifrin's London concert

Aleph Records Discography - record label operated by Schifrin

Two Interviews with Lalo Schifrin by Bruce Duffie (June 23, 1988, and October 9, 2003)

On Music and Cinema An Interview with Lalo Schifrin by Jaime Perales Contreras May 2011 (In Spanish).

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birth date	June 01, 1937
birth place	Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
birth name	Morgan Freeman
spouse	Jeanette Adair Bradshaw (1967–79; divorced)Myrna Colley-Lee (1984–2010; divorced)
occupation	Actor, director, narrator
years active	1964–present }}

Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in ''Street Smart'', ''Driving Miss Daisy'', ''The Shawshank Redemption'' and ''Invictus'' and won in 2005 for ''Million Dollar Baby''. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including ''Unforgiven'', ''Glory'', ''Seven'', ''Deep Impact'', ''The Sum of All Fears'', ''Bruce Almighty'', ''Batman Begins'', ''March of the Penguins'', ''The Bucket List'', ''Evan Almighty'', ''Wanted'', ''The Dark Knight'', and ''Red''.

Early life

Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Mayme Edna (née Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber who died in 1961 from cirrhosis. He has three older siblings. Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi. His family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois. Freeman made his acting debut at age 9, playing the lead role in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School, currently Threadgill Elementary School, in Mississippi. At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and while still at Broad Street High School, he performed in a radio show based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1955, he graduated from Broad Street, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to work as a mechanic in the United States Air Force.

Freeman moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and worked as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles Community College. During this period, he also lived in New York City, working as a dancer at the 1964 World's Fair, and in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Opera Ring music group. Freeman acted in a touring company version of ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun,'' and also appeared as an extra in the 1965 film ''The Pawnbroker.'' He made his off-Broadway debut in 1967, opposite Viveca Lindfors in ''The Nigger Lovers'' (about the civil rights era "Freedom Riders"), before debuting on Broadway in 1968's all-black version of ''Hello, Dolly!,'' which also starred Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway.

Career

Acting career

Although his first credited film appearance was in 1971's ''Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?'', Freeman first became known in the American media through roles on the soap opera ''Another World'' and the PBS kids' show ''The Electric Company'', (notably as Easy Reader and Vincent the Vegetable Vampire) which he later said he should have left earlier than he did.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Freeman began playing prominent supporting roles in many feature films, earning him a reputation for depicting wise, fatherly characters. As he gained fame, he went on to bigger roles in films such as the chauffeur Hoke in ''Driving Miss Daisy'', and Sergeant Major Rawlins in ''Glory'' (both in 1989). In 1994 he portrayed Red, the redeemed convict in the acclaimed ''The Shawshank Redemption''. In the same year he was a member of the jury at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.

He also starred in films such as ''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'', ''Unforgiven'', ''Seven'', and ''Deep Impact''. In 1997, Freeman, together with Lori McCreary, founded the film production company Revelations Entertainment, and the two co-head its sister online film distribution company ClickStar. Freeman also hosts the channel ''Our Space'' on ClickStar, with specially crafted film clips in which he shares his love for the sciences, especially space exploration and aeronautics.

After three previous nominations—a supporting actor nomination for ''Street Smart'', and leading actor nominations for ''Driving Miss Daisy'', and ''The Shawshank Redemption''—he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''Million Dollar Baby'' at the 77th Academy Awards. Freeman is recognized for his distinctive voice, making him a frequent choice for narration. In 2005 alone, he provided narration for two films, ''War of the Worlds'' and the Academy Award-winning documentary film ''March of the Penguins''.

Freeman appeared as God in the hit film ''Bruce Almighty'' and its sequel, ''Evan Almighty'', as well as Lucius Fox in the critical and commercial success ''Batman Begins'' and its 2008 sequel, ''The Dark Knight''. He starred in Rob Reiner's 2007 film ''The Bucket List'', opposite Jack Nicholson. He teamed with Christopher Walken and William H. Macy for the comedy ''The Maiden Heist'', which was released direct to video due to financial problems of the distribution company. In 2008, Freeman returned to Broadway to co-star with Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher for a limited engagement of Clifford Odets's play, ''The Country Girl'', directed by Mike Nichols.

He had wanted to do a film based on Nelson Mandela for some time. At first he tried to get Mandela's autobiography, ''Long Walk to Freedom'', adapted into a finished script, but it could never be finalized. In 2007 he purchased the film rights to a pre-published 2008 book by John Carlin, ''Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation''. Clint Eastwood directed the Nelson Mandela bio-pic titled ''Invictus'', starring Freeman as Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby team captain Francois Pienaar. In October 2010, Freeman co-starred alongside Bruce Willis in ''Red''.

Other work

In July 2009 Freeman was one of the presenters at the 46664 concert (celebrating Nelson Mandela's birthday) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Freeman was the first American to record a par on Legend Golf & Safari Resort's Extreme 19th hole.

At age 65, Freeman earned a private pilot's license. He owns or has owned at least three private aircraft, including a Cessna Citation 501 jet and a Cessna 414 twin-engine prop. In 2007 he purchased an Emivest SJ30 long-range private jet, and took delivery in December 2009. He is certified to fly all of them.

Effective January 4, 2010, Freeman replaced Walter Cronkite as the voiceover introduction to the ''CBS Evening News'' featuring Katie Couric as news anchor. CBS cited the need for consistency in introductions for regular news broadcasts and special reports as the basis for the change.

As of 2010, Freeman is the host and narrator of the Discovery Channel television show ''Through the Wormhole''.

Personal life

Family

Freeman was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from October 22, 1967 until 1979. He married Myrna Colley-Lee on June 16, 1984. The couple separated in December 2007. Freeman's attorney and business partner, Bill Luckett, announced in August 2008 that Freeman and his wife are in the process of divorce. On 15 September 2010, their divorce was finalized in Mississippi.

He has two sons from previous relationships before he married Bradshaw. He adopted his first wife's daughter, and the couple also had his fourth child.

In 2008, the TV series ''African American Lives 2'' revealed that Freeman's great-great-grandparents were slaves who migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi.

Properties

Freeman lives in Charleston, Mississippi, and New York City. He co-owns and operates Madidi, a fine dining restaurant, and Ground Zero, a blues club, both located in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He officially opened his second Ground Zero in Memphis, Tennessee on April 24, 2008.

Car accident

Freeman was injured in an automobile accident near Ruleville, Mississippi, on the night of August 3, 2008. The vehicle in which he was traveling, a 1997 Nissan Maxima, left the highway and flipped over several times. He and a female passenger, Demaris Meyer, were rescued from the vehicle using the "Jaws of Life". Freeman was taken via medical helicopter to The Regional Medical Center (The Med) hospital in Memphis. Police ruled out alcohol as a factor in the crash. Freeman was coherent following the crash, as he joked to a photographer about taking his picture at the scene. He broke his shoulder, arm and elbow in the crash and had surgery on August 5, 2008. Doctors operated for four hours to repair nerve damage in his shoulder and arm. His publicist announced he was expected to make a full recovery. Meyer, his passenger, has sued him for negligence, claiming that he was drinking the night of the accident. She has denied reports that they were romantically involved.

Activism

Charitable work

In 2004 Freeman and others formed the Grenada Relief Fund to aid people affected by Hurricane Ivan on the island of Grenada. The Grenada Relief Fund has since become PLANIT NOW, an organization that seeks to provide preparedness resources for people living in hurricane and severe-storm afflicted areas.

Freeman has worked on narrating small clips for global organizations, such as One Earth, whose goals include raising awareness of environmental issues. He has narrated the clip "Why Are We Here", which can be viewed on One Earth's website.

Freeman has donated money to the Mississippi Horse Park in Starkville, Mississippi. The Horse park is part of Mississippi State University. Freeman has several horses that he takes there.

Comments on race

Freeman has publicly criticized the celebration of Black History Month and does not participate in any related events, saying, "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history." He says the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it, and he notes that there is no "white history month". Freeman once said on an interview with ''60 Minutes''' Mike Wallace: "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man." Freeman supported the defeated proposal to change the Mississippi state flag, which contains the Confederate battle flag.

Freeman joined President Bill Clinton, USA Bid Committee Chairman Sunil Gulati, and USMNT midfielder Landon Donovan on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 in Zurich for the USA bid committee's final presentation to FIFA for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Politics

Freeman endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy for the 2008 presidential election, although he stated that he would not join Obama's campaign. He narrates for The Hall of Presidents with Barack Obama, who has been added to the exhibit. The Hall of Presidents re-opened on July 4, 2009 at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.

Honors

On October 28, 2006, Freeman was honored at the first Mississippi's Best Awards in Jackson, Mississippi, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his works on and off the big screen. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts and Letters from Delta State University during the school's commencement exercises on May 13, 2006.

In 2008, Freeman's family history was profiled on the PBS series ''African American Lives 2''. A DNA test showed that he is descended from the Songhai and Tuareg peoples of Niger.

Filmography

+Film	! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1964	''''	Man on Street	uncredited
1966	''''	Unknown	uncredited
1968	''Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?''	Grand Central Commuter	uncredited
1980	''Brubaker''	Walter
1981		Lieutenant Black
1984		Al Lewis
1984	''Harry & Son''	Siemanowski
1985		Charles Traughber
1985	''That Was Then... This Is Now''	Charlie Woods
1987		Fast Black	Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting MaleLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActorNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1988	''Clean and Sober''	Craig
1989		Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins	Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
1989	''Driving Miss Daisy''	Hoke Colburn	40th Berlin International Film Festival – Silver Bear for Best Joint Performance (shared with Jessica Tandy)Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyKansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorNational Board of Review Award for Best ActorNominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
1989
1989	''Johnny Handsome''	Lt. A.Z. Drones
1990	''''	Judge Leonard White
1990	''''	Voice of Frederick Douglass
1991	''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves''	Azeem	Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Kevin Costner)
1992	''Unforgiven''	Ned Logan
1992	''''	Geel Piet
1993	''Bopha!''		director only, his directorial debut
1994	''''	Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, Narrator	Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor (tied with Wallace Shawn for ''Vanya on 42nd Street'')Nominated—Academy Award for Best ActorNominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture
1995		Brig. Gen. Billy Ford
1995		Detective Lt. William Somerset	Empire Awards
1996		Paul Shannon
1996		Hibble
1996	''[[Cosmic Voyage''	Narrator
1997		Theodore Joadson
1997
1997	''''	Narrator
1998		President Tom Beck
1998		Jim
2000	''Nurse Betty''	Charlie Quinn
2000		Victor Benezet
2001
2002	''''	DCI William Cabot
2002	''High Crimes''	Charlie Grimes
2003	''Bruce Almighty''	God
2003		Col. Abraham Curtis
2003		Pastor Miles Evans
2003	''Drug War''	Lt. Redding
2004	''Million Dollar Baby''	Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris	Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorItalian Online Movie Awards
2004	''''	Narrator	limited release
2004	''''	Walter Crewes
2005	''''	Mitch Bradley
2005		Narrator
2005	''[[March of the Penguins''	Narrator
2005	''Batman Begins	Lucius Fox
2005		Sam
2006	''Edison Force''	Ashford
2006	''''	Frank Carden
2006	''Lucky Number Slevin''	The Boss
2006		Himself
2007	''Evan Almighty''	God
2007	''Feast of Love''	Harry Stephenson
2007	''Gone, Baby, Gone''	Jack Doyle
2007	''''	Carter Chambers	Also Narrator
2008		Sloan
2008	''''	Narrator	Voice
2008	''''	Lucius Fox
2009	''Prom Night in Mississippi''	Himself	''limited release''
2009		Keith Ripley
2009	''''	Charlie
2009		Nelson Mandela	NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion PictureNational Board of Review Award for Best Actor (tied with George Clooney for ''Up in the Air'')Nominated—Academy Award for Best ActorNominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated—Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleNominated—St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Actor
2010		Joe
2011	''Born to Be Wild 3D''	Narrator
2011		Narrator
2011	''Dolphin Tale''	Dr. McCarthy	post-production
2012	''''	Lucius Fox	filming
2012	''''	Zachariah	in production
2012	''Summer at Dog Dave's''		pre-production

+Television	! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1971–1977	''''	Easy Reader, DJ Mel Mounds, Dracula, Vincent the Vegetable Vampire	television series
1978	''Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry''	Uncle Hammer	made-for-television
1981	''Ryan's Hope''	Cicero Murphy	TV series (various episodes)
1981	''''	Clarence Collins	made-for-television
1982–1984		Roy Bingham	TV series (various episodes)
1985	''''	Tony	Television series (episode "Dealer's Choice")
1986	''Resting Place''	Luther Johnson	made-for-television
1987		Dr. Sherard	made-for-television
2008	''Smithsonian Channel's Sound Revolution''	Himself (host)	television series, series host
2008	''Stephen Fry in America''	Himself	television series, appears in episode 3
2010	''''	Himself	interview
2010	''''	Himself	interview
2010	''Through the Wormhole'' ''with Morgan Freeman''	Himself (host)	television series, series host
2010	''Saturday Night Live''	Himself (celebrity cameo)	What Up With That

Other awards and honors

1978 Nominated for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play in ''The Mighty Gents''

1997 Received an honorary degree from Rhodes College, becoming an honorary alumnus

2003 Received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

2006 Guest of honor at the Cairo International Film Festival

2007 He and his wife received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters

2007 Outstanding Contribution To Film And TV gong at the Screen Nation Film and TV Awards

2008 Kennedy Center Honors

2010 Received an honorary degree from Brown University

2011 Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute

References

External links

in 2010

ClickStar headed by Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary

Revelations Entertainment Production company co-founded by Freeman

A detailed biography of his history as an actor

Morgan Freeman movies at Movie Information

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Allen Wilford Brimley (born September 27, 1934) is an American actor. He has appeared in such films as ''The China Syndrome'', ''Cocoon'', ''The Thing'' and ''The Firm''. Brimley has also done television commercials, including ads for Quaker Oats and Liberty Medical.

Personal life

Brimley was born as Allen Wilford Brimley in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his father worked as a real estate broker.

Diagnosed with diabetes in 1979, Brimley began working to raise awareness of the disease. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) honored Brimley in 2008 with an award to recognize his lifetime of service. Brimley has been active visiting Veterans Administration hospitals and communities to advise patients on how to manage their diseases. The ADA presented the award to the actor at the Port St. Lucie headquarters of Liberty Medical on December 19, 2008.

Brimley is an activist, paying from his own funds for ads to have Utah allow horse-race gambling, He spoke against to the banning of cockfighting in New Mexico on the basis of his support of individual rights. Brimley enjoys playing poker and has played in the World Series of Poker Main Event. Brimley lent his support to John McCain in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. In the days leading up to his selection for vice president, McCain jokingly stated that he would pick Brimley: "He's a former Marine and great guy and he's older than I am, so that might work." Brimley is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Career

Prior to his career in acting, Brimley worked as a ranch hand, wrangler, blacksmith, and a bodyguard for Howard Hughes. He then began shoeing horses for film and television. He began acting in the 1960s as a riding extra in Westerns and as a stunt man at the urging of his friend, actor Robert Duvall.

Brimley became famous later in life for appearing in such films as ''The Hotel New Hampshire'', John Carpenter's ''The Thing'', and ''Cocoon''. In 2001, he starred in the Turner Network Television film ''Crossfire Trail'' with Tom Selleck. He had an important role in ''The China Syndrome''. He often plays a gruff or stodgy old man, notably on the 1980s drama series ''Our House''. His first characterization was in ''Absence of Malice'', in which he played a small but key role as a curmudgeonly, outspoken James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He expanded on this characterization as the world-weary manager of a hapless baseball team in ''The Natural'', a film in which his friend Duvall appeared as an antagonistic sportswriter.

Brimley was cast in the 1983 film ''Tender Mercies'' due to the urging of Robert Duvall, who was not getting along well with director Bruce Beresford and wanted "somebody down here that's on my side, somebody that I can relate to." Beresford felt Brimley was too old for the part, but eventually agreed to the casting. Brimley, like Duvall, clashed with the director; during one instance when Beresford tried to advise Brimley on how Harry would behave, Duvall recalled Brimley responding: "Now look, let me tell you something, I'm Harry. Harry's not over there, Harry's not over here. Until you fire me or get another actor, I'm Harry, and whatever I do is fine 'cause I'm Harry."

In a change from his "good guy" roles such as those in ''Our House'', he played William Devasher, the ominous head of security for Bendini, Lambert & Locke in the Tom Cruise film ''The Firm'' (1993), based on the novel by John Grisham.

Brimley has frequently appeared in commercials, notably a series of commercials he did for Quaker Oats Oatmeal throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The Quaker commercials were famous for their slogan: "It's the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it." Brimley is also known for appearing in numerous television advertisements for Liberty Medical, a company specializing in home delivery of medical products such as diabetes testing supplies.

Brimley has also been described as "a fine singer with a warm, rich voice". In 1993, Brimley sang with the Cal State Northridge Jazz Band for a concert benefiting the college's Jazz Endowment Scholarship Fund; in 2004, he released ''This Time, The Dream's On Me'', an album of jazz standards named after the Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer-penned title track.

Filmography

''True Grit (1969 film) ''Lawman (film) ''The Oregon Trail'' ''The Oregon Trail (TV series) ''The China Syndrome'' ''Brubaker'' ''Absence of Malice'' ''Death Valley (1982 film) ''Tender Mercies'' ''Harry & Son'' ''Cocoon (film) ''Jackals (film) ''End of the Line (1987 film) ''Cocoon: The Return'' ''Eternity (1989 film) ''Where the Red Fern Grows: Part II'' ''The Firm (1993 film) ''Heaven Sent (1994 film) ''Mutant Species (1995 film) ''My Fellow Americans'' ''In & Out'' ''A Place to Grow'' ''Comanche (2000 film) ''PC and the Web'' ''Resurrection Mary (film) ''The Road Home (2003 film) ''The Path of the Wind'' ''Did You Hear About the Morgans''

Year	! Film	! Role	! Notes
1968	''Bandolero!''	Stunts (uncredited)
1969	True Grit'' ||	Stunts (uncredited)
1971	Lawman'' ||	Stunts (uncredited)
1976	|	Ludlow	television movie
1977	The Oregon Trail'' ||	Unnamed role	Episode "Hard Ride Home and the Last Game"
rowspan=2	1979	|	Ted Spindler
''The Electric Horseman''	Farmer
rowspan=2	1980	|	Rogers
''Borderline (1980 film)	Borderline''	Scooter Jackson
1981	|	Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen. James A. Wells
rowspan=2	1982	Death Valley'' ||	The Sheriff
''The Thing (1982 film)	The Thing''	Dr. Blair
rowspan=4	1983	|	Harry
''10 to Midnight''	Captain Maline
''High Road to China''	Bradley Tozer
''Tough Enough (film)	Tough Enough''	Bill Long
rowspan=7	1984	|	Tom Keach
''Ewoks: The Battle for Endor''	Noa Briqualon
''The Hotel New Hampshire (film)	The Hotel New Hampshire''	Iowa Bob
''The Stone Boy''	George Jansen
''The Natural (film)	The Natural''	Pop Fisher
''Country (film)	Country''	Otis
''Terror in the Aisles''
rowspan=4	1985	Cocoon'' ||	Benjamin Luckett
''Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins''	Harold Smith
''Shadows on the Wall''	Theater Owner
''Murder in Space''	Dr. Andrew McAllister
1986	Jackals'' ||	Sheriff Mitchell
1987	End of the Line'' ||	Will Haney
1988	|	Benjamin Luckett
1989	Eternity'' ||	King/Eric
1992	|	Grandpa Will
rowspan=2	1993	The Firm'' ||	William Devasher
''Hard Target''	Uncle Douvee
1994	Heaven Sent'' ||	Security Guard
rowspan=2	1995	Mutant Species'' ||	Devro
''Last of the Dogmen''	Narrator (uncredited)
1996	|	Joe Hollis
rowspan=2	1997	|	Frank Brackett
''Lunker Lake''	The Storyteller
rowspan=5	1998	|	Jake
''Progeny (film)	Progeny''	Dr. David Wetherly
''Chapter Perfect''	Chief Hawkins
''All My Friends Are Cowboys''	Charlie
''Summer of the Monkeys (film)	Summer of the Monkeys''	Grandpa Sam Ferrans
2000	Comanche'' ||
rowspan=4	2001	|
''Brigham City (film)	Brigham City''	Stu
''The Ballad of Lucy Whipple''	Deputy Sheriff Ambrose Scraggs
''Crossfire Trail''	Joe Gill
rowspan=2	2002	Resurrection Mary'' ||	Morty
''The Round and Round''	Governor
2003	The Road Home'' ||	Coach Weaver
2009	|	Harry Caldwell	Completed (to be released)
2009	|	Earl Granger

Television

#161 - The Junk Mail ''The Boys of Twilight'' ''Our House (1986 TV series)

Year	! Show	! Episode	! Role	! Notes
1997	''Seinfeld''	|	United States Postmaster General Henry Atkins	Brimley parodied himself in his role as an assistant attorney general in ''Absence of Malice''
1992	|	All	Bill Huntoon
1986	Our House'' ||	All	Gus Witherspoon

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