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.
Plot
Via computer conferencing, a clean-shaven journalist, in crisp blue shirt, expensive cream jacket, and matching wide-brimmed hat, played by Nick Nolte, interviews a florid-faced underdressed, slightly unkempt Nick Nolte. The journalist asks probing questions: Nolte declines to answer some, but most he answers with philosophical reflections or a story. The questions follow a chronological line. Interspersed with the interview are on-camera remarks by actors, directors, a producer, and a writer who say complimentary things about Nolte's work and personality. In one story, Nolte explains the famous mug shot that's not a mug shot.
Keywords: actor, actress, alcohol, alcoholism, archival-footage, archive-footage, arresting-officer, brando, career, celebrity-status
HEY NICO, STAY STRONG IN THIS WORLD
MY GIRL, IGNORE THEIR COLD WORDS
THE SONG OF YOUR HEART'S SO TRUE
THE SIGH IS A WAY FOR YOU
HEY NICO, STAY STRONG IN THIS WORLD
I WATCHED YOUR SPIRIT FLY
ACROSS THE VELVET SKY
THE SECRETS THAT YOU HIDE
I'M LOST INSIDE YOUR SWEET KISS
HEY NICO, THE LIFE THAT YOU MISSED
SOMETIMES YOU'RE SO STRANGE TO ME
ALONE AS YOUR HEART THAT BLEEDS ALONE
HEY NICO, STAY STRONG IN THIS WORLD, MY GIRL
I WATCHED YOUR SPIRIT FLY
ACROSS THE VELVET SKY
THE SECRETS THAT YOU HIDE
YEAH, THE SECRET THAT YOU HIDE, THAT YOU HIDE
THEN YOU FELL
AND THEN YOU FELL
AND THEN YOU FELL
AND THEN YOU FELL STRAIGHT TO HELL
STRAIGHT TO HELL
STRAIGHT TO HELL
STRAIGHT TO HELL
STRIAGHT TO HELL
THE SILENCE OF YOUR WINGS
THE BEAUTY THAT IT BRINGS
A KISS BEFORE WE DIE
ONE KISS BEFORE WE FRY
I WATCHED YOUR SPIRIT FLY
ACROSS THE VELVET SKY
THE SECRETS THAT YOU HIDE
THE SECRET THAT YOU HIDE
WHOA-WHOA, YEAH
I WATCHED YOUR SPIRIT FLY
ACROSS THE VELVET SKY
THE SECRETS THAT YOU HIDE
A SECRET THAT YOU HIDE, THAT YOU HIDE
Hey Nico, stay strong in this world
My girl, ignore their cold words
The song of your heart's so true
The sigh is a way for you
Hey Nico, stay strong in this world
I watched your spirit fly
Across the velvet sky
The secrets that you hide
I'm lost inside your sweet kiss
Hey Nico, the life that you missed
Sometimes you're so strange to me
Alone as your heart that bleeds alone
Hey Nico, stay strong in this world, my girl
I watched your spirit fly
Across the velvet sky
The secrets that you hide
Yeah, the secret that you hide, that you hide
Then you fell
And then you fell
And then you fell
And then you fell straight to hell
Straight to hell
Straight to hell
Straight to hell
Straight to hell
The silence at your wings
The beauty that it brings
A kiss before we die
One kiss before we fly
I watched your spirit fly
Across the velvet sky
The secrets that you hide
The secret that you hide
Whoa-whoa, yeah
I watched your spirit fly
Across the velvet sky
The secrets that you hide
A secret that you hide, that you hide