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Brittany Murphy biography

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Brittany Murphy biography Brittany Murphy (Brittany Anne Murphy) was born November 10, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; she was an American actress and musician. Brittany Murphy's Career When she was nine years old, she got a singing role in the musical Les Misérables, and by the time Brittany was thirteen, she had a contract with a manager. Murphy got her first job in Hollywood when she was fourteen years old, playing the role of "Brenda Drexell" in the TV series Drexell's Class. She later got the "Molly Morgan" part in the short-lived series Almost Home. She was also a vocalist in the band Blessed With Soul in the early 1990s. Since then, she has starred in several successful films, including Clueless (1995), 8 Mile (2002), and Uptown Girls (2003). She has also appeared in several series, including Sister, Sister, Boy Meets World, and as the voice of "Luanne Platter" in the popular animated television series King of the Hill. Her most recent roles

Jenna Kanell biography

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Jenna Kanell biography Jenna Kanell was born on November 12, 1991 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Jenna Kanell is an American actress, director, writer, and stunt performer. She gained recognition for her portrayals of Tara Heyes in Terrifier (2016) and Kim Hansen in The Bye Bye Man (2017) - both horror movies. Her film career has since expanded to a variety of genres such as the political drama The Front Runner (2018) and the horror-comedy Renfield (2023).

Samantha Scaffidi biography

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Samantha Scaffidi biography Samantha Scaffidi is an American actress. She began her career in short films before becoming known for her role as Victoria Heyes in Terrifier (2016) and Terrifier 2 (2022), and Luce in Demon Hole (2017) - all three horror movies. In addition to acting, Scaffidi is known for directing the RAINN public service announcement Wait.

Lauren Bacall biography

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Lauren Bacall biography Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014, American actress. Lauren Bacall made her debut in Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not (1944). In the first film, she established her star image of sensual ambiguity and sharp rapping in her interaction with Humphrey Bogart . They married in 1945 and since then recorded several films together, including the film noir films The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948). Lauren Bacall then played theater and television roles but also appeared in films such as Douglas Sirk's melodrama Written on the Wind (1956), Sidney Lumet's crime film Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Stephen King's film adaptation Misery (1990 ). She published 1979 the autobiography Lauren Bacall, By Myself. In her older years, Lauren Bacall can be seen in several significant supporting roles, for example, in Lars von Trier's Dogville (2003) and Manderlay (2005). last updated October 2022

Laurence Fishburne biography

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Laurence Fishburne biography Laurence Fishburne (Laurence J. Fishburne III) was born on July 30, 1961, in Augusta, Georgia, USA. He moved with his mother to New York after his parents divorced. With a background in the theater, he already got to play in a soap opera in 1973. It led to a role as a very young soldier in Francis Ford Coppola's great Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now (1979), several appearances in television series, and further participation in Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish (1983) and Cotton Club (1984) as well as Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985) based on Alice Walker's novel. In the following years, Laurence Fishburne played a host of roles, both major and minor, on television and in film, while continuing to appear in the theatre before making a significant breakthrough in John Singleton's (1968-2019) ghetto portrayal of Boyz n the Hood (1991). It was set aside for substantial roles in, among other things, The Tina Turner portrait What&#

Kirk Douglas biography

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Kirk Douglas biography Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovich Demsky) was born on December 9, 1916. He was an American actor and the father of Michael Douglas. Kirk Douglas had a long career in Hollywood with his edgy and aggressive acting style, for example, in the boxer film Champion (1949), westerns such as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1956), and the war film Paths of Glory (1957). Among his more nuanced portraits can be mentioned the title role in Lust for Life (1956), The film about Vincent van Gogh. As a producer, Kirk Douglas was behind his own star role in Spartacus (1960). Died on February 5, 2020 (aged 103) last updated October 2022

Katharine Hepburn biography

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Katharine Hepburn biography Katharine Hepburn, on May 12, 1907, American actress with one of the longest leading role careers in film history. Katharine Hepburn's specialty was strong and eccentric personalities, especially in comedies opposite her partner Spencer Tracy, e.g., Woman of the Year (1942) and Adam's Rib (1949), and Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Among her more severe character roles, Sudden Last Summer (1959) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) must be highlighted. She was also very successful in The African Queen (1951), and the nostalgic chamber play Love Among the Ruins (1975), which was shaped as a tribute to Katharine Hepburn then and now. She is the only actress to have been awarded an Oscar four times, which she got for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). Katharine Hepburn also played regularly at the theater from 1928 and, in

Neil Jordan biography

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Neil Jordan biography Neil Jordan is an Irish film director and screenwriter. Jordan had his breakthrough in 1986 with the drama Mona Lisa, set in London's underworld. The film brought Jordan to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits (1988) and the comedy We're No Angels (1989), although without much success. In 1992 he returned to Europe and filmed his own short story, The Crying Game, a very well-constructed and complex love story set against the backdrop of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Jordan has since shown his versatility with Interview With the Vampire (1994) based on Anne Rice's (b. 1941) novel, the large-scale Michael Collins (1996) about the tumultuous political events of 1920s Ireland, the gangster film The Good Thief (2002), a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur (1955) and the tragicomic portrayal of a young transvestite in the 1960s and 1970s in Breakfast on Pluto (2005). last updated October 2022

Kim Novak biography

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Kim Novak biography Kim Novak (Marilyn Pauline Novak) was born in 1933 as an American actress. Novak was launched as a blonde, erotic star in Pushover (1954) and showed character talent, among other things. The Man With the Golden Arm (1955). She gave her most significant performance in Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). Among her, later roles are the melodrama Liebestraum (1991). last updated October 2022

Karl Malden biography

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Karl Malden biography Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulovich) was born March 22, 1914, American actor. Malden had his film breakthrough in Elia Kazan 's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); since then, he made his mark in significant supporting roles, for example, in On the Waterfront (1954), One-Eyed Jacks (1961), The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and Patton (1970). Malden directed Time Limit (1957) and starred in the television series The Streets of San Francisco (1972-77). Died on July 1, 2009. last updated October 2022

Judy Garland biography

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Judy Garland biography Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm) was born June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA; she was an American actress, singer, and entertainer, mother of Liza Minnelli. Judy Garland was a child star in the 1930s, peaking in the musical The Wizard of Oz (1939), where she launched her signature song "Over the Rainbow." As an adult, Garland starred in the musical classics Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) and Easter Parade (1948). After some years of personal and health problems, she made a big comeback in A Star Is Born (1954) and showed character talent in a completely different role as a Nazi victim in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). In the 1960s, Judy Garland split her career between concerts and television shows; she gave a concert in Copenhagen a few months before her death. Died on June 22, 1969, in Cadogan Lane, London, UK (drug overdose). last updated October 2022

Josh Brolin biography 2022

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Josh Brolin biography Josh Brolin (Josh J. Brolin) was born February 12,1968 and is an American actor. Josh Brolin is the son of seasoned Hollywood actor James Brolin (b. July 18, 1940) and made his film debut in 1985. After minor roles in both TV series and films, he was more centrally placed in, among other things, Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man (2000) and had a significant breakthrough in the Coen brothers' laconic crime and fate tale No Country for Old Men (2007). It opened up roles in, among other things, Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007) and the following year in both Gus Van Sant's Milk and, not least, the all-dominant lead role as George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's presidential portrait W. Josh Brolin has since, usually with masculine emphasis, i.a., noted in the same director's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Woody Allen 's You'll Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and the Coen brothers' western True Grit (2011). last updated October

John Wayne biography

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John Wayne biography John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison) was born on May 26, 1907. He was an American film actor and Oscar winner. He was an institution in American cinema as the classic hero of war films, especially westerns. He personified individualism and a pioneering spirit and was an exponent of conservative American ideals on and off the screen. After a series of b-movie roles, he got his breakthrough in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939). John Wayne's talent, which mainly rested on a rare laid-back and authoritative radiance, was also seen in more complex western roles, for example, in John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He also had a fruitful collaboration with Howard Hawks in Red River (1948), Rio Bravo (1959), and Hatari! (1962). He won his only Oscar in 1970 for the role of the choleric sheriff in Henry Hathaway's True Grit (1969). Besides his regular genre roles, John Wayne succeeded in

John Turturro biography

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John Turturro biography John Turturro (John Michael Turturro) was born on February 28, 1957. John Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at the State University of New York and Yale University in drama. He entered the film industry in 1980 and simultaneously built a distinguished theater career Off-Broadway. From the mid-1980s, John Turturro gradually got more significant and prominent roles in films, e.g., in Spike Lee 's Do the Right Thing (1989), which used his Italian ancestry. Spike Lee has continued to use him in all his films, and with Miller's Crossing (1990), John Turturro became one of the Coen brothers' favorite actors, not least in a central role in Barton Fink (1991). With his lanky figure and often nervous characters, John Turturro has also had wide-ranging roles in, e.g., Robert Redford 's Quiz Show (1994), Tim Robbins ' Cradle Will Rock (1999), Nicolas Winding Refn's gripping thriller Fear X (2003) and the comedy Anger Management (

John Belushi biography

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John Belushi biography John Belushi was born January 24, 1949, in Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Belushi was a comedian with cult status and a crazy sense of humor that was honed on the television show Saturday Night Live 1975-79 and carried over to films such as National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and The Blues Brothers (1980). Died on march 5, 1982, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, Californien, USA. last updated October 2022

John Barrymore biography

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John Barrymore biography John Barrymore, 1882-1942, American actor. John Barrymore, like his sister Ethel and brother Lionel, was the third generation in the theater world. He made his stage debut in 1903 and his film in 1914. In the theater, he alternated between comedy roles and the classical repertoire, with highlights in John Galsworthy's Justice (1915) as well as Shakespeare's Richard III (1920) and Hamlet (1922). On film, he played complex character roles such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), seductive lover roles such as Don Juan (1926), and elegant living men on de route in, for example, Grand Hotel (1932) and Dinner at Eight (1933). A hectic personal life and alcohol problems turned Barrymore into a parody of himself in recent years, but he enjoyed international recognition in his heyday. His son John Barrymore Jr. (1932-2004), and his daughter Drew Barrymore (b. 1975), are also film actors. last updated October 2022

Joe Pesci biography

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Joe Pesci biography Joe Pesci (Joseph Frank Pesci) was an American actor born on February 9, 1943. Joe Pesci has incarnated all kinds of record players and gangsters with a quick temper and staccato lines. It has happened both with comic effect in Lethal Weapon II-IV (1989, 1992, 1998, Lethal Weapon II-IV), Home Alone (1990), and My Cousin Vinny (1992) and with severe danger in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas (1990), for which he won an Oscar, and Casino (1995). Colleague Robert De Niro has also used Joe Pesci as a safe supporting actor in two of his films as a director, A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). last updated October 2022

Joanne Woodward biography

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Joanne Woodward biography Joanne Woodward was born in 1930; an American actress, married to Paul Newman. Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for her first leading role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957) and has since specialized in character studies of lonely and unglamorous women, primarily directed by Paul Newman, e.g., Rachel, Rachel (1968), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) and The Glass Menagerie (1987). She is also remembered for The Stripper (1963). last updated October 2022

Jeff Bridges biography

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Jeff Bridges biography Jeff Bridges was born On December 4, 1949. The versatile character star got his breakthrough in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), followed by John Huston's Fat City (1972). Jeff Bridges has since had significant roles in, e.g., Starman (1984), Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), and The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), in which he starred with his brother Beau Bridges ( b. 9.12.1941), Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991) and the Coen brothers' comedy The Big Lebowski (1998), in which Jeff Bridges shone in the role of the anti-hero The Dude. The family drama The Door in the Floor (2004) and the war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) showed Jeff Bridges different sides of his acting, and in 2010 he was awarded an Oscar for the role of an aging and repentant country & western star in Crazy Heart. The following year, he continued his excellent portrayal of fallen heroes in the Coen brothers' west

Jeanette MacDonald biography

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Jeanette MacDonald biography Jeanette MacDonald, 1901-1965, American actress and singer. Jeanette MacDonald was an operetta heroine in popular constellations, first with Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1929), Love Me Tonight (1932), and The Merry Widow (1934), then eight times with Nelson Eddy in i.a. Naughty Marietta (1935) and Rose Marie (1936). After World War II, she resumed her original career as a singer on Broadway. last updated October 2022

Jean Seberg biography

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Jean Seberg biography Jean Seberg was born November 13, 1938, in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA. She was an American film actor. Seberg was chosen for the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957) and cashed in as a failure. Things didn't go much better in Preminger's Sagan film adaptation Bonjour Tristesse (1958), which, however, with its French theme and filming on location, points to her role as an American in Paris in collaboration with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean Luc Godard's À bout de souffle (1960), which made her an icon of the French New Wave and has secured her a permanent place in film history. Despite several approaches, this role was not followed up; her other career, mainly in the USA, included musicals, disaster films, etc. Only the psychotic title role in Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) asserts itself above her other films. Jean Seberg got involved politically, i.a., in the Black Panther Party, and was monitored and harassed by the CIA. Her personal lif

Jean Harlow biography

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Jean Harlow biography Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter) was born as an American actress on March 3, 1911. Jean Harlow was the first sex symbol of early tone films and, moreover, a witty comedy star who could live up to her image as a "dumb blonde" and at the same time be ironic about it. She got her breakthrough with the pilot film Hell's Angels (1930), and her first significant role was in Platinum Blonde (1931). Her other famous roles include The Public Enemy (1931, Public Enemy No. 1), Dinner at Eight (1933), and Libeled Lady (1936, Her Reputation is in Danger).  Died on June 7, 1937 - died of kidney failure at age 26. last updated October 2022

Jean Arthur biography

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Jean Arthur biography Jean Arthur was born on October 17, 1905, and was an American actor. Jean Arthur debuted in 1923 but got his big break in John Ford's gangster comedy The Whole Town's Talking (1935). In the 1930s and 1940s, she appeared in a large number of films, often in the role of a dashing, independent, and down-to-earth woman with a romantic beating heart; the best-known films are Frank Capra's comedies Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Jean Arthur played her last role in George Stevens' western Shane (1953). Died on June 19, 1991. last updated October 2022

Jayne Mansfield biography

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Jayne Mansfield Biography Jayne Mansfield, 1933-1967, American actress. Jayne Mansfield, who has been called "the poor man's Marilyn Monroe ," caricatured the era's glamorous, platinum blonde sex symbol in the comedies The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). Jayne Mansfield got more severe roles in The Wayward Bus (1957) and The Challenge (1960).  Died on June 29, 1967, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was killed in a car accident. last updated October 2022

Jason Robards biography 2022

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Jason Robards biography Jason Robards was born July 26, 1922, and is an American actor; he was 1961-69 and married to Lauren Bacall. After breaking through on Broadway in 1956 in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and other great theater performances, Jason Robards came to the film. He has often made a strong mark in portrait roles, e.g., as the editor-in-chief in Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men (1976) and Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977), both of which earned him an Oscar, as well as the Richard M. Nixon impersonator Richard Munckton in the television series Washington Behind Closed Doors (1977). Among Jason Robard's other roles can be mentioned the two western films, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), as well as Melvin & Howard (1980), Philadelphia (1993) and A Thousand Acres (1997). Jason Robards played his last film role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999). Died

Janet Leigh biography 2022

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Janet Leigh biography Janet Leigh (Jeanette Helen Morrison) was born on July 6, 1927, in  Merced, California, USA. She was an American actress, married to Tony Curtis from 1951-1962, and the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis . Janet Leigh began her career as a blonde supporting actress in adventure films such as Scaramouche (1952) and The Black Shield of Falworth (1956). Still, she is best remembered as the victim in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and for supporting roles in Touch of Evil (1958), Harper (1966), and The Fog (1980). Died on October 3, 2004. last updated October 2022

Jane Russell biography 2022

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Jane Russell biography Jane Russell was born June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota, USA. She was an American actress. She was working as a model and attending drama school when Howard Hughes offered her a role in The Outlaw (1943). The film was a huge success, not least because of Jane Russell's busty appearance and overt sexual performance, and she became a popular pinup figure during the rest of World War II. This was followed by a series of films produced by Howard Hughes, who kept Jane Russell firmly in the role of one of the fantastic sex bombs of the period. Still, in, for example, Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), she was finally allowed to demonstrate her not-inconsiderable comedic talent with Marilyn Monroe . In the late 1950s, Jane Russell began to appear in television series instead of films, which she continued with widely varying intervals until her last role in 1986. Died on February 28, 2011, in Santa Maria, California, USA. last updated October 2022

Jane Fonda biography 2022

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Jane Fonda biography Jane Fonda (Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda) was born on December  21, 1937, in New York City, New York, USA. American actress, daughter of Henry Fonda , and sister of Peter Fonda . Jane Fonda began as an ingénue in the 1960s American comedy, for example, in the western comedy Cat Ballou (1965), and had a detour to French films, e.g., as the butt girl in her then-husband Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), before her breakthrough as a character actor in Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses Don't They? (1969) based on Horace McCoy's novel. Up through the 1970s, Jane Fonda became one of Hollywood's big stars, who often got involved in political issues, and played important roles in, for example, Alan J. Pakula's Klute (1971), Julia (1977) and Hal Ashby's drama Coming Home (1978) about the human consequences of the Vietnam War. She became an active producer with the successful The China Syndrome (1979) and Nine to Five (1981). In 1981, she published th

Jamie Foxx biography 2022

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Jamie Foxx biography Jamie Foxx, Eric Morlon Bishop, was born December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas, USA. He is an American actor. After a career as, among other things, stand-up and TV comedian in, e.g., the series In Living Color 1991-2000 and The Jamie Foxx Show 1996-2001 and roles in, e.g., Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday (1999), Jamie Foxx broke through significantly with his heartfelt portrait of the musician Ray Charles in Ray (2004), which won him an Oscar. Since then, Jamie Foxx has had eye-catching roles in, e.g., Michael Mann's extensive city dramas Collateral (2004) and Miami Vice (2006), as well as in the musical Dreamgirls (2006) and the drama The Soloist (2009) and starred in the thriller Law Abiding Citizen (2009). last updated October 2022

James Stewart biography 2022

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James Stewart biography James Stewart (James Maitland Stewart) was born May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American film actor. With his stuttering, eager line delivery, and shy sincerity, Stewart personified the folksy American everyday hero in films such as You Can't Take It With You (1938) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In the 1950s, a darker, more complex side of his talent was seen in westerns such as The Naked Spur (1953) and The Man From Laramie (1955), in Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958) and humorous ambiguity in John Ford's Two Rode Together (1961) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Stewart won an Oscar for her role in The Philadelphia Story (1940). Among his other films is The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Harvey (1950), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Died July 2, 1997, in Beverly Hills, California, USA. last updated O

James Cagney biography 2022

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James Cagney biography James Cagney was born July 17, 1899, in Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA. He was an American actor and one of Hollywood's central stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Dynamic, agile, and with dangerous smiles and machine-gun rapid lines, James Cagney played underworld types in all guises from his breakthrough in The Public Enemy (1931) to White Heat (1949). Outside the gangster genre, Cagney portrayed Broadway star George Michael Cohan (1878-1942) with gusto and vitality in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Cagney retired in 1961, frustrated and worn out after his verbal equilibrist role in Billy Wilder's Berlin Cold War comedy One, Two, Three (1961), which has gained cult status in Germany over the years. In 1981, James Cagney made a comeback with all his old radiance intact in Miloš Forman's Ragtime. Died on March 30, 1986, in Stanfordville, New York, USA. last updated October 2022

Jake Gyllenhaal biography 2022

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Jake Gyllenhaal biography Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American actor who has sought quirky and challenging roles; he attracted attention in the cult film Donnie Darko (2001) and had a breakthrough with fine acting in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005). Since then, he has, among other things, seen in the war drama Jarhead (2005), David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), and as an action hero in the adventure film Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2010). last updated October 2022

Jackson Rathbone biography 2022

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Jackson Rathbone biography Jackson Rathbone (Monroe Jackson Rathbone) was born December 14, 1984, an American actor and musician. Jackson Rathbone is best known for the role of Jasper Halle in the films Twilight (2008), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), The Last Airbender (2010), and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011). Jackson Rathbone plays together with Nikki Reed in the Twilight movies. last updated October 2022

Jack Benny biography 2022

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Jack Benny biography Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky), 1894-1974, was an American comedian who had a successful career in a vaudeville theater, radio, film, and television. Jack Benny achieved enormous popularity on radio and continued on television with The Jack Benny Program (1950-65), alternating between presenting famous guests and farcical sketches. On film, Benny played i.a. Charley's Aunt (1941) but is primarily remembered for Ernst Lubitsch's masterpiece To Be or Not to Be (1942), in which the role of the smug Polish Shakespearean actor under Nazism, he created one of the funniest moments in film history figures. last updated October 2022

Isabella Rossellini biography 2022

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Isabella Rossellini biography Isabella Rossellini, born in 1952, was an American actress and fashion model, the daughter of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman . Isabella Rossellini broke through as a nightclub singer in the film Blue Velvet (1986), directed by her then-husband, David Lynch; he also led her in Wild at Heart (1990). 1981-95 her face graced the cosmetics company Lancôme's advertisements. last updated October 2022

Humphrey Bogart biography 2022

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Humphrey Bogart biography Humphrey Bogart (Humphrey DeForest Bogart) was born on December 25, 1899, and was an American actor. No actor from Hollywood's heyday outshines Humphrey Bogart today, but his career started slowly. He played minor roles in the theater in the 1920s and came to Hollywood in 1930, where he got his breakthrough as the gangster in The Petrified Forest (1936), a role he had also played in the theater. After this, he had several gangster roles, but only when he got on the right side of the law in his roles did he become "the real Bogart": a cool individualist and romantic tough idealist on cleaning up a corrupt world. In The Maltese Falcon (1941), he founded the dark city's cotton-coat-clad private detective with sarcastic lines behind a snarling wolfish smile. The figure became a classic and a model for most of the genre's types since then. He varied the role with greater sensitivity in The Big Sleep (1946), where he continued the erotically su

Holly Hunter biography 2022

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Holly Hunter biography Holly Hunter (Holly P. Hunter) was born on March 20, 1958, and is an American actress. Diminutive of physique, she specializes in types with delicate appearance and tremendous willpower. She had her film breakthrough in the Cohen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987) and Broadcast News (1987). She has also shown dramatic talent in Miss Firecracker (1989), Jane Campion's The Piano (1993), which earned her an Oscar, The Firm (1993), Copycat (1995), and Thirteen (2003). Since then, she has, among other things, helped provide a voice for the animated film The Incredibles (2004) and starred in the TV series Saving Grace 2007-10. last updated October 2022

Harry Langdon biography

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Harry Langdon biography Harry Langdon (Harry Philmore Langdon) was born on June 15, 1884. He was an American film comedian. With his bemused baby face and figure of eternal naivety, Langdon achieved short-lived success in silent films. He made his debut in 1924, and after 15 short farces, he made seven feature films, of which Long Pants (1927) is the best known. The advent of tone films ended his career, which was already on the way back then. In the 1930s, he worked as a mastermind for, among others, Laurel and Hardy., and in 1939 he paired up, without much success, with Oliver Hardy in Zenobia. Died on December 22, 1944. last updated October 2022

Harold Lloyd biography

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Harold Lloyd biography Harold Lloyd (Harold Clayton Lloyd) was born on April 20, 1893. He was an American film comedian. Harold Lloyd debuted as an extra in 1912 and, from 1913, appeared alternately with Mack Sennett and Hal Roach in well over 100 short farces. His first success was the character Lonesome Luke, a Chaplin pastiche. In 1917 he invented the "glasses guy," a handsome, bespectacled young man, often shy and absent-minded but energetic and agile and embroiled in tragic events. Harold Lloyd stuck to this figure for the rest of his career, moving from 1921 to feature films; the best, e.g., Safety Last (1923) and For Heaven's Sake (1926), has retained classic status. After introducing the sound film, his career languished, but by then, he had become one of Hollywood's wealthiest men. Harold Lloyd received an Honorary Oscar in 1952. Died on March 8, 1971 last updated October 2022

Liv Ullmann biography 2022

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Liv Ullmann biography Liv Ullmann is a Norwegian actor and director. After a theater career in Norway, Liv Ulmann had her international film breakthrough in Persona (1966) by Ingmar Bergman. In the following years, he used her in his analysis of the female mind, e.g., Vargtimmen (1968), Skammen (1968), Viskningar och rop (1972), and Höstsonaten (1978). Liv Ullmann was the down-to-earth heroine in Jan Troell's Moberg film adaptations Utvandrarna (1971) and Nybyggarna (1972). After a brief interlude in Hollywood, she returned to Bergman in the TV series Scener ur ett äktenskap (1973). At Det Norske Teatret, she played i.a. in 1974 Nora in Et dukkehjem, a role she repeated in a guest play in New York in 1975. In 1992 Liv Ullmann debuted as a film director with the Danish Sofie, based on a novel by Henri Nathansen. This was followed by the Norwegian Kristin Lavransdatter (1995) and the Swedish Enskilda Samtal (1996, Personal conversations, TV game), and Trolösa (2000), both with script

Ingrid Bergman biography 2022

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Ingrid Bergman biography Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress. Ingrid Bergman was a student at Dramaten in 1933 and made her film debut in 1935 in the film Munkbrogreven. Her role in Gustaf Molander's Intermezzo (1936) caused producer David O. Selznick to persuade her to move to Hollywood in 1939 to remake the film. However, Ingrid Bergman, whose mother was German-born, previously made an intermezzo in Berlin, where she recorded an apolitical melodrama, Die vier Gesellen (1938). Ingrid Bergman became a celebrated star in 1940s Hollywood, where she shone in films such as Casablanca (1943), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), and Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Oscar, as well as in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946). It caused immense outrage in the United States when, in 1949, she broke with her image as an honorable wife and mother. She left her Swedish husband (the doctor Petter Lindström) and their daughter in favor of the Italian director Robert

Gregory Peck biography 2022

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Gregory Peck biography Gregory Peck, 1916-2003, American film actor. Gregory Peck played especially the awkward, manly hero in the classic genres, for example, in the Hitchcock horror Spellbound (1945) with Ingrid Bergman , the problem drama Gentleman's Agreement (1947) with Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield, the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) with  Audrey Hepburn and in melodramas such as On the Beach (1959) and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Gregory Peck's other films include MacArthur (1977), in which he played the title role of General Douglas MacArthur, and The Boys from Brazil (1978), in which he played Josef Mengele. last updated October 2022

Grace Kelly biography 2022

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Grace Kelly biography Grace Kelly (Grace Patricia Kelly) was born November 12, 1929, Philadelphia, USA. She was an American actress who became the Princess of Monaco. Although her film career lasted only five years and included 11 films, she became one of the biggest stars of the 1950s, and when, at the premiere of her last film, High Society (1956), she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco, melting reality and the fairy tale world of the film together. With her aristocratic appearance, Grace Kelly represented an alternative to the sex symbols of the period. The mixture of outer coolness and inner glow first appeared in Mogambo (1953) and was particularly exploited by Alfred Hitchcock in Rear Window (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955). Grace Kelly was awarded an Oscar for The Country Girl (1955). She died on September 14, 1982 in a car accident near her home and was buried in the cathedral in Monaco. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of her death, Monaco issued a 2-euro coin with

Gloria Swanson biography 2022

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Gloria Swanson biography Gloria Swanson, 1893-1983, American film actress. Gloria Swanson was one of the great stars of the silent film. She broke through in Cecil B. DeMille's erotic scenes, e.g., Male and Female (1919), and appeared in comedies and melodramas. The sound film ended her career, but she got an unforgettable lead role as the vampiric silent film queen in Billy Wilder's bitter Sunset Boulevard (1950). last updated October 2022

Elizabeth Taylor biography 2022

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Elizabeth Taylor biography Elizabeth Taylor, 27.2.1932-23.3.2011, British-American actress. Elizabeth Taylor had her breakthrough and stardom with Lassie Come Home (1943) and National Velvet (1944). Her particular flair for emotional drama was first seen in A Place In The Sun (1951) and in more mature characters in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Elizabeth Taylor has also temperamentally played intriguing sarcastic types in, for example, Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Zee & Co. (1972), and the TV movie Sweet Bird of Youth (1989). Of her eight marriages, the two to Richard Burton in 1964-74 and 1975-76 have been significant for her career. The couple recorded ten films together, including Cleopatra (1963), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which she won an Oscar, and The Taming of the Shrew (1967). She is also remembered for Father of the Bride (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Giant (1956), and for her first Oscar role in Butterfield 8 (1

Glenn Close biography 2022

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Glenn Close biography Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947, an American actress. Glenn Close made her debut in George Roy Hill's The World According to Garp (1982) after John Irving's bestseller and has since played a number of roles as a sensual and powerful woman, for example in The Big Chill (1983), Fatal Attraction (1987) and Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons (1988) after Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Glenn Close then had the role of Ferula in Bille August's House of the Spirits (1993) based on Isabel Allende's novel. She showed comedic talent i.a. as the evil Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and in Mars Attacks! (1996) and as a manic suburban wife in The Stepford Wives (2004). On TV, the five-time Oscar-nominated actor has, among other things, starred in the police and courtroom series The Shield 2005 and Damages 2007-10. last updated October 2022

Ginger Rogers biography 2022

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Ginger Rogers biography Ginger Rogers, 1911-1995, American film actress. Ginger Rogers is remembered above all as the sarcastic everyday girl who put on a ball gown and stepped or danced in ideal partnership with Fred Astaire in musicals such as Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936) and Shall We Dance? (1937). Ginger Rogers won an Oscar for the romantic portrayal of Kitty Foyle (1940) and is also remembered for the screwball comedy Monkey Business (1952).

Geraldine Page biography 2022

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Geraldine Page biography Geraldine Page, 1924-1987, American actress. Eight-time Oscar nominee Geraldine Page won the award for her last starring role in The Trip to Bountiful (1985). In the 1950s, she was among the leading representatives of Method Acting and repeated several of her theater successes on film, e.g., Summer and Smoke (1961) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Geraldine Page's other notable achievements are The Beguiled (1971) and Interiors (1978). last updated October 2022

George C. Scott biography 2022

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George C. Scott biography George C Scott (George Campbell Scott) was born on October 18, 1927. With brilliant radiance, George C. Scott has represented both cool and cynical intelligence in films such as Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and The Hustler (1961) and monumental comic or heroic figures as in Dr. Strangelove (1964) and the title role in Patton (1970), which won him an Oscar. George C. Scott has also directed several films. Died on September 22, 1999. last updated October 2022

Susan Sarandon biography 2022

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Susan Sarandon biography Susan Sarandon (Susan Tomalin) was born in 1946, an American actress who married Tim Robbins from 1986-2009. After fluttering young girl roles, i.a., in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), showed nuanced talent in Pretty Baby (1978) and Atlantic City (1980) and rose to stardom with The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Bull Durham (1988). Since then, she has interpreted very different types of women with humor, passion, and sarcasm, including waitress with young lover in White Palace (1990), feminist rebel in Thelma & Louise (1991), brave mother in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and lawyer in The Client (1994). Susan Sarandon won an Oscar for the role of the nun who tries to save the soul of a condemned murderer in Dead Man Walking (1995). last updated October 2022