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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 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 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 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 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 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 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