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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 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 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 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