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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 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 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 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 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 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 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