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Although his parents were never in show business, as a young boy Oliver Hardy was a gifted singer and, by age eight, was performing with minstrel shows. In 1910 he ran a movie theatre, which he preferred to studying law. In 1913 he became a comedy actor with the Lubin Company in Florida and began appearing in a long series of shorts; his debut film was Outwitting Dad (1914). He appeared in he 1914-15 series of "Pokes and Jabbs" shorts, and from 1916-18 he was in the "Plump and Runt" series. From 1919-21 he was a regular in the "Jimmy Aubrey" series of shorts, and from 1921-25 he worked as an actor and co-director of comedy shorts for Larry Semon.
In addition to appearing in two-reeler comedies, he found time to make westerns and even melodramas in which he played the heavy. He is most famous, however, as the partner of British comic Stan Laurel, with whom he had played a bit part in The Lucky Dog (1921). in the mid-1920s both he and Laurel wee working for comedy producer Hal Roach, although not as a team. In a moment of inspiration Roach teamed them together, and their first film as a team was 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926). Their first release for Roach through MGM was Sugar Daddies (1927) and the first with star billing was From Soup to Nuts (1928). They became a huge hit as a comedy team, and after several years of two-reelers, Roach decided to star them in features, their first of which was Pardon Us (1931).
They clicked with audiences in features, too, and starred in such classics as Way Out West (1937), March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) and Block-Heads (1938). They eventually parted ways with Roach and in the mid-1940s signed on with Twentieth Century-Fox.
Unfortunately, Fox did not let them have the autonomy they had at Roach, where Laurel basically wrote and directed their films, though others were credited, and their films became more assembly-line and formulaic. Their popularity waned and less popular during the war years, and they made their last film for Fox in 1946.
Several years later they made their final appearance as a team in a French film, a troubled and haphazard production eventually, after several name changes, called Utopia (1950), generally regarded to be their worst film. Hardy appeared without Laurel in a few features, such as Zenobia (1939) with Harry Langdon, The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) in a semi-comedic role as a frontiersman alongside John Wayne and Riding High (1950), in a cameo role. He died in 1957.1 - The Lucky Dog (1921)
2 - 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
3 - Duck Soup (1927)
4 - Slipping Wives (1927)
5 - The Second 100 Years (1927)
6 - Love 'Em and Weep (1927)
7 - Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)
8 - With Love and Hisses (1927)
9 - Sugar Daddies (1927)
10 - Sailors, Beware! (1927)
11 - Call of the Cuckoo (1927)
12 - Do Detectives Think? (1927)
13 - Putting Pants on Philip (1927)
14 - The Battle of the Century (1927)
15 - Leave 'em Laughing (1928)
16 - Flying Elephants (1928)
17 - The Finishing Touch (1928)
18 - From Soup to Nuts (1928)
19 - You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
20 - Their Purple Moment (1928)
21 - Should Married Men Go Home? (1928)
22 - Early to Bed (1928)
23 - Two Tars (1928)
24 - Habeas Corpus (1928)
25 - We Faw Down (1928)
26 - Liberty (1929)
27 - Wrong Again (1929)
28 - That's My Wife (1929)
29 - Big Business (1929)
30 - Unaccustomed As We Are (1929)
31 - Double Whoopee (1929)
32 - Berth Marks (1929)
33 - Men O'War (1929)
34 - Perfect Day (1929)
35 - They Go Boom! (1929)
36 - Bacon Grabbers (1929)
37 - The Hoose-Gow (1929)
38 - Angora Love (1929)
39 - Night Owls (1930)
40 - Blotto (1930)
41 - Brats (1930)
42 - Below Zero (1930)
43 - Hog Wild (1930)
44 - The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
45 - Another Fine Mess (1930)
46 - Laughing Gravy (1930)
47 - Be Big! (1931)
48 - Chickens Come Home (1931)
49 - The Stolen Jools (1931)
50 - Los calaveras (1931)
51 - Our Wife (1931)
52 - Pardon Us (1931)
53 - Come Clean (1931)
54 - One Good Turn (1931)
55 - Beau Hunks (1931)
56 - On the Loose (1931)
57 - Helpmates (1932)
58 - Any Old Port! (1932)
59 - The Music Box (1932)
60 - The Chimp (1932)
61 - County Hospital (1932)
62 - Scram! (1932)
63 - Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
64 - Their First Mistake (1932)
65 - Les carottiers (1932)
66 - Towed in a Hole (1932)
67 - Twice Two (1933)
68 - Me and My Pal (1933)
69 - The Devil's Brother (1933)
70 - The Midnight Patrol (1933)
71 - Busy Bodies (1933)
72 - Dirty Work (1933)
73 - Sons of the Desert (1933)
74 - Oliver the Eighth (1934)
75 - Going Bye-Bye! (1934)
76 - Them Thar Hills (1934)
77 - Babes in Toyland (1934)
78 - The Live Ghost (1934)
79 - Tit for Tat (1935)
80 - The Fixer Uppers (1935)
81 - Thicker Than Water (1935)
82 - Bonnie Scotland (1935)
83 - The Bohemian Girl (1936)
84 - On the Wrong Trek (1936)
85 - Our Relations (1936)
86 - Way Out West (1937)
87 - Swiss Miss (1938)
88 - Block-Heads (1938)
89 - The Flying Deuces (1939)
90 - A Chump at Oxford (1939)
91 - Saps at Sea (1940)
92 - Great Guns (1941)
93 - A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
94 - Jitterbugs (1943)
95 - The Tree in a Test Tube (1943)
96 - The Dancing Masters (1943)
97 - The Big Noise (1944)
98 - The Bullfighters (1945)
99 - Atoll K (1950)- Music Artist
- Actor
- Music Department
Johnny Hallyday was born on 15 June 1943 in Paris, France. He was a music artist and actor, known for Man on the Train (2002), The Pink Panther 2 (2009) and The Walk (2015). He was married to Laeticia Hallyday, Adeline Blondieau, Elisabeth Etienne and Sylvie Vartan. He died on 5 December 2017 in Marnes-la-Coquette, Hauts-de-Seine, France.1 - Les diaboliques (1955)
2 - Les Parisiennes (1962)
3 - Johnny Hallyday : Olympia 62 (1962)
4 - Johnny Hallyday : Amsterdam 63 (1963)
5 - D'où viens-tu... Johnny? (1963)
6 - Les poneyttes (1968)
7 - À tout casser (1968)
8 - Johnny au Palais des Sports 1969 (1969)
9 - Gli specialisti (1969)
10 - Point de chute (1970)
11 - L'aventure, c'est l'aventure (1972)
12 - L'animal (1977)
13 - Johnny Hallyday : Pavillon de Paris 1979 (1979)
14 - Hallyday : Palais des Sports 1982 (1982)
15 - Johnny Hallyday : ZENITH 1984 (1984)
16 - Détective (1985)
17 - Conseil de famille (1986)
18 - Johnny à Bercy 1987 (1988)
19 - Johnny Hallyday : Live at Montreux (1988)
20 - David Lansky: 4 episodes (1989)
21 - Johnny dans la chaleur de Bercy (1990)
22 - La gamine (1992)
23 - Johnny Hallyday : Bercy 92 (1992)
24 - Johnny Hallyday : Parc des Princes 93 (1993)
25 - Johnny à la Cigale (1994)
26 - Johnny Hallyday : Lorada Tour-Bercy (1995)
27 - Johnny : Destination Vegas (1996)
28 - Johnny allume le feu-Stade de France 98 (1998)
29 - Johnny : Stade de France sous la pluie (1998)
30 - Love me (2000)
31 - 100% Johnny à la Tour Eiffel (2000)
32 - Johnny Hallyday : Olympia 2000 (2000)
33 - Crime Spree (2003)
34 - Johnny Hallyday : Parc des Princes 2003 (2003)
35 - Hallyday : Bercy 2003 (2021)
36 - Les rivières pourpres 2 (2004)
37 - Quartier V.I.P. (2005)
38 - Jean-Philippe (2006)
39 - Johnny Hallyday : Flashback Tour (2006)
40 - Johnny Hallyday : La Cigale (2006)
41 - The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
42 - Fuk sau (2009)
43 - Johnny Hallyday : Tour 66-Stade de France (2009)
44 - Johnny Hallyday : Born Rocker Tour (2013)
45 - Salaud, on t'aime (2014)
46 - Johnny Hallyday : Rester Vivant Tour (2016)
47 - Rock'n Roll (2017)
48 - Chacun sa vie (2017)
49 - Les vieilles canailles à Bercy (2017)
50 - Johnny - A Nos Promesses (2020)
51 - Mon nom est Johnny (2021)- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has called a "fractured" family. He moved around a great deal after his parents' divorce, living with a succession of step-families. No problems, no alcoholism - just a confused childhood. He has no acting experience in college and credits the fact that he could not get cast in a college play with actually starting his career. He went downtown, and auditioned for a community theater play, was invited by the director of that play to go to Cleveland, and there his acting career started.
Ron Howard was working on Splash (1983), a fantasy-comedy about a mermaid who falls in love with a business executive. Howard considered Hanks for the role of the main character's wisecracking brother, which eventually went to John Candy. Instead, Hanks landed the lead role and the film went on to become a surprise box office success, grossing more than $69 million. After several flops and a moderate success with the comedy Dragnet (1987), Hanks' stature in the film industry rose. The broad success with the fantasy-comedy Big (1988) established him as a major Hollywood talent, both as a box office draw and within the film industry as an actor. For his performance in the film, Hanks earned his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor.
Hanks climbed back to the top again with his portrayal of a washed-up baseball legend turned manager in A League of Their Own (1992). Hanks has stated that his acting in earlier roles was not great, but that he subsequently improved. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Hanks noted his "modern era of movie making ... because enough self-discovery has gone on ... My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top". This "modern era" began for Hanks, first with Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and then with Philadelphia (1993). The former was a blockbuster success about a widower who finds true love over the radio airwaves. Richard Schickel of Time magazine called his performance "charming", and most critics agreed that Hanks' portrayal ensured him a place among the premier romantic-comedy stars of his generation.
In Philadelphia, he played a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm for discrimination. Hanks lost 35 pounds and thinned his hair in order to appear sickly for the role. In a review for People, Leah Rozen stated, "Above all, credit for Philadelphia's success belongs to Hanks, who makes sure that he plays a character, not a saint. He is flat-out terrific, giving a deeply felt, carefully nuanced performance that deserves an Oscar." Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia. During his acceptance speech, he revealed that his high school drama teacher Rawley Farnsworth and former classmate John Gilkerson, two people with whom he was close, were gay.
Hanks followed Philadelphia with the blockbuster Forrest Gump (1994) which grossed a worldwide total of over $600 million at the box office. Hanks remarked: "When I read the script for Gump, I saw it as one of those kind of grand, hopeful movies that the audience can go to and feel ... some hope for their lot and their position in life ... I got that from the movies a hundred million times when I was a kid. I still do." Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning consecutive Best Actor Oscars.
Hanks' next role - astronaut and commander Jim Lovell, in the docudrama Apollo 13 (1995) - reunited him with Ron Howard. Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. The movie also earned nine Academy Award nominations, winning two. Later that year, Hanks starred in Disney/Pixar's computer-animated film Toy Story (1995), as the voice of Sheriff Woody. A year later, he made his directing debut with the musical comedy That Thing You Do! (1996) about the rise and fall of a 1960s pop group, also playing the role of a music producer.
As of 2022, Hanks is 66-years-old. He has never retired from acting, and has remained active in the film industry for more than four decades.1 - Splash (1984)
2 - The Money Pit (1986)
3 - Big (1988)
4 - Turner & Hooch (1989)
5 - The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
6 - A League of Their Own (1992)
7 - Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
8 - Philadelphia (1993)
9 - Forrest Gump (1994)
10 - Apollo 13 (1995)
11 - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
12 - You've Got Mail (1998)
13 - The Green Mile (1999)
14 - Cast Away (2000)
15 - Catch Me If You Can (2002)
16 - Road to Perdition (2002)
17 - The Terminal (2004)
18 - The Polar Express (2004)
19 - The Da Vinci Code (2006)
20 - Angels & Demons (2009)
21 - Larry Crowne (2011)
22 - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
23 - Cloud Atlas (2012)
24 - Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
25 - Bridge of Spies (2015)
26 - Sully (2016)
27 - Inferno (2016)
28 - The Circle (2017)
29 - Elvis (2022)- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series Get Real (1999). She gained widespread recognition for her roles in The Princess Diaries (2001) and its 2004 sequel as a young girl who discovers she is a member of royalty, opposite Julie Andrews and Heather Matarazzo.
She also had a notable role in Nicholas Nickleby (2002) opposite Charlie Hunnam and Jamie Bell, and a starring role in Ella Enchanted (2004). A former top-ranking soprano in New York, Hathaway was reportedly a front-runner for the role of "Christine" in the 2004 The Phantom of the Opera (2004). However, due to scheduling conflicts with The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), she couldn't take the role, which was later given to newcomer Emmy Rossum.
Hathaway soon started to move away from family-friendly films. Following The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), she appeared topless in the films Havoc (2005) opposite Josh Peck and Brokeback Mountain (2005) opposite Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Her desire to break out of her "Princess Diaries" image parallels that of her one-time co-star, Julie Andrews, who went topless in the film S.O.B. (1981) in order to break away from the image she created from her 1960s musicals. In interviews, Hathaway said that doing family-friendly films didn't mean she was similar to their characters or mean she objected to appearing nude in other films.1 - The Princess Diaries (2001)
2 - Ella Enchanted (2004)
3 - The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
4 - The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
5 - Becoming Jane (2007)
6 - Passengers (2008)
7 - Get Smart (2008)
8 - Bride Wars (2009)
9 - Valentine's Day (2010)
10 - Alice in Wonderland (2010)
11 - Love & Other Drugs (2010)
12 - One Day (2011)
13 - Les Misérables (2012)
14 - The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
15 - Song One (2014)
16 - Interstellar (2014)
17 - The Intern (2015)
18 - Colossal (2016)
19 - Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
20 - Ocean's Eight (2018)
21 - Serenity (2019)
22 - Dark Waters (2019)
23 - The Witches (2020)
24 - Armageddon Time (2022)- Actor
- Director
- Writer
With features chiseled in stone, and renowned for playing a long list of historical figures, particularly in Biblical epics, the tall, well-built and ruggedly handsome Charlton Heston was one of Hollywood's top leading men of his prime and remained active in front of movie cameras for over sixty years. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played Moses in the epic film, The Ten Commandments (1956) , for which he received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. He also starred in Touch of Evil (1958) with Orson Welles; Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (1959); El Cid (1961); and Planet of the Apes (1968). He also starred in the films The Greatest Show on Earth (1952); Secret of the Incas (1954); The Big Country (1958); and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). A supporter of Democratic politicians and civil rights in the 1960s, Heston later became a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. Heston's most famous role in politics came as the five-term president of the National Rifle Association, from 1998 to 2003.
Heston was born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, in No Man's Land, Illinois, to Lila (Charlton) and Russell Whitford Carter, who operated a sawmill. He had English and Scottish ancestry, with recent Canadianforebears.
Heston made his feature film debut as the lead character in a 16mm production of Peer Gynt (1941), based on the Henrik Ibsen play. In 1944, Heston enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two years as a radio operator and aerial gunner aboard a B-25 Mitchell stationed in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands with the 77th Bombardment Squadron of the Eleventh Air Force. He reached the rank of Staff Sergeant. Heston married Northwestern University student Lydia Marie Clarke, who was six months his senior. That same year he joined the military.
Heston played 'Marc Antony' in Julius Caesar (1950), and firmly stamped himself as genuine leading man material with his performance as circus manager 'Brad Braden' in the Cecil B. DeMille spectacular The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), also starring James Stewart and Cornel Wilde. The now very popular actor remained perpetually busy during the 1950s, both on TV and on the silver screen with audience pleasing performances in the steamy thriller The Naked Jungle (1954), as a treasure hunter in Secret of the Incas (1954) and another barn storming performance for Cecil B. DeMille as "Moses" in the blockbuster The Ten Commandments (1956).
Heston delivered further dynamic performances in the oily film noir thriller Touch of Evil (1958), and then alongside Gregory Peck in the western The Big Country (1958) before scoring the role for which he is arguably best known, that of the wronged Jewish prince who seeks his freedom and revenge in the William Wyler directed Ben-Hur (1959). This mammoth Biblical epic running in excess of three and a half hours became the standard by which other large scale productions would be judged, and its superb cast also including Stephen Boyd as the villainous "Massala", English actor Jack Hawkins as the Roman officer "Quintus Arrius", and Australian actor Frank Thring as "Pontius Pilate", all contributed wonderful performances. Never one to rest on his laurels, steely Heston remained the preferred choice of directors to lead the cast in major historical productions and during the 1960s he starred as Spanish legend "Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar" in El Cid (1961), as a US soldier battling hostile Chinese boxers during 55 Days at Peking (1963),played the ill-fated "John the Baptist" in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), the masterful painter "Michelangelo" battling Pope Julius II in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), and an English general in Khartoum (1966). In 1968, Heston filmed the unusual western Will Penny (1967) about an aging and lonely cowboy befriending a lost woman and her son, which Heston has often referred to as his favorite piece of work on screen. Interestingly, Heston was on the verge of acquiring an entirely new league of fans due to his appearance in four very topical science fiction films (all based on popular novels) painting bleak futures for mankind.
In 1968, Heston starred as time-traveling astronaut "George Taylor", in the terrific Planet of the Apes (1968) with its now legendary conclusion as Heston realizes the true horror of his destination. He returned to reprise the role, albeit primarily as a cameo, alongside fellow astronaut James Franciscus in the slightly inferior sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). Next up, Heston again found himself facing the apocalypse in The Omega Man (1971) as the survivor of a germ plague that has wiped out humanity leaving only bands of psychotic lunatics roaming the cities who seek to kill the uninfected Heston. And fourthly, taking its inspiration from the Harry Harrison novel "Make Room!, Make Room!", Heston starred alongside screen legend Edward G. Robinson and Chuck Connors in Soylent Green (1973). During the remainder of the 1970s, Heston appeared in two very popular "disaster movies" contributing lead roles in the far-fetched Airport 1975 (1974), plus in the star-laden Earthquake (1974), filmed in "Sensoround" (low-bass speakers were installed in selected theaters to simulate the earthquake rumblings on screen to movie audiences). He played an evil Cardinal in the lively The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974), a mythical US naval officer in the recreation of Midway (1976), also filmed in "Sensoround", an LA cop trying to stop a sniper in Two-Minute Warning (1976) and another US naval officer in the submarine thriller Gray Lady Down (1978). Heston appeared in numerous episodes of the high-rating TV series Dynasty (1981) and The Colbys (1985), before moving onto a mixed bag of projects including TV adaptations of Treasure Island (1990) and A Man for All Seasons (1988), hosting two episodes of the comedy show, Saturday Night Live (1975), starring as the "Good Actor" bringing love struck Mike Myers to tears in Wayne's World 2 (1993), and as the eye patch-wearing boss of intelligence agent Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies (1994). He also narrated numerous TV specials and lent his vocal talents to the animated movie Hercules (1997), the family comedy Cats & Dogs (2001) and an animated version of Ben Hur (2003). Heston made an uncredited appearance in the inferior remake of Planet of the Apes (2001), and his last film appearance to date was in the Holocaust-themed drama of My Father (2003).
Heston narrated for highly classified military and Department of Energy instructional films, particularly relating to nuclear weapons, and "for six years Heston [held] the nation's highest security clearance" or Q clearance. The Q clearance is similar to a DoD or Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) clearance of Top Secret.
Heston was married to Lydia Marie Clark Heston since March 1944, and they have two children. His highly entertaining autobiography was released in 1995, titled appropriately enough "Into The Arena". Although often criticized for his strong conservative beliefs and involvement with the NRA, Heston was a strong advocate for civil right many years before it became fashionable, and was a recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, plus the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and did appear in a film or TV production after 2003. He died in April 2008, a memorable figure in the history of US cinema.1 - Ruby Gentry (1952)
2 - The Ten Commandments (1956)
3 - Touch of Evil (1958)
4 - The Big Country (1958)
5 - Ben-Hur (1959)
6 - El Cid (1961)
7 - 55 Days at Peking (1963)
8 - The War Lord (1965)
9 - The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
10 - Major Dundee (1965)
11 - Planet of the Apes (1968)
12 - Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
13 - The Call of the Wild (1972)
14 - The Three Musketeers (1973)
15 - Earthquake (1974)
16 - The Four Musketeers (1974)
17 - Midway (1976)
18 - Mother Lode (1982)
19 - Wayne's World 2 (1993)
20 - True Lies (1994)
21 - Friends S4E14 The One with Joey's Dirty Day (1998)
22 - Any Given Sunday (1999)
23 - Planet of the Apes (2001)
24 - The Order (2001)- Actor
- Producer
- Stunts
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Ann Lydia Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After several moves, his family settled in Danville, Illinois. Gene grew up in a broken home, which he left at the age of sixteen for a hitch with the US Marines.
Moving to New York after being discharged, he worked in a number of menial jobs before studying journalism and television production on the G.I. Bill at the University of Illinois. Hackman would be over 30 years old when he finally decided to take his chance at acting by enrolling at the Pasadena Playhouse. Legend says that Hackman and friend Dustin Hoffman were voted "least likely to succeed."
Hackman next moved back to New York, where he worked in summer stock and off-Broadway. In 1964 he was cast as the young suitor in the Broadway play "Any Wednesday." This role would lead to him being cast in the small role of Norman in Lilith (1964), starring Warren Beatty. When Beatty was casting for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), he cast Hackman as Buck Barrow, Clyde Barrow's brother. That role earned Hackman a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, an award for which he would again be nominated in I Never Sang for My Father (1970). In 1972 he won the Oscar for his role as Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971). At 40 years old Hackman was a Hollywood star whose work would rise to new heights with Night Moves (1975) and Bite the Bullet (1975), or fall to new depths with The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Eureka (1983). Hackman is a versatile actor who can play comedy (the blind man in Young Frankenstein (1974)) or villainy (the evil Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)). He is the doctor who puts his work above people in Extreme Measures (1996) and the captain on the edge of nuclear destruction in Crimson Tide (1995). After initially turning down the role of Little Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992), Hackman finally accepted it, as its different slant on the western interested him. For his performance he won the Oscar and Golden Globe and decided that he wasn't tired of westerns after all. He has since appeared in Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), and The Quick and the Dead (1995).1 - Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
2 - The French Connection (1971)
3 - Scarecrow (1973)
4 - French Connection II (1975)
5 - A Bridge Too Far (1977)
6 - Superman (1978)
7 - Superman II (1980)
8 - Reds (1981)
9 - No Way Out (1987)
10 - Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
11 - Mississippi Burning (1988)
12 - Narrow Margin (1990)
13 - Unforgiven (1992)
14 - The Firm (1993)
15 - Wyatt Earp (1994)
16 - The Quick and the Dead (1995)
17 - Get Shorty (1995)
18 - Crimson Tide (1995)
19 - The Birdcage (1996)
20 - Absolute Power (1997)
21 - Enemy of the State (1998)
22 - Under Suspicion (2000)
23 - Heartbreakers (2001)
24 - Runaway Jury (2003)- Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, he moved to London and joined the National Theatre, invited by Laurence Olivier, who could see the talent in Hopkins. In 1967, he made his first film for television, A Flea in Her Ear (1967).
From this moment on, he enjoyed a successful career in cinema and television. In 1968, he worked on The Lion in Winter (1968) with Timothy Dalton. Many successes came later, and Hopkins' remarkable acting style reached the four corners of the world. In 1977, he appeared in two major films: A Bridge Too Far (1977) with James Caan, Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Elliott Gould and Laurence Olivier, and Maximilian Schell. In 1980, he worked on The Elephant Man (1980). Two good television literature adaptations followed: Othello (1981) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982). In 1987 he was awarded with the Commander of the order of the British Empire. This year was also important in his cinematic life, with 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), acclaimed by specialists. In 1993, he was knighted.
In the 1990s, Hopkins acted in movies like Desperate Hours (1990) and Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993) (nominee for the Oscar), Legends of the Fall (1994), Nixon (1995) (nominee for the Oscar), Surviving Picasso (1996), Amistad (1997) (nominee for the Oscar), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Meet Joe Black (1998) and Instinct (1999). His most remarkable film, however, was The Silence of the Lambs (1991), for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor. He also got a B.A.F.T.A. for this role.1 - A Bridge Too Far (1977)
2 - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
3 - Dracula (1992)
4 - The Remains of the Day (1993)
5 - Legends of the Fall (1994)
6 - Nixon (1995)
7 - The Edge (1997)
8 - The Mask of Zorro (1998)
9 - Meet Joe Black (1998)
10 - Mission: Impossible II (2000)
11 - Hannibal (2001)
12 - Bad Company (2002)
13 - Red Dragon (2002)
14 - Proof (2005)
15 - Bobby (2006)
16 - Thor (2011) MCU 04
17 - Hitchcock (2012)
18 - Thor: The Dark World (2013) MCU 08
19 - RED 2 (2013)
20 - Misconduct (2016)
21 - Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
22 - Thor: Ragnarok (2017) MCU 17
23 - Armageddon Time (2022)- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Teri Hatcher is an American actress, writer, presenter, and former NFL cheerleader. She is known for her television roles, portraying Lois Lane on the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997), and as Susan Mayer on the television series Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Teri Lynn Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the only child of Esther (Beshur), a computer programmer, and Owen Walker Hatcher, Jr., a nuclear physicist and electrical engineer. She has Syrian (from her immigrant maternal grandfather), Frisian, English, and Irish ancestry. Teri grew up in Sunnyvale, California, and spent her childhood dancing, and fishing with her father. While at Fremont High School, she was captain of the Featherettes, a dance team that had the look of regular cheerleaders, with the exception of the large headdresses they wore. She was voted "Most Likely to Become a Solid Gold (1980) Dancer" by her graduating class in 1982. Hatcher studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while taking a degree course in mathematics and engineering at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. She became a member of the 1984 Gold Rush, the name of the professional cheer leading squad of the American football San Francisco 49ers.
Hatcher went to Hollywood to lend moral support to a friend during a open casting call. She, however, auditioned and won the role of the singing and dancing mermaid for the television series The Love Boat (1977). She went on to play "Penny Parker," a ditsy but sweet-hearted struggling actress on MacGyver (1985). When that show ended, she auditioned for and won the role of smart and savvy "Lois Lane" on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993), saying that she didn't want to be stuck with the pretty airhead image she had acquired as "Penny Parker."
She married actor Jon Tenney in May 1994. She gave birth to daughter Emerson Tenney on November 10, 1997. Later, she signed to play "Sally Bowles" in a road tour of Cabaret. The tour debuted in Los Angeles on March 2, 1999. Her final show was on September 4, 1999. She stayed out of the industry for a little bit before nabbing a role on the darkly comedic soap opera Desperate Housewives (2004), which could have been a huge mistake. The show turned out to be a mega-hit, which skyrocketed Hatcher to the A-list. Her portrayal of a divorced mother, "Susan Mayer," was consistently named as America's favorite "Desperate Housewife." Hatcher won both a Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and the SAG Award for Female Actor in a Comedy Series before the show's first season was even over.1 - Quantum Leap S1E3 Star-Crossed (1989)
2 - Tango & Cash (1989)
3 - Soapdish (1991)
4 - Lois & Clark season 1 (1993/94)
5 - Lois & Clark season 2 (1994/95)
6 - Lois & Clark season 3 (1995/96)
7 - Dead Girl (1996)
8 - Lois & Clark season 4 (1996/97)
9 - Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
10 - Since You've Been Gone (1998)
11 - Spy Kids (2001)
12 - Momentum (2003)
13 - Desperate Housewives season 1 (2004/05)
14 - Desperate Housewives season 2 (2005/06)
15 - Desperate Housewives season 3 (2006/07)
16 - Desperate Housewives season 4 (2007/08)
17 - Desperate Housewives season 5 (2008/09)
18 - Desperate Housewives season 6 (2009/10)
19 - Smallville S10E8 Abandoned (2010)
20 - Desperate Housewives season 7 (2010/11)
21 - Desperate Housewives season 8 (2011/12)
22 - Supergirl season 2 (2017)- Tall (5'10"), buxom, and shapely blonde bombshell Darryl Hanah was born on July 14, 1972 in Sacramento, California. She's of mixed German, Swedish, and Bahamian descent. Darryl grew up in Mendocino County in Northern California and had a rough childhood (from ages 12 to 18 she went through six foster homes and attended three different high schools). Hanah worked for fourteen years as a restaurant manager. She began performing in hardcore movies at age 33 in September, 2005. A staunch promoter of female masturbation, Darryl has an associates degree in general education and a background in massage therapy. Hanah moved to the San Fernando Valley in 2006 and launched her own official website in 2009. She has several tattoos and continues to appear in porn films.1 - Hustler's Real Girlfriends (2009)
2 - Field of Schemes 4 (2009)
3 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 7 (2009)
4 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8 (2009)
5 - Field of Schemes 6 (2009)
6 - Lesbian Legal Part 3 (2009)
7 - Lesbian Legal Part 5 (2009)
8 - Mother Daughter Exchange Club 10 (2010)
9 - GirlZtown (2010)
10 - Field of Schemes 7 (2010)
11 - Mother Daughter Exchange Club 13 (2010)
12 - Field of Schemes 8 (2010)
13 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 15 (2010)
14 - Lesbian House Hunters Part 3 (2010)
15 - Women Seeking Women 66 (2010)
16 - Imperfect Angels 11 (2011)
17 - Poor Little Shyla 2 (2012)
18 - Lesbian Seductions 53 : Older/Younger 53 (2016)
19 - Faye Reagan and Her Girlfriends (2017)
20 - Capri Anderson and Her Girlfriends (2018) - Actor
- Producer
- Writer
David Hasselhoff has become one of the most recognizable faces on television and throughout the world. Aside from starring in Knight Rider (1982) and Baywatch (1989), he is also an accomplished singer and popular recording artist.
David Michael Hasselhoff was born on July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Dolores Therese (Mullinex) and Joe Hasselhoff (Joseph Vincent Hasselhoff), a business executive. He is of German (from his paternal grandfather), English, and Irish descent. The acting bug first hit when David was seven and so he took acting, singing and dancing lessons. He was very shy off stage in front of girls because he was tall and thin, but when he was on stage he was in his element. Due to his father's work, his family (he has four sisters) moved around frequently. He initially thought his career was going to go in the direction of musicals and Broadway.
American audiences first came to know Hasselhoff when he portrayed the popular "Dr. Snapper Foster" for six seasons on CBS's soap opera, The Young and the Restless (1973). Lured by NBC's Brandon Tartikoff to move from daytime to prime time, Hasselhoff went on to star as "Michael Knight" in NBC's hit series Knight Rider (1982). The role garnered him a "People's Choice Award" for most popular actor and the show became a huge success overseas. The success of Knight Rider (1982) resulted in Hasselhoff's first major international following. When the show ended, Hasselhoff launched a successful recording career in Europe. In 1989, "Looking for Freedom" remained in the number one spot on the German charts for eight consecutive weeks. He has continued to perform regularly in concert and has released nine albums to date.
Hasselhoff returned to episodic television as Mitch Buchannon on Baywatch (1989) when the show debuted on NBC in 1989. Though it enjoyed good ratings, the network canceled the series after only one season. Undeterred, Hasselhoff and his partners acquired the rights to the show and, based on Hasselhoff's popularity overseas, they were able to secure financing and revive "Baywatch" in 1991. Now a piece of American pop culture and an international television phenomenon, Baywatch (1989) was at its peak seen in 140 countries by over one billion viewers each week. During his lengthy career, Hasselhoff has flexed his acting muscles in numerous other projects. He starred in the epic miniseries Shaka Zulu (1986), shot on-location in Morocco.
Hasselhoff is an outdoor sports enthusiast whose interests include scuba diving, hiking, white water rafting, tennis, and jogging. In addition, he has parachuted with the US Army Parachute Demonstration Team, The Golden Knights, and flown with the US Navy's Blue Angels. He is an avid sports fan, and has attended the World Cup Soccer Finals, the NBA Finals, the Olympics, the Indy 500, and the Kentucky Derby. Hasselhoff has traveled throughout Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. He spends many hours visiting children's hospitals throughout the world. His charity, "Race For Life", works with the terminally ill and handicapped children in America.
He was married to the beautiful actress Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff, with whom he has two daughters, Taylor-Ann and Hayley Amber.1 - Knight Rider season 1 (1982/83)
2 - Knight Rider season 2 (1983/84)
3 - Knight Rider season 3 (1984/85)
4 - Knight Rider season 4 (1985/86)
5 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake (1988)
6 - W.B., Blue and the Bean (1989)
7 - Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier (1989)
8 - Baywatch S1E1 In Deep (1989)
9 - Baywatch S1E2 Heat Wave (1989)
10 - Baywatch S1E3 Second Wave (1989)
11 - Baywatch S1E4 Message in a Bottle (1989)
12 - Knight Rider 2000 (1991)
13 - The West Wing S1E16 20 Hours in L.A. (2000)
14 - Layover (2001)
15 - Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)
16 - EuroTrip (2004)
17 - Click (2006)
18 - Hop (2011)
19 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) MCU 15
20 - Baywatch (2017)- Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
Terence Hill was born as Mario Girotti on March 29, 1939 in Venice, Italy to a chemist. His mother was German, and as a child the family lived near Dresden, Saxony, Germany where they survived the Allied bombings of World War II. Italian film-maker Dino Risi discovered him at a swimming meet and he made his first film at the age of 12, Vacanze col gangster (1952) (Holiday for Gangsters). He continued acting to finance his studies and motorcycle hobby. After studying classical literature at the University of Rome for three years, he decided to devote full time to acting. In 1962 he appeared in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (1963), He then signed a contract for a series of adventure and western films in Germany. In 1967 he returned to Italy to play the lead in God Forgives... I Don't! (1967). While on location in Almeria, Spain, he married an American girl of Bavarian descent, Lori Zwicklbauer, who was the dialogue coach for the picture. The producers of this movie wanted him to change his name. He then got a list with 20 names on it and 24 hours time to choose one of these names. He decided to take Terence Hill cause he liked it the most and it has the same initials as his mother's name (Hildegard Thieme). They only told the public that "Hill" was his wife's name out of publicity reasons. At this time of upcoming feminism a man who took his wife's name was something special. In 1976 Hollywood called and he appeared in March or Die (1977) with Gene Hackman and starred in Mr. Billion (1977) with Valerie Perrine. Since then he has concentrated on action/adventure films starring himself and often working with long time partner Bud Spencer. Terence lives in Massachusetts and is a film producer, as well as talented and respected actor.1 - Il gattopardo (1963)
2 - Winnetou - 2. Teil (1964)
3 - Unter Geiern (1964)
4 - Der Ölprinz (1965)
5 - Old Surehand (1965)
6 - Dio perdona... Io no! (1967)
7 - Il corsaro nero (1971)
8 - Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (1971)
9 - Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973)
10 - ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo! (1974)
11 - I due superpiedi quasi piatti (1977)
12 - Pari e dispari (1978)
13 - Poliziotto superpiù (1980)
14 - Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro (1981)
15 - Nati con la camicia (1983)
16 - Non c'è due senza quattro (1984)
17 - Miami Supercops (1985)
18 - Lucky Luke (1991)
19 - Lucky Luke - The TV-Series (1992)
20 - Botte di Natale (1994)- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch his talents just about as far as an actor could possibly hope. He played "Awful Knoffel" in the TNT original movie Evel Knievel (2004), directed by John Badham and executive produced by Mel Gibson. Henriksen portrayed "Awful Knoffel" in this project based on the life of the famed daredevil, played by George Eads. Henriksen starred for three seasons (1996-1999) on Millennium (1996), Fox-TV's critically acclaimed series created by Chris Carter (The X-Files (1993)). His performance as Frank Black, a retired FBI agent who has the ability to get inside the minds of killers, landed him three consecutive Golden Globe nominations for "Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Drama Series" and a People's Choice Award nomination for "Favorite New TV Male Star".
Henriksen was born in New York City. His mother, Margueritte, was a waitress, dance instructor, and model. His father, James Marin Henriksen, who was from Tønsberg, Norway, was a boxer and merchant sailor. Henriksen studied at the Actors Studio and began his career off-Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's "Three Plays of the Sea." One of his first film appearances was as an FBI agent in Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975), followed by parts in Lumet's Network (1976) and Prince of the City (1981). He then appeared in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) with Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut, Damien: Omen II (1978) and in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (1983), in which he played Mercury astronaut Capt. Wally Schirra.
James Cameron cast Henriksen in his first directorial effort, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), then used him again in The Terminator (1984) and as the android Bishop in the sci-fi classic Aliens (1986). Sam Raimi cast Henriksen as an outrageously garbed gunfighter in his quirky western The Quick and the Dead (1995). Henriksen has also appeared in what has developed into a cult classic: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987), in which he plays the head of a clan of murderous redneck vampires. He was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the TNT original film The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998).
In addition to his abilities as an actor, Henriksen is an accomplished painter and potter. His talent as a ceramist has enabled him to create some of the most unusual ceramic artworks available on the art market today. He resides in Southern California with his wife Jane and their five-year-old daughter Sage.1 - Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
2 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
3 - The Right Stuff (1983)
4 - The A-Team S2E14 In Plane Sight (1984)
5 - The Terminator (1984)
6 - Aliens (1986)
7 - Beauty and the Beast S3E4 Snow (1989)
8 - Alien³ (1992)
9 - Hard Target (1993)
10 - The Quick and the Dead (1995)
11 - The X Files S7E4 Millennium (1999)
12 - Scream 3 (2000)
13 - AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
14 - NCIS S6E17 South by Southwest (2009)
15 - Jennifer's Body (2009)
16 - Castle S3E9 (2010)
17 - The Dog Who Saved Halloween (2011)
18 - Grey's Anatomy S12E14 Odd Man Out (2016)
19 - Criminal Minds S11E18 A Beautiful Disaster (2016)
20 - Mom and Dad (2017)- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Katherine Marie Heigl was born on November 24, 1978 in Washington, D.C., to Nancy Heigl (née Engelhardt), a personnel manager, and Paul Heigl, an accountant and executive. Her father is of German/Swiss-German and Irish descent, and her mother is of German ancestry. A short time after her birth, the family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Katherine was to spend the majority of her childhood; the youngest member of her family, Katherine--or "Katie" as she is nicknamed--has two elder siblings, John and Meg. Tragically, her older brother Jason died in 1986 of brain injuries suffered in a car accident, after being thrown from the back of a pickup truck. When doctors determined he was brain-dead, the family made the difficult decision to donate his organs. Not only did this painful chapter give Katherine a greater perspective and appreciation for life, but it motivated her to use her celebrity to promote the importance of organ donation.
Katherine was first thrust into the limelight as a child model. An aunt, visiting the family in New Canaan, took a number of photographs of Katherine, then aged nine, in a series of poses to advertise a hair care product she had invented. Upon returning to New York, with permission from Katherine's parents, she sent the photos to a number of modeling agencies. Within a few weeks, Katherine had been signed to Wilhelmina, a renowned international modeling agency. Almost immediately, she made her debut in a magazine advertisement and soon followed this with an inaugural television appearance in a national commercial for Cheerios breakfast cereal.
Following a number of commercials and modeling assignments for Sears and Lord & Taylor, she made her big-screen debut in That Night (1992), which starred Juliette Lewis and C. Thomas Howell. It was then that she realized that acting rather than modeling was her passion. In 1993, Katherine appeared in Steven Soderbergh's critically-acclaimed Depression-era drama, King of the Hill (1993), before landing her first leading role as a rebellious teenager, alongside Gérard Depardieu, in My Father the Hero (1994). During this time, Katherine continued to attend New Canaan High School, balancing her academic studies with work on films and modeling, which she undertook during holidays, vacations and weekends.
In 1995, she played "Sarah Ryback", the niece of Steven Seagal's character, in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), which was her "debut" in the action film genre. Acting was now becoming a stronger focus for Katherine, although she still modeled extensively, appearing regularly in magazines such as "Seventeen". Television appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) and Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) soon followed, before she took the lead role in Disney's Wish Upon a Star (1996) in 1996. It was also during that year that Katherine's parents divorced and, following her graduation from high school in 1997, she moved with her mother into a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Malibu Canyon area. This enabled her to focus upon acting with the guidance and support of her mother, who now managed her career.
In 1997, Katherine portrayed "Taffy Entwhistle", Rita Hayworth's stand-in, in Stand-ins (1997) and was also cast as the beauteous "Princess Ilene" in the European production, Prince Valiant (1997). She then made her made-for-TV movie debut, co-starring with Peter Fonda in a re-working of the classic Shakespearean play, The Tempest (1998), updated with an American Civil War theme. In this film, she played "Miranda Prosper", a young woman torn between her love for both her father and a Union soldier. Bug Buster (1998) and Bride of Chucky (1998) represented a venture into the horror genre for Katherine. While both films could be described as rather tongue-in-cheek despite their gory emphases, Bride of Chucky (1998) was the better received, both critically and commercially.
In 1999, Katherine decided to branch out into series television when she accepted the role of the haughty, yet vulnerable, "Isabel Evans", on Roswell (1999), a show that blended teen angst with sci-fi drama. Though she had never planned to embark on a career in television, the role of Isabel, a teenager with a secret life, was an offer she found impossible to refuse. In the series, Isabel, her brother Max (Jason Behr) and their friend Michael (Brendan Fehr) are aliens passing as humans in Roswell, New Mexico, as they desperately try to hide the truth from government agencies, the people of Roswell and even their own adopted families. To publicize her role on the show, Katherine graced the covers of magazines such as "TV Guide", "Maxim" and "Teen" and was interviewed on Later (1994) and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (1999). Along with her mother Nancy, she also appeared in an episode of the Sci-Fi TV talk show, Crossing Over with John Edward (2001), during which she spoke with John Edward, a psychic medium, about her late brother, Jason. During the three years Roswell (1999) was in production, Katherine found time to work on several movies. 100 Girls (2000), an independent film released in 2001, is the story of a college freshman who meets the girl of his dreams in an elevator during a blackout, and spends the rest of the movie trying to find her again. Her cameo role is that of Arlene, the competitive tomboy. The second film, Valentine (2001), a horror film starring David Boreanaz and Denise Richards, appeared in U.S. theaters on February 2, 2001. In this movie, which is based upon the 1996 novel by Tom Savage, Katherine plays "Shelley", a medical student who meets a sudden demise.
In the spring of 2001, Katherine accepted a role in NBC's Critical Assembly (2002), a two-hour original television thriller. Katherine and Kerr Smith (Dawson's Creek (1998)) co-starred as brilliant and politically concerned college students who build a nuclear device to illustrate the need for a change in national priorities, but are betrayed by a fellow student when the bomb ends up in the hands of a terrorist. Unfortunately, the telefilm, directed by Eric Laneuville, written by Tom Vaughan, and based on the best-seller "The Seventh Power" by James Mills, was shelved when its storyline was deemed too close for comfort to the events of September 11, 2001. It was eventually broadcast in 2003. Since the cancellation of Roswell (1999) in the spring of 2002, Katherine has been busy with various projects, including an appearance on UPN's update of the classic television series, The Twilight Zone (2002). That episode, entitled Cradle of Darkness (2002), aired on October 2, 2002, and featured Katherine in the role of a woman who goes back in time to stop one of the most notorious murders in history. In addition, she completed a movie, Descendant (2003), a psychological thriller inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". She has also starred as "Romy" in ABC/Touchstone's two-hour telepic, Romy and Michele: In the Beginning (2005), a prequel to the 1997 feature, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997). During the summer of 2002, Katherine made a major decision in the direction of her career when she signed on for representation in all areas with the William Morris Agency, one of the biggest and most prestigious agencies in the entertainment industry. She is now being represented by Norman Aladjem at Paradigm Agency and being managed by Nancy Heigl and Stephanie Simon and Jason Newman at Untitled Entertainment.1 - Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
2 - 100 Girls (2000)
3 - Grey's Anatomy season 1 (2005)
4 - Side Effects (2005)
5 - Grey's Anatomy season 2 (2005/06)
6 - Caffeine (2006)
7 - Grey's Anatomy season 3 (2006/07)
8 - Grey's Anatomy season 4 (2007/08)
9 - 27 Dresses (2008)
10 - Grey's Anatomy season 5 (2008/09)
11 - The Ugly Truth (2009)
12 - Grey's Anatomy season 6 (2009/10)
13 - Life as We Know It (2010)
14 - Killers (2010)
15 - New Year's Eve (2011)
16 - The Big Wedding (2013)
17 - Home Sweet Hell (2015)
18 - Jenny's Wedding (2015)
19 - Fear of Rain (2021)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, and went to Santa Monica City College, where he dropped out after a year due to bad grades. But before he did, he took an acting course because he was told that "nobody flunks acting." Also received some training at Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Decided to go into acting because he did not want to work or go into the service. Trained at The Pasadena Playhouse for two years.1 - The Graduate (1967)
2 - Little Big Man (1970)
3 - Papillon (1973)
4 - All the President's Men (1976)
5 - Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
6 - Tootsie (1982)
7 - Death of a Salesman (1985)
8 - Rain Man (1988)
9 - Dick Tracy (1990)
10 - Hook (1991)
11 - Accidental Hero (1992)
12 - Outbreak (1995)
13 - Sphere (1998)
14 - The Messenger : The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
15 - Runaway Jury (2003)
16 - Finding Neverland (2004)
17 - Meet the Fockers (2004)
18 - The Holiday (2006)
19 - Little Fockers (2010)- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Patricia Mae (Shipp), a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. She has English, Italian, French, Scottish, and German ancestry. She got her first name from her older brother Todd Daniel Hewitt (b. November 8, 1970), who picked the name after a little blonde girl on whom he'd had a crush. Her mother selected Jennifer's middle name, Love (which she goes by offstage), from her best college friend. Her parents separated when she was six months old and her mother raised her in Killeen, Texas.
Hewitt made her official performing debut at age 3 when she sang at a livestock show. At age 5, she was taking tap, jazz, and ballet lessons, which led to her joining the Texas Show Team, who toured the Soviet Union and Europe. When she was 10 her family moved to Los Angeles with encouragement from talent scouts, while Todd stayed behind to finish high school in Texas Jennifer quickly found commercial work and a role on Disney's Kids Incorporated (1984) in 1989. She went through a series of television flops before finally hitting it big on Party of Five (1994) in 1995.1 - Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
2 - I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
3 - Telling You (1998)
4 - I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
5 - Heartbreakers (2001)
6 - The Tuxedo (2002)
7 - Garfield (2004)
8 - Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (2005)
9 - Ghost Whisperer season 1 (2005/06)
10 - Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties (2006)
11 - Ghost Whisperer season 2 (2006/07)
12 - Ghost Whisperer season 3 (2007/08)
13 - Ghost Whisperer season 4 (2008/09)
14 - Ghost Whisperer season 5 (2009/10)
15 - Café (2011)
16 - The Client List season 1 (2012)
17 - The Client List season 2 (2013)
18 - Criminal Minds season 10 (2014/15)- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Her father is of Lebanese descent and her mother is of Mexican/Spanish ancestry. After having seen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) in a local movie theater, she decided she wanted to become an actress. At age 12, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana. After attending Mexico City's prestigious university Universidad Iberoamericana, she felt ready to pursue acting seriously.
She soon landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a hugely successful soap opera which earned her the star status in her native Mexico. However, anxious to make films and to explore her talent as well as passion, she left both Teresa (1989) and Mexico in 1991. Heartbroken fans spread rumors that she was having a secret affair with Mexico's president and left to escape his wife's wrath. She made her way to Los Angeles. She approached Hollywood with naive enthusiasm and quickly learned that Latina actresses were typecast as the mistress maid or local prostitute. By late 1992, she had landed only small roles. She appeared on Street Justice (1991), The Sinbad Show (1993), Nurses (1991), and as a sexy maid on Dream On (1990). She also had only one line in My Crazy Life (1993). Feeling under-appreciated by Anglo filmmakers, she vented her frustrations on Paul Rodriguez's late-night Spanish-language talk show.
Robert Rodriguez and his wife Elizabeth Avellan happened to be watching and were immediately smitten with her. He soon gave her big break -- to star opposite Antonio Banderas in the cult classic Desperado (1995), bringing her into Hollywood prominence. The moviegoers were as dazzled with her as he had been. Afterwards, she was cast again by Rodriguez to star in the cult classic From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Her first star billing came later that year with Fools Rush In (1997) opposite Matthew Perry. It was a modest hit and her star continued to rise in both commercial and films such as Breaking Up (1997) with an unknown Russell Crowe, 54 (1998), Dogma (1999) and In the Time of the Butterflies (2001), the small artistic film which won her an ALMA award as best actress and the summer blockbuster Wild Wild West (1999). Her production company Ventanarosa produced the Mexican feature film No One Writes to the Colonel (1999), which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and selected as Mexico's official Oscar entry for best foreign film.
The new millennium started out quietly as she prepared to produce and star in her dream role of Frida Kahlo, the legendary Mexican painter whom she had been admiring her entire life and whose story she wanted to bring to the big screen ever since she arrived in Hollywood. Frida (2002) was full of passion and enthusiasm, with performances from her and Alfred Molina as Kahlo's cheating husband Diego Rivera. It also featured an entourage of stars such as Antonio Banderas, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton and Valeria Golino.
It was a box office hit and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best actress for Hayek. It won awards for make-up and score by Elliot Goldenthal. Later that year, she expanded her horizons, directing The Maldonado Miracle (2003), which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, she starred in the finale of Rodriguez's Desperado trilogy Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), again opposite Banderas. She also starred in After the Sunset (2004) opposite Pierce Brosnan, and Ask the Dust (2006) opposite Colin Farrell. She then starred in Bandidas (2006), which also featured Penélope Cruz, and Lonely Hearts (2006) opposite Jared Leto.1 - Roadracers (1994)
2 - Four Rooms (1995)
3 - Fair Game (1995)
4 - Desperado (1995)
5 - From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
6 - The Faculty (1998)
7 - Wild Wild West (1999)
8 - Traffic (2000)
9 - Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
10 - Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003)
11 - Bandidas (2006)
12 - Ask the Dust (2006)
13 - Some Kind of Beautiful (2014)
14 - Everly (2014)
15 - The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
16 - Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
17 - Eternals (2021) MCU 26
18 - House of Gucci (2021)- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a young age and first appeared in a slew of 1950s television shows, including Medic (1954), Cheyenne (1955) and Sugarfoot (1957). His first film role was in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), quickly followed by Giant (1956) and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Hopper actually became good friends with James Dean and was shattered when Dean was killed in a car crash in September 1955.
Hopper portrayed a young Napoléon Bonaparte (!) in the star-spangled The Story of Mankind (1957) and regularly appeared on screen throughout the 1960s, often in rather undemanding parts, usually as a villain in westerns such as True Grit (1969) and Hang 'Em High (1968). However, in early 1969, Hopper, fellow actor Peter Fonda and writer Terry Southern, wrote a counterculture road movie script and managed to scrape together $400,000 in financial backing. Hopper directed the low-budget film, titled Easy Rider (1969), starring Fonda, Hopper and a young Jack Nicholson. The film was a phenomenal box-office success, appealing to the anti-establishment youth culture of the times. It changed the Hollywood landscape almost overnight and major studios all jumped onto the anti-establishment bandwagon, pumping out low-budget films about rebellious hippies, bikers, draft dodgers and pot smokers. However, Hopper's next directorial effort, The Last Movie (1971), was a critical and financial failure, and he has admitted that during the 1970s he was seriously abusing various substances, both legal and illegal, which led to a downturn in the quality of his work. He appeared in a sparse collection of European-produced films over the next eight years, before cropping up in a memorable performance as a pot-smoking photographer alongside Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now (1979). He also received acclaim for his work in both acting and direction for Out of the Blue (1980).
With these two notable efforts, the beginning of the 1980s saw a renaissance of interest by Hollywood in the talents of Dennis Hopper and exorcising the demons of drugs and alcohol via a rehabilitation program meant a return to invigorating and provoking performances. He was superb in Rumble Fish (1983), co-starred in the tepid spy thriller The Osterman Weekend (1983), played a groovy school teacher in My Science Project (1985), was a despicable and deranged drug dealer in River's Edge (1986) and, most memorably, electrified audiences as foul-mouthed Frank Booth in the eerie and erotic David Lynch film Blue Velvet (1986). Interestingly, the offbeat Hopper was selected in the early 1980s to provide the voice of "The StoryTeller" in the animated series of "Rabbit Ears" children's films based upon the works of Hans Christian Andersen!
Hopper returned to film direction in the late 1980s and was at the helm of the controversial gang film Colors (1988), which was well received by both critics and audiences. He was back in front of the cameras for roles in Super Mario Bros. (1993), got on the wrong side of gangster Christopher Walken in True Romance (1993), led police officer Keanu Reeves and bus passenger Sandra Bullock on a deadly ride in Speed (1994) and challenged gill-man Kevin Costner for world supremacy in Waterworld (1995). The enigmatic Hopper continued to remain busy through the 1990s and into the new century with performances in All the Way (2003), The Keeper (2004) and Land of the Dead (2005).
As well as his acting/directing talents, Hopper was a skilled photographer and painter, having had his works displayed in galleries in both the United States and overseas. He was additionally a dedicated and knowledgeable collector of modern art and had one of the most extensive collections in the United States. Dennis died of prostate cancer on May 29, 2010, less than two weeks after his 74th birthday.1 - Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
2 - Giant (1956)
3 - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
4 - The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
5 - Hang 'Em High (1968)
6 - True Grit (1969)
7 - Easy Rider (1969)
8 - Apocalypse Now (1979)
9 - True Romance (1993)
10 - Speed (1994)
11 - Waterworld (1995)
12 - Search and Destroy (1995)
13 - Samson and Delilah (1996)
14 - The Blackout (1997)
15 - Top of the World (1997)
16 - Jesus' Son (1999)
17 - 24 season 1 (2002)
18 - The Keeper (2004)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.
Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. Both of his parents were originally from Oklahoma. Harris grew up as the middle child. After graduating high school, he attended New York's Columbia University, where he played football. After viewing local theater productions, Harris took a sudden interest in acting. He left Columbia, headed to Oklahoma, where his parents were living, and enrolled in the University of Oklahoma's theater department. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to find work. He started acting in theater and television guest spots. Harris landed his first leading role in a film in cult-favorite George A. Romero's Knightriders (1981). Two years later, he got his first taste of critical acclaim, playing astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff (1983). Also that year, he made his New York stage debut in Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love", a performance that earned him an Obie for Outstanding Actor. Harris' career gathered momentum after that. In 2000, he made his debut as a director in the Oscar-winning film Pollock (2000).1 - Borderline (1980)
2 - The Right Stuff (1983)
3 - The Abyss (1989)
4 - Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
5 - The Firm (1993)
6 - Needful Things (1993)
7 - The Stand (1994)
8 - Apollo 13 (1995)
9 - Nixon (1995)
10 - The Rock (1996)
11 - Absolute Power (1997)
12 - The Truman Show (1998)
13 - Stepmom (1998)
14 - The Hours (2002)
15 - Cleaner (2007)
16 - National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
17 - Mother! (2017)
18 - Top Gun: Maverick (2022)- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Alyson Hannigan was born in Washington, D.C. to Emilie (Posner), a real estate agent, and Al Hannigan, a truck driver. She began her acting career in Atlanta at the young age of 4 in commercials sponsoring such companies as McDonald's, Six Flags, and Oreos. She is a seasoned television actress, guest starring in Picket Fences (1992), Roseanne (1988), Touched by an Angel (1994) and the The Torkelsons (1991) before starring in her most notorious roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) as "Willow Rosenberg" and How I Met Your Mother (2005) as "Lily Aldrin."1 - My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
2 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 1 (1997)
3 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2 (1997/98)
4 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3 (1998/99)
5 - American Pie (1999)
6 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4 (1999/00)
7 - Boys and Girls (2000)
8 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 5 (2000/01)
9 - American Pie 2 (2001)
10 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6 (2001/02)
11 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7 (2002/03)
12 - American Wedding (2003)
13 - That '70s Show season 6: eps. 12 & 13 (2004)
14 - Veronica Mars season 1: eps. 15 & 19 (2005)
15 - Veronica Mars S2E9 My Mother, the Fiend (2005)
16 - Date Movie (2006)
17 - American Reunion (2012)- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Daryl Christine Hannah was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of Susan Jeanne (Metzger), a schoolteacher and later a producer, and Donald Christian Hannah, who owned a tugboat/barge company. Her stepfather was music journalist/promoter Jerrold Wexler. Her siblings are Page Hannah, Don Hannah and Tanya Wexler. She has Scottish, Norwegian, Danish, Irish, English, and German ancestry.
Daryl graduated from the University of Southern California School of Theatre. She practiced ballet with Maria Tallchief and studied drama at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. In her twenties, she played keyboard and sang backup for Jackson Browne. Hannah, a tall (5' 10") blond beauty, with haunting blue-green eyes, was a natural for show biz.
She started with small roles, such as a student in The Fury (1978) and as Kim Basinger's kid sister in Hard Country (1981). Daryl's breakout role was as the acrobatic, beautiful replicant punk android Pris in Blade Runner (1982); Pris was the vixen who wanted to live beyond her allotted years and risked the wrath of the title character. Showing her versatility, from there she portrayed a mermaid, Madison, who falls in love with Tom Hanks's character in Ron Howard's zany comedy Splash (1983), and a Cro-Magnon in The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986). Hannah played Roxanne in the eponymous Steve Martins contemporary take on the Cyrano de Bergerac story, and co-starred as Elle Driver in Quintin Tarantino's box office hit Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004).
Hannah has been a consistent, strong supporter of independent cinema, both acting in and producing many films, starring in such indie films as John Sayles's Casa de los babys (2003) as well as his political satire Silver City (2004). She worked on several films with the revered Robert Altman, including The Gingerbread Man (1998), as well as several films with the Polish Brothers including Northfork (2003) and Jackpot (2001). Daryl starred in the experimental improvised Michael Radford film Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) and made As a filmmaker, Hannah wrote, directed, and produced an award winning short film, entitled The Last Supper (1995). Hannah also directed, produced and shot the documentary Strip Notes (2002) which was inspired while researching her role for Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) that was shown on HBO and UK's Channel 4.
Daryl is in the process of shooting a documentary on Human Trafficking and has traveled undercover to South East Asia to document this atrocity and has become and advocates raising awareness and ending slavery. She has made over 40 video blogs for various websites including her popular dhlovelife.com. She designed dhlovelife.com (online since 2005) her website dedicated to sharing solutions on how to live more harmoniously with the planet and all other living things. Daryl has been passionate, committed and effective advocate for a more ethical relationship with each other and all life on the Planet. She has produced, hosted and shot numerous environmental awareness/ health documentaries, TV appearances and is a frequent speaker on both the conservative and progressive news.
Hannah has been a greening consultant for events such as the Virgin Music Festival, attended by over 150,000 people. Her many speaking engagements include keynote speeches at the UN Climate Change Summit, UN Global Business Conference on the environment, Natural and Organic Products Expo, LOHAS and numerous national and international universities, conferences and events. She has written articles on self sufficiency and sustainability for many magazines and has done a plethora of interviews on the topic in thousands of publications. The site features weekly five-minute inspirational video blogs which Daryl produces and films. There are daily news updates, alerts, community and access to goods and services. She is a member of the World Future Council, sits on the boards of the Sylvia Earle Alliance, Mission Blue, Eco America, Environmental Media Association (EMA), The Somaly Mam Foundation, and the Action Sports Environmental Coalition, She is the founder of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance (SBA).1 - The Fury (1978)
2 - Blade Runner (1982)
3 - Splash (1984)
4 - Legal Eagles (1986)
5 - Wall Street (1987)
6 - Steel Magnolias (1989)
7 - The Real Blonde (1997)
8 - Rear Window (1998)
9 - Diplomatic Siege (1999)
10 - Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
11 - Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
12 - Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
13 - Yo puta (2004)
14 - 2047: Sights of Death (2014)- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Amber Laura Heard was born in Austin, Texas, to Patricia Paige Heard (née Parsons), an internet researcher, and David C. Heard (David Clinton Heard), a contractor. She has English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Welsh ancestry.
Heard appeared in the Academy Award-nominated film, North Country (2005), in which she played Charlize Theron's character in flashbacks. Her other early film credits include: Syrup (2013), Drive Angry (2011) 3D, The Joneses (2009), Never Back Down (2008), Alpha Dog (2006) and Friday Night Lights (2004). On television, Heard starred on The CW drama, Hidden Palms (2007), and had guest starring roles on Showtime's Californication (2007) and CBS's Criminal Minds (2005).
In 2009, Heard starred in the box office hit, Zombieland (2009), opposite Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray and Jesse Eisenberg. She also starred in the suspense thriller, The Stepfather (2009), with Sela Ward, Dylan Walsh and Penn Badgley. In 2008, she garnered attention for her role in the comedic hit, Pineapple Express (2008), with Seth Rogen and James Franco. Heard received a 2008 Young Hollywood Award for her breakthrough performance in "Pineapple Express".
She appeared in The Rum Diary (2011), opposite Johnny Depp, and John Carpenter's The Ward (2010), which premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. She also starred in the independent film, And Soon the Darkness (2010), in which she additionally served as a co-producer.
Heard starred in Paranoia (2013), opposite Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth and Gary Oldman. The film was released by "Relativity Media" on August 16, 2013. She also starred in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013), which was released by "Open Road Films" on March 4, 2013, and McG's 3 Days to Kill (2014), opposite Kevin Costner and Hailee Steinfeld, which was released in 2014.
Additionally, her film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), which premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, was released by The Weinstein Co. in theaters in the fall of 2013.
Heard resides in Los Angeles, where she is actively involved with Amnesty International. In 2015, she married actor Johnny Depp, and the two divorced in 2017.1 - Drop Dead Sexy (2005)
2 - The O.C. S2E15 The Mallpisode (2005)
3 - Criminal Minds S1E18 Somebody's Watching (2006)
4 - All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
5 - Zombieland (2009)
6 - The Joneses (2009)
7 - Drive Angry (2011)
8 - Machete Kills (2013)
9 - 3 Days to Kill (2014)
10 - Justice League (2017)
11 - Aquaman (2018)
12 - The Stand (2020)
13 - Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
14 - Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family, one of nine children born to Mildred (Harty) and Ivan Harris. He attended Crescent College, a Jesuit school, and was an excellent rugby player, with a strong passion for literature. Unfortunately, a bout of tuberculosis as a teenager ended his aspirations to a rugby career, but he became fascinated with the theater and skipped a local dance one night to attend a performance of "Henry IV". He was hooked and went on to learn his craft at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), then spent several years in stage productions. He debuted on screen in Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) and quickly scored regular work in films, including The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959), The Night Fighters (1960) and a good role as a frustrated Australian bomber pilot in The Guns of Navarone (1961).
However, his breakthrough performance was as the quintessential "angry young man" in the sensational drama This Sporting Life (1963), which scored him an Oscar nomination. He then appeared in the WW II commando tale The Heroes of Telemark (1965) and in the Sam Peckinpah-directed western Major Dundee (1965). He next showed up in Hawaii (1966) and played King Arthur in Camelot (1967), a lackluster adaptation of the famous Broadway play. Better performances followed, among them a role as a reluctant police informer in The Molly Maguires (1970) alongside Sir Sean Connery. Harris took the lead role in the violent western A Man Called Horse (1970), which became something of a cult film and spawned two sequels. As the 1970s progressed, Harris continued to appear regularly on screen; however, the quality of the scripts varied from above average to woeful.
His credits during this period included directing himself as an aging soccer player in The Hero (1970); the western The Deadly Trackers (1973); the big-budget "disaster" film Juggernaut (1974); the strangely-titled crime film 99 and 44/100% Dead! (1974); with Connery again in Robin and Marian (1976); Gulliver's Travels (1977); a part in the Jaws (1975); Orca (1977) and a nice turn as an ill-fated mercenary with Richard Burton and Roger Moore in the popular action film The Wild Geese (1978).
The 1980s kicked off with Harris appearing in the silly Bo Derek vanity production Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) and the remainder of the decade had him appearing in some very forgettable productions. However, the luck of the Irish was once again to shine on Harris's career and he scored rave reviews (and another Oscar nomination) for The Field (1990). He then locked horns with Harrison Ford as an IRA sympathizer in Patriot Games (1992) and got one of his best roles as gunfighter English Bob in the Clint Eastwood western Unforgiven (1992). Harris was firmly back in vogue and rewarded his fans with more wonderful performances in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993); Cry, the Beloved Country (1995); The Great Kandinsky (1995) and This Is the Sea (1997). Further fortune came his way with a strong performance in the blockbuster Gladiator (2000) and he became known to an entirely new generation of film fans as Albus Dumbledore in the mega-successful Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). His final screen role was as "Lucius Sulla" in Caesar (2002).
Harris died of Hodgkin's disease, also known as Hodgkin's lymphoma, in London on October 25, 2002, aged 72.1 - The Guns of Navarone (1961)
2 - Major Dundee (1965)
3 - The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
4 - The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
5 - Robin and Marian (1976)
6 - The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
7 - The Wild Geese (1978)
8 - Unforgiven (1992)
9 - Patriot Games (1992)
10 - Abraham (1993)
11 - Gladiator (2000)
12 - San Giovanni - L'apocalisse (2000)
13 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
14 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Born in Hong Kong, Sammo Hung's acting career began while he was training in acrobatics, martial arts and dance as a child at the China Drama Academy, and he received acclaim for his performance with a troupe called "The Seven Little Fortunes." He made his feature film debut as an actor at the age of 12, and has worked in numerous martial arts films as an actor, director, producer and/or choreographer, collaborating with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, two superstars of the genre.
He is now internationally renowned as a pioneer and trend-setter in Hong Kong action films. Hung's big break as a film actor came with a role as a sparring partner in the Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon (1973). He established his reputation as a skilled physical comedian in several kung-fu comedies, beginning with "Enter the Fat Dragon" (Enter the Fat Dragon (1978)). He also produced and starred in numerous successful films throughout the 1970s and 1980s for Hong Kong's leading film studio, Golden Harvest.
Hung collaborated in the 1980s with long-time friend Jackie Chan in a highly successful series of action comedies that cemented Hung's reputation as a consummate actor/director and launched Chan's career as an international star. For a while, Hung also starred in an American TV series, Martial Law (1998).
He directed Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997), his first film shot in the US. He and his wife, Mina, now divide their time between homes in Hong Kong and Los Angeles.1 - Xia nü (1971)
2 - Enter the Dragon (1973)
3 - Game of Death (1978)
4 - Qi mou miao ji: Wu fu xing (1983)
5 - A gai waak (1983)
6 - Kuai can che (1984)
7 - Fuk sing go jiu (1985)
8 - Xia ri fu xing (1985)
9 - Long de xin (1985)
10 - Fei lung mang jeung (1988)
11 - Yi tin to lung gei: Moh gaau gaau jue (1993)
12 - Yat goh ho yan (1997)
13 - Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
14 - Yip Man chin chyun (2010)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Blond, blue-eyed, tall and handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer enjoyed an international reputation for playing everything from romantic leads to action heroes to sinister villains. Hauer was born in Breukelen, a Dutch town and former municipality in the province of Utrecht.
He was the son of Teunke Hauer (née Mellema) and Arend Hauer, actors who operated an acting school. As his parents were often touring, he and his three sisters were raised by a nanny. A bit of a rebel during his childhood, he chafed at the rules and rigors of school and was often getting into mischief. His grandfather had been the captain of a schooner and at age fifteen, Hauer ran away to work on a freighter for a year. Like his great-grandfather, Hauer was color-blind, which prevented him from furthering his career as a sailor.
Upon his return he attended night school and started working in the construction industry. When he again bombed at school, his parents enrolled him in drama classes. An amateur poet, he spent most of his time writing poetry and hanging out in Amsterdam coffee houses instead of studying. He was expelled for poor attendance and afterward spent a brief period in the Dutch navy.
Deciding he didn't like military life, Hauer honed his acting skills trying to convince his superiors he was mentally unfit and was sent to a special home for psych patients. It was an unpleasant place, but Hauer remained there until he had convinced his ranking officers that the military really did not need him.1 - Pastorale 1943 (1978)
2 - Spetters (1980)
3 - Nighthawks (1981)
4 - Blade Runner (1982)
5 - Escape from Sobibor (1987)
6 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
7 - Deathline (1997)
8 - Smallville season 3: eps. 1 & 2 (2003)
9 - Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
10 - Sin City (2005)
11 - Batman Begins (2005)
12 - 2047: Sights of Death (2014)
13 - The Scorpion King: The Lost Throne (2015)
14 - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Audrey Hepburn was born as Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was a Dutch noblewoman, while her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia, to English and Austrian parents.
After her parents' divorce, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girls school. Later, when her mother moved back to the Netherlands, she attended private schools as well. While she vacationed with her mother in Arnhem, Netherlands, Hitler's army took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard times during the Nazi occupation. Audrey suffered from depression and malnutrition.
After the liberation, she went to a ballet school in London on a scholarship and later began a modeling career. As a model, she was graceful and, it seemed, she had found her niche in life--until the film producers came calling. In 1948, after being spotted modeling by a producer, she was signed to a bit part in the European film Nederlands in zeven lessen (1948). Later, she had a speaking role in the 1951 film, Young Wives' Tale (1951) as Eve Lester. The part still wasn't much, so she headed to America to try her luck there. Audrey gained immediate prominence in the US with her role in Roman Holiday (1953). This film turned out to be a smashing success, and she won an Oscar as Best Actress.
On September 25, 1954, she married actor Mel Ferrer. She also starred in Sabrina (1954), for which she received another Academy Award nomination. She starred in the films Funny Face (1957) and Love in the Afternoon (1957). She received yet another Academy Award nomination for her role in The Nun's Story (1959). On July 17, 1960, she gave birth to her first son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer.
Audrey reached the pinnacle of her career when she played Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), for which she received another Oscar nomination. She scored commercial success again playing Regina Lampert in the espionage caper Charade (1963). One of Audrey's most radiant roles was in the fine production of My Fair Lady (1964). After a couple of other movies, most notably Two for the Road (1967), she hit pay dirt and another nomination in Wait Until Dark (1967).
In 1967, Audrey decided to retire from acting while she was on top. She divorced from Mel Ferrer in 1968. On January 19, 1969, she married Dr. Andrea Dotti. On February 8, 1970, she gave birth to her second son, Luca Dotti in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. From time to time, she would appear on the silver screen.
In 1988, she became a special ambassador to the United Nations UNICEF fund helping children in Latin America and Africa, a position she retained until 1993. She was named to People's magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. Her last film was Always (1989).
Audrey Hepburn died, aged 63, on January 20, 1993 in Tolochnaz, Vaud, Switzerland, from appendicular cancer. She had made a total of 31 high quality movies. Her elegance and style will always be remembered in film history as evidenced by her being named in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time".1 - Roman Holiday (1953)
2 - Sabrina (1954)
3 - War and Peace (1956)
4 - Funny Face (1957)
5 - The Unforgiven (1960)
6 - The Children's Hour (1961)
7 - Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
8 - Charade (1963)
9 - My Fair Lady (1964)
10 - Paris - When It Sizzles (1964)
11 - Wait Until Dark (1967)
12 - Robin and Marian (1976)
13 - Always (1989)