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Gen Hackman

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Biography

Actor awarded two Oscars, Gene Hackman, whose real name is Eugene Allen Hackman was born January 30, 1930 in California. After his parents divorce and the tragic death of his mother fire, Gene Hackman agrees with the Marines for three years. At the end of his military service he moved to New York and landed odd jobs before enrolling in courses in television production and journalism at the University of Illinois. Just 30 years ago, Gene Hackman decided to become an actor. He joined the company in Pasadena, California where he met Dustin Hoffman. Regarded as outsiders by their classmates, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman wants to prove themselves and decide to go try their luck in New York. Gene Hackman began performing in plays. In 1964, he landed a role on Broadway, which opened the doors of the cinema. He landed a role in "Lilith" alongside Warren Beatty, then in "Bonnie and Clyde" in 1967, which won him an Oscar nomination.

In 1970, Gene Hackman was again nominated for an Oscar for her role in "I Never Sang for My Father". The following year he won the Oscar for Best Actor for his unforgettable performance in "French Connection" after which she is offered many roles in the disaster film "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) and "Conversation Secret "(1974) by Francis Ford Coppola, among others.

That same year, Gene Hackman appear in the comedy "Young Frankenstein" in 1977, seen in the war film "A Bridge Too Far" in 1978 and 1980, we see Lex Luthor in interpreting "Superman" and " Superman II. In the late 1980, Gene Hackman is a respected player which alternates the lead roles and supporting roles. Nominated for an Oscar for "Mississippi Burning," shown at the poster of "Reds," "Under Fire," the documentary "Hoosiers" and "Air Force - BAT 21. In 1990, Gene Hackman underwent heart surgery, which forced him to retire some time, even if he finds time to participate in the remake of "Witness Only". In 1992, he played the sheriff of the western "Unforgiven" by Clint Eastwood, which earned him a second Oscar win in the category "Best Supporting Male Role." It is also seen in theaters in "Enemy of State" in 1998 alongside Will Smith. In the 2000, Gene Hackman featured in the film "Heist," in which he plays an aging thief very talented.

Although he never managed to acquire the iconic status of cinema as his peers Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman has the ability to blend into the roles he plays, performing sharp performance as in "French Connection" or "Mississippi Burning" and lighter roles in comedies like "Birdcage" or "The Royal Tenenbaums." His voice is unique and easily recognizable to regular TV commercials (United Airlines, CNN), but also the dubbing of animated films such as "Antz." Divorced from his first wife with whom he had three children, Gene Hackman remarried in 1991 and currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Filmography

2004 Welcome to Mooseport
2003 Runaway Jury
2001 Behind Enemy Lines
The Royal Tenenbaums
Heist
Heartbreakers
2000 The Replacements
Under Suspicion
1998 Enemy of the
Antz
1997 Absolute Power
1996 The Chamber
Extreme Measures
The Birdcage
1995 Get Shorty
Crimson Tide
The Quick and the Dead
1994 Wyatt Earp
1993 Geronimo: An American Legend
The Firm
1992 Unforgiven
1991 Company Business
Class Action
1990 Narrow Margin
Postcards for the Edge
Loose Cannons
1989 The Package
1988 Mississppi Burning
Full Moon in Blue Water
Split Decisions
Bat*21
Another Woman
1987 No Way Out
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1986 Hoosiers
Power
1985 Target
Twice in a Lifetime
1984 Eureka
Misunderstood
1983 Uncommon Valor
Under Fire
1981 Reds
All Night Long
1980 Superman II
1978 Superman
1977 March or Die
The Domino Principle
A Bridge Too Far
1975 Lucky Lady
Bite the Bullet
Night Moves
French Connection II
1974 Young Frankenstein
Zandy's Bride
The Conversation
1973 Scarecrow
1972 The Poseidon Adventure
Prime Cut Cisco Pike
1971 The French
The Hunting Party
Doctors' Wives
1970 I Never Sang for My
1969 Marooned
Downhill Racer
The Gypsy Moths
Riot
1968 The Split
1967 Banning
Bonnie and Clyde
A Covenant with Death
First to Fight
1966 Hawaii
1964 Lilith
1961 Mad Dog Coll

Clint Eastwood

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biography

Born May 31, 1930 at 17:35 in San Francisco, CA (USA), Clint Eastwood did an apprenticeship at Universal in 1954, signing a recent contract employees proposed by the studios. It runs in series B as "Tarantula". Then, from 1959 to 1966 he held seven years the second part of the series "Rawhide" by playing Rowdy Yates.

In the mid-sixties, three legendary success of Sergio Leone: FOR A HANDLE OF DOLLARS (1964), and FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965), THE GOOD, THE Bad And The Ugly (1966), impose the most international stars. (See special pages western).

Back in the U.S. based company Eastwood Malpaso, and began a friendly and fruitful association with Don Siegel, where such prey emerge and the first part of the saga of Inspector Harry Callahan, a legendary figure of the cinema soon action.

Working at that time in genera closely codified Clint Eastwood likes to subtly dissuade the conventions, not hesitating to put his characters in awkward or uncomfortable situations and assign defects that give them additional relief and human truth.

Became director in 1971 with "A shudder in the night," Clint Eastwood is running away from fashion, film alternately lyrical and muscular, nonchalant and disillusioned narrative of astonishing freedom. Economical effects, the filmmaker has set up a situation in a few moments and take time to develop it to its logical end in staging classic, stripped to the extreme. With his natural charisma, Eastwood the actor can also afford to remain aloof from the action, to draw "hollow" some of his roles with a sense of understatement and suggestion.

The iconic American film, Clint Eastwood has done over five decades an exemplary career as an actor, director and producer, who has won countless critical and popular success. Beginning as a single player addition to Universal in 1955, he starred in 44 films, including 12 where he was also providing the functions of producer and director, and since 1964, has toured in 24 feature films by Sergio Leone Don Siegel, John Sturges, Wolfgang Petersen, etc..

Over the years, Eastwood has won, among other distinctions: the Kennedy Center Honors Award (December 2000), the Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the National Board of Review, New York (January 2000), a summons under "Favorite All- Time Movie Star at the People's Choice Awards 1999, five People's Choice Awards under "Favorite Motion Picture Actor (1981, 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1998), a Caesar of Honor (1998), the Golden Laurel Lifetime Achievement Award the Producer's Guild of America (1998), the Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute and the Film Scoiety at the Lincoln Center (1996), the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( 1995). (all his awards include the Awards page)

1993, his Western "revisionist" and twilight, ruthless, won the Oscar for Best Director, Best Film, Best Supporting Actor and Best Editing. It is also selected in the best actor category, best screenplay, best scenery and best sound.

1994: Chairman of the Jury at Cannes, Eastwood presents three of his films: PALE RIDER, IBRD (where the best actor award was won by Forest Whitaker) and WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART (which was among the titles selected for Golden Palme).

1995: The Bridges of Madison County (actor, composer, film director, producer) 1996: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (producer, film director)

1997: Absolute Power (Actor, composer, film director, producer) 1998: Convicted True Crime (Actor, composer, film director, producer

2000: Space Cowboys (actor, composer, film director, producer)

2002: Blood Work (Actor, film director, producer)

2003: Mystic River (film director) February 2005: just four Oscars and three nominations for his latest film "Million Dollar Baby"! Eleven years after Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood is the second time in his career by winning the Oscar for best director and Best Film , Best actress : Hilary Swank ,Best Supporting Actor : Morgan Freeman
In 2006 and 2007 he turned a "diptych" with Steven Spielberg: FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (in France "Flags of Our Fathers")

2008 will rise "Changeling," a drama based on real events, the movie where he was nominated two times for the Golden Globes. In 2009 released "Gran Torino.

Pilmography

Hereafter (2010)

Invictus (2009)

Gran Torino (2008)

Changeling (2008)

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Mystic River (2003

Blood Work (2002)

Space Cowboys (2000)

True Crime (1999)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Absolute Power (1997)

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

A Perfect World (1993)

In the Line of Fire (1993)

Unforgiven (1992)

The Rookie (1990)

White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)

Pink Cadillac (1989)

Bird (1988)

The Dead Pool (1988)

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Pale Rider (1985)

Tightrope (1984)

City Heat (1984)

Sudden Impact (1983)

Honkytonk Man (1982)

Firefox (1982)

Any Which Way You Can (1980)

Bronco Billy (1980)

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

The Gauntlet (1977)

The Enforcer (1976)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

The Eiger Sanction (1975)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

Magnum Force (1973)

Breezy (1973)

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Joe Kidd (1972)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Play Misty for Me (1971)

The Beguiled (1971)

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Paint Your Wagon (1969)

Where Eagles Dare (1969)

Coogan's Bluff (1968)

Hang 'em High (1968)

The Witches (1966)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

For a Few Dollars More (1965)

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958)

Lafayette Escadrille (1958)

Escapade in Japan (1957)

The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)

Away All Boats (1956)

Star in the Dust (1956)

Never Say Goodbye (1956)

Tarantula (1955)

Lady Godiva (1955)

Francis in the Navy (1955)

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Jodie Foster

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Biography

Child prodigy, Jodie Foster started her career very young. After a few appearances in commercials, she turns 10 years in his first film, a Disney production (Napoleon and Samantha, 1972), in which she plays a little runaway. As a teenager, she already has to his credit several Hollywood productions such as Tom Sawyer (1973), A Little Indian, or Alice is not here, one of the first films of Martin Scorsese. Impressed, the latter hired him to play the young prostitute in Taxi Driver, offering passage to a first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1976. The same year, his role in Bugsy Malone Alan Parker confirms its early success to the greats.

Do not neglect his studies, Jodie Foster studied at the French College (she speaks fluent French) and then at the prestigious Yale University, where she shows in 1985 a degree in literature in his pocket. During school holidays, she plays including dramas Hotel New Hampshire and Carny. In 1988, the composition of Sarah Tobias, a young female rape victim who defended his case in The Defenders Jonathan Kaplan, the Best Actress Oscar spends. She repeated this performance three years later in interpreting the young rookie FBI Clarice Starling in the thriller The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme. The film, which one meets Anthony Hopkins brings him international fame.

After The Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster's career has seen a real boost. It is the generic drama Sommersby (1993), the comedy Maverick (1994) or Nell (ditto), who sees embody a young girl raised away from the world. But it is quickly becoming rarer, preferring to focus on his family. She then stands in dribs and drabs, dashing through the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical film Anna and the King (1999) or the ambitious thrillers such as the Panic Room by David Fincher (2002) and Flight Plan (2005). At alongside Gerard Butler, she tries to comedy adventure in Nim's Island.

Hollywood star Jodie Foster is nonetheless very attached to France. It works well on three occasions with filmmakers hex: Claude Chabrol for The Blood of Others (1984), Eric Le Hung for Me, Blue Flower (1977) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet for A Very Long Engagement (2004).

The U.S. also has experience behind the camera: she is director of the Little Man (1991) and Family Weekend (1995). She is also producing the latter, as well as The Brave One, which has not been not as successful as expected at the box office.

Filmography

Nim's Island 2008
The Brave One 2007
Inside Man 2006
Flightplan 2005
A Very Long Engagement 2004
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys 2002
Panic Room 2002
Anna and the King 1999
Contact 1997
Maverick 1994
Nell 1994
Sommersby 1993
Shadows and Fog 1992
Little Man Tate 1991
Silence of the Lambs, The 1991
Backtrack 1989
Stealing Home 1988
Mesmerized 1986
Accused, The 1988
Siesta 1987
Five Corners 1987
Hotel New Hampshire, The 1984
Foxes 1980
Carny 1980
Candleshoe 1977
Moi, fleur bleue 1977
Casotto 1977
Taxi Driver 1976
Bugsy Malone 1976
Echoes of a Summer 1976
Freaky Friday 1977
Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, The 1976
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974
Tom Sawyer 1973
One Little Indian 1973
Kansas City Bomber 1972
Napoleon and Samantha 1972

Susan Sarandon

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Biography

His real name is Susan Abigail Tomalin , Born October 4, 1946 at Tomlin, New York (USA) . Susan Sarandon was brought up in a Catholic family. Enrolled with the nuns, his childhood is under the sign of a crushing conservatism which is defying the early foundations for a rebellious attitude. After graduating from Catholic University of America (based in Washington) in English and Theatre, Susan Sarandon, shares his early career in modeling and small roles on stage and television.

Her first movie role in 1970 in Joe is also the America of John G. Avildsen. She accepts a lot of things without gaining much recognition until 1975, when the expected happens platform with two very different films. In The Great Waldo Pepper, she plays the young love of Robert Redford, stands out as leading lady. In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, very off-gothic musical, she played an innocent young woman corrupted by a transsexual sex maniac. This film is an underground hit and quickly became the object of a cult delusional (the fans come dressed to meetings and throw water on the screen).

In 1979 she separated from her husband to marry with Louis Malle directs in Petite and Atlantic City (the film earned him his first Oscar nomination in 1980). It was then a relationship with Sean Penn, 14 years his junior. In 1986, his career skyrocketed with The Witches of Eastwick, where she played opposite Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer. Then two years later, she plays a sexy woman and an aging baseball fan who shares his heart and his body between Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins in the young duo to three. This year, 12 years younger, also has two children with the actress. Susan Sarandon says there, with a certain casualness towards Hollywood, being a sex symbol is not the prerogative of young actresses. Where the system is that the careers of actresses decline with their aging, Susan Sarandon shows its age with pride.

The most famous role as Susan Sarandon happens in 1991, led by director Ridley Scott, the tragic female equipped Thelma and Louise for which she was nominated for an Oscar. A year later she was again nominated for Lorenzo, then for The Client, but eventually it will stall in 1995 the statuette with the drama staged by her husband, Dead Man Walking. She has a dual role in 1998 as producer and performer for the dramatic comedy My Best Enemy, playing a mother become embittered by his divorce, and became in 2002 a row, conservative woman recovering her teenage delusions in The Banger Sisters alongside Goldie Hawn. It is found that year in the comedy Igby and drama Moonlight Mile, in which his character learns to live after the accidental death of his daughter.
In 2002, she is the poster of four films, Igby Goes Down, The Child of Mine, The Banger Sisters, Moonlight Miles.

Filmography

Solitary Man 2010
The Greatest 2010
Peacock 2009
The Lovely Bones 2009
Speed Racer 2008
Bernard and Doris 2007
Enchanted 2007
In the Valley of Elah 2007
Mr. Woodcock 2007
Romance and Cigarettes 2007
Elizabethtown 2005
Alfie 2004
Shall We Dance? 2004
Moonlight Mile 2002
The Banger Sisters 2002
Igby Goes Down 2002
Cats & Dogs 2001
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie 2000
Joe Gould's Secret 2000
Anywhere But Here 1999
Cradle Will Rock 1999
Stepmom 1998
Twilight 1998
Illuminat 1998
James and the Giant Peach 1996
Dead Man Walking 1995
Client, The 1994
Little Women 1994
Safe Passage 1994
Light Sleeper
Oil 1992
Player, The 1992
Bob Roberts 1992
Thelma & Louise 1991
White Palace 1991
January Man 1989
Dry White Season, A 1989
Hearts Dance 1988
Bull Durham 1988
Witches of Eastwick, The 1987
Compromising Positions 1985
Hunger, The 1983
Buddy System, The 1984
Tempest 1982
Loving Couples 1980
Atlantic City 1980
Something Short of Paradise 1979
Pretty Baby
Flag or Crash 1977
King of the Gypsies 1978
Other Side of Midnight, The 1977
Great Smokey Roadblock, The 1976
One Summer Love 1976
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The 1975
Great Waldo Pepper, The 1975
Front Page, The 1974
Lovin' Molly 1974
Mortadella 1972
Fleur bleue 1971
Joe 1970

Meryl Streep

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Biography

His real name was Mary Louise Streep, American actress Meryl Streep was born June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, a pharmacist father and a mother designer.

Coming from a wealthy background, she is sent to a college girl. She is quite ill at ease and feels more tomboyish girl that model. She dreams of becoming a singer and trained to be an opera singer. It eventually settling on the film and took classes at the Yale Drama School and Vassar graduate released it in 1971. During her studies, she tries repeatedly to the theater.

Like many young actors are rather difficult beginning. It starts on TV where several small appearances allow him to earn some money and make themselves known. Her first movie role in 1977 film Zinnemann, Julia. But thanks largely to the TV series Holocaust aired in 1978, that Meryl Streep is finally discovered by the public and a great success.

This success opens the doors of the final film. She was spotted by Michael Cimino gives him a very nice role alongside Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in his masterpiece, Journey to The Deer Hunter (1978) and by Woody Allen in 1979 for which rotates in Manhattan. In 1980, she received her first Oscar (Oscar for best supporting actress) for her role as beautiful divorced mother desperate to retain custody of her child in the film by Alan J. Pakula, Kramer Kramer cons, in which she played opposite Dustin Hoffman.

Therefore, she never left the front of the stage, multiplying the various roles. It is very noticeable in the second film she toured with Alan J. Pakula, Sophie's Choice (1982), where she plays a mother so shocking forced to choose which of her two children will be spared by the Nazis from entering a concentration camp. This role earned him an Oscar for best actress. It is found later in Out of Africa (1986) by Sidney Pollack with Robert Redford in Hector Babenco Ironweed (1987), and especially in 1995 in the beautiful film (and with) Clint Eastwood On the road to Madison, where she plays the role of a mother who discovers belatedly row true love in the arms of a passing photographer.

The great actress to look wise and reserved, who can play all the roles, activist bent on the average American guy, he never seems more comfortable and takes all its fullness, in melodramas, where his grace and his sensibility vibrate in unison.

Meryl Streep is now living on his property in Connecticut, surrounded by her husband, Don Gummer and her four children. She lives a green, close to nature, away from the hectic life and the gutter press in .

Filmography

It's Complicated 2009
The Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
Julie & Julia 2009
Doubt 2008
Mamma Mia! 2008
Dark Matter 2008
Lions for Lambs 2007
Rendition 2007
Evening 2007
The Ant Bully 2006
The Devil Wears Prada 2006
A Prairie Home Companion 2006
Prime 2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 2004
The Manchurian Candidate 2004
Adaptation 2002
The Hours 2002
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
Music of the Heart 1999
Dancing at Lughnasa 1998
One True Thing 1998
Before and After 1996
Marvin's Room 1996
Bridges of Madison County, The 1995
River Wild, The 1994
House of the Spirits, The 1993
Death Becomes Her 1992
Defending Your Life 1991
Postcards from the Edge 1990
She-Devil 1989
Cry in the Dark, A 1988
Ironweed 1987
Heartburn 1986
Out of Africa 1985
Plenty 1985
Falling in Love 1984
Silkwood 1983
Sophie's Choice 1982
Still of the Night 1982
French Lieutenant's Woman, The 1981
Manhattan 1979
Seduction of Joe Tynan, The 1979
Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
Deer Hunter, The 1978
Julia 1977

Jack Nicholson

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Biography

Jack Nicholson comes from a very poor family, of Irish origin. He was born April 22, 1937 in Neptune, New Jersey. Her mother, who was then a 14 year old girl confided to her parents and pretends to be her sister. Jack Nicholson only discovered this story in 1975, when Time magazine decided to investigate its origins. He will never know her father, an aviator alcoholic, who leaves his mother and himself, from his birth.

At 17, he moved to Los Angeles to take acting classes. He made his debut in Hollywood by multiplying the odd jobs. It is particularly errand boy for MGM. His first movie role in 1958 in Cry Baby Killer of Us Addis. It multiplies the more or less important roles, in films of series B produced by Roger Coremans which was working cinema greats such as Joe Dante (Gremlins), Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000) Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs ) ... We discover notably in The Terror, a classic B-series directed by Roger Coremans, as an actor at the side of Boris Karloff, but also as co-director. He also made numerous appearances on television series.

It is actually discovered by the public in 1969 in Easy Rider with Dennis Hopper. This cult road movie tells the tragic story of the wanderings of two motorcyclists in America in the 70. That role earned him an Oscar nomination.

Therefore, he has acted and is found especially in Five easy pieces (1970) Bob Rafelson, The Last Detail (1973) Hal Ashby, Chinatown (1974) by Roman Polanski ...

The year 1975 was the year of recognition for Jack Nicholson. Milos Forman offered him the lead role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a film that feeling. He plays the role of McMurphy, a most dangerous criminals to escape prison, poses as a lunatic and enters a mental hospital. His masterful performance is the result of intense preparation and methodical drives him to attend the asylums and immerse themselves among fools. It earned him his first Oscar for best actor.

One finds the following year in The Last Tycoon Elia Kazan and in The Missouri Breaks, Arthur Penn, with Marlon Brando is somehow the idol Jack Nicholson. In 1978, he began directing with Goin'south which is a failure.

In 1980, Stanley Kubrick offered him one of the finest roles of his career in the terrifying The Shining. It interprets a writer in search of inspiration that came to stay with his wife and son, a boy with a strange power in a deserted hotel and isolated, murderous past. Gradually possessed by the spirit of play, it goes insane and tries to murder his family. We offer, through a range of expressions most disturbing and terrifying as each other, a masterful performance that remains in our memories.

The 80 will see him take on roles of characters disorders, alcoholic, a little crazy and marginal. He plays in The Postman Always include fewer spectators ring (1981) Bob Rafelson and Terms of endearment (1983) James.L. Brooks. In 1989, he becomes the Joker, demonic and cruel character who seeks to poison the people of Gotham City in Batman of Tim Burton. In 1996, the latter will provide a very impressive double role in his film spoof Mars Attacks!.

In 1995, we were able to admire the beautiful film by Sean Penn, Crossing Guard, a father seeking by every means to avenge the death of his daughter, thrown by an ex-con who tries to rebuild his life. Finally in 1997, he surprised everyone by changing the registry in the film by James L. Brooks, As Good as It Gets. It interprets a New York writer, cantankerous, eccentric and misanthropic whose life and daily routines will be disturbed by the encounter with a waitress friendly, Helen Hunt. It is surprising in that role so he gets a third Oscar for best actor.

It has long been the companion of Angelica Huston, who left after one of the friends of their daughter gave birth to a child by him.

Filmography

The Bucket List 2007
The Departed 2006
Something's Gotta Give 2003
Anger Management 2003
About Schmidt 2002
The Pledge 2001
As Good as it Get 1997
The Mars Attacks! 1996
Evening Star 1996
Blood and Wine 1996
The Crossing Guard 1995
Wolf 1994
A Few Good Men 1992
Hoffa 1992
Man Trouble 1992
The Two Jakes 1990
Batman 1989
Broadcast News 1987
Ironweed 1987
The Witches of Eastwick 1987
Heartburn 1986
Prizzi's Honor 1985
Terms of Endearment 1983
Border, The 1982
The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981
Notre Dame de la croisette 1981
Reds 1981
The Shining 1980
Goin' South 1978
The Missouri Breaks 1976
The Last Tycoon 1976
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
The Fortune 1975
Professione: reporter 1975
Tommy 1975
Chinatown 1974
The Last Detail 1973
The King of Marvin Gardens 1972
Safe Place, A 1971
Carnal Knowledge 1971
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 1970
Five Easy Pieces 1970
The Rebel Rousers 1970
Easy Rider 1969
Psych-Out 1968
The Shooting 1967
Hell's Angels on Wheels 1967
Flight to Fury 1966
Ride in the Whirlwind 1965
Back Door to Hell 1964
Ensign Pulver 1964
The Raven 1963
The Terror 1963
Broken Land The 1962
The Little Shop of Horrors 1960
Studs Lonigan 1960
Too Soon to Love 1960
The Wild Ride 1960
The Cry Baby Killer 1958

Anthony Hopkins : Canibal cinema

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Biography

During his exceptional career in film, Anthony Hopkins turned a very large number of feature films, winning the Oscar for best actor in 1991 for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

Anthony Hopkins was born on 31 May at Margam, near Port Talbot in Wales. At 17, he joined an amateur theater company of the local YMCA and participates in its first show
1955 to 1957. After two years of military service, he returned to acting and an audition to enter the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts of London. Holder of a scholarship, he studied drama until 1963.

Desiring to enter the National Theatre, where he auditioned before Sir Laurence Olivier who was then the director. It offers him his first role, that of Andrei in The Three Sisters by Chekhov.

Two years later in 1967 he replaced Laurence Olivier, suffering in part from Strindberg, Dance of Death. At this time Hopkins made his film debut. This is an immediate success: role of Richard the Lion Heart in A Lion in Winter, where his partner Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn. The film itself, won the Oscar for Best Film.

Anthony Hopkins then leads to his career in cinema, theater and television in the UK and the USA. American audiences discovered him in 1973 in QB VII by Leon Uris, the first American mini-series.

Winner of the 1991 Oscar for Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs was also cited in the award for The Remains of the Day and Nixon, and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of John Quincy Adams in Amistad

Regularly sought by leading directors and American English, Hopkins has also linked his name with films like David Lynch's Elephant Man, Desperate hours of Michael Cimino, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Howards End and James Ivory's Surviving Picasso , Legends of the Fall Edward Zwick At loggerheads by Lee Tamahori on a script by David Mamet, The Mask of Zorro by Martin Campbell with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Meet Joe Black Martin Brest or Bad Company Joel Schumacher.

He directed the 1990 documentary Dylan Thomas: Return Journey and toured and performed in August 1996 by Uncle Vanya, two films which he also composed the music.
Anthony Hopkins, who adopted U.S. citizenship in 2000, is Knight of the Order of the British Empire and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.

In 2003 he was the poster of The Color of lies by Robert Benton from the novel by Philip Roth and Nicole Kidman, until two years later to take the role of Ptolemy in Alexander-old Oliver Stone .

In 2007, he joined the cast of Beowulf alongside Angelina Jolie. It is found alongside Benicio del Toro in Wolfman (2010) by Joe Johnston.

Filmography

Beowulf 2007
Slipstream 2007
The Devil and Daniel Webster 2007
Fracture 2007
Bobby 2006
All the King's Men 2006
The World's Fastest Indian
Proof 2005
Alexander 2004
Human Stain 2003
Red Dragon 2002
Bad Company 2002
Hearts in Atlantis 2001
Hannibal 2001
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000
Titus 1999
Instinct 1999
Meet Joe Black 1998
Mask of Zorro, The 1998
Amistad 1997
Edge, The 1997
Surviving Picasso 1996
August 1996
Nixon 1995
Legends of the Fall 1994
Road to Wellville, The 1994
Shadowlands 1993
Remains of the Day, The 1993
Innocent, The 1993
Trial, The 1993Chaplin 1992
Dracula 1992
Howards End 1992
Freejack 1992
Spotswood 1991
Silence of the Lambs, The 1991
Desperate Hours 1990
Chorus of Disapproval, A 1988
Dawning, The 1988
Good Father, The 1987
84 Charing Cross Road 1986
Bounty, The 1984
Elephant Man, The 1980
Change of Seasons, A 1980
International Velvet 1978
Magic 1978
Bridge Too Far, A 1977
Audrey Rose 1977
Girl from Petrovka, The 1974
Juggernaut 1974
Doll's House, A 1973
Young Winston 1972
When Eight Bells Toll 1971
Looking Glass War, The 1970
Hamlet 1969
Lion in Winter, The 1968
White Bus, The 1966

Marlon Brando

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Biography

Born April 3, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. Marlon Brando Jr. was the son of actress Dorothy Pannebaker. Marlon comes from a family with typical American ancestries Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and ... French (the name was spelled originally Brandeau. A boy (Marlon) and two daughters (Jocelyn and Frances), born of a father representative chemicals and mother passionate about the arts. Dorothy is a pretty woman liberal ideas who paints, sculpts and above is part of the municipal theater. Undoubtedly, it will have a great influence on this son of the gifts and the complex nature occur very early. Joined the Military Academy in Faribault Minnesota, he was fired after a few months and comes home announcing that he will take orders!

He did take a few months to get his parents, who had previously denied, permission to join her sisters in New York. Brando, Jocelyn and Frances live happily with friends bohemians. In summer 1943, one who has never completed any learning, meeting the theater. And he will dedicate it with passion.

Two characters will exert a decisive influence on him: Stanislavsky, considered the father of the modern actor and Stella Adler, who he met in a drama workshop where she teaches. With the latter, is mutual love at first sight, as deep as platonic: it guesses the extraordinary potential of this neurotic beautiful as a god.

Marlon was fascinated by a creative process that led him to work through introspection to bring forth an emotion all the more true as it comes from memory the most hidden, most painful memories. Brando never forget a discipline that aligns its sensitivity to its natural masochism. During this period, Marlon works with passion, or better with perseverance. He learns, through careful observation, concentration carried to the obsession, to dismiss the free effects, unnecessary moves, to be totally possessed by his character. His natural instinct is such that it comes in a few weeks to master his technique. A man then enters her life, which will blow his prodigious gifts. "Articulates, Marlon," cried the director of the back of the room. If this thing loses money, I will at least hear why!

" Thus begins, in 1946, during rehearsals of Truckline Cafe, relations with the young actor who leads from the front in an acting career and director, theater and film: Elia Kazan. Immediately after this film, it connects several small roles in "Candida," Angigone "and" Flag is Born ". It becomes a reliable film. He proposes to interpret the play by Jean Cocteau, "The Eagle Has Two Heads" with Tallulah Bankhead. The first rehearsal was a disaster according to some, Brando multiplied during the monologue antics of his partner, and especially his death turned into a protracted agony that was crying in laughter. Legend or reality? But the conclusion was not long in coming: the actor was replaced the next day. He does not regret. "The Eagle Has Two Heads" was a flop. In 1950,

it runs under the direction of Elia Kazan, the film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire". Marking a clear break with Anglo-Saxon, this film is a blaze improper mixing, hyperreal in a social context, neuroses and sex drive. The choice of Brando for that role is a real stroke of genius: he becomes a star.

As written by Truman Capote, then it is "the ideal image of American youth - dark blond hair, blue-gray eyes, dark complexion, athletic approach: map of the United States is etched on his face". After the play "Hamlet" by Tennessee Williams, he connects with a timeless film that will make jeans and leather jackets: "The Wild One. In this film, he expresses the revolt of a generation by becoming Johnny, a biker rebel.

From there, everything goes so quickly, and in 1954 he won an Oscar for "On the Waterfront". It is then the undisputed star of Hollywood, and turns in every register of the musical (Guys and Dolls), the tragedies (Julius Caesar), the war film (The dance of the damned) or to sea adventures ( Mutiny on the Bounty), Brando shines. Yet Brando got tired and retired middle gradually, he chooses his films with special care. Each occurrence is equivalent to a success: "Apocalypse Now" "The Godfather" (for which he won an Oscar in 1972), "Last Tango in Paris" ...

But the disappointments of his son, who invests in the defense of the Indians and led a lifestyle excessive, forced him to run for the money, and not always in financial success: "Started in the Mafia" Don Juan De Marco "... "The Brave" allowed her to play McCarthy, the angel of Death alongside Johnny Depp, and are not, according to him, a financial issue, but a favorite.

Marlon Brando is a legend unto itself, the producers snapped up with millions of dollars - but who can also work for your eyes if it takes him. An inspiration to many actors and directors. An actor of genius who has made a living gallery of portraits impressive: Stanley Kowalski, Terry Malloy, Fletcher Christian, Mario Puzo ... These characters are unique and Marlon Brando.

Filmography

"The Men" (1950)
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
"Viva Zapata! (1952)
"Julius Caesar" (1953)
"On the Waterfront" (1954)
"The Wild One" (1954)
"Desiree" (1954)
"Guys and Dolls" (1955)
"The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956)
"Sayonara" (1957)
"The Young Lions" (1958)
"The Fugitive Kind" (1960)
"One-Eyed Jacks" (1961)
"Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962)
"The Ugly American" (1963)
"Bedtime Story" (1964)
"Morituri" (1965)
"The Chase" (1966)
"The Appaloosa" (1966)
"The Countess from Hong Kong" (1967)
"Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967)
"Candy" (1968)
"The Night of the Following Day" (1969
Burn!" (1969)
"The Nightcomers" (1971)
"The Godfather" (1972)
"Last Tango in Paris" (1973)
"The Missouri Breaks" (1976)
"Superman" (1978)
"Raoni" (1979)
"Apocalypse Now" (1979)
"The Formula" (1980)
"A Dry White Season" (1989)
"The Freshman" (1990)
"Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" (1992)
"Don Juan DeMarco" (1995)
"The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1996)
"The Brave" (1997)
"Free Money" (1998)
"The Score" (2001)

Robert de Niero : Hollywood giant

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biography

Robert De Niro is an American actor born August 17, 1943 in New York. He is best known for his roles in films by Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone, Brian de Palma or Bernardo Bertolucci.

Son of the painter namesake Robert De Niro, he was born in 1943 in New York in a family of Italian-Irish and Catholic. Robert De Niro was first a student of Stella Adler before entering the famous Actors Studio under the direction of Lee Strasberg, to increase opportunities for her future career.

He began his acting career on stage on Broadway before discovering the world of cinema in 1968 in Greetings (directed by Brian De Palma's). Subsequently, he took a few film roles that have remained little known to the public. He became known in the Last Match (Bang the Drum Slowly) (1973). Also in 1973 he began working with Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets. De Niro is also present in these films of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), the King of Comedy (The King of Comedy) (1983) Goodfellas (Goodfellas) (1990), Cape Fear (Cape Fear) (1991) and Casino (1995). In these films, De Niro has primarily played unstable characters, with inclinations neurotics .

In the 1980s, he began to play in comedies, films in which he met with great success, for example: Brazil (1985), Midnight Run (1988), Wag (Wag the Dog) (1997) , Analyze This (Analyze This) (1999), and my stepfather and me (Meet the Parents) (2000).

He won two Oscars: for his performance in Raging Bull, he received the Oscar for Best actor and he received the Oscar for Best Actor for The Godfather, Part two (The Godfather, Part II).

The story is that De Niro and Marlon Brando are the only two actors to play the same role and have won awards for that role, De Niro, who played the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part 2, and Brando had interpreted as Don Vito in The Godfather .

He also directed two films It was once the Bronx (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006), a film where he shares top billing with Matt Damon.

He founded his production company, Tribeca Productions, called Tribeca neighborhood of New York in which he lives.

Praised for his commitment in its various roles, it took 23 kg and learned to box for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. He also learned to play the saxophone for New York, New York.

Although he does not speak easily, De Niro is generally regarded as a keen observer of details about the characters and as a great perfectionist. It is known for his work in physical interpretation of his characters. He does not hesitate to gain weight and to lose to get into the skin of her character. This is one of the trademarks of actors who have studied the work of Stella Adler (Marlon Brando, Benicio del Toro ...)

The extent of his filmography and a very large number of numbers acting exceptional (The Godfather II, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in America, Heat, Goodfellas, Casino, etc. ...) Robert De Niro are a major player in American cinema of the past 40 years.

Filmography

Everybody's Fine 2009

What Just Happened 2008

Righteous Kill 2008Stardust 2007

The Good Shepherd 2006

Arthur and the Invisibles 2006

The Bridge of San Luis Rey 2005

Hide and Seek 2005

Meet the Fockers 2004

Shark Tale 2004

Godsend 2004

Analyze That 2002

City by the Sea 2002

Showtime 2002

The Score 2001

15 Minutes 2001

Men of Honor 2000

Meet the Parents 2000

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle 2000

Analyze This 1999

Flawless 1999

Roni 1998

Great Expectation 1998

Cop Land 1997

Wag the Dog 1997

Jackie Brown 1997

Marvin's Room 1996

Sleepers 1996

Fan, The 1996

Heat 1995

Casino 1995

Frankenstein 1994

This Boy's Life 1993

Bronx Tale, A 1993

Mad Dog and Glory 1993

Mistress 1992

Night and the City 1992

Cape Fear 1991

Backdraft 1991

Guilty by Suspicion 1991

Awakenings 1990

GoodFellas 1990

Stanley & Iris 1990

We're No Angels 1989

Jacknife 1989

Midnight Run 1988

Untouchables, The 1987

Angel Heart 1987

Mission, The 1986

Brazil 1985

Falling in Love 1984

Upon a Time in America 1984

King of Comedy, The 1983

True Confessions 1981

Raging Bull 1980

Deer Hunter, The 1978

New York, New York 1977

Taxi Driver 1976

1900 1976

Last Tycoon, The 1976

Godfather: Part II, The 1974

Bang the Drum Slowly 1973

Mean Streets 1973

Born to Win 1971

Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, The 1971

Jennifer on My Mind 1971

Bloody Mama 1970

Hi, Mom! 1970

Wedding Party, The 1969

Sam's Song 1969

Greetings 1968

Al Pacino : the legend of hollywood

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Biography

Al Pacino, of Sicilian parents, has three children. Julie, born in 1992 and twins Anton and Olivia, born Jan. 25, 2001 with actress Beverly D'Angelo.

Al Pacino lives with his mother at his grandparents in Sicily. Ironically, his grandfather James was born in Corleone. Later he moved to New York in the South Bronx.

This early interest in theater and participated in small presentations to the school. At 14, he entered the High School of Performing Arts, he had to leave three years later, partly because the level of English is too low. He then embarks on a series of odd jobs, while not losing sight of the theater.

The money he saved it can integrate the Actor's Studio in 1966, where he met the actors who become famous later as Robert de Niro (called at that time Robert de Nero). With this personal success, he received his first Obie (reward for the theater) in 1968 for The Indian Wants the Bronx. The following year, he received his first Tony Award. He gets a second for the play entitled Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie (1977).

His film debut is quite noticeable. After visiting me, Nathalie de Fred Coe in 1969, he won the lead role in Panic in Needle Park (1970) Jerry Schatzberg, drama unfolding in the middle addict in Manhattan. His film career is so carried away and Al Pacino connects a series of films that range from the excellent and the masterpiece.

Indeed, in 1972, while the producers are trying to impose Robert Redford for the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola, after lengthy negotiations, chose Al Pacino, who is virtually unknown at the time.

His first encounter with Marlon Brando was very stressful for him, but remains one of the most important moments of his career as he defines himself, it will be at the hospital scene when Michael Corleone must watch his father. The rest is history: the film is a huge success and beginning of his career. The following year, he renewed his collaboration with Jerry Schatzberg for Scarecrow. Al Pacino played opposite Gene Hackman for what will be one of the most notable duets of the decade. The same year, he signed his first film with Sidney Lumet: Serpico.
With its liberal interpretation of incorruptible cop in this film that is successful at the box office .

In 1974, he resumed the role of Michael Corleone for the second part of the Godfather. This time, Robert De Niro, who plays Vito Corleone (in his youth). New huge success. This film also allows Pacino to show he can already play everything. The character of Michael Corleone, silent and cold is the opposite of Frank Serpico, the cop who probably unstable, angry and struggling in a New York very violent and corrupt police.

In 1975, Pacino plays a new character a bit unstable, a bank robber dilettante who quickly
became popular because of its inexperience in an afternoon of dog (Dog Day Afternoon) by Sydney Lumet. Two years later, he launched into melodrama with Sydney Pollack (director general of the 1970s) who is in charge of Bobby Deerfield (1977).

The 1980 start drastically to Al Pacino, as a gay actor in a very dark thriller and probably the best film by William Friedkin, The Hunt (Cruising, 1980). In 1983, the long-awaited meeting with Brian De Palma, who offered him the role of Tony Montana in Scarface remake of Howard Hawks (1932). For a generation (mainly rappers), the character of Tony Montana has become a myth and an object of fascination (with all the ambiguities involved), and Al Pacino in this role is exceptional Cuban immigrant who is experiencing phenomenal financial and social ascent in the underworld as he goes mad, as he is devoured by the paranoia and drug Mafia inherent in its
activities.

Like many great American actors, Al Pacino will be several minor roles in the 1990s. In 1990, he played Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III. But if the 1990s are less prolific in great roles that the 1970s and allowed him to return, if not leading, at least at the stage of recognition unquestioned. Of course, Al Pacino links not only masterpieces. But we nevertheless noted that its new collaboration with Brian De Palma's success leads to another: The Impasse (Carlito's Way). In this film beautifully dark and sad, Al Pacino button again perfectly with
the character of Carlito Brigante.

First meeting between film Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the 1995 thriller directed by Michael Mann's Heat, which tells the game of cat and mouse that engage a bank robber exception (De Niro) and a police inspector tough (Pacino) who has vowed to do stop. Pacino and De Niro is a very high level and we reserve a memorable face to face. The supporting actors, among others held by Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore and Jon Voight are also very unconvincing. The film will be dedicated to an important commercial and critical success.

In 1996, Pacino goes behind the camera to show his loyalty to the theater, with Looking for Richard, mid-adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, part documentary on the filming of the part in the film. After The Devil's Advocate Taylor Hackford (1997) and Donnie Brasco (1997) by Mike Newell, Al Pacino gives us two more excellent performance as an actor, first opposite Russell Crowe in The Insider , by Michael Mann, then in Any Given Sunday (Any Given Sunday) Oliver Stone.

With the film S1m0ne, screwball comedy by Andrew Niccol, Al Pacino proves once again that the public can adapt to any type of role. The following year, he played for the first time alongside Robin Williams in the remake of a Swedish film: Insomnia, the film is successful, Al Pacino is excellent in his role as cop tired and disillusioned. After Robin Williams, it was the turn of Colin Farrell co-star of the film The Recruit, starring Al Pacino.

In 2003 comes with Kim Basinger Influences and Téa Leoni, manhandled by a film critic, but saved by the excellent performance of Al Pacino. In 2003, Al Pacino participates in the project director Mike Nichols, Angels in America series, which includes six episodes of approximately one hour each. This series covers the topic of homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s
and the difficulty of homosexuals to overcome illness. Pacino is terrific in the role of Roy Cohn, and he was at his side one of the best British actresses of the moment: Emma Thompson and Meryl Streep, Justin Kirk, Jeffrey Wright or. A rather non-conformist style for a very engaging series. Pacino's performance earned him also to be rewarded with an Emmy Award.

The Merchant of Venice (2004) marks a homecoming for Al Pacino, whose theater remained his first love, he plays the role of Shylock, a Jewish merchant, again providing Al Pacino is extraordinary.

In July 2006, Pacino shows us once again his very great talents of actors in the film from DJ Caruso, Two for the Money, in which he plays a bookie who is tough to Matthew McConaughey, an American football player forced to retire early because of a serious injury.

Finally, expected in 2007 out of 88 Minutes, Pacino film that will do everything to avoid the death that he promised on the phone. It also awaits the release of Ocean's Thirteen, the latest installment in the saga of Daniel Ocean and his cronies. Can follow Monster of Longwood and The Torch.

It is also in post-production of a new documentary of the same type as the one he has already done with Shakespeare's Richard III, which this time will discuss the work Salome by Oscar Wilde. He will play the role of King Herod. It will also be a movie poster of Jon Avnet, with whom he has collaborated on 88 minutes, in which he will partner Robert De Niro. The film, which will be named Rightous Kill, will present the two actors as police on the heels of a killer. This is the third collaboration of the two men after The Godfather II and Heat.

Filmography

Righteous Kill 2008
88 Minutes 2008
Ocean's Thirteen 2007
Two for the Money 2005
The Merchant of Venice 2004
Gigli 2003
People I Know 2003
The Recruit 2003
Simone 2002
Insomnia 2002
Any Given Sunday 1999
The Insider 1999
Devil's Advocate, The 1997
Donnie Brasco 1997
City Hall 1996
Heat 1995
Two Bits 1995
Carlito's Way 1993
Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
Scent of a Woman 1992
Frankie and Johnny 1991
Dick Tracy 1990
Godfather: Part III, The 1990
Sea of Love 1989
Revolution 1985
Scarface 1983
Author! Author! 1982
Cruising 1980
...And Justice for All 1979
Bobby Deerfield 1977
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Godfather: Part II, The 1974
Scarecrow 1973
Serpico 1973
Godfather, The 1972
Panic in Needle Park, The 1971
Me, Natalie 1969