Showing posts with label actor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label actor. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Clint Eastwood - film actor, director, producer, composer and politician

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Clinton Eastwood is a great American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series Rawhide (1959–65), he starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry movies during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with some others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have ready him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as getting nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).

Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed movies in which he did not show such as Mystic River (2003) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and Changeling (2008), which getted Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received substantial critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were pan in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was award the Légion d'honneur award. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice movie Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

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Name

Clinton Eastwood

Date Of Birth

May 31, 1930

Place Of Birth

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, director, producer, composer, politician

Religion

Protestant

Spouse

Maggie Johnson, Dina Ruiz

Friday, May 6, 2011

Carl Lewis - American track, field athlete, relay, long jumper and actor

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Carl Lewis is a American track and field athlete who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 gold, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were gold. His profession spanned from 1979 when he first reached a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired. Lewis became an actor and has show in a number of films. In 2011 Lewis publicized a run as a Democratic candidate for a seat in the New Jersey Senate, but was disqualified by state officials who said he failed to meet the state's rights requirement. A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Thursday, May 5th, 2011, that Lewis can be on the ballot for the future New Jersey primary.

Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper who top the world rankings in the 100 m, 200 m and long jump events repeatedly from 1981 to the early 1990s, was named Athlete of the Year by Track and Field information in 1982, 1983 and 1984, and set world records in the 100 m, 4 x 100 m and 4 x 200 m relay. His world record in the indoor long jump has stood since 1984 and his 65 repeated victories in the long jump achieved over a span of 10 years is one of the sport’s longest unbeatable streaks. His lifetime accomplishments have lead to numerous accolades, including being voted "Sportsman of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee and being named "Olympian of the Century" by the American sports journal Sports Illustrated.

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Full name

Frederick Carlton Lewis

Date of birth

July 1, 1961

Place of birth

Birmingham, Alabama, U.S

Height

1.91 m

Weight

81 kg

Sport

Running

Event(s)

100 meters, 200 meters

Retired

1997

Thursday, April 28, 2011

David Duchovny - Actor, writer and director

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David Duchovny is one of the American actor, writer and director. He has succeed Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication, four time nominated for emmy award. In 1996, People magazine name him one of its fifty Most Beautiful People. On August 28, 2008, Duchovny say that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction. In December 2009, Duchovny and his wife show together at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball and looked to be firmly back together as a couple. Duchovny has also remain close friends with his The X-Files costar Gillian Anderson, comment that "it's always very easy and natural to work with her."

Duchovny show in an advertisement for Lowenbrau beer in 1987. He act in two scenes in Working Girl (1988). He had a recurring role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator/host in the extended-running Showtime erotica/softcore TV series Red Shoe Diaries. In 1992, he played the character of Rollie Totheroh, in the biographic film Chaplin, directed by Richard Attenborough, and base on the life of Charlie Chaplin. In 1993, Duchovny began starring in the sci-fi sequence The X-Files as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, a plan theorist who believed his sister had been abducted by aliens.

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Born Name

David William Duchovny

Date Of Birth

August 7, 1960

Place Of Birth

New York City, New York

Occupation

Actor

Spouse

Tea Leoni

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Harry Houdini - American magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer well-known for his sensational escape acts. He was also a skeptic who set out to depiction frauds purport to be supernatural phenomena. He performed in dime museums and sideshows, and still doubled as "The Wild Man" at a circus. Houdini focused originally on traditional card tricks. At a point, he billed himself as the "King of Cards". But he soon began experiment with escape acts.

He was never cleared how Houdini control to escape from his bonds. Arthur Conan Doyle counts him a medium that only perform as a prestidigitator. It is unspecified that Houdini swallowed the key to the handcuffs and won it back through vomiting unseen by his audiences, as he forever escaped from his bonds in a hidden place. Harry Houdini died of peritonitis, secondary to a rupture appendix. Eyewitnesses to an event in Montreal gave rise to speculation that Houdini's death was caused by a McGill University student, J. Gordon Whitehead, who delivered many blows to Houdini's abdomen to test Houdini's claim that he was capable to take any blow to the body above the waist without injury.

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Born Name

Erik Weisz

Date Of Birth

March 24, 1874

Place Of Birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary

Occupation

Magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor, historian, film producer, pilot, debunker

Date Of Death

October 31, 1926

Place Of Death

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.