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- Actress
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Ana de Armas was born in Cuba on April 30, 1988. At the age of 14 (2002) she began her
studies at the National Theatre School of Havana, where she graduated
after 4 years. At the age of 16 (2004) she made her first film,
Virgin Rose (2006), directed by
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. A few titles came after until she moved to Spain, where she continued her film career, and started on
TV. In 2014 she moved to Los Angeles.
She has appeared in films such as War Dogs (2016), Hands of Stone (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).- Actress
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Sandra Hüller was born in Suhl. She studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. For her performance of Anneliese Michel in Hans-Christian Schmid's drama Requiem she won The Silver Bear for Best Actress. She is internationally known for her starring role in Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, for which she won among others the European Film Award and the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress.- Actress
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Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German
citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New
Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and
Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother
named Christian Dunst, born in 1987. Her
father is German, from Hamburg, and her mother, who is American, is of
German and Swedish descent.
Her career began at the age of 3 when she started modeling and
appearing in commercials. She made her feature film debut with an
uncredited role at age 6 in the
'Oedipus Wrecks' segment of Woody Allen's
1989 film
New York Stories (1989). She
received her first film credit in
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).
Her family moved to Los Angeles in 1993, where her film career took
off.
In 1994, she made her breakthrough performance in
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994),
alongside such stars as Brad Pitt and
Tom Cruise. Her performance earned her a
Golden Globe nomination, the MTV Award for Best Breakthrough
Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress. In 1995, she
was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. Over the
next few years, she made a string of hit movies including
Little Women (1994),
Jumanji (1995) and
Small Soldiers (1998).
In 2000, she received rave reviews for her role as "Lux Lisbon" in
Sofia Coppola's independent film,
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
and proved her status as a leading actress in the comedy hit,
Bring It On (2000). She also
graduated from Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles in June of that
year.
In 2002, she landed one of her best known roles as Peter Parker's love
interest, Mary Jane Watson, in
Spider-Man (2002). She continued her
role in Spider-Man 2 (2004) and
Spider-Man 3 (2007).
She went on to land roles in such films as
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),
the romantic comedy Wimbledon (2004),
and in
Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown (2005). She also played the
title character in Sofia Coppola's
Marie Antoinette (2006).
Dunst won the Best Actress Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival for
her performance as Justine in Lars von Trier's
Melancholia (2011). In 2012, she
appeared in Walter Salles' film adaptation
of On the Road (2012) and the
independent comedy
Bachelorette (2012). She also has
several films in production, including
The Two Faces of January (2014).
Her charity work includes designing a necklace to raise funds for the
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation as well as supporting
various cancer charities.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Gal Gadot is an Israeli actress and model. She was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland, Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia who Hebraized their name from 'Greenstein' to sound less European). She served in the IDF for two years, and won the Miss Israel title in 2004.
Gal began modeling in the late 2000s, and made her film debut in the fourth film of the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast & Furious (2009), where she appeared as Gisele Yashar; she repriced the role of Yashar in several subsequent installments of The Fast Saga. Gadot went on to achieve global stardom for her portrayal of Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, including in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Wonder Woman (2017) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). She has since starred in the Netflix action-comedy film Red Notice (2021) and the mystery film Death on the Nile (2022).
Gal is a motorcycle enthusiast, and owns a black 2006 Ducati Monster-S2R. She has been married to Yaron Versano since September 28, 2008. They have three daughters.- Actor
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Sam Roland Heughan was born April 30, 1980 in Balmaclellan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. When he was 5 years old, he and his brother and mother moved to the area of the city-New Galloway. Sam grew nearby Kenmure castle, where he and his brother played as children. An accomplished stage and screen actor best known for his leading roles in Starz TV Series Outlander (2014-2021), A Princess for Christmas (2011), and A Very British Sex Scandal (2007). He attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) located in Glasgow, Scotland. He is an active patron of Youth Theatre Arts Scotland and Bloodwise (formerly Leukemia and Lymphoma Research) as President of Bloodwise Scotland (2015). In 2015, he co-founded My Peak Challenge with personal trainer John Valbonesi of Every Day Athlete; a global, community-based organization that raises money for charitable causes such as Bloodwise and Marie Curie as well as encourages members to succeed in fitness and personal challenges.
Sam has received 3 honorary Degrees.
2019 from University of Stirling
2019 from University of Glasgow
2022 from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS)- Actor
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Kunal Nayyar is an British actor. He moved from India to the US in 1999.
He first moved to Portland, Oregon, to study business. He started
acting in plays as a way of making new friends. He took acting classes,
but he went on to graduate from the University of Portland with a
degree in business, as something to fall back on. He then went on to
get a master's degree in fine arts from Temple University in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He did some work for the prestigious Royal
Shakespeare Company in Stratford, UK. He then landed his breakthrough
role in
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
in 2007, just a year after graduating.- Actress
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Dianna Elise Agron was born in Savannah, Georgia to Mary and Ronald
Agron and grew up in a middle-class family in Savannah before moving
to Texas and, later, San Francisco, California, because her father was a
general manager for Hyatt. Dianna and her brother Jason were raised
Jewish and she graduated from Burlingame High School with honors.
While Dianna was growing up, she spent much of her time performing. She
began dancing at age three, focusing mainly on jazz and ballet; she later
began hip-hop dancing. She also appeared in many local musical-theater
productions.
After graduating from high school, Dianna decided to pursue acting as a
career and began appearing in commercials and television shows including
CSI: NY (2004),
Numb3rs (2005),
Veronica Mars (2004), and
Heroes (2006). In 2009, she won the role of high-school cheerleader
Quinn Fabray on the FOX
television series Glee (2009). Since the hit television show's premiere
on May 19th, 2009, she and her castmates have received critical praise for
well as her fellow cast mates, have received critical praise for their
incredible work. In addition to her work on,
Glee (2009), Dianna has ventured into films, such as
Burlesque (2010), where she had the
opportunity to star alongside
Christina Aguilera,
Cher, and
Stanley Tucci, and the action
thriller
I Am Number Four (2011). There is no doubt that her beautiful talent will shine
for years to come.- Actor
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John Mark Galecki was born in Bree, Belgium, to American parents; his father was stationed there while serving in the U.S. Air Force. When he was three years old, his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he grew up with his parents, Mary Lou and Richard Galecki, and siblings, sister Allison (1980) and brother Nick (1982). His father was of Polish descent, and his mother's ancestry is Irish and Italian. His mother was a mortgage consultant and his father became a teacher for blind veterans in a VA hospital outside of Chicago. When Galecki was sixteen, his father died in an accident.
His mother recalled in an interview with People magazine that Galecki was a very artistic kid; at only 4 years old, he told her: "Mom, I'm gonna be on T.V., and I don't mean when I grow up." Two years later, when their attempts to distract him with sports failed, Galecki's parents took him to open auditions at local theaters in Chicago. He landed his first role in "Fiddler on the Roof," and more parts in other productions followed. By age 11, he was already known as an excellent actor in Chicago's theater scene evidenced by him receiving a Joseph Jefferson Citation nomination for portraying John Henry in "The Member of the Wedding."
In 1989 he was cast in his first movie, a holiday film called Prancer (1989), but his big break was in another Christmas movie as Chevy Chase's son Rusty Griswold, in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989). On the set, Chase took a liking to him, and Galecki recalled in a later interview that Chevy Chase showed him some tricks for comedic timing.
By that time, his whole family had moved from Chicago to L.A. to support his career. But within 10 months they realized they missed Chicago too much, and moved back home. Galecki, still just 14, was under contract on a show with Robert Urich called "American Dreamer (1990)", so he stayed in L.A. Although he was living alone in a studio apartment, he never got into trouble and was a good kid. He recalled living alone in L.A. without adult supervision as "not fun" and "quite intimidating and lonely, to be honest. But I've always been happiest when I'm working, so..." He bought a motorcycle with a mirrored helmet so he could get to work and back, at Paramount studios.
In 1991 Galecki was picked by Roseanne Barr to play her son in the made for T.V. movie Backfield in Motion (1991). She liked him so much she asked him to come on her sitcom for what started as a one-off appearance, but soon turned into the important recurring role of David Healy. His family was religious viewers of the show and he was somewhat intimidated at first to be working with his television heroes. However, before long, it was his heroes that praised him: Roseanne said he showed "great vulnerability." John Goodman said: "If he was one of those little stuffed bears at a carny, he'd have a Wuv me t-shirt on. People just want to take care of him." Galecki also became very close friends with co-star Sara Gilbert and the show's executive producer Eric Gilliland.
After Roseanne (1988) he worked on a number of diverse roles, from funny Ira alongside Christopher Walken in the 1997 dark-comedy Suicide Kings (1997) to a drug-addicted student in 2003's Bookies (2003), and he played gay characters in Don Roos's Bounce (2000) and The Opposite of Sex (1998). He never stayed far from the television industry as he made guest appearances such as Laurie Freeman's younger lover in Norm (1999) (where he once again worked with Laurie Metcalf, his former Roseanne cast mate), as a golfer in My Name Is Earl (2005), as Hope & Faith (2003)'s younger brother in the sitcom of the same name, and as hilarious party-boy Trouty on My Boys (2006). In 2006 he returned to his theater roots as he took on the role of conflicted but sweet male escort Alex in Douglas Carter Beane's play "The Little Dog Laughed," for which he received a 2007 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Browdway Debut.
In 2007 he was back on the small screens, starring as Leonard Hofstadter in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007). Not only was Chuck Lorre, a former producer for Roseanne, a producer of the new show, but Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf both made guest appearances.
Galecki is a self-admitted motorcycle "nerd," and rides a Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe. Although he never went to college, he has said: "I'm not dead! We should never stop learning. We should never stop absorbing," and so he learned how to play the cello in his early twenties. He likes traveling around the world, painting, music (he also plays bass), and hiking with his dog Vera.
He always has been very private about his personal life and little is known about past relationships. It has only been confirmed that he dated actresses Laura Harris and Kaley Cuoco. He isn't on twitter, and Galecki once said, "I don't understand the current frame of mind in our society that seems to say that any action is not of value until it's broadcast somehow."
He still lives in Los Angeles but is often spotted in Chicago, where his siblings still live.- Writer
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Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to
emerge from Denmark since
Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years
earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and
attracted international attention with his very first feature,
The Element of Crime (1984).
A highly distinctive blend of film noir and German Expressionism with
stylistic nods to Dreyer,
Andrei Tarkovsky and
Orson Welles, its combination of
yellow-tinted monochrome cinematography (pierced by shafts of blue
light) and doom-haunted atmosphere made it an unforgettable visual
experience. His subsequent features
Epidemic (1987) and
Europa (1991) have been equally ambitious
both thematically and visually, though his international fame is most
likely to be based on The Kingdom (1994), a
TV soap opera blending hospital drama, ghost story and
Twin Peaks (1990)-style surrealism
that was so successful in Denmark that it was released internationally
as a 280-minute theatrical feature.- Actress
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The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005). Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father's family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She was of Czech (from her maternal grandmother) and English descent. After graduating from high school, Leachman attended Illinois State University and Northwestern University, where she majored in drama. After winning the title of Miss Chicago 1946 (as part of the Miss America pageant), she acted with the Des Moines Playhouse before moving to New York.
Leachman made her credited debut in 1948 in an episode of The Ford Theatre Hour (1948) and appeared in many television anthologies and series before becoming a regular on The Bob & Ray Show (1951) in 1952. Her movie debut was memorable, playing the doomed blonde femme fatale Christina Bailey in Robert Aldrich's classic noir Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Other than a role in Rod Serling's movie The Rack (1956) in support of Paul Newman, Leachman remained a television actress throughout the 1950s and the 1960s, appearing in only two movies during the latter decade, The Chapman Report (1962) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Though she would win an Oscar for Peter Bogdanovich's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show (1971) and appear in three Mel Brooks movies, it was in television that her career remained and her fame was assured in the 1970s and into the second decade of the new millennium.
Leachman was nominated five times for an Emmy Award playing Phyllis Lindstrom, Mary Tyler Moore's landlady and self-described best friend on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and on the spin-off series Phyllis (1975). She won twice as Best Supporting Actress in a comedy for her "Mary Tyler Moore" gig and won a Golden Globe Award as a leading performer in comedy for "Phyllis", but her first Emmy Award came in the category Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1973 for the television movie A Brand New Life (1973). She also won two Emmy Awards as a supporting player for Malcolm in the Middle (2000).
She was married to director-producer George Englund from 1953 to 1979. They had five children together. Cloris Leachman died of natural causes on January 27, 2021 in Encinitas, California.- Actress
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Breeda Wool was born in Urbana, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024), Birth/Rebirth (2023) and Mr. Mercedes (2017).- Alexandra Paige Holden is an American actress. Her credits include films such as Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Sugar & Spice (2001) and The Hot Chick (2002), and recurring roles in the television series Friends, Ally McBeal, Friday Night Lights, Franklin & Bash, and Rizzoli & Isles. She is also known for her roles in the horror films Wishcraft (2002) and Dead End (2003).
- Olivia DeJonge is an Australian actress best known for her role as Priscilla Presley in Baz Lurhman's film 'Elvis', and as Caitlin Atwater in Antonio Campos's HBO limited series, 'The Staircase'. She made her feature film debut in Caryn Waechters 'The Sisterhood Of Night', followed by M Night Shyamalan's film 'The Visit'.
- Emily was born 30th April, 2003 in North London.
At the age of 9 she made her professional theatre debut in Shrek The Musical at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane leading straight into Marta Von Trapp in The Sound of Music at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre directed by Rachel Kavanaugh. The production was nominated for 'Best Musical Revival' at the 2014 Olivier Awards, and subsequently Emily reprised her role with a live performance at the Olivier Awards Ceremony at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
In 2014 at the age of 11 Emily was cast in the semi-regular role of Grace Beauchamp in BBC's flagship Saturday night drama 'Casualty', appearing in 41 episodes across 5 seasons until 2021. Also in 2014 she featured as 'Mini Idina' in the music video for Idina Menzel and Michael Buble's hit single Baby It's Cold Outside. Other early television credits as a child actor include the series regular role of Mary Conan Doyle in the 10 Part drama 'Houdini & Doyle' which aired in the spring of 2016 and the role of Bea in Turn Up Charlie for Netflix. 2020 saw the release of the 10 part series 'Get Even' on Netflix Worldwide in which Emily plays series regular Mika Cavanaugh.
Making her big screen debut in 2017 as Young Diana in the Warner Brothers blockbuster movie 'Wonder Woman', Emily began to carve a niche as a young action hero moving swiftly into the role of Young Lara Croft in the 'Tomb Raider' reboot directed by Roar Uthang which released in 2018. Other film roles include the voice of Anne Frank in the critically acclaimed animated feature film 'Where Is Anne Frank' Directed by Ari Folman and premiered at Cannes International Film Festival in 2021 and Teenage Wendy Darling in 'The Lost Girls' directed by Livia De Paolis releasing Spring 2022. Emily also provides the voices of Mila Starr in 'Monster Family 2' and Virginia Otis in 'The Canterville Ghost'.
In 2021, Emily was cast as series regular Young Alicent Hightower in the HBO Game Of Thrones prequel series 'House Of The Dragon'' released in 2022.
Emily is represented in the UK by Curtis Brown and in the USA by UTA. Managed by Stride Management LA. - Actor
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Adrian Pasdar was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to
Rosemarie Pasdar (née Sbresny), who
owns a travel agency, and Homayoon Pasdar, a prominent heart surgeon.
His father is Iranian and his mother, who was born in Germany, is of
German, and some Polish, descent. At the age of 2, his father moved the
family to Powelton, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. In high
school, he excelled at football, eventually leading to a football
scholarship at the University of Florida in 1983. Football may have
been a promising future, had it not been for a terrible accident during
his freshman year that left his face scarred and his legs badly
injured. A very driven Adrian finished his freshman year in a
wheelchair, doing intensive physical therapy and turning his attention
to campus stage productions and rediscovered a childhood interest in
writing and acting. No longer able to play football, he dropped out of
school and returned home, taking a job with a theater group "People's
Light and Theatre Company". Here, he worked on sound, lighting and set
construction. While constructing a set, he cut off the end of his left
thumb. Adrian, having the ability to turn tragedy into triumph, used
his medical compensation to pay for attendance at the famous
Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. At the
age of 19, he auditioned for a role in
Top Gun (1986). Director
Tony Scott was so impressed that he
wrote the part of "Chipper" just for him. This led to bigger roles in
Solarbabies (1986),
Streets of Gold (1986), and
Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 cult vampire
movie Near Dark (1987), with Adrian in
the lead role of "Caleb Colton". He also appeared in
Vital Signs (1990). Adrian has always
been an actor ahead of his time, opting for roles in independent and
cable movies long before they were considered fashionable for feature
actors to do. In 1992, feeling completely out-of-touch with reality,
Adrian left Hollywood to return to New York. He worked as a cashier for
room and board, while taking the occasional small part, such as
"Frankie" in Brian De Palma's
Carlito's Way (1993). Another major
break came in 1995, when Adrian was cast as the title character on the
short-lived Fox series Profit (1996).
He continues to act in supporting roles and has now added directing to
his already impressive body of work. He wrote and directed the short
film Beyond Belief (1999) and also directed a feature film entitled
Cement (2000).- Actress
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Marina Teresa Squerciati was born and raised in New York City, New York.
She graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Theater.
On February 15, 2017, Marina announced her pregnancy via Twitter; she gave birth to a daughter in May.
Squerciati won the prestigious Agnes Moorehead Award for her performance as Judy Holliday in the off-Broadway play Just in Time. Squerciati made her Broadway debut in an adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be.
In 1993, Squerciati appeared in The Nutcracker. She made her feature film debut in It's Complicated in 2009.
In 2012, she appeared in the films Alter Egos and Frances Ha. She also starred in the indie film Sparks.
Her television debut was on Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2009. After appearing in guest roles on The Good Wife, Damages, Blue Bloods and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2010 and 2011, she gained attention in the fall of 2011 in an 8-episode arc on the fifth season of Gossip Girl. In 2013 she guest starred on the FX series The Americans as a Soviet spy.
In August 2013, it was announced that Squerciati had been cast in the Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago P.D. The show premiered on January 8, 2014.- Actor
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Perry King was born on 30 April 1948 in Alliance, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Mandingo (1975) and Class of 1984 (1982).- Actor
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Burly, talented character actor who remained consistently busy playing "rough edged" or scary characters, often on the wrong side of the law. Young was born on April 30, 1940, in New York City, the son of a high school shop teacher. He is of Italian descent. Young received his dramatic arts training under acting coach Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.
Young first gathered notice playing tough thugs in such films as The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), Across 110th Street (1972), Chinatown (1974) and The Gambler (1974). Director Sam Peckinpah cast Young as the getaway driver/assassin, "Mac", in The Killer Elite (1975), and Young came to the attention of newcomer Sylvester Stallone, who cast him as future
brother-in-law "Paulie" in the 1976 sleeper hit Rocky (1976).
Young was nominated for an Oscar, and has gone on to reprise the role in all five "Rocky" sequels to date! Peckinpah re-hired him to play renegade trucker "Pigpen" in the moderately successful Convoy (1978) (watch for "Pigpen's" Mack truck where the writing on the door states "Paulie Hauling"!).
Young also appeared in Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002).- Actress
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It came as no surprise to film aficionados when, in 1999, Entertainment
Weekly named Jill Clayburgh on its list of Hollywood's 25 Greatest
Actresses. For decades, she delivered stellar performances
in a wide variety of roles.
Jill Clayburgh was born in 1944 in New York City, into a wealthy family, the daughter of Julia Louise (Dorr), an actress and secretary, and Albert Henry Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive. Her father was from a Jewish family that has lived in the United States since the 1700s, and her mother had English ancestry, also with deep American roots. Jill was educated at the finest schools, including the
Brearley School and Sarah Lawrence College. It was while at Sarah
Lawrence that she decided on a career in acting, and joined the famous
Charles Street Repetory Theater in Boston. She moved to New York in the
late 1960s and had featured roles in a number of Broadway productions, including "The Rothschilds" and "Pippin". She began her career in films
in 1970 and got her first major role in
Portnoy's Complaint (1972) in
1972. In 1978, she rose to screen prominence with her performance in
An Unmarried Woman (1978), for which she received an Oscar nomination. She was again nominated for
the Academy Award in 1979 for her role in
Starting Over (1979). But after
giving a riveting portrayal as a Valium addict in
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982),
her career went into a rapid decline, mainly because of her poor
choices of scripts. She seemed destined for a comeback after appearing
in
Where Are the Children? (1986), with multi-talented child actress
Elisabeth Harnois, but her
excellent performance was largely ignored by critics, who opted to
give the credit for the thriller's success to the performance of the
precocious, six year old Harnois.
After the late 1980s, Jill worked mainly in television and low-budget films, and also had a leading role in the drama Never Again (2001), with Jeffrey Tambor.
Jill was married to playwright David Rabe, with whom she had two children, including actress Lily Rabe.
Jill Clayburgh died of chronic lymphocytic leukemia on November 5, 2010, in Salisbury, Connecticut.- Steven Mackintosh was born on 30 April 1967 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Rang De Basanti (2006) and Memphis Belle (1990). He has been married to Lisa Jacobs since 1989. They have two children.
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Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens in Mill Valley, California (near San Francisco), and was interested in show business from an early age. At 16, she made her stage debut after quitting school to join a stock company. After appearing in minor roles in two films under her real name, Eunice Quedens, she found that the stage offered her the same minor roles. By the mid 30s, one of these minor roles would attract notice as a comedy sketch in the stage play "Ziegfeld Follies".
By that time, she had changed her name to Eve Arden, which she adopted while looking over some cosmetics and spotting the names "Evening in Paris" and "Elizabeth Arden". In 1937, she garnered some attention with a small role in Oh, Doctor (1937), which led to her being cast in a minor role in the film Stage Door (1937). By the time the film was finished, her part had expanded into the wise-cracking, fast-talking friend to the lead. She would play virtually the character for most of her career.
While her sophisticated wise-cracking would never make her the lead, she would be a busy actress in dozens of movies over the next dozen years. In At the Circus (1939), she was the acrobatic Peerless Pauline opposite Groucho Marx and the Russian sharp shooter in the comedy The Doughgirls (1944). For her role as Ida in Mildred Pierce (1945), she received an Academy Award nomination. Famous for her quick ripostes, this led to work in Radio during the 1940s. In 1948, CBS Radio premiered "Our Miss Brooks", which would be the perfect show for her character. As her film career began to slow, CBS would take the popular radio show to television in 1952. The television series Our Miss Brooks (1952) would run through 1956 and led to the movie Our Miss Brooks (1956).
When the show ended, Arden tried another television series, The Eve Arden Show (1957), but it was soon canceled. In the 1960s, Arden raised a family and did a few guest roles, until her come-back television series The Mothers-In-Law (1967). This show, co-starring Kaye Ballard ran for two seasons. After that, she would make more unsold pilots, a couple of television movies and a few guest shots. She returned in occasional cameo appearances including as Principal McGee in Grease (1978), and Warden June in Pandemonium (1982).- Actress
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Emma Pierson was born on 30 April 1981 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Absolutely Anything (2015), Guest House Paradiso (1999) and The Last King (2003).- Actor
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Paul Gross is the elder of two brothers. He was an Army brat; his
father, Bob Gross, was a Tank Commander in the Canadian Army. As a
consequence Paul and his family moved around a lot: he has lived in
Canada, the U.S, England and Germany. Paul was introduced to acting in
his early teens, while the Gross family was in Washington. He performed
in stage plays such as Canterbury Tales and Faustus. From the age of 14,
he appeared in television commercials, which enabled him to pay for his
degree in Drama at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
In 2011, Paul Gross appeared at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in
Toronto playing Elyot opposite Kim Cattrall's Amanda in the celebrated
comedy by Noel Coward, Private Lives.- Writer
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Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in
Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA,
with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began
filmmaking in the early 1980s, attending the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Her first short film, Peel (1982) won the Palme D'Or at
the Cannes Film Festival in 1986. Her other short films include
A Girl's Own Story (1984), Passionless Moments (1983), After Hours (1985) and the tele-feature 2 Friends (1986), all of which won
Australian and international awards. She co-wrote and directed her
first feature film, Sweetie (1989), which won the Georges Sadoul prize
in 1989 for Best Foreign Film, as well as the LA Film Critics' New
Generation Award in 1990, the American Independant Spirit Award for
Best Foreign Feature, and the Australian Critics' Award for Best Film,
Best Director and Best Actress. She followed this with An Angel at My Table (1990), a dramatization based on the autobiographies of Janet Frame
which won some seven prizes, including the Silver Lion at the Venice
Film Festival in 1990. It was also awarded prizes at the Toronto and
Berlin Film Festivals, again winning the American Independent Spirit
Award, and was voted the most popular film at the 1990 Sydney Film
Festival. The Piano (1993) won the Palme D'Or at Cannes, making her the first
woman ever to win the prestigious award. She also captured an Academy
Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 1993 Oscars, while also being
nominated for Best Director.- Actress
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Lisa Dean Ryan was born on 30 April 1972 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. She is an actress, known for Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989), Dead at 21 (1994) and ABC Afterschool Specials (1972).- Brian Altemus was born on 30 April 1997 in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), Mean Girls (2024) and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022).
- Charlie J. Hiscock can be seen as "Will" on the Emmy award winning Apple+ series "Ted Lasso," which was made history with its 20 Emmy nominations for a comedy series. Hiscock is also known for his work on the BAFTA winning and Emmy nominated series "Secret Life of Boys." He began his career at the young age of 9 and made his professional debut on the British TV series "Combat Kids." He then followed that up with the BBC TV movie adaptation of "The Borrowers" opposite Christopher Eccleston, Sharon Horgan and Stephen Fry. Hiscock then took a break to focus on school and then got back into the business in 2018 with "Secret Life of Boys."
- Henrique Zaga was born in Brasília, Brazil's capital city. His mother, Sônia Gontijo, is of Spanish and native Brazilian descent, and his father, Admar Gonzaga, is Italian-Portuguese. Henrique's parents had a big influence on his artistic upbringing. Taking him to watch local plays on Sundays, as well as putting him through painting and drama school growing up, caused him to engage in the performing arts at an early age. Zaga also lived in Bournemouth, England; Rio de Janeiro; Florianópolis; Boca Raton, and Miami. After graduating high school, he moved to Los Angeles to get a Bachelor's degree in Acting for film. He was scouted on his first year of college, and had to drop out in order to work on his first feature film.
Henrique Zaga has been previously credited as Henry Zaga, and was born Henrique Chagas Moniz de Aragão Gonzaga. - Actress
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A personable brunette actor with rich brown eyes, Miceli is a native New Yorker who studied acting on both coasts, including stints at the AADA, the California Institute of the Arts, and William Esper Studios. She subsequently did commercials, off-Broadway and touring theater and some spots on daytime dramas and the prime time series Law & Order (1990). In 1994, Miceli received a big break when she was added onto the cast of regulars for the second season of the hard-hitting and initially controversial ABC police drama, NYPD Blue (1993). As the dedicated and savvy detective Adrienne Lesniak, Miceli played a character capable of dealing with a wide range of offbeat criminal suspects.- Peter L. Abrahamsson was born on 30 April 1966 in Julita, Södermanland, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Zonen (1996), Naken (2000) and 30:e november (1995).
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Drew Seeley began his journey performing at age 11, when he joined the ensemble of Harold Prince's Showboat revival in Toronto. Twenty years later, he closed Jersey Boys on Broadway as the final 'Bob Gaudio.' Other credits include Broadway's The Little Mermaid as 'Prince Eric,' the North & South American tours of High School Musical: The Concert as 'Troy Bolton,' and Another Cinderella Story, starring as 'Joey Parker' opposite Selena Gomez. Other film and television credits include Glory Daze, Lovestruck: The Musical, Shooter, One Tree Hill, The Closer, The Suite Life, Freshman Father, Lethal Admirer and Christmas By The Book.
As a songwriter, Drew has written and performed on 10+ Disney soundtracks, penned singles for artists from Demark to South Korea, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for co-writing 6X platinum High School Musical's 'Getcha Head in the Game.' His albums 'The Resolution' and 'DownTime' are available on Spotify and through his website, www.DrewSeeley.com
Drew lives in sunny California with his dog, Astro, and his amazing wife, actress Amy Paffrath!- Actor
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In the late 1920s, Lewis worked as a circus performer, but ultimately
decided on college, earning a Ph.D. in child psychology from Columbia
University. He taught school and wrote two children's books. In 1949,
at the suggestion of a friend, Lewis turned to acting and joined the
Paul Mann Actor's Workshop in New York. Lewis worked in burlesque and
vaudeville theaters across the country, which eventually led to
Broadway. By the 1950s, television was booming, and Lewis took
advantage of the work appearing on almost every live show out of his
home base of New York City. His most famous regular TV roles were
Officer Leo Schnauser on Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) and Grandpa on The Munsters (1964). When these
shows ended, he opened a restaurant in New York called "Grampa's" in
Greenwich Village. He has since produced a home video for children and
appeared on WTBS in a series of Saturday morning programs for
children.- Inga Cadranel is an actress who was born in North America to immigrant parents. Her Icelandic mother and Spanish/Egyptian father were both artists, who instilled a love for all things creative in her. She grew up traveling and watching her parents create theatre and performance art. It wasn't long before she took to the stage herself, when she began performing plays and creating music. Inga is a talented, award-winning film and television actor with a chameleon-like quality to her work. Whether playing the bookish Liz Santerra in Jeff Ltd. or the hard-nosed Det. DeAngelis in Orphan Black, Cadranel is known for creating compelling, memorable characters whenever she takes on a part. She is also an accomplished musician, singer & songwriter.
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Born in Paris, France, in 1952. Jacques Audiard's family has always
been involved in movie business. His father, Michel, was a popular
screenwriter and director and his uncle a producer. But in his teens he
refused that world and wanted to be a teacher. He studied literature
and philosophy at the Sorbonne but didn't finish his degree. By that
time, his then girlfriend suggested he work as a trainee editor during
his university holidays. He worked as an assistant editor on several
movies like "Le locataire" (1976) directed by Roman Polanski.
He also joined a theater where he did all kinds of work. He specially
enjoyed adapting works for stage. In the eighties he wrote the
screenplays of some successful movies like "Mortelle Randonnee" (1983),
"Reveillon Chez Bob" (1984), "Saxo" (1987), "Frequence meurtre" (1988)
and "Grosse fatigue" (1994). Most of those films were thrillers
directed by prestigious filmmakers like Claude Miller and Michel Blanc.
He also directed some well received short movies.
Thanks to the success of those movies he was able, in 1994, to raise up
the money to make his first movie "Regarde les hommes tomber" a somber
road movie starred by two of the most important French actors: Mathieu
Kassovitz and Jean Louis Trintignant. That movie won 3 Cesars of the
French academy for best editing, best new director (Jacques Audiard)
and best new actor (for Kassovitz).
Kassovitz also became the star of his second movie "Un heros tres
discret" released in the Festival de Cannes in 1996 where it won the
award for best screenplay. "Un heros tres discret" undermined the myth
of the French resistance to the Nazis by telling the story of a young
impostor who rises high in French society after World war by concocting
a past for himself as a hero. It also won awards in the festivals of
Stockholm and Valladolid and made his name internationally.
In 2001 he made his third movie "Sur mes levres". The love story
between two outsiders (a deaf office worker and a hoodlum) who decide
to con a group of gangsters also became a success. It also won three
Cesars (best actress, sound and screenplay).
His last movie, "De battre mon Coeur sest arrête" (a remake of
"Fingers" a James Toback's movie) was released in the Berlin festival
of 2005.
With those movies, Audiard has become the new master of the "polar"
(French thriller) and inheritor of others great French directors like
Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) and Henri Georges-Clouzot
(1907-1977).- Actress
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Pell James was born on 30 April 1977 in Virginia, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Zodiac (2007), Broken Flowers (2005) and The King (2005). She has been married to Michael Burns since 11 June 2006. They have three children.- Actor
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Michael Wright was born on 30 April 1956 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Principal (1987), Lionheart (1990) and Streamers (1983). He was previously married to Mitzie Lau.- Actress
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Pamela Rabe was born in Ontario, Canada. Pamela is an actress who is best known for many of her roles on TV and has devoted most of her career to the stage. Pamela's most known roles are Mercury (1996), The Secret Life of Us (2001), F*%#Ing Adelaide (2017) and as one of TVs most famous characters, joining the TV series Wentworth (2013) as Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson in season 2 of the award winning drama which earned Rabe a Logie Award in 2018.
Rabe is a long standing contributor to both the Sydney and Melbourne Theatre Companies, serving as director and actor in many plays. Rabe once spent 8 hours in a sole performance of Woman-Bomb. Rabe has also won numerous Helpmann Awards during her time in theatre.- Actor
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Beau Wirick was born on 30 April 1986 in California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Middle (2009), American Crime Story (2016) and The Office (2005). He has been married to Daniela Bobadilla since 2018.- Actor
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Born on April 30, 1938 in Venice, California, Gary Collins was one of
the most versatile actors in the entertainment industry. Gary attended
Santa Monica City College and then enlisted in the United States Army
for two years. While in uniform, Gary discovered acting and performed
as a radio and television personality for the Armed Forces Network. A
talented and diverse actor, he portrayed a variety of characters in
films, television movies, miniseries, television series and on stage.
In addition to these roles, Gary was also well known for his easygoing
style and warmth as a Host. Gary was married to actress, television
personality and former Miss America
Mary Ann Mobley. He and his wife were involved with the March of Dimes for more than 20 years and they
were active volunteers in relief organizations to end world hunger. They
were also involved with the National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis.
Gary Collins died at age 74 of natural causes on October 13, 2012 in
Biloxi, Mississippi.- Rose Rollins was raised in Yonkers, New York, growing up with five
brothers. She is an accomplished actress who has garnered attention on both the big and small screens.
Rollins now stars in ABC's The Catch opposite Mireille Enos. The series centers on a gutsy female forensic accountant who exposes fraud for a living and has finally found fulfillment both at work and in love until a case comes along that threatens to turn her world upside down. The Catch is produced by Shonda Rhimes.
Prior to The Catch, Rollins most recently guest starred in an eight-episode arc on Amazon Studios crime drama Bosch and starred in the TNT pilot Guilt By Association.
Rollins has built her body of work with numerous roles on prominent television series including the critically acclaimed Showtime series The L Word, the Jerry Bruckheimer produced NBC drama Chase, NBC's The West Wing co-starring Allison Janney , Southland, ABC's In Justice opposite Kyle MacLachlan, The CW's Nikita and CBS's NCIS and CSI: NY, among many others.
On the big screen, the actress' voice can be heard as the White House press secretary in the 2015 Adam Sandler/Kevin James action sci-fi comedy Pixels. Additional film credits include Mission: Impossible III directed by J.J. Abrams, Undisputed opposite Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes, the romantic comedy Something New and 13 Moons starring Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Beals, and Peter Dinklage. - Actor
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Halit Ergenç (born 30 April 1970) is a Turkish actor.
Halit Ergenç was born as the son of Yesilçam-era actor Sait Ergenç on 30 April 1970 in Istanbul. He completed his secondary education at Besiktas Atatürk High School in 1989 and entered Istanbul Technical University to study Marine Engineering. He graduated from Operetta and Musical Theatre Departments of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He supported himself working as a computer operator and marketer. He briefly worked as a backing vocalist and dancer for Ajda Pekkan and Leman Sam.
In 1996, Ergenç began acting at the Dormen Theatre and had his first leading role in the musical The King and I. He established himself on television with his part in the series Kara Melek. He continued working in theatre with plays such as Kiss Me, Kate, Tatli Charity, Beni Seviyor, Kral ve Ben, Amphitrion 2000, Evita, Hayalet and Ötekiler and Sarkilar Susarsa. Following appearances in the series Köse Kapmaca and Böyle mi Olacakti, he went to New York and acted in the musical The Adventures of Zak.
In 2000, he participated in the films Hiç Yoktan Ask and Ölümün El Yazisi and then the series Dedem, Gofret ve Ben and Zerda where he starred opposite Ece Uslu. Then, he had appearances in a number of plays such as ''Bugün Git Yarin Gel, Popcorn, Arapsaçi and Sevgilime Göz Kulak Ol. In 2004], he starred in the series Aliye with Sanem Çelik and Nejat Isler.
In 2005 and 2006, Ergenç acted in the films Babam ve Oglum directed by Çagan Irmak, The Net 2.0, Tramway and Ilk Ask. Beginning in 2006, he starred as Onur Aksal in the hit series Binbir Gece which was on air until 2009. During this period he also had roles in the films Devrim Arabalari which was based on a true story and Aci Ask. Ergenç also starred as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the film Dersimiz Atatürk which was also based on a true story. Makeup artists transformed his face into Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In 2011 he starred as Suleiman the Magnificent in the hit series Muhtesem Yüzyil until 2014.
Ergenç was involved in the Gezi protests of 2013, appearing in newspaper photos wearing a Bob Marley T-shirt and surgical mask for protection against tear gas. His presence made for interesting copy, since he at once played the role of one of the Ottoman Empire's foremost leaders in the show Muhtesem Yüzyil, and at the same time he was protesting the actions of a government very much invested in celebrating Ottoman glory. Ergenç was subsequently summoned with other cultural leaders to a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, and Erdogan apparently quizzed Ergenç on Ottoman words used by Suleiman, the character whom Ergenç played in Muhtesem Yüzyil.
After, he played Fatali Khan Khoyski who the first Prime Minister of the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in Ali & Nino. He played in the movie Istanbul Kirmizisi directed by Ferzan Özpetek. In 2016, he started playing opposite his wife Bergüzar Korel in Vatanim Sensin.
Ergenç's mother was of Albanian descent. He is married to actress Bergüzar Korel with whom he has a son named Ali. He has stated that he likes Zeki Demirkubuz's style and Ferzan Özpetek's emotion, but prefers to work the most with Reha Erdem and Çagan Irmak, whom he describes as both young and talented directors.
In 2017, Ergenç visited Pakistan and attended the Lux Style Awards-where he was honoured with the International Icon award-due to his popularity in the country. In his accepting speech, Ergenç said that he had grown up knowing Pakistan as a "brother country."- Actor
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Joe Perrino was born on 30 April 1982 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Power (2014), The Sopranos (1999) and Sleepers (1996).- Music Artist
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- Composer
Jacques Bermon Webster II (born April 30, 1991), better known by his stage name Travis Scott (formerly stylized as Travi$ Scott), is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. His stage name is the namesake of a favorite uncle combined with the first name of one of his inspirations, Kid Cudi (whose real name is Scott Mescudi). He has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards and won a Billboard Music Award and a Latin Grammy Award.- Actor
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Tom Meeten was born on 30 April 1974 in Northampton, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Ghoul (2016), Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break (2021) and Intruder (2021).- Actor
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Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Phil Brown was the son of a doctor
whose work took the family all around the country. After majoring in
dramatics at Stanford University, Brown played some of his earliest
stage roles as part of New York's Group Theatre. When it folded, he and
other Group Theatre vets headed to Hollywood, where Brown worked in
motion pictures and helped found the fabled Actors' Laboratory. His
association with the Lab came back to haunt him later in the decade,
when its members fell under the scrutiny of the House Un-American
Activities Committee, and Brown was eventually compelled to relocate
with his family to England, UK. Overseas he was able to resume acting
on stage, TV and films; he also directed for the stage and TV. He
returned to the U.S. in the 1990s and made the rounds of autograph
shows.- Georgina Amorós was born on 30 April 1998 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for Code Name Emperor (2022), Elite (2018) and Toutes pour une.
- Elizabeth Hawthorne was born on 30 April 1947 in New Zealand. She is an actress, known for 30 Days of Night (2007), The Frighteners (1996) and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).
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Birthe Neumann was born on 30 April 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for The Celebration (1998), Solkongen (2005) and Move Me (2003). She has been married to Paul Hüttel since 31 December 1974.- Actor
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Thom Bray was born on 30 April 1954 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Prince of Darkness (1987), DeepStar Six (1989) and Nash Bridges (1996). He has been married to Jane Staugas since 22 May 1983. They have three children.- In the 1930s, 1940s, and especially the 1950s, if a director
wanted a short, fat actor to play a windy storekeeper or a raucous
conventioneer, he might well cast Dick Elliott. He was one of those
actors who, whenever he appeared on screen, often for less than a
minute, the audience would think, "Oh, it's that guy." Yet few would
ever know his name.
Elliott was certainly short, probably not much more than five foot
four. And he was certainly fat. His belly was large and round, so he
looked a bit like a huge ball with arms and legs. One imagined him soft
and pink, and always happy. A Hobbit, perhaps. Santa Claus without the
whiskers. And like another short, fat actor, Eugene Pallette, Elliott
had a distinctive voice. Not the bullfrog basso that rumbled out of
Pallette's gullet, but higher-pitched, whiny, or honey-smooth as the
role demanded, with an "sh" in place of a lot of "s" sounds.
Elliott appeared in over 240 films. He was most often cast as judges,
mayors, newspaper reporters, policemen, and blowhards, usually one who
can't stop talking except when he'd burst into a loud laugh that
bordered on a cackle.
As was the case with many character actors who never became featured
players, not much record remains of his personal life. He was born
Richard Damon Elliott on April 30, 1886, in Salem, Massachusetts. His
gravestone says he was a loving husband and father. And we know he
began performing in stock in 1931 and was on stage for nearly thirty
years before his film debut, including appearing in the long-running
hit, "Abie's Irish Rose." Other than that, we have only his film and
television appearances to go on, and I'll mention some highlights.
His first movie was Central Airport (1933), and he was Ned Buntline
in Annie Oakley (1935) with Barbara Stanwyck in 1935. He was perfect for the
role of Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner (1940), was amusing as the Judge
in Christmas in Connecticut (1945), again starring Stanwyck, and made
the most of his small role as a Whiskey Drummer in The Dude Goes West (1948) with Eddie Albert. Many film fans remember him best for another
small role, as the man on the porch in the holiday perennial It's a Wonderful Life (1946), who tells James Stewart to stop jabbering and
go ahead and kiss Donna Reed. Often his role in a film was so small his
character didn't even have a name, and was sometimes listed in the cast
simply as "Fat Man." He did have a good part in the under appreciated
film Park Row (1952). His last film role was in Go, Johnny, Go! (1959).
The advent of television opened up a whole new world of roles. An
unending stream of weekly comedies, dramas, and even variety shows
needed performers. Some featured character actors like Gene Lockhart
and Cecil Kellaway might star in an episode of an anthology series.
Actors who had little screen time in films became invaluable featured
players, and a few even attained the Holy Grail of being a series
regular, Elliott among them. In the fifties he appeared in dozens and
dozens of TV shows, including Dick Tracy (1950), in which he had a
recurring role as Chief Murphy, My Little Margie (1952), Adventures of Superman (1952), I Love Lucy (1951), I Married Joan (1952), in which his character was called "Fatso," December Bride (1954), and Rawhide (1959). One of his best roles was in
the episode The Rain Wagon (1955), in which he
played Osgood Falstaff, the Shakespeare-quoting rainmaker who is
secretly a bank robber. It was rare for Elliott to play a villain, but
he pulls it off, making his eyes look devious and sinister -- a cuddly
fat man, but don't turn your back on him. At the other extreme, he
often played Santa Claus on Christmas episodes of the Jimmy Durante,
Red Skelton, and Jack Benny shows.
To many people, Elliott will always be remembered as Mayor Pike in The Andy Griffith Show (1960) Sadly, Elliott died during the second season of
the show, on December 22, 1961, in Burbank, California.
Dick Elliott was one of those character actors who were almost
anonymous, though they lit up the screen in short roles. Fortunately,
because of "It's a Wonderful Life" every Christmas and "The Andy
Griffith Show" in frequent reruns, his fans can still delight in the
little fat man.