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Clu Gulager (born November 16, 1928) is an American television and film actor and director, particularly noted for his co-starring role asWilliam H. Bonney (Billy The Kid) in the 1960–1962 NBC television series The Tall Man and for his role as Emmett Ryker in another NBCwestern series, The Virginian.
He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show and the racing film Winning, with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Gulager was the protagonist Burt Wilson in the cult horror movie The Return of the Living Dead, starred in McQ with John Wayne, and in director Don Siegel's The Killers with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. Gulager's short film A Day with the Boys was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or for best short film at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.[1] Gulager was born William Martin Gulager in Holdenville in Hughes County in east central Oklahoma, the son of John Gulager, a cowboyentertainer.[2] Through his paternal grandmother, Gulager was a cousin of the western entertainer Will Rogers.[3] From 1946 to 1948, Gulager served in the United States Marine Corps. He has Cherokee Native American ancestry.[4] His nickname was given to him by his father for the clu-clu birds (known in English as martins,[4] like his middle name) that were nesting at the Gulager home at the time Clu was born.[5] After attending Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Gulager transferred to Baptist-affiliated Baylor University in Waco, Texas. more...... Margalit Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal[1][2][3] (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/;[4][5] born November 16, 1977)[6] is an American actress. She started her career as a child actress in films directed by her father, Stephen Gyllenhaal. Her younger brother is actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
In 2002, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance as Lee Holloway in Secretary. In 2006 she was nominated for her second Golden Globe Award for her performance in Sherrybaby. Her other films include Donnie Darko (2001), Adaptation(2002), Happy Endings (2005), World Trade Center (2006), and The Dark Knight (2008). For her performance as Jean Craddock in the musical-drama Crazy Heart (2009), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2014 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing, and also starred in the television mini-series The Honourable Woman. For her performance as Nessa Stein in the latter she has won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for an Emmy Award.[7][8]Gyllenhaal was born in New York City, the daughter of Naomi Achs and Stephen Gyllenhaal. Her father is a film director and writer and her mother is a producer, writer, and director.[9] She has one sibling, actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Her father, who was raised in the Swedenborgianreligion, is of Swedish and English ancestry, and is a member of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family.[10] Her last native Swedish ancestor was her great-great-grandfather Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg's writings.[11] Her mother was born in New York City, and is from a Jewish family (from Russia andPoland). Her mother's first husband was Eric Foner, a noted historian and history professor at Columbia University.[10][12][13][14][15] Gyllenhaal has stated that she "grew up mostly Jewish, culturally", though she did not attend Hebrew school.[16] Her parents married in 1977, and filed for divorce in October 2008.[17] The first name on Maggie's birth certificate is "Margalit", which she did not discover until 2013, when she officially changed it to "Maggie".[2][18] "Margalit" is a Hebrew word meaning "Pearl"; some news stories have spelled it "Margolit". more....... |
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907[1][2] – September 9, 1997),[3] known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor, director, producer, and writer in theater, film, and television. Active for more than six decades,[4] Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor"[1] and "one of the most accomplished actors of the century".[5] A life member of The Actors Studio[6] by invitation,[7] he won several Emmys,[8] was the first male actor to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for two Academy Awards.[8]
Meredith was known later in his career for his appearances on The Twilight Zone and for portraying arch-villain the Penguin on the 1960s TV series Batman and boxing trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky film series.[9] "Although those performances renewed his popularity," observed Mel Gussow in The New York Times, "they represented only a small part of a richly varied career in which he played many of the more demanding roles in classical and contemporary theater—in plays by Shakespeare, O'Neill, Beckett and others."[1] more....... Joanna Pettet (born Joanna Jane Salmon; 16 November 1942 in London) is a British actress, retired since 1990.
Her parents, Harold Nigel Edgerton Salmon, a British Royal Air Force pilot killed in World War II, and mother, Cecily J. Tremaine, were married in London in 1940. After the war, her widowed mother remarried and settled in Canada, where young Joanna was adopted by her stepfather and assumed his surname of "Pettet". She studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as at the Lincoln Center, and got her start on Broadway in such plays as Take Her, She's Mine, The Chinese Prime Minister and Poor Richard, with Alan Bates and Gene Hackman, before she was discovered by director Sidney Lumet for his 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel, The Group. The success of that film launched a film career that included roles in The Night of the Generals (1967), as Mata Bond in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), Peter Yates's Robbery (1967) with Stanley Baker, Blue (1968) with Terence Stamp and the Victorian period comedy, The Best House in London (1969). In 1968 she married the American actor Alex Cord and gave birth to a son later that year. She and Cord were divorced in 1989 after 21 years of marriage. She has not remarried. more....... |
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