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Brian Mannion Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is an American actor of film, stage, and television. After gaining recognition for portraying the overzealous Sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood (1982), Dennehy went on to win one Golden Globe, twoTony Awards and six Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Dennehy was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Hannah and Edward Dennehy, a wire service editor for theAssociated Press. He has two brothers, Michael and Edward.[1][2] He is of Irish ancestry and was raised Roman Catholic.[3][4] The family relocated to Long Island, New York, where Dennehy attended Chaminade High School in the town of Mineola. Dennehy enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1959, serving active duty on Okinawa[5] until 1963. In numerous interviews, Dennehy has claimed to be a Vietnam veteran who served a 5-year tour in Vietnam and recounted harrowing tales of his combat there,[5] but according to the book Stolen Valor, Dennehy never served in Vietnam at all and never saw active combat.[6] Stolen Valor and other books surmised that fabrications of PTSD and traumatic events in general were intended to gain honor or recognition.[7] The author of Stolen Valor wrote to Dennehy regarding the discrepancy, but received no reply from the actor, although Dennehy later admitted in an interview that he had lied about his service and apologized for it.[6] Nonetheless, he later repeated the same story about serving in Vietnam in an interview with Joanne Kaufmann of the Wall Street Journal. more...... |
Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick; July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor.[1] He is best known for his pop hits of the 1960s including "My Cup Runneth Over", "Who Will Answer?" and "When the Snow is on the Roses". He was part of a popular 1950s singing group called the Ames Brothers.[1]
Ames was born in Malden, Massachusetts, to Jewish parents Sarah (Zaslavskaya) and David Urick (Eurich), who had immigrated from Ukraine.[2][3] He was the youngest of nine children, five boys and four girls.[citation needed] Ames grew up in a poor household. He attended the Boston Latin School and was educated in Classical and Opera music, as well as literature.[citation needed] While still in high school, the brothers formed a quartet and often won competitions around the Boston area. Three of the brothers later formed the Amory Brothers quartet and went to New York City, where they were hired by bandleader Art Mooney. Playwright Abe Burrows helped the brothers along the way, suggesting the siblings change their group's name to the Ames Brothers.[citation needed] more....... |
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks[3] (born July 9, 1956)[4] is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles inBig (1988), Philadelphia (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail (both 1998), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Captain Phillips, and Saving Mr. Banks(both 2013), as well as for his voice work in the animated films The Polar Express (2004) and the Toy Story series.
Hanks has been nominated for numerous awards during his career. He won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia, as well as a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a People's Choice Award for Best Actor for his role in Forrest Gump. In 2004, he received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).[5] Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), and Bridge of Spies (2015), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks as a successful director, producer, and writer. In 2010, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producerson the HBO miniseries The Pacific (a companion piece to Band of Brothers). more....... |
Kelly Ann McGillis (born July 9, 1957)[1] is an American actress. She found fame for her roles in several films throughout the 1980s including her roles as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985) for which she received Golden Globe andBAFTA nominations, Charlie in Top Gun (1986) and Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1988).
McGillis was born in Newport Beach, California, the daughter of Virginia Joan (née Snell), a homemaker, and Dr. Donald Manson McGillis, a general practitioner of medicine.[2][3] She attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, California.[4] In 1979, she moved to New York City to study acting at the Juilliard School,[5] where she graduated in 1983.[4][4][6] While at Juilliard she performed inWilliam Congreve's Love for Love, directed by John Blatchley.[citation needed] more....... |
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