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John Wayne

Foto: 1 Biography This article is about the actor John Wayne. For other uses of 'John Wayne' and related names, see John Wayne (disambiguation). U.S. John Wayne stamp from 2004 John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), popularly known as "The Duke," 1 was an American film actor whose career began in silent...

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Sam Waterston

Biography Sam Waterston as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy in Law & Order Samuel A. "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an Oscar nominated American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law...

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Denzel Washington

photo: http://www.foxnews.com/images/336054/1_62_washington_denzel_closeup.jpg Biography Washington in John Q (2002) Denzel Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 1990s 4 2000s 5 Private life 6 Selected...

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David Warner

Biography David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is a English actor who often plays sinister characters. Warner was trained at RADA, before making an impact with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where his portrayal of Hamlet quickly made him famous. In 1963, he made his film debut in Tom Jones, and in 1965...

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Jack Warden

photo: http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/arts/photos/2006/07/22/warden-cp-10438640.jpg Biography Jack Warden (born September 18, 1920) is an American actor. Born John Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey, and was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, his early jobs included lifeguard and nightclub bouncer. He also fought as a professional boxer...

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Fred Ward

Biography Early life Ward on the cover of Tremors 2: Aftershocks. Ward was born in San Diego, California of Scottish-Irish and Native American descent. Before acting, Ward spent three years in the United States Air Force. He was also a boxer, and worked as a lumberjack in Alaska. He became an actor after studying at New York's...

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Sam Wanamaker

Biography Early years Wanamaker began his acting career at the age of just 17. After training at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, he began working with summer stock theatre companies in Chicago and worked on Broadway and in travelling shows. He attended Drake University, Iowa prior to serving in the U.S. Army between 1943-1946 during...

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Paul Walker

photo: http://images.askmen.com/galleries/men/paul-walker/pictures/paul-walker-picture-5.jpg Biography Early life Walker was born in Glendale, California to Paul William Walker III (a retired sewer contractor) and Cheryl Crabtree (a former fashion model); his paternal grandfather, William Walker, was a Pearl Harbor survivor...

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Clint Walker

photo: https://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/clint-walker.jpg Biography Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker (born May 30, 1927 in Hartford, Illinois) is an American actor best known for his cowboy role as "Cheyenne Bodie" in the TV Western series, Cheyenne. Walker was a strapping young man of 1/4 Cherokee descent; he...

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Christopher Walken

Biography Career Walken initially trained as a dancer in musical theatre before moving on to more serious roles in theatre and then film. A select number of his movies include dance moves that he has worked in, reflecting this early background. He has been in nearly one hundred movies and television shows since...

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Robert Wagner

Biography For other persons with the name, see Robert Wagner. Robert John Wagner (born 10 February 1930 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor. In his early days in Hollywood in the 1950s, he was mentored by the movie actor Clifton Webb. He was represented by the agent Henry Willson, the man who created the "beef...

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Arnold Vosloo

photo: https://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/events/LRS-008103.jpg Biography Arnold Vosloo (born June 16, 1962 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African actor, now a naturalized American, best known for playing the title role in the 1999 film The Mummy and its sequel, The Mummy Returns. He began his acting career in the South...

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Jon Voight

photo: http://content8.flixster.com/rtactor/40/48/40482_ori.jpg Biography Jon Voight at an April 2005 meeting with Senator Norm Coleman and rabbis from Chabad Lubavich. Jonathan "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He was born in Yonkers, New York to a Czech father and an English American...

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Herve Villechaize

Biography Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (April 23, 1943–September 4, 1993) was a French actor of Filipino ancestry who achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island (1978 – 1984). He was also well known for playing the evil henchman Nick...

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Richard Vernon

photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Paul_Gleason_Breakfast_Club.jpg Biography Richard Vernon (March 7, 1925 - December 4, 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic roles (for example as Lord Bartelsham in the Ripping Yarns episode Roger of the...

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Ben Vereen

photo: https://images.bwwstatic.com/upload/15862/Photo%201a%20-%20Ben%20Vereen.jpg Biography Ben Vereen (born October 10, 1946 in Miami, Florida) is an American actor, dancer and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972 and won a Tony for his...

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Lino Ventura

photo: http://cigalemistralavande.c.i.pic.centerblog.net/n6wvh3mt.jpg Biography Lino Ventura To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. See rationale on the talk page, or replace this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available. This article has been tagged since...

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Robert Vaughn

Biography Robert Vaughn as Albert Stroller in Hustle Robert Francis Vaughn (born November 22, 1932) is an American actor noted for stage, screen and TV work. Vaughn was born in New York City to Roman Catholic showbiz parents, Walter and Marcella Vaughn. Vaughn's first notable appearance was in The Young Philadelphians (1959)...

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Michael Vartan

photo: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ObSGi4XI1hg/S-Cl41TCgmI/AAAAAAAAAFg/TviZLPDNjFE/s1600/michael+vartan.jpg Biography He grew up in France and the U.S., the son of a Jewish American mother and a Bulgarian father of Armenian and Hungarian descent. He is the nephew of French pop singer Sylvie Vartan. His parents divorced when Michael...

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Jean-Claude Van Damme

Biography Van Damme began martial arts at the age of 11, enrolled by his father in a shotokan karate school. He eventually earned his black belt in karate, later winning the European Professional Karate Association's middleweight championship[3] (although he has claimed that he was 'twice world champion'[. He also started lifting weight...

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James Van Der Beek

Biography Van Der Beek was born in Cheshire, Connecticut to James Van Der Beek (a cellular phone company account manager and former pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers) and Melinda (a gymnastics studio owner and former Broadway dancer); he has a brother, Jared (born 1979) and a sister, Juliana (born 1981). Van Der Beek...

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Rodolfo Valentino

photo: http://nadirnews.altervista.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/rodolfovalentino_torino.jpg Biography Rudolph Valentino Rudolph Valentino From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Rodolfo Valentino) Jump to: navigation, search Rudolph Valentino Born May 6, 1895 Apulia, Italy Died...

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Peter Ustinov

photo: http://www.turkcealtyazi.org/film/nmbig/nm0001811.jpg Biography Ustinov as Hercule Poirot "Ustinov at Large" (book cover) Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (born Peter Alexander von Ustinov) on April 16, 1921 - died March 28, 2004) was a British actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur. Contents...

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Danny Trejo

Biography Early life Trejo is a native of the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. His life as a youngster wasn't easy: he roamed the streets around his home area while committing various crimes and became addicted to drugs. He was in and out of jail many times as a teenager. While on the streets, Trejo developed talent as a...

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John Travolta

Biography Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the son of Salvatore Travolta (an Italian American semi-professional football player turned tire salesman) and Helen Cecilia Burke (an Irish American actress and singer who had appeared in radio vocal group The Sunshine Sisters, and acted and directed before becoming a high...

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Spencer Tracy

Biography Filmography The Strong Arm (1930) (short subject) Taxi Talks (1930) (short subject) The Hard Guy (1930) (short subject) Up the River (1930) Quick Millions (1931) Six Cylinder Love (1931) Goldie (1931) She Wanted a Millionaire (1932) Sky Devils (1932) Disorderly Conduct (1932) Young America...

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Stuart Townsend

Biography Townsend portrays the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt in the film adaptation of The Queen of the Damned Stuart Townsend (born December 15, 1972 in Howth, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actor and boxer. His father is a Protestant and his mother is a Catholic, and he was raised Catholic (in his mother's faith). Like...

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Peter Tork

Biography Peter Tork today. Peter Halsten Thorkelson (born February 13, 1942), better known as Peter Tork, is an American musician and actor. He was born in Washington, D.C. and began studying piano at the age of nine, and showed an aptitude for music by learning to play several different instruments, including the banjo and...

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Chaim Topol

Biography Topol was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He first practised acting in amateur theatrical plays that were conducted within the Israeli Army. Later on he managed to establish his own theatre troupe in Tel Aviv and in 1961 he significantly contributed to the foundation of the Municipal Theatre of Haifa. Despite some criticism...

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Franchot Tone

photo: http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/27/2769/CXJTD00Z.jpg Biography Franchot Tone He was born in Niagara Falls, New York, youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the president of the Carborundum Company, and his wife, Gertrude Franchot. President of the Dramatic Club at Cornell University, he gave up the family...

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