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Roy Scheider

photo: http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/specials/yearend/tribute/roy_scheider400.jpg Biography Roy Richard Scheider (born November 10, 1932) is an Academy Award nominated American actor. Born in Orange, New Jersey, Scheider was an athlete as a child, participating in organized baseball and boxing competitions. He traded...

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Telly Savalas

Biography He was the second oldest of five children born to Christina Savalas, who was a New York City artist, and Nick Savalas, a Greek restaurant owner, as Aristotelis Savalas in Garden City, New York. He had his first job at age 8 in 1932, as a newspaper boy, while he constructed a shoeshine stand made of crates. When he entered...

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Fred Savage

photo: http://www.digitalmeetingcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fredsavage.jpg Biography Savage was born in Glencoe, Illinois to Jewish American parents Lew Savage, a real estate agent, and Joanne, a housewife; his brother is actor Ben Savage. He graduated from Stanford University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha...

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George Sanders

photo: http://www.leninimports.com/george_sanders.jpg Biography Birth in Russia Sanders was born in St Petersburg, Russia of British parents. When he was eleven the family returned to Britain on the outbreak of the Russian Revolution and he attended Brighton College. After graduation he worked at a British...

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William S. Hart

photo: http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/William%20S%20Hart.jpg Biography William S. Hart Wiliam Surrey Hart - movie poster for Hart's 1916 western The Aryan in which he played a "white" (Anglo-Saxon) member of a Mexican gang, having turned against his own people. Hart stated that this was his most...

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Charles S Dutton

photo: http://www.bannekermemorial.org/images/dutton.jpg Biography Charles Dutton (born January 30, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor/director. Dutton is most known for turning his life around after serving time in prison for fatally stabbing a man in a street fight. While incarcerated, he discovered a love...

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Kurt Russell

Biography Career Russell started his film career at the age of ten in an uncredited part in Elvis Presley's It Happened at the World's Fair . At the age of twelve he landed a big part for a juvenile actor: the lead role as the orphan Jaimie in the TV western The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). Based on the book by Robert...

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John Russell

Foto: 1 Biography John Russell (January 3, 1921 - January 19, 1991) was an American film and television actor. John Russell, in "Lawman" Born William Lawrence Russell in Los Angeles, California, he fit the Hollywood image of tall, dark, and handsome. In 1937, he signed a contract as a juvenile actor for 20th...

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Geoffrey Rush

photo: http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNzcwMTM0MjIxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTc2OTI5MQ@@._V1._SX317_SY400_.jpg Biography Geoffrey Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian Academy Award winning actor. He was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Roy and Merle Rush. He began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company...

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Charles Ruggles

photo: http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/charles_ruggles.jpg Biography Charles Sherman Ruggles (February 8, 1886 - December 23, 1970) was a comic American actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films. He was also the brother of director, producer and silent actor...

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Richard Roundtree

Biography Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942 in New Rochelle, New York) is an African-American actor and hero famous for portraying John Shaft in the film Shaft (1971) and in its two sequels: Shaft's Big Score in 1972 and Shaft in Africa in 1973. He was a leading man in early 1970s Blaxploitation films. Prior to becoming an...

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Tim Roth

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/597/000023528/roth6-sized.jpg Biography Timothy Simon Smith was born in London to a landscape painter mother and a journalist father, who had adopted the German-Jewish surname "Roth" after World War II to hide his nationality when traveling in countries hostile to the British....

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Richard Rossi

photo: http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTg5OTAzNjk0MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDc2NzI1._V1._SX214_CR0,0,214,314_.jpg Biography Early years Rossi was a child prodigy, playing guitar on stage at age seven, astounding some music critics with sophisticated jazz arrangements. As a teenager, his father was put into a mental...

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Mickey Rooney

photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pvIyKwiG0ck/RexPIK1XwqI/AAAAAAAAABM/eW8x4PaSQio/s320/MickeyRooney_publ.jpg Biography Born into a vaudeville family, Rooney began performing at the age of 17 months in 1922. His father was from a Scottish background, whilst his mother came from the southern US. His adopted name means that he...

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Ray Romano

Biography Early life Romano, an Italian American, was born in Queens, New York to Albert and Lucie Romano. Romano attended Elementary and Middle High School in Forest Hills New York, the same Parochial School that gave us Pia Zadora and David Caruso. Before breaking into show business, Romano had planned to become an accountant....

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Paul Robeson

Biography The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed. Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page. USPS Black Heritage stamp Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, and radical civil rights...

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James Robertson

Foto: 1 Biography James Robertson Justice (15 June 1907 - 2 July 1975) was a popular character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Born in Lee, he worked as a journalist and botanist, before turning to acting. With his dominant personality and booming voice he soon established himself as a major supporting...

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Cliff Robertson

Biography Clifford Parker Robertson III (born September 9, 1925) is an American actor with a successful career in films and television that spans over half a century. In addition to his Oscar and Emmy and lifetime achievement awards from several film festivals, Robertson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood...

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Eugene Robert

photo: http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/79/05/11790520_gal.jpg Biography Eugene Robert Glazer is an American actor best known for his portrayal of "Operations" on the TV show La Femme Nikita. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and worked at a variety of jobs before moving to Los Angeles in the 1970s to...

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Tim Robbins

Biography Tim Robbins was born in West Covina, California to a liberal Irish-American Roman Catholic family. He moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a young age while his father, Gil Robbins, pursued a career as a member of the folk music group The Highwaymen. Robbins joined Theater for the New City at age twelve, participated in the...

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John Ritter

Biography Ritter went on to star in several stage performances before he was made a star by appearing in the hit sitcom Three's Company in 1977, playing a single ladies' man and culinary student, Jack Tripper, who lived with two female roommates. Jack pretended to be gay to keep the landlords happy with the living arrangement. The...

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Alan Rickman

photo: http://www.cineol.net/galeria/fotos/1805_9544.jpg Biography Early life background Rickman was born in Hammersmith, London to a working-class family; his father was Irish Catholic and his mother was Welsh and a Methodist; there was consequently a religious tug-of-war between his parents. His father died when Rickman was...

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Ralph Richardson

photo: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__qzX-0fL9Js/RwwhAoVEFfI/AAAAAAAAAP4/GpUgDarfzfg/s400/richardson.jpg Biography Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 - 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to...

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John Rhys-Davies

Biography John Rhys-Davies (born May 5, 1944 in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales) is a British actor. Born to Phyllis and Rhys Davies, a local mechanical engineer from the area, he was raised in Africa until he was sent to Truro School in Cornwall. The actor first gained widespread popularity for his performance as Rodrigues in the...

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Erik Rhodes

Biography Filmography The Gay Divorcee (1934)... aka The Gay Divorce (UK) Give Her a Ring (1934)... aka Giving You the Stars Top Hat (1935)... aka It Happened in Hollywood (UK) Another Face (1935)... aka Two Faces (USA) Old Man Rhythm (1935) The Nitwits (1935) A Night at the Ritz (1935)... aka King of the...

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Ryan Reynolds

Biography Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian actor. His father James was a grocery wholesaler and his mother Tammy Reynolds a salesperson. He is the youngest of four brothers; two of them are currently employed as police officers. Ryan is probably best known for the...

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Burt Reynolds

Biography Reynolds was born to a half-Irish, half-Cherokee Indian father and a mother of English descent. After graduating from Palm Beach High School in West Palm Beach, Florida, Reynolds attended Florida State University on a college football scholarship, becoming an all-star Southern Conference halfback. While at Florida State,...

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Paul Reubens

Biography Early development Born in Peekskill, New York, on August 27, 1952, Paul Reubenfeld grew up in Sarasota, Florida, where his parents owned a lamp store. During winters, The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus called Sarasota home, and young Paul counted such big-top families as the Wallendas and the Zacchinis...

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Jean Reno

image: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00794/Jean-Reno_794314c.jpg Biography Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno, co-stars of Jet Lag, at Cannes, 2002 Jean Reno (born Don Juan Moreno y Jederique Jimenez, July 30, 1948 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French actor of Spanish origin. Working in both French and English,...

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Michael Rennie

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/242/000108915/michaelrennie01.jpg Biography Michael Rennie (August 25, 1909 - June 10, 1971) was a British actor. Rennie was born Eric Alexander in Idle Bradford, Yorkshire, England, and had several other jobs before gaining employment as a stand-in in an Hitchcock film of 1936. Acting then...

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