Actors

Sidney Poitier

Biography Awards and recognition Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Awards of 2001 Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award 2001: Sidney Poitier NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or...

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Christopher Plummer

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/316/000023247/plummer-port.jpg Biography Early life Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario. The great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott, following his parents' divorce he moved with his mother to live in Senneville, Quebec, near Montreal. He studied to be a concert...

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Donald Pleasence

photo: http://www.nndb.com/people/611/000032515/dp2.jpeg Biography Sir Donald Pleasence (October 5, 1919 - February 2, 1995) was an English actor. His high work rate in international cinema earned him the distinction of being the most prolific film actor at the time of his death with over 500 screen credits. He was born in...

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Brad Pitt

Biography Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to Southern Baptist parents Bill Pitt and Jane Pitt, of mainly English and Irish descent. He and his two siblings, Doug Pitt and Julie Pitt, would grow up in Springfield, Missouri, soon after his birth. In high school, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government, and school...

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Walter Pidgeon

photo: http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/images/pmb_p11t.jpg Biography Walter Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor. Born near Saint John, New Brunswick, he began his career by studying at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He was a classicaly trained baritone. After...

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River Phoenix

Biography Phoenix's Irish-Spanish father, John Bottom, and Bronx-born Jewish mother, Arlyn Sharon Dunetz, joined the Children of God cult in the late 1960s and became missionaries, traveling throughout South America. Upon returning to the United States they adopted the surname "Phoenix." River Phoenix was born River Jude...

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Joaquin Phoenix

Biography Early life, siblings Phoenix's father, John Lee Bottom, is of Irish and Spanish descent; his mother, Arlyn Sharon Dunetz, was born in the Bronx, New York City to Orthodox Jewish (see [1], [2]) emigrants from Hungary and Russia. Shortly after they met, the two joined the Children of God cult and began traveling...

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Leslie Phillips

Biography Radio The Navy Lark Oh, Get On with It! (with Kenneth Williams) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Hactar Television Chancer (Central Television, 1990 - 1991) Casanova '73 (BBC, 1973) The Comic Strip Films Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) Thunderpants...

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John Phillip

photo: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3469/3211356772_6e14e1489c.jpg Biography 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 December 2005....

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Gerard Philipe

photo: http://www.cinemotions.com/data/artistes/00/0016/06/1/h200/gerard_philipe_1.jpg Biography Gérard Philipe (December 4, 1922 – November 22, 1959) was a prominent French actor. Born in Cannes, as a teenager Gérard Philipe took acting lessons before going to Paris to study at the Conservatory of Dramatic...

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William Petersen

Biography William Petersen is an American actor of Danish ancestry. Petersen was born on February 21, 1953 in Evanston, Illinois. Petersen graduated from Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho in 1972. He was accepted to Idaho State University on a football scholarship. Originally intending to boost his grade point average at...

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Joe Pesci

Biography Joseph Pesci (born February 9, 1943), better known as Joe Pesci, is an Italian-American actor, comedian and singer who is often typecast as a violent mobster (Nicky Santoro from Casino or Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas) or as a grouchy funnyman (Vincent Gambini from My Cousin Vinny or Harry Lime from Home Alone). He is...

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Jon Pertwee

Biography Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor John Devon Roland Pertwee (July 7, 1919–May 20, 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, was a British actor. He is best known for his roles in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, where he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974 and as the title character...

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Matthew Perry

Matthew Langford Perry (born August 19, 1969) is an American-Canadian actor, most famous for playing the role of Chandler Bing on the American television sitcom Friends (1994-2004). Perry has also guest starred in Ally McBeal, The West Wing, Scrubs, and has lent his voice to The Simpsons. He has also appeared on Punk'd. While born in...

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Ron Perlman

photo: http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/actor/00/15/60/ron-perlman-965404l.jpg Biography Ronald Francis Perlman (born April 13, 1950, in Washington Heights, New York) is a Jewish-American television and film actor. He made his acting debut in Jean-Jacques Annaud's film Quest for Fire (1981). His breakthrough role came when...

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Anthony Perkins

Biography Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 60s film star Tab Hunter, writer-model-actor Alan Helms, dancer Rudolf Nureyev and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale, with whom Perkins had a six-year relationship prior to his marriage to Berry Berenson. He claimed to have been exclusively...

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George Peppard

photo: http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/12/1259/R52T000Z.jpg Biography George Peppard (October 1, 1928 - May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor. His most notable role occurred early in his career when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), although he is probably more familiar...

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Sean Penn

photo: https://topnews.in/files/Sean-Penn55.jpg Biography Penn was born to the late Leo Penn (a film director who was blacklisted for refusing to testify during the McCarthy era) and Eileen Ryan - an actress. Leo Penn was the son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Russia, while Ryan is a Roman Catholic of Italian and Irish...

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Gregory Peck

Foto: 1 Biography Early life 1939 Berkeley Yearbook photo of "Eldred" Peck in a performance of "Rain from Heaven" Born Eldred Gregory Peck in La Jolla, California, he was the son of Bernice Ayres (a Missouri-born convert to Catholicism) and Gregory Peck (a chemist/pharmacist of Irish Catholic...

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Bill Paxton

Biography Bill Paxton as Hudson in Aliens. William "Bill" Paxton (born May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American actor and film director. He is a son of John Lane Paxton (an occasional actor) and Mary Lou Paxton. He is best-known for playing distinctive and memorable characters, such as the sneering older...

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Adrian Paul

Biography Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod of the Highlander television series. Adrian Paul Hewitt (born May 29, 1959), known as Adrian Paul, is an actor best known for his role on the television series Highlander: The Series as Duncan MacLeod. He was born in London, England in 1959, the first of three brothers to an Italian mother...

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Will Patton

Will Patton (born June 14, 1954 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American actor. The eldest son of a Lutheran minister, he attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and The Actors Studio and won two Obie Awards for best actor for his performances in Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love and the Public Theatre production of What...

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Jason Patric

Biography Roger Ebert, Peter O'Toole and Jason Patric at the 2004 Savannah Film Festival. Jason Patric (born June 17, 1966) is an Irish-American actor who has appeared in such films as The Lost Boys and The Alamo. Jason Patric was born John Anthony Miller Jr., in Queens, New York. He is the son of the late Queens, New...

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Mandy Patinkin

photo: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/241857442462934357/ Biography Patinkin attended Kenwood High School, University of Kansas and Juilliard School of Drama. His first real break was when he played Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979. He went on to win a Tony Award for that role. After this initial musical theater success he moved...

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Joe Pantoliano

photo: https://images.bwwstatic.com/upload/18385/New%20Folder%202/31.jpg Biography Joe Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an Italian-American actor. Because his last name is relatively awkward for English speakers to pronounce, he often just asks people to call him Joey Pants. Pantoliano was born in Hoboken, New Jersey,...

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Al Pacino

photo: http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/3/Celebrity-Image-Al-Pacino-230484.jpg Biography Pacino was born in The Bronx, New York to Italian American parents Salvatore Pacino (who was born in the Italian town of Corleone) and Rose Gerard (the daughter of an Italian-born father and a New York-born mother of Italian descent)....

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Natalino Otto

Biography Debut on the American radio Natalino Otto's career as a singer and musician started in the clubs of his native region, Liguria. During 1930s he worked as an entertainer on board transatlantic liners on the routes between Europe and North America, which gave him the opportunity to get to know American music genres,...

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Laurence Olivier

photo: https://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/07/16/jt_olivier_narrowweb__300x365,0.jpg Biography Laurence Olivier Early career Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey. He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. It was his father, Gerard Kerr Olivier, an Anglican...

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Gary Oldman

Biography Oldman as Drexl Spivey in the Tarantino-scripted True Romance. Gary Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is an English actor, born Leonard Gary Oldman in London, England. He won a scholarship to the Rose Bruford Drama College, where he received a BA in Drama in 1979. He later studied with the Greenwich Young People's...

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Peter OToole

photo: http://www.vh1.com/news/celebrity/ Biography Although most sources give O'Toole's birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, he himself suggests in the first volume of his memoirs, Loitering with Intent, that this is the "family version", and that he was in fact born in Leeds, England, where he was raised. In her own...

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