DAREDEVIL The Man Without Fear 1982.
This is the What if scenario Matt Murdock becomes Daredevil the avenging son of Battling Jack Murdock. Ideas on a possible director script writer also cast members, who can be main and secondary characters. Universal and Paramount Studios produced this epic movie of a worthy character an update of the classic underdog.
Frank Miller Returns to Daredevil on 21 June 2023.
Genre Influences: On the Waterfront, The French Connection, The Godfather Trilogy, Charley Varrick, Death Wish, The Warriors, Prince of the City, The Challenge, The King of New York.
Daredevil's alias is Matthew Murdock, a blind lawyer. A childhood car accident gave him special abilities. While growing up in the historically gritty or crime-ridden working-class neighbourhood of Hell's Kitchen in New York City, Matt Murdock is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from an out-of-control truck after he pushes a man out of the path of the oncoming vehicle.
While he can no longer see, his exposure to the radioactive material heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human ability, and gives him a "radar sense." The Man Without Fear.
The film will start with Matthew on patrol stopping an attractive streetwalker from being raped, DD slams the man against the wall severely beating and disarming the man with a large flick knife, and the woman in question watches with her back to the wall in shock, the beating being carried out in the alleyway, covered in neon lights above Matt tells the woman to call the police she runs from the alleyway to a phone box across the road to call the police, whilst in the road flags down a patrol car.
(Street-walker description) European-American Very long dark brown frizzy hair, Micronet fishnet stockings, metallic rubber puffer coat influenced by Andrew-Kostman, sparkling dark blue mini dress with black 5" Platform Wedge Over The Knee Thigh High Long Boot In Black 48-EE cupp grey eyes broad thighs height 5ft-10" without heels) with bottle green two shade green 2" nails.
By the time they arrive in the alleyway DD is gone, listening on top adjacent building two police officers an African and Asian then radio ahead details, the man is on the floor unconscious of the crime he is wanted for previous rape based on the description is immediately handcuffed.
NB: The radar sense should look like a solarized image in purple, white and red, sensory detection the closer he gets to an object or building or individual the more details he can see must show all 5 enhanced senses wireline showing radar sensory, also the technology used for a blind man in the office. (Due to technology filmed normal then optical negative converted in post).
Hearing so acutely can filter out different heartbeats in a 30-block radius once Mathew hears a pulse he doesn't forget it, is capable of tracking an individual scent for 20-hrs, and can tell which brand of perfume and aftershave or body moisturiser you wear. (Mathew can see details of bodies nervous system, heart, lungs and muscle grouping i.e. motion radar).
Can identify styles of writing by touch with or without gloves, even trained in lock picking by the chaste, also can differentiate the type of sugar based on taste. Can tell the difference between cotton, polyester and silk by smell and touch, and also detect cancer, flu and Aids by breathing. Matthew can tell the difference between 1911 ACP, P226, 357-Magnum and Glock-22 based on sound, can tell the difference between Camel, Lucky strike cigarettes based smell.
NB: Matthew uses an old gymnasium where his father used to train, and even bought gym equipment so he can train better, as his apartment isn't big enough. (Matthew regularly trains with various Asian weaponry, as to keep himself agile with weaponry). Mathew works out 6 days a week, for about 3 to 4 hours daily. Especially when he doesn't patrol, in and out of Hell's Kitchen, he splits his days into legs, back, shoulders, arms/abs and chest.
Matthew is trained in gymnastics primarily in high bars, parallel bars and Pommel horse and rings in gymnastics by chaste members, to above Olympic level Matthew learned to filter different sounds, and even trained to reduce decibel sounds by the chaste.
======= Evolution of outfit then combat body suit =======
Matt's first weapon was 660 mm (26 in) long and called a nightstick, which he procured from an old police station on a dare, when Matt returned to Hell's Kitchen he used the baton until he met Melvin Potter, who designed his billy clubs and custom walking sticks and combat outfit. Also, a custom billy-club holster is designed with military-grade material, like the body suit.
Billy club wire cable allows the club to be used as a grappling hook and it can also be used as a baton (40ft cable toughened chain). A decade later a new escrima sticks are developed when joined together become a staff, each baton discharge six thousand volts each, also can be adjusted as a sick stick on someones stomach causing severe cramps and vomiting.
Melvin designs a custom bullet/knife-proof vest, with deltoid and trapezius, and rib cage protection which can only fit Daredevil with baseball pads, when Mathew gets a well-paid client he goes to Melvin to develop new masks and gloves then boots and cargo pants where added via Army and Navy, took 15 months to develop all in one outfit, 4-sets of boots, masks, gloves, with Red Combat Shirt with black piping, with red knife proof tracksuit top inspired by adidas with black Dr Marten boots will wear a custom waist high coat for Winter which is knife proof, the vest has back deltoid and neck protection.
The final design of the body suit will be seen during the last 40-50 minutes of the movie, strategic padding around the body, the red eye slits with chin guard padded gloves with a knuckle, hand and wrist with Metacarpal bones protection, supported by joint protection both palm and boot soles, will have grips and to improve handling and running. The shade of red will be carmine red then ruby red with a new bodysuit. (The outer arms and legs will have fine lizard scales finally the suit is insulated from heat detection).
(Suit development of materials rubber and kevlar with aramid Tantalum carbide (TaC) materials).
Boot soles will be the contour shape of Mathew's feet, the billy clubs can be used for both offence and defence same length and width as a bicycle pump, can connect together to form nun-chucks and a small bo even had custom made San Setsu Kon/Three-section staff by Melvin Potter the second suit has Sternocleidomastoid also intercostal muscles neck protection, are the muscles between your ribs. (Mathew was very specific about his look and flexible protection).
Mathew seeks out an electronic expert who designs a device that can pick up closed radio frequencies, that are used by law enforcement whether the Police, ATF, DEA, or FBI, the antenna in the horns, can distinguish the various signals and bug devices. Another gadget is connected to a private phone line, overtime cannot be traced the line is used by Albert G Tindelli, Father Everett, Claire Temple, Ben Urich and Melvin Potter.
Matt invested in a new head mask to accommodate the new equipment which took a year to develop, also ear filters in the helmet should someone use intense white noise to subdue DD and his mask covers his jawline, to protect from blunt impact with chin guard, which has skull protection from both a baseball bat, crowbar and impact of a P226 gun.
Mathew read an article in OMNI and American Scientist, about carbon nanotube-based alloys which is said to be "nearly indestructible" alloys that were tested before input into a new helmet, that included red lenses in the eye holes. Also added advanced alloy gauntlets, to the suit's long gloves this is Mark II and an update for the Mark III, Mark II has two shades of red.
===============================
Matthew lives in an apartment in Hell's Kitchen, which took 5 months to develop, due to successful cases, and had all the bells and whistles, 2 bedrooms master and a guest bedroom, the master bedroom is soundproof with acoustic foam, as this helps for Matthew to get sleep, 2 bathrooms, and double living room, 1x kitchen diner a double closest, is also updated for outfits and changing room storage and also a balcony.
This property is bought with his inheritance just before his graduation, and this is before the 4-story house is bought, kept his apartment in Hell's kitchen. (Mathew's house has a top floor custom skylight, for quick entry and departure this is to protect his identity a floorboard panel, to open the skylight inside with an electronic sensor for an entry pipe and also for re-entry).
Main apartments - 1 & 2.
303 E 57th St APT 21L, New York, NY 10022 2 bd 2,000 sqft when Mathew cannot make it back to his main abode, the apartment will have a change of clothing for work. Matthew second apartment, based on court cases won, each apartment took between 8/10 months to develop and partly furnish, this helps when business is very quiet Apartment 2 520 W 45th St #2A, New York, NY 10036.
Matthew invested in a solid oak Japanese cabinet to store various weaponry and bodysuits, which took 6 months to develop, stores billy clubs, Sai, Kusarigama-sickle and chain, throwing stars, flares, Jo's, nunchucks, Katana, Prusik Knot rope with a grappling hook, 4 dark red outfits, gloves, boots, the cabinet is a smooth dark red varnished wood. (The cabinet has an electronic fingerprint lock for access).
(Matthew also invested custom-made walkin-safe to conceal all his equipment, with help from a private seller fingerprint and palm recognition) this safe was built in stages.
Matthew helped Jean-Michel Basquiat with legal issues, the artist painted two large portraits in vibrant colours, and each painting was two dimensional for a blind person to touch these hanged in a brownstone private museum, with sculptures by Tony Smith and Robert Indiana, Keith Haring.
Foggy & Murdock Attorneys of law have clients from J Jonah Jameson, Charles Xavier and Reed Richards, with these clients is why Mathew and Foggy can afford to run their business.
NB: The bigger the client the bigger the paycheque both Mathew and Franklin make sure the phone bill is paid, enough stationary also make sure they pay themselves also pro-bono cases, won many many people cannot afford a lawyer yet cases won range from $100,000 to $6,000,000 due to reputation, people bring Franklin & Murdock business sometimes no work for 6 weeks then a big client then a pro bono client leads to a paying client.
NB: Matthew wears an Omega "Speedmaster Professional Chronograph, Apollo XI,1969-1994" limited edition for the visually impaired, and also has a Rolex Submariner date. Also, Mathew has developed a wardrobe system, for different seasons of the year work wear, smart and casual finally black tie clothing.
When Mathew and Foggy win big cases, they update the office layout to two private offices and the main reception, which has chairs with a magazine table, Wireless Calling System Take Number Display System two toilets, and a small law books room with a desk and chair. The total cost of painting and decorating with updated equipment i.e. filing cabinets, desks, typewriters 1982 IBM Personal Typewriter etc $60,000. (Mathew bought an alligator Attache Case).
Both Foggy and Matthew worked for a law firm for three years and finally left to start their practice, some of their clients have deep and very deep pockets other clients pay what they can afford Foggy and Mathew run a tight reputable business, which has a reputation for being firm and fair to crooked police, and landlords fear the firm even the odd criminal has sought good legal advice.
NB: Matthew was able to trace both sides of his family Irish Father, and Danish Mother, his father has Limerick and Kilkenny through marriage in 1898 arrived in New York and joined the Army in 1900, served 12 years, trained as a sniper saved enough money for a candy shop married had five children, Danish mother family comes from Copenhagen, Roskilde and Ringsted once in America settled in Maryland and Washington D.C 1898.
(Foggy designed a standard business card with American brail and British braille).
Matthew is caught up in a war between the Chaste and the Hand.
chaste members
Stick,
Daredevil,
Elektra,
Stone,
Shaft,
Claw,
Star,
Wing,
Flame.
Daredevil-Gadgets: Matthew invests in the pendulum swing, which helps DD to go from building to building, also a security device that shuts down building CCTV, also a custom zip swing that shoots a zipline from 100 to 300 ft building to building with a suction cup or grappling hook with foldable triple hooks, the arm of the zip swing can be adjusted also psi pressure Mathew found a designer to produce a custom device and updating billy-clubs, has a utility-belt designed for strobe light grenades, smoke bombs to conceal escape.
The final fight scene will be a mix of boxing, Kung-Fu, Taekwondo, and Pencak Silat.
New York has many street gangs influenced by the French Connection, Warriors, Game of Death, Rocky, Prince of The City corrupt police, and politicians possibly a 2 part movie 2hrs 30mins without titles.
Although Matthew was blind from radioactive waste, 6 months before his 10th birthday Stick would have taken Mathew to Japan, to start his training and finish his education, Mathews uncle Jonathan stepped in and became his legal guardian.
Stick convinced, Jonathan of Mathews new abilities Stick trained Mathew from age-9 to 26 from all throughout Mathews education, when Mathew finished high school, he went to Kingsborough community college for two years and spent 13 months in Japan training with the chaste did this three times, up until the start of studying at NYU.
The monochromatic colour schemes with both light and dark lighting.
In 1997 Matthew purchases an old red brick house then updated it has 6-bedrooms, 4-bathrooms contemporary 3,850, has a private gym with a private art room with two secret passageways with an external private gallery in upstate New York.
Question: Is it possible Matt already has the mutant gene and the radioactive isotope enhanced his latent ability?
Villains many of them exist, not yet seen:
Stilt man,
Bullet,
Mysterio,
Owl,
Paladin,
Mister Fear,
Death-Stalker,
Beetle,
Jester,
Enforcers.
Defense techniques: Wushu, Jujitsu, Shotokan Karate, Kyokushin Karate, Shito-Ryu, Kung-Fu, Jeet Kune do, Eskrima and boxing, Hung Ga, Hapkido, Taekwondo, Chin Na, Pencak Silat, Tang Soo Do, Kenjutsu. Has his own state-of-the-art gymnasium in his apartment/house, an emphasis on gymnastics during his training, wooden dummy, and Olympic level power lifting a rigorous fitness regime.
Both Matthew and Franklin have Ci in Police, FBI, ATF young people rising in the ranks and advanced information is crucial, to win cases knowing how to apply rules during court.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rxt0VptTa0 - Pencak Silat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760JCpYJMVk - Hapkido Fighting Techniques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1F-vXRFgyM - Top 10 wing chun techniques
Wardrobe: Lee jeans, Guess jeans, Lacoste, Hugo Boss, John Philips, Brioni, Christian Lacroix, Azzedine Alaia, Calvin Klein, adidas and Puma.
Frank Miller Returns to Daredevil on 21 June 2023.
Genre Influences: On the Waterfront, The French Connection, The Godfather Trilogy, Charley Varrick, Death Wish, The Warriors, Prince of the City, The Challenge, The King of New York.
Daredevil's alias is Matthew Murdock, a blind lawyer. A childhood car accident gave him special abilities. While growing up in the historically gritty or crime-ridden working-class neighbourhood of Hell's Kitchen in New York City, Matt Murdock is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from an out-of-control truck after he pushes a man out of the path of the oncoming vehicle.
While he can no longer see, his exposure to the radioactive material heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human ability, and gives him a "radar sense." The Man Without Fear.
The film will start with Matthew on patrol stopping an attractive streetwalker from being raped, DD slams the man against the wall severely beating and disarming the man with a large flick knife, and the woman in question watches with her back to the wall in shock, the beating being carried out in the alleyway, covered in neon lights above Matt tells the woman to call the police she runs from the alleyway to a phone box across the road to call the police, whilst in the road flags down a patrol car.
(Street-walker description) European-American Very long dark brown frizzy hair, Micronet fishnet stockings, metallic rubber puffer coat influenced by Andrew-Kostman, sparkling dark blue mini dress with black 5" Platform Wedge Over The Knee Thigh High Long Boot In Black 48-EE cupp grey eyes broad thighs height 5ft-10" without heels) with bottle green two shade green 2" nails.
By the time they arrive in the alleyway DD is gone, listening on top adjacent building two police officers an African and Asian then radio ahead details, the man is on the floor unconscious of the crime he is wanted for previous rape based on the description is immediately handcuffed.
NB: The radar sense should look like a solarized image in purple, white and red, sensory detection the closer he gets to an object or building or individual the more details he can see must show all 5 enhanced senses wireline showing radar sensory, also the technology used for a blind man in the office. (Due to technology filmed normal then optical negative converted in post).
Hearing so acutely can filter out different heartbeats in a 30-block radius once Mathew hears a pulse he doesn't forget it, is capable of tracking an individual scent for 20-hrs, and can tell which brand of perfume and aftershave or body moisturiser you wear. (Mathew can see details of bodies nervous system, heart, lungs and muscle grouping i.e. motion radar).
Can identify styles of writing by touch with or without gloves, even trained in lock picking by the chaste, also can differentiate the type of sugar based on taste. Can tell the difference between cotton, polyester and silk by smell and touch, and also detect cancer, flu and Aids by breathing. Matthew can tell the difference between 1911 ACP, P226, 357-Magnum and Glock-22 based on sound, can tell the difference between Camel, Lucky strike cigarettes based smell.
NB: Matthew uses an old gymnasium where his father used to train, and even bought gym equipment so he can train better, as his apartment isn't big enough. (Matthew regularly trains with various Asian weaponry, as to keep himself agile with weaponry). Mathew works out 6 days a week, for about 3 to 4 hours daily. Especially when he doesn't patrol, in and out of Hell's Kitchen, he splits his days into legs, back, shoulders, arms/abs and chest.
Matthew is trained in gymnastics primarily in high bars, parallel bars and Pommel horse and rings in gymnastics by chaste members, to above Olympic level Matthew learned to filter different sounds, and even trained to reduce decibel sounds by the chaste.
======= Evolution of outfit then combat body suit =======
Matt's first weapon was 660 mm (26 in) long and called a nightstick, which he procured from an old police station on a dare, when Matt returned to Hell's Kitchen he used the baton until he met Melvin Potter, who designed his billy clubs and custom walking sticks and combat outfit. Also, a custom billy-club holster is designed with military-grade material, like the body suit.
Billy club wire cable allows the club to be used as a grappling hook and it can also be used as a baton (40ft cable toughened chain). A decade later a new escrima sticks are developed when joined together become a staff, each baton discharge six thousand volts each, also can be adjusted as a sick stick on someones stomach causing severe cramps and vomiting.
Melvin designs a custom bullet/knife-proof vest, with deltoid and trapezius, and rib cage protection which can only fit Daredevil with baseball pads, when Mathew gets a well-paid client he goes to Melvin to develop new masks and gloves then boots and cargo pants where added via Army and Navy, took 15 months to develop all in one outfit, 4-sets of boots, masks, gloves, with Red Combat Shirt with black piping, with red knife proof tracksuit top inspired by adidas with black Dr Marten boots will wear a custom waist high coat for Winter which is knife proof, the vest has back deltoid and neck protection.
The final design of the body suit will be seen during the last 40-50 minutes of the movie, strategic padding around the body, the red eye slits with chin guard padded gloves with a knuckle, hand and wrist with Metacarpal bones protection, supported by joint protection both palm and boot soles, will have grips and to improve handling and running. The shade of red will be carmine red then ruby red with a new bodysuit. (The outer arms and legs will have fine lizard scales finally the suit is insulated from heat detection).
(Suit development of materials rubber and kevlar with aramid Tantalum carbide (TaC) materials).
Boot soles will be the contour shape of Mathew's feet, the billy clubs can be used for both offence and defence same length and width as a bicycle pump, can connect together to form nun-chucks and a small bo even had custom made San Setsu Kon/Three-section staff by Melvin Potter the second suit has Sternocleidomastoid also intercostal muscles neck protection, are the muscles between your ribs. (Mathew was very specific about his look and flexible protection).
Mathew seeks out an electronic expert who designs a device that can pick up closed radio frequencies, that are used by law enforcement whether the Police, ATF, DEA, or FBI, the antenna in the horns, can distinguish the various signals and bug devices. Another gadget is connected to a private phone line, overtime cannot be traced the line is used by Albert G Tindelli, Father Everett, Claire Temple, Ben Urich and Melvin Potter.
Matt invested in a new head mask to accommodate the new equipment which took a year to develop, also ear filters in the helmet should someone use intense white noise to subdue DD and his mask covers his jawline, to protect from blunt impact with chin guard, which has skull protection from both a baseball bat, crowbar and impact of a P226 gun.
Mathew read an article in OMNI and American Scientist, about carbon nanotube-based alloys which is said to be "nearly indestructible" alloys that were tested before input into a new helmet, that included red lenses in the eye holes. Also added advanced alloy gauntlets, to the suit's long gloves this is Mark II and an update for the Mark III, Mark II has two shades of red.
===============================
Matthew lives in an apartment in Hell's Kitchen, which took 5 months to develop, due to successful cases, and had all the bells and whistles, 2 bedrooms master and a guest bedroom, the master bedroom is soundproof with acoustic foam, as this helps for Matthew to get sleep, 2 bathrooms, and double living room, 1x kitchen diner a double closest, is also updated for outfits and changing room storage and also a balcony.
This property is bought with his inheritance just before his graduation, and this is before the 4-story house is bought, kept his apartment in Hell's kitchen. (Mathew's house has a top floor custom skylight, for quick entry and departure this is to protect his identity a floorboard panel, to open the skylight inside with an electronic sensor for an entry pipe and also for re-entry).
Main apartments - 1 & 2.
303 E 57th St APT 21L, New York, NY 10022 2 bd 2,000 sqft when Mathew cannot make it back to his main abode, the apartment will have a change of clothing for work. Matthew second apartment, based on court cases won, each apartment took between 8/10 months to develop and partly furnish, this helps when business is very quiet Apartment 2 520 W 45th St #2A, New York, NY 10036.
Matthew invested in a solid oak Japanese cabinet to store various weaponry and bodysuits, which took 6 months to develop, stores billy clubs, Sai, Kusarigama-sickle and chain, throwing stars, flares, Jo's, nunchucks, Katana, Prusik Knot rope with a grappling hook, 4 dark red outfits, gloves, boots, the cabinet is a smooth dark red varnished wood. (The cabinet has an electronic fingerprint lock for access).
(Matthew also invested custom-made walkin-safe to conceal all his equipment, with help from a private seller fingerprint and palm recognition) this safe was built in stages.
Matthew helped Jean-Michel Basquiat with legal issues, the artist painted two large portraits in vibrant colours, and each painting was two dimensional for a blind person to touch these hanged in a brownstone private museum, with sculptures by Tony Smith and Robert Indiana, Keith Haring.
Foggy & Murdock Attorneys of law have clients from J Jonah Jameson, Charles Xavier and Reed Richards, with these clients is why Mathew and Foggy can afford to run their business.
NB: The bigger the client the bigger the paycheque both Mathew and Franklin make sure the phone bill is paid, enough stationary also make sure they pay themselves also pro-bono cases, won many many people cannot afford a lawyer yet cases won range from $100,000 to $6,000,000 due to reputation, people bring Franklin & Murdock business sometimes no work for 6 weeks then a big client then a pro bono client leads to a paying client.
NB: Matthew wears an Omega "Speedmaster Professional Chronograph, Apollo XI,1969-1994" limited edition for the visually impaired, and also has a Rolex Submariner date. Also, Mathew has developed a wardrobe system, for different seasons of the year work wear, smart and casual finally black tie clothing.
When Mathew and Foggy win big cases, they update the office layout to two private offices and the main reception, which has chairs with a magazine table, Wireless Calling System Take Number Display System two toilets, and a small law books room with a desk and chair. The total cost of painting and decorating with updated equipment i.e. filing cabinets, desks, typewriters 1982 IBM Personal Typewriter etc $60,000. (Mathew bought an alligator Attache Case).
Both Foggy and Matthew worked for a law firm for three years and finally left to start their practice, some of their clients have deep and very deep pockets other clients pay what they can afford Foggy and Mathew run a tight reputable business, which has a reputation for being firm and fair to crooked police, and landlords fear the firm even the odd criminal has sought good legal advice.
NB: Matthew was able to trace both sides of his family Irish Father, and Danish Mother, his father has Limerick and Kilkenny through marriage in 1898 arrived in New York and joined the Army in 1900, served 12 years, trained as a sniper saved enough money for a candy shop married had five children, Danish mother family comes from Copenhagen, Roskilde and Ringsted once in America settled in Maryland and Washington D.C 1898.
(Foggy designed a standard business card with American brail and British braille).
Matthew is caught up in a war between the Chaste and the Hand.
chaste members
Stick,
Daredevil,
Elektra,
Stone,
Shaft,
Claw,
Star,
Wing,
Flame.
Daredevil-Gadgets: Matthew invests in the pendulum swing, which helps DD to go from building to building, also a security device that shuts down building CCTV, also a custom zip swing that shoots a zipline from 100 to 300 ft building to building with a suction cup or grappling hook with foldable triple hooks, the arm of the zip swing can be adjusted also psi pressure Mathew found a designer to produce a custom device and updating billy-clubs, has a utility-belt designed for strobe light grenades, smoke bombs to conceal escape.
The final fight scene will be a mix of boxing, Kung-Fu, Taekwondo, and Pencak Silat.
New York has many street gangs influenced by the French Connection, Warriors, Game of Death, Rocky, Prince of The City corrupt police, and politicians possibly a 2 part movie 2hrs 30mins without titles.
Although Matthew was blind from radioactive waste, 6 months before his 10th birthday Stick would have taken Mathew to Japan, to start his training and finish his education, Mathews uncle Jonathan stepped in and became his legal guardian.
Stick convinced, Jonathan of Mathews new abilities Stick trained Mathew from age-9 to 26 from all throughout Mathews education, when Mathew finished high school, he went to Kingsborough community college for two years and spent 13 months in Japan training with the chaste did this three times, up until the start of studying at NYU.
The monochromatic colour schemes with both light and dark lighting.
In 1997 Matthew purchases an old red brick house then updated it has 6-bedrooms, 4-bathrooms contemporary 3,850, has a private gym with a private art room with two secret passageways with an external private gallery in upstate New York.
Question: Is it possible Matt already has the mutant gene and the radioactive isotope enhanced his latent ability?
Villains many of them exist, not yet seen:
Stilt man,
Bullet,
Mysterio,
Owl,
Paladin,
Mister Fear,
Death-Stalker,
Beetle,
Jester,
Enforcers.
Defense techniques: Wushu, Jujitsu, Shotokan Karate, Kyokushin Karate, Shito-Ryu, Kung-Fu, Jeet Kune do, Eskrima and boxing, Hung Ga, Hapkido, Taekwondo, Chin Na, Pencak Silat, Tang Soo Do, Kenjutsu. Has his own state-of-the-art gymnasium in his apartment/house, an emphasis on gymnastics during his training, wooden dummy, and Olympic level power lifting a rigorous fitness regime.
Both Matthew and Franklin have Ci in Police, FBI, ATF young people rising in the ranks and advanced information is crucial, to win cases knowing how to apply rules during court.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rxt0VptTa0 - Pencak Silat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760JCpYJMVk - Hapkido Fighting Techniques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1F-vXRFgyM - Top 10 wing chun techniques
Wardrobe: Lee jeans, Guess jeans, Lacoste, Hugo Boss, John Philips, Brioni, Christian Lacroix, Azzedine Alaia, Calvin Klein, adidas and Puma.
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Rex Smith has performed in all mediums (Broadway, film, television), and produced his one-man show. He started his career as a "teen idol" heartthrob with the platinum album hit "You Take My Breath Away." Other albums include "Rex", "Where Do We Go From Here", "Sooner Or Later", "Forever", "Camouflage", and most recently, "Simply...Rex".
Turning to Broadway at the height of his popularity, Rex made his Broadway debut as Danny Zuko in the original production of "Grease". He received the Theater World Award for his memorable portrayal of Frederick in "The Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway. Other starring roles on Broadway include "Grand Hotel", "Sunset Boulevard", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "Annie Get Your Gun", and "Kiss Me Kate". He starred in the series Street Hawk (1985), and became a household name on the popular CBS daytime drama As the World Turns (1956). He hosted three episodes of Solid Gold (1980), and was featured in Once in a Lifetime (1994), A Passion to Kill (1994), Shades of Love: The Ballerina and the Blues (1987), and Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer (1990).
In 2018, he played Billy Mack, an aging rock star, in the world-premiere production of Love Actually Live. A one-of-a-kind stage production performed live with an all-star cast and 15-piece orchestra immersing the singers and musicians at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, California.Matt Murdock grew up in the slums of Hell's Kitchen, in New York, and was raised with very strong Irish/Denmark Catholic values. Blinded at a young age, Daredevil's enhanced senses act as a radar which along with his martial arts training and athletic prowess make him up to be one awesome superhero.
The first outfit was a red and black Adidas tracksuit with baseball pads, with help from father Everett.
Matt finally invests in a five-storey house in Upper East Side brownstone in Manhattan. (232 East 61st Street) takes three years to update the whole house. The gymnasium is to Olympic level for gymnastics, powerlifting and boxing.
Mathew learned to speak Japanese and read Japanese brail with Danish and Gaelic.
Irish Father, Danish Mother origins (Update)
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English-born "Army brat" John Badham is the son of English actress Mary Hewitt and the stepson of an American Army general. Raised in Alabama and schooled at Yale, he cut his teeth producing and directing for TV before making his feature debut with The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976). Badham's breakthrough credit was the box office smash Saturday Night Fever (1977), made the following year; other hits on his resume include Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), and Short Circuit (1986).Director: Dracula, Blue Thunder, Project X, Drop Zone- Actor
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Hawaiian-born James Shigeta was, for a time, the biggest East Asian U.S. star the country had known for decades. His up-and-down career reflected the country's changing interest in films with East Asian themes, but, when called upon, he filled both A-movie starring roles and minor T.V. guest appearances with the same cool and classy style. An aspiring song-and-dance man early in his career, he had a series of romantic leading roles in the late fifties, culminating in his most important one, the lead in Ross Hunter's glitzy production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Flower Drum Song (1961). Supporting parts followed, his last showy turn coming again from Ross Hunter, with star billing and his own production number in the ill-fated musical remake of Lost Horizon (1973). Along the way, there have been many notable T.V. guest appearances showcasing Shigeta's facility with both sympathetic and villainous roles. His status as the foremost East Asian leading man of twentieth century U.S. film will endure undiminished by an erratic career.Stick Japanese warrior who trains Mathew from age 12.
Trained Mathew in unarmed combat: Shotokan, Kyokushin, Gōjū-ryū, Wado-Ryu, Shito-Ryu, Jujitsu, Kung-Fu, Wushu, Jeet Kun do, Hapkido, Silat and Hapkido, Judo, Kendo, Eskrima, Master.
He will wear gold contact lenses, and also is an exceptional pool and snooker player, the stick also has telepathic abilities.
Four years before Bruce Lee passing trained with Lee and helped develop, a new defence technique both armed and unarmed combat.
Speaks 9 Asian languages: Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Farsi, Cambodian, Korean, Filipino and Indian. Three European languages: English, French and Greek.
Midway, Rockford Files, Police Woman, Die Hard, Mulan.
R.I.E.L.P.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Burr DeBenning was born on 21 September 1936 in Seminole, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for The Incredible Melting Man (1977), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) and Turner & Hooch (1989). He was married to Susan Silo. He died on 26 May 2003 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.Battling Jack Murdoch
had 57 wins, 12 losses, and 4 draws had a shot at the title was overlooked by Fallon a very rich mobster, who keeps moving the goalposts, in defiance Jack won numerous fights whilst working on the docks, and even his manager secretly backed him during training.
Jack Murddoch received his golden glove award at aged 20, a prize of $16,000 winner this before meeting his wife.
15 fights 3 draws 12 wins Battling Jack Murdoch with a new trainer John Daniel MacEwan within 57 fights. (With the new trainer 3 fights per year, during the first 8 months still working at the docks, MacEwan managed to get a promoter from Ohio to manage the fights, and the purse split evenly) thus keeping Roscoe Sweeney out, four years later found dead by his brother Jonathan Murdoch, his trainer MacEwan and his son Mathew.
Won 9 fights and enough money to update his dilapidated apartment, also paid for a trainer and then bought properties with his brother.
3 years later ready to leave Hells Kitchen for upstate New York, and also managed to pay off large debts because of this a new mobster was ordered to kill Jack his name is Wilson Fisk he, in turn, killed his boss Fallon and took over his business Fisk was working with Roscoe Sweeney in a Coup d'état to kill anyone who gets in their way.
Kojak, Riptide, Santa Barbara, Falcon Crest. R.I.E.L.P.- Actor
- Sound Department
- Producer
Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Mary Margaretta Phyllis (nee Jones), a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. He graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in the blockbuster hits Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). He was introduced to a new generation of fans in the blockbuster trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)) in the role of Gimli the dwarf. He has also had leading roles in Victor/Victoria (1982), The Living Daylights (1987) and King Solomon's Mines (1985).
Rhys-Davies, who was raised in England, Africa and Wales, credits his early exposure to classic literature for his decision to pursue acting and writing. He later refined his craft at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (of which he is now an Associate Member). His television credits include James Clavell's Shogun (1980) and Noble House (1988), Great Expectations (1989), War and Remembrance (1988) and Archaeology (1991). An avid collector of vintage automobiles, Rhys-Davies has a host of theater roles to his credit, including "The Misanthrope", "Hedda Gabler", and most of Shakespeare's works. He divides his time between Los Angeles and the Isle of Man.Although he was in the Trial of The Incredible HULK he is perfect for the role, as he has the look and build of a realistic comic character.
KING-PIN Wilson Fisk
Introduce Fisk in a similar manner to Al Capone, in the Untouchables no press, receiving a full body massage then moving onto full head and face shave whilst giving out orders to various men, he has two secretaries very smartly dressed and heels with clipboards and stenographer.
Fisk tower just commissioned a new building which is located at 439 West 38th Street (on the corner of West 38th Street and Fifth Avenue), just north of the Empire State Building and a few blocks southeast of the Bank of America tower.
Avery's modern building similar to Chase Bank has three levels and 65 storeys, The building was designed by Cookfox and Adamson Associates and took 5 years to build.
Fisk had his criminal record disappears, also nationally with the help of a hacker and a crooked F.B.I agent, even his military record of 6 years for selling guns illegally disappeared rank staff sergeant, served 4 years in prison then worked for Fallon and is introduced to Roscoe Sweeney. (Update)
Wilson Fisk is slowly taking over Newyork/NewJersey state, then move on to conetticut this a decade plan.
Attire will always wear expensive attire and has a security detail mainly ex-military.
Defence Techniques: Shaolin Kung-Fu, Jujitsu and Sumo Wrestling.
Fisk and Laura have 2 Children, when either Fisk and Laura go out they have 6-8 bodyguards.
Had his I.Q measured scored 150, speaks fluent - Welsh, French, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Spanish and German, Russian.
Indiana Jones, The Company, The Living Daylights, L.O.T.R.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Don is probably best known for his co-starring role as Ralph in the long running television series "Happy Days." During this time, he worked with such emerging talents as Ron Howard and Garry Marshall. Recently, Don was seen in a recurring role on the hit TV show - "Glee," as well as starring roles in the indie film - "The Yankles," and "Chez Upshaw," starring Kevin Pollack and Illeana Douglas. He just finished starring in "Campin Buddies," along with a role in the independent film - "Remember Isobel," and the short film - "Duality" Most's other feature film credits include "ED TV," directed by Ron Howard; "Crazy Mama," directed by Jonathan Demme, and "The Great Buck Howard," starring John Malkovich. In television, his other guest starring roles include "Men Of A Certain Age," "Century City," 'Star Trek: Voyager,' 'Yes, Dear,' 'The Crow,' 'Sabrina,' 'Sliders,' 'Dark Skies,' and 'The Family Guy.'
Following in the footsteps of some of his peers, Don has now directed three feature films. "His first, "The Last Best Sunday," had its World Premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival, and was a feature film winner at the Telluride IndieFest. "Moola," starring William Mapother, Shailene Woodley, Treat Williams, Daniel Baldwin, and Curtis Armstrong, premiered at The Newport Beach Film Festival, where it earned Most The Outstanding Achievement In Directing Award. Don also directed "Harley's Hill," his first family film, which was recently seen on Showtime, Starz and Encore. In another area, Don has recently gone back to his first love - singing. Don has always loved the standards/swing/big band style of music, and has just mounted his show - "Donny Most Sings And Swings." He recently performed it at "Catalina's Jazz Club" in Hollywood, CA...and "Vitello's Jazz Club," in Studio City, Los Angeles to great acclaim.Franklin Percy "Foggy" Nelson The nickname "Foggy" comes straight from the comic book, specifically Daredevil Vol. 3 #12. There, it's revealed that, back when they were roommates in college, Matt had trouble sleeping because Foggy snored so loudly. Matt said he was like a human foghorn, and the nickname stuck.
Foggy likes thick athletic women and a very expensive attire.
Happy Days, Dungeons and Dragons, Bold and Beautiful, Star Trek Voyager.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Peter Frederick Weller was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to Dorothy Jean (Davidson) and Frederick Bradford Weller, a federal judge and career helicopter pilot for the United States Army. He traveled extensively as his father literally flew around the world. Before he was out of his teens, he had attended high schools in Heidelberg, Germany and San Antonio, Texas, then enrolled the University of North Texas -- attracted by the chance of playing trumpet in one of the college's celebrated jazz bands. Music is in his family. Three generations on his mother's side were piano players and jazz is still his overriding interest. Ask him who his favorite performer in any art form is and he will say Miles Davis. It was with a B.A. in Theatre and a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts that he left Texas for New York. Two weeks after graduating, he made his first appearance on Broadway as David in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones", a role he repeated on the London stage.
While a student of legendary actress and drama coach, Uta Hagen, Weller appeared on and off Broadway in works like William Inge's "Summer Brave", Thomas Babe's "Rebel Women" and "Full Circle", one of the last plays directed by Otto Preminger. He began garnering critical acclaim with his portrayal of Billie Wilson in "Streamers", directed by Mike Nichols for Joseph Papp at Lincoln Center. He continued that success with his performances as Cliff in "The Woolgatherer" and as Nick in the first American production of David Mamet's "The Woods". During this period, he became a member of the highly respected Actor's Studio, under the aegis of Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg.
Weller's film debut was in Richard Lester's Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979). He then co-starred with Alan King and Ali MacGraw in Sidney Lumet's Just Tell Me What You Want (1980) and, with Albert Finney and Diane Keaton, in Alan Parker's Shoot the Moon (1982). Other film credits include Firstborn (1984) with Teri Garr, the HBO made-for-TV Apology (1986), co-starring Lesley Ann Warren, and Of Unknown Origin (1983), the film which won Weller the Best Actor award at the Paris International Film Festival for his performance as an upwardly mobile bachelor with a serious rat problem. That same film also marked his first association with Leviathan (1989) director George P. Cosmatos.Bulls Eye
A mercenary of mystery, nothing was really known about the man called Bullseye. Once, he was captured and interrogated in a highly secure U.S. prison, and he related many details about his early life, such as the time his brother set fire to their home in an attempt to kill their father.
However, much of this information is suspect, as Bullseye then escaped, taunting his interrogators that much of what he said was false -- especially the fact that it was not his brother who set fire to the house, it was himself.
Bullseye proceeded to set fire to the prison, where his father was also held, and he left his father to die once more. In a previous account of his childhood, he painted a bull's eye on the forehead of his abusive father when he was passed out from drinking and shot him.
Was in Vietnam in the last 14 months due to his natural and Army training, his skills become even better Assassin.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High School in 1976, and attended one year at the Golden West College, where she studied to become a court reporter. But it was while working as a supermarket checker at Vons, a large Southern California grocery chain, that she realized her true calling. She was married to actor/director Peter Horton ("Gary" of Thirtysomething (1987)) in 1981. They were later divorced, and she then had a three year relationship with actor Fisher Stevens. When that didn't work out, Pfeiffer decided she didn't want to wait any longer before having her own family, and in March of 1993, she adopted a baby girl, Claudia Rose. On November 13th of the same year, she married lawyer-turned-writer/producer David E. Kelley, creator of Picket Fences (1992), Chicago Hope (1994), The Practice (1997), and Boston Public (2000). On August 5, 1994 their son, John Henry was born.Karen Page was born and raised in Fagan Corners, Vermont. As a little girl in grade school, Karen gained notoriety for competing in spelling bees.
In high school her bright streak continued, earning all A's, becoming a cheerleader, and eventually captaining her cheer squad in her senior year. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Vermont with a GPA of 3.8.
Following her graduation, she looked for work in New York City. Although it was assured Karen would inherit her family's wealth, she sought work to make a name and living for herself.
Karen can look at people and see who has money, yet Karen will not go cheap on shoes and handbags and coats.
CHiPs, Fantasy Island, Scarface- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Terry Eugene Bollea, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American retired professional wrestler and television personality. He is widely regarded as the most recognized wrestling star worldwide and the most popular wrestler of the 1980s.
Hogan began his professional wrestling career in 1977, but gained worldwide recognition after signing for World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1983. There, his persona as a heroic all-American helped usher in the 1980s professional wrestling boom, where he headlined eight of the first nine editions of WWF's flagship annual event, WrestleMania. During his initial run, he won the WWF Championship five times, with his first reign being the second-longest in the championship's history. He is the first wrestler to win consecutive Royal Rumble matches, winning in 1990 and 1991. His match with Andre the Giant on WWF The Main Event on February 5, 1988, still holds American television viewership records for wrestling with a 15.2 Nielsen rating and 33 million viewers.
In 1993, Hogan departed the WWF to sign for rival promotion World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times, and holds the record for the longest reign. In 1996, he underwent a career renaissance upon adopting the villainous persona of "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, leading the popular New World Order (nWo) stable. As a result, he became a major figure during the "Monday Night Wars", another boom of mainstream professional wrestling. He headlined WCW's annual flagship event Starrcade three times, including the most profitable WCW pay-per-view ever, Starrcade 1997.
Hogan returned to the WWF in 2002 following its acquisition of WCW the prior year, winning the Undisputed WWF Championship for a record equaling (for the year) sixth time before departing in 2003. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005, and inducted a second time in 2020 as a member of the nWo.
Hogan also performed for the American Wrestling Association (AWA), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) - where he won the original IWGP Heavyweight Championship - and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA - now known as Impact Wrestling).
During and after wrestling, Hogan had an extensive acting career, beginning with his 1982 cameo role in Rocky III. He has starred in several films (including No Holds Barred, Suburban Commando and Mr. Nanny) and three television shows (Hogan Knows Best, Thunder in Paradise, and China, IL), as well as in Right Guard commercials and the video game, Hulk Hogan's Main Event. He was the frontman for The Wrestling Boot Band, whose sole record, Hulk Rules, reached No. 12 on the Billboard Top Kid Audio chart in 1995.Gladiator (Melvin Potter) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Potter was initially depicted as a supervillain and one of the first enemies of the superhero Daredevil.
In civilian life, he is a costume designer at the Spotlight Costume Shop in New York City. He eventually reforms and became a great supporter of Daredevil, designing the first all-in-one DD outfit which was a burgundy then maroon red.
Melvyn also designs suits with bulletproof materials, he was ahead of his time, and came up with a way to make kevlar thinner and lighter his suits start from $500.00 -$1500.00 due to kevlar normally a three-piece suit.
Melvyn's grandfather who came from Manchester England opened his first shop in 1950, on Manhattan's east side started off as a cutter apprentice and then became a successful tailor, many crime bosses by word of mouth visited for top-end suits up to three at a time.
His style of suits and coats very similar to Paul Boateng and Brioni also designed neckerchiefs, belts and shoes was the first to incorporate knife proof material into a suit.
Improved the design of Daredevil combat outfit.
(Will have a bald head and designer goatee - update).- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Jaclyn Smith was born Jacquelyn Ellen Smith on October 26, 1945 in Houston, Texas. She graduated from high school and originally aspired to be a famous ballerina. In 1973, she landed a job as a Breck shampoo model. In 1976, she was offered a chance to star in a new pilot for a planned television series, entitled Charlie's Angels (1976). The pilot was slick and the show was an instant hit when it debuted on September 22, 1976 on ABC.
Smith is the only original "Angel" to stay with the show through its entire five-season run (1976-81). She is also the only "Angel" from the television series to make an appearance in either of the movie adaptations. (She had an uncredited cameo in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) as "Kelly Garrett", offering advice to the new generation of angels.)
After Charlie's Angels (1976), she went the TV-movie route and starred in such TV films as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981) for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, and such miniseries as The Bourne Identity (1988), Rage of Angels (1983) and Windmills of the Gods (1988). She has had her own extremely successful clothing line at Kmart since 1985, and is often a spokesperson.
Her first two marriages to actors Roger Davis and Dennis Cole ended in divorce. She has two children from her third marriage to cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond (they divorced in 1989). Her fourth marriage is to physician Dr. Brad Allen. She married him in 1997; the two created the skincare line which Smith promotes.Black Widow former KGB agent who was betrayed by her government, raised and trained to be a covert sleeper agent, fluent in Russian speaks English with a New York accent proficient Sniper and knife thrower Gymnast to Olympic level, Sambo, Kung-fu, Tae Kwondo.
Given a large wig for redhead dark red.- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Born in Hong Kong, Sammo Hung's acting career began while he was training in acrobatics, martial arts and dance as a child at the China Drama Academy, and he received acclaim for his performance with a troupe called "The Seven Little Fortunes." He made his feature film debut as an actor at the age of 12, and has worked in numerous martial arts films as an actor, director, producer and/or choreographer, collaborating with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, two superstars of the genre.
He is now internationally renowned as a pioneer and trend-setter in Hong Kong action films. Hung's big break as a film actor came with a role as a sparring partner in the Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon (1973). He established his reputation as a skilled physical comedian in several kung-fu comedies, beginning with "Enter the Fat Dragon" (Enter the Fat Dragon (1978)). He also produced and starred in numerous successful films throughout the 1970s and 1980s for Hong Kong's leading film studio, Golden Harvest.
Hung collaborated in the 1980s with long-time friend Jackie Chan in a highly successful series of action comedies that cemented Hung's reputation as a consummate actor/director and launched Chan's career as an international star. For a while, Hung also starred in an American TV series, Martial Law (1998).
He directed Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997), his first film shot in the US. He and his wife, Mina, now divide their time between homes in Hong Kong and Los Angeles.Fight choreographer- Actor
- Production Designer
- Soundtrack
Born in Japan, Makoto Iwamatsu was living there with his grandparents while his parents studied art in the United States, when Japan and the U.S. went to war in 1941. His parents remained in the U.S., working for the Office of War Information, and, at the cessation of the conflict, were granted U.S. residency by Congress. "Mako", as he became known, joined his parents in New York and studied architecture.
He entered the U.S. Army in the early 1950s and acted in shows for military personnel, discovering a talent and love for the theatre. He abandoned his plans to become an architect and instead enrolled at the famed Pasadena Community Playhouse. Following his studies there, he appeared in many stage productions and on television. In 1966, he won an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his first film role, as the coolie "Po-Han" in The Sand Pebbles (1966). He worked steadily in feature films since.
He appeared on Broadway in the leading role in Stephen Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures", and co-founded and served as artistic director for the highly-acclaimed East-West Players theatre company in Los Angeles.
Following a long battle with cancer, Mako passed away on July 21, 2006, at the age of 72. He was survived by his wife, Shizuko Hoshi (who co-starred in episodes of M*A*S*H (1972)) as well, and his children and grandchildren.The head of the Hand Japanese criminal organization.
The Beast of the Hand - A demon that is worshiped by the Hand, the Snakeroot Clan, and the True Believers,
Abraham Cornelius,
Akatora,
Akuma - A ninja who is a member of the Hand.
Arthur Perry - An insane cyborg assassin and former S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent.
Azuma Goda - Director of the Hand's Japanese branch.
Azumi Ozawa -
Bakuto - Daimyo of the Hand's South America branch. Killed by White Tiger,
Betsy Braddock - X-Men member brainwashed by the hand and body-swapped with Kwannon,
Black Tarantula
Blink
Conan The Barbarian, Conan The Destroyer, Filo Fax, Rising Sun- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Oliver Stone has become known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary film maker. His films are filled with a variety of film angles and styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success.
William Oliver Stone was born in New York City, to Jacqueline (Goddet) and Louis Stone, a stockbroker. His American father was from a Jewish family (from Germany and Eastern Europe), and his mother, a war bride, was French (and Catholic). After dropping out of Yale University, he became a soldier in the Vietnam War. Serving in two different regiments (including 1rst Cavalry), he was introduced to The Doors, drugs, Jefferson Airplane, and other things that defined the sixties. For his actions in the war, he was awarded a Bronze Star for Gallantry and a Purple Heart. Returning from the war, Stone did not return to graduate from Yale. His first film was a student film entitled Last Year in Viet Nam (1971), followed by the gritty horror film Seizure (1974) for which he also wrote the screenplay. The next seven years saw him direct two films: Mad Man of Martinique (1979) and The Hand (1981), starring Michael Caine. He also wrote many screenplays for films such as Midnight Express (1978), Conan the Barbarian (1982), and Scarface (1983). Stone won his first Oscar for Midnight Express (1978), but his fame was just beginning to show.
1986 was the year that brought him much fame to the U.S.A. and the world. He directed the political film Salvador (1986) starring Oscar-nominated James Woods. However, his big hit was the Vietnam war film Platoon (1986) starring Charlie Sheen,Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, and Francesco Quinn. Berenger and Dafoe received Oscar nominations for their roles as the polar opposite sergeants who each influence the tour of duty of Chris Taylor (Sheen). Stone won his first Oscar for directing this film, which won Best Picture and was a hit at the box office. After Platoon (1986), Stone followed up with the critically acclaimed Wall Street (1987). The movie, starring Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas, focuses on the business world of tycoons and stock brokers. The film was well received and won an Oscar for Douglas' portrayal of the villainous Gordon Gekko. Stone returned immediately the following year with Talk Radio (1988), which talked of a foul-mouthed radio host (played by Eric Bogosian) who never fails to talk about the serious issues. Although it was not as successful as his last three films, Stone did not slow down at all. He directed Tom Cruise into an Oscar-nominated role in Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
The movie talked about the return of an embittered, crippled Vietnam soldier from the war. Although it failed to win Best Picture or Best Actor, Oliver Stone won an Academy Award for Directing, his third win to date. After Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Stone took a hand in producing several movies, including the Academy Award-winning film Reversal of Fortune (1990). He returned to the director's chair in 1991, once again with two films. Val Kilmer starred as the legendary and controversial Jim Morrison in Stone's psychedelic film The Doors (1991).
Despised by former Doors member Ray Manzarek, the film is nevertheless a wonderful achievement, with Kilmer pulling off an almost flawless impersonation of Morrison. Regardless of opinion, The Doors (1991) was overshadowed by Stone's colossal film JFK (1991), which Stone himself considers the best of his films. In Stone's movie, Jim Garrison tackles the conspiracy behind the murder of America's president John F. Kennedy. The large cast featured such well-known names as Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, John Candy, Joe Pesci, Donald Sutherland, and Walter Matthau. This film represented a change in Stone's works, because it was with this film that he really began to explore the different camera styles and combining them together to create a multi-dimensional way of showing a movie. JFK (1991), as with Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), earned eight Oscar nominations and was one of Stone's most successful films. However, he failed to win a third Oscar for Best Director.
After this film, Stone directed his third Vietnam film to date. Heaven & Earth (1993) was a film about the war from the viewpoint of a Vietnamese girl, and also co-starred Tommy Lee Jones (who had received an Oscar nomination for JFK (1991)). Despite its new woman's perspective and several positive reviews, it was a box office failure. Stone was unfazed; his next film is perhaps his most notorious film to date. Adapting a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, Stone made Natural Born Killers (1994) starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore and Rodney Dangerfield in his only dramatic performance. The film was received well at the box office, while review were very mixed. Because of the violence that people claimed was inspired by the film, it was compared to Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). As usual, Stone was at the center of controversial subjects; his next film Nixon (1995) was no exception. The film focused on the life of President Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins, while featuring another well-known cast, including Joan Allen in the role of Nixon's wife. Both went on to receive Oscar nominations, while Stone received his sixth Oscar nomination for Screenwriting. The film got mixed reviews, and failed to recoup its budget.
Aside from directing, Stone has worked as a producer on several different films. There was, of course, the successful film Reversal of Fortune (1990), which won Jeremy Irons an Oscar and also nominated the director for an Oscar. There was also the highly praised and successful emotional drama The Joy Luck Club (1993) which centered around four Chinese immigrant women whose relationships with their daughters is affected by their own lives. Another highly praised Oscar nominated film was Milos Forman's classic film The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) starring Woody Harrelson, Edward Norton, and Courtney Love. Whether the crime/action film The Corruptor (1999) or the brilliant war epic Savior (1998), Stone has worked in a variety of film genres.
Stone had directed ten films in nine years; now however, he began to slow down. He directed the film U Turn (1997) starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez. As with Natural Born Killers (1994), it was a dark and twisted satire on violence, but did not have the same success as the former. Stone was set to direct several projects in the late 90's but they fell through and were not made. However, success came back to Stone in the Al Pacino film Any Given Sunday (1999). This sports movie centered on the life behind the game of football, and it starred an impressive cast that included frequent Stone collaborators James Woods and John C. McGinley. This film was one of his most successful box office films, and put him back on track.
The following years brought Stone no new theatrical films, though he did make three fascinating TV documentaries. Two of them, 'Looking for Fidel' and Comandante (2003) were interviews of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, while 'Persona Non Grata' was an interview of several Palestinian leaders. Stone was also set to direct American Psycho (2000) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Beyond Borders (2003), starring Angelina Jolie and at the time, Ralph Fiennes. However, Stone dropped out of both projects, as did a number of the actors mentioned. Finally, five years after Any Given Sunday (1999), Stone directed a film he'd long wanted to make; the colossal epic Alexander (2004). Starring Colin Farrell as the Macedonian leader, Stone attempted to capture the essence of Alexander the Great through his conquests of the known world. The film focused on Alexander's relationships with his parents (a brilliant performance by Val Kilmer and a less impressive one by Angelina Jolie) and his relationships with his wife and childhood friend/ gay lover (played by Rosario Dawson and Jared Leto respectively).
Alexander (2004) was a critical failure, and failed to win back its budget domestically. Despite being one of 2004's highest grossing films internationally, and recouping its budget through DVD sales, Stone's pet project was heavily criticized. Despite a far superior version (Alexander Revisited) being released on DVD, the film's reputation remains low by the majority. Stone was personally stung at these attacks, but managed to rebound, if mildly, with his hopeful film World Trade Center (2006). The film centers on two firefighters trapped in the rubble of the twin towers. It received good reviews, and allowed Oliver to step forward from his failure towards the possibility of more films.
In late 2007, besides a number of projects Stone was set to direct "Pinkville", which would have been his fourth Vietnam film to date. It was set to star a large number of well known actors such as Bruce Willis, Toby Jones, Channing Tatum, Michael Pitt, Woody Harrelson, and Michael Peña. However, a week before shooting was to begin, the Writer's Strike was started, and the finance for the film was cut, using the strike as an excuse. After Willis backed out of the project, it was eventually scuttled, much like Stone's early productions of Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Stone turned to another project he had worked on with former Wall Street (1987) collaborator Stanley Weiser. The project was W. (2008), a biography on president George W. Bush. Stone initially cast Christian Bale in the role of Bush but the actor dropped out at the last minute. Josh Brolin was cast, and this followed with a large cast of well known Oscar nominated character actors such as Richard Dreyfuss, James Cromwell, and Ellen Burstyn. The film was made in a record four months, starting in June and released in October. The film opened to mixed reviews, and though film's budget was recouped, it was not a financial hit.
Stone then made the documentary South of the Border (2009), a documentary which focused on bringing to light the positive aspects of the left-wing governments in South America, particularly Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Stone was much less critical than usual, instead making the documentary as a response to the harsh reputation that Chavez has in the States. The documentary was poorly received in the States. Stone also began work on Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010). Starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, and Eli Wallach, the film focuses on the 2008 economic crisis, and the return of Gordon Gekko from prison. The film was screened at Cannes to positive reception, and hailed as Stone's triumphant return. After this, Stone made a film adaptation of "Savages", a novel by Don Winslow . The movie follows two highly successful marijuana growers (Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson ), whose shared girlfriend (Blake Lively) is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and held for ransom. The movie also starred Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro, John Travolta, and Emile Hirsch. The film was a return to the tense action and violence of Stone's earlier films, though it polarized many audience members due to the colorful narrations of Lively's vapid and naive character, as well as the film's ending.
After completing the ambitious and well-received television project The Untold History of the United States (2012), as well as a documentary on Hugo Chavez, Stone finally returned to feature films with Snowden (2016). Based on the life of American whistle blower Edward Snowden, Stone's film depicted his awakening to the truth behind the massive surveillances conducted by the NSA, and his attempt to warn the general public of what they did not know. The film was done independently, financed by Europeans on a low budget. It was also a return to form for Stone in a way that had not been seen since "Alexander". Joseph Gordon-Levitt, delivered a very strong performance as Snowden, with the supporting cast including Shailene Woodley, Rhys Ifans, Melissa Leo, Timothy Olyphant, and Nicolas Cage. Sadly, the film received a mixed response from critics, and was a box office disappointment.
Since then, Stone has returned to television for his next two projects. One is a series of interviews with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and the other is directing a new fictional series based on the abusive Guantanamo prison. It will be his first venture into fictional television.
Oliver Stone is a three-time Oscar winner, and although he has mostly been stung by critics of his films, he remains a well-known name today in the film industry. The films he directed have been nominated for 31 Academy Awards, including eight for acting, six for screen writing, and three for directing. There is no denying that Stone has cemented himself a position among the legends of Hollywood.Writer Platoon, Wall Street, Talk Radio, Wall Street: Never Sleeps- Writer
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Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He directed Body Heat, Grand Canyon, The Big Chill, Silverado and Dreamcatcher. He wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Bodyguard, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens and Solo: A Star Wars Story. He is married to Meg Goldman since 1971 and has two sons.The Empire Strikes Back, Silverado, Wyatt Earp- Music Department
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Giorgio Moroder was born on 26 April 1940 in Urtijëi, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. He is a composer and actor, known for Top Gun (1986), Flashdance (1983) and Over the Top (1987).Arranger/Composer Scarface, Queen of The South- Director
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Brian De Palma is one of the well-known directors who spear-headed the new movement in Hollywood during the 1970s. He is known for his many films that go from violent pictures, to Hitchcock-like thrillers. Born on September 11, 1940, De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey in an Italian-American family. Originally entering university as a physics student, De Palma became attracted to films after seeing such classics as Citizen Kane (1941). Enrolling in Sarah Lawrence College, he found lasting influences from such varied teachers as Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Warhol.
At first, his films comprised of such black-and-white films as To Bridge This Gap (1969). He then discovered a young actor whose fame would influence Hollywood forever. In 1968, De Palma made the comedic film Greetings (1968) starring Robert De Niro in his first ever credited film role. The two followed up immediately with the films The Wedding Party (1969) and Hi, Mom! (1970).
After making such small-budget thrillers such as Sisters (1972) and Obsession (1976), De Palma was offered the chance to direct a film based on Stephen King's classic novel "Carrie". The story deals with a tormented teenage girl who finds she has the power of telekinesis. The film starred Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie and John Travolta, and was for De Palma, a chance to try out the split screen technique for which he would later become famous.
Carrie (1976) was a massive success, and earned the two lead females (Laurie and Spacek) Oscar nominations. The film was praised by most critics, and De Palma's reputation was now permanently secured. He followed up this success with the horror film The Fury (1978), the comedic film Home Movies (1979) (both these films featured Kirk Douglas), the crime thriller Dressed to Kill (1980) starring Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson, and another crime thriller entitled Blow Out (1981) starring John Travolta.
His next major success was the controversial, ultra-violent film Scarface (1983). Written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino, the film concerned Cuban immigrant Tony Montana's rise to power in the United States through the drug trade. While being a critical failure, the film was a major success commercially.
Moving on from Scarface (1983), De Palma made two more movies before landing another one of his now-classics: The Untouchables (1987), starring old friend Robert De Niro in the role of Chicago gangster Al Capone. Also starring in the film were Kevin Costner as the man who commits himself to bring Capone down, and Sean Connery, an old policeman who helps Costner's character to form a group known as the Untouchables. The film was one of De Palma's most successful films, earning Connery an Oscar, and gave Ennio Morricone a nomination for Best Score.
After The Untouchables (1987), De Palma made the Vietnam film Casualties of War (1989) starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn. The film focuses on a new soldier who is helpless to stop his dominating sergeant from kidnapping a Vietnamese girl with the help of the coerced members of the platoon. The film did reasonably well at the box office, but it was his next film that truly displayed the way he could make a hit and a disaster within a short time. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) starred a number of well-known actors such as Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman, however it was still a commercial flop and earned him two Razzie nominations.
But the roller coaster success that De Palma had gotten so far did not let him down. He made the horror film Raising Cain (1992), and the criminal drama Carlito's Way (1993) starring Al Pacino and Sean Penn. The latter film is about a former criminal just released from prison that is trying to avoid his past and move on. It was in the year 1996 that brought one of his most well-known movies. This was the suspense-filled Mission: Impossible (1996) starring Tom Cruise and Jon Voight.
Following up this film was the interesting but unsuccessful film Snake Eyes (1998) starring Nicolas Cage as a detective who finds himself in the middle of a murder scene at a boxing ring. De Palma continued on with the visually astounding but equally unsuccessful film Mission to Mars (2000) which earned him another Razzie nomination. He met failure again with the crime thriller Femme Fatale (2002), the murder conspiracy The Black Dahlia (2006), and the controversial film Redacted (2007) which deals with individual stories from the war in Iraq.
Brian De Palma may be down for the moment, but if his box office history has taught us anything, it is that he always returns with a major success that is remembered for years and years afterwards.Possible Director The Fury, Carrie, Mission Impossible, Mission To Mars.- Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler; May 23, 1954 - March 13, 2021) was an American professional boxer and film actor. He competed in boxing from 1973 to 1987 and reigned as the undisputed champion of the middleweight division from 1980 to 1987, making twelve successful title defenses, all but one by knockout. Hagler also holds the highest knockout percentage of all undisputed middleweight champions at 78 percent. His undisputed middleweight championship reign of six years and seven months is the second-longest active reign of the last century. He holds the record for the sixth longest reign as champion in middleweight history. Nicknamed "Marvelous" and annoyed that network announcers often did not refer to him as such, Hagler legally changed his name to "Marvelous Marvin Hagler" in 1982.Boxing choreographer R.I.E.L.P.
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Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks" and learned from a young age that the only person who ever had his back was himself, so he learned how to take care of both himself and younger brother, Julius. Curtis grew up in poverty, as his father, Emanuel, who worked as a tailor, had the sole responsibility of providing for his entire family on his meager income. This led to constant bickering between Curtis's parents over money, and Curtis began to go to movies as a way of briefly escaping the constant worries of poverty and other family problems. The financial strain of raising two children on a meager income became so tough that in 1935, Curtis's parents decided that their children would have a better life under the care of the state and briefly had Tony and his brother admitted to an orphanage. During this lonely time, the only companion Curtis had was his brother, Julius, and the two became inseparable as they struggled to get used to this new way of life. Weeks later, Curtis's parents came back to reclaim custody of Tony and his brother, but by then Curtis had learned one of life's toughest lessons: the only person you can count on is yourself.
In 1938, shortly before Tony's Bar Mitzvah, tragedy struck when Tony lost the person most important to him when his brother, Julius, was hit by a truck and killed. After that tragedy, Curtis's parents became convinced that a formal education was the best way Tony could avoid the same never-knowing-where-your-next-meal-is-coming-from life that they had known. However, Tony rejected this because he felt that learning about literary classics and algebra wasn't going to advance him in life as much as some real hands-on life experience would. He was to find that real-life experience a few years later, when he enlisted in the navy in 1942. Tony spent over two years getting that life experience doing everything from working as a crewman on a submarine tender, the USS Proteus (AS-19), to honing his future craft as an actor performing as a sailor in a stage play at the Navy Signalman School in Illinois.
In 1945, Curtis was honorably discharged from the navy, and when he realized that the GI Bill would allow him to go to acting school without paying for it, he now saw that his lifelong pipe dream of being an actor might actually be achievable. Curtis auditioned for the New York Dramatic Workshop, and after being accepted on the strength of his audition piece (a scene from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in pantomime), Curtis enrolled in early 1947. He then began to pay his dues by appearing in a slew of stage productions, including "Twelfth Night" and "Golden Boy". He then connected with a small theatrical agent named Joyce Selznick, who was the niece of film producer David O. Selznick. After seeing his potential, Selznick arranged an interview for Curtis to see David O. Selznick at Universal Studios, where Curtis was offered a seven-year contract. After changing his name to what he saw as an elegant, mysterious moniker--"Tony Curtis" (named after the novel Anthony Adverse (1936) by Hervey Allen and a cousin of his named Janush Kertiz)--Curtis began making a name for himself by appearing in small, offbeat roles in small-budget productions. His first notable performance was a two-minute role in Criss Cross (1949), with Burt Lancaster, in which he makes Lancaster jealous by dancing with Yvonne De Carlo. This offbeat role resulted in Curtis's being typecast as a heavy for the next few years, such as playing a gang member in City Across the River (1949).
Curtis continued to build up a show reel by accepting any paying job, acting in a number of bit-part roles for the next few years. It wasn't until late 1949 that he finally got the chance to demonstrate his acting flair, when he was cast in an important role in an action western, Sierra (1950). On the strength of his performance in that movie, Curtis was finally cast in a big-budget movie, Winchester '73 (1950). While he appears in that movie only very briefly, it was a chance for him to act alongside a Hollywood legend, James Stewart.
As his career developed, Curtis wanted to act in movies that had social relevance, ones that would challenge audiences, so he began to appear in such movies as Spartacus (1960) and The Defiant Ones (1958). He was advised against appearing as the subordinate sidekick in Spartacus (1960), playing second fiddle to the equally famous Kirk Douglas. However, Curtis saw no problem with this because the two had recently acted together in dual leading roles in The Vikings (1958).J Jonah Jameson Chief editor of the DB newspaper.
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Signifying intelligence, eloquence, versatility and quiet intensity, one of the more important, critically acclaimed black actors to gain a Hollywood foothold in the 1970s was Paul Winfield. He was born in 1939 in Dallas, Texas, where he lived in his early years before moving with his family to Los Angeles' Watts district. He showed early promise as a student at Manual Arts High School, earning distinction with several performance awards. As a senior, he earned his first professional acting job and extended his theatrical education with a two-year scholarship to the University of Portland in Oregon. Subsequent scholarships led to his studies at Stanford and Los Angeles City College, among other colleges. He left U.C.L.A. just six credits short of his Bachelor's degree.
Paul's first big break came in 1964 when actor/director Burgess Meredith gave him a role in Le Roi Jones' controversial one-act play "The Dutchman and the Toilet". Director Meredith cast him again four years in "The Latent Heterosexual" with Zero Mostel. Although he won a contract at Columbia Pictures in 1966 and built up his on-camera career with a succession of television credits, he continued to focus on the legitimate stage. A member of the Stanford Repertory Theatre, he concentrated on both classic and contemporary plays. In 1969, Paul joined the Inner City Cultural Center Theatre in Los Angeles for two years, which offered a drama program for high school students.
In the late 1960s, Paul redirected himself back to performing on television and in films with guest work in more than 40 series on the small screen, including a boyfriend role on the first season of the landmark black sitcom Julia (1968) starring Diahann Carroll. In films, he was given a featured role in the Sidney Poitier film The Lost Man (1969), and earned comparable roles in R.P.M. (1970) and Brother John (1971) before major stardom occurred.
1972 proved to be a banner year for Paul after winning the male lead opposite Cicely Tyson in the touching classic film Sounder (1972). His towering performance as a sharecropper who is imprisoned and tortured for stealing a ham for his impoverished family earned him an Oscar nomination for "Best Actor" -- the third black actor (Sidney Poitier and James Earl Jones preceded him) to receive such an honor at the time.
From there a host of films and quality television roles began arriving on his doorstep. In mini-movies, Paul portrayed various historical/entertainment giants including Thurgood Marshall, Don King and baseball's Roy Campanella, and was Emmy-nominated for his portrayal of Martin Luther King, Jr. in King (1978) with Sounder co-star Cicely Tyson as wife Coretta. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he earned solid distinction in such prestige projects as Backstairs at the White House (1979), Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (another Emmy nomination), The Sophisticated Gents (1981), The Blue and the Gray (1982), Sister, Sister (1982), James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985), Under Siege (1986) and The Women of Brewster Place (1989).
Although the big screen did not offer the same consistent quality following his breakthrough with Sounder, he nevertheless turned in strong roles in Conrack (1974), Huckleberry Finn (1974), A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1977) (again with Ms. Tyson), Damnation Alley (1977), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and White Dog (1982).
Surprisingly, Paul never achieved the promise of a Sidney Poitier-like stardom and his roles diminished in size. Relegated to character roles, he still appeared in such quality television as Breathing Lessons (1994), although he was not the major focus. After two nominations, he finally won the Emmy for a guest performance as a judge on Picket Fences (1992). Paul's showier work at this period of time included the film Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999) and a surprise cross-dressing cameo as Aunt Matilda in Relax... It's Just Sex (1998).
On stage, Paul graced such productions as "Richard III" (at New York's Lincoln Center Theatre), "Othello", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "The Seagull", "A Few Good Men", "Happy Endings" and "Checkmates", which became his sole Broadway credit. Paul also served as Artist in Residence at the University of Hawaii and subsequently at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
In his final years, Winfield narrated the A&E crime series City Confidential (1998), appeared as a teacher in a television adaptation of his earlier success Sounder (2003), and enjoyed a recurring role as Sam for many years on the series Touched by an Angel (1994).
Suffering from obesity and diabetes in later life, Paul Winfield passed away from a heart attack at age 64 in 2004, and was survived by a sister, Patricia. His longtime companion of 30 years, set designer and architect Charles Gillan Jr. predeceased him by two years.Joseph "Robbie" Robertson Assistant Chief editor of the DB newspaper.
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While enjoying a substantial career as a versatile, award winning actor/director/writer in feature motion pictures, television, and on Broadway, in 1992, Monte, with his son Jason Markham and wife Klaire Markham, founded their independent production company, "Perpetual Motion Films". The rest is history.
With innovative style and high production quality, they immediately hit the ground running, producing 26 hours of programming for US News and the A&E Network. Quickly evolving as a multi-disciplined "can-do" company, they expanded production and were soon filming multi-hour documentaries and series programming on locations all over the world. Monte has produced, directed, narrated, and appeared as on-camera host for over 150 hours of documentary films for network television, launching The History Channel with their 35-hour series, The Great Ships, and 10 premiere "Epic" Biographies that inaugurated A&E's landmark Biography series. Today, with over 2,000 biographies on Amazon, his Michelangelo remains among the all time best sellers.
From the Amazon to the Arctic, filming on every kind of commercial and military machine that floats, flies, races, or dives, Monte's producer/director assignments have taken him from carrier landings and launches, ground zero at the World Trade Center, 30 below on the Greenland Icepack, to the most intimate levels of culture, peoples, and governments in China, Japan, the UK, Europe, Russia, Brazil, India, Africa, and the US.
He was the first Westerner to use an all-Chinese crew for his 2,000 mile journey up the Yangtze for China's Great Dam, filming the Dam construction, the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, and the Forbidden City. For The Imperial Japanese Navy, with an all- Japanese crew,he achieved unprecedented access to historical, sacred, and controversial locations, and was invited to film on board the 75 ship Grand Review with Premier Koizumi. For The Russian Navy, Monte was the first American to film the Russian Typhoon Class Submarine - the world's largest - at its secret base in the Arctic Circle.
With Prince Andrew as Host, Prince Phillip at Greenwich, on locations at Windsor, Portsmouth, and throughout the UK, he produced and directed the 4 hour Royal Navy.
Throughout his years of non-stop world-wide production, Monte found little opportunity to accept acting offers. In 2009, deciding it was time to wind down a full time, aggressive production schedule, he resumed his acting career - and has found a whole new world of opportunity.Ben Urich comes from a military and Intelligence family, was involved in Vietnam then became a journalist.
Has written a book concerning crime in Newyork and New Jersey from the 1970s, managed to evade kidnapping and assassination attempts Daredevil intervened to save Ulrich, and works very closely with Jameson and Robbie.
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Harve Bennett was born on 17 August 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). He was married to Carole Patricia Oettinger and Jani. He died on 25 February 2015 in Medford, Oregon, USA.Executive Producer Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek II, Search For Spock III.
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One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, producer or writer since launching the summer blockbuster with Jaws (1975), and he has done more to define popular film-making since the mid-1970s than anyone else.
Steven Allan Spielberg was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Leah Frances (Posner), a concert pianist and restaurateur, and Arnold Spielberg, an electrical engineer who worked in computer development. His parents were both born to Russian Jewish immigrant families. Steven spent his younger years in Haddon Township, New Jersey, Phoenix, Arizona, and later Saratoga, California. He went to California State University Long Beach, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career. Among his early directing efforts were Battle Squad (1961), which combined World War II footage with footage of an airplane on the ground that he makes you believe is moving. He also directed Escape to Nowhere (1961), which featured children as World War Two soldiers, including his sister Anne Spielberg, and The Last Gun (1959), a western. All of these were short films. The next couple of years, Spielberg directed a couple of movies that would portend his future career in movies. In 1964, he directed Firelight (1964), a movie about aliens invading a small town. In 1967, he directed Slipstream (1967), which was unfinished. However, in 1968, he directed Amblin' (1968), which featured the desert prominently, and not the first of his movies in which the desert would feature. Amblin' also became the name of his production company, which turned out such classics as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg had a unique and classic early directing project, Duel (1971), with Dennis Weaver. In the early 1970s, Spielberg was working on TV, directing among others such series as Rod Serling's Night Gallery (1969), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) and Murder by the Book (1971). All of his work in television and short films, as well as his directing projects, were just a hint of the wellspring of talent that would dazzle audiences all over the world.
Spielberg's first major directorial effort was The Sugarland Express (1974), with Goldie Hawn, a film that marked him as a rising star. It was his next effort, however, that made him an international superstar among directors: Jaws (1975). This classic shark attack tale started the tradition of the summer blockbuster or, at least, he was credited with starting the tradition. His next film was the classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), a unique and original UFO story that remains a classic. In 1978, Spielberg produced his first film, the forgettable I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), and followed that effort with Used Cars (1980), a critically acclaimed, but mostly forgotten, Kurt Russell/Jack Warden comedy about devious used-car dealers. Spielberg hit gold yet one more time with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with Harrison Ford taking the part of Indiana Jones. Spielberg produced and directed two films in 1982. The first was Poltergeist (1982), but the highest-grossing movie of all time up to that point was the alien story E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg also helped pioneer the practice of product placement. The concept, while not uncommon, was still relatively low-key when Spielberg raised the practice to almost an art form with his famous (or infamous) placement of Reese's Pieces in "E.T." Spielberg was also one of the pioneers of the big-grossing special-effects movies, like "E.T." and "Close Encounters", where a very strong emphasis on special effects was placed for the first time on such a huge scale. In 1984, Spielberg followed up "Raiders" with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), which was a commercial success but did not receive the critical acclaim of its predecessor. As a producer, Spielberg took on many projects in the 1980s, such as The Goonies (1985), and was the brains behind the little monsters in Gremlins (1984). He also produced the cartoon An American Tail (1986), a quaint little animated classic. His biggest effort as producer in 1985, however, was the blockbuster Back to the Future (1985), which made Michael J. Fox an instant superstar. As director, Spielberg took on the book The Color Purple (1985), with Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, with great success. In the latter half of the 1980s, he also directed Empire of the Sun (1987), a mixed success for the occasionally erratic Spielberg. Success would not escape him for long, though.
The late 1980s found Spielberg's projects at the center of pop-culture yet again. In 1988, he produced the landmark animation/live-action film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). The next year proved to be another big one for Spielberg, as he produced and directed Always (1989) as well as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Back to the Future Part II (1989). All three of the films were box-office and critical successes. Also, in 1989, he produced the little known comedy-drama Dad (1989), with Jack Lemmon and Ted Danson, which got mostly mixed results. Spielberg has also had an affinity for animation and has been a strong voice in animation in the 1990s. Aside from producing the landmark "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", he produced the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures (1990), Animaniacs (1993), Pinky and the Brain (1995), Freakazoid! (1995), Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998), Family Dog (1993) and Toonsylvania (1998). Spielberg also produced other cartoons such as The Land Before Time (1988), We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), Casper (1995) (the live action version) as well as the live-action version of The Flintstones (1994), where he was credited as "Steven Spielrock". Spielberg also produced many Roger Rabbit short cartoons, and many Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs and Tiny Toons specials. Spielberg was very active in the early 1990s, as he directed Hook (1991) and produced such films as the cute fantasy Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991). He also produced the unusual comedy thriller Arachnophobia (1990), Back to the Future Part III (1990) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). While these movies were big successes in their own right, they did not quite bring in the kind of box office or critical acclaim as previous efforts. In 1993, Spielberg directed Jurassic Park (1993), which for a short time held the record as the highest grossing movie of all time, but did not have the universal appeal of his previous efforts. Big box-office spectacles were not his only concern, though. He produced and directed Schindler's List (1993), a stirring film about the Holocaust. He won best director at the Oscars, and also got Best Picture. In the mid-90s, he helped found the production company DreamWorks, which was responsible for many box-office successes.
As a producer, he was very active in the late 90s, responsible for such films as The Mask of Zorro (1998), Men in Black (1997) and Deep Impact (1998). However, it was on the directing front that Spielberg was in top form. He directed and produced the epic Amistad (1997), a spectacular film that was shorted at the Oscars and in release due to the fact that its release date was moved around so much in late 1997. The next year, however, produced what many believe was one of the best films of his career: Saving Private Ryan (1998), a film about World War Two that is spectacular in almost every respect. It was stiffed at the Oscars, losing best picture to Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Spielberg produced a series of films, including Evolution (2001), The Haunting (1999) and Shrek (2001). he also produced two sequels to Jurassic Park (1993), which were financially but not particularly critical successes. In 2001, he produced a mini-series about World War Two that definitely *was* a financial and critical success: Band of Brothers (2001), a tale of an infantry company from its parachuting into France during the invasion to the Battle of the Bulge. Also in that year, Spielberg was back in the director's chair for A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), a movie with a message and a huge budget. It did reasonably at the box office and garnered varied reviews from critics.
Spielberg has been extremely active in films there are many other things he has done as well. He produced the short-lived TV series SeaQuest 2032 (1993), an anthology series entitled Amazing Stories (1985), created the video-game series "Medal of Honor" set during World War Two, and was a starting producer of ER (1994). Spielberg, if you haven't noticed, has a great interest in World War Two. He and Tom Hanks collaborated on Shooting War: World War II Combat Cameramen (2000), a documentary about World War II combat photographers, and he produced a documentary about the Holocaust called Eyes of the Holocaust (2000). With all of this to Spielberg's credit, it's no wonder that he's looked at as one of the greatest ever figures in entertainment.Producer
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A tall, lanky and twinkle-eyed African-American actor with wonderful onscreen charisma, Antonio Fargas has been appearing on stage and screen for nearly 60 years as of 2021. His film debut was in Shirley Clarke's The Cool World (1963), a gritty, uncompromising tale about African-American youth growing up in Harlem, New York. He then made his acting presence felt in many "blaxploitation" films of the early 1970s, including the classic Shaft (1971), the Mafia flick Across 110th Street (1972), the ultra-violent Pam Grier vehicle Foxy Brown (1974) and the classic tale of Huckleberry Finn (1975).
Around this time ABC-TV executives were looking for a capable actor to play the role of golden-hearted street informant "Huggy Bear" on Starsky and Hutch (1975), and Fargas scored the role with which he is most closely identified. His career continued to flourish after "Starsky and Hutch" wrapped up after four years, and he has appeared in over 50 movies to date, many TV shows and numerous stage productions. He has played a 90-year-old witch doctor in "The Great White Hope", was in Melvin Van Peebles' "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death", and appeared in productions of "The Rainmaker", "The Emperor Jones" and "Dream on Monkey Mountain". A strong advocate of the strength and diversity of African-American culture, Fargas holds positions on the boards of Rhode Island's Langston Hughes Center for the Arts and The Martin Luther King Center of Newport.TURK Independent businessman has a fine ear for information at a price, has two weed houses managed to keep both out the way of DD and Luke Cage and Iron Fist.
An exceptional pool, Snooker, and card player Black Jack and Poker. Due to 6 years in the Airforce can fly helicopter gunships and can handle himself in a firefight.
110th Street, Starsky, and Hutch, Blue Jean Cop- Julian Christopher was born on 7 November 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Elysium (2013) and 88 Minutes (2007). He died on 26 February 2023 in the USA.Philip Jackson is a lawyer who became a lecturer, he taught both Mathew, Percy about criminal law, follow the money from criminal groups and terrorists groups.
Taught both Mathew and Percy, believe in yourself, he introduces both students to Thurgood Marshall who told both students, to have a backbone and integrity also work with what you have many of his students did their Masters and bar exams.
Philip Jackson comes from a middle class family born in Washington D.C served 4 years in the military used his money, to go to NYC university degree gained his degrees. Has a reputation throughout New York, New Jersey, D.C, Chicago, Florida, Georgia. Gave advice good advice on difficult cases, retired 6 years after Murddoch and Foggy graduated to run his firm. - Joseph has dark brown hair and brown eyes. He plays the clarinet, and he played with the Metropolitan Opera in N.Y.C for two years. He does charity work for handicapped people, and the people from Ocilla, Georgia appreciated his work so much that they had one-mile street named after him. His hobbies are reading, tennis, and gardening.Albert G Tindelli - Lieutenant in the NYPD, came from a DEA background not much is known about his past except he finished university in behavioural science.
By the book yet will use excess force for very dangerous criminals his methods, from his time in DEA are used well within the NYPD. (Organises the department like the DEA) an expert at counter surveillance.
Has three children.
Drives a Mercedes 500 SEL in his spare time is restoring a 1968 FORD GT Shelby 500 Mustang Fastback, and a 1965 Corvette Stingray 85% ready needs a new bonnet with vents. - Actor
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Robert Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. His notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), Revolver (1973), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974); the lover/stepfather in Tommy (1975), The Brood (1979), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000).Purple Man
French Mother Croatian Father
He can control any number of people by simply giving oral commands and can order anyone to do anything he tells them without being physically present. However, his commands can only be followed for one day before it wears off.
Zebediah Killgrave aka the Purple Man was a Croatian Spy turned supervillain. He was exposed to various unnamed chemicals changing his skin to a purple hue. He was altered by an accident and ended up giving him the new ability to control people's minds at his will using pheromones.
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A natural at portraying complex villains, anti-heroes, and charming heavies, Ian McShane is the classically trained, award-winning actor who has grabbed attention and acclaim from audiences and critics around the world with his unforgettable gallery of scoundrels, kings, mobsters and thugs.
And, now, a god as well!
McShane just completed his third season (as star and executive producer) on the hit Starz series, "American Gods," the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel. As Mr. Wednesday, a shifty, silver-tongued conman, he masks his true identity - that of the Norse god of war, Odin, who's assembling a team of elders to bring down the new false idols. A series McShane calls "like nothing else I've seen on television."
It's a comment that also befits McShane's critically-acclaimed role of the charismatic, menacing and lawless 19th century brothel-and-bar keep, Al Swearengen, in the profound and profane HBO western series "Deadwood," which ran for just 36 episodes over three seasons from 2004-06. For his work on the series' second season, McShane won the 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama (in addition to Emmy and Screen Actors Guild nominations as Outstanding Lead Dramatic Actor). He also received the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for his work in the show's debut season (with a second nomination in 2005).
It is a role and performance the New York Times dubbed "one of the most interesting villains on television." And, a recent online poll called Swearengen a more compelling onscreen gangster over the likes of Tony Soprano and Michael Corleone. After a twelve-year hiatus from portraying maybe his most iconic character ("it was the most satisfyingly creative three years of my professional career" he says), McShane recently reprised the unforgettable rogue when HBO resurrected the 1870s western in a two-hour telefilm, "Deadwood: The Movie," nominated for the Outstanding Television Movie Emmy.
At an age when many successful thespians turn to cameo appearances and character parts, McShane's busy career (which dates back to 1962) also includes three very different starring roles on the big screen. He was seen alongside David Harbour in Neil Marshall's reimagined comic book epic, "Hellboy." McShane also co-starred with Gary Carr in the Dan Pritzker drama, "Bolden," the biopic of musician Buddy Bolden, the father of jazz and a key figure in the development of ragtime music (McShane portrays Bolden's nemesis, Judge Perry). And, he reprised his role (reuniting with Keanu Reeves) as Winston, the suave and charming owner of the assassins-only Tribeca hotel in the latest installment of director Chad Stahelski's action trilogy, "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum," which opened to enormous box office success.
Years before his triumphant role in "Deadwood," McShane had compiled a long and diverse career on both British and American television. He produced and starred in the acclaimed series "Lovejoy" for the BBC (and A&E in the U.S.), directing several episodes during the show's lengthy run. The popular Sunday night drama (which attracted 18 million viewers weekly during its run from 1990-94) saw McShane in the title role of an irresistible, roguish Suffolk antiques dealer. He would reunite with the BBC by producing and starring in the darker and more serious drama, Madson.
He collected a second Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries for his portrayal of the scheming Waleran Bigod in Starz's Emmy-nominated "Pillars of the Earth." The production, which originated on the U.K.'s Channel 4, was based on Ken Follett's bestselling historic novel about the building of a 12th-century cathedral during the time known as "the Anarchy" after King Henry I had lost his only son in the White Ship disaster of 1120. It's a character McShane says "would fit into the Vatican."
He is also well-known to TV audiences for his roles in FX's "American Horror Story," Showtime's "Ray Donovan" and, more recently, Amazon's "Dr. Thorne" and HBO's juggernaut, "Game of Thrones" ("I loved the character and did it because my three grandkids, big fans of the show, wouldn't have forgiven me if I hadn't"). And, he first worked with "American Gods" producer Michael Green on the short-lived NBC drama, "Kings," a show (inspired by The Book Of Samuel) he calls "far too revolutionary for network television."
Other notable small screen roles include his appearance in David Wolper's landmark miniseries "Roots" (as the British cockfighting aficionado), "Whose Life Is it Anyway?," Heathcliff in the 1967 miniseries "Wuthering Heights" and Harold Pinter's Emmy-winning "The Caretaker." McShane has also played a variety of real-life subjects like Sejanus in the miniseries "A.D.," the title role of Masterpiece Theater's "Disraeli: Portrait of A Romantic" and Judas in NBC's "Jesus of Nazareth" (directed by Franco Zeffirelli).
McShane, who shows no signs of slowing down in a career now entrenched in its sixth decade ("acting is the only business where the older you get, the parts and the pay get better"), began his career during Britain's New Wave Cinema of the early 1960s. He landed his first lead role in the 1962 English feature "The Wild and the Willing," which also starred another acting upstart and fellow Brit - McShane's lifelong friend, the late John Hurt. McShane later revealed that he had ditched class at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to audition for the role.
Since that 1962 motion picture debut, McShane has enjoyed a fabulous run of character roles such as the sinister Cockney mobster, Teddy Bass, opposite Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast"; the infamous pirate, Blackbeard, alongside Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"; and Richard Burton's bi-sexual partner, Wolfie, in the 1971 heist film, "Villain." He gave Hayley Mills her first onscreen kiss as a smoldering gypsy in 1965's "Sky West and Crooked," was part of the stellar ensemble cast (James Mason, James Coburn, Dyan Cannon) in the Stephen Sondheim-Anthony Perkins scripted big screen mystery, "The Last of Sheila," and played a retired sheriff with a violent past opposite Patrick Wilson in the gritty drama, "The Hollow Point."
Other film credits include Guy Hamilton's all-star WWII epic, "The Battle of Britain," the romantic comedy "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium," "Pottersville," "Hercules," "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "Jawbone" (reuniting with fellow Brit Ray Winstone in both), "Jack the Giant Slayer," Woody Allen's "Scoop," Rodrigo Garcia's indie drama "Nine Lives" (Gotham Award nominee for Best Ensemble Performance) and the darkly perverse crime drama, "44 Inch Chest," a film in which McShane not only starred, but also produced.
While also making his professional theatre debut in 1962 ("Infanticide in the House of Fred August," Arts Theatre, London), McShane appeared onstage in the original 1965 production of Joe Orton's "Loot." Two years later, he starred alongside Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in the hit stage play, "The Promise," a production which transferred to Broadway in 1967 (with Eileen Atkins replacing Dench). He would return to Broadway one more time forty years later (2008), starring in the 40th anniversary staging of Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming," for which he shared a Drama Desk Award as Best Cast Ensemble.
McShane also returned to the West End boards in 2000, charming audiences as the seductive, sex-obsessed Darryl Van Horne while making his musical stage debut in Cameron Mackintosh's "The Witches of Eastwick," an adaptation of the 1987 film. At the esteemed Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles, he appeared in Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," and John Osborne's "Inadmissible Evidence," earning a pair of Los Angeles Drama Critics' Awards for Lead Performance in the process. He also starred in the world premiere of Larry Atlas' "Yield of the Long Bond."
In addition to his work in front of the camera, McShane is also well-known for his voiceover work, with his low, distinctive baritone on display in a variety of projects. He voiced the eccentric magician, Mr. Bobinsky, in Henry Selick's award nominated "Coraline" (scripted by "American Gods" author Neil Gaiman), lent a sinister air to Tai Lung, the snow leopard adept at martial arts, in "Kung Fu Panda" (Annie Award nominee), and created the notorious Captain Hook in "Shrek the Third." He also narrated Grace Jones' 1985 album, Slave to the Rhythm, succumbing to producer Trevor Horn's request to take the job because, per Horn," Orson Welles was dead, and I needed a voice." The album sold over a million copies worldwide. In the virtual reality domain, he recently lent his voice to the award- winning VR animated short "Age of Sail" in the role of the elderly sailor, William Avery, adrift alone in the North Atlantic.
After almost sixty years entertaining audiences across the performance spectrum, McShane admits he did not set out for a career in the footlights while growing up in Manchester, England (he was actually born in Blackburn). It was by unexpected circumstances after McShane broke his leg playing soccer that he ended up performing in the school play production of Cyrano De Bergerac where he met his life-long friend and teacher, Leslie Ryder. Before he knew it, he auditioned for the Royal Academy of Arts where he was accepted and then left a term early to appear in the film, "The Wild and The Willing".
McShane never looked back.Purple Man
French Mother Croatian Father
He can control any number of people by simply giving oral commands and can order anyone to do anything he tells them without being physically present. However, his commands can only be followed for one day before it wears off.
Zebediah Killgrave aka the Purple Man was a Croatian Spy turned supervillain. He was exposed to various unnamed chemicals changing his skin to a purple hue. He was altered by an accident and ended up giving him the new ability to control people's minds at his will using pheromones.
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Richard Treat Williams was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Marian (Andrew), who dealt in antiques, and Richard Norman Williams, a corporate executive. At the age of three, his family moved to Rowayton, Connecticut. Educated at prep-school, he first made a serious commitment to his craft during his days at Pennsylvania's Franklin and Marshall College. Working summers with the nearby Fulton Repertory Theatre at Lancaster in the heart of Amish country, Williams performed the classics as well as contemporary dramas and musicals. After graduating, Williams--whose first name, incidentally, is a family surname on his mother's side--headed for Manhattan where he understudied the Danny Zuko role in "Grease." After working in the The Andrews Sisters musical "Over Here," he made his film debut as a cop in Deadly Hero (1975), then returned to "Grease," this time in the starring role. While he took leaves for two small film roles, in The Ritz (1976) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976), it was his stage work in "Grease" that led to his cinematic breakthrough in Hair (1979). Spotted by director Milos Forman, Williams was asked to read for the role of Berger, the hippie. It took 13 auditions to land the part, but the film's release catapulted Williams into stardom. He then portrayed a GI on the make in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) and starred in the romantic comedy Why Would I Lie? (1980) before tackling the role of Danny Ciello, the disillusioned New York City cop who blew the whistle on his corrupt colleagues in Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City (1981). He followed that with The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981), in which he played the legendary plane hijacker who successfully eluded capture (by Robert Duvall); Flashpoint (1984), in which he and Kris Kristofferson starred as a pair of maverick border patrolmen who come upon a large cache of stolen money; Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984), in which he played a Jimmy Hoffa-like labor organizer; and Smooth Talk (1985), a screen adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Where Are You Going?" Television viewers have seen Williams in a prestigious pair of dramas, Dempsey (1983), a three-hour story of the hard-living heavyweight champ, and John Erman's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic "A Streetcar Named Desire," which pitted Williams' Stanley Kowalski against Ann-Margret's Blanche Dubois. Williams has also returned to Broadway sporadically -- first to appear in "Once in a Lifetime" while filming "Hair," and in 1981 to play the role of the pirate king in "The Pirates of Penzance."Jonathan Murdoch Mathew's uncle steps in to help raise Mathew when his father is killed aged 12 and kept Mathew straight.
Uncle is an electrical engineer for NYC Damage Control, a government-funded department for emergency development and repairs.
Has One daughter named Marie she and her cousin Mathew are very close (update).
Battling Jack Murdoch and Jonathan took went to Atlantic City and won $20,000, then took a loan from a bank for $60,000 for Jack's biggest fights, spread the money over each fight resulting in early payments to the bank, final three fights of his 9 wins resulted in $3.600,000 winnings, enough to purchase a new house for each brother and furnish, the money was put into a high-interest account to pay for further and higher education for Mathew.
Jack was sadly killed and found dead in the alleyway by Mathew, no witness's funeral took place at Mount Hope Cemetary N.Y. (Jonathan always suspected, his brother was murdered by The Fixer ).
1941, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Echo Base Trooper (uncredited), Prince of The City.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Hugo Boss was born on 8 July 1885 in Metzingen, Württemberg, Germany. He is known for Cuernos de mujer (1995), Night and the City (1992) and EliteXC Saturday Night Fights (2008). He was married to Anna Katharina Freysinger. He died on 9 August 1948 in Metzingen, Württemberg-Hohenzollern, West Germany [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany].Costume Designer - clothing for full cast members.- Costume Designer
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Robert "Bob" Fletcher was a prolific costume designer for both stage and screen with more than six decades of experience in the field. He is best known for his work on the first four Star Trek films, and is considered the father of the classic Klingon and Vulcan, as we know them today. He passed peacefully in Kansas City on April 5th, 2021 at the age of 98.Costume Designer Stark Trek The Motion Picture, Star Trek Wraith of Khan, The Last Starfighter, Star Trek The Search For Spock, Star Trek The Voyage Home - Designer of Daredevil outfit knife, Fire, Bullet and waterproof with joint protection.- Actor
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Richard Chamberlain became the leading heartthrob of early 1960s television. As the impeccably handsome Dr. James Kildare, the slim, butter-haired hunk with the near-perfect Ivy-League charm and smooth, intelligent demeanor, had the distaff fans fawning unwavering over him through the series' run. While this would appear to be a dream situation for any new star, to Chamberlain it brought about a major, unsettling identity crisis.
Born George Richard Chamberlain in Beverly Hills on March 31, 1934, he was the second son of Elsa Winnifred (von Benzon) (1902-1993) and Charles Axiom Chamberlain (1902-1984), a salesman. He has English and German ancestry. Richard experienced a profoundly unhappy childhood and did not enjoy school at all, making up for it somewhat by excelling in track and becoming a four-year letter man in high school and college. He also developed a strong interest and enjoyment in acting while attending Pomona College. Losing an initial chance to sign up with Paramount Pictures, the studio later renewed interest. Complications arose when he was drafted into the Unites States Army on December 7, 1956 for 16 months, serving in Korea.
Chamberlain headed for Hollywood soon after his discharge and, in just a couple of years, worked up a decent resumé with a number of visible guest spots on such popular series as Gunsmoke (1955) and Mr. Lucky (1959). But it was the stardom of the medical series Dr. Kildare (1961) that garnered overnight female worship and he became a huge sweater-vested pin-up favorite. It also sparked a brief, modest singing career for the actor.
The attention Richard received was phenomenal. True to his "Prince Charming" type, he advanced into typically bland, soap-styled leads on film befitting said image, but crossover stardom proved to be elusive. The vehicles he appeared in, Twilight of Honor (1963) with Joey Heatherton and Joy in the Morning (1965) opposite Yvette Mimieux, did not bring him the screen fame foreseen. The public obviously saw the actor as nothing more than a television commodity.
More interested in a reputation as a serious actor, Chamberlain took a huge risk and turned his back on Hollywood, devoting himself to the stage. In 1966 alone, he appeared in such legit productions as "The Philadelphia Story" and "Private Lives", and also showed off his vocal talents playing Tony in "West Side Story". In December of that year, a musical version of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" starring Richard and Mary Tyler Moore in the sparkling George Peppard/Audrey Hepburn roles was headed for Broadway. However, it flopped badly in previews and closed after only four performances. Even today, it is still deemed one of Broadway's biggest musical disasters.
An important dramatic role in director Richard Lester's Petulia (1968) led Richard to England, where he stayed and dared to test his acting prowess on the classical stage. With it, his personal satisfaction over image and career improved. Bravura performances as "Hamlet" (1969) and "Richard II" (1971), as well as his triumph in "The Lady's Not for Burning" (1972), won over the not-so-easy-to-impress British audiences. And on the classier film front, he ably portrayed Octavius Caesar opposite Charlton Heston's Mark Antony and Jason Robards' Brutus in Julius Caesar (1970), composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Ken Russell's grandiose The Music Lovers (1971) opposite Glenda Jackson, and Lord Byron alongside Sarah Miles in Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). While none of these three films were critical favorites, they were instrumental in helping to reshape Chamberlain's career as a serious, sturdy and reliable actor.
With his new image in place, Richard felt ready to face American audiences again. While he made a triumphant Broadway debut as Reverend Shannon in "The Night of the Iguana" (1975), he also enjoyed modest box-office popularity with the action-driven adventure films The Three Musketeers (1973) as Aramis and a villainous role in The Towering Inferno (1974), and earned cult status for the Australian film The Last Wave (1977). On the television front, he became a television idol all over again (on his own terms this time) as the "King of 80s Mini-Movies". The epic storytelling of The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975), The Thorn Birds (1983) and Shogun (1980), all of which earned him Emmy nominations, placed Richard solidly on the quality star list. He won Golden Globe Awards for his starring roles in the last two miniseries mentioned.
In later years, the actor devoted a great deal of his time to musical stage tours as Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady", Captain Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" and Ebenezer Scrooge in "Scrooge: The Musical". Enormously private and having moved to Hawaii to avoid the Hollywood glare, at age 69 finally "came out" with a tell-all biography entitled "Shattered Love", in which he quite candidly discussed the anguish of hiding his homosexuality to protect his enduring matinée idol image.
Married now to his longtime partner of over 40 years, writer/producer Martin Rabbett, he has since accepted himself and shown to be quite a good sport in the process, appearing as gay characters in the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), and in television episodes of Will & Grace (1998), Desperate Housewives (2004) and Brothers & Sisters (2006). More recently, he has enjoyed featured roles in the films Strength and Honour (2007), The Perfect Family (2011), We Are the Hartmans (2011), Nightmare Cinema (2018) and Finding Julia (2019).Father Everett Daniel Johnson served in the military as Lieutenant Gunship pilot, already has a degree in psychology and joined Marines, and he had his calling to become a priest.
Made sure Jack Murdoch had a good funeral, many people were shocked by the murder, and both the Daily Bugle to the Washington Post ran articles murderer never found.
A confidant to Mathew is also aware of his training with Stick, and helped to design DD's improved outfit which was baseball body pads. A well read man on many subjects, especially local and national government.
Sets up a soup kitchen in four borroughs of New York, and managed another soup kitchen in New Jersey both public and private donations. Been rumoured Tony Stark gives money to both kitchens, many homeless people end up going back to family also homeless find both good and well paying jobs.- Visual Effects
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John Dykstra was born on 3 June 1947 in Long Beach, California, USA. He is a producer, known for Spider-Man 2 (2004), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Lifeforce (1985).Firefox (producer: special visual effects)
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) (miniature and effects unit supervisor - 1 episode), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (special photographic effects supervisor), X-Men: First Class (production visual effects designer).- Actor
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An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch his talents just about as far as an actor could possibly hope. He played "Awful Knoffel" in the TNT original movie Evel Knievel (2004), directed by John Badham and executive produced by Mel Gibson. Henriksen portrayed "Awful Knoffel" in this project based on the life of the famed daredevil, played by George Eads. Henriksen starred for three seasons (1996-1999) on Millennium (1996), Fox-TV's critically acclaimed series created by Chris Carter (The X-Files (1993)). His performance as Frank Black, a retired FBI agent who has the ability to get inside the minds of killers, landed him three consecutive Golden Globe nominations for "Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Drama Series" and a People's Choice Award nomination for "Favorite New TV Male Star".
Henriksen was born in New York City. His mother, Margueritte, was a waitress, dance instructor, and model. His father, James Marin Henriksen, who was from Tønsberg, Norway, was a boxer and merchant sailor. Henriksen studied at the Actors Studio and began his career off-Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's "Three Plays of the Sea." One of his first film appearances was as an FBI agent in Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975), followed by parts in Lumet's Network (1976) and Prince of the City (1981). He then appeared in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) with Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut, Damien: Omen II (1978) and in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (1983), in which he played Mercury astronaut Capt. Wally Schirra.
James Cameron cast Henriksen in his first directorial effort, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), then used him again in The Terminator (1984) and as the android Bishop in the sci-fi classic Aliens (1986). Sam Raimi cast Henriksen as an outrageously garbed gunfighter in his quirky western The Quick and the Dead (1995). Henriksen has also appeared in what has developed into a cult classic: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987), in which he plays the head of a clan of murderous redneck vampires. He was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the TNT original film The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998).
In addition to his abilities as an actor, Henriksen is an accomplished painter and potter. His talent as a ceramist has enabled him to create some of the most unusual ceramic artworks available on the art market today. He resides in Southern California with his wife Jane and their five-year-old daughter Sage.
Mister Fear MCU
Zoltan Drago was a chemistry expert who attempted to use his knowledge of chemistry to create an elixir which would evoke fear in those who inhaled it. Designing a frightening costume for himself, Drago became Mr. Fear. (Romanian)
Dog Day Afternoon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Damien: Omen II.- Producer
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Lawrence Gordon (Producer) has been one of the entertainment industry's most prolific and successful producers in a career spanning six decades. He has been behind such timeless films as the drama "Field of Dreams," for which Gordon received a Best Picture Oscar nomination; the landmark action film "Die Hard"; and the ultimate buddy picture "48 Hrs.," starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Gordon graduated from Tulane University with a degree in business administration. Moving to Los Angeles in the early 1960s, he went to work as executive assistant to Aaron Spelling at Four Star Television and soon became a writer and associate producer of Spelling shows. He followed with a stint as head of West Coast talent development for ABC Television and later as an executive with Bob Banner Associates. In 1968, he joined Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson at American International Pictures (AIP) as story editor, and rose to vice president in charge of development. He then segued to vice president at Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures, where he helped put together the classic television movie "Brian's Song," as well as the first "novel for television," the adaptation of Leon Uris' QB VII. Accepting an offer to become the first executive in the company's history to head worldwide production, Gordon returned to AIP. His many projects included "Coffy," "Foxy Brown," "Hell's Angels '69," "Wild in the Streets," John Milius' "Dillinger" (which Gordon also executive-produced), and Ralph Bakshi's groundbreaking and controversial animated hit "Heavy Traffic," which was named one of The New York Times' top-10 films of 1973. Gordon then formed Lawrence Gordon Productions and began a long and successful association with director Walter Hill. Among the duo's memorable titles are "Hard Times," starring Charles Bronson; "The Driver," with Ryan O'Neal and Isabelle Adjani; the cult classic "The Warriors"; "48 Hrs.," teaming Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, in his feature film debut; the rock-and-roll fable "Streets of Fire"; "Brewster's Millions," with Richard Pryor and John Candy; and "Another 48 Hrs.," which reunited the stars from the original. Gordon also produced the comedy hit "The End," starring Burt Reynolds, and collaborated with him again on the box office smash "Hooper." During this period, Gordon also produced the Paul Schrader-penned "Rolling Thunder," and the now-cult movie musical "Xanadu," starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly. By 1977, he was housed at Paramount Pictures with an overall producing deal. In 1982, he reunited with his old boss Aaron Spelling to create and executive produce the ABC television series "Matt Houston." In 1984, Gordon became president and chief operating officer of 20th Century Fox, where he oversaw such successful titles as James Cameron's "Aliens"; James L. Brooks' "Broadcast News"; "Commando," starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; and "Jewel of the Nile," starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. During his tenure, "The Simpsons" television series was created by Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, as were series by Stephen Bochco and David E. Kelley. After his stint at Fox, in 1986, Gordon produced the critically acclaimed "Lucas," marking the directorial debut of David Seltzer; and "Jumpin' Jack Flash," starring Whoopi Goldberg, which was Penny Marshall's first film as a director. During the 1980s, Gordon also produced for the stage. For Broadway, he produced the 1986 musical "Smile," with music by Tony, Grammy and Oscar winner Marvin Hamlisch and book and lyrics by Tony and Oscar winner Howard Ashman. Off-Broadway, Gordon produced the 1982 revival of Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," which won the Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Play. For the screen, Gordon produced the 1987 summer action hit "Predator," starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and, later, its sequel. In 1988, he produced the mega-blockbuster "Die Hard," which introduced Bruce Willis as an action hero and forever changed the action genre. The film went on to spawn three hit sequels, in addition to becoming one of cinema's most successful and imitated franchises. The following year, Gordon produced another seminal hit, "Field of Dreams," starring Kevin Costner under the direction of Phil Alden Robinson. The beloved film earned three Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, while the title itself and the famous line, "If you build it...," became part of the cultural lexicon. Gordon subsequently produced "Family Business," directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick; the comedy hit "K-9," starring James Belushi; "The Rocketeer," directed by Joe Johnston; and "Lock Up," starring Sylvester Stallone. In 1989, Gordon formed Largo Entertainment with the backing of JVC Entertainment, Inc. of Japan, representing the first major Japanese investment in the entertainment industry. As the company's chairman and chief executive officer, Gordon was responsible for the production of such films as "Point Break," starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves; "Unlawful Entry," starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta and Madeleine Stowe; "Used People," starring Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Marcia Gay Harden and Marcello Mastroianni; and "Timecop," starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Largo also co-financed and handled the foreign distribution of the acclaimed biopic "Malcolm X," directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington in the title role. Gordon left Largo in 1994 in favor of a long-term producing deal with Universal Pictures. There, his first production was the controversial Kevin Costner-starrer "Waterworld," which grossed $300 million worldwide. Other Lawrence Gordon Productions include "The Devil's Own," starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt; the critically acclaimed "Boogie Nights," directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Heather Graham and Julianne Moore; and "Mystery Men," starring Ben Stiller. In 2001, Gordon produced two pictures that opened at number one at the box office: the summer hit "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," starring Angelina Jolie, and the acclaimed "K-PAX," starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. In summer 2003, "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" was released, with Angelina Jolie back as Lara Croft. The next year, Gordon produced the Guillermo del Toro's "Hellboy," based on the popular Mike Mignola comic book series and starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair. In summer 2008, he scored an even bigger hit with its sequel, "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," reuniting the original cast and filmmakers. Gordon's "Watchmen" directed by Zack Snyder ("300") was released in March of 2009 as one of the highest R-rated openings ever. Gordon is producing a documentary for Netflix on the legendary basketball player Bill Russell. He is also executive producer on a television adaptation of "Field Of Dreams" for Peacock, and executive produced the "Predator" spinoff "Prey" on Hulu. Gordon served for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the Board of the American Film Institute. He is a recipient of the ShoWest Lifetime Achievement Award, the PGA's prestigious David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award, Tulane University's Distinguished Alumni Award, and most recently the Mississippi Governor's Arts Award.Producer Xanadu, The Warriors, The Driver, Renegades, 48hrs.- Actress
- Music Department
Eleni Filini was born on 14 May 1958 in Chorintus, Greece. She is an actress, known for Commandos and Dragons (2021), Italian Kidnapping - ItaliKos and To kleidi (1992).Elektra was born on the island of Cyprus, near the Aegean Sea, to Hugo Kostas Natchios and his wife Christina. She had an older brother named Orestez.
When nine-year-old Elektra was assaulted by kidnappers, the men were all killed by Orestez, who had grown into an accomplished martial artist after leaving home. Orestez advised his father that Elektra needed to learn self-defense. Hugo hired a sensei to teach her martial arts.
In Elektra: Assassin #1 (Aug. 1986), the adult Elektra has vague memories of being raped by her father as a five-year-old. Years of counseling and medication had convinced her this was a false memory, but the doubt remained.
Elektra grew up close to her father but was plagued by dark visions and voices with no known source. She occasionally reacted to them with self-harm. Her father eventually sent her away to psychotherapy to become more stable. It was uncertain whether Elektra actually became more stable or merely appeared to be.
Hugo Natchios eventually served as a Greek ambassador to the United States. Nineteen-year-old Elektra attended Columbia University in New York City. There, Elektra began dating classmate Matt Murdock.
A year later, Elektra and her father were kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue attempt by Matt went wrong, and Hugo Natchios was gunned down.
Elektra lost faith and hope. She quit Columbia after her graduation and returned to China to study martial arts. Stick, a member of the benevolent organization called the Chaste, recognized the darkness in her soul and attempted to train her himself, but she ultimately sided with the Hand, a sect of mystical ninjas who trained her as an assassin.
Choice of weapons Sai is a very capable Assassin with or without handheld weapons. Kung-Fu, Jujitsu, Silat, Tae-Kwondo, Dragon, Tiger, Wu Shu, Hapkido.
In 1989 Elektra has her first child with Matthew, and two years later twins born first child a son and then twins daughters, the children are raised with help of Mathew's uncle and Elektra Natchios's family were able to protect the family from the HAND, with the help of Nick Fury.
(Greek Cypriot)- Additional Crew
- Director
- Visual Effects
DAN PERRI - TITLE DESIGNER
A legend in the field of optical title design, Perri is perhaps best known for a creating the opening crawl that triumphantly heralded the arrival of Star Wars. It's one of the most identifiable and imitated pieces of title design ever created.
But to only focus on a galaxy far, far away when discussing the career of Dan Perri would ignore a wealth of incredible work, from The Exorcist to Nashville, Taxi Driver to Raging Bull, Days of Heaven, The Warriors, Caddyshack, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Blood Simple, Insomnia, The Aviator, and hundreds and hundreds more. You probably didn't know Perri's name until now, but if you've seen a film made in the past fifty years then you are already well acquainted with his work.
Unlike some title designers whose style is instantly recognizable, the true strength of Perri's output is not a familiar design style, but his adaptability - it's how well suited his title designs are for each project. If there's one single thing that defines Perri's career it is that dogged pursuit of good design in whatever form is required. His designs - as varied as they are - have become synonymous with the films for which they were created, but not his name. If he's done his job right, then the viewer shouldn't even know who designed the titles until they see "Title Designer: Dan Perri" in the end credits.Title Designer emphasis on catholic Church a virgin Mary within a stain glass window, Black Madonna with baby Jesus and Joseph image slowly changes into Japanese influence of a stain glass window, then you see various titles, with characters in the window changing use of Kabbala colours.
STARWARS, Falcon Crest, Species, Congo- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child, he was sent to live with his grandmother. He never felt he had a stable childhood. His fondest memories are of his grandmother taking him to the movies every week and of his dog, which followed him everywhere. He studied pre-med at UC-Berkeley and, while there, got bitten by the acting bug and decided to change the focus of his studies. He enrolled in the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and debuted on Broadway after graduation. His debut was in Emlyn Williams' play "The Morning Star" (1942). By 1943, he was in Hollywood, where he debuted in the RKO film Days of Glory (1944).
Stardom came with his next film, The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Peck's screen presence displayed the qualities for which he became well known. He was tall, rugged and heroic, with a basic decency that transcended his roles. He appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) as an amnesia victim accused of murder. In The Yearling (1946), he was again nominated for an Academy Award and won the Golden Globe. He was especially effective in westerns and appeared in such varied fare as David O. Selznick's critically blasted Duel in the Sun (1946), the somewhat better received Yellow Sky (1948) and the acclaimed The Gunfighter (1950). He was nominated again for the Academy Award for his roles in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), which dealt with anti-Semitism, and Twelve O'Clock High (1949), a story of high-level stress in an Air Force bomber unit in World War II.
With a string of hits to his credit, Peck made the decision to only work in films that interested him. He continued to appear as the heroic, larger-than-life figures in such films as Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and Moby Dick (1956). He worked with Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, Roman Holiday (1953). Peck finally won the Oscar, after four nominations, for his performance as lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). In the early 1960s, he appeared in two darker films than he usually made, Cape Fear (1962) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), which dealt with the way people live. He also gave a powerful performance as Captain Keith Mallory in The Guns of Navarone (1961), one of the biggest box-office hits of that year.
In the early 1970s, he produced two films, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972) and The Dove (1974), when his film career stalled. He made a comeback playing, somewhat woodenly, Robert Thorn in the horror film The Omen (1976). After that, he returned to the bigger-than-life roles he was best known for, such as MacArthur (1977) and the monstrous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele in the huge hit The Boys from Brazil (1978). In the 1980s, he moved into television with the miniseries The Blue and the Gray (1982) and The Scarlet and the Black (1983). In 1991, he appeared in the remake of his 1962 film, playing a different role, in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). He was also cast as the progressive-thinking owner of a wire and cable business in Other People's Money (1991).
In 1967, Peck received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He was also been awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Always politically progressive, he was active in such causes as anti-war protests, workers' rights and civil rights. In 2003, his Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute. Gregory Peck died at age 87 on June 12, 2003 in Los Angeles, California.John Daniel MacEwan
A Captain in the Marine core came from a very middle-class family on his mother's side. His father comes from a Blacksmith and builder of houses, John served during the last two years of WWII, also a Korean veteran.
When he became Captain left the military as a major, worked with SHIELD black Operations during the 50s and 60s counter espionage, and invested his money in a dilapidated building which he turned into Olympic level facility for boxing, the Wing Chun gymnasium many of the men, end up in the military due to encouragement from John.
John had a knack for physical education, to train men for war and helping them back into civilian life, and trained Jack Murdoch during his last 15 fights 3 draws 12 wins, John met Captain America on two missions where he learned never to give up and find a way. (Training method very similar to Cus D'Amato).
Learned Shotokan Karate and Kung Fu to the 3rd Dan during his time in Asia in his spare time training for the 4th and 5th dan in each discipline.
Trained boxers until his death in 1995 8 boxers light middle weight and heavy weight tactics and speed.
Has four children
Twelve O'Clock High, Pork Chop Hill, To Kill A Mocking Bird, The Omen.
R.I.E.L.P.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
In her iconic role as Sgt Dee Dee McCall, from 1984 to 1990, she helped to make the NBC hit series "Hunter" a true international hit with a fan base around the world. Her strong portrayal became a powerful positive influence for many women and helped to change how women were seen in crime dramas for television.Becky Blake
While in college, Rebecca "Becky" Blake was physically assaulted in an attack that left her unable to use her legs and confined to a wheelchair. (update)
She then joined Nelson and Murdock as their legal secretary, and worked successfully until the murder of Karen Page, after which she disappeared for a number of years. After a man was found attacking women at night, she confessed that he was the one who crippled her and ended his attacks.
She reappeared as a lawyer sometime later and was eventually invited to become a partner in Nelson, Blake, and Murdock.
Hunter, Man With Two Brains, Twin Sisters, Take My Daughters, Please.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Rita Moreno is one of the very few performers to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy, thus becoming an EGOT. She was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in the hospital in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December 11, 1931 (but raised in nearby, smaller Juncos, which had no hospital), to seamstress Rosa María (Marcano) and farmer Francisco José "Paco" Alverío. Her mother moved to New York City in 1937, taking Rita with her while leaving her reportedly unfaithful husband and Rita's younger brother behind. Rita's professional career began before she reached adolescence.
From the age of nine, she performed as a professional dancer in New York night clubs. At age 11, she landed her first movie experience, dubbing Spanish-language versions of US films. Less than a month before her 14th birthday on November 22, 1945, she made her Broadway debut in the play "Skydrift" at the Belasco Theatre, costarring with Arthur Keegan and a young Eli Wallach. Although she would not appear again on Broadway for almost two decades, Rita Moreno, as she was billed in the play, had arrived professionally. In 1950, she was signed by MGM, but the studio dropped her option after just one year.
The cover of the March 1, 1954, edition of "Life Magazine" featured a three-quarters, over-the-left-shoulder profile of the young Puerto Rican actress/entertainer with the provocative title "Rita Moreno: An Actresses' Catalog of Sex and Innocence". It was sexpot time, a stereotype that would plague her throughout the decade. If not cast as a Hispanic pepper pot, she could rely on being cast as another "exotic", such as her appearance on Father Knows Best (1954) as an exchange student from India. Because of a dearth of decent material, Moreno had to play roles in movies that she considered degrading. Among the better pictures she earned featured roles in were the classic Singin' in the Rain (1952) and The King and I (1956).
Director Robert Wise, who was chosen to co-direct West Side Story (1961) (the film version of the smash Broadway musical, a retelling of William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" with the warring Venetian clans the Montagues and Capulets re-envisioned as Irish/Polish and Puerto Rican adolescent street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks), cast Moreno as "Anita", the Puerto Rican girlfriend of Sharks' leader Bernardo, whose sister Maria is the piece's Juliet.
However, despite her talent, roles commensurate with that talent were not forthcoming in the 1960s. The following decade would prove kinder, possibly because the beautiful Moreno had aged gracefully and could now be seen by filmmakers, TV producers and casting directors as something other than the spitfire/sexpot that Hispanic women were supposed to conform to. Ironically, it was in two vastly diverging roles--that of a $100 hooker in director Mike Nichols' brilliant realization of Jules Feiffer's acerbic look at male sexuality, Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Milly the Helper in the children's TV show The Electric Company (1971)--that signaled a career renaissance.
Moreno won a 1972 Grammy Award for her contribution to "The Electric Company"'s soundtrack album, following it up three years later with a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for "The Ritz" (a role she would reprise in the film version, The Ritz (1976)). She then won Emmy Awards for The Muppet Show (1976) and The Rockford Files (1974).
She has continued to work steadily on screen (both large and small) and on stage, solidifying her reputation as a national treasure, a status that was officially ratified with the award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in June 2004.Claire Temple
A nurse who served two tours during the Vietnam war now back in civilian life, all the gang culture she wished someone would stop or reduced gangland killing she got more than she bargained for.
A second class lieutenant with battle field experience, who meets Daredevil, and treats his wounds.
West Side Story, BL Stryker, OZ, Fast X- Actress
- Soundtrack
Joan Sims, the "First Lady of Carry On", was born Irene Joan Marion Sims on 9 May 1930. The daughter of an Essex railway station master, Joan was interested in pursuing show-business, and soon became a familiar face in a growing number of amateur productions. In 1946, Joan first applied to RADA, her audition was unsuccessful. She did succeed in being admitted to the academy's preparatory school, and finally, on her fourth attempt, trained at RADA. She graduated in 1950 at the age of nineteen.
A cameo appearance in Doctor in the House (1954) as the sexually repressed Nurse Rigor Mortis led to Joan being first spotted by Peter Rogers; Rogers' wife Betty E. Box was the producer of the Doctor series, in which Joan herself became a regular.
A few years later, in 1958, Joan received another script from Peter Rogers, it was Carry on Nurse (1959). The film had been a huge success at the box office and in the autumn of that year Rogers and Gerald Thomas began planning a follow up. She went on to appear in 24 of the films, making her the longest serving female member of the team.
She first starred in the following three Carry On films: Carry on Teacher (1959), Carry on Constable (1960) and Carry on Regardless (1961), before taking a break from the next four films to concentrate on stage work. She rejoined the team with Carry on Cleo (1964) and remained all the way through to Carry on Emmannuelle (1978) in 1978.
Ironically, she was never proclaimed Queen of Carry On. This title went to saucy Barbara Windsor, even though she had only appeared in nine Carry On films.
One could argue that her final performances in the Carry On films were rather sentimental, as though she knew that the series was coming to an end and two scenes come to mind. The scene in which she plays cards with Peter Butterworth in Carry on Behind (1975) in his caravan late at night, and also in the launderette where she dances with an early Carry Oner Victor Maddern in Carry on Emmannuelle (1978). Both of these are memorable sentimental film scene stealers.
With the end of the Carry On series in 1978, Joan went on to become a familiar face on TV screens, with ongoing roles in a number of highly successful sitcoms On the Up (1990) and As Time Goes By (1992) and the BBC's prestigious classic drama adaptations such as Martin Chuzzlewit (1994).
Joan's autobiography, High Spirits, was released in 2000. She complains in the last few pages of her book at the lack of information on her on the IMDB trivia page, something that was only significantly expanded after her death.
In her later years she became a cult figure and something of a British National Institution as the only surviving major Carry On star from early days. However, years of heavy drinking took their toll and she suffered in her later years with ill health. She was admitted to Hospital in Chelsea in London in mid 2001 and slipped into a coma. She died on 28 June 2001, with her lifelong friend and Carry On Norah Holland holding her hand.
Following her death, surviving Carry On stars celebrated her achievement in the Carry On films. Barbara Windsor, said at the time of her death, "To me she was the last of the great Carry Ons, she was there at the beginning. Her talent was wonderful, she could do any accent, dialect, she could dance, sing, play dowdy and glam. We laughed all the time and giggled a lot. I will sorely miss her." That quote is so true, throughout her whole Carry On career she alone stands apart as the most versatile actress in the whole series. She was never typecast in the films like the other actors and actresses.
Others also paid tribute, even ex-Government Cabinet Ministers. Her agent Richard Hatton said, "It's wonderful to be able to say that she really did have all the qualities that her many fans would have wished. A great sense of humour, a sympathetic and endearing personality, terrific talent and consideration for others.
"Over and above this, she discovered a new side of herself when she wrote her autobiography last year, which was untypical for the genre - honest, frank and intelligent. Everyone who knew her is going to remember her forever."An English woman living in New York a recent widow who lost her husband in a shooting, he was ex-military and became an FBI agent she is an executive assistant for Pan Am and knows the Murdock family, from the mother when she was pregnant with Mathew.
When Mathew became a lawyer then DD, Leslie was always on hand with good advice and a kind ear, Leslie cooked for Mathew and washed and ironed his clothing, also made sure Mathew was presentable for work.
(Helps to keep Mathews home tidy although classed as an aunt, Mathew pays Leslie for her time, Leslie found out by accident that Mathew is DD and told Mathew she will keep her mouth shut).
Think about it Mathew sweeping and hoovering his apartment I don't think so.
4 Children
Only Fools and Horses, Deceptions, The last blond bombshells.
R.I.E.L.P.- Evan C. Kim was born on 17 February 1953 in the USA. He is an actor, known for The Dead Pool (1988), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and V (1983).Stone - Chaste
Was the favoured pupil of Stick. He heeded his master's call to battle The Hand. Although he wished to stay with Stick, he was told to take Daredevil and Black Widow to safety as Stick and Shaft sacrificed themselves.
Later, Stone assisted Daredevil as the Hand prepared to resurrect Elektra. He restored Elektra to life and purified her spirit by using Matt Murdock's love for her and a portion of his own life force. This weakened Stone considerably and he was thought to have died.
Several years later, Daredevil found Stone still battling the Hand. He cautioned Stone to be more careful about killing.
Kentucky Fried Movie, V, The Dead Pool, L.A. Law, JAG - Actor
- Director
- Writer
Calvin Jung was born on 17 February 1945 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for RoboCop (1987), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) and Valentine's Day (2010).Shaft - Chaste
Was a member of the Chaste, an ancient order of ninjas in opposition to the Hand. The Chaste arrived in New York City to confront the Hand at the request of their mentor, Stick. During the conflict, Stick, Shaft and Claw died after using a technique to move around lifeforce, taking their assailants with them.
The Challenge, RoBoCop, Lethal Weapon 4, All the Queens Men.- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Additional Crew
Jackson De Govia was born on 22 March 1941 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He is a production designer and art director, known for Die Hard (1988), Volcano (1997) and Speed (1994).Production Designer
The Six Million Dollar Man, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Speed, Volcano.- Actor
- Producer
Widely regarded as one of England's finest stage, screen and TV actors, David Suchet's international reputation has only grown over the years, greatly enhanced by his definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie's suave Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, a character he played for nearly 25 years in various TV episodes (1988-2013). Born in London on May 2, 1946, the son of actress Joan Patricia Jarché and renowned Lithuanian-Jewish obstetrician and gynecologist Jack Suchet, David, following boarding school, took an early desire in acting and was given a membership with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain at age 16. He then studied for three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and, after a significant route in repertory work, became a company member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973 where he evolved into one of its most dominant players.
In the 1970s, Suchet also began to come into his own on British television. In classical tradition, his first television movie was A Tale of Two Cities (1980). His first cinematic detective was as a Greek inspector in the Disney mystery comedy Trenchcoat (1983). This was followed by a versatile range of film roles that also express the width of his acting nationalities, such as a Middle Eastern terrorist in The Little Drummer Girl (1984), a Russian operative in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), a French hunter in Harry and the Hendersons (1987), a Polish bishop in To Kill A Priest (1988), and the emperor Napoleon in Sabotage! (2000).
Suchet's masterful work in television roles also includes portrayals of historical, biblical, entertainment and fictional figures, such as Sigmund Freud in Freud (1984), news reporter William L. Shirer in Murrow (1986), Aaron in Moses (1995), movie mogul Louis B. Mayer in RKO 281 (1999), Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII (2003), vampire nemesis Van Helsing in Dracula (2006), and Robert Maxwell in Maxwell (2007).
Suchet's memorable theatre incarnations have included Shakespearean interps of Iago in "Othello", Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet", Caliban in "The Tempest", and the title role of "Timon of Athens", as well as vibrant classical roles such as George in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1996), as composer Salieri in "Amadeus" (1998), a mesmerizing performance that earned both Olivier and Tony nominations, as Joe Keller in "All My Sons" (2010), as James Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (2012) (and in the 2014 film), as Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" (2015) (and in the 2015 film), and as Gregory Solomon in "The Price" (2019).
Long married to former actress Sheila Ferris, the couple have two children: Robert Suchet (born 1981) and Katherine Suchet (born 1983). His older brother is BBC newscaster-turned-journalist John Suchet. David was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) at the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to drama. He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire at the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to drama and to charity.Lee Owlsley
Leland Owlsley was once a successful financier and financial investor, nicknamed "The Owl of Wall Street" for his financial wisdom, until evidence of his tax evasion and crooked business deals were exposed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Rather than fight the charges, he took up residence in a hideout across the Hudson River and pursued a new career as a crime lord. The Owl had already been pooling a percentage of his earnings into researching superpowered enhancements, and by this time these efforts had yielded a serum which gave him the ability to fly.
He subsequently employed two enforcers and captured Daredevil in a chance encounter, planning to kill him at a meeting of underworld bosses in order to make himself the undisputed overlord of crime. However, Daredevil escaped and confronted the Owl in battle.
Eventually determining that he could not defeat Daredevil unarmed and alone, he fled, escaping his foe in the river. When he came to shore, Owl was captured by police, convicted, and sentenced to prison by Judge Lewis.
His exoskeleton at the time raised his natural heart rate to hundreds of beats per minute and his body temperature to 113 degrees while removing his body's ability to perspire. Owl had the vertebrae of his neck altered, allowing him to turn his head around a full 180 degrees and also enhance hearing. (update)
Extremely skilled criminal organizer and money launderer,
Superhuman sight and hearing
Enhanced strength, resiliency/resistance, reflexes/reactions and endurance of 9 Men.
Natural razor-sharp fangs and talons (with attachment devices) Ability to fly long distances.
Uses Yoga and cardiovascular to keep fit.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Robert Conrad was a graduate of Northwestern University, spending his first few years out of school supporting himself and his family by driving a milk truck and singing in a Chicago cabaret. Conrad befriended up-and-coming actor Nick Adams during this period, and it was Adams who helped Conrad get his first Hollywood work in 1957. A few movie bit parts later, Conrad was signed for a comparative pittance by Warner Bros. studios, and in 1959 was cast as detective Tom Lopaka on the weekly adventure series Hawaiian Eye. Upon the 1963 cancellation of this series, Conrad made a handful of Spanish and American films and toured with a nightclub act in Australia and Mexico City. Cast as frontier secret agent James West in The Wild Wild West (1965) in 1965, Conrad brought home $5000 a week during the series' first season and enjoyed increasing remunerations as West remained on the air until 1969. There are those who insist that Wild Wild West would have been colorless without the co-starring presence of Ross Martin, an opinion with which Conrad has always agreed. The actor's bid to star in a 1970 series based on the venerable Nick Carter pulp stories got no further than a pilot episode, while the Jack Webb-produced 1971 Robert Conrad series The D.A. was canceled after 13 episodes. When Roy Scheider pulled out of the 1972 adventure weekly Assignment: Vienna, Conrad stepped in--and was out, along with the rest of Assignment: Vienna, by June of 1973. Conrad had better luck with 1976's Baa Baa Black Sheep, aka Black Sheep Squadron, a popular series based on the World War II exploits of Major "Pappy" Boyington. Cast as a nurse on this series was Conrad's daughter Nancy, setting a precedent for nepotism that the actor practiced as late as his tenth TV series, 1989's Jesse Hawkes, wherein Conrad co-starred with his sons Christian and Shane.
Though few of his series have survived past season one, Conrad has enjoyed success as a commercial spokesman and in the role of G. Gordon Liddy (whom the actor admired) in the 1982 TV movie Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (1982). As can be gathered from the Liddy assignment, Conrad's politics veered towards conservatism; in 1981, he and Charlton Heston were instrumental in toppling Ed Asner and his liberal contingent from power in the Screen Actors Guild.
As virile and athletic as ever in the 1990s, Robert Conrad continued to appear in action roles both on TV and in films; he also maintained strong ties with his hometown of Chicago, and could be counted on to show up at a moment's notice as a guest on the various all-night programs of Chicago radio personality Eddie Schwartz.Roscoe Sweeney was a gangster and crooked fight promoter who was involved in extortion and illegal gambling and operated as the "Fixer". He paid boxer "Battling Jack" Murdock to take a fall and lose a fight.
Murdock accepted the money, however, the boxer became determined to continue the fight and eventually won by a knockout. The Fixer's right-hand man Slade killed Jack after the fight in retaliation.
Roscoe Sweeney was working with a young Wilson Fisk, years later died of a heart attack when confronted by DD in the subway about the killing of his father, before he died revealed he, Slade and Fisk had Murdock killed.
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A Man Called Sloane, Assassin, Charley Hannah,- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Frank Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, to a nurse mother and a carpenter and electrician father, and was raised in Montpelier, Vermont. He is of Irish descent. Miller was a big comics writer/artist in the '70s and '80s. He wrote and penciled the Marvel series "Daredevil" for a long time. His friend, Klaus Janson, inked. He also wrote two spinoffs about the character "Electra" and did a miniseries about the "X-Men" character "Wolverine". His hit miniseries "Ronin" was published by DC in the mid-eighties. His greatest success came with DC's character "Batman". In 1980, he wrote the acclaimed "Batman" story "Wanted - Santa Claus - Dead or Alive!" for DC Comics. In 1986, his most notable comic-book work, the groundbreaking "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", an alternate history story about Batman in a grim future, was published by DC. Miller wrote and penciled. In 1988, he wrote the acclaimed "Batman: Year One", about Batman's first year on the job, for DC. In 1996, he wrote "Spawn versus Batman", a one-shot issue published by DC and Image Comics. He wrote the major motion pictures RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993) and did the "Robocop" comic series for a little while.
Miller directed The Spirit (2008) and co-directed Sin City (2005) and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)_.Writer who introduced the hand and elektra
Cameo role: CNN news reporter.- Actor
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- Editorial Department
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the only child of Helen Lena (Fritsche) and Walter Leland Cronkite, a doctor. Throughout his early career, Cronkite worked with newspapers. During World War II, he served as a news reporter. In 1950, Cronkite became a journalist. He signed up with CBS News in 1962 and retired in 1981. Cronkite remained active throughout retirement. He died on July 17, 2009 in New York City. He was 92 years old.CBS Evening News anchor NYC.
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Steven Williams is an American actor in films and television. He is known for his roles as Captain Adam Fuller on 21 Jump Street, Lt. Jefferson Burnett on The Equalizer, Det. August Brooks on L.A. Heat, X on The X-Files, Russell "Linc" Lincoln in Linc's, and Rufus Turner in Supernatural.Daniel John King
Served two tours in Vietnam in the Marines lieutenant in helicopter gunships, and was also trained in tracking long distances learned Chin-Na and Kung-Fu during his tours, once out of the Marines was immediately recruited by the FBI for counter-terrorism due to the mafia and international terrorism.
Forward-thinker looks for the smallest clues to see the bigger picture, DD shares his information with a special agent which puts surveillance of Wilson Fisk, very methodical in his approach to detective work.
Choice of Weapons 44 Magnum, revolver, Uzi, mini Uzi, Mossberg 500, Steyr-Aug.
(My version of Brett Mahoney)
Four children
The Blues Brothers, Twilight Zone: The Movie- Actress
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Jennifer Coolidge is a versatile character actress and experimental comedienne, best known for playing Stifler's mom in American Pie (1999).
She was born on August 28, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, to Gretchen (Knauff) and Paul Constant Coolidge, a plastics manufacturer. Young Coolidge was dreaming of becoming a singer. She attended Norwell High School and Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and earned her bachelor's degree in theatre in 1985. She moved to New York and joined the Gotham City improv group. Then, she headed to Los Angeles where she became a long-running member of "The Groundlings" comedy troupe. Coolidge made her television debut in a guest role on NBC's Seinfeld (1989), playing a voluptuous masseuse who won't offer her professional services to boyfriend Jerry in a 1993 episode. The following year, she had a regular gig on ABC's short-lived sketch series She TV (1994), then briefly became a cast member and writer on another short-lived sketch comedy series, Fox's Saturday Night Special (1996) produced by Roseanne Barr.
Coolidge made her big screen debut as a nurse in Not of This Earth (1995), then in the courtroom comedy Trial and Error (1997). Then, she appeared in small roles in several more feature films, and also continued her television work. Coolidge had her breakthrough role in American Pie (1999), as a boozed-up and sultry mom who seduces her son's classmate with the comment that she liked her scotch and men the same way: aged 18 years. She recreated the character in the sequel American Pie 2 (2001). Then, she reprized her role as "Paulette" opposite Reese Witherspoon in the "Legally Blonde" franchise. Although, she lost the part of "Lynette Scavo" on Desperate Housewives (2004) to Felicity Huffman, Coolidge graced several TV comedies as well, with major guest appearances on Frasier (1993) and Sex and the City (1998). Then, she landed a recurring role in the ABC sitcom Joey (2004), as "Bobbie Morgenstern", Joey's agent, appearing in 37 episodes over two seasons.
Eventually, Coolidge emerged as a versatile character actress with her no-holds-barred approach to comedy and her vanity-free comfort with playing uninhibited, unappealing characters, and delivering lines with sexual innuendo. Her talent shines in a range of characters, from a gold-digging dog owner in Best in Show (2000), to a scheming wife of an elderly mogul in Down to Earth (2001), to an opportunistic mother in American Dreamz (2006). Coolidge's gift for altering her appearance and manner, as well as her mastery of timing, shines in her perfectly hideous performance as "Fiona", a wicked stepmother in A Cinderella Story (2004) opposite Hilary Duff, for which Coolidge won a 2005 Teen Choice Award. Her lasting collaboration with director Christopher Guest continues in For Your Consideration (2006).
She has been sharing her time between her two homes, one is in Hollywood, California, and one in New Orleans, where she bought a historic mansion before the Hurricane Katrina hit the city, and then became involved in its restoration.Marci Stahl is a lawyer and girlfriend of Foggy Nelson also lawyer she met Foggy, by chance in a court case of an illegal search by the police.
A very sassy lawyer who works for a law firm- Actor
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David Fitzgerald Doyle was born in Lincoln, Nebraska December 1, 1929. He was the son of Mary Ruth Fitzgerald and Lewis Raymond (Lum) Doyle, a prominent Lincoln attorney. His maternal grandfather was John Fitzgerald, a prominent banker and railroad builder in Nebraska. His paternal grandfather was T. J. Doyle, also an attorney. He was one of three children, including brother John, an attorney, and sister Mary, an actress. He grew up in Lincoln and attended Cathedral grade school. He then went to Campion, a Jesuit prep school in Wisconsin. He made his acting debut at age six and played children's roles in local productions. He was a member of the Community Theater in Lincoln. He was in Life with Father (1947). Doyle entered the University of Nebraska in 1945 and he was expected to become a lawyer, as had four generations of Doyles. But the young Doyle preferred to spend him time in the theater department. A fellow classmate at the University of Nebraska was Johnny Carson. Doyle appeared frequently on his college buddy's late night talk show during the 1960s. Doyle ranked sixth in the state on his law school entrance exams. But the theater still called him and he chose acting over a career in law. He moved to New York after college. He got his break in 1956 when he replaced Walter Matthau in the Broadway production of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). His first wife, Rachel, died after injuries in a freak fall from a stairway in 1968. While doing a revival of "South Pacific" a year later, he met Anne Nathan and they were married. After Broadway, Doyle moved to California and was cast as Walt Fitzgerald in the television series, Bridget Loves Bernie (1972). A string of character roles followed, and Doyle is probably best remembered as the lovable private detective, Bosley, on the Charlie's Angels (1976) series. Doyle couldn't escape the legal profession and portrayed an attorney, Ted Holmes, on the daytime soap opera, General Hospital (1963) during 1986. Doyle is best remembered for his distinctive, raspy voice which earned him the voice role in several animated series and movies. He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on February 26, 1997 at age 67.Jeryn Hogarth Jeryn "Jeri" He is a friend of Iron Fist's father Wendell and an attorney for the Heroes for Hire, a team of heroes of which Iron Fist is a member and is the boss of Marci Stahl.
Jeryn "Jeri" Hogarth is a no-nonsense and resourceful lawyer who started her legal career as an intern for Rand Enterprises. After the supposed deaths of the Rand family, he eventually became a partner in the firm Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz.
R.I.E.L.P.- Heather Thomas was born on 8 September 1957 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress, known for Zapped! (1982), The Fall Guy (2024) and The Fall Guy (1981). She has been married to Harry M. Brittenham since 10 October 1992. They have one child. She was previously married to Alan Rosenthal.A revised, retconned origin establishes her as being raised from very early childhood by the U.S.S.R.'s "Black Widow Ops" program, rather than solely by Ivan Petrovitch.
Petrovitch had taken her to Department X with other young female orphans, where she was brainwashed and trained in combat and espionage at the covert "Red Room" facility. There, she is biotechnologically and psycho-technologically enhanced—which provides a rationale for her unusually long and youthful lifespan. During that time she had some training under the Winter Soldier, and the pair even had a short romance.
Each Black Widow is deployed with false memories to help ensure her loyalty. Romanova eventually discovers this, including the fact that she had never, as she had believed, been a ballerina. She further discovers that the Red Room is still active as "2R".
A revised, retconned origin establishes her as being raised from very early childhood by the U.S.S.R.'s "Black Widow Ops" program, rather than solely by Ivan Petrovitch.
Petrovitch had taken her to Department X with other young female orphans, where she was brainwashed and trained in combat and espionage at the covert "Red Room" facility. There, she is biotechnologically and psycho-technologically enhanced—which provides a rationale for her unusually long and youthful lifespan.
During that time she had some training under the Winter Soldier, and the pair even had a short romance. Each Black Widow is deployed with false memories to help ensure her loyalty.
Romanova eventually discovers this, including the fact that she had never, as she had believed, been a ballerina. She further discovers that the Red Room is still active as "2R" in 1990.
She is skilled in many forms of martial arts including aikido, judo, Shoto-kan karate, Shaolin Kung-Fu, Tae Kwon-do and boxing.
Fluent in English, Austrian, French, Dutch and Greek main language is Russian.
NB: Yelena Belova was raised as Natasha Romanoff's "sister," though the two aren't blood-related. - Producer
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Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer, Douglas Trumbull, was one of the Special Photographic Effects Supervisors for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He went on to become the Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Blade Runner (1982), each of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.
Mr. Trumbull directed Silent Running (1972), Brainstorm (1983), Back to the Future... The Ride (1991) and numerous other special format films.
He is the recipient of an Academy Award in the area of Scientific and Technical Achievement, as well as the International Monitor Award and American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions in the field of filmmaking. Douglas is currently involved in the evolution of visual effects using virtual digital sets and electronic cinematography.Visual Effects Supervisor R.I.E.LP.
Silent Running, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner.- Actor
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Jack Colvin was born on 13 October 1932 in Lyndon, Kansas, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Incredible Hulk (1978) and Child's Play (1988). He died on 1 December 2005 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Jack McGee was an investigative reporter who worked for a tabloid newspaper known as the National Register. Becomes a freelance investigative reporter, on various corrupt officials and crime families nationwide, hired by both J Jonah and Joseph "Robbie" Robertson.
Reports on sightings of the HULK and X-MEN wrote a bestseller, concerning political rivalry during the last 5 years of the 1970s. Spent 7 months in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon.
2 Children
Drives 1980 Ford Bronco
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By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.
Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. Both of his parents were originally from Oklahoma. Harris grew up as the middle child. After graduating high school, he attended New York's Columbia University, where he played football. After viewing local theater productions, Harris took a sudden interest in acting. He left Columbia, headed to Oklahoma, where his parents were living, and enrolled in the University of Oklahoma's theater department. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to find work. He started acting in theater and television guest spots. Harris landed his first leading role in a film in cult-favorite George A. Romero's Knightriders (1981). Two years later, he got his first taste of critical acclaim, playing astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff (1983). Also that year, he made his New York stage debut in Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love", a performance that earned him an Obie for Outstanding Actor. Harris' career gathered momentum after that. In 2000, he made his debut as a director in the Oscar-winning film Pollock (2000).John Bishop DEA agent still a little wet behind the ears, one tour in Vietnam left the airforce to join the DEA drugs and weapons flooded the street, and from Newyork and New Jersey to Maryland been after the Kingpin for three years.
Choice of Weapons: Colt 45 ACP, 357 Magnum, MP5, Heckler & Koch PS9, Model 590A1.- Actor
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Daniel Hugh Kelly was born on August 10, 1952 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the middle of five children. His father was a police officer/detective and his mother was a social worker. He received his B.A. from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and pursued his M.F.A. on a full scholarship at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Kelly has appeared in numerous off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions, primarily at the Public Theater and the Second Stage. A product of regional national theater, he has been a company member of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Folger Theater, Arena Stage, and the Actors Theater of Louisville among others. He toured with the National Players, the oldest classical touring company in the United States. He starred on Broadway as Brick opposite Kathleen Turner in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and as Paul Verrall opposite Madeline Kahn in "Born Yesterday". In 2003, he appeared at the Mark Taper Theater Forum, originating the role of Richard in "Living Out" by Lisa Loomer.
Kelly starred as Senator Frank Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope (1975), and as race-car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick on the ABC series Hardcastle and McCormick (1983) opposite Brian Keith. In addition, he has been a series regular in such varied television productions as the NBC series Chicago Story (1982), the ABC sitcom I Married Dora (1987), the ABC series Second Noah (1996), the PAX series Ponderosa (2001) as Ben Cartwright, and the NBC series The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (1991). He returned to daytime television as Colonel Winston Mayer on the soap opera As the World Turns (1956). His feature film roles include Cujo (1983), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), The Good Son (1993), Bad Company (1995) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998).
Kelly has made many notable appearances in miniseries and television films including Citizen Cohn (1992), The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), From the Earth to the Moon (1998) as Gene Cernan, Passing Glory (1999), Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (2001) as President John F. Kennedy, and Joe and Max (2002) among others. He has also guess-starred on many television series including several appearances on Law & Order (1990), its spin-offs Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order: LA (2010), as well as Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) The West Wing (1999), Las Vegas (2003), Boston Legal (2004), Supernatural (2005), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) and Memphis Beat (2010).Has a Mathew Murdock look.
Hardcastle & McCormick, The Good Son, Star Trek Insurrection.- Wally Taylor was born on 14 July 1930 in Maywood, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Night of the Creeps (1986), Escape from New York (1981) and Rocky III (1982). He died on 7 October 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.A sergeant major who worked in U.S.M.C, experienced in counterintelligence and guerrilla warfare, due to serving with John Daniel MacEwan learned how to be a good soldier, learned three martial arts Kung-Fu, Shotokan Karate and Kali an experienced demolitions expert helped develop many boxers.
In his spare time training for his 4th black belt in Shotokan and a brown belt in kung-fu.
Gumball Rally 1976, Escape from New York (1981), Rocky III (1982) and The Golden Child (1986). R.I.E.L.P. - Actor
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Roger E. Mosley was born on 18 December 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Magnum, P.I. (1980), A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) and Terminal Island (1973). He was married to Antoinette 'Toni' Laudermilk and Saundra J Locke. He died on 7 August 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Benjamin Donovan a gifted lawyer who worked for the Stokes family of Harlem, has his own law firm depending upon the client and deep pockets are how the client is charged, both Stokes and Fisk are his client's main clients even worked for both Maggia and Hammerhead.
Magnum P.I., Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Pentathlon.
R.I.E.L.P.- Nicholas Hormann has appeared in over a hundred plays on and off Broadway and in fifteen Tony Award-winning regional theaters including the American Conservatory Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse and the Kennedy Center. He has made guest appearances on numerous television series and narrates audio books. He attended the Yale School of Drama and lives in Los Angeles.The Arranger when Fisk away runs Fisk empire Right-hand man to Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. the Kingpin. Oswald was deemed the Arranger because of his 'arranging' of Fisk's day-to-day business dealings, be they legal or otherwise. A business management degree uses his skills to keep hired help in line.
Well-versed in firearms 357 Magnum, Colt-45 ACP. - Actress
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Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker, and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania, and at that same age, entered Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in creative writing and fine arts. She was a very smart girl (with an IQ of 154), became a bookworm, and once was told that a suitable job for her (and her brains) was to become a lawyer. However, her first love was still the black-and-white movies, especially those featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. So, the 17-year-old Sharon got herself into the Miss Crawford County and won the beauty contest.
From working part-time as a McDonald's counter girl, she worked her way up to become a successful Ford model, both in TV commercials and print ads. In 1980, she made her acting debut in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) as "pretty girl in train". Her first speaking part, though, was in Wes Craven's horror movie, Deadly Blessing (1981). She struggled through many parts in B-movies, notably King Solomon's Mines (1985) and Action Jackson (1988). She was also married in 1984 to Michael Greenburg, the producer of MacGyver (1985), but they divorced two years later.
She finally got her big break with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall (1990) and also posed nude for Playboy, a daring move for a 32-year-old actress. But it worked; she landed the breakthrough role as a sociopath novelist, "Catherine Tramell", in Basic Instinct (1992). Her interrogation scene has become a classic in film history and her performance captivated everyone, from MTV viewers, who honored her with Most Desirable Female and Best Female Performance Awards, to a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. After she got famous, she didn't want to be typecast, so she played a victim in Sliver (1993), and, in Intersection (1994), she was the aloof, estranged wife of Richard Gere. These movies didn't "work," so she got herself again into more aggressive roles , such as The Specialist (1994) with Sylvester Stallone and The Quick and the Dead (1995) with Gene Hackman.
But it wasn't until she played a beautiful but drug-crazy wife of Robert De Niro in Casino (1995) that she got far more than just fame and fortune--she also received the acknowledgment of the movie industry for her acting ability. She received her first Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. She did a couple of films afterwards, teaming up with Isabelle Adjani in Diabolique (1996), and as a woman waiting for her death penalty in Last Dance (1996). In 1998, she married a newspaper editor,Phil Bronstein but they divorced later in 2004. She received her third Golden Globe nomination for The Mighty (1998), a film that her company, "Chaos", also co-executive produced. The next year, she played the title role in Gloria (1999) and entered her first comedic role in The Muse (1999), which gave her another Golden Globe nomination.
Sharon Stone, a diva who thoroughly enjoys her hard-won stardom, is now a mother of three children: Roan, Laird and Quinn.Typhoid Mary
Highly skilled athlete
Trained martial artist
Exceptional swordswoman
Excellent physical condition
Peak-level agility and reflexes
Pyrokinesis
Telekinesis
Limited mind control
Via Mutant Zero armor:
Enhanced strength
Arsenal of bladed weapo.ns- Actor
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Bob Hoskins was described by the director John Mackenzie as "an actor from the British tradition but with an almost American approach, an instinctive approach to acting and knowing how to work with the camera". He was born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where his mother was living after being evacuated as a result of the heavy bombings. He is the son of Elsie Lillian (Hopkins), a nursery school teacher and cook, and Robert William Hoskins, Sr., who drove a lorry and worked as a bookkeeper. Growing up, Hoskins received only limited education and he left school at 15, but with a passion for language and literature instilled by his former English teacher.
A regular theatre-goer, Hoskins dreamed of starring on stage, but before he could do so he had to work odd jobs for a long time to make ends meet. His acting career started out more by accident than by design, when he accompanied a friend to watch some auditions, only to be confused for one of the people auditioning, getting a script pushed into his hands with the message "You're next". He got the part and acquired an agent. After some stage success, he expanded to television with roles in television series such as Villains (1972) and Thick as Thieves (1974). In the mid-'70s, he started his film career, standing out when he performed alongside Richard Dreyfuss in John Byrum's Inserts (1975) and in a smaller part in Richard Lester's Royal Flash (1975).
Hoskins broke through in 1978 in Dennis Potter's mini TV series, Pennies from Heaven (1978), playing "Arthur Parker", the doomed salesman. After this, a string of high-profile and successful films followed, starting with his true major movie debut in 1980's The Long Good Friday (1980) as the ultimately doomed "Harold Shand". This was followed by such works as The Cotton Club (1984), Mona Lisa (1986), which won him an Oscar nomination as well as a BAFTA award, Cannes Film Festival and Golden Globe), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (Golden Globe nomination), Mermaids (1990), Hook (1991), Nixon (1995), Felicia's Journey (1999) and Enemy at the Gates (2001).
Hoskins always carefully balanced the riches of Hollywood with the labor of independent film, though leaned more towards the latter than the former. He worked at smaller projects such as Shane Meadows' debut TwentyFourSeven (1997), in which he starred as "Allen Darcy". Besides this, he found time to direct, write and star in The Raggedy Rawney (1988), as well as direct and star in Rainbow (1995), and contributing to HBO's Tales from the Crypt (1989) and Tube Tales (1999).
Suffering from Parkinson's disease in later years, Hoskins died of pneumonia at age 71 in a London hospital.Crusher Creel came from a home his mother died young, although physically abused still managed to finish high school, very good with his hands learned boxing to Olympic level, enlisted in the army honorary discharged got into boxing as he struggled to get work, 28 fights 5 K.O. 6 on points 3 lost, lost one of three to battling Jack Murddoch in brutal 12 round fight.
Ended up in prison whilst serving time came to the attention of Loki, who gave him an enhanced drug that altered him on a gene level, resulting in escaping prison, under the influence of LOKI.
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Tim Thomerson rates highly as one of the best, most prolific, versatile and dependable character actors to ever grace both the big and small screens alike with pleasing regularity since the mid 70s. Although often cast as laconic rough 'n' tumble macho guys, Thomerson has proved on many occasions that he can essay comic roles and more substantial dramatic parts with equal skill and conviction. He was born on April 8th, 1946 in Coronado, California and was raised in Hawaii and San Diego. He did a stint in the National Guard prior to getting a job as a prop man and set builder at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Character actor Anthony Zerbe advised Thomerson to get lessons from legendary acting teacher Stella Adler in New York; and he duly studied with Adler for four years.
He began his show business career as a stand-up comedian; he performed at the clubs The Bitter End, Bud Friedman's Improvisation and Catch A Rising Star in New York and at the Comedy Store and the Improv in Los Angeles. He eventually even had a guest spot on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. His film debut was with a funny small role in the hilarious "Car Wash." He achieved his greatest enduring cult popularity with his delightfully deadpan portrayal of rugged police detective Jack Deth in the terrific "Trancers" and its strictly so-so sequels. Other memorable parts include eccentric police detective Jerry Moriarty in the fine "Fade to Black," weary factory worker Ray in "Take This Job and Shove It," a highway patrolman in Clint Eastwood's poignant and underrated "Honkytonk Man," burnt-out Vietnam vet helicopter pilot Charts in the exciting "Uncommon Valor," grimy mercenary Rhodes in the cheesy "Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn," the crazed John Reynolds in "Volunteers," demented cult leader Lester in "Cherry 2000," the tough-as-nails the Sarge in the enjoyably quirky "Zone Troopers;" lovely and touching as the gentle Loy in the outstanding "Near Dark," diminutive, but fearless alien lawman Brick Bardo in the funky "Dollman," and a scruffy motorcyclist in Terry Gilliam's unjustly maligned "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Tim has appeared in a large number of films for low-budget independent director Albert Pyon and acted alongside real-life best buddy Brion James in numerous pictures (the two first met while both serving in the National Guard Reserves). On television Thomerson played the half-man, half-woman Gene-Jean on the uproarious, but sadly short-lived sci-fi parody program "Quark." Thomerson also had recurring roles on the TV shows "Sirens" and "Land's End" and has made guest appearances on countless TV shows.Jonathan Levinson
DEA Agent - Works for the DEA, has a wide connection to many agencies, works for Mathew on very big cases unique ability of counter surveillance, when Mathew Wins in big cases Jonathan receives a large paycheck, uses top end equipment for surveillance this helps Mathew in building his cases, which is beneficial to DEA and DD to remain one step ahead, a very good in self defence Kung-Fu, JuJitSu, Taekwondo, Shotokan Karate.
Choice of weapons: Colt Diamondback snub nose revolver, 357 Magnum, Uzi, Mini Uzi, Micro Uzi, 454 Casull, Mossberg 590, MAC-10.- Allan Miller is an actor, director, teacher and writer. He has acted in over two hundred films and television productions, and dozens of plays. His last film was Bad Words directed by Jason Bateman. He's also appeared in Star Trek III, The Champ, MacArthur, Bound for Glory, Fun with Dick and Jane, Cruising, Two Minute Warning and Baby Blue Marine.
On stage, he was most recently in Curve of Departure at South Coast Rep, Awake and Sing at the Odyssey Theatre, and before that Broadway Bound at La Mirada Theater, Three Views of the Same Object at Rogue Machine Theatre and played Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman at South Coast Rep. He also co-starred in the Broadway production of Broadway Bound, and Brooklyn Boy by Donald Margulies.
He teaches acting and coaches privately. Students can sign up for his free weekly Zoom class on his website: allanmiller.org. He's taught at The Actors Studio, where he was a moderator as well as an instructor, and at the Yale School of Drama, New York University's MFA professional program, the Focus Theatre in Dublin, and the International Actors group in Rome. He is the author of "A Passion for Acting, now in its third printing and recently released digitally on Amazon, and a DVD "The Craft of Acting: Auditioning."
Mr. Miller was artistic director of the Back Alley Theatre for ten years, for which he received the LADCC Margaret Hartford Award for Distinguished Achievement. At the Back Alley he directed more than a dozen productions, including Are You Now or Have You Ever Been... and The Fox, for which he received a LADCC award for direction. Other directing credits include The Fox Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre and at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. He has directed nine productions at the Odyssey Theatre, including most recently, Juno and the Paycock, This Lime Tree Bower, Taking Steps, and First Love. He also directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf for the Actors Studio West.
He wrote the play The Fox, based on the novella by D. H. Lawrence, which has been produced by theatres in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Seattle, Fort Worth, Austin, San Francisco, San Diego, most of the fifty states, including the territory of Puerto Rico, and has been optioned internationally in France, Germany, Belgium, Hong Kong, Canada, and Argentina. The play has toured England and Australia and has been translated into French, Spanish, German, and Chinese. It has been published by Samuel French in an acting edition, Doubleday for the Fireside Book Club, and the California Arts Council's West Coast Plays.
Mr. Miller is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has served on the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild, and has been a panelist for the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and the California Arts Council. He studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Uta Hagen at HB Studio, and Erwin Piscator at the Dramatic Workshop. - Actress
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Stefanie Powers began her career as a teenager dancing for the Michele Paniaff Ballet Company and Jerome Robbins. At 16 she was put under contract to Columbia Pictures in the twilight of the Hollywood Studio System where she made 15 motion pictures and was loaned to United Artists for the John Wayne production of McLintock! (1963). MGM Television bought her contract from Columbia to present her as The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966). Her television credits include over 200 guest appearances, 18 mini-series and 2 more weekly series, The Feather and Father Gang (1976) and the long-running Hart to Hart (1979).
Her long career has included appearances on the stage beginning in 1964 with "Under the Yum Yum Tree" in San Francisco which ran for 12 years after its initial opening. She has appeared on and off Broadway in musical shows and tributes; in the West End in the musical, "Matador" and "Love Letters". Appearances on the British stage included "The King and I", "The Adjustment" and "84 Charing Cross Road."
Her stage appearances in the United States include "Annie Get Your Gun", "Oliver", "Applause" (the revival), "Sunset Boulevard" and "Gotta Dance" directed by Jerry Mitchell. In 2018 she appeared in the film The Artist's Wife (2019) with Lena Olin and Bruce Dern and a revival in London of "84 Charing Cross Road."
She has an active life in wildlife conservation and is the creator of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, formed after the death of her long-time life partner William Holden. In that vein she has received numerous fellowships and awards for her tireless field work in conservation and is a faculty member of the Oxford Literary Festival at Christ Church College at Oxford where she heads forums with authors of outstanding books dealing with the crucial environmental issues of our day. She's been on the boards of four zoos in North America and is an independent board member of a cluster of 3 mutual funds which are a part of the American Funds, one of the largest mutual funds families in the world. She presented the PBS 13 part series, "Funding Your Dreams" as a road map for women contemplating investment options.
As a member of the Writers' Guild of America she was nominated for her script of "Family Secrets", received five Emmy nominations for acting roles and a People's Choice Award.
She resides in Los Angeles, London and Kenya.Maggie Murdock is the ex-wife of Jack Murdock and the mother of Matt Murdock who grew up to become the superhero known as Daredevil.
Maggie came from a middle-class family, her family was originally from Baltimore Maggie's father learned to be a draughtsman, and due to his work made a name for himself, and moved the family to New York for work Maggie has two brothers and a younger sister.
The eldest brother is a draughtsman, the second brother is a medical doctor from a military background, and the youngest sister has a catering business. Maggie got her degree in economics and had her calling to be a nun, did the training met Jack by chance and fell pregnant with Mathew.
She suffered from severe postpartum depression, resulting in not being able to look after her son.
Girl From Uncle, Hart to Hart, Deceptions, Love by the Book.- Born Lawrence Vonetta McGee, she got her break in Melinda (1972) and Hammer (1972) and hit paydirt as the love interest of the vampire in Blacula (1972), then starred with her then-boyfriend Max Julien in Thomasine & Bushrod (1974). In 1978 she starred opposite Bernie Casey and Ron O'Neal in Brothers (1977). Other movies include Repo Man (1984) To Sleep with Anger (1990). She has also done much work on television. She was married to actor Carl Lumbly.
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Ola Ray is internationally known as Michael Jackson's girlfriend in the Grammy Award winning short film video ''Thriller." Her work in 'Thriller' brought her worldwide recognition and made her a household name.
Ola was born in St. Louis ,Missouri, where she spent the early part of her childhood with her parents, six brothers and two sisters . Ola and her Family then came to Sacramento, California and lived there until 1975 when Ola moved with her family to Tokyo, Japan where her stepfather was stationed at Yokota Air Force Base for three years.
Soon after her arrival in Tokyo, Ola began her professional dancing and singing career by forming a song and dance group called The Puppets with her twin brothers and sister. The musical talents of Ola and the other members of The Puppets landed them a year long performance contract at the Big Together Club in the Shinjuku District. The Puppets' increasing popularity led to appearances in TV commercials, performances in various cities throughout Japan and a recording offer from CBS Records in Tokyo .
Throughout Ola's singing and dancing career in Japan, she also engaged in a substantial number of modeling assignments through Eddie Arab Modeling Agency. She modeled as a poster girl and appeared in several TV commercials for such well known Japanese department stores as Daimaru, Isetan, Matsuya, and Parco.
After her successful stay in Japan, Ola and her family returned to the United States. Upon her arrival in 1978, Ola made Los Angeles her home so that she could further pursue her career in Entertainment.
Ola appeared as Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine. After her appearance in Playboy , she entered into an exclusive contract with Johnson and Johnson for promotion of their Classy Curl hair product. As part of Ola's promotion , her pictures were displayed on all Classy Curl Kit Products, in magazine advertisements, television commercials, and posters.
Ola also served as spokesperson for the Classy Curl product promotion. Additionally, she sponsored on television and print nationally known products such as 'Milk'[sponsoring the Milk Advisory Board] , Coca Cola, Coors, McDonalds, and Leggs pantyhose, as well as several other products.
Resulting from a successful modeling career and her work in 'Thriller' , Ola landed several acting roles in motion pictures produced by Paramount Studios, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Bros. Studios , and also in various top television shows for the leading three networks - NBC, ABC, CBS. She has appeared in such movies as '48 Hours' [with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte] 'Night Shift' [with Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler] , Beverly Hills Cop 2' [with Eddie Murphy] '' Ten To Midnight' [with Charles Bronson] and 'Fear City' [with Billy Dee Williams and Tom Berenger] , Ola also played a leading role in a television pilot that was a spin-off from the popular sitcom , 'Gimme A Break' for NBC.
Ola has written and produced several songs , one of which rose to Number Five on the top ten chart in Houston, Texas.
Ola recently completed two features entitled Shooting Heroin opposite Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs , and It Wants Blood opposite Eric Roberts.
Ola has recently completed a book memoir entitled For The Thrill Of It All which she has recently signed a literary contract with a Major literary Agency- Actor
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Veteran stage and TV actor David Ackroyd was born on May 30, 1940 in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Arthur, an insurance adjuster, and Charlotte (nee Henderson) Ackroyd. He studied at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania where he received his BA in 1962 as a ROTC student. Following his graduation he appeared in community theater productions while serving in Arizona with the military. He then focused on the arts as a career after enrolling at the Yale Drama School where he earned his Masters of Fine Arts in 1968.
Ackroyd garnered early credits at Yale Repertory Theatre (for three seasons) and Williamstown Theatre Festival (for six seasons). He also found challenging and varied stage work outside the U.S., in Taiwan, Russia, Poland, Germany, France, and the former Czechoslovakia. Dark and handsome, he extended his stage career onscreen in the early 1970s, beginning with the daytime soap operas The Secret Storm (1954) and Another World (1964). He progressed to prime-time work as Gary Ewing in Dallas (1978) until Ted Shackelford successfully took over the role when the character moved front and center with the spin-off drama Knots Landing (1979).
A durable guest star for decades on such popular TV series as Lou Grant (1977), Trapper John, M.D. (1979), St. Elsewhere (1982), Cagney & Lacey (1981), MacGyver (1985), Highway to Heaven (1984), Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995), Ackroyd had recurring roles as Dr. Boyer in AfterMASH (1983) and Dr. Bart Langley in A Peaceable Kingdom (1989). He provided strong support in the two-part TV special The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) (starring Bette Davis) as well as such made-for-television movies as And I Alone Survived (1978), Women in White (1979), Deadly Lessons (1983), When Your Lover Leaves (1983), The Children of Times Square (1986), Hell Hath No Fury (1991), The Fear Inside (1992), and Against the Wall (1994) and four exceptional mini-series (The Word (1978), Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder (1987), Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987), and Windmills of the Gods (1988)). Ackroyd also appeared in feature films, including The Mountain Men (1980), The Sound of Murder (1982), Wrestling with God (1990), Dark Angel (1990), Love, Cheat & Steal (1993), Dead On (1994), Raven (1996), and No Strings Attached (1997).
Prone to playing intelligent, upscale types or white-collar professionals (senators, doctors, lawyers, etc.), David continued to prevail on the stage with potent performances in 'Unlikely Heroes' (his 1971 Broadway debut), 'The Rivals', 'Juno and the Paycock', 'Hamlet' (as Rosencrantz), 'Private Lives', 'Children of a Lesser God' (replacing original star John Rubinstein), 'A Soldier's Play', 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', 'Six Characters in Search of an Author', and an 2003 off-Broadway appearance in 'It Just Catches'. A well-seasoned narrator in documentary stories for the History Channel, he has sometimes utilized his well-modulated vocals for such animated cartoons as 'Johnny Quest' and 'Captain Planet and the Planeteers'. Much of his most recent professional work has been voice work.
Long married to wife Ruth Liming, a college admissions officer, the couple has two daughters, Jessica and Abigail. He is a professor of drama at Flathead Valley Community College (Kalispell, Montana) and a founding member of the Alpine Theatre Project which produces plays for the Whitefish Theatre Company.ATF after his second promotion transferred to DEA, run in with both Spider-Man, Daredevil and The Punisher a seasoned officer has a brother in the U.S Marshals, taken down drug scores from $270,000 to $1,300,000 has worked with detectives in London Scotland Yard.- Actor
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Bernie Casey was born on 8 June 1939 in Wyco, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Never Say Never Again (1983) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984). He was married to Paula. He died on 19 September 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Sergeant first class after six years in the Marines became a beat cop, after six years applied for ATF was a demolition expert a very proficient officer has numerous files on Fisk and illegal weapons and explosives being sold on the black market for profit.