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Ricardo Darín. Ricardo Darín (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðo ðaˈɾin]; born January 16, 1957) is an Argentine-Spaniard actor, screenwriter and film director.[1] §Early life[edit] Ricardo Darín was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 16, 1957.

Ricardo Darín

He has worked since he was a little boy, and over the years has made a remarkable evolution from soap opera gallant and TV comedies to a leading figure of the most important Argentine movies. At the age of 10 he made his debut in a play along with his parents, actor Ricardo Darín Sr., and actress Renée Roxana. He acted for several years in TV series (such as Alta Comedia and Estación Retiro), where he reached popularity as a young leading actor in different soap operas, specially in Alberto Migre's productions. Fred MacMurray. Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.

Fred MacMurray

§Early life[edit] MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to Frederick MacMurray and Maleta Martin, both natives of Wisconsin. When MacMurray was two years old[citation needed] the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and later settled in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where his mother had been born in 1880.[1] He briefly attended school in Quincy IL. He earned a full scholarship to attend Carroll College (now Carroll University), in Waukesha, Wisconsin. While there, MacMurray participated in numerous local bands, playing the saxophone. Myrna Loy. Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress.

Myrna Loy

Although Loy was never nominated for a competitive Academy Award, in March 1991 she was presented with an Honorary Academy Award with the inscription "In recognition of her extraordinary qualities both on screen and off, with appreciation for a lifetime's worth of indelible performances". In 2014, Maureen O'Hara joined Loy in being the only actresses to ever receive an Academy Award for acting without having been nominated previously.[2][3]

William Powell. William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984)[1] was an American actor.

William Powell

He typically played highly self-confident characters, with a sophisticated sense of humor and wit. §Childhood[edit] George Marshall (director) George E.

George Marshall (director)

Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of movie history. For his contribution to the film industry, George Marshall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7048 Hollywood Boulevard. Burn! §Plot[edit] Sir William Walker (Brando), is an agent provocateur sent to the island of Queimada, a fictional 19th-century Portuguese colony in the Lesser Antilles island group in the Caribbean.[1] Walker is sent to organize an uprising of black slaves to overthrow the Portuguese regime because Great Britain wants to get economic control of the island, as it is an important sugar cane producer.

Burn!

The plan is to replace the Portuguese administration by a formally sovereign state controlled by white latifundists friendly to Britain. Hank Azaria. Gregory Peck. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts.

Gregory Peck

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 12. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983.[1] Early life[edit] Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in the San Diego, California neighborhood of La Jolla, the son of Gregory Pearl Peck, a New York-born chemist and pharmacist, and his Missouri-born wife Bernice Mary "Bunny" (née Ayres).[2] His father was of Irish (maternal) heritage and English (paternal) heritage,[3][4] while his mother had Scottish and English ancestry.[5] Peck's father was Roman Catholic, while his mother converted to Roman Catholicism when she married his father. The Berkeley acting coach saw Peck as perfect material for university theater. Alan Ladd. §Early life Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Alan Ladd

He was the only child of Ina Raleigh (also known as Selina Rowley) and Alan Ladd, a freelance accountant.[3] His mother was English, from County Durham. His father died when he was four, and his mother relocated to Oklahoma City, where she married Jim Beavers, a housepainter. James Cagney. This article is about the actor.

James Cagney

For the song by Nik Kershaw, see Radio Musicola. In his first professional acting performance, Cagney danced costumed as a woman in the chorus line of the 1919 revue Every Sailor. He spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian, until he got his first major acting part in 1925. He secured several other roles, receiving good notices, before landing the lead in the 1929 play Penny Arcade. After rave reviews, Warner Bros. signed him for an initial $500-a-week, three-week contract to reprise his role; this was quickly extended to a seven-year contract. Spencer Tracy. Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility.

Spencer Tracy

One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor and won two, sharing the record for nominations in that category with Laurence Olivier. Tracy left MGM in 1955 and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite an increasing weariness as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness.

Song Kang-ho. Song Kang-ho (Korean pronunciation: [sʰoːŋ ɡaŋho]; born January 17, 1967) is a leading South Korean actor. Career[edit] Song Kang-ho never professionally trained as an actor, beginning his career in social theater groups after graduating from Gimhae High School. After getting a Broadcasting degree from Busan Kyungsang College,[1] he later joined Kee Kuk-seo's influential theatre company with its emphasis on instinctive acting and improvisation which proved Song's training ground. He made his stage premiere in 1991, in the play Dongseung. Lee Byung-hun. Lee, along with Ahn Sung-ki, are the first Korean actors to imprint their hand and foot prints on the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Career[edit] From 2005 he focused on film, earning critical acclaim for his performance in A Bittersweet Life directed by Kim Ji-woon which was screened out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival.[5] Lee was nominated for Best Actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards and Grand Bell Awards, and won at the Chunsa Film Art Awards, Baeksang Arts Awards and the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.

In 2010 Lee starred in I Saw the Devil with Choi Min-sik, his third collaboration with Kim Ji-woon, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Steve Coogan. Ha Jung-woo. Jack Lemmon. Early life[edit] Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925 in an elevator[1] at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue (née Noel) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company.[2][3] His paternal grandmother was from an Irish immigrant family.[4] Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts.

He stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight.[5] Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard University (Class of 1947), where he lived in Eliot House[6] and was an active member of several Drama Clubs – and president of the Hasty Pudding Club[7] – as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. Career[edit] Lemmon recorded an album in 1958 while filming Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe. Lemmon's production company JML produced Cool Hand Luke in 1967. Michelle Yeoh. She is credited as Michelle Khan in some of her earlier films. This alias was chosen by the D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to international and western audiences.

Yeoh later preferred using her real name.[4] Early life and career[edit] Zhang Ziyi. Leslie Cheung. Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor, film director, record producer, and screenwriter. Cheung is considered as "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop" by "combining a hugely successful film and music career.

"[4] He rose to prominence as a teen heartthrob and pop icon of Hong Kong in the 1980s, receiving numerous music awards including both Most Popular Male Artist Awards at the 1988 and 1989 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards.[5][6] In 1989, Cheung announced his retirement from the music industry as a pop singer. Returning to the music scene after a five-year hiatus, Cheung released his chart-topping comeback album Most Beloved (寵愛) which achieved a huge market success.

Andy Lau. Lau was entered into the Guinness World Records for the "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist". Gregory Peck. Montgomery Clift. Along with Marlon Brando and James Dean, Clift was one of the original method actors in Hollywood; he was one of the first actors to be invited to study in the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg, Michael Chekhov and Stella Adler. He also executed a rare move by not signing a contract after arriving in Hollywood, only doing so after his first couple films were a success—"a power differential that would go on to structure the star-studio relationship for the next 40 years. Matthew McConaughey. Chow Yun-fat. Chow is the 2nd highest earning actor in Hong Kong with 170 million HKD (21.9 million USD) in 2014.[2] Lee Byung-hun. Andy Lau. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. Lee Marvin. Edward Norton. Toshiro Mifune. Irene Papas. Toshiro Mifune. Sol Kyung-gu. Song Kang-ho. Kim Yoon-seok. Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan. Choi Min-sik.