Bill Cosby. Using the Fat Albert character developed during his stand-up routines, Cosby created, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, a show that ran from 1972 to 1985, centering on a group of young friends growing up in an urban area. Throughout the 1970s, Cosby starred in a number of films, and he occasionally returned to film later in his career. He attended Temple University in the 1960s and received his bachelor's degree there in 1971. In 1973, he received a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts, and in 1976, he earned his Doctor of Education degree, also from UMass. His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a teaching tool in elementary schools.
Cosby has been the subject of sexual assault allegations, the earliest of which date back decades; those allegations did not become highly publicized until 2014. Early life Cosby as a basketball player in 1957 Standup career Acting career I Spy 1990s and 2000s. Ed Harris. Early life[edit] Harris was born in Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey, and was raised in Tenafly,[1] the son of Margaret, a travel agent, and Robert L. Harris, who sang with the Fred Waring chorus and worked at the bookstore of the Art Institute of Chicago.[2] He has an older brother, Robert, and a younger brother, Spencer.
His parents were originally from Oklahoma.[3] Harris was raised in a middle class Presbyterian family.[4][5][6] He graduated from Tenafly High School in 1969, where he played on the football team, serving as the team's captain in his senior year.[7][8] He was a star athlete in high school,[1] was recruited by[9] and competed in athletics at Columbia University in 1969. Two years later his family moved to New Mexico, and he followed, after having discovered his interest in acting in various theater plays. Career[edit] Harris at the premiere of A History of Violence at the Toronto International Film Festival, January 2005 Style[edit] Personal life[edit]
Francis Ford Coppola. Francis Ford Coppola (/ˈkoʊpələ/; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He followed with The Godfather Part II in 1974, which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Highly regarded by critics, it brought him three more Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, and made him the second director, after Billy Wilder, to be honored three times for the same film.
The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. While a number of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s.[2][3][4] Early life[edit] Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to father Carmine Coppola,[5] a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and mother Italia (née Pennino). Jack Wallace. Joe Mantegna. Joseph Anthony "Joe" Mantegna, Jr. (/mænˈteɪnjɑː/,[1] Italian pronunciation: [manˈteɲɲa]; born November 13, 1947) is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and voice actor. He is best known for his roles in box office hits such as Three Amigos (1986), The Godfather Part III (1990), Forget Paris (1995), and Up Close & Personal (1996).
He currently stars in the CBS television series Criminal Minds as FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi. Early life[edit] Career[edit] Mantegna won a Tony award for his portrayal of Richard Roma in David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross. He has had a long and successful association with Mamet, appearing in a number of his works. Mantegna has a recurring role in the animated series The Simpsons as the voice of mob boss Anthony "Fat Tony" D'Amico. In 2002, Mantegna starred as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Joseph Novelli, on the CBS midseason replacement drama First Monday. Mantegna in May 2008 Personal life[edit] The Sunset Limited (TV Movie 2011.
David Morse (actor) Morse was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, the son of Jacquelyn, a school teacher, and Charles Morse, a sales manager.[3] He was raised in Hamilton, Massachusetts. His middle name, Bowditch, comes from mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch.[1] Morse studied acting at the William Esper Studio.[4] He began his acting career in the theater as a player for the Boston Repertory Theatre in the early 1970s.[5] He spent some time in New York's theater community in the early 1980s, before moving into television and film.[5] During that time, Morse was listed as one of the twelve most "Promising New Actors of 1980" in John A. Willis' Screen World, Vol. 32.[6] Morse's big break came in 1982 when he was cast in the television medical drama St. Elsewhere. He played Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison, a young physician who is forced to deal with the death of his wife and the struggles of a single parent professional.[7] Morse in 2005.