Liam (William John) Neeson was born June 7, 1952 in
Northern Ireland. He has received accolades, including
nominations for Academy and two Tony Awards,three
Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was placed seventh
on The Irish Times list of Ireland’s 50 Greatest Film
Actors. He turned 72 Friday.
years old Friday.
1993
2008
Erich Anderson, the familiar character actor who made his film
debut in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, played Keri Russell’s
father on Felicity and recurred on shows from Steven Bochco,
has died.
His wife, Saxon Trainor, and her brother-in-law, Michael O’Malley, announced in an Instagram post, Anderson died Saturday after a
"brutal struggle with cancer."
1984
Happy Birthday Clint…94 today
Clint Eastwood achieved success in the Western
TV series Rawhide (1959 – 1965) on CBS and the
"Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone‘s Dollars
Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-
1960s and as inspector Harry Callahan in the
five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s
and1980s.
These roles, among others, have made Eastwood
a cultural icon of masculinity. Elected in 1986,
Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
1971
Eastwood’s debut as a director in 1971.
1992
Eastwood reached the top as a filmmaker with his Oscar-
winning Western, "Unforgiven" (1992).
John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison)
(May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)
John Wayne became a popular icon through his starring roles
in films which were produced during Hollywood’s Golden Age,
especially in Western and war movies. His career flourished
from the silent era of the 1920s through the American New
Wave, as he appeared in a total of 179 film and television
productions.
He was among the top box-office draws for three decades and
appeared with many other important Hollywood stars of his era.
In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Wayne as one of
the greatest male stars of classic American cinema.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, but grew up in Southern
California.
The house in Winterset, Iowa, where Wayne was born.
1939
1976
The film stars John Wayne in his last film
appearance before his death from stomach
cancer. He was 72.
(WP) – Dabney Coleman, a Texas-born character actor who
created an acclaimed gallery of comically macho throwbacks
in films including “9 to 5” and “Tootsie” and TV shows such
as “The Slap Maxwell Story” and “Buffalo Bill,” died May 16
at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 92.
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