Brad Pitt - Biography, Films and Interviews - Videos

Birthday 18 December 1963


Brad Pitt's film career hit an upswing with his role  in A River Runs Through It (1992). . Pitt's subsequent projects ranged from his unforgettably comic cameo as stoner roommate Floyd in True Romance (1993) to romantic roles in such visually lavish films as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Legends of the Fall (1994), to an emotionally tortured detective in the horror-thriller Se7en (1995). His role in Twelve Monkeys (1995) won him a Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.

Pitt's portrayal of Achilles in the big-budget period drama Troy (2004) helped establish his appeal as action star. Successful  Mr. & Mrs. Smith was released in 2005 . Pitt's costar in the movie was Anjolina Jolie.

He has received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011).


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Brad Pitt Interview 2013 ABC News
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Brad Pitts at 2012 Golden Globes
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Films

Important Artifacts InfoImportant Artifacts (2015)
stars as Hal Morris

Fury (2014) InfoFury (2014) (2014)
stars as Wardaddy

12 Years a Slave Info12 Years a Slave (2014) aka "Twelve Years a Slave"


The Counselor InfoThe Counselor (2013)
stars as Westray

World War Z InfoWorld War Z (2013)
stars as Gerry Lane

Killing Them Softly (2012) aka "Cogan's Trade"




Happy Feet Two (2011)
stars as Krill #2 (voice)

Moneyball (2011)
stars as Billy Beane



The Tree of Life (2010)
stars as Mr. O'Brien

Inglourious Basterds (2009)
stars as Lt. Aldo Raine

Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
stars as Sgt. Bill Mauldin -

Burn After Reading (2008)
stars as Chad Feldheimer

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
stars as Benjamin Button

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) The Assassination of Jesse James
stars as Jesse James

Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
stars as Rusty Ryan

Babel (2006)
stars as Richard

Mr and Mrs Smith (2005)
stars as John Smith

Ocean's Twelve (2004)
stars as Rusty Ryan

Troy (2004)
stars as Achilles

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
stars as Sinbad

Freedom: A History of Us (2003) - TV
stars as Albigence Waldo

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
stars as Brad, Bachelor #1

Full Frontal (2002)
stars as Brad

Ocean's Eleven (2001) aka O11
stars as Rusty Ryan

Spy Game (2001)
stars as Tom Bishop

The Mexican (2001)
stars as Jerry Welbach

Snatch (2000) aka Snatch: Pigs and Diamonds
stars as Mickey O'Neil

Fight Club (1999) aka Fight Club
stars as Tyler Durden

Meet Joe Black (1998)
stars as Joe Black

The Dark Side of the Sun (1997)
stars as Rick

Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
stars as Heinrich Harrer

The Devil's Own (1997)
stars as Rory Devaney/Francis Austin McGuire

Sleepers (1996)
stars as Michael Sullivan

Se7en (1995)
stars as Detective David Mills

Twelve Monkeys (1995)
stars as Jeffrey Goines

Legends of the Fall (1994)
stars as Tristan Ludlow

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) aka Interview with the Vampire
stars as Louis de Pointe du Lac

The Favor (1994) aka The Indecent Favour
stars as Elliott Fowler

True Romance (1993) aka Breakaway (Philippines: English title)
stars as Floyd

Kalifornia (1993)
stars as Early Grayce

Cool World (1992)
stars as Detective Frank Harris

A River Runs Through It (1992)
stars as Paul Maclean

Contact (1992)
stars as Cox

Across the Tracks (1991)
stars as Joe Maloney


Johnny Suede (1991)
stars as Johnny Suede

Thelma & Louise (1991)
stars as J.D.


Too Young to Die? (1990)
stars as Billy Canton

Cutting Class (1989)
stars as Dwight Ingalls

Happy Together (1989)
stars as Brian


No Man's Land (1987)
stars as Waiter

Another World (1964) - TV aka Another World: Bay City
stars as Chris (1987)


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Tom Cruise - Biography and Interviews - Videos

Tom Cruise, was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York,  Cruise's mother was an amateur actress and schoolteacher.

He moved to New York for acting career and , struggled through audition after audition before landing an appearance in 1981's Endless Love, starring Brooke Shields. Around this same time, he also got a small role in the military school drama Taps (1981), co-starring Sean Penn.

His performance  in Taps caught the attention of a number of critics and filmmakers. In 1983, Cruise appeared in The Outsiders , directed by Francis Ford Coppola and  starred alongside Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, and Rob Lowe. The film  allowed Cruise to work with an acclaimed director in a high-profile project.

His next film, Risky Business (1983), grossed $65 million. It also made Cruise a highly recognizable actor.

In 1986 Cruise's A-list status was confirmed with the release of Top Gun, which co-starred Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, and Meg Ryan. The became the highest grossing film of 1986.

Misson Impossible is a successful series for Tom Cruise. Mission: Impossible 3 (2006),  scored well with audiences. Cruise returned to ths most popular franchise in 2011 with Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol. The film eventually earned more than $200 million.

Shooting a scene of the film Knight and Day
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1981 Endless Love Billy
1981 Taps Cadet Captain David Shawn
1983 The Outsiders Steve Randle
1983 Losin' It Woody
1983 All the Right Moves Stefen "Stef" Djordjevic
1983 Risky Business Joel Goodson
1985 Legend Jack O' The Green
1986 Top Gun Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
1986 The Color of Money Vincent Lauria
1988 Cocktail Brian Flanagan
1988 Rain Man Charlie Babbitt
1989 Born on the Fourth of July Ron Kovic
1990 Days of Thunder Cole Trickle
1992 Far and Away Joseph Donnelly
1992 A Few Good Men Lt. Daniel Kaffee
1993 The Firm Mitch McDeere
1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Lestat de Lioncourt
1996 Mission: Impossible Ethan Hunt
1996 Jerry Maguire Jerry Maguire
1999 Eyes Wide Shut Bill Harford
1999 Magnolia Frank T.J. Mackey
2000 Mission: Impossible II Ethan Hunt
2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures Narrator
2001 Vanilla Sky David Aames
2002 Space Station 3D Narrator
2002 Minority Report John Anderton
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember Himself
2003 The Last Samurai Nathan Algren
2004 Collateral Vincent
2005 War of the Worlds Ray Ferrier
2006 Mission: Impossible III Ethan Hunt
2007 Lions for Lambs Senator Jasper Irving
2008 Valkyrie Claus von Stauffenberg
2008 Tropic Thunder Les Grossman
2010 Knight and Day - Roy Miller
2011 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Ethan Hunt
2012 Rock of Ages Stacee Jaxx
2012 Jack Reacher Jack Reacher
2013 Oblivion Jack Harper
2014 Edge of Tomorrow Lt. Col. Bill Cage

Yul Brynner - Biography and Interviews

Yul Brynner made his film debut in Port of New York (1949). Two years later he played the role of the King in Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II's musical "The King and I". Brynner became an immediate sensation in the role, repeating it for film (The King and I (1956)) and winning the Oscar for Best Actor.

For the next two decades he maintained a starring film career performing in a wide range of roles from Egyptian pharaohs to Western gunfighters, almost all with the shaved head. In the 1970s he returned to the role that had made him a star, and spent most of the rest of his life touring the world in "The King and I". When he developed lung cancer in the mid-1980s, he left a powerful public service announcement denouncing smoking as the cause. 

Robert Redford - Biography and Interviews - Videos

Birth 18 August 1936

Robert Redford's breakthrough role was "The Sundance Kid" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).  The Way We Were (1973) and The Sting (1973), both in 1973, made Redford the number one box office star.  In 1980, he established the Sundance Institute for aspiring filmmakers.  Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People (1980), won him the Academy Award as Best Director in 1981.

1993 brought Redford one of his most popular and recognized roles when he starred as a millionaire businessman who tests people's morals through bribery in Indecent Proposal, which became one of the year's biggest hits. The actress was Demi Moore in this movie

He was given Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 (Video available below).

His recent movie as a director an actor is "The Company You Keep" released in 2012.

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Robert Redford receiving Honorary Life Achievement Oscar Award - 2002
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Nick Nolte - Biography and Interviews - Videos

Birthday 8 February 1941




Nolte's first major film role was starring opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Shaw in 1977's The Deep. He followed this with Who'll Stop the Rain in 1978 and North Dallas Forty in 1979.  The 1982 buddy cop/convict film 48 Hrs. strongly bolstered his film career.  His films in the 1980s, included Under Fire (1983), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Extreme Prejudice (1987) and New York Stories (1989).

He began the 1990s  with the sequel Another 48 Hours. Nolte had perhaps his greatest box office success in 1991, starring in The Prince of Tides with Barbra Streisand, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. That same year he starred in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear.


Nolte's solid work continued with Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Mulholland Falls (1996), and Afterglow (1997).  . That same year, Nolte starred in Terrence Malick's highly anticipated war epic The Thin Red Line as Colonel Tall.

Nolte continued to work through the 2000s,  In 2011, Nolte portrayed recovering alcoholic Paddy Conlon, dealing with his two estranged sons competing in an MMA tournament in the film Warrior, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.


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Kevin Costner -Biography and Interviews - Videos

Birth 18 January 1955

Kevin Costner  has won two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Emmy Award.

Costner arrived as major actor in Hollywood in 1987, when he starred as federal agent Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and in the leading role of the thriller No Way Out. He solidified his A-list status with  Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989).

Costner's next success came with the epic "Dances with Wolves (1990)". He directed and starred in the film and is one of its producers.The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including  the  Best Director for him personally.  The same year  Revenge was released, in which he starred along with Anthony Quinn and Madeleine Stowe.

In 2010, he appeared in "The Company Men" alongside Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper.


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Daniel Craig - Biography and Interview Videos

Daniel Craig acted as "James Bond" in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall (2012).

From the age of 6, Craig started acting in school plays.

At the age of 14, Craig played roles in "Oliver", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Cinderella" at Hilbre High School in West Kirby, Wirral, UK. He left Hilbre High at 16 to audition at the National Youth Theatre's (NYT) troupe on their tour in Manchester in 1984. He was accepted and moved down to London. There,  his stage debut was as "Agamemnon" in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida".  Craig performed with NYT on tours to Valencia, Spain, and to Moscow, Russia. In 1988, he entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the Barbican.  He graduated in 1991.   Daniel Craig made his film debut in The Power of One (1992).  He shot to international fame after playing supporting roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Road to Perdition (2002). He was nominated for his performances in the leading role in Layer Cake (2004), and received other awards and nominations. Craig was named as the sixth actor to portray "James Bond", in October of 2005.

He is the first blonde actor to play Bond.  Four of the past Bond actors: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan have indicated that Craig is a good choice as "Bond".


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Anthony Hopkins - Biography and Interviews Videos

Date of Birth: 31st December 1937


Anthony Hopkins was born on 31 December 1937, in Margam, Wales.He studied at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, he moved to London and joined the National Theatre. In 1967, he made his first film for television, A Flea in Her Ear (1967). He enjoyed a successful career in cinema and television. In 1968, he worked on The Lion in Winter (1968) with Timothy Dalton. In 1977, he appeared in two major films. In "A Bridge Too Far (1977)' he costarred with James Caan, Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Michael Caine.  In 1980, he worked on The Elephant Man (1980).

In the 1990s, Hopkins made movies like Desperate Hours (1990), The Silence of the Lambs (1991),  Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993) (nominee for the Oscar), Legends of the Fall (1994), Nixon (1995) (nominee for the Oscar), Surviving Picasso (1996), Amistad (1997) (nominee for the Oscar), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Meet Joe Black (1998) and Instinct (1999). For "The Silence of the Lambs (1991)"  he won the Oscar for Best Actor and also got a BAFTA for this role.


Oscar award for The Silence of the Lambs
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Anthony Hopkins with Students
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Anthony Hopkins - 2011 - on Alzazeera
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2012 - 50th Anniversary of James Bond Films - News and YouTube Videos

The British superspy film "Dr. No" first hit the big screen on Oct. 5, 1962





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