George Clooney - The Star of the Ocean's Eleven films

George Clooney - The Star of the Ocean's Eleven films

George Clooney - The Star of the Ocean's Eleven films

George Clooney born as George Timothy Clooney on May 6, 1961. He is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter, and he received three Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award.

He gained fame and recognition by portraying Dr. Douglas "Doug" Ross on the long-running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999. He left the show in 1999 and moved on to an even more successful career in films, as an actor, producer and sometime director.

He started attracting a variety of leading roles in films including Batman & Robin and Out of Sight, in which he first teamed with long-term collaborator Steven Soderbergh.

Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success through Ocean's Eleven as Danny Ocean. He made his directorial debut with the Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Nigt, Good Luck, Leatherheads, and The Ides of March. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for for his role as a CIA agent in the political thriller Syriana, and subsequently fetched Best Actor nominations for such films as Michael Clayton, Up in the Air and The Descendants. He also directed and starred in the football comedy Leatherheads.

As a good human, His humanitarian work includes his advocacy of finding a resolution for the Darfur conflict, raising funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2004 Tsunami, and 9/11 victims, and creating documentaries such as Sand and Sorrow to raise awareness about international crises. Clooney has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 2008.

George Clooney has twice been named the "sexiest man alive" by People magazine: in 1997 and in 2006. Clooney's marital status and availability is a running joke for female fans who still fantasize they have a chance to bring him to the altar. Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Las Vegas has a "Marrying George Clooney" photo-op in which museum visitors can put on a wedding gown and stand next to a wax statue of the smiling actor in a tuxedo.

Charles Bronson The All Time Tough Guy

Charles Bronson The All Time Tough Guy

Charles Bronson was born on November 3, 1921 in Ehrenfield, Pennsylvania, USA as Charles Dennis Buchinsky. He was the 11th of 15 children of Lithuanian immigrant parents. At his early age, he worked as a coal miner until he was drafted to serve in World War II. 


Bronson joined the United States Army Air Forces and served as an aircraft gunner in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and also served as a Superfortress crewman with the 39th Bombardment Group based on Guam. He was assigned to a B-29 bomber, and flew on 25 missions for that he was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds received during his service.


Bronson's first film role was as a sailor in You're in the Navy Now in 1951. Other early screen appearances were in Pat and Mike, Miss Sadie Thompson and House of Wax (as Vincent Price's henchman Igor). In 1952, Bronson boxed in a ring with Roy Rogers in Rogers' show Knockout. He also appeared on the "Red Skelton Show" as a boxer in a skit with Red as his character of "Cauliflower" McPugg.


Bronson made several appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s, including the lead role of the episode "The Apache Kid" of the syndicated crime drama Sheriff of Cochise. In 1961 he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting role in a TV episode with the title Memory in White.


Bronson was very much known for his tough-guy characters in violent thrillers such as The Mechanic and Death Wish series. Other films include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, Ten to Midnight, The President's Assassin, Death Wish V, and Dead to Rights. 


Bronson was married to British actress Jill Ireland from 1968 until her death in 1990. After suffering from Alzheimers and battling pneumonia, 81 year-old Charles Bronson died on August 30, 2003.


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Clint Eastwood Man With No Name

Clint Eastwood The Man With No Name

Clint Eastwood The Man With No Name

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, and he is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and politician. He was first prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide (1959–1965). He begun to fame by playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns such as A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films such as Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool. These roles in the movides have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Even most of the acting styles and body gestures where imitated by other actors. The some of the most liked Clint Eastwood styles are the way he smokes the cigars, the shooting style and so on.

Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor for the work he made in the films Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Escape from Alcatraz, Tightrope, Pale Rider, Heartbreak Ridge, In the Line of Fire, The Bridges of Madison County, and Gran Torino, have all received commercial success and critical acclaim. 

Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River and Letters from Iwo Jima, he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling. He has received considerable critical praise in France, including for several films which were not well received in the United States, and he has been awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal, and in 2007 the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000, he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

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Jackie Chan The Kung Fu Master

Jackie Chan The Kung Fu Master

Jackie Chan is one of my favorite actor, he was born in Hong Kong on April 7th, 1954. He childhood name is Chan Kong-sang. Jackie learned kung fu from his childhood, and he took a job as the head cook at the American embassy in Australia when he was seven years old. Jackie learned martial arts, acrobatics, singing, and acting in school, where the school was meant to prepare boys for a life in the Peking Opera. Chinese opera is very different from any other kind of opera, since it includes singing, tumbling, and acrobatics as well as martial arts skills and acting. It was a very harsh and difficult life but Jackie had nowhere else to go, so he stayed.

Jackie made his acting debut at age eight in the Cantonese movie "Seven Little Valiant Fighters: Big and Little Wong Tin Bar." He later teamed with other opera students in a performance group called "The Seven Little Fortunes." Jackie worked as a stuntman and an extra in the Hong Kong film industry. Jackie was extraordinarily athletic and inventive, so he gained a reputation for being fearless in Hong Kong film industry and he was in demand too. He worked in a restaurant and on a construction site, and there he got the name "Jackie". A worker named Jack had trouble pronouncing "Kong-sang" and started calling Jackie "little Jack." That soon became “Jackie” and the name stuck.

Willie Chan worked in the Hong Kong movie industry and he was looking for someone to star in a new movie being made by Lo Wei, a famous Hong Kong producer/director. Willie had seen Jackie at work as a stuntman and had been impressed. Soon Jackie was on his way back to Hong Kong to star in "New Fist of Fury". Willie Chan took control over Jackie's career, but the movies that Jackie made for Lo Wei were not very successful.  Even Jackie Chan acted in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon as a side artist. Latter on that Jackie brought humor to martial arts movies; his first success was "Snake in Eagle's Shadow", that was followed by "Drunken Master" (another blockbuster) and Jackie's first ever directing job, "Fearless Hyena." All were big hits.

After a series of lukewarm receptions in the U.S., he returned to make Rumble in the Bronx, the movie that introduced Jackie to American audiences and secured him a place in their hearts (and their box office). Rumble was followed by the Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon series which put Jackie on the Hollywood  List. In recent years, Jackie's focus has shifted and he is trying new genres of film – fantasy, drama, romance – and is spending more and more time on his charity work. He takes his work as Ambassador for UNICEF/UNAIDS very seriously and spends all his spare time working tirelessly for children, the elderly, and those in need.

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Fred Astaire The Dancing King

Fred Astaire The Dancing King

On May 10, 1899, in Omaha, Nebraska, Frederick Austerlitz came into the world eighteen months after his sister, Adele. The son of an Austrian immigrant and traveling salesman, four-year-old Fred used to accompany his older sister to ballet school where she exhibited an early talent for dancing. In 1904, Mama Austerlitz, wanting only the best for her children, moved to New York and enrolled them in a performing arts school run by Ned Wayburn, who was considered one of the pioneers of modern tap dancing. 


The brother and sister team debuted in New Jersey and began touring on the popular Orpheum Circuit. Most of Fred's early schooling was done under his mother's tutelage while he was on the road. They changed their name to Astaire at the time of World War One, when anti-German sentiment was very prevalent. In 1917, he and his sister, Adele, made their Broadway debut in a musical revue called "Over The Top. 


Their big break came when they were both cast in "For Goodness Sake," a musical, which featured songs written by George and Ira Gershwin. Throughout the 1920s, the brother and sister team flourished by performing in such hits as "Funny Face" and "Lady Be Good." Sister Adele retired in 1932 leaving brother Fred to fend for himself. Fred made his film debut in 1933 in "Dancing Lady". His role as an accordion player in the movie, "Flying Down To Rio" in 1933 matched him up with the lovely Ginger Rogers for the first time and the rest is more or less celluloid history. 


Ironically, Fred Astaire, who was always depicted in formal wear as he "put on the Ritz", hated to get dressed up and considered a tux and tails his work clothes. In the 1940s and 1950s he danced on-screen with Eleanor Powell, Cyd Charisse, and Judy Garland. His singing, though untrained, was admired by the finest songwriters of his time. He retired in 1971 but occasionally appeared in films and on television. His combination of sophisticated, seemingly effortless grace and technical virtuosity revolutionized popular-dance performance. He died in 1987 at the age of 88.