British postcard by Film Review, London, Set E, Card 3. Photo: 20th Century Fox. Jeff Bridges in The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1993).
Jeff Bridges (1949) is an American film actor, film producer and country singer and guitarist. He is best known for such films as The Last Picture Show (1971), Tucker (1988), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), True Grit (2011), and in particular The Big Lebowski (1988). Bridges was nominated for an Academy Award in 1972 for The Last Picture Show, in 1975 for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, in 1985 for Starman, in 2001 for The Contender and in 2011 for True Grit. In 2010, he received an Oscar for his leading role in Crazy Heart.
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1949. Bridges was brought up on acting. Both his father Lloyd Bridges and his older brother Beau Bridges were actors. His mother's name was Dorothy Dean Simpson. Bridges made his film debut, without billing, alongside his mother and brother Beau in the film The Company She Keeps (John Cromwell, 1951). Jeff also appeared on occasion with his famous dad on his popular underwater TV series Sea Hunt (1958). After working in the Coast Guard, he developed into a film actor. In 1971, he landed a coming-of-age role in Peter Bogdanovich's critically-acclaimed ensemble film The Last Picture Show, which established his name as an actor. That year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Male Performance for his part of Duane Jackson. It set the tone for the types of roles Jeff would acquaint himself with his fans: rambling, reckless and unpredictable. During the 1970s, he was given a large number of roles. He played a boxer on his way up opposite a declining Stacy Keach in Fat City (John Huston, 1972). Bridges was nominated for the Oscar for his role as a rookie opposite Clint Eastwood in the action comedy Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino, 1973). He appeared as a low-level Western writer who wants to be a real-life cowboy in Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff, 1975). The 1976 remake of King Kong (John Guillermin, 1976) was followed by several flops, of which Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980) is the most infamous. Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982) was also initially a flop but turned out to be a Science-Fiction cult classic. This series of flops put a dent in Bridges' career. He came back with Starman (John Carpenter, 1984). For his role as an alien who lands on Earth and assumes human form, he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor. That same year, he also starred in the equally successful Film Noir remake Against All Odds (Taylor Hackford, 1984). Other successful films followed, including the crime drama Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand, 1985) with Glenn Close and The Morning After (Sidney Lumet, 1986) with Jane Fonda. His role as a car salesman in Francis Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) is considered one of his best roles. With his brother Beau and Michelle Pfeiffer, he starred in The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves, 1989).
In 1990, Jeff Bridges reunited with Cybill Shepherd in Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich, 1990), the moderately received sequel to their big breakthrough film The Last Picture Show. He returned with Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991), in which he plays a radio DJ who is depressed but is helped back on his feet by a drifter (Robin Williams). His performances in the films American Heart (Martin Bell, 1992), which he also produced, and Fearless (Peter Weir, 1993) were acclaimed. Other commercial success followed with the thriller Blown Away (Stephen Hopkins, 1994) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (Barbra Streisand, 1996). One of his best-known characters is "The Dude", the stoned, bowling hippie from Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski (1998). The following year, he appeared alongside Tim Robbins in the thriller Arlington Road (Mark Pellington, 1999). He was again nominated for an Oscar for his role as the President of America in The Contender (Rod Lurie, 2000). The mystery K-PAX (Iain Softley, 2001) with Kevin Spacey did rather poorly in the cinema, but Seabiscuit (Gary Ross, 2003) was a direct hit in the United States. He seized the moment as a bald-pated villain as Robert Downey Jr.'s nemesis in the blockbuster Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008). In 2010, he won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his role as a faded country music musician in Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper, 2009). Bridges next reprised one of his more famous roles in Tron: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski, 2010), and received another Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in the Western remake True Grit (Ethan & Joel Coen, 2010). In 2014, he co-produced and starred in an adaptation of the Lois Lowry Science-Fiction drama The Giver (Phillip Noyce, 2014). Bridges stole every scene in which he appeared in the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard, 2018) and he was last seen as a retired CIA agent in the TV series The Old Man (2022). Besides his Oscar (nominations), Bridges has been awarded more than ten other acting awards, including a Saturn Award for Starman and a Career Achievement Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Jeff Bridges has been married since 1977 to Susan Geston, whom he met on the set of Rancho Deluxe (Frank Perry, 1975). They have three daughters, Isabelle (born 1981), Jessica (born 1983), and Hayley (born 1985). In 2020, Jeff Bridges announced on Twitter that he is seriously ill.
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British postcard by Film Review, set L, card 3. Photo: Entertainment Film Distributors. Winona Ryder in The House of the Spirits (Bille August, 1993), adapted from the novel by Isabel Allende.
Delicate American actress Winona Ryder (1971) is known for her dark hair, brown eyes and pale skin. She starred in films such as Beetlejuice Heathers, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Edward Scissorhands, and the television series Stranger Things. In 1994, she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in the film The Age of Innocence (1993), and Ryder was nominated twice for an Oscar.
Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in Winona (Olmsted County), Minnesota, in 1971. Yes, her name is very much the same as her birthplace. Her parents, Cindy Horowitz (Istas), an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller, were part of the hippie movement. She has a brother named Uri Horowitz (1976), who got his first name after Yuri Gagarin, a half-sister named Sunyata Palmer (1968), and a half-brother named Jubal Palmer (1970) from her mother Cindy's first marriage. From 1978, Winona grew up in a commune near Mendocino in California, which had no electricity. When Winona was seven, her mother began to manage an old cinema in a nearby barn and would screen films all day. She allowed Winona to miss school to watch movies with her. In 1981, the family moved to Petaluma, California. Since Winona was considered an outsider in public school, she was sent to a public school and later to the American Conservatory Theater acting school. She was discovered at the age of thirteen by a talent scout at a theatre performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In 1985, she applied for a role in the film Desert Bloom (David Seltzer, 1986) with a video in which she performed a monologue from the book 'Franny and Zooey' by J. D. Salinger. Although the casting choice was fellow actress Annabeth Gish, director and writer David Seltzer recognised her talent and cast her as Rina in his film Lucas (David Seltzer, 1986) about a teenager (Corey Haim) and his life in high school. When telephoned to ask what name she wanted to be called in the credits, she chose Ryder as her stage name because her father's Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels album was playing in the background. Her real hair colour is blonde but when she made Lucas (1986), her hair color was dyed black. She was told to keep it that colour and with the exception of Edward Scissorhands (1990), it has stayed that color since. Her next film was Square Dance (Daniel Petrie, 1987), in which the protagonist she portrays lives a life between two worlds: on a traditional farm and in a big city. Ryder's performance received good reviews, although neither film was a commercial success. Her acting in Lucas led director Tim Burton to cast her in his film Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988). In this comedy, she played Lydia Deetz, who moves with her family into a house inhabited by ghosts (played by Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Keaton). Ryder, as well as the film, received positive reviews, and Beetlejuice was also successful at the box office. In 1989, she starred as Veronica Sawyer in the independent film Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989) about a couple (Ryder and Christian Slater) who kill popular schoolgirls. Ryder's agent had previously advised her against the role. The film was a financial failure, but Ryder received positive reviews. The Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire! (Jim McBride, 1989) was also a flop. That same year, Ryder appeared in Mojo Nixon's music video 'Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child'. At the premiere of Great Balls of Fire (1989), Ryder met fellow actor and later film partner Johnny Depp. The couple became engaged a few months later, but their relationship ended in 1993. He had a tattoo of her name and after they broke up, he had this reduced to "Wino forever".
In 1990, Winona Ryder had her breakthrough performance alongside her boyfriend Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990). The fantasy film was an international box-office success. Ryder was selected for the role of Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990) but had to drop out of the role after catching the flu from the strain of doing the films Welcome Home Roxy (Jim Abrahams, 1990) and Mermaids (Richard Benjamin, 1990) back-to-back. Ryder's performance alongside Cher and Christina Ricci in the family comedy Mermaids (1990) was praised by critics and she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category. Ryder also appeared with Cher and Ricci in the music video for 'The Shoop Shoop Song', the film's theme song. Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch wrote a role specifically for her in Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991), as a tattooed, chain-smoking cabdriver who dreams of becoming a mechanic. Ryder was cast in a dual role as Mina Murray and Elisabeta in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992). In 1993, she starred as Blanca in the drama The House of the Spirits (Bille August, 1993) alongside Antonio Banderas, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. It is the film adaptation of Isabel Allende's bestseller of the same name. Together with Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, she starred in Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993), the film adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel. She was Martin Scorsese's first and only choice for the role of May Welland. For years, she kept the message he left on her voicemail, informing her she got the role. Her part earned her a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and an Oscar nomination. She also earned positive reviews for her role in the comedy Reality Bites (Ben Stiller, 1994). She received critical acclaim and another Oscar nomination the same year as Jo in the drama Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994). In 1996, she starred alongside Daniel Day-Lewis and Joan Allen in The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner, 1996), an adaptation of Arthur Miller's stage play about the Puritan witch hunt in Salem. The film was not a success; however, Ryder's performance was favourably reviewed. A year later she portrayed an android in the successful horror film Alien: Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997) alongside Sigourney Weaver's Ripley. In 1998 she starred in Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998). after Drew Barrymore turned down the role. In 1999 she starred as a psychiatric patient with borderline syndrome in the drama Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold, 1999), based on Susanna Kaysen's autobiographical novel. Girl, Interrupted, the first film on which she served as executive producer, was supposed to be Ryder's comeback in Hollywood after the flops of the past years. However, the film became the breakthrough for her colleague Angelina Jolie, who won an Oscar for her role. In this decade, she was involved with Dave Pirner, the lead singer of the group Soul Asylum, from 1993 to 1996 and with Matt Damon from December 1997 to April 2000.
Winona Ryder appeared alongside Richard Gere in Autumn in New York (Joan Chen, 2000), a romance about an older man's love for a younger woman. She also made a cameo appearance in the comedy Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2000). The comedy Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill, 2002) with Adam Sandler became her biggest financial success to date. The film failed with critics and Ryder was nominated for the Golden Raspberry award. Also in 2002, she was sentenced to three years probation and 480 hours of work for repeatedly shoplifting $5,000 worth of clothes. The incident caused a career setback. She withdrew from the public eye in the following years and did not appear in front of the camera again until 2006. In that year, she appeared in the novel adaptation A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006) alongside Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and Woody Harrelson. In 2009, she made an appearance in Star Trek: The Future Begins (J. J. Abrams, 2009) as Spock (Zachary Quinto)'s mother Amanda Grayson. The prequel became a huge success at the box office and Ryder earned a Scream Award for Best Guest Appearance. She also appeared alongside Robin Wright and Julianne Moore in Rebecca Miller's Pippa Lee (2009), and alongside Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010). Ryder starred in the television film When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (John Kent Harrison, 2010), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred in the comedy The Dilemma (Ron Howard, 2011), and the thrillers The Iceman (Ariel Vromen, 2012), and The Letter (Jay Anania, 2012) opposite James Franco. In Tim Burton's Frankenweenie (2012) she lent her voice to the character Elsa Van Helsing. Since 2016, she has embodied the main character, Joyce Byers, in the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016-2022), for which she received positive responses. Her role in the series has been described by many as a comeback. Since 2011 Winona Ryder is in a relationship with Scott MacKinlay Hahn.
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British postcard by Film Review / Visual Imagination Ltd, London, no. C 4. Photo: UIP. Eddie Murphy and Janet Jackson in Nutty Professor II - The Klumps (Peter Segal, 2000).
African-American film actor Eddie Murphy (1961) began his career as a stand-up comedian. He made his television debut on Saturday Night Live. From the early 1980s, he devoted himself to acting in comedies. With his first film roles in 48 Hrs. (Walter Hill, 1982) and Trading Places (John Landis, 1983), he was already breaking through. This was followed by the hits Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, 1984) and Coming to America (John Landis, 1988). His popularity waned in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but he made a comeback with The Nutty Professor (Tom Shadyac, 1996). Also a versatile voice actor, he voiced the donkey in Shrek (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson, 2001) and the Chinese dragon in Mulan (Barry Cook, Tom Bancroft, 1998).
Edward Regan Murphy was born in 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Laney, a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died when Eddie was eight, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a Breyer's Ice Cream plant. His brothers are Charlie Murphy and Vernon Lynch Jr. A bright kid growing up in the streets of New York, Eddie had aspirations of being in show business. His sense of humour made him stand out amongst his classmates at Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School. When he was fifteen, Murphy listened to Richard Pryor's comedy album 'That Nigger's Crazy', which inspired his decision to become a comedian. Murphy started to work as a stand-up comic in the lower part of New York, wooing audiences with his dead-on impressions of celebrities and outlooks on life. At 19, he was hired as one of the backup performers on the TV comedy show Saturday Night Live. Murphy exercised his comedic abilities by impersonating African American figures and originating some of the show's most memorable characters: Velvet Jones, inner-city kiddie host Mr. Robinson, and sourball celebrity Gumby. Murphy made his feature film debut in 48 Hrs. (Walter Hill, 1982), alongside Nick Nolte. The two's comedic and antagonistic chemistry, alongside Murphy's believable performance as a streetwise convict aiding a bitter, ageing cop, won over critics and audiences. The next year, Murphy went two for two, with another hit, Trading Places (John Landis, 1983) with Dan Aykroyd. That same year, the standup album 'Eddie Murphy, Comedian' won a Grammy. Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, 1984) became one of the biggest blockbusters of the decade. It made Murphy a box-office superstar and a celebrity worldwide. Murphy's performance as a young Detroit cop in pursuit of his friend's murderers also earned him a third consecutive Golden Globe nomination. Axel Foley became one of Murphy's signature characters. On top of his game, Murphy was unfazed by his success, that is until his box office appeal and choices in scripts resulted in a spotty mix of hits and misses into the late 1980s and early 1990s. Films like The Golden Child (Michael Ritchie, 1986) and Beverly Hills Cop II (Tony Scott, 1987) were critically panned but were still massive draws at the box office. John Landis directed Murphy again in the hit Coming to America (John Landis, 1988) which allowed him to play an abundance of characters. Some of which he essayed so well that he was utterly unrecognisable. In 1989, Murphy found failure with his directorial debut, Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy, 1989). Another 48 Hrs. (Walter Hill, 1990), his turn as a hopeless romantic in Boomerang (Reginald Hudlin, 1992) and as a suave vampire in Vampire In Brooklyn (Wes Craven, 1995) did little to resuscitate his career.
His remake of Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor (Tom Shadyac, 1996) brought Eddie Murphy's drawing power back into fruition. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "the picture casts Murphy as Dr. Sherman Klump, an obese, klutzy scientist who transforms himself into Buddy Love, a self-obsessed narcissist and a hit with women. As an added surprise, Murphy doubles up his roles as Sherman and Buddy by playing each member of the Klump family (beneath piles and piles of latex). The Nutty Professor grossed dollar one and topped all of Murphy's prior efforts, earning well up into the hundreds of millions and pointing the actor in a more family-friendly direction. " From there, Murphy rebounded with occasional hits and misses but has long proven himself as a skilled comedic actor with a laudable range pertaining to characterisations and mannerisms. Though he has grown up a lot since his fast-lane rise as a superstar in the 1980s, Murphy has lived the Hollywood lifestyle with controversy, criticism, scandal, and the admiration of millions worldwide for his talents. As Murphy matured throughout the years, he settled down with more family-oriented humour with Dr. Dolittle (Betty Thomas, 1998), the animation film Mulan (Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook, 1998), Bowfinger (Frank Oz, 1999) with Steve Martin, and the animated smash Shrek (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson, 2001), in a supporting role that showcased Murphy's comedic personality and charm. In the next years, he further starred in the hits The Haunted Mansion (Rob Minkoff, 2003), and Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon, 2004). For the musical Dreamgirls (Bill Condon, 2006), he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. The film adaptation features an ensemble cast including Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, and Danny Glover. Murphy was a revelation as James Thunder Early, an R&B vocal sensation for whom the titular divas are hired to sing backup. His later films include Norbit (Brian Robbins, 2007), Shrek the Third (Chris Miller, Raman Hui, 2007), and Shrek Forever After (Mike Mitchell, 2010). In October 2019, Murphy produced and starred in the biographical comedy Dolemite Is My Name (Craig Brewer, 2019) as Rudy Ray Moore. The film received overwhelming critical acclaim. In December 2019, Murphy returned to Saturday Night Live to promote Dolemite; this was his first time hosting since 1984. Murphy, Arsenio Hall and James Earl Jones reprised their roles in the Coming to America sequel Coming 2 America (Craig Brewer, 2021). Eddie Murphy was married to Nicole Mitchell Murphy from 1993 to 2006. Murphy has ten children.
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British postcard by Film Review, set H, card 1. Photo: Walt Disney / Buena Vista (UK) International Ltd. Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry and Rebecca De Mornay in Three Musketeers (Stephen Herek, 1993). Caption: Disney's contemporary re-telling of a classic adventure.
British-American actor Kiefer Sutherland (1966) is the son of Donald Sutherland. As a teenager, he became known with films like The Bay Boy (1984). Stand by Me (1986) and The Lost Boys (1987). Later he starred in Flatliners (1990) with Julia Roberts, the military drama A Few Good Men (1992) also starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise, in the American version of The Vanishing (1993) and with William Hurt and Rufus Sewell in Dark City (1998). A triumph was the drama series 24 (2001-2010) as Jack Bauer for which he earned a Golden Globe. His later films include Phone Booth (2002) and Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011).
American actor Charlie Sheen (1965) is the son of actor Martin Sheen and the brother of Emilio Estevez. His big break came when he starred in Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning epic Platoon (1986). The success of Platoon (1986) prompted Stone to cast Charlie in his next film Wall Street (1987) which became an instant hit. Sheen continued to establish himself as one of the top box office draws with a string of hits that included Young Guns (1988), Major League (1989), and Hot Shots! (1991). However, his good fortune both personally and professionally, soon came to an end. Sheen, who had already been to drug rehab, was beginning to develop a reputation as a hard-partying, womaniser. In 2000, Charlie was clean and sober again and replace Michael J. Fox on the hit sitcom Spin City (1996), followed by the sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003), another huge hit. However, after he was terminated from this series his career went downhill again.
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