Biography kurt russell
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You will discover:
- How Kurt Russell got his first role at the age of 11 in an Elvis Presley movie, and how he later portrayed the King of Rock and Roll in a critically acclaimed TV movie
- How Walt Disney himself signed Russell to a year contract, and how he became the studio's top star of
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Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish nedstigning. His first roles were as a child on television series, including a lead role on the Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (). Russell landed a role in the Elvis Presley movie, It Happened at the World's Fair (), when he was eleven years old. Walt Disney himself signed Russell to a year contract, and, according to Robert Osborne, he became the studio's top star of the s. Having voiced adult Copper in the animated Disney spelfilm The Fox and the Hound (), Russell fryst vatten one of the few famous child stars in Hollywood who has been able to continue his acting career past his teen years.
Kurt spent the early s playing minor league baseball. In , he gave a classic performance as Elvis Presley in John Carpenter's ABC TV movie Elvis (), an
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Kurt Russell
American actor (born )
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, ) is an American actor. At the age of 12, he began acting in the Western TV seriesThe Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (–). In the late s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (), and The Strongest Man in the World (). For his portrayal of rock and rollsuperstarElvis Presley in Elvis (), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.[1] According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the s.[2]
Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (). Also in the s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero