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Veteran actor Joe Don Baker gained fame as the star of the feature Walking Tall in 1973 after making his film debut in the 1967 drama Cool Hand Luke. Among Baker's other feature credits are The Living Daylights, Fletch, The Natural, Charly Varrick and Junior Bonner. His most recent credits include Congo, Panther, Reality Bites, Cape Fear, The Underneath, and Goldeneye. Baker starred in the title role of the television police series "Eischied," and the HBO production of "Citizen Cohn," in which he played Senator Joseph McCarthy. He also appeared in the BBC miniseries "Edge of Darkness," for which he was nominated for the Best Actor Award for British television. Nell Carter established her fame and won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin." She also received the Outer Circle Critics Award, The Drama Desk Award and the Obie. Carter's additional Broadway credits include her portrayal of Susie Moon in "Dude," "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Bury The Dead." Television audiences know Carter best for her role in "Gimme A Break," a series which ran for six successful seasons and is now in syndication. She also starred as Sergeant Hildy Jones in the television series "Lobo." Her other television credits include an appearance on the Emmy Award-winning "Baryshnikov on Broadway" and a number of guest spots on "The Tonight Show." At the 65th Annual Academy Awards, Carter performed her high-spirited rendition of "Friend Like Me," from the film, Aladdin. Carter's feature film credits include Hair and Back Roads, with Sally Field, and she will be starring in the upcoming feature film The Proprietor for Merchant Ivory. Charles Durning -- Reverend Buster A multiple Academy Award nominee, Durning's motion picture credits include such popular films as The Sting, Dog Day Afternoon, North Dallas Forty, Tootsie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award in 1982), To Be or Not To Be (garnering him another Oscar nomination in 1983), and Tough Guys, among many others. More recent film credits include Dick Tracy, It Almost Wasn't Christmas, Vanished, V.I. Warshawski, The Hudsucker Proxy, and I.Q. Durning was also well known to television viewers as a series regular on "Evening Shade." He also appeared in numerous made-for-television movies including "A Woman of Independent Means," "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom," (Golden Globe nomination), and "Captains and the Kings" (Emmy nomination), in addition to many others. He received another Emmy nomination for his performance in the acclaimed television adaptation of "Death of a Salesman," and won a Tony Award for his outstanding performance in the Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," and appeared in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. Sean Patrick Flanery's credits include Powder in which he played the title role opposite Mary Steenburgen, Jeff Goldblum, Lance Henriksen and Brandon Smith; Spirit with Diane Ladd and Shelley Winters; Lie Down with the Dragon with Sheryl Lee and Noah Wylie and two other films for the Disney Channel which began his professional career, My Life as a Babysitter and Just Perfect. He was chosen from hundreds of young actors to star in the title role of the acclaimed television series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles," for which Flanery traveled to more than 50 countries in four years, working with such directors as Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now), Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) and Terry Jones (Monty Python's Life of Brian). Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and raised in the Houston area, Flanery attended the University of St. Thomas for Business Studies. While he was there he began doing theatre and fell in love with acting, deciding to move to Los Angeles to pursue it as a full-time career. After attending the university, he followed through on his decision and within a year he had signed with an agent and began starring in television and film productions. Edward Furlong was spotted by casting director Mali Finn on the steps of the Pasadena Boys' Club. Soon after, he won the role of John Connor in Terminator 2 opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. Furlong starred in Before and After with Liam Neeson and Meryl Streep and in Little Odessa with Tim Roth, Maximilian Schell and Vanessa Redgrave. In American Heart, he starred with Jeff Bridges as a down-and-out father and son trying to make ends meet on the streets of Seattle. In A Home of Our Own, Furlong played the eldest of five children in a single-parent family opposite Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates. Furlong won an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Role, and a Saturn Sci-Fi Award for Best Young Actor for his performance in Terminator 2 and an IFP Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for American Heart. After gaining almost overnight prominence in the Canadian film industry with provocative starring roles in Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains (Genie nomination) and Atom Egoyan's Exotica (Cannes Critics Choice Award), Mia Kirshner is drawing attention in Hollywood. The Toronto actress recently added to her list of credits two American debuts: Murder in the First, playing Kevin Bacon's dysfunctional sister, and the ABC television feature "Johnny's Girl," as Treat Williams' black-hearted daughter. The daughter of a journalist father and a mother who's a teacher, Kirshner began acting in grade school and made her professional debut in her early teens, accruing Canadian and American television credits before segueing into film. Kirshner is starring opposite Vincent Perez in The Crow: City of Angels. Raised in Los Angeles, Piper Laurie was signed as a Universal contract player when she was 17 and first appeared on the screen (with Ronald Reagan) in the 1950 film Louisa. After acting in The Milkmen and Francis Goes to the Races, she made an impact opposite Tony Curtis in the 1951 feature The Prince Who Was a Thief. Throughout the fifties, Laurie starred in over 20 films. She starred as Paul Newman's girlfriend in The Hustler, earning a 1961 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She was also honored with Harvard's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award. Rather than diving back into film work, she took the next 15 years off to be a parent. She returned to the screen in 1976, earning another Academy Award nomination playing Sissy Spacek's deranged mother in Carrie. In 1979 she traveled to Australia to star with Mel Gibson in the movie Tim. She has also starred in Other People's Money opposite Gregory Peck, Rich in Love opposite Albert Finney and Wrestling Ernest Hemingway opposite Richard Harris. In 1986, she was honored with her third Academy Award nomination for Children of a Lesser God. She has also stayed busy acting in television in such productions as "The Bunker" opposite Anthony Hopkins (Emmy nomination), "The Thorn Birds" (Emmy nomination), "Promise" opposite James Garner and James Woods (Emmy Award) and the high-profile television series "Twin Peaks" (Emmy nomination and Golden Globe Award). Laurie was seen in The Road to Galveston, a film for cable television opposite Cicely Tyson, and has appeared in The Crossing Guard, which was directed by Sean Penn and stars Jack Nicholson and Angelica Houston. Jack Lemmon is the first man ever to win Oscars as both Best Actor (Save the Tiger) and Best Supporting Actor (Mister Roberts); and he is the only Best Actor winner who has directed another performer to a nomination for that award (Walter Matthau in Kotch). Lemmon's considerable dramatic talents are also evident in such memorable films as Days of Wine and Roses, his Oscar-winning Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, Tribute, Missing, Mass Appeal, That's Life!, Dad, JFK and Glengarry Glen Ross. On television, Lemmon received Emmy nominations for his performances in "The Entertainer" and "The Murder of Mary Phagan," and he won an Emmy in 1972 for his role in "ÔS Wonderful, ÔS Marvelous, ÔS Gershin." Just as well known for his superb comic timing, Lemmon has starred in numerous hit comedies, including Some Like It Hot, The Front Page, How to Murder Your Wife, The Great Race, The Out-of-Towners, The Prisoner of Second Avenue and, of course, The Odd Couple, which again teamed him with Walter Matthau. Matthau and Lemmon starred together again in the hilarious hit comedies Grumpy Old Men, and the sequel Grumpier Old Men.
Academy Award winner, Walter Matthau has been one of Hollywood's top comedic actors for three decades and has enjoyed a unique career that includes some of the world's most loved film, stage and television productions. His film work includes: The Fortune Cookie (Academy Award), The Odd Couple, Kotch (Academy Award nomination), The Sunshine Boys (Academy Award nomination), Cactus Flower, Hello Dolly, The Bad News Bears, House Calls, California Suite, JFK, Dennis the Menace, IQ, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men. Matthau has also performed in over 40 Broadway plays and won Tony Awards for "A Shot in the Dark" and "The Odd Couple." He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Carol. Roddy McDowall was born in London on September 17, 1928 and came to America in 1940 after having appeared in 22 films in England. He has been in a total of 132 feature films including How Green Was My Valley, Lassie Come Home, The White Cliffs of Dover, The Planet of the Apes and three of its sequels, The Poseidon Adventure, Cleopatra, The Legend of Hell House, Evil Under the Sun, Lord Love a Duck, Dead of Winter, Fright Night and Overboard, which he also co-produced. In addition, he directed Ava Gardner in The Ballad of Tam Lin. McDowall has been in over 300 television productions since 1948, winning an Emmy Award for "Not Without Honor." His Broadway career commenced in 1953 with "Misalliance" followed by twelve other New York productions including "No Time For Sergeants," "Compulsion," "Camelot" and "The Fighting Cock," for which he won a Tony Award. Elsewhere in the United States McDowall has starred in productions of "Charley's Aunt," "Otherwise Engaged," "The Tempest" and "Harvey." Since the mid 1950s McDowall has been a highly successful professional photographer chronicling the activities of hundreds of the most prominent figures in film, theatre, ballet, opera and literature. His work has been displayed in Life, Look, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, and The Ladies Home Journal among others, as well as four coffee table volumes entitled "Double Exposure." He has also recorded 20 books on tape for Dove. McDowall was last seen on the screen in Henry Jaglom's Last Summer in the Hamptons and Randal Kleiser's It's My Party. He also completed an American tour of the play "Dial M for Murder." Sissy Spacek has created a diverse repertoire of characters throughout her career and has received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She first came to the attention of audiences and critics alike in Terence Malick's Badlands. In 1976, she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress for Carrie. Following that film, she starred in Robert Altman's Three Women, Welcome to L.A., and Heartbeat. In 1979, her portrayal of singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter brought her critical acclaim as well as the Academy Award for Best Actress. Spacek was directed by her husband, Jack Fisk, in Raggedy Man. She then received her third Academy Award nomination for her role in director Costa-Gavras' Missing, in which she starred with Jack Lemmon. Spacek then starred opposite Mel Gibson in The River, which earned her yet another Oscar nomination as Best Actress. Following her role in Marie, she starred with Kevin Kline in Violets Are Blue, also directed by Fisk. In 1986, Spacek starred opposite Anne Bancroft in'night Mother, a film adapted from Marsha Norman's prize-winning play. The same year, she received her fifth Academy Award nomination as well as the New York Film Critics Award and a Golden Globe, for her portrayal of Babe in Crimes of the Heart. In 1990 she starred with Whoopi Goldberg in The Long Walk Home. Spacek then appeared opposite Kevin Costner in Oliver Stone's acclaimed and controversial JFK, and was also seen in Hard Promises. Spacek starred in the 1992 HBO film, A Private Matter, co-starring Aidan Quinn and Estelle Parsons, directed by Joan Micklin Silver. In 1994, Spacek starred in the Emmy nominated Hallmark Hall of Fame A Place for Annie, with Joan Plowright and Mary Louise Parker. She also starred in the family comedy Trading Mom. Spacek co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones in Jones' feature directorial debut The Good Old Boys for TNT and received an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special. Spacek was seen in the Showtime original movie, Beyond the Call, directed by Tony Bill and co-starring David Strathairn. She will star with Cher and Demi Moore in HBO's "If These Walls Could Talk," which airs this fall.
Mary Steenburgen won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Melvin and Howard. She also received a Golden Globe nomination for Ragtime. Her performance in the BBC/Showtime miniseries "Tender is the Night" earned her a British Broadcasters Guild Award, and she received an Emmy nomination for "The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank." Steenburgen was "discovered" by Jack Nicholson in the reception room at Paramount's casting offices in New York. Nicholson gave her a script and was so impressed with her reading that he sent her to Hollywood for a screen test. She soon found herself working opposite Nicholson in Goin' South (1978), which launched her film career. Other films include Nixon, Powder,What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Philadelphia, The Butcher's Wife, Back to the Future Part III, Parenthood, Miss Firecracker, End of the Line, which she also executive produced, Dead of Winter, Romantic Comedy, One Magic Christmas, Cross Creek, and A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. Steenburgen starred opposite Ted Danson in the NBC miniseries "Gulliver." |
