His breakthrough role was in the TV mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man (1976),... Chuck Norris is familiar to fans worldwide as the star of action films such as The Hitman (1991), The Delta Force (1986) and Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990). He was born George Ranft, and was the son of Eva (Glockner) and Conrad Ranft, a department store deliveryman. (Pollette) and Domenick Anthony Crenna, a pharmacist. His screen persona ... Born in Chicago, Oscar nominee and Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Tom Berenger was born Thomas Michael Moore and raised in a working class Roman Catholic family of Irish descent. He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992. He was an executive ... Warren Oates was an American character actor of the 1960s and 1970s and early 1980s whose distinctive style and intensity brought him to offbeat leading roles.Oates was born in Depoy, a very small Kentucky town. He won five gold medals in the Chinese championships, his first when he was only 11. Ed Harris Actor | Appaloosa By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. Note: I do not have a Facebook account, so I cannot reply to any comments made about this list. Distinguished U.S. actor and longtime civil rights campaigner Robert Bushnell Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Mable Arbutus (Bushnell), a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan, whose wealthy family owned a real estate firm. Burly, yet ... Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a ... One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021).He was born ... Richard Donald Crenna was born in Los Angeles, California, into a modest-income family, the only child of Edith J. Upcoming films include "Horizon Line" with Allison Williams ("Get Out") and "... One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. Sonny Chiba wasn't a graceful, fluid fighter like screen icon Bruce Lee... Chow Yun Fat is a charismatic, athletically built and energetic Asian-born film star who first came to the attention of western audiences via his roles in the high-octane/blazing guns action films of maverick HK director John Woo.Chow was born in 1955 on the quiet island of Lamma, part of the ... Lanky, charismatic and versatile actor with an amazing grin that put everyone at ease, James Coburn studied acting at UCLA, and then moved to New York to study under noted acting coach Stella Adler. His mother was English, from County Durham, and his paternal grandparents were Canadian. Weathers first played small parts ... Strong-featured Australian actor Vernon Wells was born December 1945 in Rushworth, rural Victoria, to Eva Maude (Jackson) and Michael Wells. He made his feature film debut as an actor at the age ... 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Get up to the minute entertainment news, celebrity interviews, celeb videos, photos, movies, TV, music news and pop culture on ABCNews.com. In his youth, ... Jean Reno was born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez in Casablanca, Morocco, to Spanish parents (from Andalucía) who moved to North Africa to seek work. He was of English, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern California, ... Carl Weathers was born on January 14, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana. At 17, he got the lead role of St. George in the same play. 2,430 Likes, 122 Comments - University of South Carolina (@uofsc) on Instagram: “Do you know a future Gamecock thinking about #GoingGarnet? ... Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). John Thomas (deceased) was a PHD in Philosophy (Duke), noted medical ethicist, head of Philosophy Department at McMaster University, and author of several books including: "Matters of Life and Death," "Well and Good," "Medical Ethic and Human Life." Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who could be counted on to find trouble. His grandfather, H. Achmad Bunawar, was a master of silat, an Indonesian traditional martial art, and founded a silat school.