Happy Birthday: Billy Wilder (1906–2002)

June 22, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized Billy Wilder (1906–2002), director, Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday director Billy Wilder (1906–2002)

Born: June 22, 1906 in Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Sucha Beskidzka, Malopolskie, Poland]

Died: March 27, 2002 (age 95) in West Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Audrey Young (30 June 1949 – 27 March 2002) (his death)

Judith Coppicus (22 December 1936 – 1946) (divorced) (2 children)

Ball of Fire
1941
dir. Howard Hawks
starring
Gary Cooper
Barbara Stanwyck
written by Wilder

The Major and the Minor
1942
dir. Wilder
starring
Ginger Rogers
Ray Milland

Double Indemity
1944
dir. by Wilder
starring
Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck

The Lost Weekend
1946
dir. Wilder
starring
Ray Milland
Jane Wyman

Sunset Blvd.
1950
dir. Wilder
starring
William Holden
Gloria Swanson

Stalag 17
1953
dir. Billy Wilder
Cast
Don Taylor
William Holden

Sabrina
1954
dir. Wilder
starring
Humphrey Bogart
Audrey Hepburn
William Holden

The Seven Year Itch
1955
dir. Wilder
Marilyn Monroe
Tom Ewell

Some Like it Hot
1959
dir. Wilder
Starring
Marilyn Monroe
Jack Lemon

The Apartment, 1960, dir. Billy Wilder starring Jack Lemon, Shirley MacLaine

The Apartment
1960
dir.Wilder
starring
Jack Lemon
Shirley MacLaine

One Two Three
1961
dir. Wilder
starring
James Cagney
Horst Buchholz

Irma la Douche
1963
dir. Wilder
starring
Jack Lemon
Shirley MacLaine

The Fortune Cookie
1966
dir. Wilder
starring
Jack Lemmon
Walter Matthau

Happy Birthday: Graham Greene

June 22, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, actors, g, Graham Greene, Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday actor Graham Greene

Born: June 22, 1952 in Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada

Married to: Hilary Blackmore (20 December 1990 – present)

WINTER’S TALE
2014
dir. Akiva Goldsman
Stars:
Colin Farrell
Jessica Brown Findlay

The Green Mile
1999
dir. Frank Darabont
Starring
Hanks
Michael Clarke Duncan

Die Hard 3
1995
dir. John McTeirnan
starring
Willis
Samuel L Jackson

Twilight 2: New Moon
dir. Chris Weitz
Stars:
Kristen Stewart
Pattinson
Taylor Lautner

CASINO JACK
dir. George Hickenlooper
Starring
Kevin Spacey
Barry Pepper

Happy Birthday: Freddie Prinze (1954–1977)

June 22, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, actors, Freddie Prinze (1954–1977), Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday actor Freddie Prinze (1954–1977)

Born: June 22, 1954 in New York City, New York, USA

Died: January 29, 1977 (age 22) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Kathy Prinze (13 October 1975 – 29 January 1977) (his death) (1 child)

Explained how he got his professional last name by saying, “Bob Hope is the King of Comedy. Everyone knows that. I’d just be content with being the prince”. He later altered prince to Prinze.

His last public performance was less than a week before his death, at the Jimmy Carter Inaugural Gala in Washington D.C.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6755 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

He appeared on the show “Jack Paar Tonite” with actor Charlton Heston who said that he hoped one day he would able to say he was on the first show on which Freddie Prinze performed.

Roomed with Jay Leno when both were fledgling entertainers, during which time, Prinze learned how to drive a car under Leno’s tutelage.

Happy Birthday: Michael Trucco

June 22, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, actors, Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday actor Michael Trucco

Born: June 22, 1970 in San Mateo, California, USA

Married to: Sandra Hess (11 July 2009 – present)

KILLER WOMEN Season 1
2014
Starring:
MICHAEL TRUCCO
Michael Trucco

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009
dir. Edward James Olmos
Cast
Mary McDonald

Next
2007
dir. Lee Tamahori
Starring
Cage
Julianne Moore

Happy Birthday: Donald Faison

June 22, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, actors, Donald Faison, Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday actor Donald Faison

Born: June 22, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA

Married to: Cacee Cobb (15 December 2012 – present) (2 children)

REMEMBER THE TITANS
2000
dir. Boaz Yakin
Stars:
Denzel Washington
Will Patton

Clueless
1995
dir. by Amy Heckerling
starring
Alicia Silverstone
Rudd

KISS-ASS 2
2013
dir. Jeff Wadlow
Stars:
Aaron Taylor Johnson
Chloe Grace Moretz

Happy Birthday: Amy Brenneman

June 22, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, actors, Amy Brenneman, Brad Silberling, Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday actor Amy Brenneman

Born: June 22, 1964 in New London, Connecticut, USA

Married to: Brad Silberling (30 September 1995 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

In court [on the Judging Amy (1999) set], I am completely at ease. And that’s just because I’m imitating my mother.

I know for me, a lot of my 20s was about going off and proving that I wasn’t like my mother. I was so different, I wasn’t going to do anything like her. And then, we all know, you fall flat on your face, because you’re exactly like your parents.

I was very surprised how controversial it [her nude scene on “NYPD Blue”] was, with entire cities not running it – especially because I knew the scenes weren’t gratuitous.

I go to a wonderful Episcopalian church, but I’m also half-Jewish. I’m a real polyglot.

[speaking with Ability Magazine] I started doing plays when I was in seventh grade and I never stopped.

Happy Birthday: Tracy Pollan

June 22, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, actors, Happy Birthday, Tracy Pollan

Happy Birthday actor Tracy Pollan

Born: June 22, 1960 in Long Island, New York, USA

Married to: Michael J. Fox (16 July 1988 – present) (4 children)

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 28, a son Sam Michael Fox on May 30, 1989. Child’s father is her husband, Michael J. Fox.

Gave birth to twin daughters (her 2nd and 3rd children) at age 34, Aquinnah Kathleen Fox and Schuyler Frances Fox on February 15, 1995.

Children’s father is her husband, Michael J. Fox.

Gave birth to her 4th child at age 41, a daughter Esmé Annabelle Fox on November 3, 2001. Child’s father is her husband, Michael J. Fox.
Was in a relationship with Kevin Bacon for several years during the 1980s.

Has two sisters and a brother.

She is of Russian Jewish descent. All eight of her great-grandparents were born in the Russian Empire, as was her maternal grandfather.

Happy Birthday: Emmanuelle Seigner

June 22, 2016June 22, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actor, actors, Emmanuelle Seigner, Happy Birthday, Roman Polanski

Happy Birthday actor Emmanuelle Seigner

Born: June 22, 1966 in Paris, France

Married to: Roman Polanski (30 August 1989 – present) (2 children)

Emmanuelle Seigner is the daughter of a well known photographer and her mother is a journalist. She was born in Paris, France on June 22, 1966. Her grandfather was Louis Seigner, chairman of the Comédie Française and who also appeared in several movies. Emmanuelle was raised at a convent school . At age fourteen she became a model. Her mysterious beauty made her an international cover-model. Jean-Luc Godard gave her a part in his crime movie Détective (1985), starring Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye. In 1986 Emmanuelle played the part of Zanon a young girl in the movie Cours privé (1986) (by Pierre Granier-Deferre. She met Roman Polanski and married him. He gave her a part in the thriller Frantic (1988) with Harrison Ford. Four years later Polanski gave her the leading part in the movie Bitter Moon (1992).