Happy Birthday: Harry Treadaway

harrytreadaway.jpgHarry Treadaway

Born: September 10, 1984 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, ‘This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?’

MOVIE POSTERTHE LONE RANGER
2013
dir. Gore Verbinski
Stars:
Johnny Depp
Armie Hammer

CONTROLControl
2007
dir. Anton Corbijn
Starring
Sam Riley
Samantha Morton
City of Ember
2008
dir. Gil Kenan
Starring
Tim Robbins
Murray

 

Happy Birthday: Bill O’Reilly

billoreilly.jpgBill O’Reilly

Born: September 10, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA

Generally speaking, the elite media believe that the majority in this country — white Christian Americans — are prone to oppressing the minority. The elites rightfully point to the civil rights struggle as an example of how the majority can hurt a minority until the forces of reason stepped in.

Because look … when 2 percent of the population feels that you’re doing them a favor, just forget it, you’re not going to win. You’re not going to win. And I don’t have any respect by and large for the Iraqi people at all. I have no respect for them. I think that they’re a prehistoric group that is — yeah, there’s excuses.

Happy Birthday: Ryan Phillippe

ryanphillippe.jpgRyan Phillippe

Born: September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware, USA

(On working and being with Reese Witherspoon on the film Cruel Intentions (1999)): It was great. I’m the luckiest guy in the world. Not only personally but professionally. She was an asset to the movie and we begged her to do it. She didn’t have as colorful a role as Sarah’s and mine, but she did an amazing job. Really elevated the piece.

Cruel Intentions
1999
dir. by Roger Kumble
starring
Phillippe
Witherspoon
The Lincoln LawyerTHE LINCOLN LAWYER
dir. Brad Furman
Stars:
Matthew McConaughey
GOSFORD PARKGosford Park
2001
dir. Robert Altman
Starring
Helen Mirren
Kristen Scott Thomas
MOVIE POSTERCRASH
2004
dir. Paul Haggis
Starring:
Don Cheadle
Sandra Bullock
Chaos
2005
dir. Tony Giglio
starring
Jason Statham
Phillippe
Wesley Snipes
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERSFlags of our Fathers
2006
dir. Clint Eastwood
Starring
Phillippe
Jesse Bradford
BREACHBreach
2007
dir. Billy Ray
Starring
Chris Cooper
Phillippe
Stop-LossStop-Loss
2008
Directed by Kimberly Peirce
Starring
Phillippe
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
FRANKLYNFranklyn
dir. Gerald McMorrow
Starring
Ryan Philippe
Eva Green
actorDAMAGES Season 5
Starring:
Ryan Phillippe
John Hannah

Happy Birthday: Guy Ritchie

guyritchie.jpgGuy Ritchie

Born: September 10, 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Married to: Jacqui Ainsley (30 July 2015 – present) (3 children)
Madonna (22 December 2000 – 21 November 2008) (divorced) (2 children)

I’m not politically motivated. I used to be – passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

 

Snatch
2000
dir. Ritchie
Starring
Benico Del Tero
Brad Pitt
MOVIE POSTERSHERLOCK HOLMES A GAME OF SHADOWS
dir. Guy Ritchie
Stars:
Robert Downey Jr.
Jude Law
RocknRollaRocknRolla
2008
dir. Ritchie
Starring
Butler
Tom Wilkinson
SHERLOCK HOLMES Movie PosterSherlock Holmes
2009
dir. Ritchie
Stars:
Robert Downey Jr.
Jude Law
Rachel McAdams
posterLOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS
1988
dir. Ritchie
Starring
Jason Flemyng
Dexter Fletcher

Happy Birthday: Colin Firth

colinfirth.jpgColin Firth

Born: September 10, 1960 in Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK

Married to:
Livia Giuggioli (21 June 1997 – present) (2 children)

[on losing the girl to both Ralph and Joseph Fiennes] If I want my career to go on, I’m going to have to find some more Fiennes brothers! However, any similarity between them basically stops at their last name. I was in no way reminded of Ralph by working with Joe. I got on fantastically with both of them. I have huge admiration for them as actors but I couldn’t compare them.

The English Patient
1996
dir. Anthony Minghella
Starring
Fiennes
Juliette Binoche
Love ActuallyLove Actually
2003
dir. Richard Curtis
starring
Hugh Grant
Bill Nighy
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRINGGirl with a Pearl Earring
2003
dir. Peter Webber
Cast
Scarlett Johansson
Firth
THE ACCIDENTAL HUSBANDThe Accidental Husband
2008
dir. Griffin Dunne
Cast
Uma Thurman
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Mamma Mia
2008
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Starring
Pierce Bronson
Amanda Seyfried
A SINGLE MAN Movie PosterA Single Man
dir. Tom Ford
Stars:
Firth
Julianne Moore
Matthew Goode
DORIAN GRAY Movie PosterDorian Gray
dir. Oliver Parker
Starring
Firth
Ben Barnes
A Christmas Carol Movie PosterA Christmas Carol
dir. Robert Zemeckis
Stars:
Jim Carrey
Gary Oldman
Firth
MOVIE POSTERTHE RAILWAY MAN
2014
dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Stars:
Nicole Kidman
Stellan Skarsgard
MOVIE POSTERTINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
dir. Tomas Alfredson
Stars
Gary Oldman
Colin Firth
MOVIE POSTERMAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT
2014
dir. Woody Allen
Stars:
Emma Stone
Colin Firth
MOVIETHE KING’S SPEECH
2010
dir. Tom Hooper
starring
Helena Bonham Carter
Colin Firth

 

Happy Birthday: Michael Bublé

michaelbubleMichael Bublé

Born: September 9, 1975 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Married to:
Luisana Lopilato (31 March 2011 – present) (1 child)

[on producing a more costly and extravagant stage show] Listen, I should be able to go on stage and entertain you with just a chair and a balloon. If you’re a good entertainer you don’t need a bunch of stuff. But I also feel that if you’re going to ask people to come to an arena to see you, that it’s kind of the artist to give them a great production and great production value. A lot of people are far away, so you want to give them some beautiful eye candy that doesn’t take away from what you do, but really enhances it.

Happy Birthday: Tom Wopat

tomwopat.jpgTom Wopat

Born: September 9, 1951 in Lodi, Wisconsin, USA

He’ll forever be remembered as strapping, good ol’ boy Luke Duke, the virile, blue-eyed, dark-haired, plaid-shirted rascal (equally good-looking John Schneider was the strapping, plaid-shirted blond cousin) on the rough-and-tumble bucolic 80s series The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). Where others may have fallen by the TV wayside, however, after the cancellation of such a popular series, Wopat moved on and reverted back to his first true love – music – successfully refocusing as a recording artist and musical leading man of Broadway and regional shows.

As far as The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) goes, it was what it was. It was a huge phenomenon. If you have a success of that stature you should embrace it. And you shouldn’t deny it. Some people who have a popular television show will tell you that they wanted to “be more artistic” and deny that that TV show was what they wanted to do, but to me it’s all work.

Happy Birthday: Cliff Robertson (1923–2011)

cliffrobertson.jpgCliff Robertson (1923–2011)

Born: September 9, 1923 in La Jolla [now in San Diego], California, USA
Died: September 10, 2011 (age 88) in Stony Brook, New York, USA

[on being blacklisted in Hollywood after exposing David Begelman in 1977] People told me I set a dangerous precedent. My ex-wife said that if I had played the game I would have owned the town, but I was always too independent.

Happy Birthday: Henry Thomas

henrythomas.jpgHenry Thomas

Born: September 9, 1971 in San Antonio, Texas, USA

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn’t really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.

Suicide Kings
1997
dir. Peter O’Fallon
starring
Christopher Walken
Denis Leary
11:1411:14
2003
dir. Greg Marcks
Starring
Thomas
Blake Heron

E.T -the Extra Terrestrial
1982
dir. Steven Spielberg
Stars:
Henry Thomas
Peter Coyote