Kevin Bacon (born 8.7.1958) is an American actor. Amongst his best-known films are Footloose, Flatliners and Mystic River.
Childhood: Kevin
Bacon is the oldest of six children. He was born and raised in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by his mother, Ruth and his father Edmund.
Ruth was a teacher at elementary school and Edmund was an architect.
At
the age of 16, Kevin Bacon attended the Pennsylvania Governors School
for the Arts, which was a state-funded five-week arts course. It was
this course that ignited Bacon's passion for acting.
Career: Kevin
Bacon left home at the age of 17, in order to develop his career in
theatre in New York. He appeared in a production at the Circle in the
Square Theatre School.
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Patrick Swayze (born 18.8.1952) (died 14.9.2009)
Patrick Swayze is an American actor. His most famous film appearances
are the lead roles that he played in Dirty Dancing and Ghost Click Here
His film debut came in 1978 when he
appeared in John Landis' frat-house comedy Animal House, alongside John
Belushi, Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. Although the film has
become something of a cult comedy hit, it did not lead to instant fame
for Kevin Bacon as he had hoped.
Instead, he returned to theatre
work (including Getting Out and Flux) as well as small TV roles, in soap
operas such as Search For Tomorrow, which also featured a number of
other would-be stars, such as Viggo Mortenson, Kevin Kline and Angela
Bassett. Kevin Bacon also featured in The Guiding Light, an
award-winning daytime TV drama.
In 1982, Kevin Bacon starred in
Forty Deuce and won an Obie award for his performance. Shortly after
this, he made his debut on Broadway, in Slab Boys. The show also starred
Sean Penn and Val Kilmer, both of whom were relative unknowns at the
time. That same year, he also starred in Barry Levinson's Diner, which
co-starred Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke and Ellen Barkin. Kevin Bacon
played the role of Timothy Fenwick and his performance was noted by
critics and audiences alike.
Bacon's next performance would
bolster his profile even further: in 1984, he starred in Footloose,
opposite Lori Singer, Diane West and John Lithgow. The film was compared
to The James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and Kevin Bacon's
performance earned him an appearance on the cover of People magazine.
Following
the success of Footloose, Kevin Bacon struggled to shake off the
on-screen image and found himself typecast. In an attempt to rebel
against the typecasting, the late 1980s became something of a career
slump for him. In 1988, Kevin Bacon starred in the John Hughes comedy
She's Having A Baby opposite Elizabeth McGovern. The next year, he
starred in another comedy, The Big Picture, which also featured Teri
Hatcher and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
1990 saw Kevin Bacon starring in
Tremors, a comic horror that also starred Fred Ward and Reba McEntire.
That same year, he also starred in Joel Schumachers' Flatliners. This
would become one of the most popular films of the 1990s, featuring an
all-star cast, including Keifer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and William
Baldwin. Bacon then went on to star opposite Elizabeth Perkins in He
Said, She Said, in 1991.
Works:
- Animal House. Dir. John Landis. Universal Pictures, 1978.
- Forty Deuce. Dir. Paul Morrissey. Island Pictures, 1982.
- Footloose. Dir. Herbert Ross. Paramount Pictures, 1984.
- Tremors. Dir. Ron Underwood. Universal Pictures, 1990.
- JFK. Dir. Oliver Stone. Warner Bros. Pictures, 1991.
- The River Wild. Dir. Curtis Hanson. Universal Pictures, 1994.
- Murder in the First. Dir. Marc Rocco. Warner Bros. Pictures, 1995.
- Apollo 13. Dir. Ron Howard. Universal Pictures, 1995.
- Hollow Man. Dir. Paul Verhoeven. Columbia Pictures Corporation, 2000.
- Mystic River. Dir. Clint Eastwood. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2003.
- The Woodsman. Dir. Nicole Kassell. Dash Films, 2004.
- Beauty Shop. Dir. Bille Woodruff. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, 2005.
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