1. Bruce MacLeish Dern was born on June 4,1936 and is an American actor.
22 Facts About Bruce Dern
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Bruce Dern has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and the Silver Bear for Best Actor.
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Bruce Dern was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska.
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Bruce Dern is a BAFTA Award, two-time Genie Award, and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee.
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Bruce Dern played Frank Harlow in the HBO series Big Love.
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Bruce Dern's paternal grandfather, George Dern, was a Utah governor and Secretary of War.
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Bruce Dern's maternal grandfather was a Vice President of the Carson, Pirie and Scott stores, which were established by his own father, Scottish-born businessman Andrew MacLeish.
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Bruce Dern's godfather was governor and two-time presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson II.
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Bruce Dern graduated from New Trier High School, where he was a track star and sought to qualify for the Olympic Trials in 1956.
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Bruce Dern attended the University of Pennsylvania, but dropped out after two years.
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Bruce Dern studied at the Actors Studio, alongside Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg.
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Bruce Dern starred with Lyle Kessler in the Philadelphia premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and starred with Paul Newman and Geraldine Page in the original Broadway run of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth.
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Bruce Dern had a leading role in the ecological science-fiction film Silent Running and co-starred with Jack Nicholson in The King of Marvin Gardens.
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In Kirk Douglas' Revisionist Western film Posse, Bruce Dern played a train-robber who uses his wiles to turn the tables on his captor, an ambitious, politically minded marshal.
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Bruce Dern starred in the beauty pageant satire film Smile, and in Alfred Hitchcock's final film Family Plot.
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Bruce Dern played a detective on the trail of a getaway driver in the neo-noir film The Driver.
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In John Frankenheimer's thriller film Black Sunday, Bruce Dern played a vengeful Vietnam War veteran and Goodyear Blimp pilot who launches a massive terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
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Bruce Dern played another Vietnam veteran and the disturbed husband of a perplexed woman in Hal Ashby's war film Coming Home, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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In Bob Brooks' erotic thriller film Tattoo, Bruce Dern played an increasingly-deranged tattoo artist who imprisons a fashion model.
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The film was dogged by controversy throughout its post-production and pre-release phase - the film's release was delayed by nearly a year - and for his lead performance, Bruce Dern was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.
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Bruce Dern won the Best Actor Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Bruce Dern was married to Marie Dawn Pierce from 1957 to 1959.