1. Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17,1951 and is an American actor.
37 Facts About Kurt Russell
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Kurt Russell began his career as a child actor before transitioning to leading roles as an adult in various genres ranging from action adventures, science-fiction, westerns, romance films, comedic films and family dramas.
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Kurt Russell is known for collaborating with filmmakers such as John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino and has received a Critics' Choice Super Award as well as various award nominations including for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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Kurt Russell acted in Used Cars, The Fox and the Hound, The Best of Times, Overboard, Backdraft, Tombstone, Stargate, Vanilla Sky, Miracle, Dreamer, Sky High, Death Proof, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17,1951, at Wesson Maternity Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Kurt Russell's mother, Louise Julia Russell, is a dancer.
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Kurt Russell has three sisters, Jill Franco, Jamie and Jody.
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Kurt Russell's family relocated to California when he was a child, and Russell grew up in Thousand Oaks.
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Kurt Russell played little league baseball throughout his grade school years and on his high school baseball team as a second baseman.
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Kurt Russell graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in California in 1969.
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From 1969 to 1975, Kurt Russell served in the California Air National Guard and belonged to the 146th Tactical Airlift Wing, then based in Van Nuys.
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Kurt Russell made his film debut with an uncredited part for It Happened at the World's Fair, playing a boy who kicked a pilot in the leg.
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In 1964, Kurt Russell guest-starred in "Nemesis", an episode of the ABC series The Fugitive in which, as the son of police Lt.
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Kurt Russell played a similar role as a kid named Packy Kerlin in the 1964 episode "Blue Heaven" for the Western series Gunsmoke.
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At age 13, Kurt Russell played the role of Jungle Boy on an episode of CBS's Gilligan's Island, which aired on February 6,1965.
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In 1966, Kurt Russell was signed to a ten-year contract with Walt Disney Productions, where he became, according to Robert Osborne, the "studio's top star of the '70s".
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In January 1967, Kurt Russell played Private Willie Prentiss in the episode "Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders" in Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, released theatrically in some markets as Mosby's Marauders.
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Disney promoted Kurt Russell to star roles with The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes which was a big hit.
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Kurt Russell followed it with The Barefoot Executive, another success.
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Kurt Russell returned to Disney for The Strongest Man in the World.
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Kurt Russell was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for the 1979 television film Elvis, in which his then-wife Season Hubley played Priscilla.
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Kurt Russell's performance earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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Kurt Russell starred in Amber Waves and the comedy Used Cars.
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Kurt Russell then played Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, directed by Carpenter.
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Kurt Russell made Swing Shift co-starring Goldie Hawn, who became his romantic partner.
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Kurt Russell starred in The Mean Season and The Best of Times, then played an antihero truck driver caught in an ancient Chinese war in Big Trouble in Little China, another Carpenter film which, like The Thing, was initially a critical and commercial disappointment but has since gained a cult audience.
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Kurt Russell credited his performance in Tequila Sunrise with getting Hollywood to regard him differently.
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Kurt Russell had an uncredited role as the voice of Elvis Presley in the 1994 film Forrest Gump.
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In 2006, Russell claimed in one interview that he had ghost-directed the hit 1993 Western film Tombstone on behalf of credited director George P Cosmatos, saying he gave Cosmatos shot lists.
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Kurt Russell said he promised Cosmatos he would keep it a secret as long as Cosmatos was alive; Cosmatos died in April 2005.
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Kurt Russell said he did not get a chance to edit his version, but Vajna gave him a tape of "everything on the movie" and that he might try to "reconstruct the movie", although he would need to go back to the script and all his notes.
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Kurt Russell played the villainous Stuntman Mike in Quentin Tarantino's segment Death Proof of the film Grindhouse, and was in two more Tarantino films, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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In 2015, Kurt Russell garnered attention for his portrayal of Sheriff Franklin Hunt in the Western-horror film Bone Tomahawk.
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Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter praised the chemistry between Pratt and Kurt Russell writing, "the scenes between the well-cast Kurt Russell and Pratt are the best in the film".
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Kurt Russell did not return to El Paso, but was a designated hitter for the independent Portland Mavericks in the Northwest League late in their short season.
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Kurt Russell is a hunter and a staunch supporter of gun rights, and said that gun control will not reduce terrorism.
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In 2017, Kurt Russell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.