1. Henry Warren Beatty is an American actor and filmmaker.
51 Facts About Warren Beatty
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Warren Beatty's career has spanned over six decades, and he has received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards.
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Warren Beatty received the Irving G Thalberg Award in 1999, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, the Cecil B DeMille Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2008.
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Warren Beatty was nominated for his performances as Clyde Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde, a quarterback mistakenly taken to heaven in the sports fantasy drama Heaven Can Wait, John Reed in the historical epic Reds, and Bugsy Siegel in the crime drama Bugsy, the later three of which he directed.
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Warren Beatty made his acting debut as a teenager in love in the Elia Kazan drama Splendor in the Grass.
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On stage, Warren Beatty made his Broadway debut in the William Inge kitchen sink drama A Loss of Roses for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
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Henry Warren Beatty Beaty was born on March 30,1937, in Richmond, Virginia.
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Warren Beatty's mother, Kathlyn Corinne, was a teacher from Nova Scotia.
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Warren Beatty's father, Ira Owens Beaty, studied for a PhD in educational psychology and was a teacher and school administrator, in addition to working in real estate.
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Warren Beatty became interested in movies as a child, often accompanying his sister to theaters.
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Warren Beatty noticed a strong resemblance between its star, Katharine Hepburn, and his mother, in both appearance and personality, saying that they symbolized "perpetual integrity".
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Warren Beatty learned to do a "superb imitation of Berle and his routine", said a friend, and often used Berle-type humor at home.
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In Rules Don't Apply, Warren Beatty plays Howard Hughes, who is shown talking about and singing Jolson songs while flying his plane.
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Warren Beatty left college after his first year and moved to New York City to study acting under Stella Adler at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
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Warren Beatty often subsisted on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and worked odd jobs, including dishwasher, piano player, bricklayer's assistant, construction worker, and, relatively briefly, a sandhog.
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Warren Beatty started his career making appearances on television shows such as Studio One, Kraft Television Theatre, and Playhouse 90.
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Warren Beatty was a semi-regular on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis during its first season.
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Warren Beatty enlisted in the California Air National Guard in February 1960 but was discharged the following year due to a physical disability.
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Warren Beatty made his film debut in Elia Kazan's Splendor in the Grass opposite Natalie Wood.
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Kazan was armed with the confidence born of age and success, while Warren Beatty was virtually aflame with the arrogance of youth.
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Mr Warren Beatty's career has had all the hallmarks of the conventional Hollywood golden boy.
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At age 29, Warren Beatty produced and acted in Bonnie and Clyde, released in 1967.
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Warren Beatty assembled a team that included the writers Robert Benton and David Newman, and the director Arthur Penn.
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Warren Beatty oversaw the script and spearheaded the delivery of the film.
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Warren Beatty chose Gene Hackman because he had acted with him in Lilith in 1964 and felt he was a "great" actor.
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Warren Beatty had been so impressed by Gene Wilder after seeing him in a play, that he cast him without an audition for what became Wilder's screen debut.
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In 1972, Warren Beatty produced a series of benefit concerts to help with publicity and fundraising in the George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign.
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Warren Beatty first put together Four for McGovern at The Forum in the Los Angeles area, convincing Barbra Streisand, Carole King and James Taylor to perform.
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Two weeks later, Warren Beatty mounted another concert at the Cleveland Arena, in which Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon joined James Taylor.
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In June 1972, Warren Beatty produced Together for McGovern at Madison Square Garden, reuniting Simon and Garfunkel, Nichols and May, and Peter, Paul and Mary, and featuring Dionne Warwick.
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Warren Beatty had mobilized Hollywood celebrities for a political cause on a scale previously unseen, creating a new power dynamic.
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Warren Beatty appeared in the films The Parallax View, directed by Alan Pakula; and The Fortune, directed by Mike Nichols.
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In 1978, Warren Beatty directed, produced, wrote and acted in Heaven Can Wait.
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Warren Beatty won for Best Director, Maureen Stapleton won for Best Supporting Actress, and Vittorio Storaro won for Best Cinematography.
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Warren Beatty's next film, Love Affair, directed by Glenn Gordon Caron, received mixed reviews and was a commercial failure.
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Warren Beatty has appeared briefly in numerous documentaries, including Madonna: Truth or Dare and One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern.
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Mr Warren Beatty obviously loves Hollywood, which has been good to him.
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The production of the special allowed Warren Beatty to retain the rights to the character.
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The project was put on hold when Warren Beatty began Heaven Can Wait.
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In June 2011, it was reported that Warren Beatty would produce, write, direct and star in a film about Hughes, focusing on an affair he had with a younger woman in the final years of his life.
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Warren Beatty met with Andrew Garfield, Alec Baldwin, Owen Wilson, Justin Timberlake, Shia LaBeouf, Jack Nicholson, Evan Rachel Wood, Rooney Mara, and Felicity Jones.
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Warren Beatty wrote, co-produced, directed and starred alongside Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins, with supporting cast including Baldwin, Annette Bening, Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, Ed Harris and Martin Sheen.
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Some have said that Warren Beatty's film was 40 years in the making.
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In 2017, Warren Beatty reunited with his Bonnie and Clyde co-star Faye Dunaway at the 89th Academy Awards, in celebration of the film's 50th anniversary.
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Warren Beatty has been married to actress Annette Bening since 1992.
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Warren Beatty was a founding board member of the Center for National Policy, a founding member of the Progressive Majority, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served as the Campaign Chair for the Permanent Charities Committee, and has participated in the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.
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Warren Beatty served on the Board of Trustees at the Scripps Research Institute, and the Board of Directors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation.
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Warren Beatty was named Honorary Chairman of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in 2004.
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Warren Beatty stays with a picture through editing, mixing, and scoring.
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Warren Beatty traveled extensively and was instrumental in organizing fundraising.
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Warren Beatty was chosen by McCain himself to be one of the pallbearers at the senator's funeral in 2018.