Memorable film: Some Came Running (1958). He took home the supporting actor Oscar, and he told an endearing story in his acceptance speech about his father taking him to the movies. Richardson was astonishing in this movie and should have won the Oscar for Best supporting actor for 1949. Rockwell won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). Dorothy Clara Louise Haas (29 April 1910 - 16 September 1994) was a German-American actress and singer who played in German and American films. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. Powered by. An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's The Duellists ( Will Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina. Memorable role: Gypo Nolan in the classic, The Informer (1935). His parents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. Casablanca (1943). Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Memorable role: Dr. Matt Fowler in "In the Bedroom" (2001). After appearing in an independent film during his senior year, he moved to New York to pursue an acting career. (Moore) Davis (1917-2007), was a drama teacher. Dolly Haas. Rockwell plays an aspiring young actor named Pete Sampras. "It was pretty sleazy." In the 1950s, he worked on television drama programs. He has won two OBIE awards for Best Actor -- for the off-Broadway plays "Fool for Love" (by Sam Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie-Mellon University, James Cromwell is the son of film director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson. He was raised in Florida. When she was ten Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (ne Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. (1976). Rockwell gushed about Bibb from the podium. Character actor, dramatic leading man, or hilarious comic foil? Piper Perabo- It is believed that actress Piper and Sam hooked up in 2009. William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. He is the eldest of six children. [29] That same year, Rockwell appeared in two acclaimed films, Richard Jewell and Jojo Rabbit. Wilford Brimley was born on September 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. [23][24], In January 2014, it was announced that Rockwell was cast in The Eel, in which he played an escaped convict. best (of his many great roles), Mr. Dutton Peabody in the John Ford The film was produced by director Sam Raimi's production company, Ghost House Pictures. [22] For his performance in The Way, Way Back, some critics felt he again deserved an Academy Award nomination. Sydney left home at age 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business and back to England. [1][2][3][4] and was nominated the following year for portraying George W. Bush in Adam McKay's Vice (2018). Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. At age 30, McMillan decided to pursue an acting career. She was previously married to Edwin M. Figueroa. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and Born on October 1, 1921, in White Plains, New York, gruff veteran character actor James Whitmore earned early and widespread respect with his award-winning dramatic capabilities on Broadway and in films. Memorable role: dead heat: Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), and Joel Cairo in Maltese Falcon (1941). Would love your thoughts, please comment. The plot revolved around three escaped mental patients who dressed up as clowns and terrorized three brothers home alone--Sam played the eldest of the brothers. Template:TOCnestleft Penny Hess is a St. Petersburg, Florida activist. A cigar-smoking, monocled, swag-bellied character actor known for his Old South manners and charm. He studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon, and went into the theatre (like his parents) doing everything from Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. She played a supporting role in 1989's "Dead Bang", a cop thriller starring Don Johnson. Memorable role: As Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991). The New York Times described Rockwell as having a footloose upbringing.. He then had a notable supporting role as Charley Ford, brother of Casey Affleck's character Robert Ford, in the well-received drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), in which Brad Pitt played the lead role of Jesse James. Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee since 1976 and author of "Overturning the Culture of Violence." In 1918 he and his first wife formed the Coburn Players and appeared on Broadway in many plays. While Sam lived with his father in San Fracisco, Sam lived with mother Penny in the summers Sam's mother's full name is Penelope Ann Hess, she goes by "Penny Hess" Sam Rockwell Siblings He managed a brewery and, to escape boredom, took acting lessons. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. He worked under the tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other . Penny Hess in Florida. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. [28] Rockwell was cast as Bob Fosse with Michelle Williams as Gwen Verdon in the 2019 miniseries Fosse/Verdon, for which he received critical acclaim and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Memorable film: The Perfect Storm (2000). Memorable role (of many): As Mickey Morrisey in The Verdict (1982). He was previously married to Penelope Ann Hess, reports IMDB. He is said to have accepted the role without reading the script. (1974). MOTHER Penny Hess - Penny Hess, the mother of Sam Rockwell is an artist herself; she took him to East Village improv comedy at the age of 10 to teach acting. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. He said, "I like that dark stuff. Though born in Georgia and having a Russian-sounding name, Akim Tamiroff is actually of Armenian descent. "[16] He received somewhat more mixed reviews as Zaphod Beeblebrox in the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). She is Chair, African People's Solidarity Committee, author "Overturning the Culture of Violence". He is known for appearing in independent films and also as a character actor portraying a wide variety of roles both comedic and dramatic in films such as Lawn Dogs (1997), The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Matchstick Men (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Moon (2009), Frost/Nixon (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Conviction (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Seven Psychopaths (2012), The Way, Way Back (2013), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Vice (2018), Jojo Rabbit (2019), Richard Jewell (2019), and The Best of Enemies (2019). At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. He was born in Harlem, New York, the son of Gladys, a nurse and army officer, and Yaphet Kotto, a businessman-turned-construction worker. In 1990, she played Paula in Awakenings, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Rockwell workshopped a LAByrinth production, North of Mason-Dixon, which debuted in London in 2007 and then premiered in New York later the same year. He was raised mostly by his father. Memorable role: The cantankerous and mean spirited villain, Potter, in the immortal, It's a Wonderful Life (1946). ASHEVILLE, NC Penny Hess, 44, formerly of Dallastown, died Monday evening, June 29, 2009, at York Hospital as the result of a motorcycle accident. He completed his education at Rugby School and had a brief spell at RADA, before treading the boards for the first time as the straight man in a music hall comedy act in 1931. Born in London, England, John Gielgud trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. She then appeared as Pee-wee Herman's (Paul Reubens) fiance, Winnie Johnston, in the 1988 release of Big Top Pee-wee. AGE 50s Penny Lynn Hess Lancaster, PA View Full Report Aliases Used To Live In Relatives Penny L Heidbreeder Penny Lynn Heidbreder Penny Lynn Bitts He is the son of Patricia Taylor, a showgirl and costume designer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. He was born in July 1938 in Bridgeport, CT, and attended Columbia University in New York City on a football scholarship. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Penny Hess to pay them a last tribute. Her mother, Helga Bullock (ne Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Griffith left the world of banking (having been employed as a teller) after winning a scholarship to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Hal Holbrook was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor who was one of the great craftsmen of stage and screen. The comment took off on Twitter, with many Twitter users praising Rockwells dad for being a caring father. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Memorable film: Good Night and Good Luck (2003). [citation needed] Her mother was the goddaughter of businessman Aristotle Onassis and an editor of Harper's Bazaar. Paul traveled with his family during his early years, because of his father's airline job at Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow.