All Entries Tagged With: "The Blues Brothers"
Charles Napier
Date of Birth: 12 April 1936 Height: 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Biography: Lively character actor who usually plays hard-ass military types and menacing bad guys. Charles Napier’s roles have changed little since his debut in Russ Meyer’s Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970). Napier went on appearing in other Meyer movies, including the homicidal Harry Sledge [...]
Deborah Nadoolman
Date of Birth: 1952 Mini Biography Deborah Nadoolman grew up in New York city standing in the back of the house at Broadway shows after her high school day was finished. She was awarded the first grant for Costume Design from the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States. After graduating from UCLA [...]
John Landis
Date of Birth: 3 August 1950 Mini Biography: John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of [...]
Ray Charles
Date of Birth: 23 September 1930 Birth Name: Ray Charles Robinson Nickname: The Genius of Soul Brother Ray The High Priest Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) Mini Biography: A tragic fate may have given this visionary a heightened sensitivity, perception, awareness, even expansion to his obvious musical gifts that he may have never touched upon [...]
John Candy
Date of Birth: 31 October 1950 Birth Name: John Franklin Candy Height: 6′ 2½” (1.89 m) Mini Biography: John Candy is one of Canada’s greatest, and funniest, character actors. His well-known role as the big hearted buffoon earned him classics in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him [...]