Bruce Willis

BRUCE WILLIS – WILLIS’ GIRL LOVES HIS BALD HEAD

Early life

Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, the son of a Kassel-born German, Marlene, who worked in a bank, and David Willis, an American soldier.^[3][4] Willis is the eldest of four children: he has a sister Florence and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of pancreatic cancer in 2001, aged 42.^[5] After being discharged from the military in 1957, Willis’s father took his family back to Penns Grove, New Jersey, where he worked as a welder and factory worker.^[6] His parents separated in 1972, while Willis was in his teens.^[4] Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates.^[6][7][8] Finding it easy to express himself on stage and losing his stutter in the process, Willis began performing on stage and his high school activities were marked by such things as the drama club and student council president.^[6]

After high school, Willis took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant^[9][10] and also transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey.^[10] He quit after a colleague was killed on the job, and became a regular at several bars.^[6] Willis learned to play the harmonica.

After a stint as a private investigator (a role he would play in the television series Moonlighting as well as in the 1991 film, The Last Boy Scout), Willis returned to acting. He enrolled in the drama program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the class production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis left school in his junior year and moved to New York City.^[4]

Willis returned to the bar scene, only this time for a part-time job at the West Bank Cafe in New York City’s Manhattan Plaza.^[10][11] After multiple auditions, Willis made his theater debut in the off-Broadway production of Heaven and Earth. He gained more experience and exposure in Fool for Love, and in a Levi’s commercial.

WOW!  My bald brother Bruce has been a busy guy

1. Pinkville (details only on IMDbPro)
2. Against All Enemies (details only on IMDbPro)
3. Morgan’s Summit (details only on IMDbPro)

Actor:

• In Production

1. The Last Full Measure (2010) (in production)
2. Kane & Lynch (2011) (pre-production) …. Kane
3. Red (2010) (filming) …. Frank Moses
4. The Expendables (2010) (post-production) …. Mr. Church
5. Cop Out (2010) (completed) …. Jimmy Monroe

Sean Connery

Background of the famous.

Thomas Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh to Euphemia “Effie” (née Maclean), a cleaning woman, and Joseph Connery, a factory worker and lorry driver.^[6] His father was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent with roots in County Wexford, while his mother was a Protestant. He has a brother, Neil. Connery claims he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present.

His first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert’s Co-operative Society.^[7] He then joined the Royal Navy during which time he opted for two tattoos that are described on his official website as:

‘unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous – his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong commitments: his family and Scotland. After six decades, his tattoos still reflect those two ideas: One tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads “Mum and Dad,” and the other is self explanatory, “Scotland Forever.”^[8]

Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer. Afterwards, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a labourer, an artist’s model for the Edinburgh College of Art,^[9] and a coffin polisher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery

Telly Savalas

In researching Telly I didn’t realize what a prolific actor he was.  My first recollection of Telly was in the Dirty Dozen.   As I sit here in astonishment, growing up a big James Bond movie fan, I just discovered that Telly played Ernst Stavro Blofeld.  One of Bond’s arch rivals.

Personal Bio

Savalas, the second of five children, was born as Aristotelis Savalas^[1] in Garden City, Long Island, New York to Greek American parents Christina (née Kapsalis), a New York City artist who was a native of Sparta, and Nick Savalas, a Greek restaurant owner.^[2] When he entered Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York, he initially only spoke Greek, yet learned English and graduated in 1940. After graduation, he worked as a lifeguard, but on one occasion, was unsuccessful at rescuing a man from drowning, an event which would haunt Savalas for the remainder of his life. When he entered Columbia University School of General Studies, Savalas took a variety of courses, such as English, radio and psychology, graduating in 1948. At that time, he fell in love with radio and television, which led to his interest in acting. Savalas also gained life experience with a three-year stint (1943-1946) in the Army during World War II, working for the State Department as host of the “Your Voice of America” series, then at ABC News, before beginning an acting career in his late thirties. In 1950, Savalas hosted a popular radio show called The Coffeehouse in New York City.

The classic bald guy- Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner Biography

Actor. Born Taidje Khan in Sakhalin Island, Russian S.F.S.R.After a brief   career as a circus acrobat in France, Brynner started   a touring company in the early 1940s. He made his Broadway debut in Lute Sang in 1946. He began playing his most famous role, the king of Siam in The King and I in the Broadway production of the Oscar and Hammerstein musical in 1951. After more than three years and 1,246 performances, he starred in the screen version in 1956, winning an Oscar for Best Actor. He then returned to the stage for an additional 3,379 stage performances, the last being in 1985. Along the way, Brynner also starred in The Ten Commandments (1956), Anastasia (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), and The Magnificent Seven (1960).

In 1985, I saw him in Kansas City on his last tour performing in The King and I.  Later that year he died of cancer.   One of his last quotes shows such a wonderful sense of humor.

“Now that I’m gone, I tell you, don’t smoke.”  thanks Yul!

Yul Brynner. (2009). Biography.com. Retrieved 03:29, Dec 29 2009 from http://www.biography.com/articles/Yul-Brynner-9542628