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Jan-Michael Vincent |
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Ventura City College grad Jan-Michael
Vincent had just finished serving in the National Guard when
he was tapped for potential film stardom by a talent agent.
At first billed simply as Michael Vincent, the novice actor's
"official" screen debut was the 1968 western Journey to Shiloh,
though in fact he'd already had a shakedown cruise, as it were,
in the Mexican film Los Bandidos (1967). He went on to co-star
in the "Danger Island" segment of Hanna-Barbera's Saturday morning
TVer The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, and in the prime time
serial The Survivors (1969) before graduating to stardom as
the hippie-dippie Marine recruit in the popular TV movie Tribes
(1970). Subsequent film assignments like The Mechanic (1972)
and Bite the Bullet (1975) seemed to bode well for his future
as a "reluctant hero" action star, while his work in such productions
as Buster and Billie (1974) proved that he had an acting range
far beyond that of your usual beefcake hunk. Jan-Michael Vincent
enjoyed a successful run as taciturn maverick pilot Stingfellow
Hawke in the TV series Airwolf (1984-86) before becoming a fixture
in such direct-to-video yarns like Hidden Obsession and Indecent
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Joan Goodfellow |
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Robert Englund |
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Robert
Englund began his acting training at age 12, taking drama courses
at the University of Oakland, U.C.L.A., California State-Northridge,
the Michigan Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Rochester, NY,
branch of R.A.D.A. Englund made his first professional appearance
in a Cleveland production of Godspell. His first film role was
the bumptious backwoodsman Whitey in Buster and Billie
(which also stared Pamela Sue Marting), after which he paid
his dues in a series of villainous bit parts: shooting down
Burt Reynolds at the end of Hustle; beating up
Kris Kristofferson in
Barbra Streisand's remake of A
Star is Born in 1976. In 1984, he was cast as Willie,
one of the few sympathetic Earth-invading extraterrestrials
in the sci-fi TV miniseries V. Impressed by this performance,
director Wes Craven buried Englund under several layers of latex
and collodion and cast him as malevolent,
mass-murdering wraith Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on
Elm Street. The actor became an instant star, appearing
in five Nightmare sequels, hosting a 1988 television spin-off,
and basking in the glow of a plenitude of fan clubs. Although
Freddy's only redeeming quality was his morbid sense of humor,
Englund became an idol to the young, who emulated the actor
each Halloween donning Freddy masks and plastic claws. Far from
concerned that this idolatry might lead to delinquency, Englund
allowed that he enjoyed playing Freddy, and felt pride at having
created so memorable a screen persona. Unlike such horror icons
of the past as Boris Karloff and Vincent Price, however,
Englund was not able to shed his famous character's image when
he wanted to move on to other roles. Outside of his Nightmare
appearances, Englund's most significant credits were his one-shot
directorial stint on the theatrical feature 976-EVIL;
his characterization of the title role in a medium-budget film
adaptation of Phantom of the Opera; and his hosting
chores on the Craven-produced TV anthology Nightmare Café.
He would also appear in such television producions as Charlie's
Angels, CHiPS, Hart to Hart, Alice,
MacGyver, Married...with Children, and Charmed
throughout his career.Englund would later appear with Pamela
Sue Martin agin in an episode of Nancy Drew called The
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Clifton James |
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In the '70s, American actor Clifton James
became the foremost film impersonator of Southern redneck sheriffs
-- but he had to go to England to do it. A graduate of the Actors
Studio, James secured small roles in such Manhattan-filmed productions
as On the Waterfront (1954) and in well over 100 TV programs.
But his parts were tiny and frequently unbilled, relegating
James to the ranks of "Who is that?" character actors. All this
changed when James was cast as Sheriff Pepper in the James Bond
film Live and Let Die (1973), which led to a reprise of the
character in the next Bond epic The Man With the Golden Gun
(1973). Since that time, the stocky, ruddy-cheeked James has
been prominent in such films as Silver Streak (1976), The Bad
News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) and Superman II (1980).
In 1981, James was a regular on the brief TV sitcom Lewis and
Clark. Clifton James kicked off the '90s as one of the willing
but floundering cast members of that disaster of disasters,
Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). |
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