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Jonathan Voight

Born December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He has had a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. He came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout the following decades, Voight built his reputation with an array of challenging roles and has appeared in such landmark films as 1972's Deliverance, and 1978's Coming Home, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor. Voight's impersonation of the late sportscaster/journalist Howard Cosell, in 2001's biopic Ali, earned Voight critical raves and his fourth Oscar nomination. He is also the estranged father of actress Angelina Jolie, and brother of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor. Voight is son of Barbara (née Kamp; New York, January 7, 1910 ...

Robert Davi

Robert Davi (born June 26, 1953) is an American character actor. Davi is best remembered for his role as the villain Franz Sanchez in the James Bond film Licence to Kill, but also played roles such as Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard and the villainous, singing Fratelli brother, Jake, in The Goonies. He is 6 feet 2.5 inches (1.89 m) tall. Davi was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, the son of Maria (née Rullo) and Sal Davi. His mother was an Italian American and his father was a native of Southern Italy; Davi spoke Italian during his childhood. He attended Seton Hall, a Catholic high school in Patchogue (Long Island), New York. He graduated from Hofstra University, the same alma mater as fellow James Bond villain Christopher Walken. Davi was drawn to Hofstra because of the school's Shakespearean 'round' theatre.

Kelsey Grammer

Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the son of Sally (née Cranmer), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar and grill. He is descended from Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley. His parents' marriage ended when he was young; his mother took him to live with her, and he was partly raised in New Jersey by his maternal grandparents, Evangeline Dimmock and Gordon Cranmer. His family life has been plagued by tragedies. In 1968, when Grammer was thirteen, his father, whom he had only seen twice since his parents' divorce, was murdered on the front lawn of his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1975, his sister was raped and murdered after being abducted outside a Red Lobster restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colorado where her boyfriend worked. He has sworn to prevent his sister's murderer from being paroled. In 1980, his younger half-brothers were killed by a shark in a SCUBA diving accident. Grammer's mother ...

Kevin Farley

Born June 8, 1965 in Madison, Wisconsin is an American actor, production designer, singer, dancer, and sometime composer. Farley is son of Mary Anne, a homemaker, and Thomas Farley, who owned an oil company. He is the younger brother of late comedian and actor Chris Farley, to whom Kevin bears a strong physical resemblance. He is also the brother of actor John P. Farley. Farley is best known for portraying "Doug Linus" in the fictional boy band 2ge+her. The Farley brothers do routines together and receive roles from many of Chris's SNL castmates, such as David Spade and Adam Sandler, appearing in the The Waterboy and Dirty Work. Farley appeared on the HBO series, Curb Your Enthusiasm as an exterminator in the episode, "The Rat Dog". Farley was also in a Dairy Queen commercial advertising the Kit-Kat Blizzard, commercials for Hertz Rent-A-Car, and portrayed Felix the limo driver on Disney's That's So Raven. He also appeared in You Don't Mess With The ...