Clint Eastwood
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American film actor, director, producer, and composer. Eastwood
starred as the laconic
Man with No Name
in
Sergio Leone's
Dollars Trilogy of
spaghetti westerns (A
Fistful of Dollars,
For a Few
Dollars More, and
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) in the 1960s, and as
San Francisco Police Department Inspector
Harry Callahan in the
Dirty Harry films Dirty
Harry,
Magnum Force,
The Enforcer,
Sudden Impact,
and
The Dead
Pool of the 1970s and 1980s. Eastwood has received five
Academy Awards including the
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, five
Golden Globe Awards, a
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, two
Cannes Film
Festival awards, and five
People's
Choice Awards, among other accolades. He won Academy Awards for
Best Director and
Best Picture and received nominations for
Best Actor for his work in the films
Unforgiven
(1992) and
Million
Dollar Baby (2004).
In 1950 he was drafted during the
Korean War. |
Blake Edwards
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American film director,
screenwriter and producer. Edwards' career began in the 1940s as
an actor but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia
Pictures. He used his writing skills to begin producing and
directing, with some of his best films including:
Experiment in Terror,
The Great Race, and the hugely successful
Pink Panther film series with the British comedian Peter Sellers.
Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he was also
renowned for his dramatic work,
Breakfast at Tiffany's and
Days of Wine and Roses. His greatest successes, however,
were his comedies, and most of his films were either musicals,
melodramas, slapstick comedies, and thrillers. In 2004, he
received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing,
directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen.
Served in WW2. His service led to a severe back injury, which left
Edwards in pain for years afterward. |
Richard Egan
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American actor whose talent,
rugged physique and good looks made him a favorite and respected leading
man. He performed well in such action films as "Flame of Araby"
(1951), "The Battle of Apache Pass" (1952), "Blackbeard the Pirate"
(1952), "Khyber Patrol" (1954), "Seven Cities of Gold" (1955), and the
Elvis Presley film, "Love Me Tender" (1957).
Served in WW2,
joining in 1942. He taught Judo and bayonet & knife fighting
while stationed in the U.S.
Was discharged as a Captain. |
R. Lee Emery
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American actor who often played the roles of authority figures, such as his breakout performance as
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in
Full Metal Jacket,
Mayor Tilman in the Alan
Parker film
Mississippi Burning,
Bill Bowerman in
Prefontaine,
Sheriff Hoyt in
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, and
plastic army
men leader
Sarge in the Toy Story
films. He has hosted two programs on the
History Channel: Mail
Call, in which he answered viewers' questions about various militaria
both modern and historic; and
Lock N'
Load with R. Lee Ermey, which focused on the development of different
types of weapons.
Enlisted in 1961. Ermey was a drill instructor at
the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California, and Parris
Island, South Carolina from 1965 to 1967. In 1968, Ermey arrived
in Vietnam where he served for 14 months with the Marine Wing Support
Group 17. He then served two tours of duty in Okinawa, Japan,
during which he rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant and was medically
discharged in 1972 for several injuries incurred during his tours. |
Buddy Epson
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American
character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had
starring roles as
Jed Clampett in the long-running television series
The
Beverly Hillbillies and as the
title character in the 1970s detective series
Barnaby Jones.
In 1941, he applied several
times for a commission in the Navy, but was repeatedly turned down.
Applied for a
Coast Guard commission, was accepted, and promptly given the rank of
Lieutenant, Junior Grade. Served as damage control officer and later
as
executive
officer on the Coast Guard-manned Navy
frigate
USS Pocatello. |
Don Everly
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The Everly Brothers (Don and
Phil) are
country-influenced
rock and roll
performers, known for
steel-string guitar playing and
close harmony
singing. The brothers are the most successful U.S. rock and roll duo on
the
Hot 100.
Enlisted in November 1961
with his brother Phil. One of their few performances during their
Marines stint was an on-leave appearance on
The Ed
Sullivan Show, performing "Jezebel" and "Crying In The Rain". |
Phil Everly
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The Everly Brothers (Don and
Phil) are
country-influenced
rock and roll
performers, known for
steel-string guitar playing and
close harmony
singing. The brothers are the most successful U.S. rock and roll duo on
the
Hot 100.
Enlisted in November 1961
with his brother Don. One of their few performances during their
Marines stint was an on-leave appearance on
The Ed
Sullivan Show, performing "Jezebel" and "Crying In The Rain". |
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