Alec Baldwin
Born: 3 April 1958
Birthplace: Massapequa, New York
Best Known As: Star of 1990's The Hunt For Red October
Alec Baldwin started on the stage and soon moved to television, cast in the series The Doctors in 1980. He has appeared in dozens of feature films, including Beetlejuice (1988, with Michael Keaton), Miami Blues (1990) and Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), and he did voice work for 2001's Final Fantasy. His filmography is a mixed bag that includes broad comedy such as the blockbuster The Cat in the Hat (2003, starring Mike Myers) and dramas such as The Cooler (2003, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor). In 1992 Baldwin was nominated for a Tony award for his Broadway performances of A Streetcar Named Desire. Baldwin is an outspoken activist for the environment and animal rights, and was married to actress Kim Basinger from 1993 to 2001.
Baldwin's younger brothers Daniel, Billy and Stephen are also actors... Alec Baldwin played CIA hero Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, the 1990 movie based on Tom Clancy's spy novel; the role was taken over by Harrison Ford for two sequels, Patriot Games (1992) and A Clear and Present Danger (1994), and then by Ben Affleck for The Sum of All Fears (2002).
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Al Capone
Born: 17 January 1899
Birthplace: New York, New York
Died: 25 January 1947 (heart failure)
Best Known As: American gangster of the 1920s and '30s
Name at birth: Alphonsus Capone
Alphonse Capone was one of the most famous U.S. gangsters during the 1930s, a Chicago-based boss involved in illegal gambling, bootlegging (illegal alcohol) and prostitution. Capone got his start in New York, working as a thug and bouncer (where he got the three scars that spawned his nickname, "Scarface"). He moved to Chicago in 1919 and quickly moved up in the ranks of Johnny Torrio's gang. Capone was known for his smarts and brutality, and by 1925 he was in charge of one of Chicago's biggest criminal gangs. It was Capone's men who gunned down seven rivals in 1929 in what was called the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre." Arrested many times over the years, Capone was famously pursued by federal agent Eliot Ness and ended up finally going to jail for income tax evasion in 1931. After serving eight years in federal prisons, Capone was released on good behavior and because he'd been suffering from syphilis-related ailments. Capone retired to his estate in Florida and died in 1947 of heart failure.
Capone has been portrayed in the movies by by Rod Steiger (Al Capone, 1959), Neville Brand (TV's The Untouchables, 1959-63), Robert DeNiro (The Untouchables, 1987) and William Forsythe (TV's The Untouchables, 1993).
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