James Coburn
Born: 31 August 1928
Birthplace: Laurel, Nebraska
Death: 18 November 2002 (heart attack)
Best Known As: Lanky star of Our Man Flint
Tall, lean and sporting one of the biggest grins in Hollywood, James Coburn was best known for his roles in The Magnificent Seven (1960, with Steve McQueen), Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967). He made his film debut in 1958, and early in his career he was frequently cast as a gunslinger or sidekick in both dramas and comedies. The two Flint movies showed his charm and flair for comedy, as did the political satire The President's Analyst (1967), which he also produced. Coburn collaborated several times with director Sam Peckinpah during the 1970s, in front of the camera for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) and Cross of Iron (1977), and behind the camera for 1978's Convoy (second unit director) and 1979's Circle of Iron (story). Due to crippling arthritis, Coburn was less active in the '80s and '90s, although he continued to work steadily in movies and television. A longtime Hollywood star, he finally won an Oscar for his portrayal of a mean drunk in Paul Schrader's Affliction (1998, starring Nick Nolte and Willem Dafoe). His other films include Charade (1963, with Cary Grant), The Great Escape (1963), Payback (1999, with Mel Gibson) and Monsters, Inc. (2001, as the voice of Henry J. Waternoose III).
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Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau (born January 23, 1928 in Paris, France)
She studied at the Comédie Française. She is known for her sophisticated portrayals of amoral heroines. In Jules and Jim (1961), she etched a highly ambiguous portrait of a delightful woman capable of destroying the men who love her. Her films include The Lovers (1959), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960), La Notte (1961), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), Going Places (1974), The Trout (1982), La Femme Nikita (1990), and The Summer House (1993). In 1976, she directed her first feature, Lumière.
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Jean Simmons
Born January 31, 1929
A luminous beauty, Jean Simmons was a star in her native Britain and in the U.S. who first appeared onscreen at age 14 in Give Us the Moon (1944), but did not become a true star until she played Estella in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). In 1948, she was handpicked by Laurence Olivier to play the doomed Ophelia in his classic version of Hamlet and won a Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for her efforts. Simmons traveled to Hollywood in 1950 after marrying Stewart Granger. Their marriage lasted a decade and Simmons then became Mrs. Richard Brooks in 1960, the year he starred her in Elmer Gantry. During the '50s and '60s, Simmons had an extremely busy film career appearing in everything from costume epics to romances to musicals to straight dramas. Simmons received an Oscar nomination in 1969 for The Happy Ending. By the mid-'70s, Simmons started working less frequently and divided her time between features and television work. In the late '80s, she had a burst of character roles, but has since made increasingly sporadic forays into acting.
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