Jules Verne
Born: 8 February 1828
Birthplace: Nantes, France
Died: 24 March 1905
Best Known As: Author of Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne was a French novelist whose many popular novels include the classics A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). While studying law, Verne wrote plays and librettos, but soon turned to writing novels full-time. He wrote dozens of books in his career and became the world-famous and wealthy author of adventures that are still in print today, including In Search of the Castaways (1868), The Mysterious Island (1874) and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Many of Verne's works became familiar to movie audiences, thanks to movie versions produced by Walt Disney's studios. Much like novelist H. G. Wells, Verne is considered a founding father of science fiction, thanks to his remarkably prophetic details of scientific inventions.
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James Woods
James Woods, whose most recent performance is in the role of former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in the tv film Rudy, was born in Vernal, UT, but grew up in Rhode Island, and spent most of the early years of his life in New England. Though he majored in Political Science at MIT, he was drawn to drama, appearing in plays at MIT and at Harvard, and with the Theatre Company of Boston, and the Provincetown Playhouse in Rhode Island. He earned an Obie for his role in the off-Broadway production, Saved, and premiered on Broadway in Borstal Boy, in 1970.
A year later Woods made his first television appearance in the TV movie, All the Way Home. He made several television and film appearances after that, but his breakout performance was in the TV mini-series, Holocaust, in 1978. In 1979, Woods played a viscious cop-killer in the film, The Onion Field, and, with his craggy looks and penetrating gaze, he was often cast in the role of sociopath or villian.
In 1986 Woods won an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of an American journalist in South America in Oliver Stone's Salvador. He began to play more sympathetic roles and won an Emmy in 1989 for his portrayal of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson in My Name is Bill W. He has appeared in dozens of films and television shows, and is known for his solid and often scene-stealing performances. In 1998, Woods received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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