Daniel Massey (actor)

He died of Hodgkin's disease. When he is at a televised Lakers game, he is invariably sought out for celebrity camera shots during one or more breaks in the game. Massey was married four times, twice to well-known actresses: Adrienne Corri and Penelope Wilton. Nicholson is also a well-known and highly visible fan of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers; he has courtside seats, and attends whenever his schedule allows. He also made many stage appearances, notably in musicals such as Gigi and Stephen Sondheim's Follies. His most recent film is the 2003 Something's Gotta Give. Massey appeared in numerous British films from the 1950s onwards, without ever becoming a major star, and the 1968 award would be the high point of his career. In the comedy Anger Management, he plays an aggressive therapist alongside Adam Sandler.

He would later play Noel Coward in the 1968 Julie Andrews vehicle, Star!, a performance for which he won a Golden Globe award. The deeply emotional, slow film stands in sharp contrast to many of his previous roles. He made his film debut as a child in Noel Coward's flag-waver, In Which We Serve (1942) -- Coward being his godfather. In About Schmidt (2002), Nicholson portrayed a man who questions his own life after his retirement and the death of his wife. Daniel Massey was born and died in London, England. The September 11, 2001 attacks led Nicholson to focus on comedies. Although successful on stage and screen, his career was eclipsed by other members of Canada's noted Massey family: his father, Raymond Massey, his sister, Anna Massey and his uncle Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada. He would win his next Oscar for his role as the neurotic lead in the romance As Good As It Gets (1997).

Daniel Raymond Massey (October 10, 1933 - March 25, 1998) was a British-Canadian actor. Jessep in A Few Good Men (1992), a dark movie about a murder in a military unit, he received yet another nomination by the Academy. Nathan R. For his role as Col. The 1989 Batman, where Nicholson played the supervillain The Joker, was an international smash hit, and a lucrative percentage deal earned Nicholson about US$50 million [1] (http://www.filmaction.com/hollywood%20eh.htm).

Nicholson won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Terms of Endearment (1984). Other early movies he is known for include Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which he received his first Oscar, and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. A Best Actor nomination came the following year for his persona-defining role in Five Easy Pieces (1970), which includes his famous chicken salad dialogue about getting what you want. That film led to a small supporting role in Easy Rider (1969), for which he received his first Oscar nomination.

His work with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper on the LSD-fueled The Trip led to his real break. This included his screen debut in The Cry Baby Killer (1958), where he played a juvenile delinquent who panics after shooting two other teenagers, and Little Shop of Horrors. Nicholson started his career as an actor, writer, and producer, working for and with Roger Corman. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.".

I don't have the right to any other view. Because of this fact Nicholson is pro-life and has spoken out about it saying, "I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. She did this because he was actually the illegitimate offspring of her daughter, a woman whom Nicholson thought was his older sister. A journalist's research uncovered what apparently had happened: the woman he had always thought of as his mother was actually his grandmother, who had arranged to raise him as her own child.

He was born John Joseph Nicholson in New York, New York, although until 1974 he had thought his place of birth was his hometown, Neptune, New Jersey. He has also won seven Golden Globe Awards. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, and has been nominated for an Academy Award a dozen times, winning three of them. He is best known for portraying antagonistic, cynical, neurotic and aggressive characters.

Jack Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a highly successful American method actor.