George Clooney

He made his debut as a film director in the 2002 feature Confessions of a Dangerous Mind an adaptation of the implausible autobiography of groundbreaking TV producer Chuck Barris. Finally, towards the end of his life, Cushing played the detective in old age, in The Masks of Death for Channel 4. He is the son of Cincinnati news anchor and TV host Nick Clooney, a nephew of actress and singer Rosemary Clooney, and a cousin of actor Miguel Ferrer; another cousin, Gabe Ferrer, is married to Debby Boone. He followed this up with a performance in 16 episodes of the BBC series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1968), of which unfortunately only 6 episodes survive. He played a handyman on television series The Facts of Life. Cushing played Sherlock Holmes numerous times, starting with Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), the first colour Holmes film. He has also appeared in a number of movies such as Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), One Fine Day (1996), Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Welcome to Collinwood (2002), Intolerable Cruelty, and Ocean's Twelve (2004), along with guest appearances on sitcoms such as Roseanne and Friends. He was one of many stars to guest on The Morecambe and Wise Show – the standing joke in his case being the idea that he was never paid for his appearance.

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American film and television actor probably best-known for his former role in the long-running television drama ER (1994-99). Who and the Daleks and Daleks — Invasion Earth 2150 AD) based on the television series Doctor Who. Who in two movies (Dr. In the mid-1960s, he played the eccentric human scientist Dr. Cushing drew much praise for his performance in this production, although he always felt that his performance in the existing version of the play – it was performed twice in one week and only the second version survives in the archives – was inferior to the first.