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Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor and director who has often produced his own films.

Born in Lynwood, California, Costner spent his teenage years and pre-actor adulthood in Orange County, California, graduating from Villa Park High School in Villa Park, California in 1973, and earning a B.A. in business from California State University, Fullerton in 1978.

Costner's most popular success was with the epic Dances with Wolves. He directed and starred in the film and served as one of two producers. The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won seven, including two for him personally (Best Picture and Best Director). A number of his film efforts after that success have been criticized for being too long and overly serious, and for squandering financial resources. The science-fiction epics Waterworld and The Postman was both major disappointments at the box office.

Trivia

  • Costner was cast in the hit The Big Chill. He filmed several scenes which were planned as flashbacks, but they never made it to the final cut. He was the friend who committed suicide, the event around which the plot of the movie revolves. All that is seen of him are his slashed wrists as the mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes.

Selected filmography

  • Silverado (1985)
  • American Flyers (1985)
  • The Untouchables (1987)
  • No Way Out (1987)
  • Bull Durham (1988)
  • Field of Dreams (1989)
  • Dances with Wolves (1990)
  • Revenge (1990)
  • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
  • JFK (1991)
  • The Bodyguard (1992)
  • A Perfect World (1993)
  • Wyatt Earp (1994)
  • Waterworld (1995)
  • Tin Cup (1996)
  • The Postman (1997)
  • Message in a Bottle (1999)
  • For Love of the Game (1999)
  • Thirteen Days (2000)
  • Dragonfly (2002)
  • Open Range (2003)
  • The Upside of Anger (2004)
  • Rumor Has It (2005)
  • The Tortilla Curtain (2005)

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The science-fiction epics Waterworld and The Postman was both major disappointments at the box office. He died of leukemia in 1977. A number of his film efforts after that success have been criticized for being too long and overly serious, and for squandering financial resources. He also appeared in the Over-the-Hill Gang and as "Coyote Bill" in Myra Breckenridge. The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won seven, including two for him personally (Best Picture and Best Director). He starred in a Twilight Zone episode as "Frisby", a talkative braggart faced with an alien invasion called "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby". He directed and starred in the film and served as one of two producers. He also had a part as "Hap" on Flipper and hosted a children's TV show, Andy's Gang, and performed voice parts in animated films, including "Friar Tuck" in Disney's Robin Hood.

Costner's most popular success was with the epic Dances with Wolves. Devine is well-remembered for his role as "Jingles" in the US radio and TV series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951). in business from California State University, Fullerton in 1978. He played "The Cheerful Soldier" in The Red Badge of Courage. Born in Lynwood, California, Costner spent his teenage years and pre-actor adulthood in Orange County, California, graduating from Villa Park High School in Villa Park, California in 1973, and earning a B.A. His notable roles included ten films as sidekick, "Cookie", to Roy Rogers, a Shakespeare performance in Romeo and Juliet in 1937, Stagecoach with John Wayne in 1939 and a reunion with Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in 1959. Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. He had been running with a stake in his mouth and fell, the instrument piercing the roof of his mouth.

The Tortilla Curtain (2005). Devine's speech was the result of a childhood accident. Rumor Has It (2005). Although it was at first thought that his peculiar voice would prevent him from moving to the talkies, it became his trademark and strongest selling point. The Upside of Anger (2004). He was a star football player at Santa Clara University, which led to his first film role in the silent The Collegians. Open Range (2003). He grew up in Kingman, Arizona, where his family moved when he was a year old. He appeared in more than 400 films and shared with Walter Brennan the rare ability to move with ease from B Westerns to A pictures.

Dragonfly (2002). Devine was born in Flagstaff, Arizona. Thirteen Days (2000). His movie career started in silent films and extended until his death. For Love of the Game (1999). Andy Devine (born Jeremiah Schwartz) (October 7, 1905 - February 18, 1977) was a rotund, raspy-voiced character actor and comic cowboy sidekick. Message in a Bottle (1999). When asked if he had strange nodes on his vocal chords, Devine replied, "I've got the same nodes as Bing Crosby, but his are in tune.".

The Postman (1997). Tin Cup (1996). Waterworld (1995). Wyatt Earp (1994).

A Perfect World (1993). The Bodyguard (1992). JFK (1991). Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).

Revenge (1990). Dances with Wolves (1990). Field of Dreams (1989). Bull Durham (1988).

No Way Out (1987). The Untouchables (1987). American Flyers (1985). Silverado (1985).

All that is seen of him are his slashed wrists as the mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes. He was the friend who committed suicide, the event around which the plot of the movie revolves. Costner was cast in the hit The Big Chill. He filmed several scenes which were planned as flashbacks, but they never made it to the final cut.