Raymond Massey

See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. 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 has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for movies at 1719 Vine Street and one for television at 6708 Hollywood Blvd. 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. On July 29, 1983 he died in Los Angeles, California from pneumonia and is buried in New Haven, Connecticut. His most recent film is the 2003 Something's Gotta Give. His brother was Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada. In the comedy Anger Management, he plays an aggressive therapist alongside Adam Sandler.

He has two children who followed him into acting: Anna Massey and Daniel Massey. The deeply emotional, slow film stands in sharp contrast to many of his previous roles. Massey became well-known on television in the 1950s and 1960s, especially in his role as Doctor Gillespie in the series Doctor Kildare. In About Schmidt (2002), Nicholson portrayed a man who questions his own life after his retirement and the death of his wife. Following the war, he became an American citizen. The September 11, 2001 attacks led Nicholson to focus on comedies. He rejoined the Canadian Army during World War II, and was wounded and invalided out in 1943. He would win his next Oscar for his role as the neurotic lead in the romance As Good As It Gets (1997).

Despite being Canadian, Massey became famous for his quintessential American roles, as Abraham Lincoln in 1940's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), in 1941's Santa Fe Trail, in which he played abolitionist John Brown, and as Lincoln again in 1962's How the West Was Won. 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. Early in Massey's career, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), heard Massey perform and was struck by the close similarity of Massey's speaking voice to that of his father. Nathan R. G. Wells' Things to Come. For his role as Col. In 1936 he starred in H. 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).

His first movie role was High Treason in 1927, and he played Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band in the following year. Nicholson won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Terms of Endearment (1984). However, drawn to the theater, in 1922 he appeared on the London stage. 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. Severely wounded in action in France, he was sent home where he eventually worked in the family business, selling farm implements. 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. His first stage appearance was in Siberia, where he entertained the American troops who were on occupation duty. That film led to a small supporting role in Easy Rider (1969), for which he received his first Oscar nomination.

At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Canadian Army. His work with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper on the LSD-fueled The Trip led to his real break. He was educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Toronto and at Balliol College, Oxford, England. 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. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Hart Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. Nicholson started his career as an actor, writer, and producer, working for and with Roger Corman. Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 - July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor. 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.