Tim Matheson

He was previously married to actress Jennifer Leak. 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. Matheson is married to Megan Murphy Matheson, with whom he has three children. 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. Matheson appeared in the movie Van Wilder in 2002, playing the father of the title character who was inspired by his own character in Animal House 24 years earlier. His most recent film is the 2003 Something's Gotta Give. They were unable to reverse the decline and sold it in 1991. In the comedy Anger Management, he plays an aggressive therapist alongside Adam Sandler.

Matheson, along with partner Dan Grodnik, bought National Lampoon in 1989 when the magazine was facing financial decline. The deeply emotional, slow film stands in sharp contrast to many of his previous roles. He has also directed episodes of Third Watch, Ed, The Twilight Zone, Cold Case, and Without a Trace. In About Schmidt (2002), Nicholson portrayed a man who questions his own life after his retirement and the death of his wife. More recently, he guest-starred as Vice President John Hoynes on The West Wing. The September 11, 2001 attacks led Nicholson to focus on comedies. Beginning his acting career as a child, Matheson provided the voice of Jonny Quest in the original series of that name before going on to act in over a hundred film and television projects. He would win his next Oscar for his role as the neurotic lead in the romance As Good As It Gets (1997).

Although perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth talking, sex-obsessed Otter in the 1978 comedy Animal House, Matheson's career spans five decades, many genres, and several facets of the entertainment industry. 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. Tim Matheson, an American actor, was born Tim Matthieson on December 31, 1947, in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. 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.