Alan Autry

Credited as Alan Autry. Benigni is currently directing a new film called "La tigre et la neve", shooting in Rome, Tunisia, and Umbria. Credited as Carlos Brown. Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling the Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show. His famously mangled English is a put-on, apparently.
. It was an unprecedented fact, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal (and Berlinguer was perhaps the most serious one at all); it represented a breaking point, after which politicians experimented newer habits and "public manners", started frequenting less formal happenings and, generally speaking, modified their lifestyle in order to show a more popular, "familiar" look. He also directed the film. Little after, he appeared during a public political demonstration of the Italian Communist Party (of which he was a sympathiser), and in this occasion he took in his arms and dandled the national leader Enrico Berlinguer, a very serious figure.

In 2002 he released The Legend of Jake Kincaid, a western based on a story he wrote. A great scandal for the time, the series was suspended due to censorship. In 1997 he started his own production company Dirt Road Productions. Very popular in Italy, Benigni became famous in the 1970s for a shocking TV series called Televacca, by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted a particular hymn on specific biological functions. He was re-elected on March 2, 2004 with over 72 percent of the vote. His second term will be from January, 2005 to January, 2009. Benigni is also a well appreciated improvisatory poet (poesia estemporanea is a form of art popularly followed and practiced in Tuscany), and is appreciated for his recitations of Dante's Divina Commedia by memory. His first term is from January, 2001 to January, 2005. He also starred in the first of Jarmusch's series of short films Coffee and Cigarettes (1986).

Autry was elected Mayor of Fresno, California in November, 2000. In Down By Law (1986) he plays Bob, the innocent abroad, convicted for murder, whose irrepressible good humour and optimism help him escape and find love (also starring Braschi as his beloved.) In Night on Earth (1991) he plays a cabby in Rome, causing his passenger, a priest, great discomfort by confessing his revolting sexual experiences. He is married to Kimberlee Autry and they have three children. Benigni has starred in two films by American Director Jim Jarmusch. By 1986 he was a born-again Christian and began to devote much of his time to working with charitable causes. Benigni's wife, Nicoletta Braschi, has starred with him in most of the films he directed. Afterwards he made the decision to return to his birth name Autry. With the very popular comic actor Massimo Troisi, he played in Non ci resta che piangere (nothing left for us, but crying), a fable in which the protagonists are suddenly thrown back in time up to 15th century, just a little before 1492, so they start looking for Columbus in order to stop him before discovering the Americas, but obviously they are not able to reach him.

He met his biological father Carl Autry for the first time in 1982 while on location in Shreveport,for the motion picture Southern Comfort, after finding his name in the phone book. Benigni also directed The Monster (Il Mostro), Il piccolo diavolo (with Walter Matthau) and Johnny Stecchino. When his football career ended he came to Hollywood, making his film debut in the 1978 motion picture Remember My Name. Benigni's father had spent two years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, and La Vita è bella is based in part on his father's experiences; the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor (Benigni directed himself). In 1975 he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers where he was a second string and briefly in 1977, starting quarterback. Benigni is probably best known for his tragicomedy Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella), filmed in Cortona, about a man who tries to protect his son during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win. He received an athletic scholarship to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he was a quarterback for the Tigers. He was born in Misericordia, Tuscany, Italy.

In high school he was a star quarterback for the Riverdale Cowboys. Roberto Benigni (born October 27, 1952) is an Italian film and television actor and director. When he was 12 they settled in Riverdale, California. He worked alongside his mother and stepfather Joe Duty in the fields of California's San Joaquin Valley, planting and harvesting cotton, grapes and other crops.They travelled around the valley living in worker camps. His name was changed to Carlos Brown when he was a year old, after his parents divorced.

Autry was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the son of Carl Autry and Verna Brown. He appeared in numerous movies and television shows and was later elected as Mayor of Fresno, California. He is best known for his role as Captain Bubba Skinner on the television series In the Heat of the Night. Carlos Alan Autry (born July 31, 1952) is an actor, politician, and former NFL football player.

Imdb Alan Autry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042641/). Alan Autry's The Legend of Jake Kincaid (http://www.jakekincaid.com). The Legend of Jake Kincaid (2002) as Jake Kincaid. Intruders (1992) as Joe Wilkes.

The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990) as Matt. Street of Dreams (1988) as Maury Fields. World Gone Wild (1988) as Hank. Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) as George.

Destination America (1987) as Larry Leathergood. Proud Men (1987) as Brian Winoon. At Close Range (1986) as Ernie. Auggie Johnson.

Blue De Ville (1986) as Sgt. House (1986) as Cop # 3. Nomads (1986)as Olds. Brewsters Millions (1985) as Biff Brown.

Eagle and the Bear (1985). & Stiggs (1985). O.C. Roadhouse 66 (1984) as Hoot.

Dangerous Company (1982) as Donald Robinette. Nolan (Coach) Bowden. Southern Comfort (1982) as Cpl. Rage (1980) as Man #B.

North Dallas Forty (1979) as Balford. Remember My Name (1978) as Rusty. Sons of Thunder (1999) as Butch McMann. Style and Substance (1998) as Earl.

Grace Under Fire (1995 - 1996) as Rick Bradshaw. In the Heat of the Night (1988- 1995) as Captain Bubba Skinner.