Larry Parks

He made only two more films before retiring permanently. He won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in Mystic River (2003). Following his admission before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Columbia Pictures dropped him. In 2003 a 15th-anniversary celebration of Bull Durham at the National Baseball Hall of Fame was cancelled due to controversy over his and Sarandon's public anti-war stance. Following his Oscar nomination, he made a few more movies that did little in the box office, until he appeared in the sequel, Jolson Sings Again in 1949, which was another hit. Robbins lives in New York City with Sarandon and their three children. He is a prominent spokesperson for anti-globalization, and vocally opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He made several forgettable films untl he won the role of Al Jolson in the 1946 biographical film The Jolson Story, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Robbins also continues to act in mainstream Hollywood thrillers like Arlington Road (1999) and Antitrust (2001), and to act in and direct Actors' Gang theater productions.

Having attended the University of Illinois, Parks played in stock companies for several years before signing a Hollywood contract in 1941. Since that time he has written, produced, and directed several films with strong but subtle political content, such as the critically-acclaimed capital punishment saga Dead Man Walking in 1995, which earned him a directorial Oscar nomination, and 1999's Depression-era musical Cradle Will Rock. Born Samuel Lawrence Klausman Parks in Olathe, Kansas, his career was virtually ended when he admitted in 1951 to having been a member of a Communist party cell. Robbins then starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption based on Stephen King's short story. Larry Parks (December 13, 1914 - April 13, 1975) was an American actor. His directorial and screenwriting debut was 1992's Bob Roberts, a mockumentary about a populist right-wing presidential candidate. He received critical acclaim for his starring role as an amoral movie executive in the 1992 film The Player.

On the set of that movie he began a relationship with fellow actor Sarandon that continues to the present day. He also took small parts in films, with a breakthrough part as pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh in the 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham. On graduation in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors' Gang in Los Angeles, an experimental theater group, with actor friends from his college softball team. Robbins spent two years at Plattsburgh State University, then returned to California to attend drama school at UCLA.

Robbins joined Theater for a New City at age twelve, and participated in the drama club at Stuyvesant High School. Robbins was born in West Covina, California, but moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a young age while his father, Gil Robbins, pursued a career as a member of the folk music group The Highwaymen. He is the longtime companion of actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he shares strong leftist political views. Tim Robbins (born October 16, 1958, also Timothy Robbins) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer.

Mystic River (2003). Code 46 (2003). Human Nature (2001). Antitrust (2001).

High Fidelity (2000). Cradle Will Rock writer, director (1999). Dead Man Walking writer, director (1995). The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). Bob Roberts writer, director (1992). The Player (1992). Jacob's Ladder (1990).

Tapeheads (1988). Bull Durham (1988).