My Favorites Among The Young Immortals
by md-fromlosangeles | created - 21 Sep 2011 | updated - 21 Sep 2011 | Public
1. Heath Ledger
Actor | Brokeback Mountain
When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...
2. River Phoenix
Actor | My Own Private Idaho
River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon. His mother, Arlyn (Dunetz), a Bronx-born secretary, and his father, John Bottom, a carpenter, met in California in 1968. They worked as itinerant fruit pickers, and later joined the Children of God religious group (John was originally ...
3. Brandon De Wilde
Actor | Shane
Brandon De Wilde was born into a theatrical family and made a much-acclaimed Broadway debut in "The Member of the Wedding" at age 9. He was the first child actor to win the Donaldson Award, and went on to repeat his role in the film version, directed by Fred Zinnemann in 1952. As the blond-haired, ...
4. Patrick Dewaere
Actor | Un mauvais fils
Popular but troubled renegade French actor Patrick Dewaere was christened Jean-Marie Patrick Bourdeaux on January 26, 1947, at Saint-Brieuc in Britanny in the north-west region of France. The third of six children born to actress Mado Maurin (1915-2011), his mother made acting a family affair. All ...
5. James Dean
Actor | East of Eden
James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to ...
6. Marc Porel
Actor | Sette note in nero
Marc Porel was born on January 3, 1949 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was an actor and writer, known for The Psychic (1977), Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976) and Don't Torture a Duckling (1972). He was married to Barbara Magnolfi and Bénédicte Lacoste. He died on August 15, 1983 in Casablanca, ...
7. Alessandro Momo
Actor | Profumo di donna
Alessandro Momo was one of the promising young Italian actors. He began his acting career when he was very young, starring as a protagonist in the soap operas along with Valerio Fioravanti.
He became famous for his sexual exploitation of the maid played by the Italian sex bomb, Laura Antonelli in ...
8. Brad Renfro
Actor | The Client
Brad Renfro was born on July 25, 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Angela Denise McCrory and Mark Renfro, a factory worker. He was discovered at age 10 by director Joel Schumacher and was cast in the motion picture The Client (1994), which starred Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. Although this ...
9. Stefano Madia
Actor | Caro papà
Stefano Madia was born on December 31, 1954 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Dear Father (1979), Body Count (1986) and The Devil's Honey (1986). He died on December 16, 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
10. Massimo Troisi
Actor | Il postino
His acting career started when he was 15 in a theatre (Centro Teatro Spazio). In 1969 he founded the group "I saraceni" (later renamed "La smorfia") with Enzo Decaro and Lello Arena. He became famous to the TV audience between 1976 and 1979 with two TV programs "Non Stop" and "Luna Park". First ...
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