Joseph Fiennes

Fiennes starred as well in the 2003 limited-release film Luther, playing Martin Luther himself. He appeared in many films, among them:. Fiennes also stars in the 1998 film Elizabeth and the 2003 film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas as the voice of Proteus. He died of cancer in 1986. His biggest film, to date, was Shakespeare in Love, which won for Best Picture at the Academy Awards for 1998. Both books were well received. His first feature film was 1996's Stealing Beauty, co-starring Liv Tyler. He wrote his autobiography Wanderer in 1963 and an adventure novel of the tall ships, Voyage: A Novel of 1896 in 1976.

Fiennes made his television debut as Willy in The Vacillations of Poppy Carew. He defied a court order once and sailed to Tahiti with his children following a divorce. Fiennes, then, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons. He professed distaste for film acting, claiming that he did it mainly to pay for his sailing vessels. His first professional stage appearance was in the West End in "The Woman in Black," followed by "A Month in the Country," opposite Helen Mirren. Ever after regretted this action, holding himself in enormous contempt for what he considered 'ratting'.". After leaving art school, Fiennes worked with the Young Vic Youth Theatre, and then went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. According to his IMDB biography (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001330/bio), "As Red Scare deepens in U.S., he cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, confessing his brief Communist ties.

He was raised in West Cork, Ireland, along with his six brothers and sisters, including his twin, Jacob, and older brother Ralph Fiennes. His admiration for the Communist partisans led to a brief involvement with the Communist Party. Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He won the Silver Star and a commendation from Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito. Joseph Alberic Fiennes (born May 27, 1970) is an English born actor. His World War 2 service included running guns through German lines to the Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into Croatia. He also joined the Marines under the name John Hamilton.

After only two film roles, however, he left Hollywood to serve as an undercover agent with the with William J. Donovan's COI office and remained after it became the OSS. His first film role starred Madeleine Carroll, with whom he fell in love and married. He became a print model and eventually was signed to a contract with Paramount Studios, who dubbed the 6' 5" (1.96 m) actor The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies and The Beautiful Blond Viking God. After serving as sailor and fireman on larger vessels, he was awarded his first command at 19, and sailed around the world several times.

He ran away to sea at 17, as a ship's boy, then later was a fisherman on the Grand Banks. Hayden was a genuine adventurer and man of action, not dissimilar from many of his movie parts. As a child, he lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Maine, where he attended Wassookeag School in Dexter, Maine. After his father died, he was adopted at the age of nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden.

Hayden's parents were George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. He also played the Irish policeman, Captain McCluskey, who was gunned down by Al Pacino, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in 1972. Strangelove (1964). Ripper in Dr.

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