Sylvester Stallone

Michael Sylvester Enzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), usually known as simply Sylvester Stallone, is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rambo and Rocky series, in both of which he played a largely monosyllabic hero.

Stallone was born in New York City, and attended high school in Silver Spring, Maryland, at Montgomery Blair High School. He studied drama at the University of Miami, after which he returned to New York and appeared in a few small Off-Broadway plays. His first film roles were very small, including a pornographic film, and he did not break through until he starred in Rocky (1976), a film that he wrote and sold with the rider that he would be the lead. Stallone had two Academy Award nominations for Rocky. However, his attempts to expand his range floundered and he was forced to return to the Rocky franchise a number of times (1979, 1982, 1985, and 1990) to pay for the flops. He tried his hand at directing as well as writing with Rocky II, III and IV, and directed and co-wrote the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive. His only other early successes were as John Rambo in First Blood (1982) and its sequels. He also appeared in Cobra (1986) and Daylight (1996).

In the 1990s he had further box-office wins with a number of action movies, including Cliffhanger (1993, for which he co-wrote the screenplay), Demolition Man (1993) and Judge Dredd (1995). He still sought to expand his appeal with the low-budget Cop Land (1997) and a voice role in Antz (1998), but his $15 million plus paychecks are still only offered for more lively action roles. He played the villain in the 2003 movie Spy Kids 3-D.

His trademark sneer, drooping eyes, and slurred speech are the result of paralysis in the left side of his face caused by birth complications.

He has been married three times, to Brigitte Nielsen, Sasha Czack, and Jennifer Flavin. He has five children, Sage Moonblood and Seargeoh (with Czack), and Sophia Rose, Sistine Rose, and Scarlet Rose (with Flavin). He is the older brother of singer and actor Frank Stallone.

Trivia

  • Nicknamed "Sly"
  • In the French satirical show Les Guignols de l'Info, he was depicted as Cdr. Sylvester from the United States Army during the first Gulf War (because of his role in Rambo). He then became Mr. Sylvester, the ubiquitous man in a dark suit associated with multinational corporations (World Company) and the CIA
  • Won "Worst Actor of the Century" award at the 1999 Golden Raspberry Awards for his role in "99.5% of Everything He's Ever Done." It should be noted, however, that he had a speech impediment and was nominated for a Best Actor award for his role in Rocky at the 1976 Academy Awards.
  • Not all of the films in which he's appeared are in the English language. He made a cameo appearance in the French film Taxi 3 where he spoke what appeared to be fluent French.
  • In Rambo III Stallone's character is portrayed fighting alongside the Mujahideen, many of which later formed the Taliban in Afghanistan. The actor would come to regret this in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. In fairness, many of the Mujadideen also formed the Northern Alliance who challenged the authority of the Taliban, but unfortunately their record on human rights is also open to question.
  • Stallone's family include former charttopping singer Frank Stallone, his mother Jackie, who achieved fame in the middle 1990s as an astrologer and Sasha Stallone, who played Rocky's son in 1990's Rocky V.

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He is the older brother of singer and actor Frank Stallone. Clifton Webb has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard. He has five children, Sage Moonblood and Seargeoh (with Czack), and Sophia Rose, Sistine Rose, and Scarlet Rose (with Flavin). He is interred in crypt 2350, corridor G-6, Abbey of the Psalms in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood. He has been married three times, to Brigitte Nielsen, Sasha Czack, and Jennifer Flavin. He died of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at age seventy-six. His trademark sneer, drooping eyes, and slurred speech are the result of paralysis in the left side of his face caused by birth complications. He retired after making the movie Satan Never Sleeps (1962).

He played the villain in the 2003 movie Spy Kids 3-D. Webb's elegant taste kept him on Hollywood's best-dressed lists for decades. He still sought to expand his appeal with the low-budget Cop Land (1997) and a voice role in Antz (1998), but his $15 million plus paychecks are still only offered for more lively action roles. When Webb's mourning for her continued for what seemed a prolonged period of time, his longtime friend, Noel Coward, is said to have remarked with a bit of exasperation, "It must be tough to be orphaned at seventy-one.". In the 1990s he had further box-office wins with a number of action movies, including Cliffhanger (1993, for which he co-wrote the screenplay), Demolition Man (1993) and Judge Dredd (1995). In fact, his character of Mr. Belvedere is said to have been very close to his real life–he had an extreme devotion to his mother, who lived with him until her death at age ninety-one. He also appeared in Cobra (1986) and Daylight (1996). Belvedere and in other movies flaunted his homosexuality, but his scrupulous private life kept him free of scandal.

His only other early successes were as John Rambo in First Blood (1982) and its sequels. Webb's comically foppish mannerisms as Mr. He tried his hand at directing as well as writing with Rocky II, III and IV, and directed and co-wrote the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive. Thornton, who wants to go and stop a recent revival of his movies on TV, in Dreamboat (1952); John Philip Sousa in Stars and Stripes Forever (1952); the doomed husband of Barbara Stanwyck in the 1953 version of Titanic; and John Frederick Shadwell in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). However, his attempts to expand his range floundered and he was forced to return to the Rocky franchise a number of times (1979, 1982, 1985, and 1990) to pay for the flops. Belvedere" features, beginning with Sitting Pretty (1948); the husband of Myrna Loy and father of twelve children in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); a silent movie star, Bruce Blair, called "Dreamboat," turned college professor, Prof. Stallone had two Academy Award nominations for Rocky. He also played the priggish title role in a series of comedic "Mr.

His first film roles were very small, including a pornographic film, and he did not break through until he starred in Rocky (1976), a film that he wrote and sold with the rider that he would be the lead. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1949 for Sitting Pretty. He studied drama at the University of Miami, after which he returned to New York and appeared in a few small Off-Broadway plays. Webb received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1945 for Laura and in 1947 for The Razor's Edge. Stallone was born in New York City, and attended high school in Silver Spring, Maryland, at Montgomery Blair High School. His first major motion picture roles came in his middle-age as the classy but villainous radio columnist Waldo Lydecker in the noir classic Laura (1944) and as the elitist Elliott Templeton in The Razor's Edge (1946). He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rambo and Rocky series, in both of which he played a largely monosyllabic hero. After a few silent movies, he was classified as a character actor and stereotyped as a fussy effete snob.

Michael Sylvester Enzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), usually known as simply Sylvester Stallone, is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Despite his impressive Broadway credentials, and some appearances on the London stage, he did not fare as well in Hollywood. Stallone's family include former charttopping singer Frank Stallone, his mother Jackie, who achieved fame in the middle 1990s as an astrologer and Sasha Stallone, who played Rocky's son in 1990's Rocky V. Webb introduced George and Ira Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You" in Treasure Girl (1928); Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" in The Little Show (1929); and Irving Berlin's "Not for All the Rice in China" in As Thousands Cheer (1933). In fairness, many of the Mujadideen also formed the Northern Alliance who challenged the authority of the Taliban, but unfortunately their record on human rights is also open to question. Over the next twenty-five years, the tall and slender performer, who sang in a clear, gentle tenor, appeared in numerous musicals and worked his way from featured dancer to leading man. The actor would come to regret this in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Taking the stage name Clifton Webb, he was a professional ballroom dancer at age nineteen and appeared in about two dozen operas before debuting on Broadway as Bosco in The Purple Road (1913).

In Rambo III Stallone's character is portrayed fighting alongside the Mujahideen, many of which later formed the Taliban in Afghanistan. He sang with the Boston Opera Company when he was seventeen. He made a cameo appearance in the French film Taxi 3 where he spoke what appeared to be fluent French. He made his stage debut at age seven. Not all of the films in which he's appeared are in the English language. Privately tutored, Webb also studied dance and acting. Won "Worst Actor of the Century" award at the 1999 Golden Raspberry Awards for his role in "99.5% of Everything He's Ever Done." It should be noted, however, that he had a speech impediment and was nominated for a Best Actor award for his role in Rocky at the 1976 Academy Awards. He didn't care for the theatre.".

Sylvester, the ubiquitous man in a dark suit associated with multinational corporations (World Company) and the CIA. She dismissed questions about his father, a railroad manager, by saying, "We never speak of him. He then became Mr. In 1892, his formidable mother, Mabelle, moved to New York with her beloved "little Webb," as she called him for the remainder of her life. Sylvester from the United States Army during the first Gulf War (because of his role in Rambo). He was born Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck in Beech Grove, Indiana, the son of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867-May 2, 1939) and Mabelle A. Parmalee (March 24, 1869-October 17, 1960). In the French satirical show Les Guignols de l'Info, he was depicted as Cdr. Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor.

Nicknamed "Sly". Father Bovard. Satan Never Sleeps (1962) (20th Century Fox) .. Robert Dean. Holiday for Lovers (1959) (20th Century Fox) ..

Horace Pennypacker. Mr. Pennypacker (1959) (20th Century Fox) .. The Remarkable Mr.

Victor Parmalee. Boy on a Dolphin (1957) (20th Century Fox) .. Ewen Montagu. Cmdr.

Lt. The Man Who Never Was (1956) (20th Century Fox) .. Ernest Gifford. Woman's World (1954) (20th Century Fox) ..

John Frederick Shadwell. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) (20th Century Fox) .. Robert Jordan. Mister Scoutmaster (1953) (20th Century Fox) ..

Richard Ward Sturges. Titanic (1953) (20th Century Fox) .. John Philip Sousa. Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) (20th Century Fox) ..

Thornton Sayre/Dreamboat/Bruce Blair. Prof. Dreamboat (1952) (20th Century Fox) .. Elopement (1951) (20th Century Fox) ... Howard Osborne.

Lynn Belvedere. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) (20th Century Fox) .. Mr. Charles/Slim Charles.

For Heaven's Sake (1950) (20th Century Fox) .. Frank Bunker Gilbreth. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) (20th Century Fox) .. Lynn Belvedere.

Belvedere Goes to College (1949) (20th Century Fox) .. Mr. Lynn Belvedere. Sitting Pretty (1948) (20th Century Fox) ..

Elliott Templeton. The Razor's Edge (1946) (20th Century Fox) .. Hardy Cathcart. The Dark Corner (1946) (20th Century Fox) ..

Waldo Lydecker. Laura (1944) (20th Century Fox) .. Business man sharing a room in burning hotel. The Still Alarm (1930) comedy short of Broadway skit (Vitaphone) ..

Maxim. The Heart of a Siren (1925) (First National Pictures) .. Tom Lawrence. New Toys (1925) (First National Pictures) ..

Major Bertie (uncredited). Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924) (Vitagraph) .. Harry Richardson (uncredited). Polly with a Past (1920) (Metro Pictures) ..