Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He started acting as a child in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has continued appearing in a wide variety of films since, including Follow Me, Boys!, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Barefoot Executive, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Silkwood, The Fox and the Hound, Dark Blue, Stargate, Backdraft, Tombstone, Vanilla Sky, Poseidon and Grindhouse:...
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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He started acting as a child in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has continued appearing in a wide variety of films since, including Follow Me, Boys!, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Barefoot Executive, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Silkwood, The Fox and the Hound, Dark Blue, Stargate, Backdraft, Tombstone, Vanilla Sky, Poseidon and Grindhouse: Death Proof. Russell is one of the very few famous child actors in Hollywood who has continued acting successfully well into middle age.
Russell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, a descendant of William Russell and Martha Davies, who came to MA from England c. 1640 and settled in what is now Arlington, MA. He is the son of Louise Julia (née Crone), a dancer, and Bing Russell, a character actor known as Deputy Clem Foster on Bonanza. Russell considers Rangeley, Maine, to be his hometown. In the mid-sixties, Russell graduated from...
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