Kurt Russell

Acting · Born 1951-03-17 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for…

Filmography

• Escape from New York as Snake Plissken
• The Thing as MacReady
• Stargate as Colonel Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil
• Overboard as Dean Proffitt
• The Fox and the Hound as Copper (voice)
• Big Trouble in Little China as Jack Burton
• Tombstone as Wyatt Earp
• Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story as Ben Crane
• Silkwood as Drew Stephens
• Miracle as Herb Brooks

TV

• What If...? as Ego (voice)
• What If...? as Ego / Ego's Computer / Ego's Army (voice)
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as Lee Shaw
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• The F.B.I. as Dan Winslow
• Hawaii Five-O as Peter Valchek
• Gilligan's Island as Jungle Boy
• The View as Self
• The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters as Jamie McPheeters
• E! True Hollywood Story