Kurt Russell

At 73 years old, Kurt Russell has this physical status:

Career

Russell performed a boy who kicked a pilot (Elvis Presley) in the leg on his debut at It Happened at the World's Fair, playing a boy who kicked a pilot (Elvis Presley) in the leg. Russell appeared in The ABC series Our Man Higgins, starring Stanley Holloway as an English butler in an American family on April 24, 1963.

He appeared in the ABC western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–64). The performance was based on Robert Lewis Taylor's eponymous book, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1959.

Russell appeared in "Nemesis," an episode of ABC's The Fugitive in which he is kidnapped by his father's quarry, Doctor Richard Kimble. He played the mistaken orphanage whose father was an outlaw played by Rory Calhoun, who was still alive and recently released from jail looking for his son in NBC's The Virginian.

In the 1964 episode "Blue Heaven" for the western film "gunsmoke, Russell played a similar role as a youth named Packy Kerlin. Russell appeared on CBS's Jungle Boy on an episode of Gilligan's Island, which aired on February 6, 1965, at age 13.

On a piece of paper, Walt Disney wrote the word "Kurt Russell" in 1966.

Russell's first year as a child, he was devoted to a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he became the "studio's best star of the 1970s," according to Robert Osborne. Follow Me, Boys, Russell's first film for Disney. (1966) A.k.a. Russell appeared in "Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders" in Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color in January 1967, as Mosby's Marauders (1967). Russell continued to appear on non-Disney TV shows during this period. In the episode "Charade of Justice" of the NBC western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan, he, Jay C. Flippen, and Tom Tryon appeared. In a CBS' Lost in Space episode titled "The Challenge" in March 1966, he played Quano, the son of a planetary king.

Russell's future partner Goldie Hawn met Russell while filming the Sherman Brothers theatrical film musical "The One and Only," Genuine, Original Family Band (1968).

In the Gray Flannel Suit (1969) and Guns in the Heather (1969), he made The Horse for Disney.

Russell was given the opportunity to appear in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), which was a big hit. He continued it with The Barefoot Executive (1971), another success.

He appeared in Fools' Parade in 1971 as a young robber released from jail alongside James Stewart. He appeared in an episode of Room 222 as an idealistic high school student who mistook Paul Revere's costumed name in order to warn of the dangers of pollution.

The bulk of his film work, on the other hand, was for Disney in films like Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1971), Charley and the Angel (1973).

Russell, like his dad, had a baseball career. Russell played in the early 1970s, with the Bend Rainbows (1971) and Walla Walla Islanders (1972) in the short season Class A-Short Season Northwest League, before he moved to Class AA in 1973 with the El Paso Sun Kings of the Texas League.

Russell was in the field helping to break the rotator cuff in Russell's right (throwing) shoulder. He did not return to El Paso, but he was a designated hitter for the Portland Mavericks in the Northwest League late in the season. In the interim, his father was the team's owner, and he had been doing public relations for them. In 1973, his dad was forced to return to acting after suffering a backlash from baseball.

He appeared in ABC's The New Land, influenced by the 1972 Swedish film of the same name. It received critical attention, but only six of the 13 episodes were broadcast, and it was largely ignored. In 1975, he returned to Disney for The Greatest Man in the World.

Russell was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for Elvis' made-for-television film in 1980. After years as a child actor, Russell's Hollywood career will come to an end. It was led by John Carpenter and culminated in a sequence of collaborations between the two men.

Russell appeared in Amber Waves (1980) and the comedy Using Cars (1980). Snake Plissken appeared in Escape from New York (1981), directed by Carpenter.

Copper as an adult for The Fox and the Hound (1981), then reunited with Carpenter for The Thing (1982), based on the short story Who Goes There? This was by John W. Campbell, Jr., who had been shot on film before, but albeit in 1951's The Thing From Another World.

For his role in Silkwood (1983), he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

Russell co-starring Goldie Hawn, Russell's love interest, in 1985, who became Russell's romantic partner. He appeared in The Mean Season (1986) and The Best of Times (1986) before playing an antihero truck driver in Little China, which, like The Thing, was initially a critical and commercial disappointment but has since cultivated a cult following. Overboard (1987), a Goldie Hawn comedy, became more popular at the box office.

Russell credited his appearance in Tequila Sunrise (1988) with causing Hollywood to see him differently. He appeared in Winter People (1989), then co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in Tango & Cash (1989).

Russell appeared in Backdraft (1991), Wyatt Earp (1993) and Colonel Jack O'Neil in the military science fiction film Stargate (1994). Elvis Presley's voice in the 1994 film Forrest Gump had him in an uncredited role. Critics lauded his portrayal of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks in the 2004 film Miracle. "Miracle belongs to Kurt Russell in many ways," Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote. "Russell does real acting here," Chicago Sun-Times reporter Roger Ebert wrote. "Mr. Russell's cagey and remote appearance gives 'Miracle''s few breezes of fresh air,''" according to Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times.

Russell said in one interview that he ghost-directed the hit 1993 western film Tombstone for credited producer George P. Cosmatos, who said he gave Cosmatos shot lists. Russell said that Stallone recommended Cosmatos after the initial film, writer Kevin Jarre's ouster, but Cosmatos had also worked with Tombstone executive producer Andrew G. Vajna before on Rambo: First Blood Part II. Russell told Cosmatos that he would keep it a mystery as long as Cosmatos was alive; Cosmatos died in April 2005; Cosmatos died in April 2005. Russell said he didn't get a chance to edit his version, but Vajna gave him a tape of "everything on the film" and that he should try to "reconstruct the film," but he'd have to go back to the script and all his notes.

In Quentin Tarantino's segment Death Proof of the film Grindhouse (2005), Russell played villainous Stuntman Mike. Russell was reportedly furious with Gerard Butler for portraying his iconic character, Snake Plissken, after a reimagining of Escape from New York was revealed, as he believed the story was "quite [...] American."

Russell appeared in The Battered Bastards of Baseball, a documentary about his father and the Portland Mavericks, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. In 2015, he co-starred in the action thriller Furious 7 as a co-star.

Russell and Goldie Hawn were inducted in a double star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 4, 2017, which is located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard.

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