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Kurt Russell
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
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…
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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 his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A.(1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
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2026
The Rivals of Amziah King
Movie Dob McCoy
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2026
Marty, Life Is Short
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
The Thing Expanded
Movie Self
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2026
The Madison
TV show Preston Clyburn
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2025
Smurfs
Movie Ron (voice)
- 2025
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2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
TV show Lee Shaw
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2023
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Movie Self - 'Ego' (archive footage)
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2021
What If...?
TV show Ego (voice)
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2021
Val
Movie Self (archive)
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2021
F9
Movie Mr. Nobody
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2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Movie Self - Actor (archive footage)
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2021
Marvel Studios Legends
TV show Ego (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
Movie Santa Claus
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2020
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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- 2020
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2020
Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives
Movie Self
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2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie (archive footage)
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2020
A Love Letter To Making Movies
Movie Self
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2019
QT8: The First Eight
Movie Self
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2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Movie Randy / Narrator
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2019
The Hateful Eight
TV show John Ruth
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2019
Crypto
Movie Martin Sr.
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2018
The Christmas Chronicles
Movie Santa Claus
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2017
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Movie Ego
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2017
The Fate of the Furious
Movie Mr. Nobody
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2016
Deepwater Horizon
Movie Jimmy Harrell
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2015
The Hateful Eight
Movie John 'The Hangman' Ruth
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2015
Bone Tomahawk
Movie Sheriff Franklin Hunt
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Furious 7
Movie Mr. Nobody
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Movie Himself
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2013
The Art of the Steal
Movie Crunch Calhoun
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2012
Django Unchained
Movie Thanks
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2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2011
Touchback
Movie Coach Hand
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2010
Conan
TV show Self - Guest
- 2008
