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John Travolta
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John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor. He began acting on television before transitioning into a leading man in film. His accolades include a Primetim…
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John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor. He began acting on television before transitioning into a leading man in film. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Travolta came to prominence starring in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), followed by leading roles in Carrie (1976), Grease (1978), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Blow Out (1981). He earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994). His other notable films include Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Michael (1996), Face/Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Primary Colors (1998), The General's Daughter (1999), The Punisher (2004), Wild Hogs (2007), Hairspray (2007), Bolt (2008), and Savages (2012). Travolta returned to television, portraying lawyer Robert Shapiro in the series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. He received an Emmy Award as a producer and nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He was also Emmy-nominated for his role in the action-comedy web series Die Hart (2021). Travolta has released nine albums outside of acting, including four singles that charted on the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40. His albums typically accompanied films he starred in, such as Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1978), which topped the Billboard 200. Travolta is also a private pilot.
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2026
November 1963
Movie Johnny Roselli
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2026
Buscando a Travolta
Movie Self
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2026
The Gentleman Thief
Movie Mason Goddard
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2026
Propeller One-Way Night Coach
Movie Retiring Captain / Narrator (voice)
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2025
The Kick That United A Nation
Movie Self
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2025
High Rollers
Movie Mason Goddard
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2024
Cash Out
Movie Mason Goddard
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2023
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2023
The Shepherd
Movie Johnny Kavanagh
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2023
Mob Land
Movie Bodie Davis
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2023
Die Hart
Movie Ron Wilcox
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2023
The Playboy Murders
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2022
Paradise City
Movie Buck
- 2022
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2021
Hart to Heart
TV show Self - Interviewee
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2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Die Hart
TV show Ron Wilcox
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
The Fanatic
Movie Moose
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2019
The Poison Rose
Movie Carson Philips
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2019
Trading Paint
Movie Sam
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2018
Speed Kills
Movie Ben Aronoff (Don Aronow)
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2018
Studio 54
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Gotti
Movie John Gotti
- 2017
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2017
Pattern Recognition
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
The Grease Story
Movie Danny Zuko
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2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie Self (archive)
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2017
The True Story of...
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2017
Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees
Movie Self - Host
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2017
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
Movie Self - Actor (archive footage)
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2016
Life on the Line
Movie Beau Ginner
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2016
David Blaine: Beyond Magic
Movie Self
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2016
In a Valley of Violence
Movie The Marshal
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2016
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Movie Self
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2016
I Am Wrath
Movie Stanley Hill
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2016
American Crime Story
TV show Robert Shapiro
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2015
Criminal Activities
Movie Eddie
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2015
Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales
TV show Danny Zuko (archive footage)
