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| The voting's over. Now it's time to find out who the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of all time are, as voted by you. Watch Channel 4's 100 Greatest Movie Stars to find out if these nominees made it onto the final list. |
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| Jack Lemmon |
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Born John Uhler Lemmon III in Boston, 1925. After becoming involved in amateur dramatics at Harvard, Lemmon endured a slow rise to fame, not featuring in a film until 1954. However, the next year he gave an Oscar-winning performance in Mister Roberts. In a long, varied and extremely auspicious career he was best known for comedies, often working with actor Walter Matthau or director Billy Wilder. He agreed to appear in drag in Wilder's Some Like It Hot in return for the lead in the director's follow-up, the equally marvellous The Apartment. Before his death in June 2001 he made a brilliant comeback as a desperate, washed-up salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross. |
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| Jack Nicholson |
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Born in New Jersey, 1937, Nicholson was abandoned by his father and was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother and his mother his older sister. At 17 he worked as an office boy at MGM and after a few TV roles made his film debut in 1958 with Cry Baby Killer. He worked for Roger Corman through the 60s before his big break came when Rip Torn pulled out of Easy Rider. An Oscar nomination and a series of offbeat, intense roles followed, culminating in his Oscar-winning performance as Randale McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975. More recently he notched up another Oscar for his role in As Good As It Gets (1997). |
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| Jackie Chan |
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Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1954. Born into poverty - his parents almost sold him to the doctor who delivered him because they couldn't pay his medical bills - Chan was apprenticed to the Peking Opera at the age of six. He started out as a stuntman and after the death of Bruce Lee was groomed as a replacement. A Buster Keaton fan, Chan soon realised that he would be better off playing for laughs and was soon Asia's number one film star. Pretty much uninsurable having broken nearly all his bones performing his own stunts, Chan eventually broke through into Hollywood in the late 90s. |
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| James Cagney |
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Born in New York in 1899 to an Irish father and Norwegian mother, Cagney also reputedly spoke Yiddish, having grown up in a Jewish area of town. To support the family young James did various odd jobs, including working in a revue as a female impersonator. From here he graduated to Broadway and then to film, earning instant notoriety for his performance as a gangster in 1931's The Public Enemy, which included a scene where he shoved a grapefruit into a moll's face. The 5'6" Cagney became a huge star by playing trouser-hitching, straight-talking crooks. However he also excelled in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, and his penultimate film, the corporate satire One, Two, Three. |
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