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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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| River Phoenix |
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River Phoenix was a hugely talented, seriously cool actor, who proved the phrase "only the good die young". Born in California to religious parents, who encouraged their children into acting, Phoenix was performing in television by the time he was ten. He made his film debut in the kids fantasy adventure Explorers in 1985, before getting rave reviews and box office success in Stand By Me, The Mosquito Coast and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Phoenix also earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as Danny Pope in Running On Empty in 1988. His best work however, came in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho in 1991. Phoenix was excellent in the film, playing a narcoleptic rent boy searching for the mother who abandoned him. Phoenix died aged 23 of a drug overdose outside Johnny Depp's LA club The Viper Room. |
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| Robert De Niro |
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Born in New York in 1943 to painters (as in artists, not decorators), De Niro caught the acting bug at 10 while playing the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz. Nicknamed Bobby Milk because of his complexion, he was so quiet as a young man, people thought he was autistic. He studied The Method with Lee Strasberg (who also taught Pacino) and worked off-Broadway before appearing in Brian De Palma's early films. Long-term collaborator and friend of Martin Scorsese, De Niro famously piled on 50lbs (over 3 stone) to play Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta, for which he won an Oscar. |
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| Robert Downey Jr |
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One of America's finest actors, Robert Downey Jr. has always had to fight personal demons as complex as many of the characters he plays on-screen. Born in 1965, Greenwich Village, in New York, he is the son of famous filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. His first part in a movie came in his father's own film Pound, when he was only five years old. Thereafter, he got his big break alongside Molly Ringwald in James Toback's 1987 film The Pick Up Artist before playing a drug addict in Less Than Zero. Downey Jr. earned an Oscar nomination in 1992, for his portrayal of legendary screen icon Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin. Unfortunately, his recent well-publicised battle against drug addiction has meant that, apart from Natural Born Killers, we have been denied his undoubted talent onscreen for some time. |
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| Robert Mitchum |
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Born in 1917 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mitchum had a difficult, unstable upbringing, culminating in his arrest for vagrancy at 16. Before marrying his childhood sweetheart in 1940 and having a child, he worked as a nightclub bouncer, an astrologer's promoter and something called an engine wiper. Settling down with his wife, he began a steady job at Lockheed Aircraft, but his hobby, acting, soon took over. He played a succession of heavies in small roles before attracting attention in 1945's The Story of GI Joe. His stardom survived an arrest for marijuana possession in 1948, and he was superbly terrifying in both The Night Of The Hunter (1955) and Cape Fear (1962). |
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