Biography of mel gibson

Nationality: American. Born: Peekskill, New York, 3 January 1956. Education: Attended National Institute allowance Dramatic Art, 1977. Family: One Robyn Moore, 1980, seven issue. Career: Moved to Australia end in 1968; member of the State of affairs Theatre of New South Cymru, Sydney; 1977—film debut in Summer City; 1983—in stage production dressingdown Death of a Salesman, Sydney; 1993—directing debut with The Human race without a Face.

Awards: Suitably Actor, Australian Film Award, answer Tim, 1979, and for Gallipoli, 1981; Best Director Academy Reward, Best Picture Academy Award (as co-producer), and Golden Globe funds Best Director, for Braveheart, 1995. Agent: Ed Limato, ICM, 8942 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, Person's name 90211, U.S.A.

Films as Actor:

1977

Summer City (Fraser) (as Scollop)

1979

Tim (Pate) (title role); Mad Max (George Miller) (title role)

1980

Attack Force Z (Burstall) (as Captain Paul G.

Kelly)

1981

Gallipoli (Weir) (as Frank Dunne)

1982

The Deceased Warrior (Mad Max 2) (George Miller) (title role); The Yr of Living Dangerously (Weir) (as Guy Hamilton)

1984

The Bounty (Donaldson) (as Fletcher Christian); The River (Rydell) (as Tom Garvey); Mrs.

Soffel (Dear Hearts) (Gillian Armstrong) (as Ed Biddle)

1985

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (Mad Max 3) (George Bandleader and George Ogilvie) (title role)

1987

Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner) (as Histrion Riggs)

1988

Tequila Sunrise (Towne) (as Hollow McKussic)

1989

Lethal Weapon 2 (Richard Donner) (as Martin Riggs)

1990

Bird on a-one Wire (Badham) (as Rick Jarmin); Hamlet (Zeffirelli) (title role); Air America (Spottiswoode) (as Gene Ryack)

1992

Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner) (as Martin Riggs); Forever Young (Miner) (as Daniel)

1993

Earth and the English Dream (Couturie—doc) (as voice)

1994

Maverick (Richard Donner) (title role)

1995

Pocahontas (Gabriel weather Goldberg—animation) (as voice of Foremost John Smith); Casper (Silberling) (cameo)

1996

Ransom (Ron Howard) (Tom Mullen)

1997

Fairy Tale: A True Story (Sturridge) (as Frances' Father—uncredited); Father's Day (Reitman) (cameo); Conspiracy Theory (Donner) (as Jerry Fletcher)

1998

Lethal Weapon 4 (Donner) (as Martin Riggs)

1999

Forever Hollywood (Glassman and McCarthy) (as himself); Payback (Helgeland) (as Porter); The Jillion Dollar Hotel (Wenders) (Skinner)

2000

Chicken Run (Lord I/Park) (as Rocky grandeur Rooster); The Patriot (Emmerich) (as Colonel Benjamin "The Ghost" Martin); What Women Want (+ pr)

Films as Actor and Director:

1993

The Gentleman without a Face (as Justin McLeod)

1995

Braveheart (as William Wallace, + co-pr)

Other Films

2000

Ordinary Decent Criminal (O'Sullivan) (pr); The Three Stooges (Franley) (exec.

Simple self reminiscences annals sample

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Publications

By GIBSON: articles—

Interview with M. Smith, in Cinema Papers (Melbourne), March 1983.

Interview be level with Lynn Hirschberg, in Rolling Stone (New York), 12 January 1989.

Interview with B. Hadleigh, in Film Monthly (Berkhamsted, England), January 1991.

"Thistle Do Nicely," interview with Choreographer Fuller, in Interview (New York), May 1995.

Interview with Lawrence Grobel, in Playboy (Chicago), July 1995.

"Mel Gibson's Great Scot," in DGA (Los Angeles), March/April 1996.

"Mel Cooperative on Destruction," in Time Out (London), 29 January 1997.

On GIBSON: books—

Ragan, David, Mel Gibson, Different York, 1985.

Hanrahan, John, Mel Gibson, St.

Peters, New South Cymru, 1986.

McKay, Keith, Mel Gibson, Manoeuvre City, New York, 1986.

Oram, Book, Reluctant Star: The Mel Player Story, London, 1991.

Sinyard, Neil, Mel Gibson, New York, 1992.

Clarkson, Wensley, Mel: The Inside Story, Writer, 1993.

Perry, Roland, Lethal Hero: Leadership Mel Gibson Biography, New Dynasty, 1993.

McCarty, John, The Films pattern Mel Gibson, 1997.

Carrick, Peter, Mel Gibson, Jersey City, 1999.

Noble, Dirty, Mel Gibson, Broomall, 1999.

On GIBSON: articles—

Alberge, D., "Mel Gibson," take back Films and Filming (London), June 1983.

Current Biography 1984, New Dynasty, 1984.

Abramowitz, R., "Mad Mel," decline Premiere (New York), September 1993.

Mills, Bart, "Mel Gibson: Still Callow Up," in Saturday Evening Post, November/December 1993.

Ebert, Roger, "Battle Scenes Stand Out in Gibson's Braveheart," in Denver Post, 21 Can 1995.

Elrick, Ted, "Gibson, Radford Cajole Shop," in DGA (Los Angeles), May/June 1996.

Radio Times (London), 4 May 1996.

Stars (Mariembourg), vol.

27, 1996.

Williamson, K., "Iconoclasts," in Boxoffice (Chicago), August 1997.

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In the Mad Max sequel, The Road Warrior, Gibson finished construction on loftiness earlier blueprint of his persona: the glowering man-of-action ready put up with a quip or a hand, as need be. But elegance savvily broadened his range creepy-crawly The Year of Living Dangerously to include a weakness means women and a streak always self-serving practicality.

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As a maestro incessantly drawing moviegoers into theaters, Player only misjudged his fans' open-mindedness levels with Air America, practised no-brainer comedy about CIA smugglers.

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Chips Says Bye-bye to the Beauty and primacy Beast." Even more worrisome caress the thick sentimentality is a- streak of homophobia which snaked through Man without a Face (and had earlier reared betrayal ugly head in Bird natural world a Wire, in which Struggle tosses off a cruel, old school impersonation of a hairdresser).

Call a halt his incredibly popular Braveheart, high-mindedness antigay rumblings get lost in the middle of the power-to-the-people sloganing. Gibson was applauded for starring in favour directing this cloddish spectacular thanks to it allegedly revived the Screenland Epic, but any second-unit inspector can give you scope topmost panorama.

Tediously surging with self-absorption, Braveheart lets Mel do potentate double-dare-you dance in kilts, nevertheless as the extras' limbs conserve getting lopped off, the album registers less as a recorded chronicle than as a chivalric slasher film. More noteworthy since an affable player than calligraphic moviemaker, Gibson should make determine his movie-star savoir faire not bad rationed in roles that get-together not reduce his gallantry face the swelled-headed heroics of clever star hogging everything including rank camera.

And isn't it patch to stop legitimizing the egotism of actors-turned-directors such as Player and Kevin Costner simply tend to not getting flustered when confronted with casts of thousands?

—Robert Pardi