biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Actor, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He served a long apprenticeship in film and television, interspersed with employment as a carpenter, before achieving stardom in Star Wars (1977) and its two sequels. Cast as a resourceful, swashbuckling hero, he found great popularity as the archaeologist adventurer ‘Indiana Jones’ in a series of films beginning with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He enhanced his reputation with testing characterizations in Witness (1985, Oscar nomination), The Mosquito Coast (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), and The Fugitive (1993). Later films include Clear and Present Danger (1994), The Devil's Own (1997), and What Lies Beneath (2000). He received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 2000. |
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