The Jack Nicholson Handbook - Everything you need to know about Jack Nicholson

Sheri Bowden

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John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.

Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards twelve times. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Michael Caine).

He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.

This book is your ultimate resource for Jack Nicholson. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career, Personal life, and Filmography right away: List of awards and nominations received by Jack Nicholson, How Do You Know (film), The Bucket List, The Departed, Something's Gotta Give (film), Anger Management, About Schmidt, The Pledge (film), As Good as It Gets, Mars Attacks!, The Evening Star, Blood and Wine, The Crossing Guard, Wolf (film), Hoffa, A Few Good Men (film), Man Trouble (film), The Two Jakes, Batman (1989 film), Ironweed (film), Broadcast News (film), The Witches of Eastwick (film), Heartburn (film), Prizzi's Honor, Terror in the Aisles, Terms of Endearment, The Border (1982 film), Reds (film), Ragtime (film), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film), The Shining (film), Goin' South, The Last Tycoon (film), The Missouri Breaks, Tommy (film), The Passenger (film), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film), The Fortune, Chinatown (film), The Last Detail, The King of Marvin Gardens, Drive, He Said, A Safe Place, Carnal Knowledge, Five Easy Pieces, The Rebel Rousers, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (film), Easy Rider, Head (film), Psych-Out, Hells Angels on Wheels, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film), The Shooting, Ride in the Whirlwind, Back Door to Hell, Ensign Pulver, Flight to Fury, The Raven (1963 film), The Terror (1963 film), The Broken Land, Studs Lonigan, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Wild Ride, Too Soon to Love, The Cry Baby Killer

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781486434824
• Langue: English
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Contents Articles Jack Nicholson List of awards and nominations received by Jack Nicholson How Do You Know (film) The Bucket List The Departed Something's Gotta Give (film) Anger Management About Schmidt The Pledge (film) As Good as It Gets Mars Attacks! The Evening Star Blood and Wine The Crossing Guard Wolf (film) Hoffa A Few Good Men (film) Man Trouble (film) The Two Jakes Batman (1989 film) Ironweed (film) Broadcast News (film) The Witches of Eastwick (film) Heartburn (film) Prizzi's Honor Terror in the Aisles Terms of Endearment The Border (1982 film) Reds (film) Ragtime (film) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film) The Shining (film) Goin' South The Last Tycoon (film)

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The Missouri Breaks Tommy (film) The Passenger (film) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film) The Fortune Chinatown (film) The Last Detail The King of Marvin Gardens Drive, He Said A Safe Place Carnal Knowledge Five Easy Pieces The Rebel Rousers On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (film) Easy Rider Head (film) Psych-Out Hells Angels on Wheels The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film) The Shooting Ride in the Whirlwind Back Door to Hell Ensign Pulver Flight to Fury The Raven (1963 film) The Terror (1963 film) The Broken Land Studs Lonigan The Little Shop of Horrors The Wild Ride Too Soon to Love The Cry Baby Killer References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors Article Licenses

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Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholson Nicholson at Dennis Hopper's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony March 26, 2010 Born John Joseph Nicholson April 22, 1937 New York City, New York, U.S. Occupation Actor, director, producer Years active 1958 present – Sp ou  (19–1 child se Sandra Knight 62 968); 1

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards twelve times. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, forOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestand forAs Good as It Gets. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 filmTerms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, in chronological order,Easy Rider,Five Easy Pieces,Chinatown,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,The Shining,Reds,Terms of Endearment,Batman,A Few Good Men,As Good as It Gets,About Schmidt,Something's Gotta Give, andThe Departed.

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Jack Nicholson 2 Early life Nicholson was born in St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City, the son of a showgirl, June Frances Nicholson [1] [2] (stage name June Nilson). June had married Italian American showman Donald Furcillo (stage name Donald [3] Rose) six months earlier in Elkton, Maryland, on October 16, 1936. Elkton was a town known for its "quickie" marriages. Furcillo, however, was already married, and, although he offered to take care of the child, June's mother Ethel insisted that she bring up the baby, partly so that June could pursue her dancing career. Although Donald Furcillo claimed to be Nicholson's father and to have committed bigamy by marrying June, biographer Patrick [4] McGilligan asserted inJack's Lifethat Latvian-born Eddie King (originally Edgar A. Kirschfeld), June's manager, [1] may be the father, and other sources have suggested that June Nicholson was unsure of who the father was. [5] [6] [7] Nicholson's mother was of Irish, English, and Dutch descent though he and his family self-identified as Irish. Nicholson was brought up believing that his grandparents, John Joseph Nicholson (a department store window dresser in Manasquan, New Jersey) and Ethel May Rhoads (a hairdresser, beautician and amateur artist in Manasquan), were his parents. Nicholson only discovered that his "parents" were actually his grandparents and his sister was in fact his mother in 1974, after a journalist forTimemagazine who was doing a feature on Nicholson [8] informed him of the fact. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died (in 1963 and 1970, respectively). Nicholson has stated he does not know who his father is, saying "Only Ethel and June knew and they [8] never told anybody", and has chosen not to have a DNA test or to pursue the matter. [4] [5] [6] Nicholson grew up in Neptune City, New Jersey. He was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic religion. "Nick", as he was known to his high school friends, attended nearby Manasquan High School, where he was voted [9] "class clown" by the Class of 1954. A theatre and a drama award at the school are named in his honor. In 2004, [4] Nicholson attended his 50-year high school reunion accompanied by his aunt Lorraine. Early acting career When Nicholson first came to Hollywood, he worked as a gofer for animation legends William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at the MGM cartoon studio. Seeing his talent as an artist, they offered Nicholson a starting level position as an animation artist. However, citing his desire [10] to become an actor, he declined. He made his film debut in a low-budget teen dramaThe Cry Baby Killer, in 1958, playing the title role. For the following decade, Nicholson was a frequent collaborator with the film's producer, Roger Corman. Corman directed Nicholson on several occasions, most Nicholson as Wilbur Force inThe Little Shop of Horrors(1960) notably inThe Little Shop of Horrors, as masochistic dental patient Wilbur Force, and also inThe Raven,The Terror, andThe St. Valentine's Day Massacre. He worked frequently with director Monte Hellman as well on low-budget westerns, though two in particular,Ride in the WhirlwindandThe Shooting, initially failed to find interest from any US film distributors but gained cult success on the art house circuit in France and were later sold to television.

Jack Nicholson 3 Rise to fame With his acting career heading nowhere, Nicholson seemed resigned to a career behind the camera as a writer/director. His first real taste of writing success was the LSD-fueled screenplay for 1967'sThe Trip (directed by Corman), which starred Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Nicholson also co-wrote, with Bob Rafelson, the movieHead, which starred The Monkees. In addition, he also arranged the movie's soundtrack. However, after a spot opened up in Fonda and Hopper's Easy Rider, it led to his first big acting break. Nicholson played hard-drinking lawyer George Hanson, for which he received his first Jack Nicholson as lawyer George Hanson in Easy Oscar nomination. The part of Hanson was a lucky break for Riderwith Peter Fonda Nicholson the role had in fact been written for actor Rip Torn, who — was a close friend of screen writer Terry Southern, but Torn withdrew from the project after a bitter argument with [11] the film's director Dennis Hopper, during which the two men almost came to blows. A Best Actor nomination came the following year for his persona-defining role inFive Easy Pieces(1970), which includes his famous "chicken salad" dialogue about getting what you want. Also that year, he appeared in the movie adaptation ofOn A Clear Day You Can See Forever, although most of his performance was left on the cutting room floor. Other Nicholson roles included Hal Ashby'sThe Last Detail(1973), for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and the classic Roman Polanski noir thriller,Chinatown(1974). Nicholson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for both films. Nicholson was friends with the director long before the death of Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate, at the hands of the Manson Family, and supported him in the days following the [12] [13] [13] deaths. After Tate's death, Nicholson began sleeping with a hammer under his pillow, and took breaks [14] from work to attend the Manson trial. It was at Nicholson's home where the statutory rape case for which [15] Polanski was arrested occurred. He starred in The Who'sTommy(1975), directed by Ken Russell, and Michelangelo Antonioni'sThe Passenger (1975).

Jack Nicholson An American icon Nicholson earned his first Best Actor Oscar for portraying Randle P. McMurphy in the movie adaptation of Ken Kesey's novelOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, directed byMiloš Forman in 1975. His Oscar was matched when Louise Fletcher received the Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched.

After this, he began to take more unusual roles. He took a small role in The Last Tycoon, opposite Robert De Niro. He took a less sympathetic role in Arthur Penn's westernThe Missouri Breaks, specifically to work with Marlon Brando. He followed this by making his second directorial effort with the western comedyGoin' South. His first movie as a director was a 1971 quirky release calledDrive, He Said. Although he garnered no Academy Award for Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King'sThe Shining(1980), it remains one of Nicholson's most significant roles. His next Oscar, the Academy Nicholson (right) and Dennis Hopper at the 62nd Award for Best Supporting Actor, came for his role of retired astronaut Academy Awards, March 26, 1990 Garrett Breedlove inTerms of Endearment(1983), directed by James L. Brooks. Nicholson continued to work prolifically in the 80s, starring in such films asThe Postman Always Rings Twice(1981),Reds(1981),Prizzi's Honor(1985),The Witches of Eastwick(1987),Broadcast News(1987), and Ironweed(1987). Three Oscar nominations also followed (Reds,Prizzi's Honor, andIronweed). [16] Nicholson turned down the role of John Book inWitness1989. The Batmanmovie, wherein Nicholson played the psychotic murderer and villain, The Joker, was an international smash hit, and a lucrative percentage deal earned Nicholson about $60 million. For his role as hot-headed Col. Nathan R. Jessep inA Few Good Men(1992), a movie about a murder in a U.S. Marine Corps unit, Nicholson received yet another Academy nomination. This film contained the court scene in which Nicholson famously explodes, "You can't handle the truth!", in one of the Aaron Sorkin-penned monologues to become part of popular culture. In 1996, Nicholson collaborated once more withBatmandirector Tim Burton onMars Attacks!, pulling double duty as two contrasting characters, President James Dale and Las Vegas property developer Art Land. At first studio executives at Warner Bros. disliked the idea of killing off Nicholson's character, so Burton created two characters and killed them both off. Not all of Nicholson's performances have been well received. He was nominated for Razzie Awards as worst actor forMan Trouble(1992) andHoffa(1992). However, Nicholson's performance inHoffaalso earned a Golden Globe nomination. Nicholson would go on to win his next Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Melvin Udall, a neurotic author with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), in the romanceAs Good as It Gets(1997), again directed by James L. Brooks. Nicholson's Oscar was matched with the Academy Award for Best Actress for Helen Hunt as a Manhattan waitress drawn into a love/hate friendship with Udall, a frequent diner in the restaurant in which she worked. In 2001, Nicholson was the first actor to receive the Stanislavsky Award at the Moscow International Film Festival for "conquering the heights of acting and faithfulness". Nicholson is a keen sports fan, regularly to be seen in courtside seats at Los Angeles Lakers basketball games at Staples Center and the former Great Western Forum. In 1999 he appeared on the UK TV chat showParkinson, where he described himself as a "lifelong Manchester United fan".

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Jack Nicholson 5 Recent years InAbout Schmidt(2002), Nicholson portrayed a retired Omaha, Nebraska actuary who questions his own life following his wife's death. His quiet, restrained performance stood in sharp contrast to many of his previous roles, and earned him an Academy Award Nomination for Best Actor. In the comedyAnger Management(2003), he plays an aggressive therapist assigned to help overly pacifist Adam Sandler. In the same year, Nicholson starred inSomething's Gotta Give, as an aging playboy who falls for the mother (Diane Keaton) of his young girlfriend. In late 2006, Nicholson marked his return to the "dark side" as Frank Costello, a sadistic Boston Irish Mob boss presiding over Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winningThe Departed, a remake of Andrew Lau's Infernal Affairs. In November 2006, Nicholson began filming his next project, Rob Reiner'sThe Bucket List, a role for which he shaved his head. The film Jack Nicholson at 2002 Cannes starred Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as dying men who fulfill their list of goals. The film was released on December 25, 2007 (limited) and January 11, 2008 (wide). In researching the role, Nicholson visited a Los Angeles hospital to see how cancer patients coped with their illnesses. Personal life He has been romantically linked to numerous actresses and models, including Michelle Phillips, Bebe Buell, and Lara Flynn Boyle. Nicholson's longest relationship was for 16 years with actress Anjelica Huston, from 1973 to 1989, the daughter of film director John Huston. However, the relationship ended when the media reported that Rebecca Broussard had become pregnant with his child. Nicholson and Broussard had two children together, Lorraine Nicholson (born 1990) and Raymond Nicholson (born 1992). Jack's other children are Jennifer Nicholson (born 1963 with Sandra Knight) and Honey Hollman (b. 1981 with Winnie Hollman). Actress Susan Anspach contends that her son, Caleb Goddard (born 1970), was fathered by Jack, but he has never made any public [17] statements about the allegation. Nicholson lived next door to Marlon Brando for a number of years on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills. Warren Beatty also lived nearby, earning the road the nickname "Bad Boy Drive". After Nicholson in 2008 Brando's death in 2004, Nicholson purchased his neighbor's bungalow for $6.1 million, with the purpose of having it demolished. Nicholson stated that it was done out of respect to Brando's legacy, as it had become too expensive to renovate the "derelict" building which was plagued by [18] mold. Nicholson is a fan of the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers. His attendance at Lakers games is legendary, as he is a season ticket holder since 1970 and has held courtside season tickets for the past 25 years at both The