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Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He often portrays quirky, intense or eccentric characters. He is also known for his distinctive appearance and his unique, staccato delivery of lines. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (826x1096, 275 KB) [edit] Summary [edit] Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Jeff Goldblum ...
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The Fly is a 1986 science fiction/horror/romantic tragedy film produced by Brooksfilms and 20th Century Fox, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. ...
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In musical notation, the Italian word staccato (literally detached, plural staccatos or staccati) indicates that notes are sounded in a detached and distinctly separate manner, with silence making up the latter part of the time allocated to each note. ...
Biography
Early life Goldblum was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Homestead, Pennsylvania, the son of Shirley, a radio broadcaster who later ran a kitchen equipment sales firm, and Harold Goldblum, a doctor.[1] He has a sister, Pamela and an older brother, Lee. Another older brother, Rick, lived only to age 23. His family is Jewish and belonged to an Orthodox synagogue;[2][3] Goldblum's paternal grandfather emigrated from Russia and his maternal grandfather from Austria.[1][2] Goldblum's parents were interested in show business.[4] Goldblum moved to New York City at 17 to become an actor. Goldblum worked on the stage and studied acting at the renowned Neighborhood Playhouse under the guidance of acting coach Sanford Meisner. He made his Broadway debut in a production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He is an excellent jazz piano singer and declared that if he did not act, he would be performing musically as a career. His film debut was playing a thug in the 1974 Charles Bronson classic Death Wish. He briefly appeared as a protester in the TV movie Columbo: A Case of Immunity (1975). City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area - Total - Water 151. ...
West Homestead is a borough located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. ...
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Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonised in the Talmudic texts (Oral Torah) and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. ...
Show business is a vernacular term for the business of entertainment. ...
New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...
The Neighborhood Playhouse is an actor training school in New York City, generally associated with the Meisner technique of Sanford Meisner. ...
Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905-February 2nd, 1997) was an actor and acting coach well known for the Meisner technique. ...
Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his career. ...
For other persons named Charles Bronson, see Charles Bronson (disambiguation). ...
Death Wish is a 1974 film based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield. ...
Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series, starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. ...
Career Early in his career, he had a short role in Annie Hall (1977) where he attends a Hollywood party and is shown on the phone admitting, "I forgot my mantra." Goldblum has had leading roles in films such as The Fly and The Tall Guy. Goldblum's strong supporting roles include those in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Big Chill (1983), Into the Night (1985), Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), Jurassic Park (1993), and The Lost World (1997). He also had strong supporting roles in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and the 1984 cult films The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension and Igby Goes Down (2002). Goldblum delivers the same line, "must go faster", in very similar situations in both Jurassic Park and Independence Day. In Jurassic Park he says it when he is sitting in the back of the SUV, with a broken leg, being chased by the tyrannosaurus. He says it in Independence Day when he and Will Smith are in the spaceship trying to escape the mother ship. Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. ...
The Fly is a 1986 science fiction film produced by Brooksfilms and Twentieth Century Fox Television, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. ...
Thompson as Kate. ...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. ...
The Big Chill is a 1983 film that tells the story of several University of Michigan college friends who reunite after many years for the funeral of one of their friends who commits suicide. ...
Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American comedy/musical film directed by Julien Temple. ...
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. ...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 movie which is a sequel to the blockbuster Jurassic Park. ...
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is Wes Andersons fourth feature length film and was released in the U.S. on December 25, 2004. ...
A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ...
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension or just Buckaroo Banzai is a cult film released in 1984, starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, and Jeff Goldblum. ...
Igby Goes Down is a 2002 film that follows the life of Igby Slocumb. ...
Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 Academy Award-winning science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich. ...
Goldblum was the voice for most of the US Apple commercials, including the ones for the iBook. He also voices some of the U.S. Toyota commercials as well as Procter & Gamble's facial cream line. He has recently appeared on Irish TV in commercials for the National Lottery. Apple Inc. ...
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Goldblum teaches acting at Playhouse West in North Hollywood, along with Robert Carnegie. It was with several actors from this acting company that he improvised and directed the live action short film Little Surprises, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996. According to gossip columnist Caffeinated Clint (as of September 2006) Goldblum is still rumored to reprise his role as Ian Malcolm in the upcoming film Jurassic Park IV. Jurassic Park IV is an announced feature film that will be the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park film franchise, and has been in development hell since 2002, with no concrete release date yet determined as of 2007. ...
The upcoming film Adam Resurrected is a film adaptation of the Yoram Kaniuk novel about a former circus clown who becomes the ringleader to a group of Holocaust survivors in an asylum after World War II. Goldblum was asked to take on the role of Adam, the story's main character, while visiting Israel for the first time in mid 2006. Adam Resurrected is an upcoming dramatic film, scheduled for release in 2008. ...
Yoram Kaniuk (born 1930) is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic. ...
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In September 2006, it was announced that Goldblum was one of the founding members of a new theater company in New York called The Fire Dept. According to press materials, "The Fire Dept is made up of established and emerging writers, directors, actors and designers who have come together to create and produce work that cannot be replicated inside a television box or on a movie screen...The work of The Fire Dept combines the rigor and structure of great narrative storytelling with the vitality of formal experimentation to immerse audiences in a total experience that leaves them awake, alive and transformed." The company will devote energy into developing new live theater works as well as interpreting old favorites. This article is about the state. ...
His guest appearance was on Sesame Street as Bob's long-lost brother Minneapolis (parody of Indiana Jones) where Big Bird's friend Snuffleupagus had a missing golden cabbage in the 1980s. He has also appeared on Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!. Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ...
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Personal life  Goldblum with Geena Davis in 1990 Goldblum has been married twice. He was married to Patricia Gaul from 1980 to 1986. He was later married to Geena Davis, with whom he starred in three films (including the comedy Earth Girls Are Easy and the science fiction/horror film The Fly) from November 1, 1987 to October 1990. He claims to have maintained a good friendship with her in the ensuing years, saying, "she's a wonderful person and a wonderful actress." He was engaged to Laura Dern, with whom he co-starred in Jurassic Park. Goldblum was engaged to Catherine Wreford, a Canadian dancer, as documented in his 2006 mockumentary/documentary Pittsburgh,[5] but the two are no longer seeing each other. While as a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Goldblum said he enjoys curling. He is also a keen bee-keeper. Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress and former fashion model. ...
Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American comedy/musical film directed by Julien Temple. ...
The Fly is a 1986 science fiction/horror/romantic tragedy film produced by Brooksfilms and 20th Century Fox, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. ...
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Laura Elizabeth Dern-Harper (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress. ...
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. ...
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A contemporary dancer rehearsing in a dance studio Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ...
Late Night with Conan OBrien is an Emmy Award-winning American late night talk show that is syndicated worldwide. ...
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Filmography
Death Wish is a 1974 film based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield. ...
California Split is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman and starring Elliott Gould and George Segal as a pair of gamblers. ...
Nashville is a 1975 film which mixes themes of U.S. presidential politics with those of the country music and gospel music businesses in Nashville, Tennessee. ...
Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series, starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. ...
Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. ...
Thank God Its Friday is a 1978 film directed by Robert Klane. ...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. ...
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American television series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. ...
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Rehearsal for Murder is a 1982 television movie of the thriller genre directed by David Greene from a script written by Richard Levinson and William Link. ...
The Big Chill is a 1983 film that tells the story of several University of Michigan college friends who reunite after many years for the funeral of one of their friends who commits suicide. ...
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (also more simply referred to as Buckaroo Banzai) is a science fiction film that has reached cult film status. ...
Transylvania 6-5000 is the title of two movies. ...
For other uses, see Silverado (disambiguation). ...
The Fly is a 1986 science fiction film produced by Brooksfilms and Twentieth Century Fox Television, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. ...
Beyond Therapy is a 1987 film directed by Robert Altman, who adapted to screenplay with Christopher Durang, who also wrote the theater play. ...
Life Story (1987) is a TV movie about the race to discover the structure of DNA, based on the book The Double Helix by James Watson. ...
For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American comedy/musical film directed by Julien Temple. ...
Ad for Vibes from 1988 Los Angeles Times Vibes is a comedy film released in 1988 starring pop icon and singer Cyndi Lauper, actor Jeff Goldblum, actor Julian Sands and legendary actor Peter Falk. ...
The Fly II was a movie produced in 1989 starring Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga. ...
Thompson as Kate. ...
The term framing can have several possible meanings: framing (telecommunication), where it relates to synchronization framing (economics), where it relates to rational choice theory framing (World Wide Web), where it relates to the use of multiple panes within a web page framing (communication theory) and sociology, where it relates to...
Mister Frost is a 1990 psychological thriller starring Jeff Goldblum as Frost (his first name is never given), a superficially charming but deeply sinister patient in a mental asylum. ...
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish is a 1992 comedy, directed by Ben Lewin, starring Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum and Natasha Richardson. ...
Fathers & Sons is a 1992 film drama written and directed by Paul Mones about a serial killer starring Jeff Goldblum, Rory Cochrane and Famke Janssen. ...
The Player (1992) is a movie that tells the story of Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), a Hollywood studio executive who believes he is being blackmailed by a screenwriter whose script he once rejected. ...
Deep Cover is a 1992 thriller film distributed by New Line Cinema. ...
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. ...
Lush Life was an American sitcom starring Lori Petty (A League of Their Own) and Karyn Parsons (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air). ...
Powder is a 1995 film directed by Victor Salva, about an albino boy, nicknamed Powder, with paranormal powers over electricity. ...
Hideaway is a 1995 horror film directed by Brett Leonard and based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz. ...
The 1995 romantic comedy film Nine Months stars Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum, and Robin Williams. ...
Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 Academy Award-winning science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich. ...
The 1996 movie The Great White Hype stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, and Cheech Marin. ...
Mad Dog Time is a 1996 film directed by Larry Bishop and stars Jeff Goldblum, Richard Dreyfuss, Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Kyle MacLachlan, Burt Reynolds, Richard Pryor, Billy Idol, Paul Anka, Rob Reiner, Michael J. Pollard, Henry Silva and Larry Bishop. ...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 movie which is a sequel to the blockbuster Jurassic Park. ...
Welcome to Hollywood is a documentary about a young man trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor. ...
The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 Academy Award-winning American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. ...
Holy Man was a movie produced in 1998 starring Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum and Kelly Preston. ...
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Chain of Fools, also known by its production title, Shiny New Enemies is a heist comedy-romance about a haples barber Barber named Kresk (Steve Zahn). ...
Auggie Rose, also known as Beyond Suspicion, is a 2000 drama film starring Jeff Goldblum and Anne Heche. ...
Cats & Dogs is a 2001 comedy film directed by Lawrence Guterman about the relationships between cats and dogs. ...
Film poster for Festival in Cannes Festival in Cannes is a 2001 film directed by Henry Jaglom. ...
Run Ronnie Run is a movie spin off from the popular HBO sketch comedy show Mr. ...
Igby Goes Down is a 2002 film that follows the life of Igby Slocumb. ...
Dallas 362 is a 2003 film, starring and directed by Scott Caan. ...
Spinning Boris is a 2003 movie starring Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. ...
Incident at Loch Ness is a mockumentary starring Werner Herzog and Zak Penn. ...
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is Wes Andersons fourth feature length film and was released in the U.S. on December 25, 2004. ...
Minis First Time is a 2006 comedy/drama film written and directed by Nick Guthe. ...
Fay Grim is a film currently in production by writer/director Hal Hartley. ...
This article contains a trivia section. ...
Adam Resurrected is an upcoming dramatic film, scheduled for release in 2008. ...
Jurassic Park IV is an announced feature film that will be the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park film franchise, and has been in development hell since 2002, with no concrete release date yet determined as of 2007. ...
Theater
Broadway The Pillowman is a play by Martin McDonagh. ...
Two Gentlemen of Verona is an award-winning rock musical with a book by John Guare and Mel Shapiro, lyrics by Guare, and music by Galt MacDermot. ...
The Play What I Wrote is a musical farce written by Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben, and directed by Kenneth Branagh. ...
The Exonerated is a film that first aired on the CourtTV cable television network on January 27, 2005. ...
London and Recklinghausen (Germany) Speed-the-Plow (1988) is an acclaimed play by David Mamet which is a satirical dissection of the American movie business, a theme Mamet would revisit in his later films Wag the Dog (1997) and State and Main (2000). ...
Television For the film, see Starsky & Hutch (film). ...
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American television series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. ...
Whos the Boss? was an American television sitcom starring Tony Danza, Judith Light, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro, and Katherine Helmond. ...
Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an American animated environmentalist television program, based on an idea by Ted Turner and produced by Andy Heyward, Robby London, Barbara Pyle and Nicholas Boxer. ...
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A Fish Called Selma is an episode of The Simpsons from season seven. ...
This article is about the television program. ...
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Tom Goes to the Mayor was an American animated television series on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim. ...
Will & Grace is an American television situation comedy focusing on Will Truman, a gay attorney and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm. ...
Raines is a crime drama television series that premiered on the NBC network in the United States on March 15, 2007, as a mid-season replacement, as well as on CH in Canada and on Network Ten in Australia. ...
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, created by and starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, is an American television series which premiered February 11, 2007 on Adult Swim. ...
Awards The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) is a trade organization based in the United States whose members are the owners of movie theaters. ...
The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. ...
Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
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References - ^ a b Curtis, Nick. "What Jeff loves about London", This is London, 2008-01-29. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ a b Applebaum, Stephen. "Goldblum's spiritual journey", Sunday Times.au, 2007-04-27. Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
- ^ Elkin, Michael. "The Odds of March", The Jewish Exponent, 2007-03-15. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ Knutzen, Eirik. "TV Close-Up: Jeff Goldblum", Bend Weekly, 2007-03-30. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ Christopher Rawson, Goldblum's 'Pittsburgh' rides line between reality and role playing, A doc or a mock?, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 5, 2006
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