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  • Born: 6 May 1961
  • Birthplace: Lexington, Kentucky
  • Best Known As: Star of the Ocean's Eleven films

George Clooney spent 10 years as an acting unknown until his role as Dr. Doug Ross in the hospital drama E.R. made him TV's hottest heartthrob in 1994. He left the show in 1999 and moved on to an even more successful career in films, as an actor, producer and sometime director. Clooney comes from a show business family: he's the nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney and the son of newscaster and chat host Nick Clooney. His films include Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (with Jennifer Lopez), the Coen brothers' comedy O, Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, with Holly Hunter), and Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve (2001 and 2004, with Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle). Clooney's feature directing debut was Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the 2002 film based on the writings of game show impresario Chuck Barris. In 2005 he co-wrote, directed and acted in Good Night, and Good Luck, the biographical feature about newsman Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn). The film earned Clooney Oscar nominations in 2006 for writing and directing. The same year he won the Oscar as best supporting actor for his role as a CIA agent in the political thriller Syriana. He directed and starred in the football comedy Leatherheads in 2008.

Clooney and Jason Alexander both had roles in a 1984 medical sitcom titled, coincidentally, E/R... Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 until their divorce in 1992. She is the daughter of actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten... Politically outspoken and left-of-center, Clooney has had an off-and-on feud with TV personality Bill O'Reilly... Clooney owned a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig name Max for 18 years, from 1988 until its death in 2006... Clooney has twice been named the "sexiest man alive" by People magazine: in 1997 and in 2006.

 
 
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George Clooney

  • Born: May 06, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky
  • Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Three Kings, Out of Sight, The Thin Red Line
  • First Major Screen Credit: Combat High (1986)

Biography

George Clooney embodies one of Hollywood's most formidable renaissance men. As a remarkably intelligent and capable actor, and a director of surprising skill and intuition, Clooney has almost completely exempted himself from criticism. In light of these qualities, the thespian's formidable charm and devastating physical appeal seem, astonishingly, to be almost incidental.

As the son of broadcast journalist Nick Clooney and the nephew of chanteuse Rosemary Clooney, George Clooney entered the world with show business coursing through his veins. Born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky, the future E.R. headliner appeared at the tender age of five on his father's Cincinnati talk program, The Nick Clooney Show. This spot represented an anomaly, however, and George remained off-camera until his post-adolescent years. In lieu of acting, Clooney acquired and honed a sharp interest in sports - particularly baseball - and sought a career as a major leaguer with the Cincinnati Reds. When ousted from the tryout roster, Clooney launched himself as an onscreen presence, seemingly without effort. He first auditioned for (and landed) a string of television commercials, then signed with Warner Brothers Entertainment as a supporting player. It took time for Clooney's recognition to build, and a series of permanent roles on short-lived sitcoms and brief roles on hit series dramas ensued. The failed efforts included a characterization as Ace, a neophyte physician on the prime-time series E/R - not the blockbuster NBC drama, but the first E/R - a 1984 CBS sitcom with Elliott Gould and Marcia Strassman. This period also included third billing in the disastrous sitcom Baby Talk - a kind of unofficial TV spinoff of Look Who's Talking rightly voted in a 1991 Electronic Media poll as the worst series of that year. Clooney's single-episode contributions to hit programs included work on such series as The Golden Girls, Riptide, Crazy Like a Fox, Street Hawk and Hunter.

These assignments understandably attracted little attention because of their transience. But die-hard television enthusiasts (particularly Gen-X viewers) will recall Clooney's participation as a semi-permanent character on at least three series: first, he played George Burnett (c. 1985-6), the genial carpenter who helps rebuild Edna Garrett's gourmet food shop into a neo-malt shop following a tragic fire, on the sitcom The Facts of Life. Next, he turned up as Booker Books (c. 1988-89), a lusty foreman with sexual designs on Jackie Harris (Laurie Metcalf), in first season of the blue-collar sitcom Roseanne; and finally, he portrayed Detective James Falconer (c. 1993-4), who married Sela Ward's Teddy Reed in mid-plane crash but was murdered by a drug dealer not long after, in the Saturday night soaper Sisters (alongside Swoosie Kurtz, Julianne Phillips and Ashley Judd).

Second-billing on the NBC medical drama E.R., of course, represented Clooney's breakthrough to superstardom. When that program shot up to #1 in prime time ratings, Clooney carried it (much more, in fact, than a first-billed Anthony Edwards) - his inborn appeal to women and his onscreen grace and charm massive contributing factors. This appeal increased as his character - initially something of a callous womanizer - matured with the show, eventually evolving into a kind and thoroughly decent, if somewhat hotheaded, human being.

Until E.R., Clooney landed only occasional roles in feature films (he debuted cinematically with a small role in the 1986 flick Combat High) and starred in a couple of low-budget videos. Following the E.R. triumph, however, he was suddenly deluged by scripts and movie offers. For his first big-budget project, he opted to play an acid-mouthed, rifle-wielding antihero (one of the Gecko Brothers, alongside Quentin Tarantino) in the Robert Rodriguez-directed, Tarantino-scripted horror comedy From Dusk Till Dawn (1995). Not long after, Clooney shifted gears altogether, co-headlining (with Michelle Pfeiffer) the light-as-a-feather (and eminently forgettable) romcom One Fine Day (1996).

Clooney maintained a busy project slate in 1997, appearing in three A-list features. In the most hyped, Batman & Robin, he replaced Val Kilmer as the mysterious Dark Knight. Though the film is widely considered the worst of the series, Clooney did receive some praise for bringing an extra sensitivity to his interpretation of Batman. He drew concomitant acclaim the following year, with roles in two wildly divergent films: action-laced crime comedy Out of Sight, as a suave bank robber amorously involved with U.S. Marshall Jennifer Lopez, and Terrence Malick's adaptation of The Thin Red Line. Out of Sight represented a massive watershed moment for Clooney: the first of his numerous collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh.

In 1999 -- following his much-talked-about departure from E.R. - Clooney continued to work on a number of high-profile projects, first lending his voice to the animated South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut and then starring alongside Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube as an American soldier reclaiming Kuwaiti treasure from Saddam Hussein in David O. Russell's Three Kings. Clooney won a 2000 Golden Globe for his portrayal of a pomade-obsessed escaped convict in the Coen brothers' Odyssey update O Brother Where Art Thou? It was around this time that Clooney, now an established actor equally as comfortable on the big screen as the small, began to branch out as the Executive Producer of such made-for-TV efforts as Killroy (1999) and Fail Safe (2000). Soon producing such features as Rock Star (2001) and Insomnia (2002), Clooney next re-teamed with Soderbergh for a modern take on a classic Rat Pack comedy with Ocean's Eleven (2001). After the dynamic film duo stuck together for yet another remake, the deep-space psychological science-fiction drama Solaris (2002), busy Clooney both produced and appeared in Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind later the same year.

Confessions marked Clooney's behind-the-camera debut, and one of the most promising actor-turned-director outings in memory. Adapted by Charlie Kaufman from Gong Show host Chuck Barris's memoir (who claimed rather dubiously in the text that he had led a double life, for years, as a CIA assassin - and then described his exploits), the picture exhibited Clooney's triple fascinations with politics, media and celebrity; critics did not respond to it with unanimous enthusiasm (and it suffered from occasional self-indulgences), but it did earn a substantial number of enthusiastic reviews for exemplary craftsmanship and a remarkable lead performance by Sam Rockwell, as Barris.

In 2003, Clooney starred alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Cohen Brothers movie Intolerable Cruelty. The film was a sleeper hit and a great showcase for Clooney's abilities as a screen comic. He moved on to team up with Zeta-Jones again, along with almost the entire case of Ocean's Eleven, for the sequel, Oceans Twelve, which earned mixed critical reviews, but (like its predecessor) grossed dollar one at the box office.

By 2005, Clooney achieved his piece-de-resistance by writing, directing, and acting a sophomore outing: the tense period drama Good Night, and Good Luck.. Shot in black-and-white by ace cinematographer Robert Elswit, the picture followed the epic decision of 1950's television journalist Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) to confront Senator Joseph McCarthy about his Communist witch hunt. The picture (arguably one of the finest of 2005) drew raves from every critic in America and received a much-deserved nomination for Best Picture, and a Best Director nod for Clooney (though the film lost to Crash on the first count and Clooney lost to Ang Lee, for Brokeback Mountain, on the second).

With Good Night, and Good Luck. still generating buzz, Clooney appeared in the harshly explicit and openly critical Syriana. He took the lead in this political thriller about the oil industry, directed by Stephen Gaghan of Traffic and heralded by critics as a disturbingly real look at a hopelessly flawed and corrupt system. Never one to rest for very long, Clooney then joined the cast of The Good German.

As scripted by former Washington Post movie critic Paul Attanasio, and directed by Steven Soderbergh, German unfolds in post-WWII Berlin, where Clooney plays a war correspondent who helps an ex-lover, Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett) search for her missing husband - a man sought by both the U.S. and Russian armies. The period thriller took its stateside bow in December 2006 to favorable (if not spectacular) critical response but terrible box office, merely grossing a little under $6 million worldwide. Nevertheless, it perpetuated Clooney's long-standing working relationship with Soderbergh in the process.

Indeed, the following year, Soderbergh and Clooney partnered up a sixth time with the third installment in the Ocean's saga, Ocean's Thirteen. That go-round upped the ante on celebrity talent by tossing in Al Pacino (as a casino owner with the wonderful name Willie Banks) and seductive Ellen Barkin (as love interest Abigail Sponder), the new leading lady in Julia Roberts's stead. The studio reportedly did much to keep the story of the film sealed prior to its summer 2007 opening.

Lest it seem, however, that Clooney was leaning too heavily on elephantine Hollywood extravaganzas (via his involvement in the Ocean's series), he continued to appear in smaller, more individualized projects - and, at about the same time, took a sharp turn away from his onscreen good guy typecasting. The foremost examples included Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton (as a shady fixer who works for a mammoth Manhattan legal firm, beneath the aegis of a demigod attorney played by Sydney Pollack), and the Joe Carnahan crime drama White Jazz (2008), as a corrupt LAPD police lieutenant during a massive crackdown on department corruption.

Meanwhile, Clooney continued to maintain and cultivate his reputation as one of the most electrifying (and classiest) directors in contemporary Hollywood. 2008 brought one of the most anticipated events of the actor-turned-filmmaker's career, with the release of a project that Universal had shepherded through development for almost a decade. Leatherheads, a period romance set against the backdrop of professional football's first gestations in the 1920s, originally emerged as a drama to be directed by Jonathan Mostow and star Jon Favreau, then evolved into a romantic comedy to be helmed by Steven Soderbergh and star Clooney. When this fell through, Clooney took the project on his own shoulders, rewrote the script, and opted to star and direct. He plays Jimmy "Dodge" Connolly, an affable but scabrous football hero who saves the sport for eons by pooling a group of down-and-out players, and guiding their evolution from shabby ne'er-do-wells into national celebrities - thus creating the embryonic NFL. Renee Zellweger plays the film's romantic interest, Lexi - an ace reporter determined to dig up dirt on the coach, but who winds up as the third side of a romantic triangle including both himself and Carter Rutherford (The Office's John Krasinski).

In Clooney's second directorial outing that same year, the much different Belmont Boys (for producer Jerry Weintraub), seemed to retrace the footsteps of the Ocean's series (not to mention The Longshot) in its tale of a bunch of weathered ex-cons who gather to pull off a racetrack heist that they abandoned three decades earlier.

~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

 
Wikipedia: George Clooney
George Clooney
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Birth name George Timothy Clooney
Born May 6 1961 (1961--) (age 46)
Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Spouse(s) Talia Balsam (1989-1993)

George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER (1994–99), but is best known for his subsequent rise as an "A-List" movie star in contemporary American cinema. Winner of an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, Clooney has balanced his glamorous performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and thinker behind commercially riskier and thought-provoking projects.

Early life

George Clooney, an Irish American,[1] was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (née Warren), was a former pageant queen, while his father, Nick Clooney, was a journalist, anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host, and - in later years - an aspiring politician from the state of Kentucky.[2] Clooney has a sister, Ada, and his cousins include actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer, who are the sons of his aunt, singer Rosemary Clooney, and actor José Ferrer. He is also related to another singer, Debby Boone, who married José's son, Gabriel Ferrer. From an early age, Clooney would hang around his father's sets, often participating in shows, where he proved to be a crowd favorite.

Education

Clooney began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky. Spending part of his childhood in Ohio, he attended St. Michael's School in Columbus, the Western Row and St. Susanna schools, both in Mason, and - briefly - William Mason High School. Eventually, his parents moved to Augusta in Kentucky, where he went to Augusta High School and graduated in 1979. He was a poor student but was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977 to play professional baseball, but was not offered a contract.[3]

Clooney attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981 and, very briefly, the University of Cincinnati, but did not graduate from either.[3][4]

Career

His first major role came in 1984 in the television medical comedy/drama, E/R. Though it too takes place in a hospital, it should not be confused with ER, which Clooney more famously starred in several years later. Additionally, he played a handyman on the series The Facts of Life. His first significant break was a semi-regular supporting role in the sitcom Roseanne, playing Roseanne Barr's overbearing boss Booker Brooks, followed by the role of a construction worker on Baby Talk and then as a sexy detective on Sisters. Clooney achieved stardom when he was selected to play Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC hit drama ER, alongside Anthony Edwards's character, as his best friend/partner, Dr. Mark Greene, from 1994 to 1999. Clooney was also partnered with Deborah Leoni in their production company Mirador Entertainment.

Prior to his success on ER, he met Grant Heslov, a later close friend with whom he co-wrote Good Night, and Good Luck. Heslov was also the president of Section Eight Productions, Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh's production company. In August 2006, Clooney and Heslov started a new company: Smoke House. Clooney said in an interview that he was driving an RV through the country with Heslov, who, at the time, was getting over a broken engagement, when he got a phone call from his agent telling him that NBC just picked up ER for a full season. Clooney said, "I think I just got my career."

It has been rumored that Clooney was the one to have circulated the videotape of Jesus vs. Santa (the video greeting card that gave birth to South Park) around the Los Angeles area in 1995.[citation needed] He has always been a fan of South Park, and after calling Matt Stone and Trey Parker to tell them this, was invited to play a role in the show as the voice of Stan Marsh's gay dog Sparky in the episode Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride, a role with no dialogue except normal dog noises. He later appeared in the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Despite their history, the show's creators, Parker and Stone, lampooned Clooney for his outspoken political views in their feature film Team America: World Police. However, Clooney later said that he would have been offended if he hadn't been made fun of in the film.[5] He was also mentioned in the episode "Smug Alert!," which mocks his acceptance speech at the 2006 Academy Awards.

Initial success

Clooney continued to star in movies while appearing in ER, his first major Hollywood role coming in From Dusk Till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez. He followed its success with One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and The Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman, the latter being the initial feature length release from Dreamworks SKG studio. Clooney was then cast as the new Batman, following Val Kilmer, in Batman & Robin. In 1998, he starred in Out of Sight, opposite Jennifer Lopez. This was the first of many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh. He also starred in Three Kings during the last weeks of his contract with ER.

In 1999, Clooney left the cast of ER to pursue his film career full-time. He mentioned a few times that he would like to do a few cameos; to date, he has only done one.

Movie star

After leaving ER, Clooney starred in major Hollywood successes, such as Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. In 2001, he teamed up with Soderbergh again for Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film Ocean's Eleven. Alongside Clooney the film also starred Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and Julia Roberts. To this day, it remains Clooney's most commercially successful movie, earning approximately $444,200,000 worldwide. The film spawned two sequels, Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007. In 2001, Clooney founded the production studio Section Eight Productions with Steven Soderbergh.

He made his debut as a director in the 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, an adaptation of the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris. Though the movie didn't do well at the box office, Clooney's direction was praised among critics and audiences alike.

In 2005, Clooney starred in Syriana, which was based loosely on former Central Intelligence Agency agent Robert Baer and his memoirs of being an agent in the Middle East. The same year he directed, produced, and starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a film about 1950s television journalist Edward R. Murrow's famous war of words with Senator McCarthy. Both films received critical acclaim and decent box-office returns despite being in limited release. At the 78th Academy Awards, Clooney was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, as well as Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. He became the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for directing one movie and acting in another in the same year. He would go on to win for his role in Syriana.

More recently, he appeared in The Good German, a film-noir directed by frequent collaborator Steven Soderbergh. The film is set in post-World War II Germany.

Clooney is one of only two people to have been given the title of Sexiest Man Alive twice by People Magazine, first in 1997 and again in 2006. The other is Brad Pitt.[6] Clooney also received the American Cinematheque Award in October 2006, an award that honors an extraordinary artist in the entertainment industry who is fully engaged in his or her work and is committed to making a significant contribution to the art of motion pictures.[7]

Other ventures

On July 8, 2005, news reports said that Clooney would be working with Cindy Crawford's husband Rande Gerber to design and build a new casino hotel in Las Vegas. On August 29, the same year, Clooney officially announced his involvement with the Las Ramblas Resort project. However, the project never came to fruition, and the property on which the resort was to be built was sold in June 2006.

After serving as pitchman outside the U.S. for products like Fiat and Martini vermouth, Clooney lent his voice to a series of Budweiser ads beginning in 2005 (which were still running as of September 2007).

George secretly financed and executive produced a political thriller short film called "The Endgame Study" in 2006.

After the success of Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney said he plans to devote more of his energy to directing. He feels that the directing industry is "a great industry to grow old in," something that doesn't ring true with acting.

Personal life

Clooney in 2001
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Clooney in 2001

Clooney's father, Nick Clooney, a politician, is noted for saying the following about himself,

“ I spent the first part of my life being referred to as Rosemary Clooney’s brother, and now I am spending the last part of my life being referred to as George Clooney’s dad. ”

Clooney had a 300 pound Vietnamese black bristled, potbellied pig, named Max, that had lived with him for 18 years. Max died on December 1, 2006.[8] He also had two bulldogs named Bud and Lou, after the famous comedy team, Abbott and Costello, who both died (one from a rattlesnake attack).[9]

Clooney has only been married once, to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 to 1993. He says he will never get married again, nor have any children, but Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman each bet him $10,000 that he would be a father before he turned 40. They were both wrong, and each sent him a check. He returned the money, betting double or nothing that he won't have kids by age 50.

Illness and injury

Clooney suffered from Bell's palsy for a time while he was in high school.[10]

Clooney injured himself on Syriana's set, during the torture scene, in 2004. He had some excruciating headaches and suffered short term memory loss. It took a few weeks for his doctors to find the reasons of his health problems. During The Good German's promotion (two years afterwards), he revealed that he still had to wear a back brace due to this injury. [11]

Never a heavy smoker, George Clooney quit the habit at a very early stage. He says that at least 8 or 9 of his great-uncles and great-aunts died because of it.

2007 motorcycle accident

On Friday, September 21, 2007, Clooney and his girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident in New Jersey. Clooney's motorcycle was hit by a passenger car. The driver of the car reported that George Clooney attempted to pass on the right,[12] while Clooney stated that the driver signaled left and then decided to make an abrupt right turn and clipped the motorcycle.[13] Clooney received a broken rib and road rash; Larson broke two toes. Both were treated and released from the Palisades Medical Hospital in North Bergen, New Jersey.[13]

On October 9, 2007, more than two dozen hospital staff members were suspended without pay for looking at Clooney's medical records in violation of federal law.[14] Clooney himself quickly issued a statement on the hospital records matter, saying no one should be punished. He said "This is the first I've heard of it. And while I very much believe in a patient's right to privacy, I would hope that this could be settled without suspending medical workers."[15]

Politics

Clooney is a self-described political liberal. Speaking about the Iraq war: "You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people seeking revenge. These days it only matters who's in charge. Right now that's us — for a while at least. Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win.... I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore."[16]

Clooney is noted for his public criticisms of Jack Abramoff and other Republicans. On January 16, 2006, during his acceptance speech for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Syriana, Clooney paused to sarcastically thank the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff before adding, "Who would name their kid Jack with the word ‘off’ at the end of your last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up!"[17]

There has been movement to try to convince Clooney to run for political office in his home state of Kentucky, including talk of a Clooney candidacy for US Senate against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2008.[18] Clooney's remark on the possibility of his entering politics, however, has been: "Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties."[19]

Clooney supports Barack Obama for a 2008 presidential run.[20]

Save Darfur

Clooney is active in advocating a resolution of the Darfur conflict.[21] His efforts include an episode of Oprah and speaking at the Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 2005.

In 2006, he was involved in several events to highlight the issue. In April, he spent 10 days in Chad and Sudan with his father to make a film in order to show the dramatic situation of Darfur's refugees. In September, he spoke in front of the Security Council of the UN with Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel to ask the UN to find a solution to the conflict and to help the people of Darfur.[22] In December, he made a trip to China and Egypt with Don Cheadle and a two Olympic winners to ask both governments to pressure Sudan's government.[23]

Clooney is involved with Not On Our Watch, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Jerry Weintraub.[24] He narrated and was co-executor producer of the documentary "Sand and Sorrow.[25]

On March 25, 2007, he sent an open letter to German chancellor Angela Merkel, calling on the European Union to take "decisive action" in the region in the face of al-Bashir's failure to respond to the U.N. resolutions.[26]

Environmentalism

Clooney is environmentally conscious, owning the first Tango car to be sold.[27] Clooney made a deposit on a Tesla Roadster from Tesla Motors. It is a battery electric sportscar with a 250 mile range. He will be among the first hundred owners.[28]

Charlton Heston controversy

Clooney stirred up controversy for his remarks about Charlton Heston, while speaking at a National Board of Review event. "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's."

"It was just a joke," Clooney responded. "That was someone else trying to make a bigger story."

Charlton Heston commented, "It just goes to show that sometimes class does skip a generation," referring to George Clooney's late aunt, Rosemary Clooney.[29]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1985 Streethawk Kevin Stark
1985 - 1986 The Facts of Life George Burnett
1987 Return to Horror High Oliver
Grizzly II: The Predator Uncredited
Combat Academy Maj. Biff Woods
Murder, She Wrote Kip Howard Episode: No Laughing Murder
The Golden Girls Detective Bobby Hopkins Episode: To Catch a Neighbor
1988 Return of the Killer Tomatoes Matt Stevens
1988 - 1991 Roseanne Booker Brooks 11 Episodes
1990 Red Surf Remar
1992 Unbecoming Age Mac
1993 The Harvest Lip Syncing Transvestite
1993 - 1994 Sisters Detective James Falconer
1994 - 1999 ER Dr Doug Ross 106 Episodes
Emmy nomination: Outstanding Lead Drama Actor
Golden Globe nomination: Best TV Actor - Drama
1995 Friends Dr. Michael Mitchell Episode: The One with Two Parts, Part Two
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn Seth Gecko
One Fine Day Jack Taylor
Curdled Seth Gecko Uncredited; only photo shown
1997 Full-Tilt Boogie Himself Documentary
The Peacemaker Thomas Devoe
Batman & Robin Batman/ Bruce Wayne
South Park Sparky the Dog (voice) Episode: Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride
1998 The Thin Red Line Captain Bosche
Out of Sight Jack Foley
Waiting for Woody Himself Comedic Short
1999 Three Kings Major Archie Gates
The Book That Wrote Itself Himself
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Voice of Doctor Gouache
The Limey TV Interviewee
2000 The Perfect Storm Billy 'Skip' Tyne
Fail Safe Col. Jack Grady
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Ulysses Everett McGill Golden Globe win: Best Musical/Comedy Actor
2001 Ocean's Eleven Danny Ocean
Spy Kids Devlin
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind CIA Officer Jim Byrd also Director
Solaris Chris Kelvin
Welcome to Collinwood Jerzy Producer
Starbuck Holger Meins Documentary
2003 Intolerable Cruelty Miles Massey
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Devlin
2004 Ocean's Twelve Danny Ocean also Executive Producer
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck. Fred Friendly Academy Award nomination: Best Director, Best Original Screenplay
BAFTA nomination: Best Direction, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globe nomination: Best Director, Best Screenplay
Syriana Bob Barnes also Producer;
Academy Award win: Best Supporting Actor
BAFTA nomination: Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globe win: Best Supporting Actor
2006 The Good German Jake Geismar
2007 Michael Clayton Michael Clayton also Producer
Ocean's Thirteen Danny Ocean
Leatherheads Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly also Director, Producer, and co-writer
2008 Burn After Reading Harry Pfarrer shooting [30]
White Jazz Dave "The Enforcer" Klein (pre production)

Director credits

Year Title
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck
Unscripted
2007 Leatherheads
2009 Suburbicon

Producer credits

Credit Movie
Executive Producer Ocean's Thirteen


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