Robert de Niro

Born:

August 17, 1943

I don't like to watch my own movies. I fall asleep in my own movies

Remarkable:

In his youth, de Niro was called Bobby Milk because he was so pale and strange.

Biography:

Robert De Niro was born and grew up in New York City (USA). He was trained for the stage by Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. In the sixties De Niro appeared in several low-budget Brian de Palma movies but first gained fame for his role in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973).

His incisive performance as a simple minded hood in Scorsese's Mean streets started an ongoing working relationship between the actor and the director. De Niro’s breakthrough role was that of the young Vito Corleone in the flashback sequences of The Godfather II (1974). In 1980, De Niro gained 50 pounds to play boxer Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's Raging Bull.

For the next 10 years, he branched out into a number of different types of films. Robert made his directional debut in 1993 with A Bronx Tale. In 2006 he directed the historic epic The Good Shepherd starring Matt Damon.

The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)
Goodfellas (1990)
Taxi driver (1976)
Once upon a time in America (1984)
Heat (1995)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Casino (1995)
Brazil (1985)
The Untouchables (1989)

Born to win (1971)
The gang that couldn’t shoot straight (1971)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
Mean streets (1973)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Taxi driver (1976)
1900 (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
New York, New York (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Raging Bull (1980)
True Confessions (1981)
The King of comedy (1983)
Once upon a time in America (1984)
Falling in love (1984)
Brazil (1985)
The mission (1986)
Angel heart (1987)
Midnight Run (1988)
Jacknife (1989)
The Untouchables (1989)
We’re No Angels (1989)
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
Awakenings (1990)
Guilty by suspicion (1991)
Backdraft (1991)
Cape fear (1991)
Mistress (1992)
Night and the city (1992)
Mad dog and glory (1993)
This Boy’s life (1993)
A Bronx tale (1993)
Frankenstein (1994)
Casino (1995)
Heat (1995)
The fan (1996)
Sleepers (1996)
Marvin’s room (1996)
Cop land (1997)
Wag the dog (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Great expectations (1998)
Ronin (1998)
Analyze this (1999)
Flawless (1999)
The adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
Men of honor (2000)
Meet the parents (2000)
15 minutes (2001)
The score (2001)
Showtime (2002)
City by the sea (2002)
Analyze that (2002)
Godsend (2004)
Shark tale (2004)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
The bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
Hide and seek (2005)
Arthur et les Minimoys (2006)
The good Shepherd (2006)
Stardust (2007)
What Just Happened (2008)
Righteous Kill (2008)
Everybody's fine (2009)
Machete (2010)
Stone (2010)
Little Fockers (2010)
Manuale d'amore 3 (2011)
Limitless (2011)
Killer Elite (2011)
New Year's Eve (2011)
Being Flynn (2012)
The wedding (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Selma (2012)
Freelancers (2012)
Red Lights (2012)
The Comedian (2013)
Killing Season (2013)
The Irishman (2013)
Last Vegas (2013)

Academy awards:

1992 Nominated Leading Role for: Cape Fear (1991)
1991 Nominated Leading Role for: Awakenings (1990)
1981 Won Oscar Leading Role for: Raging Bull (1980)
1979 Nominated Leading Role for: The Deer Hunter (1978)
1977 Nominated Leading Role for: Taxi Driver (1976)
1975 Won Oscar Supporting Role for: The Godfather: Part II (1974)

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Ain't it cool news - De Niro cast in Marvel's Thor?
Al Jazeera - Robert and Quatar
Bloody disgusting - De Niro in horror film
Blu-ray.com - Little Fockers Blu-ray
Deadline - De Niro's new ones
Deadline - Cooper And Robert De Niro Reunited
Deadline - Robert De Niro to star in Killing Season
Detroit News - Bob de Niro teams up with Ed Norton
Digital fix - Killer Elite in January
DVD Active - Everybody's Fine on DVD
DVD Active - De Niro is fine
DVD Active - The score on Blu-ray
DVD Active - Jackie Brown on Blu-ray
DVD Times - Raging De Niro
Empire magazine - De Niro and Keaton together again
Entertainment Weekly - Robert De Niro sees Red Lights
Esquire - Bob taught Jodie how to act
HD Room - Machete hacks its way To DVD & Blu-ray
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High-def digest - A Blue-ray Lucifer
Hollywood reporter - Robert De Niro to head jury at Cannes
Hollywood reporter - Sean Penn to direct Robert De Niro
Hollywood reporter - A Bronx tale in Cannes
Hollywood reporter - New year's eve with De Niro
Hollywood reporter - De Niro joins Douglas for Last Vegas
Home cinema - Machete in March in the UK
Huffington post - Robert De Niro apologizes
Huffington post - De Niro developing Bernie Madoff film
Huffington Post - De Niro nanny sues for $40,000
Los Angeles Times - Robert De Niro receives Golden Globe
Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema - De Niro in video game
Moviehole - De Niro kills again?
New York Daily News - De Niro and Pacino and a watch
New York Times - De Niro and Obama
Philly.com - De Niro and the Dark Fields
Premiere - De Niro tops lists of screen deaths
Reuters - Finally Little Fockers?
Screen Daily - De Niro film at AFI
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Stuff n Co - A scary father
The list - De Niro, the sequel man
The Wrap - De Niro will speak Italian again
Times Online - Robert de Niro’s Subaru ad
Vanity fair - Robert de Niro as a coach
Variety - Robert de Niro is a busy man
Variety - Another award for Robert
Variety - Angel heart will be remade
Variety - De Niro will paint houses

Rumors and new films

- The Comedian -
The story of a past-his-prime TV funnyman (De Niro) who clings to any recognition of his former fame in the hope of reviving his now stagnant career.
Status: Maybe, maybe not

- Last Vegas -
Four estranged male childhood friends reunite to finally marry off Billy, the lifelong unmarried playboy of the group. The conflict comes when both Billy and Paddy (De Niro), the widower of the group, begin vying for the affections of the same singer.
Status: Maybe, maybe not

- The Irishman -
De Niro will play famed Mafia hitman Frank The Irishman Sheeran who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders. Martin Scorsese will direct.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2013

- Killing Season -
Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American (De Niro), one Serbian (John Travolta) clash in the remote Rocky Mountain wilderness.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2013

- Freelancers -
The son of a murdered cop joins the police academy, graduates, and gets recruited by a group of rogue cops led by his father's old partner (De Niro)
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2012

- Red Lights -
The story of a psychologist (Sigourney Weaver) whose study of paranormal activity leads her to a famous psychic (Robert De Niro) and some astounding revelations.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2012

- Selma -
President Lyndon Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the voting rights and desegregation campaigns and civil rights marches that centered in Selma, Alabama in the mid-'60s.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2012

- Silver Linings Playbook -
A former high school teacher who was institutionalized for depression is released into the care of his mother. He tries to win back his ex-wife but becomes involved with an eccentric neighbor with problems of her own.
Status: The film will be released within 26 weeks (November 21, 2012)

- The wedding -
A long-divorced couple fakes being married as their family unites for a wedding.
Status: The film will be released within 22 weeks (October 19, 2012)

News

This week 3 years ago What Just Happened premiered in Australia (May 21, 2009)
It's Wag the Dog in the cinematic world. De Niro stars as Ben, a producer who is struggling to get a picture made whilst trying to hold onto his career and not suffer the indignities of numerous Hollywood humiliations.

This week 14 years ago Wag the dog premiered in Japan (May 23, 1998)

This week 28 years ago Once upon a time in America premiered in France (May 23, 1984)

-May 13, 2012
Rumored for the part last month, Robert De Niro has officially joined Michael Douglas in the Jon Turtletaub ensemble comedy Last Vegas. Four estranged male childhood friends reunite to finally marry off Billy, the lifelong unmarried playboy of the group. The conflict comes when both Billy and Paddy (De Niro), the widower of the group, begin vying for the affections of the same singer.
Source / More (Web)

-March 23, 2012
Robert De Niro has issued a mea culpa for a joke he made at a Democratic fund-raiser in New York. Bob asked those in attendance about whether the nation was "ready for a white first lady." Later, De Niro said in a statement, "My remarks, although spoken with satirical jest, were not meant to offend or embarrass anyone."
Source / More (Web)

More news!

Trivia

De Niro is commonly referred to as an Italian-American actor, although he is predominantly Irish in ancestry.
--Source: Untouchable: A Biography of Robert DeNiro, Page 5

In 1998 De Niro was subject in a Paris prostitution investigation. De Niro, denying any involvement, vowed never to return to France again (but he did).
--Source: Untouchable: A Biography of Robert DeNiro, Page 0

De Niro refuses to answer questions or even to give interviews at all. The titles of articles in the popular press: “You Talkin to Me? No”, “Man of Few Words”, “The Phantom of the Cinema” and “The Return of the Silent Screen Star”
--Source: Stars in Our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era, Page 45

Jodie Foster was 12 when she made Taxi Driver in 1976. She'd been acting since she was 3. She considered herself the pro and De Niro the amateur, and was increasingly bored and irritated by his concern that she have her lines down cold. Then he took her on an improvisational ride that careened through the spaces between the lines.
Source / More (Web)

Movie lovers have voted Travis Bickle, the central character in Taxi Driver , the greatest anti-hero in the movies. The character came top in a list of anti-heroes compiled by Total Film magazine.

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