Robert de Niro
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August 17, 1943 |
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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.
In the spring, Killing season will be released. The film is about two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, who clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.
Further, Bob and Sylvester Stallone will reunite in Grudge Match, in which a pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout
De Niro is busier than ever. In 2013 and 2014 he will release at least four other films.
- 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)
- Red Lights (2012)
- Being Flynn (2012)
- Freelancers (2012)
- The big wedding (2012)
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
- Malavita (2013)
- Last Vegas (2013)
- Killing Season (2013)
- Motel (2013)
- American Hustle (2013)
- Grudge Match (2014)
- Spy's kid (2014)
- Hands of Stone (2014)
- The Comedian (2014)
- The 4th Reich (2014)
- Selma (2014)
- Candy store (2014)
- The Irishman (2015)
Academy awards:
2013 Nominated Supporting Role for: Silver Linings Playbook
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
Boston Globe - Robert de Niro joins new movie
Boston Herald - De Niro and The 4th Reich
Broadway world - De Niro to direct Broadway musical
Cinema Blend - De Niro confirmed for Grudge Match
Cinemablend - Kim Basinger joins De Niro
Collider - De Niro in talks to Film boxing movie
Deadline - De Niro's new ones
Deadline - Cooper And Robert De Niro Reunited
Deadline - De Niro has hands of stone
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
High-def digest -
High-def digest - A Blue-ray Lucifer
Hollywood reporter - Robert De Niro in talks for Spy's kid
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 - Los Angeles-Italia Fest to honor De Niro
Hollywood reporter - De Niro joins Douglas for Last Vegas
Hollywood reporter - De Niro to win another award
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
Los Angeles Times - Robert De Niro to examine his father
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
New York Times - Fire breaks out at de Niro's apartment
Philly.com - De Niro and the Dark Fields
Premiere - De Niro tops lists of screen deaths
Reuters - Finally Little Fockers?
Rumors and new films
- 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 2015
- The 4th Reich -
A high-octane crime thriller delving into race, religion and politics through the lens of a dogmatic faction of the neo-Nazi movement in South Boston
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- Candy store -
A former covert ops agent (De Niro) discovers the organization he has been fighting over his career has set up shop in his backyard. He teams with a former cop to stop the threat that could endanger the city of New York.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- 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: Maybe, maybe not
- Hands of Stone -
De Niro will play the role of trainer Ray Arce. The film is about the life of Roberto Duran, who defeated Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher) to capture the WBC welterweight title but shocked the boxing world by returning to his corner in the November rematch.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- 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
- Spy's kid -
Robert de Niro is a disgraced secret agent who recruits his son to continue his dodgy double dealing.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- Grudge Match -
69-year-old De Niro is a retired pugilist who is coaxed back into the ring to fight old rival Sylvester Stallone (66).
Status: The film will be released within 33 weeks (January 10, 2014)
- American Hustle -
The based-on-a-true-story tale follows a financial con artist (Christian Bale) and his mistress/partner in crime who are forced to work with an out of control federal agent to turn the tables on other con artists, mobsters and politicians.
Status: The film will be released within 31 weeks (December 25, 2013)
- Motel -
A self-loathing professional thief (John Cusack) commits to one final job before he retires: to simply steal a bag with mysterious contents for the gruesome mob boss, Dragna (Robert de Niro)
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
- 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: The film will be released within 23 weeks (November 1, 2013)
- Malavita -
The film centers on a notorious mafia family who gets relocated to Normandy under the witness protection program.
Status: The film will be released within 17 weeks (September 20, 2013)
News
This week 5 years ago What Just Happened premiered in France (May 25, 2008, Cannes Film Festival)
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 15 years ago Wag the dog premiered in Japan (May 23, 1998)
This week 29 years ago Once upon a time in America premiered in France (May 23, 1984)
-May 20, 2013
Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio and are set to star in a feature film version of Legacy of Secrecy. DiCaprio will play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham who apparently witnessed the confession of Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. De Niro is set to take on the role of Marcello.
Source / More (Web)
-May 03, 2013
Robert De Niro is in negotiations to star in Candy Store that Stephen Gaghan is helming. Pic is set in the Brooklyn underworld where a former covert ops agent (De Niro) discovers the organization he has been fighting over his career has set up shop in his backyard. He teams with a former cop to stop the threat that could endanger the city of New York.
Source / More (Web)
-April 24, 2013
Robert De Niro and Shia LaBeouf have started talks with Paramount to play a father and son in spy circles. Spy's Kid tells the true story of a traitorous CIA spy named Jim Nicholson. Eight years into his sentence, Nicholson enlisted his son Nathan, who failed to make a life in the Army and fell into depression, to continue his work.
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-April 17, 2013
In a new documentary from director Perri Peltz , Robert De Niro will examine the life of his father, Robert, a painter and bohemian figure who died in 1993 at the age of 71. Currently titled Robert De Niro Sr., the film has been acquired by HBO (an American cable and satellite television network) and will likely be shown on the network later this year.
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-April 09, 2013
Robert de Niro will follow up next year's Grudge Match with a drama based on the life and career of Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran. Edgar Ramirez plays Duran, De Niro plays his trainer Ray Arcel. Hands of Stone chronicles the journey of a golden-era boxer who was once considered one of the best.
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-April 05, 2013
Robert De Niro has joined the cast of a new David O. Russell film. The film title is yet unknown and so is Robert's (small) part. The based-on-a-true-story tale follows a financial con artist (Christian Bale) and his mistress/partner in crime who are forced to work with an out of control federal agent to turn the tables on other con artists, mobsters and politicians.
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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.
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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.
