Robert de Niro

Born:

August 17, 1943

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

Remarkable:

Bob`s first role on stage was as the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz at the age of 10.

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. De Niro will work again with Michael Mann. Mann is likely to direct Robert in Frankie Machine, a new mob flick that Martin Scorsese was to direct before dropping out.

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)

Selected Movies:

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

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Aint it cool news - De Niro cast in Marvel's Thor?
Al Jazeera - Robert and Quatar
Bloody disgusting - De Niro in horror film
Deadline Hollywood - De Niro's new ones
Detroit News - Bob de Niro teams up with Ed Norton
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DVD Active - The score on Blu-ray
DVD Active - Everybody's Fine on DVD
DVD Times - Raging De Niro
High-Def Digest -
High-Def Digest - A Blue-ray Lucifer
Huffington Post - De Niro nanny sues for $40,000
Movie Hole - 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

Rumors and new films

- First man -
The story of a Ted Turner-like mogul, (Robert), who puts his career on hold to run a presidential campaign for his wife (Meryl Streep?).
Status: Maybe, maybe not

- Another Bullshit Night in Suck City -
Flynn's wayward father, a self-styled writer and ex-con, describes his life on Boston's streets as another bullshit night in Suck City. De Niro may play the father.
Status: Maybe, maybe not

- The Killer Elite -
The story is based on real events, and follows a group of former British special forces members who are being hunted by assassins.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2011

- 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 2011

- Frankie Machine -
Robert will play Frankie, a former Mafia hit man who leaves the violent industry to run a bait shop. Michael Mann will direct.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2011

- The dark fields -
A copywriter discovers a top-secret drug, that enhances intellect and other abilities. he draws the attention of business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who sees this enhanced version of a man as the tool to make billions.
Status: The film will be released within 27 weeks (March 17, 2011)

- Little Fockers -
The sequel to Meet the Fockers. The story is set around Greg and Pam raising their mischievous son who makes their lives a wreck.
Status: The film will be released within 15 weeks (December 22, 2010)

- I Heard You Paint Houses -
The title refers to mob slang for contract killings, and the resulting blood splatter on walls and floors. De Niro will play a killer who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders. Martin Scorsese will direct.
Status: Maybe, maybe not

- Stone -
De Niro portrays a parole officer who is seduced by the wife of a ruthless convict (Edward Norton)
Status: The film will be released within 4 weeks (October 7, 2010)

News

This week 2 years ago Righteous Kill premiered (September 10, 2008)
Two police investigators (De Niro and Al Pacino) try to catch a serial killer, while resolving issues between them.

This week 6 years ago Shark tale premiered (September 10, 2004)

This week 8 years ago City by the sea premiered (September 06, 2002)

More news!

Trivia

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.

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

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