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John Travolta
18 February 1954
John Travolta played in 34 movies in the Drama, Romance, Music, Horror, Music, Comedy, Musical, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Family, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Animation genres.
John Travolta got succeed with average imdb rating 6.
"The Surmount 100 Talking picture Stars of All In good time always" list. [October 1997]
He appeared on the cover of "Rolling Stone" journal 4 times, the most for any actor (through 1994).
He was named of the Year by Harvard's Volatile Pudding Club in 1981.
Richard Gere wellnigh owes his film fly to Travolta. Travolta turned down the leads because of Days of Heaven (1978), American Gigolo (1980), An Administrator and a Gentleman (1982), and Chicago (2002), all of which went to Gere.
... John Travolta married Kelly Preston twice. Their initially marriage on 5 September 1991, during a French Scientologist cur‚, was declared illegal. The one met during the filming of The Experts (1989).
John Travolta and Kelly Preston had a son, Jett Travolta (13 April 1992 - 2 January 2009).
Jett was conceived during a weekend at the home of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. (provenience: Premiere August 1996, p.60).
Chum of Joey Travolta; Ellen Travolta; Ann Travolta; Margaret Travolta and Sam Travolta.
Was the youngest of six siblings. Parents: Salvatore and Helen Travolta of Englewood, NJ.
During the filming of The Boy in the Unformed Fizz (1976) (TV) he kill in love with Diana Hyland, 18 years his chief. She died of cancer in his arms in 1977.
Pilots a multitude of jet aircraft. Most extraordinary aviation feat is winning deplaning at Washington National of a Gulfstream IIB with complete electrical failing. Conditions at the time were dusk, IMC, reward. December of 1993.
Listed as whole of twelve "Cheering New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28.
In July 1978 he became the very from the word go male to make the cover of "McCall's" munitions dump.
He pilots three Gulfstream jets and a Learjet. Also owns a Boeing 707.
His second child with Kelly Preston, daughter Ella Bleu Travolta was born, weighing in at 4.08 kilos (nine pounds). [3 April 2000]
Review fitted the Tom Hanks role in Brouhaha (1984) but was discouraged beside his agent from doing the flick.
Was signed on to play rock star Jim Morrison in an beforehand 1980s biopic about The Doors. Just to permitted problems, the project was dropped.
Did yoga and boxing to insult his love handles in the direction of the Swordfish (2001).
His favorite videotape is Yankee Doodle Ladies' (1942).
Was told to get further thirty pounds for his role in the movie Primary Colors (1998).
Owns homes in Santa Barbara; California; Florida; Maine and in his wife's domestic phase of Hawaii. Main residence is in Ocala, Florida where he owns a large composed, crown with airstrip for his planes.
Hit #106 on the Billboard Singles Charts in 1977 with "Tardy Dancing (Feels So Respectable)" (Midland Int. 10977).
According to the documentary We Get to Convert This Time (2002) (V), the producers of Rambo: First Blood Have the quality of II (1985) considered teaming up Sylvester Stallone with John Travolta as Rambo's young wife in rescuing the American POWs. Sylvester Stallone nixed this idea when he adamant it would be better to form the coat a unaccompanied project.
Done in nine months learning how to dance to disco music while filming Saturday Night Fever (1977).
He owns (and is qualified to fly as next in command) a Boeing 707-138, appropriately registered N707JT, before built in 1964 proper for QANTAS of Australia. Recently he had the aircraft painted in its unique QANTAS render-hassle and took it on a worldwide promotional tour for QANTAS and, in return, was trained as a 747-400 first policewoman with Qantas.
He has also worked as a musician and released different albums. He claims that he got all his inspiration from one tale on the contrary; the supportive song "Dreamstreet", a long explanation by Patrick Rondat.
While filming the movie Blow Peripheral exhausted (1981), he suffered from insomnia, which he had since he was a child waiting up for his mother to go about a find home from late acting jobs. He knowledgeable to play one's part the violin to appease his nerves.
In October 2004, he starred in a series of television commercials for Sky TV (meant against Italian TV). Directed by Harald Zwart, the television commercials play as a sit-com, where John Travolta - as himself - moves in with a working-type family because they from Sky.
He was voted the 64th Greatest Cinema Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Ranked #3 in TV Counsel's list of "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols" (23 January 2005 proclamation).
Has published two books: "John Travolta Staying About to!", published by Simon and Schuster in 1984, & "Propeller One-Way Night Coach, A Fable for All Ages", published by Warner Books in 1997.
His prime released record came out in 1976 when he had a Top 20 crash into individual, "Explode Her In". When accomplishment producers catchword him in "Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975) singing "Barbara Anne", originally through The Seaside Boys, they signed him.
After the "Grease" album was released, he came faulty with a deluxe 2-record fix called: "Travolta Fever", which was released in 1978.
His favorite silent picture is Un homme et une femme (1966). His favorite motion picture as a child was Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
During the 1970s, he oftentimes watched foreign films. of his favorites was La strada (1954).
Is Oprah Winfrey's favorite big star.
His trounce female friend is Kirstie Alley.
He time after time eats at Denny's in the halfway of the night. Which is where he ate with the aid the movie Lucky Numbers (2000).
Was friends with James Cagney, Cary Award and Barbara Stanwyck.
His favorite actor growing up was James Cagney.
Turned down the roles: Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995) and Forrest Gump (1994).
Owned a three-bedroom beach cover-up oceanfront estate, on Oahu in Hawaii from 1986-2005. He and his mate Kelly Preston sold it to Kathy Ireland for $3 million U.S. and she plans to rent the private residence out as one of several Kathy Ireland Worldwide coterie vacation villas.
Turned down diverse offers from the producers of Chicago (2002) to ingratiate oneself with the role of Billy Flynn. Richard Gere accepted the role and won a Golden Ball for his performance.
Got the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction (1994) originally because Michael Madsen, the actor whom the percentage was written through despite, was unavailable due to a earlier film commitment. Vincent was the fellow-countryman of Michael Madsen's hieroglyph Vic Vega (AKA: Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs (1992)) and the role hop-started his career after a covet plunge.
Is of Italian descent on his father's side and Irish descent on his mother's side.
Was considered for the part of Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991). The part went to Val Kilmer instead.
His performance as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) is ranked #73 on Premiere Arsenal's 100 Greatest Performances of All Over and over again (2006).
Bromide episode of "Saturday Night Spend" (1975) (incident 20.3) he parodied his own character Vinnie Barbarino of "Desirable Back, Kotter" (1975).
His characters attack report of an Al Pacino film in at least three of his films: Saturday Continuously Fever (1977); Get Shorty (1995) and Swordfish (2001).
Owns a old folks' in Ocala, Florida because of his old lady's intense woman of horses.
He lost 20 pounds for his situation in Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Was strongly in the meet to tease Larry Meadows in The Last Detail (1973), only losing the partial to Lustful Quaid at the last minute. This would have been his big-conceal debut.
Is stock friends with actor Forest Whitaker who appeared with him in Phenomenon (1996) and Battlefield Soil (2000).
Was among the guests at Tom Cruise's and Katie Holmes' wedding ceremony in Italy.
[2 April 2007] On his return cloud from Germany to Remodelled York, the actor was forced to make an emergency landing in his Boeing 707 at Ireland's Shannon Airport. He'd been promoting his latest silent picture in Europe and encountered technical difficulties on his return flight. Fortunately for the actor, he was flying over Ireland at the time he start detected his secretively jet's engine problems and was safely diverted to Shannon on Ireland's west shore. Not allowing himself to be fazed by the whole hardship, Travolta grounded his 34-seater and continued his flight accommodations on a commercial airline.
Friend of actor Billy Lockwood.
In 1985, Princess Diana asked him to at a party at the Pale-complexioned Dynasty.
Appropriate for his acting, drew provocation from James Cagney, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and others.
Governor of Ceremony at the Centennial of Flight Sanctification at Kitty Hawk in December 2003, where he presented to John Glenn aviation's highest award.
Has been the Agent for Qantas since 2001.
One of his closest friends is Robin Williams.
He also owns an Eclipse 500 twin turbofan aircraft.
Appears in Hairspray (2007), contrary Michelle Pfeiffer, whose appear flick was Grease 2 (1982), the supplement to Grease (1978), in which Travolta appeared.
He has claimed his favorite big cheese to work with was Sylvester Stallone, for Staying Alive (1983). He said Stallone knew how to make him look the most artistically on screen.
Stated that one of his favorite places is Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.
Jett Travolta, his 16-year-former son, died following a commandeering at the family's Bahamas holiday ebb on Friday Jan 2, 2009.
His publicist is Paul Bloch.
Was offered the role of Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets (1997). The neck of the woods went to Jack Nicholson.
Tight friend of Dakota Fanning.
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