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- Kurt Russell, American actor who became a child star in the 1960s, appearing in a number of Disney movies, and then transitioned to a successful career as a leading man, perhaps best known for his action dramas.
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All Kurt Russell Movies Ranked. Even before he became one of the big players of Hollywood’s golden age of action movies during the 1980s and 1990s, Kurt Russell was already a prince on the...
- Vanilla Sky (2001) Role: McCabe. Distributed by: Paramount Pictures. Directed by: Cameron Crowe. Written by: Cameron Crowe. This is a tricky one. Cameron Crowe’s science fiction drama from 2001 divided the film community, with little to agreed upon other than Cameron Diaz’s outstanding and snubbed Oscar-worthy performance as Julianna Gianni, the crazy lover who takes Tom Cruise’s David Aames for midday joyride.
- Tango & Cash (1989) Role: Lt. Gabriel Cash. Distributed by: Warner Bros. Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky. Written by: Randy Feldman, Jeffrey Boam. Comedic and action sparring against Sylvester Stallone has never been so much fun to watch.
- Escape from New York (1981) Role: Lieutenant S.D. Bob ‘Snake’ Plissken. Distributed by: AVCO Embassy Pictures. Directed by: John Carpenter. Written by: John Carpenter, Nick Castle.
- The Fox and the Hound (1981) Role: Copper. Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures. Directed by: Ted Berman, Richard Rich, Art Stevens. Written by: Larry Clemmons, Ted Berman, David Michener, Peter Young, Burny Mattinson, Steve Hulett, Earl Kress, Vance Gerry (based on the novel “The Fox and the Hound” by Daniel P. Mannix)
- TOMBSTONE (1993) Director: George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre (uncredited) Writer: Kevin Jarre. Starring Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton. Kevin Costner fresh off his multi-Oscar winning western “Dances with Wolves” had a biopic of gunfighter Wyatt Earp planed as his next western when this lower budget film swept in and told the same story to greater acclaim.
- THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015) Director and writer: Quentin Tarantino. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth. Russell was one of “The Hateful Eight” who gather together at a remote Wyoming cabin to basically torture and kill one another in this typically bloody film from Quentin Tarantino.
- SILKWOOD (1983) Director: Mike Nichols. Writer: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen. Starring Meryl Streep, Cher, Diana Scarwid. “Silkwood” is often remembered as the first time Cher appeared in a serious dramatic role in a big budget film.
- ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) Director: John Carpenter. Writer: John Carpenter, Nick Castle. Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence.
- Tombstone. Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn. 469 votes. Tombstone, a classic Western film released in 1993, remains one of Kurt Russell's most mesmerizing performances.
- The Thing. Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter. 387 votes. Released in 1982, John Carpenter's The Thing is an unparalleled science fiction horror masterpiece featuring Kurt Russell as helicopter pilot R.J.
- Escape from New York. Kurt Russell, Ernest Borgnine, Adrienne Barbeau. 338 votes. In this 1981 dystopian action film, Kurt Russell delivers a memorable performance as the iconic anti-hero Snake Plissken.
- Big Trouble in Little China. Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun. 384 votes. Kurt Russell shines as the quick-talking truck driver Jack Burton in the 1986 cult classic, Big Trouble in Little China.
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Escape from New York
- Overboard
- The Hateful Eight
- Backdraft
- Bone Tomahawk
- Tombstone
- Death Proof
- The Thing
After winning a bet with his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun), Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) accompanies Wang, making sure that he pays up his debt, to an airport to meet Wang’s girlfriend, Miao Yin (Suzee Pai). A street gang named The Lords of Death kidnap Miao Yin, and Jack and Wang track them back to Chinatown. There they are thrown into a war against ...
The United States has become a crime-ridden nightmare, so to even the score, Manhattan Island has been turned into a massive, maximum-security prison. When Air Force One is hijacked and purposely crashed into the prison, Lieutenant "Snake" Plissken (Kurt Russell), former Special Forces turned criminal, is offered a deal to save the President John H...
Spoiled heiress Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn) hires local carpenter Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell), a widower and father of four boys, to remodel the closet on her luxury yacht, but then refuses to pay. When Dean watches the next-day news of a woman saved from the water and suffering from amnesia, he realizes it’s Joanna Stayton and decides to pretend...
Traveling by stagecoach on the way to Red Rock, Wyoming, John "The Hangman" Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his bounty, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), cross paths with Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson). As the weather worsens, they all seek shelter in a mountain pass stopover. More strangers are already inside, making a total of eight travel...
Chicago firefighting brothers Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin) struggle to see eye to eye, and Brian has always lived in the shadow of his older brother Stephen. After a number of fires that have occurred which resemble the work of a convicted pyromaniac, Donald Rimgale (Robert De Niro), is called in to investigate. It s...
Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell), a small town sheriff, is tasked with saving three townsfolk who have been taken by a suspected tribe of cave dwellers. A small posse of four is rounded up, consisting of Indian War veteran John Brooder (Matthew Fox), and Arthur O'Dwyer (Patrick Wilson), the husband of one of the abducted who is suffering from a broken ...
After gaining vast praise and a healthy reputation, retired lawman Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) decides to settle down in Tombstone, Arizona. Now wealthy, Wyatt and his two brothers, Virgil (Sam Elliott) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), make an investment in a saloon. Here they make their first encounter with the outlaw gang, the Cowboys, led by ‘Curly Bill’...
Mike McKay (Kurt Russell), a Hollywood stuntman, shows up at a bar where three friends are celebrating Julia’s (Sydney Tamiia Poitier) birthday. She is a local DJ who made a radio announcement offering a free lap dance, from her friend Arlene (Vanessa Ferlito), to anyone who calls Arlene "Butterfly." Stuntman Mike claims the dance, and also offers ...
American researchers in Antarctica discover a spacecraft that has been buried under the ice for thousands of years at an abandoned Norwegian base. Unbeknownst to the American team and their helicopter pilot, RJ MacReady (Kurt Russell), a dog from the Norwegian base that Clark (Richard Masur) took in from the cold is really a shape-shifting thing th...
During the 1980s, he starred in several films by director Carpenter; they created some of his best-known roles, including the infamous anti-hero Snake Plissken in the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981) (and later in its sequel Escape from L.A. (1996)), Antarctic helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady in the horror film The Thing (1982 ...
Apr 5, 2020 · By Alex Wyse. Published Apr 5, 2020. Kurt Russell is quite easily one of the most recognizable actors working in Hollywood today. With a career dating back to the early 1960s, Russell has starred in every kind of film imaginable – from studio blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 to low-budget passion project Bone Tomahawk .
