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  1. May 11, 2024 · In addition to starring and producing pictures, Nicholson is a director, known for helming the Western comedy "Goin' South." During production, Nicholson bizarrely feuded with John Belushi. While ...

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  2. 5 days ago · Nicholson has directed three films, Drive, He Said (1971), Goin' South (1978), and The Two Jakes (1990). He is one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards and one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in films made in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s (alongside Michael Caine).

  3. May 21, 2024 · His stardom assured, Nicholson worked sporadically during the next few years. He costarred with Marlon Brando in the Arthur Penn western The Missouri Breaks (1976), an uneven yet compellingly quirky film; and he directed and starred in another revisionist western, GoinSouth (1978).

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  4. May 9, 2024 · She cofounded an improvisational comedy troupe with other graduates of the school before being cast by Jack Nicholson as a spinster who saves his character from the gallows in the little-seen western comedy GoinSouth (1978). She played opposite Malcolm McDowell (who portrayed H.G. Wells) in the time-travel film Time After Time (1979).

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  5. May 13, 2024 · Belushi’s performance in actor-director Jack Nicholson’s Western comedy film GoinSouth (1978) attracted the attention of director John Landis, who cast Belushi in the college fraternity spoof film National Lampoon’s Animal House. He earned wide acclaim for playing John (“Bluto”) Blutarsky, a seventh-year undergraduate student who ...

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  6. May 28, 2024 · Answer: Jack Nicholson. "Five Easy Pieces" was a classic, a milestone in Jack Nicholson's terrific career. His seventies films made Nicholson's reputation, with "Carnal Knowledge" (1971), "Chinatown" (1974), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "The Missouri Breaks" (1976) co-starring his idol Marlon Brando, and "Goin' South" (1978), which ...

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  8. May 23, 2024 · A quirky and offbeat comedy, Goin' South stars Jack Nicholson as an outlaw saved from the gallows when a headstrong woman, played by Mary Steenburgen, agrees to marry him and manage her ranch. With its witty script and eccentric characters, this film offers a lighthearted take on classic western themes such as personal redemption, lawlessness ...