The Best Years of Our Lives
1947
Search results
Actor: The Best Years of Our Lives. Harold John Russell was born in Nova Scotia in 1914. His family moved to Cambridge Massachusetts when his father died in 1919. He was training paratroopers at Camp MacKall NC on June 6, 1944 when some TNT he was using exploded in his hands.
Harold Russell. Actor: The Best Years of Our Lives. Harold John Russell was born in Nova Scotia in 1914. His family moved to Cambridge Massachusetts when his father died in 1919. He was training paratroopers at Camp MacKall NC on June 6, 1944 when some TNT he was using exploded in his hands. He lost both hands.
Dec 10, 2016 · Harold Russell, double amputee, who won an Academy Award for his first and only previous film,”The Best Years of Our Lives,” and is now at work on Richard Donner’s film “Inside movies.” (Martha...
Nov 9, 2021 · Hollywood History: How World War II forced the Academy to rethink the 1942 Oscars. How Scenes from a Marriage spurred a Swedish marital crisis. We look at the story of Harold Russell, wounded...
Feb 1, 2002 · Harold Russell, the disabled World War II veteran who received two Academy Awards for his role in “The Best Years of Our Lives,” has died. He was 88. Russell, who lost both of his hands in an...
Harold John Avery Russell (January 14, 1914 – January 29, 2002) was an American World War II veteran. After losing his hands during his military service, Russell was cast in the epic drama film The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Feb 3, 2002 · Harold Russell: Oscar winner, veterans activist. One of the most unusual and affecting chapters in the history of Hollywood ended last week in a Massachusetts nursing home. Harold Russell,...
