George Clooney

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Clooney, George (6 May 1961 - )

A popular and amiable actor, the Kentucky-born Clooney has been in a variety of shows: he was in E.R., a television series, from 1984 to 1985 and from 1994 to 1999. He has been in numerous movies, including Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988), Batman & Robin (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), and Ocean’s Eleven (2001).

Sharon Waxman, in a Washington Post (28 September 1997) profile, quoted Clooney:

• I don’t believe in Heaven and Hell. I don’t know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won’t allow this life—the only thing I know to exist—to be wasted.

Asked in a February 2012 Vanity Fair interview, he responded to the following questions:

• What historical figure do you most identify with? W. C. Fields
• What is your most treasured possession? A pen and a piece of paper
• What do you value most in your friends? Their humor
• Who is your favorite her of fiction? Atticus Finch
• Who are your favorite writers? Paddy Chayefsky, Mark Twain

Filmography

• Combat Academ] (1987)
• Grizzly II: The Predator (1987) (unreleased)
• Return to Horror High (1987)
• Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
• Red Surf (1990)
• Unbecoming Age (1992)
• The Harvest (1993)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• Curdled (film)|Curdled]] (Didn't appear in film, photo showed. 1996)
• One Fine Day (1996)
• Batman and Robin (1997 film)|Batman & Robin]] (1997)
• Full Tilt Boogie]] (1997) (documentary)
• The Peacemaker (film)|The Peacemaker (1997)
• Waiting for Woody (1998) (short subject)
• Out of Sight (1998)
• The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line (1998)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) (voice)
• The Book That Wrote Itself (1999) (Cameo)
• Three Kings (film)|Three Kings (1999)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
• The Perfect Storm (film)|The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Spy Kids (2001)
• Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)|Ocean's Eleven (2001)
• Starbuck Holger Meins (2002) (documentary)
• Welcome to Collinwood (2002) (also executive producer and producer)
• Solaris (film)|Solaris (2002)
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) (also director)
• Spy Kids#Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)|Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
• Welcome to Collinwood (2003)
• Ocean's Twelve (2004) (also executive producer)
• Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) (also director and co-writer)
• Syriana (2005) (also producer and winner 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

• The Good German (2006) (post production. Possible Premiere at Cannes, May 2006 )