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A 121-year-old man recalls in flashback his misadventures in the Wild West, including his temporary adoption as an Indian brave and the story of how he became the only white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Arthur Penn's Western based on the novel by Thomas Berger, starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George and Jeff Corey
1970
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Movie/Drama
Western
Cast & Crew
Dustin Hoffman
(Actor)
.. Jack Crabb
Faye Dunaway
(Actor)
.. Mrs Pendrake
Martin Balsam
(Actor)
.. Allardyce T Merriweather
Richard Mulligan
(Actor)
.. Gen George Armstrong Custer
Chief Dan George
(Actor)
.. Old Lodge Skins
Jeff Corey
(Actor)
.. Wild Bill Hickok
Aimee Eccles
(Actor)
.. Sunshine
Kelly Jean Peters
(Actor)
.. Olga
Carol Androsky
(Actor)
.. Caroline
Arthur Penn
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Dustin Hoffman
(Actor)
.. Jack Crabb
Born:
August 08, 1937
in
Los Angeles
Best Known For:
Tackling difficult roles.
Early-life:
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles on August 8, 1937, the son of a furniture salesman and an amateur actress. He was named after silent-movie star Dustin Farnham and has an older brother, Ronald. He trained to be a doctor and a pianist, but preferred studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He and classmate Gene Hackman were voted least likely to succeed. He shared an apartment with Hackman and later with Robert Duvall, and studied at the famous Actors Studio in New York.
Career:
Hoffman spent 10 years trying to get decent roles, making ends meet by teaching and appearing in commercials and TV series. In 1967 he landed the lead role in The Graduate which made him a star and secured his first Oscar nomination. He gained further nods from the Academy for Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie and Wag the Dog, and has won twice for Kramer vs Kramer and Rain Man. Other notable films include Straw Dogs, Little Big Man, Sleepers, Runaway Jury, Finding Neverland, I Heart Huckabees, Meet the Fockers and Stranger Than Fiction. More recent projects include Last Chance Harvey, Little Fockers, the short-lived TV series Luck and Esio Trot. He also directed the BBC-backed film Quartet.
Quote:
'I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm ageing so well.'
Trivia:
Hoffman is a huge fan of the Archie series of comics, and owns a copy of every issue ever published.
Faye Dunaway
(Actor)
.. Mrs Pendrake
Born:
January 14, 1941
in
Bascom, Florida
Best Known For:
Her iconic status during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Early-life:
Born Dorothy Faye Dunaway on January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida. While she was growing up, it was fashionable for girls to enter beauty pageants, and Dunaway was determined to win one before leaving Florida. After a number of near-misses, she was crowned Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. Shortly afterwards she enrolled at Boston University, later turning down a scholarship to study at Rada to join the training programme at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre in New York.
Career:
Dunaway landed her first starring role, in a stage production of A Man for All Seasons, just days after graduating from university. Her TV debut was in a 1965 episode of Seaway, and her first film, Hurry Sundown, was released two years later. She became a household name thanks to Bonnie and Clyde, and followed it with such hits as The Thomas Crown Affair, Chinatown, The Towering Inferno, Network (for which she won an Oscar) and The Champ. Her films in the 1980s and 1990s weren't as successful, although she had a cameo role in the Thomas Crown remake.
Quote:
'I'm still the little Southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.'
Trivia:
She published her autobiography, Looking for Gatsby: My Life, in 1995.
Martin Balsam
(Actor)
.. Allardyce T Merriweather
Richard Mulligan
(Actor)
.. Gen George Armstrong Custer
Chief Dan George
(Actor)
.. Old Lodge Skins
Jeff Corey
(Actor)
.. Wild Bill Hickok
Aimee Eccles
(Actor)
.. Sunshine
Kelly Jean Peters
(Actor)
.. Olga
Carol Androsky
(Actor)
.. Caroline
Arthur Penn
(Director)
