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Kurt Russell <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>  Kurt Russell (born March 17, 1951, in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American actor with a rich history of genre roles. He played a feral child ("Jungle Boy") on Gilligan's Island when he was a teenager. He had a guest spot on Lost in Space. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, a light fantasy for Disney, marked his first starring genre part. He would reprise the role of Dexter Reilly in Now You See Him, Now You Don't and The Strongest Man in the World. In Disney's "The Barefoot Executive," he discovers that his girlfriend's pet chimp can pick hit TV-pilots but the network executives panic when they discover their biggest new hits were chosen by a monkey! In 1981, he had a very different starring part as Snake Plisken in John Carpenter's Escape From New York. The following year, he again worked for Carpenter in the dark remake of The Thing. He lightened things up in 1986 as the wisecracking Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China. He was serious again in Stargate, and so stoic he had very little dialogue in Soldier. 2005 found him back in a light-hearted Disney film as The Commander in Sky High ... as a parent rather than a student. This was followed by the gritty R-rated "Grindhouse" as a psychotic killer working as a Hollywood stuntman. External Links
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