Bruce Dern

Bruce Dern in Sony Pictures Classics' Masked and Anonymous - 2003

Biography

Born 06/04/1936

A tall, slender Method-trained actor, Bruce Dern has utilized his good looks and striking blue eyes in both heroic and villainous roles. Director Elia Kazan saw the young actor in a production of Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman" in 1959, auditioned and trained Dern at the Actors Studio and later...
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Awards

  • In 1983, received Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actor
  • In 1972, received National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor

Highlights

  • In 2007, Cast as Virginia Madsen's father in "The Astronaut Farmer"
  • In 2006, Cast as Bill Paxton's father in the HBO series, "Big Love"
  • In 2005, Starred with Troy Garity and Randy Quaid in "Milwaukee, Minnesota"

Family & Companions

  • George Dern: grandfather (Paternal grandfather; former Utah governor and Secretary of War under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
  • Adlai Stevenson: godfather (Democratic nominee for President (1952, 1956))

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