Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. [32] Ebert also notes the importance of the role for Nicholson's career, seeing it as a major transition from the exploitation films of the previous decade. "Rolling Stone Interview with Jack Nicholson", McDougal, Dennis. He next starred in Roman Polanskiâs Chinatown (1974), an homage to the film noir detective films of the 1940s and a widely acknowledged cinematic masterpiece. But it's funny, nobody really sees that. He has won three Academy Awards, and with twelve nominations, he is the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937, in Neptune City, New Jersey,[3][4][5] the son of a showgirl, June Frances Nicholson (stage name June Nilson; 1918–1963). Nicholson also appeared in two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. She married Italian-American showman Donald Furcillo (stage name Donald Rose) in 1936, before realizing that he was already married. [88], Nicholson was also a close friend of Robert Evans, the producer of Chinatown, and after Evans lost Woodland, his home, as the result of a 1980s drug bust, Nicholson and other friends of the producer purchased Woodland to give it back to Evans. [66] Nicholson and Freeman portrayed dying men who fulfill their list of goals. Corman directed Nicholson on several occasions, such as in The Little Shop of Horrors, as masochistic dental patient and undertaker Wilbur Force, and also in The Raven; The Terror, where he plays a French officer seduced by an evil ghost; and The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Antonioni's unusual plot included convincing dialogue and fine acting, states film critic Seymour Chatman. He is ranked #25 in AFI's greatest movie villains of all time. Omissions? Mary was a 1st century Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus, according to the canonical gospels and the Quran.. Nicholson was especially inspired by Brando's acting ability, recalling that in his youth, as an assistant manager at a theater, he watched On the Waterfront about forty times. "So I was prone to give some kind of clinical presentation of the disorder. [21] Biographer John Parker states that Nicholson's interpretation of his role placed him in the company of earlier "anti-hero" actors, such as James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, while promoting him into an "overnight number-one hero of the counter-culture movement". [28], Nicholson has observed that while both De Niro and Brando were noted for their skill as method actors, he himself has seldom been described as a method actor, a fact which he sees as an accomplishment: "I'm still fooling them", he told Sean Penn during a phone conversation. Print. He said, "I have [become] much sought after. [70] He was reported to be starring in an English-language remake of Toni Erdmann in 2017 opposite Kristen Wiig, his first feature film role since How Do You Know,[71] but later the project was abandoned by everyone including the director. He began the decade by directing and starring in The Two Jakes (1990), a sequel to Chinatown that generated lukewarm reviews. In 2013, Nicholson co-presented the Academy Award for Best Picture with First Lady Michelle Obama. You become Campbell's soup, with thirty-one different varieties of roles you can play. "As Jake Gittes, he stepped into Bogart's shoes", says Ebert. "[61], Critic Jack Mathews of Newsday described Nicholson as being "in rare form", adding that "it's one of those performances that make you aware how much fun the actor is having". [90] He was almost ejected from a Lakers playoff game in May 2003 after he yelled at the game's referee. He later appeared as an irascible father in the romantic comedy How Do You Know (2010), his fourth collaboration with director James L. Brooks. In late 2006, Nicholson marked his return to the dark side as Frank Costello, a nefarious Boston Irish Mob boss, based on Whitey Bulger who was still on the run at that time, presiding over Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning film The Departed, a remake of Andrew Lau's Infernal Affairs. Also in 1975, Nicholson starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975), which co-starred Maria Schneider. "But Helen disarmed that at the first meeting", he says, "and I stopped thinking about it." It has been widely reported in subsequent years that Nicholson has retired from acting because of memory loss. [5] A theatre and a drama award at the school are named in his honor. ", "Jack Nicholson goes public with his politics", "NAMES IN THE NEWS: Nicholson Split on Abortion", "Which 2020 Democrat Has the Best Celebrity Endorsements? After playing a world-weary former cop in Sean Pennâs The Pledge (2001), he scored another personal triumph with his much-lauded performance as the title character in About Schmidt (2002), a movie about a retired widower seeking to mend his relationship with his daughter. Huston told police the next day, after Polanski was arrested, that she "had witnessed nothing untoward" and never saw them together in the other room. "I don't believe in God now", Nicholson told a 1992 Vanity Fair interviewer. 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"[35] Polanski then came out with Geimer, and he introduced her to Huston, and they chatted about Nicholson's two large dogs, which were sitting nearby. Our editors will review what youâve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. [37] The film swept the Academy Awards with nine nominations, and won the top five, including Nicholson's first for Best Actor. [17] :318 Richardson recalled that Nicholson worked hard on the set: He's what the Thirties and Forties stars were like. Nicholson shot a scene with the ghostly bartender thirty-six times. [17] :273 Reviewer Marie Brenner notes that his bravura performance "transcends the screen" and continually inspires the other actors by lightening their mental illnesses with his comic dialogue. Other notable Nicholson films from this period included Michelangelo Antonioniâs Professione: reporter (1975; The Passenger), in which Nicholson portrays a depressed reporter who assumes a dead manâs identity, and Tommy (1975), director Ken Russellâs garish production of the Whoâs rock opera, featuring Nicholson in a supporting singing role as the title characterâs doctor. Nicholsonâs newfound stardom was secured with his leading role in Five Easy Pieces (1970), an episodic, existentialist drama and a major entry in Hollywoodâs âart filmâ movement of the early 1970s. He was in detention every day for a whole school year. Nicholson used LSD in the 1960s, and claimed to have life-changing experiences with it. Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937, in Neptune City, New Jersey, the son of a showgirl, June Frances Nicholson (stage name June Nilson; 1918–1963). Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. They had one daughter together, Jennifer (born September 13, 1963), also an actress. Get the latest music news, watch video clips from music shows, events, and exclusive performances from your favorite artists. "He was very beautiful. After that, who is there but Jack Nicholson? Nicholsonâs understated acting in the melancholic comedy earned him a 12th Academy Award nomination. [27], For his role as hot-headed Col. Nathan R. Jessup in A Few Good Men (1992), a movie about a murder in a U.S. Marine Corps unit, Nicholson received yet another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Always ready for a new idea. "[98], In May 2008, then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced that Nicholson would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. He is known for having played a wide range of starring and supporting roles, including comic characters, romantic leads, anti-heroes and villains. Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy (also known as R.P. Here’s a look at the life of actor Jack Nicholson, who has won three Academy Awards and been nominated for 12, the most of any male performer. He has been a Laker season ticket holder since 1970, and has held courtside season tickets for the past 25 years next to the opponent's benches both at The Forum and Staples Center, missing very few games. John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance is the main villainous protagonist of Stephen King's 1977 horror novel The Shining as well as its 1980 film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick and the 1997 TV miniseries adaptation. He is one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards, and one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. "Less is more", he told him, and wanted him to wear reflecting sunglasses to portray what patrolmen wore. In 2006 he appeared as Irish mobster Frank Costello in Martin Scorseseâs The Departed. A witness confirmed Blank's account of the incident, and misdemeanor charges of assault and vandalism were filed against Nicholson. [17] :318, Nicholson won his second Oscar, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role of retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment (1983), directed by James L. Brooks. He played Melvin Udall, a "wickedly funny",[61] mean-spirited, obsessive-compulsive novelist. [13][14] Before starting high school, his family moved to an apartment in Spring Lake, New Jersey. Roger Ebert described Nicholson's portrayal as sharp-edged, menacing, and aggressive, a character who knew "how to go over the top", as he did in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. [73], Actress Susan Anspach contended that her son, Caleb Goddard (born September 26, 1970), was fathered by Nicholson. [75] At some point between 1988 and 1994, Nicholson provided financial assistance to put Caleb through college,[76] and Anspach's New York Times obituary referred to Caleb as "her son, whose father is Jack Nicholson". In 2003, Nicholson also starred in Something's Gotta Give, as an aging playboy who falls for the mother (Diane Keaton) of his young girlfriend. This ceremony marked the eighth time he has presented the Academy Award for Best Picture (1972, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2006, 2007, and 2013). [78][79], In the mid-1990s, Nicholson had a daughter, Tessa, with Ms. Jeannine Gourin. They had two children together: daughter Lorraine Nicholson (born April 16, 1990 - named after his aunt), and son Raymond (born February 20, 1992). His next notable role was in director Stanley Kubrickâs The Shining (1980); an adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it is a film over which critical opinion remains divided but the one with Nicholsonâs ax-wielding rampageâculminating in his demonic cry of âHeeeereâs Johnny!ââthat became one of the indelible cinematic images of the era. ", "Nicholson And Fonda Join California Hall of Fame", "The California Museum's California Hall of Fame Fact Sheet", "Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon are among 15 inducted into N.J. 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