Kurt Russell
Acting
🎂 1951-03-17
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A.(1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kurt Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(140)
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self
1997
Self - Guest
1993
Quano
1965
Johnny
1969
Self
1961
Peter Valchek
1968
Self
1992
Self
2003
Self
2003
Elick Harte
1965
1962
Ego (voice)
2021
Ego / Ego's Computer / Ego's Army (voice)
2021
Dan Winslow
1965
Lee Shaw
2023
William Craig
1964
Mathew
1964
Jed
1964
Paul Bickford
1964
Nathan Jarrett
1964
Self
1998
1973
Philip Gerard Jr.
1963
Eddie
1963
Self
1953
Ego (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
1964
1969
Jay Baker
1966
1969
1974
Toby Shea
1962
Andy Denning
1962
Morgan Beaudine
1976
Jamie McPheeters
1963
Elvis Presley (voice) (uncredited)
1994
Ron (voice)
2025
Packy
1955
Buck Henry Woolfe
1955
Dan Rondo
1967
Mr. Nobody
2015
Randy / Narrator
2019
Ego
2017
Bobby
1962
Self - Guest
1996
Mr. Nobody
2017
Matthias Kane
1972
MacReady
1982
Colonel Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil
1994
Mr. Nobody
2021
1965
1996
John 'The Hangman' Ruth
2015
Wyatt Earp
1993
Curtis McCabe
2001
Stuntman Mike
2007
Dean Proffitt
1987
Steve Stronghold / The Commander
2005
Copper (voice)
1981
Jimmy Harrell
2016
Jack Burton
1986
Bo Larsen
1974
Snake Plissken
1981
Sheriff Franklin Hunt
2015
Robert Ramsey
2006
Gabriel 'Gabe' Cash
1989
David Grant
1996
Jeff Taylor
1997
Michael Zane
2001
Todd 3465
1998
Snake Plissken
1996
Captain Ives
2002
Santa Claus
2020
Stuntman Mike (segment "Death Proof")
2007
Michael Carr
1992
Santa Claus
2018
Stephen McCaffrey
1991
Rudy Russo
1980
Herb Brooks
2004
Martin Sr.
2019
Lieutenant Nick Frescia
1988
Self (archive footage)
2021
Eldon Perry
2002
Self
2019
Drew Stephens
1983
Self - 'Ego' (archive footage)
2023
Crunch Calhoun
2013
Elvis Presley
1979
Dexter Riley
1969
Captain Ron
1992
Lucky Lockhart
1984
Ben Crane
2005
Reno Hightower
1986
Dexter Riley
1975
Snake Plissken in Escape From L.A. (archive footage)
2004
Dexter Reilly
1972
Self - Choir Member
1991
Coach Hand
2011
Bart
1973
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2021
Malcolm Anderson
1985
Whitey
1966
Kurt Russell
2005
Ray Ferris
1973
Johnny Jesus
1971
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
Himself
2014
Steven Post
1971
Quano (archive footage)
1998
Wayland Jackson
1989
Sidney Bower
1968
Self (archive footage)
2021
Morgan 'Two Persons' Beaudine
1976
Self
2025
Jamie McPheeters
1964
2025
Child who kicks Mike at the fair (uncredited)
1963
Self
2001
Morgan 'Two Persons' Beaudine
1976
Self
2004
Dad
2007
Self
2024
Morgan 'Two Persons' Beaudine
1976
self
2020
Self
2020
Ronnie Gardner
1968
Pvt. Willie Prentiss
1967
Rich Evans
1969
Self
1982
Charles Whitman
1975
Narrator
1970
Self
1998
Larry Koenig
1980
Shan Mullins
1975
Johnny
1977
Self
2025
Self
2020
Self
1970
