Hollywood Baby Boomers: A Biographical Dictionary

Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to Hollywood Baby Boomers by James Robert Parish and Don E. Stanke. The generation of the American Baby Boomers is comprised of those born in the years from 1946, following the return home of soldiers who had fought in World War II, through 1964. For purposes of brevity, this book includes Hollywood luminaries born between 1946 and 1960. Most of the subjects profiled herein made it to the top of their profession without the aid of a major studio to serve as a safe harbor and launching pad of their show business careers. Most of the successful members of this generation of talent formed, at one time or another, their own production companies to make themselves self-sufficient in dealings with the film studios. Above all, they are an intelligent, self-sufficient group of acting talent. Each personality profiled in this book has a separate chapter containing a career and biographical narrative. Each chapter has a listing of the subject’s feature films/TV movies, TV series, Broadway appearances, and, if any, released music albums. An important quote from each star launches his/her own chapter. The 80 celebrities presented in Hollywood Baby Boomers are: Richard Dean Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Barkin, Roseanne Barr, Kim Basinger, Tom Berenger, Candice Bergen, Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, Cher, Glenn Close, Kevin Costner, Billy Crystal, Jamie Lee Curtis, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Daniels, Ted Danson, Tony Danza, Richard Dreyfuss, Sally Field, Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeff Goldblum, John Goodman, Melanie Griffith, Steve Guttenberg, Arsenio Hall, Harry Hamlin, Tom Hanks, Mark Harmon, Gregory Harrison, Gregory Hines, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Ann Jillian, Don Johnson, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Keaton, Michael Keaton, Perry King, Kevin Kline, Christine Lahti, Jessica Lange, Shelley Long, Madonna, John Malkovich, Kelly McGillis, Bill Murray, Mandy Patinkin, Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Quaid, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Mickey Rourke, Kurt Russell, Susan Saint James, Susan Sarandon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jane Seymour, Cybill Shepherd, Jaclyn Smith, Jimmy Smits, Sissy Spacek, Sylvester Stallone, Meryl Streep, Patrick Swayze, John Travolta, Kathleen Turner, Lindsay Wagner, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Williams, Treat Williams, Bruce Willis, Oprah Winfrey, Debra Winger, and James Woods.