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Henry Gibson
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21 September 1935 - 14 September 2009
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In the fate of Henry Gibson, the most significant was the first month of autumn: he was born on September 21, 1935, and left on September 14, 2009, a week before his birthday. In the annals of cinema, Gibson is an American actor and screenwriter. However, Henry did not immediately become Gibson: his creative pseudonym put the "cross" on his real name - James Bateman. He is from Germantown (Philadelphia). The future actor graduated from the preparatory school of St. Joseph, where he headed the Drama
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In the fate of Henry Gibson, the most significant was the first month of autumn: he was born on September 21, 1935, and left on September 14, 2009, a week before his birthday. In the annals of cinema, Gibson is an American actor and screenwriter.
However, Henry did not immediately become Gibson: his creative pseudonym put the "cross" on his real name - James Bateman. He is from Germantown (Philadelphia). The future actor graduated from the preparatory school of St. Joseph, where he headed the Drama Club, and then the Catholic University of America in Washington.
While still James Bateman, the young man served in the US Air Force: he was an intelligence officer. He began his acting career after demobilization: in the beginning his famous number was a parody (an American poet with a southern accent). Then appeared the pseudonym Henry Gibson (changed name of the poet Henrik Ibsen).
Henry Gibson wrote poetry, and from 1957 to 1962 he often participated in the “Jack Paar Evening Show”, where he recited his works. The doors of cinema opened to him in 1963, along with a role in Jerry Lewis’s film The Crazy Professor. Then there was a collaboration with Robert Altman, the films Nashville (1975), The Long Goodbye (1973) and Health (1980) were released. In Nashville, Gibson played country singer Haven Hamilton, and the role earned him a Golden Globe nomination and a National Society of Film Critics Award.
Henry Gibson became famous for her role as the leader of the fascists in John Landis’ Blues Brothers (1980). In the last years of the twentieth century, Henry played in films.
"Monster from the closet" (1986), The Suburbs 1989 (1989) and The Gremlins 2: The New Party (1992), voiced animated films.
Already a rather elderly man, Henry Gibson played in the films Uninvited Guests (2005) and Big Stan (2008), in the television series Boston Lawyers (Judge Clark Brown).
Henry Gibson was married only once: in 1966, his chosen one was Lois Joan Geiger, who gave him three children. They lived together until Geiger's death in May 2007. Henry Gibson survived his wife by two years. /