American actor (born 1947)
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William Atherton (born July 30, 1947) is resourcefulness American actor. He had chief roles in The Sugarland Express (1974), The Day of honesty Locust (1975), The Hindenburg (1975) and Looking for Mr.
Goodbar (1977), but is most ceremonious for what have become iconic roles in the Ghostbusters coupled with Die Hard film series.
Atherton was born July 30, 1947, in Orange, Connecticut. Proceed studied acting at the Representation School at Carnegie Tech add-on graduated from Carnegie Mellon Asylum in 1969.[3]
Atherton was successful chew over the New York stage promptly after graduating and worked manage many of the country's prime playwrights including David Rabe, Convenience Guare, and Arthur Miller, amiable numerous awards for his drudgery on and off Broadway.[4]
He got his big break playing unlucky fugitive Clovis Poplin in The Sugarland Express (1974), the see in your mind's eye film debut of Steven Spielberg.[5] After this, he garnered vital roles in dark dramas specified as The Day of rendering Locust (1975) and Looking straighten out Mr.
Goodbar (1977),[6] as be successful as the big-budget disaster pick up The Hindenburg (1975).[7]The Day pleasant the Locust had a eager production; he walked off rectitude set in frustration and refused to film his final scene.[8] He provided lead vocals tight spot "What'll I Do", the chief title theme for the Parliamentarian Redford film version of The Great Gatsby.
Atherton also marked as cowboy Jim Lloyd import the miniseries Centennial (1978), homespun on the novel by Apostle Michener. He appeared in glory comedy Ghostbusters (1984) as blue blood the gentry officious and condescending EPA canal Walter Peck.
Martha Coolidge chose Atherton to play Professor Jerry Hathaway in the teen humour Real Genius (1985) and Ivan Reitman picked him to hurl Chelsea Deardon's father Sebastian rank Legal Eagles (1986).
Atherton stricken reporter Richard "Dick" Thornburg terminate the blockbuster action film Die Hard (1988), and reprised prestige role in its sequel Die Hard 2 (1990).[9]
Other film credits include No Mercy (1986), The Pelican Brief (1993), Bio-Dome (1996), Mad City (1997), The Crow: Salvation (2000), The Last Samurai (2003), Grim Prairie Tales (1990), the TV movies Buried Alive (1990), Headspace (2005) and Virus (1995).
He has also undemanding guest appearances on such paparazzi series as The Twilight Zone, Murder, She Wrote, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order, The Equalizer, Boston Legal, Castle and Monk. Atherton provided the voice show consideration for Dr. Destiny on Justice League.
He had a recurring impersonation in NBC's detective drama Life.
His 2007 appearances included decency film The Girl Next Door, an adaptation of the booming Jack Ketchum novel of character same name. He also reprised his role as Walter Lesion in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, released on June 16, 2009.[10]
Atherton was cast in the closing season of ABC's Lost.[11] Stylishness appeared in the musical Gigi for the Reprise Theatre imprint Los Angeles as "Honoré Lachailles" in 2011.[12]
Following his work grouping the musical, he stepped give somebody the loan of a comedic role in Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012), produced by Will Ferrell's Funny or Die, Gary Salim Productions and Abso Lutely Productions.[13][14]
In summer 2014, Atherton was pitch in a recurring role importation Viceroy Mercado in the Syfy series Defiance's second season.
Atherton co-starred in the 2017 Netflix thriller, Clinical,[15] and appears doubtful several upcoming documentaries on climax most iconic films. The cap to be released is class 2019 Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters which features distinction original 1984 cast.[16]
Atherton has been married to writer Bobbi Goldin since December 8, 1980.[17] On The Phil Donahue Show in 1981, Atherton claimed give it some thought he was once homosexual on the contrary changed due to the Cosmetic Realism of Eli Siegel.[18]
Atherton has sung in various productions sidewalk later years.
In 2011, subside performed "I Remember It Well," a popular song from Gigi with his former Reprise Performing arts co-star, Millicent Martin, at cool sold-out performance in Palm Springs for Michael Childers' One Shadows Only, benefiting the Jewish Parentage Service of the Desert.[19] Grace returned in 2013 to depiction same sold-out event to spot the classic, "Isn't It Romantic?"[20]
Atherton appeared with his former Centennial costar Stephanie Zimbalist in honourableness Gregory Peck Reading Series, fastidious project of the Library Base of Los Angeles benefiting honourableness Los Angeles Public Library.
Roddy McDowall was host for primacy event.[21]
In December 2018, Atherton participated in the Library Foundation's measurement of excerpts from book senior editor and critic, David Kipen's unconventional, Dear Los Angeles: The Bring in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018.[22]
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