Kurt Russell Overview:

Actor, Kurt Russell, was born Kurt Vogel Russell on Mar 17, 1951 in Springfield, MA. As of December 2025, Kurt Russell was 74 years old.

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On October 16, 1998, Russell received the Disney Legends Award for living up to the Disney principals of imagination, skill, discipline, craftsmanship and magic.

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By Annmarie Gatti on Mar 17, 2013 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Happy Birthday , born today, March 17, in 1951. Russell made his Film Debut in 1963 (uncredited) at 11 yrs old — as the ‘boy who kicks Mike (aka Elvis Presley)’ in It Happened at the World’s Fair. Russell went on to become a top Disney star during the ’60s a... Read full article


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Kurt Russell Quotes:

Dexter Reilly: You know... everyone's just out for himself. It was like that everywhere I went. Everyone's just... out for himself.


Mike Edwards: Hey kid, how would you like to kick me in the shin?
Boy: How would I like to kick you in the shin?
Mike Edwards: Uhum.
Boy: Mister are you drunk?
Mike Edwards: No. I'll tell you what, if you kick me in the shin I'll give you a quarter, here.
[Gives the boy a quarter and the boy kicks him]
Mike Edwards: [in pain] Yeoww! That's good! Thanks kid.
[limps off]
Boy: [shaking his head] Adults, there're all nuts!


Whitey: There's somethin' the matter with Pa. He fell on the floor and he can't get up.


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Kurt Russell Facts
Is good friends with director John Carpenter. The two have collaborated on five different films: Elvis (1979/I) (TV), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and Escape from L.A. (1996).

Has starred in films with two of his former brother-in-laws: Larry J. Franco in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), and Whip Hubley in Executive Decision (1996).

For his role on Tombstone (1993), he was trained by renowned Hollywood Gun Coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as: Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliott, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Foster and Girard Swan.

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