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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He started acting as a child in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has continued appearing in a wide variety of films since, including Follow Me, Boys!, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Barefoot Executive, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Silkwood, The Fox and the Hound, Dark Blue, Stargate, Backdraft, Tombstone, Vanilla Sky, Poseidon and Grindhouse Death Proof. Russell is one of the very few famous child actors in Hollywood who has continued acting successfully well into middle age. Russell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, a descendant of William Russell and Martha Davies, who came to MA from England c. 1640 and settled in what is now Arlington, MA. He is the son of Louise Julia (née Crone), a dancer, and Bing Russell, a character actor known as Deputy Clem Foster on Bonanza.[1] Russell considers Rangeley, Maine, to be his hometown.[2] In the mid-sixties, Russell graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in Thousand Oaks, California. Russell began his career with an appearance as a child in the pilot of the ABC western television series Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. His film career began at the age of eleven in an uncredited part as "Ugly Child" in Elvis Presley's It Happened at the World's Fair and two extra episodes, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the then defunct series 'Rin Tin Tin. On April 24, 1963, Russell guest starred in the ABC series Our Man Higgins, starring Stanley Holloway as an English butler in an American family. He appeared in 1963 as Peter Hall in the episode "Everybody Knows You Left Me" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour. Later in 1963, he landed a big part for a juvenile actor the lead role as the orphan Jaimie in the ABC Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). Based on a book by Robert Lewis Taylor, the series also starred Dan O'Herlihy, John Maloney and the young Osmond Brothers. Charles Bronson had also become a semi-regular in the series. In 1964, he guest-starred in "Nemesis", an episode of the popular ABC series The Fugitive in which, as the son of police Lt. Phillip Gerard, he is unintentionally kidnapped by his father's quarry, Doctor Richard Kimble.
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