"left by Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins) to its location. Red finds a box buried at the base of a stone wall in the shade of the oak. The box contains a letter from Andy and cash to buy a bus ticket to visit him in Mexico. In the film, Andy describes the tree as ""like something out of a Robert Frost poem"". The oak has been described as among the most iconic trees in film history. Shawshank tree The Shawshank Tree was a white oak located near Malabar Farm State Park in Lucas, Ohio, United States, that was"
"""Can't you see Stewie doing that?"" but tricks the audience by finishing with ""Well, here's the Shawshank Redemption"". Andy Dufresne (Peter) is sent to Shawshank Prison, though none of the inmates think much of him, particularly Red (Cleveland, who narrates the story). A month passes before Andy literally says two words to Red (""Vagina boob""), and later asks him for a rock hammer, claiming he carves ""Star Wars"" figurines out of stone. He also suggests in a poorly veiled manner that he will use the hammer to tunnel out of the prison. Andy and Red end up becoming fast friends,"
"in that situation, you just toe whatever line you have to toe."" Darabont looked initially at some of his favorite actors like Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall for the role of Andy Dufresne, but they were unavailable; Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman were also considered. Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Kevin Costner were offered, and passed on the role —Hanks due to his starring role in ""Forrest Gump"", and Costner because he had the lead in ""Waterworld"". Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, and Charlie Sheen were also considered for the role at different stages. Cruise attended table readings of the script,"
"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King from his 1982 collection ""Different Seasons"", subtitled ""Hope Springs Eternal"". It is loosely based on the Leo Tolstoy short story ""God Sees the Truth, But Waits"". It was adapted for the screen in 1994 as ""The Shawshank Redemption"", which was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1994, including Best Picture. In 2009, it was adapted for the stage as the play ""The Shawshank Redemption"". In 1947, in Maine, Andy Dufresne, a banker, is tried and convicted for the double murder of his wife and"
"for his role in the revival of ""Death of a Salesman"". He appeared on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of ""Come Back, Little Sheba"" as Doc from January 24, 2008 to March 16, 2008. Anderson starred as Andy Dufresne in the stage version of the film ""The Shawshank Redemption"" which premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in May 2009. The play transferred to the West End at the Wyndham's Theatre in London, from 4 September 2009 to 29 November 2009. He appeared in ""A Guide for the Perplexed"" at the Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago in July–August 2010. Anderson"
"Andrew Brooke Andrew Brooke is an English producer and actor. He is best known for playing Ashley in the Channel 4 series, ""PhoneShop"" for the first three series. He has appeared in the movies such as ""Sherlock Holmes"" in 2009, ""The Bank Job"" and ""Children of Men"". His many television appearances include: ""Da Vinci's Demons "", ""The IT Crowd"", ""The Inbetweeners"", ""The Mark Steel Lectures"", ""Doctor Who"", ""Pulling"", ""How Not to Live Your Life"", ""The Bible"", """", ""My Family"", ""Collision"", ""EastEnders"", ""Silent Witness"" and ""No Signal"". He also produced ""Escape of the Artful Dodger"" and ""One Way Ticket"". Brooke portrayed"
"Meanwhile, off the clock and at home, Caldwell and Torrance seem to enjoy a genuinely happy marriage. The series, although set in mainly in the Hudson River Valley, was actually filmed in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. Gil Bellows is married to American actress Rya Kihlstedt and has two children, Ava Emanuelle and Giovanni. Gil Bellows Gil Bellows (born June 28, 1967) is a Canadian film and television actor. He is best known for the roles of Tommy Williams in ""The Shawshank Redemption"", Billy Thomas in the television series ""Ally McBeal"", and as CIA agent Matt Callan in the television series"
"hears a voice in his cornfield that no one else can hear. His daughter, Karin, is later shown watching a scene from ""Harvey"" on TV. The 1992 film ""Memoirs of an Invisible Man"" sees the recently-turned-invisible Nick Holloway, afraid to his reveal identity to a sinister government agent, answer 'Harvey' when asked his name. The character Andy Dufresne in ""The Shawshank Redemption"" describes ""Randall Stevens"" –the fake person Dufresne created to launder money – as, ""a phantom, an apparition, second cousin to Harvey the rabbit."" In the ""Farscape"" television series, produced by The Jim Henson Company between 1999 and 2003,"
"3. Debra Winger – ""The Sheltering Sky"" and ""Everybody Wins"" 1. Bruce Davison – ""Longtime Companion""<br> 2. Joe Pesci – ""Goodfellas""<br> 3. Al Pacino – ""Dick Tracy""<br> 3. John Turturro – ""Miller's Crossing"" 1. Annette Bening – ""The Grifters""<br> 2. Uma Thurman – ""Henry & June"" and ""Where the Heart Is""<br> 3. Dianne Wiest – ""Edward Scissorhands"" 1. Charles Burnett – ""To Sleep with Anger""<br> 2. Tom Stoppard – ""The Russia House""<br> 3. Donald E. Westlake – ""The Grifters"" 1. Peter Suschitzky – ""Where the Heart Is""<br> 2. Ian Baker – ""The Russia House""<br> 3. Philippe Rousselot – ""Henry &"
"actor and gospel singer. Alfonso first married Cynthia Gafford in 1982 and fathered three sons: Alfonso Rene II, Joshua Caleb and Donovan Lee. He and his wife divorced in 1989. He remarried in 1994 to Larcenia Letice. Alfonso Freeman Alfonso Rene Freeman (born September 13, 1959) is an American actor. He has appeared in such films as ""The Shawshank Redemption"", ""Seven"", ""Nurse Betty"", ""Ten 'til Noon"" and ""The Bucket List"". Freeman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Morgan Freeman and Loletha Adkins (née Polk). He attended the Marion Anderson Elementary School, Ralph J. Bunche and Benjamin"
"The Scent of Darkness"" (1995), Eddie Baines in ""Coronation Street"" (1996), Det. Sgt. Cross in ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" (1996), Richard Shaw in ""Out of the Blue"" (1996), Bob Simmons/D.S. Elliot in ""The Bill"" (1993–1997), Det. Chief Supt. Will Brooks in """" (2000), Victor Murch in ""Holby City"" (2007), Jack Colby in ""Midsomer murders"" (2007), Jim Mayer/Pat Brown in ""Casualty"" (1995 and 2011), and Cyril Richardson in ""Foyle's War"" (2015). He married Valerie Whittington in 1982 in Brighton in Sussex, where he continues to live. The couple have two daughters and one son, Emma May Donaghy (born 1989), Helen Bridie Donaghy"
"time as the President's Secretary of State. Gunton portrays Leland Owlsley in the 2015 TV series ""Daredevil"". Gunton made a guest appearance on in January 2017. Bob Gunton Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. (born November 15, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, with his best known roles as Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison film ""The Shawshank Redemption"", Chief George Earle in 1993's ""Demolition Man"", Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in ""Patch Adams"", and President Juan Peron in the original Broadway production of ""Evita"", for which he received a"
"Duffy Josh Duhamel Barbara Eden David Faustino Dann Florek Max Gail Beverly Garland Gloria Gaynor Larry Gelbart Ron Glass Louis Gossett, Jr. Don Grady Robert Guillaume Jasmine Guy Larry Hagman Kadeem Hardison Pat Harrington, Jr. Jenilee Harrison Robert Hegyes Marilu Henner Dwayne Hickman Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Judd Hirsch Davy Jones (musician) Cheryl Ladd John Landis Vicki Lawrence Chloris Leachman Hal Linden Mark Linn-Baker Barry Livingston Christopher Lloyd Gavin MacLeod Rue McClanahan Lee Meriwether Noel Neill Donny Osmond Bronson Pinchot Tom Poston Linda Purl John Ratzenberger Tanya Roberts Wayne Rogers John Schneider (screen actor) Sherwood Schwartz Larry Storch Alan Thicke Marlo Thomas"
"former accountant at Deloitte Touche who helped uncover cheating in online poker by using statistical methods to analyze thousands of games. Shortly after he produced ""Out of the Furnace"" (2013), the film stars Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Shepard. The film is about a Pennsylvania steel mill worker Russell Baze (Bale) and his Iraq War veteran brother Rodney (Affleck), who cannot adjust to civilian life. While Rodney makes some money doing bareknuckle fights for bar owner and small-time criminal John Petty (Dafoe), who runs illegal gambling operations, Rodney becomes so indebted"
"Wendell Pierce Wendell Edward Pierce (born December 8, 1963) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in ""Suits"" as high-powered attorney Robert Zane, in HBO dramas such as Detective Bunk Moreland in ""The Wire"" and trombonist Antoine Batiste in ""Treme"", and as Michael Davenport in ""Waiting to Exhale"". Pierce also had a starring role as Teddy on the CBS sitcom ""The Odd Couple"". Pierce was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of three sons of a teacher and a decorated World War II veteran who worked as a maintenance engineer. His father's segregated Army unit helped Marines"
"White Sands (film) White Sands is a 1992 crime film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros. Starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Rourke, the film is about a U.S. southwestern small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation. Ray Dolezal, a bored Torrance County, New Mexico Deputy Sheriff, investigates an apparent suicide in the desert. Alongside the body is a suitcase containing $500,000. During the autopsy, they find a digested piece of paper"
"with, secondarily, ""chronic obstructive pulmonary disease"" and ""congestive cardiomyopathy"" as the causes of death. He was interred at Brownsville Cemetery in West Windsor, Vermont. Charles Bronson Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; ; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was often cast in the role of a police officer, gunfighter, or vigilante in revenge-oriented plot lines. He had long-term collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson, and appeared in fifteen films alongside his second wife, Jill Ireland. Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, the 11th of 15 children, in a Roman"
"Bob Gunton Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. (born November 15, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, with his best known roles as Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison film ""The Shawshank Redemption"", Chief George Earle in 1993's ""Demolition Man"", Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in ""Patch Adams"", and President Juan Peron in the original Broadway production of ""Evita"", for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He also appears in the ""Daredevil"" TV series as Leland Owlsley. Gunton was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Rose Marie"
"Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in ""Street Smart"" (1987), ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), ""The Shawshank Redemption"" (1994), and ""Invictus"" (2009). He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including ""Glory"" (1989), """" (1991), ""Seven"" (1995), ""Deep Impact"" (1998), ""The Sum of All Fears"" (2002), ""Bruce Almighty"" (2003), ""The Dark Knight"
"age 70 on March 5, 2006. His body was cremated. Michael Shannon plays Kuklinski in the 2012 film ""The Iceman"" loosely based on Anthony Bruno's book ""The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer"". The film also stars Winona Ryder as Kuklinski's wife (renamed Deborah), Ray Liotta as Roy DeMeo, Stephen Dorff as Richard's younger brother Joey, and Chris Evans as Robert ""Mr. Softee"" (renamed ""Mr. Freezy"") Pronge. Richard Kuklinski Richard Leonard Kuklinski (; April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was an American hitman and serial killer. He was convicted of murdering six people, but confessed to and"
"Robert Duvall Robert Selden Duvall (; born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker, whose career spans more than six decades. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards (winning for his performance in ""Tender Mercies""), seven Golden Globe Awards (winning four), and has multiple nominations and one win each of the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Emmy Award. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2005. Duvall has starred in numerous films and television series, including ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1962), ""The Twilight Zone"" (1963), ""The Outer Limits"" (1964), ""Bullitt"" (1968), ""True Grit"" (1969), ""MASH"""
"Rose for Death"" in 1986. In addition, he co-starred with Michael Evans as Dr. Watson in ""Sherlock & Me"" in the early 1980s. Fox married his wife, Jacqueline, in 1961. They had two children, daughters named Amanda and Valerie. Valerie had two children, a son named David-Mitchell and a daughter named Samantha. Valerie died on 17 May 2006. On the morning of 14 December 2016, Fox died of heart failure at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, California. He was 89 years old. Bernard Fox (actor) Bernard Lawson (11 May 1927 – 14 December 2016), better known as Bernard Fox,"
"94). It was also No. 23 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers (2006) list charting inspiring films. The characters of Andy and Warden Norton received nominations for AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains list; AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list for ""Get busy livin', or get busy dyin; AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list for ""Duettino – Sull'Aria"" (from ""The Marriage of Figaro""); and AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores for Newman's work. In 2005, the Writers Guild of America listed Darabont's screenplay at No. 22 on its list of the 101 Greatest Screenplays, and in 2014, ""The Shawshank Redemption"" was named"
"Academy Awards that year. Gable made such an impression in the role of a gangster who pushes Shearer around that he was catapulted from supporting player to leading man, a position he held for the rest of his career. Defense lawyer Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) successfully defends known gangster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable) from a murder charge, despite his knowledge of Ace's other illegal activities. His upper-class family has all but disowned him and his daughter Jan (Norma Shearer), due to Stephen's alcoholism and Jan's free spirited willfulness. Jan is engaged to clean-cut Dwight Winthrop (Leslie Howard), but their relationship"
"Sweeney"", (in which his character Charley Smith gets killed by a falling scrap car in his own scrapyard) ""Doctor Who"" (in the serial ""Underworld""), ""Return of the Saint"", ""The Aphrodite Inheritance"", ""The Standard"", ""Minder"", ""The Professionals"", ""Bergerac"", ""The Dark Side of the Sun"", ""The Bill"", ""Dempsey & Makepeace"", ""Emmerdale Farm"", ""A Very Peculiar Practice"" and ""Crime Traveller"". Godfrey James Godfrey James (born on 9 January 1931, in London) is an English actor. His film appearances include: ""Séance on a Wet Afternoon"" (1964), ""Witchfinder General"" (1968), ""The Oblong Box"" (1969), ""Cry of the Banshee"" (1970), ""The Blood on Satan's Claw"" (1970),"
"Blood of Redemption Blood of Redemption is a 2013 American crime film directed by Giorgio Serafini and Shawn Sourgose. The film was released on direct-to-DVD and Blu-ray in the United States and Canada on September 24, 2013. The film stars Dolph Lundgren, Billy Zane, Gianni Capaldi, Vinnie Jones and Robert Davi. Quinn (Billy Zane) is the son of a famous and powerful mafioso. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone from his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father (the patriarch of the criminal empire) is killed, and his brother suspects he"
"Shawn Pyfrom Shawn Caminiti Pyfrom (born August 16, 1986) is an American actor who has appeared in several television series and films, and is best known for his portrayal of Andrew Van de Kamp on ABC's ""Desperate Housewives"", and as Lionel Griff in Playhouse Disney's ""Stanley"". Pyfrom was born in Tampa, Florida. He is of Welsh, English, Dutch, Italian, German, Hungarian, French and Irish descent. ""Caminiti"", his middle name, is the maiden name of his mother, Gail. Pyfrom has an older brother named Christopher and a younger sister named Amber. He is known for his recurring role as Andrew Van"
"Larry Sanders Show)<br> 2003 Tom Fontana (The Jury, Oz)<br> 2002 Darren Star (Sex and the City, Beverly Hills, 90210)<br> 2001 Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties, Spin City)<br> 2000 David Chase (Northern Exposure, The Sopranos) 2017 Walter Hill (Alien), (The Warriors) <br> 2016 Paul Feig (Ghostbusters), (The Heat)<br> 2015 John Singleton (Four Brothers), (2 Fast 2 Furious), (Shaft)<br> 2013 Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs),(Philadelphia)<br> 2012 Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead, The Green Mile)<br> 2011 John Lasseter (Up, Tangled, Toy Story)<br> 2010 Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Grindhouse)<br> 2009 Ron Howard (The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind)<br> 2008"
"– ""The Emigrants"" (9 points) 2. Marlon Brando – ""The Godfather"" (21 points) <br> 3. Peter O'Toole – ""The Ruling Class"" (13 points) <br> 4. Alec McCowen – ""Travels with My Aunt"" (9 points) 2. Harriet Andersson – ""Cries and Whispers"" (23 points) <br> 3. Bulle Ogier – ""La Salamandre"" and ""L'amour fou"" (20 points) <br> 4. Janet Suzman – ""A Day in the Death of Joe Egg"" (16 points) <br> 5. Liza Minnelli – ""Cabaret"" (9 points) 3. Robert Duvall – ""The Godfather"" (14 points) <br> 4. Barry Foster – ""Frenzy"" (13 points) 2. Ida Lupino – ""Junior Bonner"""
"November 12, 2014, he was bestowed the honor of Freedom of the City by the City of London. In August 2017, he was named the 54th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in ""Street Smart"" (1987), ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), ""The Shawshank Redemption"" (1994), and ""Invictus"" (2009). He has also won a Golden"
"returning to the UK. In 1988 he directed a production of Molière's ""Tartuffe"" for the Old Nick Company at the University of Tasmania, Hobart. He is married to Scotland-born British actress, actress Jayne McKenna, best known for her role in popular British soap opera ""Footballer's Wives"". Richard Dillane Richard Dillane (born 1964) is an English actor. He played British agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's 2012 Iran-based political thriller, ""Argo"", winner among other things of the 2013 Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe for Best Picture, and Merv the husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based"
"and Keith, son Adam, and daughter Alexandra. His remains were interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Ron Silver Ronald Arthur Silver (July 2, 1946 – March 15, 2009) was an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and political activist. As an actor, he portrayed Henry Kissinger, Alan M. Dershowitz and Angelo Dundee. He was awarded a Tony in 1988 for Best Actor for ""Speed-the-Plow,"" a satirical dissection of the American movie business. Silver was born on July 2, 1946 in Manhattan, the son of May (""née"" Zimelman), a substitute teacher, and Irving Roy Silver, a clothing sales"
"Allan Melvin Allan John Melvin (February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008) was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows including numerous recurring roles as varying characters on ""The Andy Griffith Show""; recurring roles as Corporal Henshaw on ""The Phil Silvers Show""; Sergeant Hacker on ""Gomer Pyle, USMC""; Alice’s boyfriend Sam the Butcher on ""The Brady Bunch""; and Archie Bunker’s friend Barney Hefner on ""All in the Family"" and ""Archie Bunker’s Place"". Born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Richard and Marie Melvin and raised in New York City by his paternal grandparents, Frank and Helen (née Campbell)"