Henry
Goro Beaty (born March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia),
now known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor, producer,
screenwriter, and director. He long had a reputation
as a womanizer and playboy, but that reputation has
faded since his 1992 marriage. The Academy Awards honored
him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000,
presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson, while
in 2004 he received Kennedy Center Honor.
Beatty was born to an American father
whose family had lived in Virginia for several centuries,
and a Canadian mother of half Scottish and half Irish
descent; the family was devoutly Baptist. Beatty got
his start in film under Elia Kazan's direction and
opposite Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961),
though he had previous television experience in The
Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959). At age 30 he achieved
critical acclaim as producer and star of Bonnie and
Clyde (1967), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
Subsequent Beatty films include McCabe
& Mrs. Miller (1971), The Parallax View (1974),
Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978). His historical
epic set at the start of World War I, Reds (1981),
won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography,
and Best Actress in a Supporting Role while losing
Best Picture to Chariots of Fire. It was nominated
for eight other Oscars and joined a handful of films
to win Best Director but not Best Picture. Other critically
acclaimed works include Bugsy (1991) and Bulworth
(1998). Beatty is the only person other then Orson
Welles to receive Oscar nominations in the same year
for acting, directing, writing, and producing, and
he did it twice, in 1978 and 1981.
Beatty's career as a ladies man has
been marked by a series of well-publicized romances,
including Diane Keaton, Leslie Caron, Isabelle Adjani,
Catherine Deneuve, Inger Stevens, Lana Wood, Linda
McCartney, Margaux Hemingway, Natalie Wood, Joan Collins,
Cher, Brooke Hayward, Faye Dunaway, Maria Callas,
Judy Carne, Daryl Hannah, Susannah York, Liv Ullmann,
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julie Christie, Princess
Margaret, Joni Mitchell, Janice Dickinson, Goldie
Hawn, Jessica Savitch, Michelle Phillips, Britt Ekland,
Mary Tyler Moore, Candice Bergen, Mamie Van Doren,
Carol Alt, Connie Chung, Kate Jackson, Lillian Hellman,
Diane Sawyer, Barbra Streisand, Elle Macpherson, Carly
Simon, Jane Fonda, Justine Bateman, Bianca Jagger,
Stephanie Seymour, Diana Ross, Melanie Griffith, Barbara
Hershey, and Madonna. He settled down at 55, marrying
Annette Bening, his co-star in the gangster film Bugsy,
in 1992. They have four children together: Kathlyn
(b. 1992), Benjamin (b. 1994), Isabel (b. 1997) and
Ella Corinne (b. April 8, 2000). Beatty is the younger
brother of actress and writer Shirley MacLaine.
Politics
A longtime activist in various liberal political causes,
Beatty has, at various times, been extremely active
in the presidential politics of the Democratic Party.
In 1968, he hit the campaign trail
for the first time, supporting Senator Robert F. Kennedy's
bid for his party's presidential nomination. His involvement
in the senator's campaign, which included stump speaking
and fundraising, was cut short when Kennedy was shot
and killed by Sirhan Sirhan on the same night that
he won a crucial primary in California.
Four years later, Beatty joined the
campaign of Senator George McGovern as an advisor.
As part of the so-called "Malibu Mafia,"
a group of Hollywood celebrities who were part of
the candidate's "inner circle," Beatty gave
McGovern's campaign manager Gary Hart advice about
the handling of public relations and was instrumental
in organizing a series of rock-concerts which raised
over $1 million for the senator's campaign.
In 1984, and again in 1988, Beatty
was to play a similar role in Hart's own presidential
campaigns. Hart, who had, by that time, become a senator
himself, had become friends with Beatty during the
1972 campaign and the relationship had grown closer
during the intervening decade. After Hart's second
campaign imploded over allegations that he had committed
adultery with a former beauty queen named Donna Rice,
a mutual friend of the two explained why they were
so close: "Gary always wanted to have Warren's
life and Warren always wanted to have Gary's. It was
a match made in heaven."
Beatty himself was to become presidential
timber during the summer of 1999. After it became
clear that the only two contenders for the Democratic
Party's nomination were to be Vice President Al Gore
and former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Beatty
made it generally known that he was dissatisfied with
the two choices and began to drop hints that he might
be willing to seek the nomination himself. After meeting
with several powerful liberal activists and influential
Democratic operatives, including pollster Pat Caddell,
who had worked previously for Hart, McGovern, and
President Jimmy Carter, and adman Bill Hillsman, who
had worked on the campaigns of Senator Paul Wellstone
and Governor Jesse Ventura, Beatty announced in September
of 1999 that he would not seek the nomination.
However, he continued to be courted
by members of a different political party, the Reform
Party, who were looking for an alternative to Pat
Buchanan, a conservative who had switched parties
after losing the Republican Party's presidential nomination
for the third time in a row. Despite frequent entreaties
by Governor Ventura, real-estate magnate Donald Trump,
and syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, Beatty
refused to enter the race and Buchanan eventually
won the Reform Party's nomination. Later in the campaign,
Beatty announced that he was endorsing Ralph Nader
for president.
Despite his decision not to seek the
presidency in 2000, Beatty intimated that he might
still run at a later time, telling reporters that
he would do so if he thought he "could make an
impact on the debate."
As California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's
popularity with California voters dropped, Beatty
campaigned against the special election in November
2005. He was the keynote speaker at the California
Nurses Association's 2005 convention, and recorded
radio ads urging voters to reject Schwarzenegger's
ballot proposals. The propositions were defeated at
the ballot box, increasing speculation that Beatty
may run against Schwarzenegger in the 2006 election.
Beatty has said that he is reluctant to enter the
race, but he has not ruled it out.
Education
Beatty studied acting at Northwestern University,
but dropped-out prior to graduation. Beatty graduated
from Washington and Lee High School in Arlington,
Virginia.
Filmography
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
All Fall Down (1962)
Lilith (1964)
Mickey One (1965)
Promise Her Anything (1965)
Kaleidoscope (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (also producer)
The Only Game in Town (1970)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) (also writer)
$ (1971)
Year of the Woman (1973) (documentary)
The Parallax View (1974)
Shampoo (1975) (also producer and writer)
The Fortuner (1975)
Heaven Can Wait (1978) (also director, producer, and
writer)
Reds (1981) (also director, producer, and writer)
George Stevens: A Filmmakers Journey (1984) (documentary)
Ishtar (1987) (also producer)
Dick Tracy (1990) (also producer and director)
Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) (documentary)
Bugsy (1991) (also producer)
Love Affair (1994) (also writer)
Bulworth (1998) (also producer, director and writer)
The Book That Wrote Itself (1999) (cameo)
Town & Country (2001)
Dean Travoularis: The Magician of Hollywood (2003)
(documentary)
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