Ex-soldier Snake Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is given 24 hours to find the President of the United States, who has been captured after the crash of Air Force One.

Police Commissioner Bob Hauk ( Lee Van Cleef ) offers a deal to special forces soldier turned criminal " Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ): If he rescues the president and retrieves a secret cassette tape within 24 hours, Hauk will give him a full pardon.

" Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is escorted to the prison on Manhattan Island by armed officers.

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Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

Kurt Russell did an incredible job, and it would be fun to see someone else try.

Demme's next film, 1980's Melvin and Howard, did not get a wide release, but received a groundswell of critical acclaim, and led to the signing of Demme to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star vehicle Swing Shift.

' Lovebug Starski, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Full Force, Russell Simmons and Wyclef Jean all have been produced by, or have worked with, Kurt.

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Kevin Costner had been cast as Ace Woody, a " vile and sadistic trainer of slaves who are forced to fight in death matches for a plantation owner ( DiCaprio )" before he later dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, and was replaced by Kurt Russell who later also dropped out.

Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, John Diehl, French Stewart, and Viveca Lindfors.

* Kurt Russell as Colonel Jack O ' Neil, an Airman who suffers a period of suicidal depression after his son accidentally shot and killed himself with O ' Neil's own pistol.

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* March 17 – Kurt Russell, American actor

Hawn has maintained a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983.

Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell for the third time in the comedy Overboard ( 1987 ).

The analysis of logical concepts and the machinery of formalization that is essential to Principia Mathematica ( 3 vols., 1910 – 1913 ) ( by Bertrand Russell, 1872 – 1970, and Alfred North Whitehead, 1861 – 1947 ), to Russell's theory of descriptions, to Kurt Gödel's ( 1906 – 1978 ) incompleteness theorems, and to Alfred Tarski's ( 1901 – 1983 ) theory of truth, is ultimately due to Frege.

In 1979, John Carpenter began what was to be the first of several collaborations with actor Kurt Russell when he directed the TV movie Elvis.

His next film, The Thing ( 1982 ), is notable for its high production values, including innovative special effects by Rob Bottin, special visual effects by matte artist Albert Whitlock, a score by Ennio Morricone and a cast including rising star Kurt Russell and respected character actors such as Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Keith David, and Richard Masur.

Pfeiffer then appeared as chic restauranteuse Jo Ann Vallenari in Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) opposite Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell, but experienced creative and personal differences with director Robert Towne, who later described her as the " most difficult " actress he has ever worked with.

In 1996, he had role in the Kurt Russell film Executive Decision, in which he played a special ops soldier who only appears in the film's first 45 minutes.

Executive Decision, ( also known as Critical Decision ) is a 1996 action film, directed by Stuart Baird and starring Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo and Steven Seagal.

Dr. David Grant ( Kurt Russell ), a United States Naval Academy graduate and now a consultant for Army Intelligence, is informed that the world's most feared terrorist, El Sayed Jaffa ( Andreas Katsulas ), has been taken into custody.

Kurt Walker ( born August 9, 1959 ), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper and record producer.

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887, at No. 2 Rumannstraße, Hanover, the only child of Edward Schwitters and his wife Henriette ( née Beckemeyer ).

Hermann Zapf was born in Nuremberg during turbulent times marked by the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 in Munich and Berlin, the end of World War I, the exile of Kaiser Wilhelm, and the establishment of Bavaria as a free state by Kurt Eisner.

Kurt von Schuschnigg was born in Riva del Garda, in the Trentino region.

* Kurt Neubauer, valet, born 27 March 1899 in Hopfengarten, Kreis Bernberg.

* Kurt Vile ( born 1980 ), American guitarist and singer

* Kurt Allerman ( born 1955 ), former NFL football player.

* Kurt Pellegrino ( born 1979 ), MMA fighter-Fighting under the UFC brand.

Kurt Tucholsky's parents ' house, where he was born on January 9, 1890, was at 13 Lübecker Straße in Berlin-Moabit.

The composer Kurt Weill was born in Dessau.

On October 1, 1913, he married Margarete Georgen with whom he had three sons, Heinz Günter ( born Aug 2nd 1914 to 2004 ) and Kurt ( born 17th September 1918 to 1984 ), Ronald Mach Dornaldt Guderian ( born 15th May 1919 to 1995 ).

Haijby was born in 1897 as Kurt Johansson.

Kurt Wüthrich ( born October 4, 1938 in Aarberg, Canton of Bern ) is a Swiss chemist and Nobel Chemistry laureate.

Wolff was born in Nice in France to German literary publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, who had published works by Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and Walter Benjamin.

* Simon Kurt Unsworth ( born 1972 ), British writer of supernatural fiction

* Kurt Huber ( tenor ) ( born 1937 ), Swiss tenor

Kurt Wagner was born with certain unusual physical characteristics, but his power of self-teleportation did not emerge until puberty.

* Kurt Nielsen ( born 1930 ), Danish former tennis player

Kurt Schumacher was born in Kulm in West Prussia ( now Chełmno in Poland ), the son of a small businessman, member of the liberal German Free-minded Party and deputy in the municipal assembly.

Kurt Eisner was born in Berlin at 10: 15 p. m. on 14 May 1867 to Emanuel Eisner and Hedwig Levenstein, both Jewish.

** Kurt Freund, physician and sexologist ( born 1914 )