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	Leo Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leo Penn (August 27, 1921 – September 5, 1998) was an American actor and Emmy Award-winning director of such popular television shows as St.
		Penn's parents were Russian and Lithuanian Jews of apparent Spanish extraction (the name was originally Piñon, allegedly altered by officials at Ellis Island).
		Penn was born in Lawrence, MA in 1921.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leo_Penn (392 words)

	Sean Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penn was born to the late Leo Penn (a film director who was fllisted for refusing to testify during the McCarthy era) and Eileen Ryan - an actress.
		Leo Penn was the son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Russia, while Ryan is a Roman Catholic of Italian and Irish descent; his paternal family's surname was originally Pinon, but was changed when his grandfather emigrated to the United States.
		In the letter, Penn also criticized the Bush administration for its "deconstruction of civil liberties" and its "simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil." Penn visited Iraq briefly in December 2002, largely eschewing meetings with the press.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sean_Penn (887 words)

	MSN Encarta - Penn, Sean
		The son of director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, Sean Penn was born in Burbank, California.
		Penn was next paired with Robert Duvall as antagonistic cops in the gang thriller Colors (1988; directed by Dennis Hopper) and with Robert De Niro as two escaped convicts in We’re No Angels (1989).
		Penn was also nominated for best actor Oscars for his performances as a fictional 1930s jazz genius in Sweet and Lowdown (1999; directed by Woody Allen) and as a mentally disabled parent fighting a child custody battle in I Am Sam (2001).
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	Sean Penn Biography
		Leo was a major TV director throughout the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, helming episodes of Star Trek and Lost In Space, Dr Kildare and Cannon, Columbo, Starsky And Hutch and on to Fame, Cagney And Lacey, Magnum PI and St Elsewhere.
		Penn researched the role by visiting the LA Goal centre (two of the residents are in the movie, as Sam's friends), folding teeshirts and stuffing envelopes and both watching and befriending those with development disabilities.
		Penn was tremendous as a father jealously guarding his daughter, then aggressively seeking revenge for her death, his hatred, suspicion and barely controlled violence created much of the film's tension.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/sean_penn_biog.html (4704 words)

	Sean Penn brings uncompromising passion to work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leo Penn died in September, and Sean Penn says his father is "a continuing influence," a man who taught him the "sober decision-making processes that go into the craft."
		Penn doesn't go into any of the craziness in much detail, except to say: "I think the things that we look back on with any kind of conflict about or regret is those circumstances when you inadvertently hurt somebody or let down your work.
		Penn hangs out with men exhibiting extremely bad behavior as he goes on a cocaine-fueled search for some glimmer of hope and humanity.
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	Leo Penn
		Penn contrives beautiful shots of the foliage at the children’s zoo, and has a bit of Buñuel thrown in when Cliff working undercover leads a suspect llama to a vet downtown.
		Penn has a grand establishing shot, house in morning light, someone watering to one side, an understatement by its brevity.
		A “millionaire philanthropist” whose mistress and son were killed in a crazed vet’s shooting spree saw the man acquitted by reason of insanity and institutionalized thanks to Matlock’s defense, and wishes to belittle Matlock by announcing a murder in advance, daring him to prove the thing in court.
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	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There was a dollop of consolation in the best actor win for Sean Penn, son of the late Jewish television director Leo Penn. The elder Penn was the grandson and great-grandson of rabbis and the son of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants, whose surname, Piñon, was anglicized at Ellis Island.
		Leo Penn was married to Catholic actress Eileen Ryan and, according to reports, Sean and his two brothers were raised in a secular home.
		Leo Penn was fllisted during the McCarthy era, and there was some speculation that Sean’s leftist views and a prewar visit to Iraq might harm his Oscar chances for his dramatic role as a distraught father in "Mystic River."
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=11929 (394 words)

	THE INDIAN RUNNER - SEAN PENN Homepage - biography
		Sean Penn was born on 17 August 1960 in Burbank, California, the second of three sons.
		Penn was very, very funny, the film was a hit and a whole school of new stars graduated with honors.
		Penn was sensational in a part he studied for rigorously, accompanying Chicago's police gang-crimes unit on duty and reportedly applying real tattoos to his arms.
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	BRAVO > Inside the Actors Studio > Featured Guests > Sean Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sean Penn is the second of three sons born to actress Eileen Ryan and director Leo Penn. Older brother Michael is a respected musician (having recently done music on films such as Boogie Nights and Magnolia) and younger brother Christopher is also an actor (Footloose, Reservoir Dogs, Short Cuts).
		Penn was born and bred in the showbiz milieu, is acknowledged as one of the most talented actors of his generation, and has nothing but contempt for the Hollywood machine.
		Already a star at age 24, Penn's acting career was sidelined by his personal life in 1985, when a visit to the set of Madonna's Material Girl video shoot turned into a trip down the aisle later that year.
	www.bravotv.com /Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guests/Sean_Penn.shtml (664 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Hilden: In Defense of Sean Penn's Speaking Out
		But in a recent interview with The Boston Globe, Penn responded that "it's an absolutely stupid notion that you should take the title of someone's profession and attach it to what they should not do." Plainly, he sees it as entirely consistent to be both an actor, and an activist.
		Leo Penn, a writer, director, and actor, was fllisted during the McCarthy era.
		Penn has repeatedly said that his interest in the Iraq War is as a citizen and a father; in this sense, he has more in common with his fellow Americans than many professional journalists do.
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	Penn to perform at WYEP festival - PittsburghLIVE.com
		In 1989, Michael Penn released "March," an album that seemed to be the harbinger of a stellar career.
		Penn, the son of director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, brother to actors Sean and Chris, showed a rare talent for writing intelligent and tuneful pop songs.
		Leo Penn was one of those fllisted, and the lifetime of conversations the father and son had inform the imagery of the new album.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/mostread/s_344010.html (628 words)

	Sea Shepherd Advisors - Sean Penn
		Sean Penn is undeniably one of the most incredibly talented actors of his generation.
		He was born August 17, 1960, in Burbank, California, the second son of actress Eileen Ryan and director Leo Penn. He grew up in Santa Monica and Malibu.
		Penn's older brother, Michael, is a singer/songwriter turned director, while younger sibling Chris is a noted character actor.
	www.seashepherd.org /boa/boa_sean_penn.html (839 words)

	Sean Penn
		Sean Penn is a craggy-faced actor and loudspoken liberal activist.
		Penn's father was a TV director, and his mother was an actress.
		Penn made his professional acting debut at 14, in a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie directed by his father.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Sean Penn
		Penn's older brother, Michael, is a singer/songwriter-turned- director, while younger sibling Chris is a noted character actor.
		While Madonna actively courted press attention, the private Penn made his loathing for the media quite clear; his run-ins with the paparazzi quickly became the stuff of legend, and the notoriety of his temper began to eclipse even his immense acting ability.
		In 2001, Penn would play a fame-craving impressionist in The Beaver Trilogy, serve as narrator in director Stacy Peralta's skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, and direct the psychological drama The Pledge, which marked Penn's second collaboration with Jack Nicholson.
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	Celebrity: The Sean Penn Story - astrology.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Penn has to be in control and he's going to be a loudmouth while he's at it.
		With his Mercury in Leo, Penn is pegged as a master storyteller, blessed with dramatic flair.
		Even Penn may not know for sure, but this aspect may be the one that attracts him to such strange and surreal films as Hurlyburly and U Turn.
	astrozine.astrology.com /spenn.html (525 words)

	Michael Penn - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		The oldest son of director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, he was born August 1, 1958 in New York City's Greenwich Village area; within a year, the family relocated to Los Angeles, and there Penn's younger siblings Sean (later..
		In the early 1980s, Penn formed the group Doll Congress, which garnered a fervent local following but never expanded their fan base outside of Southern California; frustrated, for a time he even left music, following in the family tradition by appearing as an extra in a number of television series, including the classic St. Elsewhere.
		In the wake of his initial success, Penn went on a lengthy hiatus; when he returned in 1992 with his sophomore effort, Free For All, he met much greater commercial resistance than he faced with March, and after only a few weeks, the album fell off the charts.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,478194,00.html (564 words)

	Film Festival 1998
		Sean Penn is a gifted performer who has made his mark as both an actor and director among the young Hollywood generation.
		His father, Leo Penn, is a TV and film director and his mother, Eileen Ryan, is an actress.
		Penn made his professional debut in 1979 as a guest performer in an episode of the TV series "Barnaby Jones" and his first film appearance in1981 in Taps by Harold Becker opposite Tom Cruise and Timothy Hutton.
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	Sean Penn Website, Biography
		Penn stole the show as Jeff Spicoli, drawing on his surfer experience to play the ultimate drop-out dude, antagonisng the teachers, ordering pizzas from the classroom and introducing the national catch-phrase "Let's party!" Alongside him once more were Leigh and Edwards, as well as Judge Reinhold, Eric Stoltz, Forest Whitaker and Nicolas Cage.
		Near unrecognisable from his Mystic River character, here Penn played an impressionable good-guy maths professor who's dying from a heart condition and being pestered by wife Charlotte Gainsbourg into donating sperm so she can have his baby (perhaps when he's dead).
		Reuniting with Naomi Watts, this time playing his estranged wife, Penn had a challenge on his hands to portray this insecure, lonely, angry man as he loses his wife and kids, gets bullied and patronized at work and is refused a grant to start his own business, eventually turning his resentment towards his country's leader.
	www.westlord.com /sean-penn/biography.html (4506 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Jack Mathews: Sean Penn's true colors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The next Penn movie that my imaginary agent was trying to sell was to be directed by his father, Leo Penn, who'd had a successful TV career but had directed only one other feature.
		I'm moved to write this now because I have come to admire Penn not only as the great actor he is, but for the humanity he has learned how to embrace and the courage he has shown in expressing it.
		Penn couldn't have imagined his open letter to Bush would change the President's mind, but with leading Democrats failing to speak up for an anti-war view shared then by about 40% of Americans, he at least brought attention to it.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/351735p-299589c.html (802 words)

	HSX Prediction Market: StarBonds® : Sean Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With cult status in hand for his turn as the archetypal surfer-stoner, Penn was aware of possible type-casting, and refused offers to play similar Spicoli-esque characters.
		In fact, Penn made a concerted effort to distance himself from the teen genre altogether, selecting follow-up roles in such films as Bad Boys and The Falcon and the Snowman.
		Penn - son of director Leo Penn and brother to musician Michael and actor Chris - is married to actress Robin Wright.
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	Coroner: Chris Penn's Death Accidental - Feb 13, 2006 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Penn was not taking heart medication at the time of his death, Harvey said.
		In 1986, Penn starred with brother Sean and their mother, actress Eileen Ryan, in the true-crime drama At Close Range.
		Born in California in 1965, Penn was the son of Ryan and the late Leo Penn, a television director who died in 1998.
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	Sean Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the letter, Penn also criticised the Bush administration for its "deconstruction of civil liberties" and its "simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil." Penn visited Iraq briefly in December 2002, largely eschewing meetings with the press.
		On April 10, 2003, Penn's limited-edition 1987 Buick Grand National, with two firearms in the trunk, was stolen in Berkeley, California.
		Penn came under criticism that his gas-guzzling car and gun ownership did not jibe with his advocacy of liberal causes.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/sean_penn (352 words)

	Leo Penn - Memory Alpha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leo Penn (born Auguest 27, 1921 in Lawrence, MA; died August 5, 1998 in Los Angeles, CA) directed TOS: "The Enemy Within".
		Outside Star Trek, Penn helmed well over 400 primetime hours on a wide variety of series, ranging from Star Trek to I Spy to Diagnosis Murder.
		His film career had just begun when Penn was fllisted after attending a pro-union meeting with other actors.
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	Sean Penn pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sean Penn (born August 17, 1960) is the son of director Leo Penn, who was fllisted during McCarthyism for refusing to testify.
		In 1991, Penn made his directorial debut with The Indian Runner, followed by The Crossing Guard (1995) and The Pledge (2001).
		Penn visited Iraq briefly in December 2002, largely eschewing meetings with the press.
	www.entertainzones.com /actors/p/sean-penn (368 words)

	Actor Chris Penn Found Dead - CBS News
		Penn's body was discovered in a bed inside the residence, located in a four-story complex near the beach on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, said Capt. Ed Winter of the county coroner's office.
		Chris Penn, the younger brother of Sean Penn, has died at the age 40.
		Penn, whose film credits include "Reservoir Dogs" and "Footloose," was found dead at his Santa Monica condo, reports Dave Clark.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/25/entertainment/main1235999.shtml (531 words)

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		Elsewhere", "Kojak" and "Trapper John, M.D. He was married to Eileen Ryan, and was the father of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.
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