Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Matt Dillon


Related Topics

  
  Matt Dillon , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
Matt Dillon was raised as the second oldest of the five sons and one daughter of a stockbroker and a homemaker.
Matt Dillon's breakthrough into the grown-up realm came with his somber, unheroic portrayal of a junkie trying to come clean in Gus Van Sant's acclaimed Drugstore Cowboy (1989).
The year 2002 found Matt Dillon in the director's chair as well as on the big screen in The City of Ghosts, in which he played a young man under suspicion of insurance fraud.
www.starglimpse.com /celebs/pages/matt_dillon/matt_dillon.shtml   (680 words)

  
 Matt Dillon, Actor Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon, born on February 18, 1964, a multi-talented actor, is considered one of the most underrated actors of our time.
Matt is the second-eldest in a large Roman Catholic family.
Dillon won critical acclaim for his portrayal of 'Bob' and was recognized as a serious actor.
www.casenet.com /people/mattdillon.htm   (299 words)

  
 Matt Dillon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York to second-generation Irish American Catholic parents Paul Dillon (a painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a packing material manufacturer) and Mary Ellen (a homemaker).
Dillon dated actress Cameron Diaz from 1996 to 1998; the two met in 1995 while both were filming movies in Minnesota.
Dillon's most recent role is in the comedy You, Me and Dupree, opposite Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matt_Dillon   (656 words)

  
 Oscar nominee Matt Dillon rides high on movies that matter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dillon said he was afraid of the way people would look at him afterward.
Instead, Dillon says people have been delighted that the topic of racism is actually being addressed on film without a filter of political correctness, but in a blunt and honest way.
Dillon says that many years ago when he committed to do "Drugstore Cowboy," he remembers going around with director Gus Van Sant trying to help cast good actors and actresses in the film and being told by protective agents and managers that there was no way to make a successful movie about drug addicts.
www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0228mattdillon0228.html   (983 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Flamingo Kid: Video: Garry Marshall,Matt Dillon,Hector Elizondo,Molly McCarthy,Martha Gehman,Richard ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dillon is a young impressionable kid from working-class Brooklyn who is in awe of the part played by Richard Crenna, a charming charlton.
Matt Dillon is outstanding in one of his earlier and most memorable flicks.
Matt Dillon's performance is the coolest part of this summer flic, and should be seen by anyone interested in a whimsically romantic comedy.
www.amazon.ca /Flamingo-Kid-Matt-Dillon/dp/6304847211   (968 words)

  
 BBC - collective - factotum interviews
Matt Dillon may not at first glance seem like the obvious choice to play Charles Bukowski’s alter ego, Henry Chinaski, in Bent Hamer’s Factotum.
Dillon used to play these roles as a teenager, but for a long time now he’s played on his image as a dumb movie star in There’s Something About Mary and One Night At McCool’s.
Dillon says, “I’m such a different physical type, and I knew this would not be the type of film where we’d be looking to do a lot of external prosthetics to make me look like Bukowski or anything like that.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A6996874   (659 words)

  
 Matt Dillon News
Actor Matt Dillon is encouraged by the steps the US is taking to tackle racism but confesses that it continues to be a huge problem in society.
Matt Dillon is encouraged by the steps America is taking to tackle racism, but admits it's still a huge problem in U.S. society.
Matt Dillon said racism was a problem in the United States, but he admires the way the country struggled to cope with it.
www.topix.net /who/matt-dillon   (720 words)

  
 Matt Dillon: The Big Town - Movie
Matt Dillon stars in this Ben Bolt movie about a young gambler from the 50`s that goes to Chicago in order to improve his life.
Matt Dillon plays a complete craps stud who can win any dice game no matter the stakes or cash on the table.
Dillon is also given two romantic partners in Lane and Suzy Amis as a mother of a child out of wedlock.
www.superiorpics.com /matt_dillon/movie/1987_the_big_town.html   (893 words)

  
 Fametracker :: The Fame Audit :: Matt Dillon
Dillon does make big-budget studio films with other famous people -- like Liv Tyler and Lindsay Lohan -- that come out when they're supposed to and play on thousands of screens in their opening weekends.
This is what we need Dillon for -- to marry Kate Hudson in a movie and spend some time pretending to be torn between his love for her and his fondness for his aimless buddy but ultimately choose her (I assume) and reassert the traditional value that is marriage.
Now that Dillon's been honoured with an Oscar nomination, though, he'll probably make a bunch more of the kinds of movies in which he just shouldn't keep trying to overreach, which will be bad for all of us.
www.fametracker.com /fame_audit/dillon_matt.php   (1243 words)

  
 Interview: Dupree's Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon has gotten some great laughs in movies like There’s Something About Mary, but he’s far better known for serious work in films like Crash.
Matt Dillon did a terrific job in \"You, Me and Dupree,\" as he does in all of his films, and he was totally believable comically.
Dillon has a very bright future ahead, and hopefully he gets the right opportunities - both as an actor and a director - to showcase his wonderful talents.
www.cinemablend.com /new/Interview-Dupree-s-Matt-Dillon-2965.html   (1277 words)

  
 Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon is one of that rare breed of actors who managed to make the leap from teen idol to mature actor without having to spend years in Hollywood purgatory waiting for some Quentin Tarantino-type to rediscover him.
Perhaps one of the reasons Dillon seemed to make the transition so effortlessly was because, as he says, "I never bought into any of that heartthrob business.
Since then, Dillon has kept busy in Hollywood and turned in some fine performances along the way, such as the loving husband who trusts his wife (Nicole Kidman) a little too implicitly in To Die For (1995) and as the vacant Hollywood star who "outs" his teacher (Kevin Kline) in In & Out (1997).
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=1724   (402 words)

  
 Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon was raised in a Westchester County suburb of New York, with four brothers and one sister.
Dillon was not interested when he saw the flyers, and was not planning to audition until a scout spotted him in the hallway and explained that it would be a way to ditch classes without getting into trouble.
Dillon's father, retired from a career selling packing material, is now a painter.
www.nndb.com /people/944/000025869   (353 words)

  
 AbsoluteNow: : Matt Dillon Pictures
Director Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon New York premiere of CITY OF GHOSTS at the Clearview Chelsea West Cinema, 23rd street.
Director Matt Dillon and Ken Bacon, president of the Refugee International Foundation New York premiere of CITY OF GHOSTS at the Clearview Chelsea West Cinema, 23rd street.
Matt Dillon New York Premiere of COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, Stuyvesant High School.
www.absolutenow.com /pics/matt_dillon.html   (371 words)

  
 Matt Dillon at artist-blitz
Matt Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Irish-American actor, originally from New Rochelle, New York, United States.
Matt has had a steady film career after making successful transition from teenage movies of the 1980s films through films of the 1990s, including To Die For, There's Something About Mary and the 2000s.
Dillon continued to work in early 90s with roles in movies like Gen X movie Singles (1992).
www.artist-blitz.com /m/matt-dillon.html   (250 words)

  
 Matt Dillon at Movies.com
Dillon was discovered by mistake, but quickly became Hollywood's go-to actor for brooding, young hunk roles.
Dillon's portrayal of a racist cop with an eventual conscience earned him his first Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
Dillon was initially cast as Butch Coolidge in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
movies.go.com /bio?profileid=756492   (389 words)

  
 Matt Dillon @ Filmbug
Matt Dillon's film career has spanned over two decades and showcased a wide range of dramatic and comedic talents.
In 1990 Dillon won an IFP Spirit Award for his gritty performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.
Dillon made his directorial debut in 1997 with an episode of HBO's gritty prison drama Oz.
www.filmbug.com /db/3935   (268 words)

  
 Matt Dillon - Moviefone
For a long time, Matt Dillon was a teen idol known mostly for his Tiger Beat-ready looks, but he was able to make a successful transition from...
Matt Dillon (I) (Actor, There's Something About Mary (1998)) birth name "Matthew Raymond Dillon"...
Matt Dillon - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Matt Dillon Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/matt-dillon/19210/main   (129 words)

  
 Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton talk Crash
It was important that Matt and I got along as people and have a clear understanding of the importance of this scene on the story and with a script like this, the story is what's important.
Matt Dillion: Well, my view of LA is there's that Dorothy Parker quote, "There is no there there." I think she was actually talking about Oakland but it's attributable to LA in a way because it's so spread out that you don't really have a sense of a center like most cities.
Matt Dillion: I remember feeling though in NY after the LA riots that's it's not going to happen here because people are whether you live on Park Avenue and are a billionaire or live in the South Bronx, people in that city, for some reason, are forced to deal with each other regularly.
www.movieweb.com /news/news.php?id=7728   (2636 words)

  
 Matt Dillon (computer scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matt Dillon is a computer scientist, born July 1, 1966 in the Bay Area and living in Berkeley, California.
Dillon studied electronic engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he first became involved with BSD in 1985.
In 1997, Dillon gained commit access to the FreeBSD code and majorly contributed to the virtual memory subsystem, amongst other work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matt_Dillon_(computer_scientist)   (186 words)

  
 Matt Dillon On-Line!
Matt Dillon has appeared in about 2 feature films every year since 1979.
This Website was formerly known as Matt Dillon in Black & White / Matt Dillon in Living Color.
It has not been endorsed by Matt Dillon, and has been created merely as a fan's tribute to the most talented actor of this generation.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/7876/contents.htm   (301 words)

  
 SFist: SFIFF: We Stalk Matt Dillon
It was very strange to look at Matt Dillon one foot away from us while a gigantic Matt Dillon was on the big screen.
Maybe it was our exhaustion from hanging out at the Kabuki for six hours, maybe we were jacked up on the boozy fumes from the Stella Artois lounge but it was all we could do to stop ourselves from reaching out and touching one of those impossibly sculpted cheeks (the ones on his face, people).
Dillon was swarmed by the crowd at the end of the Q&A and by the time we looked up from scribbling notes he was gone.
www.sfist.com /archives/2006/04/25/sfiff_we_stalk_matt_dillon.php   (621 words)

  
 April 2003 | blackfilm.com | features | interviews | city of ghosts : an interview with matt dillon
Matt Dillon is one of those actors who could be blend in any role he has.
He could be the lead or supporting guy in a film, and it wouldn’t make a difference because he brings the same passion to the film.
In an interview with flfilm.com, Matt Dillon talks about his film directorial debut with City of Ghosts, which was shot in Cambodia.
www.blackfilm.com /20030425/features/mattdillon.shtml   (1739 words)

  
 Matt Dillon Picture, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dillon's directorial debut CITY OF GHOSTS has caused anger amongst Asians because of its portrayal of Cambodian women -- Arizona State University Professor Melinda De Jesús says, We thought it was very racist and problematic.
It took nearly 20 years Dillon to finally realize his dream of directing a feature film; his first feature, CITY OF GHOSTS, was shown at Toronto International Film Festival earlier this week.
Dillon knows he'll never be a bankable leading man because he chooses quirky roles -- he likes to keep things interesting.
www.celebritywonder.com.cob-web.org:8888 /html/mattdillon.html   (481 words)

  
 Matt Dillon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This is one of the most common horse and rider sets, probably based on the popularity of the show and the number of years it was on the air.
Dillon’s buckskin horse was originally colored with a buttery buckskin color, but most of the horses have faded or grayed some over they years.
Recently a collector found on with a gold sticker on the horse’s rump which actually said "Matt Dillon, CBS" on it—much the same as the stickers used on The Rebel.
www.cowboyparts.com /hartland/qdillon.htm   (733 words)

  
 The Nominees: Matt Dillon, Supporting Actor Nominees - CBS News
See Oscar Scorecard to see how Dillon is doing compared to the other nominated actors.
Dillon was reared in a large Catholic family, along with a sister and four brothers, one of whom is the actor Kevin Dillon.
Matt Dillon received his first Golden Globe nomination in the category of supporting actor in a motion picture for his work in the drama "Crash." He comments on the nod and the movie.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/17/oscar/main1329940.shtml   (469 words)

  
 The Outsiders Movie -The 80s Rewind «
SE Hinton, the author, has a small cameo role in the movie as one of Matt Dillon's nurses while in the hospital after the fire.
Nicolas Cage auditioned for the role of Dallas (later played by Matt Dillon) and did some method acting for the part by locking himself in a room for two weeks, drinking beer and staring at a photograph of Charles Bronson,hoping that the physical and mental attitude of playing a thug would rub off on him.
In a moment of anger, Cage called Matt Dillon an airhead and later regretted the statement, saying Matt was a very talented actor.
www.fast-rewind.com /outsiders.htm   (2256 words)

  
 AMCTV.com - Matt Dillon Biography
Matt Dillon is one of those rare performers who has been able to survive the typecasting difficulties that are often associated with teen-stars trying to progress into more adult roles.
Cast yet again in the role of a troubled adolescent, Dillon's first truly notable performance was as Dallas Winston in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983), based on S.E. Hinton's popular coming-of-age novel.
Having successfully made the transition from teen star to adult actor, Matt Dillon continues to bring his unique brand of charisma to the screen with each feature he participates in.
www.amctv.com /article?CID=1137-1--0-9-1   (424 words)

  
 The Feathered Back Hair Site - Matt Dillon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
If feathering was a college major, Matt would have a PhD.
Matt has one of my favorite guy feathered-back looks - a dishevelled version of the triangle that I like to call Lazy Man's Feathering or The Mess-tic Triangle (for more on the triangle click on here).
He just rolls out of bed, runs his hands through his hair to make sure that both sides are fluffing back and away he goes.
www.featheredback.com /mattdillon.html   (188 words)

  
 Not Just the Guy From Gunsmoke!: A Matt Dillon Website
In fact, contrary to "popular" belief, this Matt Dillon wasn't even named after the Gunsmoke character, he was named after his uncle.
THIS is Matt Dillon the actor, the same guy who was gushed and swooned over in the 80s and is meanly ignored by the press today.
He appeared with Matt in "The Saint of Fort Washington", as did Kevin.
www.angelfire.com /wa/saintfw   (384 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.