Michael Pitt is known for his role in a 2005 American drama that was directed by Gus Van Sant, and is a fictionalized account of the last days of a musician, loosely based on who?
2cef9b19b421594bb716b14de18771f4
Michael Pitt Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor, model and musician. Pitt is known in film for his roles in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" (2003), Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" (2005), Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" (2007) and M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" (2004), and in television for his roles as Henry Parker in the teen drama "Dawson's Creek", Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" and Mason Verger in the NBC series "Hannibal". He has also appeared in the films "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (2001), "Bully" (2001), "Silk" (2007), "Seven Psychopaths" (2012) and "I Origins" (2014). His most recent appearance is in the film "Ghost in the Shell" (2017).
8abbcdabf0ba1c60747aa6abb63c5dcf
Last Days (2005 film) Last Days is a 2005 American drama film directed, produced and written by Gus Van Sant. It is a fictionalized account of the last days of a musician, loosely based on Kurt Cobain. It was released to theaters in the United States on July 22, 2005 and was produced by HBO. The film stars Michael Pitt as the character Blake, based on Kurt Cobain. Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green and Thadeus A. Thomas also star in the film. This is the first film from Picturehouse, a joint venture between Time Warner's New Line Cinema and HBO Films subsidiaries to release art house, independent, foreign, and documentary films. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Though meant to be based on Kurt Cobain, it contradicts the factual evidence of Cobain's final days.
c21916a1b992a53dd2ec76938d4719d0
Art Scholl Arthur Everett Scholl (December 24, 1931 – September 16, 1985) was an American aerobatic pilot, aerial cameraman, flight instructor and educator based in Southern California. He died during the filming of "Top Gun" when his Pitts S-2 camera plane failed to recover from a flat spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Scholl, 53, had entered the spin intentionally in order to capture it on film using onboard cameras. Observers watched the plane continue to spin as it descended past the planned recovery altitude. Scholl's last words over the radio were "I have a problem — I have a real problem", after which the plane impacted the ocean. The exact cause of the crash was never determined. Neither the aircraft nor Scholl's body were ever recovered.
93ac45c5377d672cc703d95a7635a42d
Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent), a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raine's group and who has a connection to Shosanna's past. The film's title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's macaroni combat film, "The Inglorious Bastards" (1978).
171e01698e96c4cd61733e132fe00010
Tab Benoit Tab Benoit (pronounced ben-wah) (born November 17, 1967, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer. His playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues. He plays a Fender Telecaster Thinline electric guitar and writes his own musical compositions. Benoit graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma, Louisiana in May 1985. In 2003, he formed "Voice of the Wetlands," an organization promoting awareness of coastal wetlands preservation.
75716cd1f715b6aff27cbf8d6b0d3b19
Vic Firth Everett Joseph "Vic" Firth (June 2, 1930 – July 26, 2015) was an American musician and the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a company that makes percussion sticks and mallets.
cc1aa776fc607bb8c791566d172398f6
Rent (film) Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on Giacomo Puccini's opera "La bohème". The film depicts the lives of several Bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, paying their rent, and life under the shadow of AIDS. It takes place in the East Village of New York City from 1989 to 1990. The film features six of the original Broadway cast members reprising their roles.
b275331777a632c71d2d4572eb1c9952
BloodRayne (film) BloodRayne is a 2005 German-American fantasy action horror film set in 18th-century Romania, directed by Uwe Boll. The film features a cast of Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Will Sanderson, Billy Zane, Udo Kier, Michael Paré, Meat Loaf, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, and Geraldine Chaplin. The screenplay by Guinevere Turner is based on the video game of the same name from Majesco Entertainment and the game developer, Terminal Reality.
1e0d3e30e6213b3e9c423211927e780e
Curtis Pitts Curtis Pitts (December 9, 1915 – June 10, 2005) of Stillmore, Georgia, was an American designer of a series of popular aerobatic biplanes, known as the Pitts Special.
f71aa7c64cef0e6d30be84516806d9d9
My Dead Body My Dead Body is a 2009 pulp-noir / horror novel by American writer Charlie Huston. It is the fifth novel in the Joe Pitt Casebooks, following "Every Last Drop". The series follows the life of the New York vampyre Joe Pitt, who works sometimes as an enforcer for various vampyre factions in New York and sometimes as a sort of detective.
da06f7e1e17d5f5c3641a76efa54aa9c
Ray Ellington Henry Pitts Brown (17 March 1916 – 27 February 1985), known professionally as Ray Ellington, was a popular English singer, drummer and bandleader. He is best known for his appearances on "The Goon Show" from 1951 to 1960. The Ray Ellington Quartet had a regular musical segment on the show, and Ellington also had a small speaking role in many episodes, often as a parodic African, Native American or Arab chieftain (but also often, with no attempt to change his normal accent, as a female secretary or a Scotsman).
500636c15f62d95e40ed6fe5350fca09
Mike Patto Mike Patto (born Michael Thomas McCarthy, 22 September 1942 – 4 March 1979) was an English musician, who was primarily notable as lead singer for Spooky Tooth and Boxer.
f19ee38d0086926316d79ffa1249e0d2
Jimmy Darmody James Edison Darmody is a fictional character in the television show "Boardwalk Empire", played by Michael Pitt. He is one of the main characters in the first two seasons of the series. Unlike most of the other main characters in the series, Jimmy is not based on any historical figure, being entirely a fictional creation of the writers. Pitt is also the only actor besides Steve Buscemi to appear in every episode for which he is credited.
03c70b6ab507737b8e0aff55ac65da29
Randy Van Horne Randy Van Horne (February 10, 1924 – September 26, 2007) was an American singer and musician. Van Horne's musical group, the Randy Van Horne Singers, performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons including "The Flintstones", "Top Cat", "The Jetsons", and "The Huckleberry Hound Show".
aeb93cd5b70be0381df683365d645b00
El Benny El Benny is a Cuban film released in 2006, directed and co-written by Jorge Luis Sánchez, his first feature-length film. It is a fictional story based on the life of the famous Cuban musician Benny Moré. It includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including Chucho Valdés, Juan Formell, Haila and Orishas.
857d7f7c800b1510c6fae97fc62d4873
Patrick Muldoon Patrick Muldoon (born September 27, 1968) is an American actor and musician.
810890a433839d4607b6987fe438f4d2
A. B. Spellman Alfred B. Spellman (born August 12, 1935), is an African-American poet, music critic, music historian, arts administrator, and author. He first garnered attention for his 1965 book of poems entitled "The Beautiful Days". In 1966 he published a highly influential book on the history of African-American music entitled "Four Lives in the Bebop Business" (aka "Black Music: Four Lives"; Random House). From 1975 to 2005 he worked as an Arts Administrator for the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been particularly instrumental in supporting and forwarding jazz music within the United States.
c1f149d3f4dc901cba50e30681ff7e53
Terence Jay Terence Jay (born 1985 in New Jersey, USA) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his role as Jeremy Van Holden in the 2005 film "Green Street", playing alongside Elijah Wood, and for writing and performing several songs on the film's soundtrack, including the one played during the film's final sequence, "One Blood". He also played as Zane in the 2007 supernatural horror film "Buried Alive" in which he is shown playing the guitar and singing.
8f1aa0e47e8bda83ee4967e27d96dd98
Mike Bordin Michael Andrew Bordin, always referred to as Mike Bordin (born November 27, 1962), is an American musician, best known as the drummer for rock band Faith No More. He has amicably been known as "Puffy", "Puffster" or "The Puff", in reference to the afro hair style he wore in the early 1980s. The nicknames stuck around even after he grew out his hair and tied in dreadlocks which gave him his trademark look.
cedcfdae836d15b3590d014538a46e5c
Gregg Henry Gregg Lee Henry (born May 6, 1952) is an American theatre, film and television character actor and rock, blues and country musician.
307236fcc13cf3494e353389086abeec
Mount Sims Mount Sims (also Mt. Sims) is the stage name of Matthew Sims, a Berlin-based American DJ, performance artist and producer. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sims began his career in the local music scene there. Sims was involved in several groups, the most notable of which was Citizen King, an Alternative Rock band famous for their 1999 hit "Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out)", which reached #25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, Citizen King would not see any further success, and was disbanded by 2002. Around the same time Sims relocated to Los Angeles, where he continued his music career as a solo artist. Starting Mount Sims as a purely electronic music act, later releases have also shown influences from post punk, new wave, and darkwave. Sims is almost exclusively responsible for every aspect of his music, providing vocals, instrumentation, and production. He was originally supported by two dancers, whereas the last incarnation under the altered spelling Mt. Sims was a three-piece band that included Rand Twigg on bass and Andre Lange on drums.
6f7817d30798db16577c184876951fc5
Michael Brecker Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2004, and was inducted into the "Down Beat" Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007.