Early career Travolta's first screen role in California was as a fall victim in Emergency!(Season 2, Episode 2) in September, 1972, but his first significant movie role was as Billy Nolan, a bully who was goaded into playing a prank on Sissy Spacek's character in the horror film Carrie (1976).
Although he had bit parts in The Devil's Rain (1975) and Carrie (1976), Travolta did not become a film star until the release of Saturday Night Fever (1977), the story of a Brooklyn youth who escapes his working-class frustrations by becoming king of the local dance floor on Saturday nights.
John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, dancer and singer. He first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease.
Other recent feature film credits include box-office hit-comedy "Wild Hogs", the action-thriller Ladder 49 (2004), the movie version of the successful comic book The Punisher (2004), the drama Basic (2003), the psychological thriller Domestic Disturbance (2001), the hit action picture Swordfish (2001), the infamous sci ...
'Pulp Fiction' Gave John Travolta a Second Chance, and Then He Squandered It. Quentin Tarantino resurrected John Travolta's acting career ... but not for long.
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How old was John Travolta in Grease?
John Travolta, who starred as Danny Zuko in Grease, famously stood out as younger than much of the rest of Grease's principal cast during filming in summer 1977 at age 23.
Pulp Fiction's success helped boost the careers of Jackson, Thurman, and Travolta, and even though the latter had already had success years before, his casting was not well-received by producer Harvey Weinstein, to the point where the production deal was almost over.
Being in the right place in the right era, he became inextricably linked to pop culture trends, thanks to sensational starring roles in the disco drama "Saturday Night Fever" (1977) and the 1950s retro musical, "Grease" (1978).
Phenomenon is a 1996 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Jon Turteltaub, written by Gerald Di Pego, and starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
Under Stallone's supervision, Travolta spent five months doing rigorous training to develop a dancer's physique for the film, losing 20 pounds in the process.
Travolta started acting appearing in a local production of "Who'll Save the Plowboy?". His mother, herself an actress and dancer, enrolled him in a drama school in New York, where he studied voice, dancing and acting. He decided to combine all three of these skills and become a musical comedy performer.
Hollywood star Henry Winkler revealed on Thursday the surprising reason he turned down John Travolta's star-making role as Danny Zuko in Grease. The comedian, 77, told Kyle and Jackie O that he declined the role of the cheeky greaser because it felt too similar to his iconic Happy Days character The Fonz.
Though somewhat overshadowed by his younger sister, Julia Roberts, and his up-and-comer daughter, Emma Roberts, Eric Roberts easily tops the list as the hardest-working actor in Hollywood, with more than 700 acting credits to his name including over 100 upcoming ones.
“Bruce and I became good friends when we shared 2 of our biggest hits together, Pulp Fiction and Look Who's Talking,” Travolta said. “Years later he said to me, 'John, I just want you to know that when something good happens to you I feel like it's happening to me. ' That's how generous a soul he is. I love you Bruce.”
Barton Cowperthwaite, who starred in Netflix's 2020 ballet drama “Tiny Pretty Things,” has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Cowperthwaite wrote about the update to his health in an Instagram post on Friday, saying he was diagnosed with “at least stage 2 Glioma,” and that “it is a fairly decent sized brain tumor.”
“Because his diagnosis is frontotemporal dementia, Mr. Willis clearly has a progressive, neurodegenerative disease as opposed to a stroke or a tumor or some other lesion on the brain,” he added.
Before he was Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever and Danny Zuko in Grease, he was almost Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese's classic film, Taxi Driver. John Travolta would audition but ultimately miss out on the role, which went to Robert De Niro, whose portrayal of Bickle would be one of the best of his career.
Grease was shot in various locations across the Los Angeles area, from the lively South Bay to the charming Silverlake neighborhood. Much of the production was filmed on-site, including exterior shots of Rydell High, taken at Venice High School, Huntington Park High School, and John Marshall High School.
He even took a couple of years off from the profession entirely to take care of his children following the passing of his wife. No fault at all there, but his inactivity didn't help any chances. Plus, he only has two films on the horizon: the first will be American Metal (2023).
Tarantino had been considering the actor for the part of Lance, the drug dealer, played by Eric Stoltz. He continued: “I have lunch with John, and he's a really great guy, and I start thinking, 'Well, you know, he could be a real legitimate replacement for Michael Madsen as Vincent'.”
