Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton ( born September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania; actually Michael John Douglas ) is an American actor.
Life
Keaton was born into an Irish- Scottish family, the youngest of seven children. His father, George A. Douglas was a surveyor and his mother, Leona Elizabeth housewife in the home. He grew up in a large Catholic family and attended high school in Pennsylvania. Before he began his film career, he studied for two years theater and Linguistics at Kent State University in Ohio.
First, Keaton tried in the field of stand- up comedy, but without much success. He then worked as a cameraman for a television station in Pittsburgh, before he had his first appearances in several television programs. Soon after, Keaton moved to Los Angeles, where he hoped for a better chance as an actor. In fact, he could get first roles in television productions, including the sitcom Maude. There was an actor named Michael Douglas in the Screen Actors Guild already, he was not allowed to lead his family name as an actor, and chose as a sign of his devotion to the actress Diane Keaton the name Keaton.
In 1979, he starred in the comedy series Working Stiffs opposite James Belushi co-starred what his fame increased and enabled him in the film comedy Night Shift - The morgue freaks completely out from 1982 also to snag one of the leading roles. The years it was the talented comedic Keaton appeared in several other film comedies. In 1988, he starred in Tim Burton's horror comedy Beetlejuice the main role, which earned him a lot of positive criticism and made him a sought-after actors in the film business.
Soon after, he was hired again by star director Tim Burton to play in his new film Batman in 1989, the main role of the created by Bob Kane comic book heroes. Though initially came all sorts of protest, which einstuften the more active as a comedian Michael Keaton as miscast, but his tragic and serious portrayal of the title character, the audience convinced yet and the film was a great success and Keaton's final breakthrough. In 1992 he took over in the sequel Batman Returns again the role of Batman. After Tim Burton was replaced as a director for the next film Batman Forever by Joel Schumacher, and Keaton, which was initially planned again for the lead role rose out of the project and was replaced by Val Kilmer.
During the next few years, Keaton has appeared in many other film projects in many different genres leading roles, including My Life for You ( 1993) Speechless (1994) and Jack Frost ( 1998). In the two independent Elmore Leonard adaptations Out of Sight and Jackie Brown, he played the character Ray Nicolette, respectively. Also in the 2000s, played in various films Keaton main or supporting roles. He was also nominated for his performance in the war drama Live from Baghdad ( 2002) for a Golden Globe. Originally Keaton was also in the series Lost assume the role of Jack Shephard, but which he refused because of the long-term Statuses. The part eventually went to Matthew Fox.
Aside from acting, he also made a name as a producer of several films.
Michael Keaton was from 1984 to 1990 with Caroline MacWilliams, also an actress, married. With it, he has a son. Michael Keaton had countless affairs and relationships, among other things, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Courteney Cox. He owns several ranches ( for example, in California and Montana ), where he also holds some horses and dogs.
In February 2012, he announced in an interview that he was standing on a possible return as Beetlejuice in a second part available.
Keaton German standard speaker is Joachim Tennstedt, the Keaton talks since the first Batman movie; in the six previous, mostly smaller films of his career 1982-1988 Keaton was spoken by other voice actors, eg by Ulrich Gressieker in Beetlejuice.