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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A.(1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
Douglas Smith found an abandoned kitten, took him home, he with wife, Rose, named him Mikey. He was often in the garden or at home, but mostly he was gone. They loved and took care of him. When Mikey was still a kitten, Douglas was taking him to the lake, sitting on a bench, watching the swans, talking to him. When Mikey was bigger, he wasn't much home anymore, he spent the whole day elsewhere, but always at exactly 12:00 he came to the bench by the lake where Douglas was already waiting for him. Mikey and Douglas always met at 12:00, Douglas stroked him, read him a news, sometimes took a rod and caught him a fish. Once, when Mikey was 3 years old, he was hunting butterflies in a meadow, suddenly an old Rick Wayne was driving a tractor and had a radio on, and the presenter said it was 11:30, Mikey heard it and set out for Douglas on the bench. Mikey was walking along the side of the road as a drunken driver of a large SUV drove by, ignore and knock Mikey down. Douglas was waiting for him on the bench, but he didn't come. SUV left with blood on the car. Douglas sat waiting for hours. He went home and with Rose looking for Mikey. Douglas then went to the bench for another 10 years, hoping Mikey would show up one day. Mikey was noticed 10 years ago by another man, took him home to Alabama and treated him. Next day, Douglas came to the bench to sit sadly again, hoping that Mickey would return after 10 years. When he saw him sitting on a bench, waiting for him, he cried.
