Age: 62
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Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. During the early years of his career, Cage starred in a variety of films such as Rumble Fish (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Vampire's Kiss (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Red Rock West (1993). During this period, John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36 listed him as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1984. For his performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation (2002). He subsequently appeared in more mainstream films, such as The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), City of Angels (1998), 8mm (1999), Windtalkers (2002), Lord of War (2005), The Wicker Man (2006), Bangkok Dangerous (2008) and Knowing (2009). He also directed the film Sonny (2002), for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival. Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and The Life of David Gale (2003). In October 1997, Cage was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine's The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list, while the next year, he was placed No. 37 in Premiere's 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. In the 2010s, he starred in Kick-Ass (2010), Drive Angry (2011), Joe (2013), The Runner (2015), Dog Eat Dog (2016), Mom and Dad (2017), Mandy (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and Color Out of Space (2019). His participation in various film genres during this time increased his popularity and gained him a cult following.
Nicolas Cage
Allan Pinkerton
for Allan Pinkerton in Probst Moonshine Gang
Suggested by jakubduda
A trio of friends meet years later on their way to Cedar City. One of the emigrants, Sam Probst, adapts very quickly in the new conditions of the free city. He and his friends Bill Hershey and Zach Blaisdell do odd jobs in underworld for Burt Cowington, and one delivery of bootleg liquor ends up in their hands with stolen money. They are joined by Harvey Taylor, who lost his general store, and John Wells, who is an explosives specialist and has worked with various gangs throughout the wild west. Together they rob JP Morgan's bank and it nets them 6 million. The whole group regularly visited Probst's mother, Eve. Probst will build his own liqueur empire with the money taken. However, with power and wealth, so does his danger. Burt Cowington and his ten men are after them, also the Pinkertons and lawmen. Eve is like a mom to them all, her death hit them hard. Bill falls in love with Sue's widowed mother, whom he supports financially. Zach subsidizes the local school and orphanage with the money. Harvey was giving money to a poor farming family, the Winstons. John gave money to doctor. Probst and his men try to help the citizens of Cedar City. The Probsts controlled the underworld, when someone wanted to complain to the sheriff, the Probsts were there first and the sheriff drank their whiskey. Spoiler: At the end of the film there is a passage where serious and sad music plays and during it the whole five are arrested in various places and shot, the era of the Probst boys ends.
