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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a film career spanning more than fifty years, Stallone has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards. Stallone is one of only two actors in history (alongside Harrison Ford) to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades. Struggling as an actor for a number of years upon moving to New York City in 1969, Stallone found gradual work in films such as The Lords of Flatbush (1974). He achieved his greatest critical and commercial success starting in 1976 with his iconic role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the first film of the successful Rocky franchise, which he also wrote. In 1977, he became the third actor in history to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo in First Blood (1982), a role he would play across five Rambo films (1982–2019). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Stallone would go on to become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, acting in action films such as Cobra (1986), Tango and Cash (1989), Cliffhanger (1993), Demolition Man (1993), and The Specialist (1994). At the height of his career, Stallone was known for his rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone continued his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) before launching The Expendables film franchise (2010–present), in which he starred as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in the successful film Escape Plan and appeared in its sequels. In 2015, he returned to Rocky again with Creed, in which a retired Rocky mentors former rival Apollo Creed's son Donnie Creed. The film brought Stallone widespread praise and his first Golden Globe Award, as well as a third Academy Award nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior. He also starred in the sequel Creed II (2018) and portrayed Stakar Ogord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). Regarded as an icon of action cinema, Stallone is credited with helping redefine the Hollywood action hero. He has occasionally ventured from the action genre, with mixed results. He starred in the comedies Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), both of which had modest success. He also starred in the 1997 drama Cop Land, for which he temporarily shed his sculpted physique and gained weight for his role as a powerless sheriff. In television, he has starred in the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King (2022-present). In addition to his film work, Stallone is a noted art collector and painter and has written books on fitness.
Sylvester Stallone
Sam Probst
for Sam Probst 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.
