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David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor and director of television and film. He was born in New York, and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was two. He began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company. For much of the late-1980s, he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling, unemployed actor. He appeared in the television movie A Deadly Silence in 1989. He then appeared in a number of television roles, including L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, NYPD Blue, and Monty in the early 1990s. Schwimmer later gained worldwide recognition for playing Ross Geller in the situation comedy Friends. Aside from appearing in television, he starred in his first leading role in The Pallbearer (1996), which was followed by roles in Kissing a Fool (1998), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Apt Pupil, and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). He was then cast in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel. Following the series finale of Friends in 2004, Schwimmer was cast as the titular character in the 2005 drama Duane Hopwood. Other film roles include the computer animated film Madagascar (2005), the dark comedy Big Nothing (2006), the thriller Nothing But the Truth (2008), and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). Schwimmer made his London stage debut in the leading role in Some Girl(s) in 2005. In 2006, he made his Broadway debut in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Schwimmer made his feature film directorial debut with the 2007 comedy Run Fatboy Run. The following year he made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in the 2008 production Fault Lines. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Schwimmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
David Schwimmer
Samuel Clemens
for Samuel Clemens 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.
