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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his leading performances in 500 Days of Summer (2009) and 50/50 (2011). He is the founder of the online media platform HitRecord whose projects such as HitRecord on TV (2014–15) and Create Together (2020) won him two Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Interactive Program. Born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family, Gordon-Levitt began his acting career as a child, appearing in the films A River Runs Through It (1992), Holy Matrimony (1994), and Angels in the Outfield (1994), which earned him a Young Artist Award and a Saturn Award nomination. He played the role of Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) for which he received three nominations at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. He had a supporting role in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and voiced Jim Hawkins in the Disney animated Treasure Planet (2002) before taking a break from acting to study at Columbia University, but dropped out in 2004 to resume his acting career. Since returning to acting, Gordon-Levitt has starred in Manic (2001), Mysterious Skin (2004), Brick (2005), The Lookout (2007), The Brothers Bloom (2008), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Inception (2010), Hesher (2010), Premium Rush (2012), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Looper (2012), and Lincoln (2012). He portrayed Philippe Petit in the Robert Zemeckis-directed film The Walk (2015) and whistleblower Edward Snowden in the Oliver Stone film Snowden (2016). In 2020, he starred in the legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In 2013, he wrote and directed Don Jon, a comedy-drama film that was released to critical acclaim, earning him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. He previously directed and edited two short films, both of which were released in 2010: Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny and Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo. In 2021, he wrote, directed and starred in a comedy drama series Mr. Corman on Apple TV+.
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for Herbert Nolan in The man who rode thunder
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William Rankin was a World War II and Korean War veteran, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps. In 1959, he was routinely flying a F-8 jet fighter when the engine failed, right as he was passing over a cumulonimbus cloud, erupting into a thunderstorm. He very calmly ejected, having previously bailed out of a jet whilst under enemy fire in Korea, and headed straight into the cloud. Due to intense decompression, he started bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose and mouth. His abdomen also began to swell up, causing a massive amount of discomfort. He immediately suffered frostbite due to the sub-zero temperatures of the cloud. He gasped up as much oxygen as he could, resisting the urge to deploy his parachute, as it would later self-deploy at a safe-breathable altitude. When his 'chute finally popped, continuous updrafts battered him up and down in the air for countless minutes, until at one point he vomited. In the midst of the cloud, he had to hold his breath so as not to choke on all the suspended water and drown in mid-air. Hailstones pelted his body. Lightning flashed all around him, lighting up his parachute (at one point leading him to believe he had died), whilst thunder that he couldn't hear but feel shook his body senseless. Eventually he emerged from the cloud and sailed on a gust of wind headfirst into a tree - luckily, he was still wearing his helmet. He got up, shook it off, checked his watch and deduced that he had been in the air for forty minutes. To cap it all off, he walked through the woods of North Carolina until he passed a road where a car picked him up. His wounds extended as far as mild bruising, frostbite and decompression shock
