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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English and Irish actor. Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is best known for intense method acting portrayed with eccentric characters in auteur films. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including a record three Academy Awards for Best Actor as well as four BAFTAs, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globes. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama. Born and raised in London, Day-Lewis excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional training he is considered a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Protective of his private life, he rarely grants interviews and makes very few public appearances. Day-Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo Montague in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Playing the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London in 1989, he left the stage midway through a performance after breaking down during a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears before him—this was his last appearance on the stage. After supporting film roles in Gandhi (1982) and The Bounty (1984), he earned acclaim for his breakthrough performances in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), A Room with a View (1985), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He earned three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles as Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), oil tycoon Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007), and Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012). He was Oscar-nominated for In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), and Phantom Thread (2017). Other notable films include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Crucible (1996), and The Boxer (1997). He retired from acting twice, from 1997 to 2000 when he took up a new profession as an apprentice shoe-maker in Italy, and from 2017 to 2024. In 2025, he starred in and co-wrote Anemone, directed by his son Ronan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Day-Lewis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Quick Panther
for Quick Panther in Treasure of Silver Lake
Suggested by jakubduda
The story takes place in the Wild West in the 19th century. Cornel Brinkley, the leader of the local bandits, learns about the legendary Indian treasure hidden on Silver Lake and wants to get it. He kills Erik Engel who has part of the map to the treasure. The murdered man is taken by stagecoach to Tulsa, to Engel's son Fred. He goes with Sam Hawkens and Gunstick Uncle to catch the killers. On the way, they meet a man with the bag of the murdered man. Fred thinks he is the father's killer and attacks him. But the man easily stuns him, and Hawkens recognizes his friend Old Shatterhand, a renowned hunter and woodsman. He promises help and tells them that his blood brother, the famous Apache chief Winnetou, is tracking bandits. He also meets Lord Castlepool in the saloon, who has come wild west to collect butterflies. The fight with the bandits begins. Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, and others make their way through Utah territory to Silver Lake. They come across a burned down Native American village, where they are attacked by the Utahs, who believe that they are the ones who burned the village down. Cornel and his men capture Ellen and take her to El Dora. Old Shatterhand comes up with a plan to free her and in the village then defeats Chief Grosser Wolf in a one-on-one fight, Chief Quick Panther breaks the deal, chases them. At the lake, Cornel and his men go to the treasure, kill Tonkawa. His men are dying. Winnetou and the others arrive at the scene. The bandits are captured.
