Warren Beatty
Good genes: Shirley MacLaine’s little brother Warren Beatty broke out with several guest appearances on the endearing 1959-63 sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and quickly became a matinee idol with 1960’s Splendor in the Grass, opposite Natalie Wood, which made them both huge stars of the 1960s.
In the next decades he went on a legendary run that includes Bonnie and Clyde (1967), McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), The Parallax View (1974), and Shampoo (1975), then turned to directing and starring with Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), and the fabulously weird Bulworth (1998). He won the Best Director Oscar for Reds. He co-starred with Annette Bening in 1991’s Bugsy, and the two have been married for more than three decades.
Warren Beatty hasn’t done much since directing and starring in 2016’s Rules Don’t Apply, but he’s still going strong: He was in charming form when he surprisingly popped up recently in the TCM special Tracy Zooms In.
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