Sylvester Stallone
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1946-07-06 (78 years old)
Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As Sly Stallone, Сільвестер Сталлоне, Italian Stallion, Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, Sylvester Enzio Stallone, Μάικλ Σιλβέστερ Γκαρντέτσιο Σταλόνε, 迈克尔·西尔维斯特·恩奇奥·史泰龙
Sylvester Stallone
Biography
Sylvester Stallone (born Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. After his beginnings as a struggling actor for a number of years upon arriving to New York City in 1969 and later Hollywood in 1974, he won his first critical acclaim as an actor for his co-starring role as Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush. He subsequently found gradual work as an extra or side character in films with a sizable budget until he achieved his greatest critical and commercial success as an actor and screenwriter, starting in 1976 with his role as boxer Rocky Balboa, in the first film of the successful Rocky series (1976–present), for which he also wrote the screenplays. In the films, Rocky is portrayed as an underdog boxer who fights numerous brutal opponents, and wins the world heavyweight championship twice. In 1977, he was the third actor in cinema to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. His film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry, and had its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. His use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky placed permanently near the museum, and he was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Up until 1982, his films were not big box office successes unless they were Rocky sequels, and none received the critical acclaim achieved with the first Rocky. This changed with the successful action film First Blood in which he portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo. Originally an adaptation of the eponymous novel by David Morell, First Blood’s script was significantly altered by Stallone during the film’s production. He would play the role in a total of five Rambo films (1982–2019). From the mid-1980s through to the late 1990s, he would go on to become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors of that era by appearing in a slew of commercially successful action films which were however generally panned by critics. These include Cobra, Tango and Cash, Cliffhanger, the better received Demolition Man, and The Specialist. He declined in popularity in the early 2000s but rebounded back to prominence in 2006 with a sixth installment in the Rocky series and 2008 with a fourth in the Rambo series. In the 2010s, he launched The Expendables films series (2010–2014), in which he played the lead as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in the successful Escape Plan, and acted in its sequels. In 2015, he returned to the Rocky series with Creed, that serve as spin-off films focusing on Adonis "Donnie" Creed played by Michael B. Jordan, the son of the ill-fated boxer Apollo Creed, to whom the long-retired Rocky is a mentor. Reprising the role brought him praise, and his first Golden Globe award for the first Creed, as well as a third Oscar nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior.
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as Narrator
as Joe Smith
as Nathaniel Hunter
as Self
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as Gregory Scarpa
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as Boss
as Chester
as Rook
as Self
as Rocky Balboa (archive footage)
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as Barney Ross
as Self - 'Stakar Ogord'
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Stakar Ogord
as Self (archive footage)
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as Kendisi
as Joe Smith
as Self (archive footage)
as Dwight 'The General' Manfredi
as Self - Executive Producer & 'Dwight Manfredi'
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as Self - Guest
as Self / Rocky Balboa (archive footage)
as King Shark (voice)
as Self
as Stakar Ogord (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Narrator/Self (archive footage)
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as Jasper Reese
as John Rambo
as Ray Breslin
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
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as Sykes
as Rocky Balboa
as Ray Breslin
as Bullet-Man (voice)
as Stakar Ogord
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
as Victor Von Ion (voice)
as Sylvester Stallone
as Rocky Balboa
as Self
as Lincoln Hawk (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Barney Ross
as Gerald
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Henry 'Razor' Sharp
as Ray Breslin
as Self
as James Bonomo
as Barney Ross
as (archive footage)
as Self
as Joe the Lion (voice)
as Barney Ross
as Sylvester Stallone
as Self
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as John Rambo
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as Robert 'Rocky' Balboa
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as Self (archive footage) / Rocky Balboa
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as Self - Boxing Mentor
as Self - Guest
as Toymaker
as Dean 'The Dean' Stevens
as L'espion (caméo non crédité)
as Self
as Self (uncredited)
as Self - Actor & Director
as Frankie Delano
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as Jake Malloy
as Paul Revere
as Self - Judge
as Self - After Party Guest
as Joe Tanto
as Jack Carter
as Weaver (voice)
as Self - Special Guest Star
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as Weaver (voice)
as Self - Jackie's Pal
as Sylvester Stallone
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as Sheriff Freddy Heflin
as Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)
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as Kit Latura
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as Robert Rath
as Judge Joseph Dredd
as Sylvester Stallone
as Ray Quick
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as John Spartan
as Gabe Walker
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as Sgt. Joseph Andrew 'Joe' Bomowski
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as Angelo "Snaps" Provolone
as Robert 'Rocky' Balboa
as Self
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as Raymond 'Ray' Tango
as Frank Leone
as John Rambo
as Self - Guest
as Lincoln Hawk
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti
as Robert "Rocky" Balboa
as John J. Rambo
as Nick
as Man on Street (uncredited)
as John Rambo
as Robert 'Rocky' Balboa
as Self
as Captain Robert Hatch
as Deke DaSilva
as Self
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as Robert 'Rocky' Balboa
as Self
as Cosmo Carboni
as John D. 'Johnny' Kovak
as Self
as Robert 'Rocky' Balboa
as Mafioso
as Sylvester Stallone - Special Guest Star
as Jonnie
as Lynching Witness (uncredited)
as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo
as Frank Nitti
as Youth in Park
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Self
as Jerry Savage
as Stanley Rosiello
as Det. Rick Daly
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
as Club Patron (uncredited)
as Subway Thug #1 (uncredited)
as Party Guest
as Groomsman
as Soldier (uncredited)
as Stud
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
as Self
as Self
Writer
as Writer
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as Characters
as Characters
as Screenplay
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Producer
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Director
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Crew
Creator
as Creator