Anthony Edwards
Birthday: 19 July 1962, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Birth Name: Anthony Charles Edwards
Height: 188 cm
Anthony Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 19, 1962, to a well-blended family. He is the youngest of five children, and the son of Erika Kem (Weber), a landscape painter and artist ...Show More
(2013, on Downtown) That was a buddy comedy with Forest Whitaker, but it was so overcomplicated in t Show more
(2013, on Downtown) That was a buddy comedy with Forest Whitaker, but it was so overcomplicated in the shooting of it. It was such a simple, funny story, but it got so overshot that all the freshness of it got taken out of it, so I think as a result it ended up being not such a great movie. Because they almost put too much into it. I think they were like, "Oh, we have this funny script, now let's do this," and then they spent a lot of money on stunts, and a lot on this and a lot on that, and I just think the heaviness of it all dragged that movie down. Hide
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
(2013, on Mr. North) It might be in a selfish way, but it really made me feel good as an actor. It w Show more
(2013, on Mr. North) It might be in a selfish way, but it really made me feel good as an actor. It was the last film that John Huston worked on, and he wrote a letter to the financiers as to why I should play that role. It was just with that simple John Huston eloquence, but it just meant the world to me, because he believed that I could do it, and he wrote the letter saying as much. I spent that summer with him in Newport, and he actually passed away while we were making the film. He was just producing-his son [Danny Huston] was directing-but it was a really beautiful and poetic experience, in a way, to do that film. And to hear Lauren Bacall and John talk about those days when they were shooting The African Queen, talking about Bogart and being there-just to witness that was, like, the gift of a lifetime. Hide
(2013, on Miracle Mile) Oh, that was great. That was a script by Steve De Jarnatt, who also directed Show more
(2013, on Miracle Mile) Oh, that was great. That was a script by Steve De Jarnatt, who also directed. I actually just saw Steve about six months ago in New York. They did a doomsday film festival in New York, so he and I were guests, and they screened Miracle Mile, which I hadn't seen in 20 years or whatever. It's been awhile! But that was a script that everybody wanted to make, but they wanted him to change the ending. It was this great adventure, but they wanted it to have a happy ending. But he stuck it out, and luckily he stuck it out long enough that I was old enough to play the part. So I got to do it, and we did it at a time when there really was no green screen for special effects. You had to shoot what was there. It's amazing how dated that film looks now, because of our ability to do things technically now. I mean, it really looks antiquated. Mare Winningham is one of the greatest actresses ever. It was eight weeks of night shooting, though, so you'd be driving home from work at, like, 6 in the morning, having had a wrap beer, and then you're suddenly going, "Oh my God, what do people think of somebody having a beer at 6 in the morning whenever everyone else is on their way to work? Hide
(2013, on Gotcha!) Well, there's a game you couldn't play today. Isn't that wild? All that innocence Show more
(2013, on Gotcha!) Well, there's a game you couldn't play today. Isn't that wild? All that innocence gone. There's no way. It's just tragic. But that movie was pure fun. I'd already done Revenge Of The Nerds with Jeff Kanew, so I already had a great friendship with the director, and he'd gotten the script and convinced them to be able to do a shoot in France and Germany all summer and then come back and shoot at UCLA. Co-starring an unbelievably beautiful and sexy Linda Fiorentino, who made us all laugh. And it's the one film where my kids really make fun of me now. All that blond hair... Hide
Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said, "God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had Show more
Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said, "God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane". I said, "If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor." Hide
(2013, on Zodiac) David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as Show more
(2013, on Zodiac) David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too. But then after all these years, I was in New York, and that summer he called me and said, "Hey, there's a part, do you want to come look at it?" And it was unbelievable the amount of work that had gone into the creating of that movie. He sent us all binders of information about the report, filled with all the stuff that Armstrong had actually done, and it was amazing to see that detailed dedication of a filmmaker. Obviously David Fincher is one of the great American filmmakers, but, once again, to watch that kind of process is what's fascinating to me. Hide
(2013, Pet Sematary II) Oh, my God. A movie I don't think I ever even seen. And yet it's probably th Show more
(2013, Pet Sematary II) Oh, my God. A movie I don't think I ever even seen. And yet it's probably the most important movie I've ever worked on, because it's the movie I met my wife on. What's funny, though, is that she doesn't usually do makeup on movies. She's more of a fashion makeup artist. So the coincidence that we would end up in that same place-Peachtree, Georgia!-on that movie... me, who can't even watch horror movies, and she, who doesn't really work on films, and yet we ended up meeting there. It goes back to my earlier comment about how surprises are always the best experiences. Hide
Anthony Edwards's FILMOGRAPHY - Page 2
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as Actor (114)
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Anthony Edwards'S roles
Brains
Goose
Roger
Clint Von Hooser
Mark Greene
Judge Stanley Weisberg
Chase Matthews
Hank Galliston
Jim Paretta
Judge Whit Wilcox
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