Kevin Kline with Prof. Richard Brown

Prof. Brown shares a conversation with Kevin Kline, discussing life, career and his body of work in class on June 28, 2005.
Kevin Delaney Kline is an American film and stage actor, comedian, and singer. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.[1]
Kline began his career on stage in 1972 with The Acting Company. He went on to win two Tony Awards for his work in Broadway musicals, winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the 1978 original production of On the Twentieth Century and Best Actor in a Musical for the 1981 revival of The Pirates of Penzance.[2]
He made his film debut the following year, opposite Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice (1982). For his role in the 1988 comedy hit A Fish Called Wanda, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2003, he starred as Falstaff in the Broadway production of Henry IV, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play.
He has been nominated for an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. His other films include The Big Chill (1983), Silverado (1985), Cry Freedom (1987), Dave (1993), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Ice Storm (1997), In & Out (1997), De-Lovely (2004) and My Old Lady (2014).
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The New York University School of Professional Studies ( also known as SPS ) is one of the schools and colleges that comprise New York University. Founded in 1934, the school offers undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs. The school's main campus is located at 7 East 12th Street, New York at NYU's Washington Square main campus.
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American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally known, debuted on October 1, 1984 as a premium channel. Its original format focused on classic movies - largely those made prior to the 1950s - that aired during the afternoon and early evening hours in a commercial-free, generally unedited, uncut and uncolorized format. AMC is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by AMC Networks. The channel primarily airs theatrically released movies, along with a limited amount of original programming.
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Richard Brown began his teaching career at New York University in 1967. Movies101 was launched in 1969. In 1973 he was invited to join the founding faculty of The Tisch School of the Arts where he helped design the curriculum. In 1975 he founded The International Center for Film and Television. Since then he has taught on land and sea, to youngsters at Little Red School House and seniors at Greenwich House. He has lectured to the most powerful executives in America at the World Presidents Organization and inmates at Riker’s Island. His unique programs, blending adult education and a love of motion pictures have sold out at The Smithsonian and The Library of Congress, at Oxford, The Sorbonne, and The Carpenter Center at Harvard University. His Evening with John Cleese at the Smithsonian recently drew 1,500 fans and sold out on announcement. He addressed the United Nations delivering the keynote at the first annual conference on motion picture.
He has also produced specialized festivals for Vassar College, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Arts Club and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has created individualized programs for numerous organizations, including American Express Centurion Division, Cunard Line, Four Seasons Hotel Group, Orient Express, and Silversea Line where he presents annual film festival cruises. He has undertaken corporate projects partnering with a broad variety of America’s outstanding corporation including the Sony Corporation, Grey Advertising, Walt Disney, BBD&O, DuPont and Time, Inc.
His critically acclaimed series, Reflections on the Silver Screen featured 50 in-depth conversations with screen legends ranging from Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn to Jimmy Stewart and Katharine Hepburn. (Commissioned by The Library of Congress, it has been termed “...the definitive archive on American film in the 20th Century.”) Prof. Brown is revisiting these interviews with a 21st Century perspective in his new TV series, The Great American Movie Star, set to premiere on WNET in late 2013.
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