Anthony Michael Hall Biography
Born: April 14, 1968
Anthony Michael Hall was 14 when he essayed his first screen role in the Kenny_Rogers vehicle Six_Pack. With his cracked voice, skinny frame, and unkempt hair, Hall went on to play nerds and dweebs in such films as Sixteen_Candles (1984) and The_Breakfast_Club (1985), working so well under the direction of John_Hughes that there were those who assumed that Hughes was treating the young actor as an alter ego, reliving his own "misfit" high school years. Hall's film career temporary eclipsed in 1985, partly as the result of a disastrous personal-appearance tour during which the actor behaved in a fashion that could charitably be described as bizarre. He showed up as a regular on TV's Saturday_Night_Live later that year, and as he grew older, became too athletic and self-assured to continue in his previous "clueless" vein. Hall's professional second life as a character actor began with his villainous performance in Edward_Scissorhands (1990). He turned to directing with the 1994 theatrical feature Hail_Caesar, in which he cast himself as a relentlessly obnoxious rock star. In 2001, he starred as Whitey Ford in Billy_Crystal's made-for-TV movie 61*. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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