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David Shiner is a Actor American born on 13 september 1953 at Boston (USA)
David Shiner (born September 13, 1953) is an American actor, clown, playwright and theater director.
Shiner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Shiner, a computer programmer, and a homemaker mother. The lanky Shiner, usually donning a small dunce cap, started as a street mime, first in Colorado, and later in France and Germany. He managed to get multiple gigs with various circuses, including performances with the German Circus Roncalli and the Swiss National Circus (Circus Knie). In between he toured performing a dual act with René Bazinet.
From 1990 he was featured in Cirque du Soleil's production Nouvelle Expérience, touring for 19 months through Canada and the USA and playing for another year in Las Vegas. With his antics, including stepping through, on and over much of the crowd and the staging of a mock silent-movie melodrama with four members of the audience, he may be the best-remembered of the Cirque's clowns. In 1995, he also starred in Man of the House, alongside Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, playing Lloyd Small (Silent Thunder).
The production was filmed for HBO and Shiner's popularity rendered him film roles as a clown in Lorenzo's Oil and as straight man to Bill Irwin in Sam Shepard's Silent Tongue. He and Irwin then created the two-man, wordless show Fool Moon, featuring music by the Red Clay Ramblers, which had also performed in Silent Tongue. This "evening of inspired lunacy" ran from 1992 to 1999, including three separate runs at Broadway. The show won a special Tony for "Live Theatrical Presentation" in 1999, a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, and an Outer Critics Circle "Special Achievement" Award.
In 2000 he initiated the role of Cat in the Hat, the host and guide of the Broadway stage musical Seussical. Later he toured Europe and Seattle with his shows David Shiner in the Round and Drop Everything. Shiner, who lives in Germany, has further made several appearances on The Tonight Show and is a guest director at the Wintergarden Theatre in Berlin and the Apollo Theatre in Düsseldorf. He has mentored and guest directed for LILALU, a German youth circus program.
In 2007, Shiner wrote and directed Cirque du Soleil's touring production Koozå, using such performers as Gordon White, Jason Berrent, Stephan Laundry, Michael Halvarson, Joshua Zehner and Christian Fitzherris for the original cast.
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Shiner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Shiner, a computer programmer, and a homemaker mother. The lanky Shiner, usually donning a small dunce cap, started as a street mime, first in Colorado, and later in France and Germany. He managed to get multiple gigs with various circuses, including performances with the German Circus Roncalli and the Swiss National Circus (Circus Knie). In between he toured performing a dual act with René Bazinet.
From 1990 he was featured in Cirque du Soleil's production Nouvelle Expérience, touring for 19 months through Canada and the USA and playing for another year in Las Vegas. With his antics, including stepping through, on and over much of the crowd and the staging of a mock silent-movie melodrama with four members of the audience, he may be the best-remembered of the Cirque's clowns. In 1995, he also starred in Man of the House, alongside Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, playing Lloyd Small (Silent Thunder).
The production was filmed for HBO and Shiner's popularity rendered him film roles as a clown in Lorenzo's Oil and as straight man to Bill Irwin in Sam Shepard's Silent Tongue. He and Irwin then created the two-man, wordless show Fool Moon, featuring music by the Red Clay Ramblers, which had also performed in Silent Tongue. This "evening of inspired lunacy" ran from 1992 to 1999, including three separate runs at Broadway. The show won a special Tony for "Live Theatrical Presentation" in 1999, a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, and an Outer Critics Circle "Special Achievement" Award.
In 2000 he initiated the role of Cat in the Hat, the host and guide of the Broadway stage musical Seussical. Later he toured Europe and Seattle with his shows David Shiner in the Round and Drop Everything. Shiner, who lives in Germany, has further made several appearances on The Tonight Show and is a guest director at the Wintergarden Theatre in Berlin and the Apollo Theatre in Düsseldorf. He has mentored and guest directed for LILALU, a German youth circus program.
In 2007, Shiner wrote and directed Cirque du Soleil's touring production Koozå, using such performers as Gordon White, Jason Berrent, Stephan Laundry, Michael Halvarson, Joshua Zehner and Christian Fitzherris for the original cast.
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Man of the House (1995)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Children's films
Actors Chevy Chase, Farrah Fawcett, Tony Sampson, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, George Wendt, Art LaFleur
Roles Lloyd Small
Rating53%
Six-year-old Ben Archer watches silently as his father starts up his car and drives away with his secretary, and they both offer only a wave out the window in parting. His mother, Sandy (Fawcett), can only watch heartbroken from the window of their house as her ex-husband leaves them. Ben’s father promised to visit him, yet never comes back. They are both upset, but they decide to have a fresh start, so they move into a loft apartment in downtown Seattle to begin a new life with just the two of them. Sandy makes creative efforts to turn it into a home for them. They gradually overcome his father leaving and foster a very close bond with important rituals and routines, including making a collage with beach debris. Sandy develops an interest in dating, but her suitors never fit well and don’t last long, which allows Ben’s ideal relationship with his mother to resume. Five years later, however, Sandy decides she’s ready for marriage again, and begins seriously dating U.S. Attorney Jack Sturges (Chase).
Silent Tongue (1994)
, 1h45Directed by Sam Shepard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Horror, Western
Actors Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney, River Phoenix, Tantoo Cardinal
Roles Straight man
Rating52%
En 1873, au Texas, Prescott Roe, un vieil homme voit son fils, Talbot, plonger dans la folie avec le décès de sa femme, Awbonnie, une métisse indienne de la tribu des kiowas. Celle-ci est morte en voulant mettre au monde un enfant et Talbot ne s'en remet pas. Prescott désespère de ne pas pouvoir lui venir en aide. Il décide alors d'aller rencontrer le père de la jeune femme défunte, Eamon McCree, un shaman charlatan qui a un fort penchant pour l'alcool et qui avait vendu sa fille en échange de trois chevaux. Prescott projette de lui acheter Velada, sa seconde fille et une très belle jeune femme. Mais sa demande provoque la colère de la défunte, qui recherche en vain le repos.
Lorenzo's Oil (1993)
, 2h9Directed by George Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films
Actors Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Ann Hearn, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gerry Bamman
Roles Clown
Rating72%
Lorenzo (Zack O'Malley Greenburg) is a bright and vibrant young boy living in the Comoro Islands, as his father Augusto (Nick Nolte) works for the World Bank and is stationed there. However, when his parents relocate to the United States, he begins to show neurological problems, such as loss of hearing, tantrums, etc. The boy is diagnosed as having adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), which is fatal within two years. Failing to find a doctor capable of treating their son's rare disease, Augusto and his wife Michaela (Susan Sarandon) set out on a mission to find a treatment to save their child. In their quest, the Odones clash with doctors, scientists, and support groups, who are skeptical that anything could be done about ALD, much less by laypeople. But they persist, setting up camp in medical libraries, reviewing animal experiments, enlisting the aid of Professor Gus Nikolais (Peter Ustinov), badgering researchers, questioning top doctors all over the world, and even organizing an international symposium about the disease.