![]() Photograph: Gareth Davies/Getty Images Yeah, well, with 22 Dreams, when I toured with that, it was great, he says. That same film also marked his first association with Leviathan (1989) director George P. Family man: Paul Weller with Leah and Natt, two of his seven children. Other film credits include Firstborn (1984) with Teri Garr, the HBO made-for-TV Apology (1986), co-starring Lesley Ann Warren, and Of Unknown Origin (1983), the film which won Weller the Best Actor award at the Paris International Film Festival for his performance as an upwardly mobile bachelor with a serious rat problem. He then co-starred with Alan King and Ali MacGraw in Sidney Lumet's Just Tell Me What You Want (1980) and, with Albert Finney and Diane Keaton, in Alan Parker's Shoot the Moon (1982). Weller's film debut was in Richard Lester's Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979). During this period, he became a member of the highly respected Actor's Studio, under the aegis of Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. He continued that success with his performances as Cliff in "The Woolgatherer" and as Nick in the first American production of David Mamet's "The Woods". He began garnering critical acclaim with his portrayal of Billie Wilson in "Streamers", directed by Mike Nichols for Joseph Papp at Lincoln Center. While a student of legendary actress and drama coach, Uta Hagen, Weller appeared on and off Broadway in works like William Inge's "Summer Brave", Thomas Babe's "Rebel Women" and "Full Circle", one of the last plays directed by Otto Preminger. Two weeks after graduating, he made his first appearance on Broadway as David in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones", a role he repeated on the London stage. Weller drops his mod prejudices to include a rabble rousing live version of perennial hippy-rock idol Neil Youngs Ohio, and a. As frontman of the new wave act The Jam and the soul duo Style Council, Paul Weller (born May 25th, 1958, in Woking, Surrey) had already made his own indelible mark on British rock long before he. in Theatre and a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts that he left Texas for New York. Paul Weller: albums, songs, playlists Listen on Deezer Sign up for Deezer for free and listen to Paul Weller: discography, top tracks and playlists. Ask him who his favorite performer in any art form is and he will say Miles Davis. Three generations on his mother's side were piano players and jazz is still his overriding interest. Before he was out of his teens, he had attended high schools in Heidelberg, Germany and San Antonio, Texas, then enrolled the University of North Texas - attracted by the chance of playing trumpet in one of the college's celebrated jazz bands. ![]() ![]() He traveled extensively as his father literally flew around the world. Peter Frederick Weller was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to Dorothy Jean (Davidson) and Frederick Bradford Weller, a federal judge and career helicopter pilot for the United States Army.
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