After launching his career on television in the 1960s, Kurt Russell became a star in the 1970s thanks to frequent work for the Walt Disney Company, which cast him in family-friendly films like "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" and "Superdad." In 1979, he logged his first collaboration with John Carpenter by playing Elvis Presley in the filmmaker's TV movie "Elvis," and a legendary partnership was born.
Two years later, Russell started remaking himself as an action hero thanks to Carpenter's "Escape from New York." As the tough-as-nails Snake Plissken, Russell became a 1980s genre movie icon, and went on to work with Carpenter again on "The Thing" in 1982 and "Big Trouble in Little China" in 1986.
After a decade that also included Golden Globe-nominated work in "Silkwood" and hits like "Overboard" and "Tango & Cash," Russell ended the '80s as one of the biggest stars in the world. He continues to work regularly; other notable films include "Tombstone," "Death Proof," "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," "The Hateful Eight," "The Fate of the Furious," "The Christmas Chronicles," and many more. In 1996, he returned to work with Carpenter once again, reprising the Snake Plissken role for "Escape from L.A."
