Biography
American actor, known on the films "Armageddon", "Green Mile", according to the series "Seeker". In the young years was a professional basketball player. He died in 2012 due to heart problems.Childhood and youth
Michael Clark Duncan was born on December 10, 1957 in Chicago, USA. The family of the future actor was incomplete. A single mother raised her forces to Michael himself and his sister. The future actor entered the University of Alkorn in Mississippi - the first in the history of the United States University for African Americans (in our time the usual provincial university). Within one season, Duncan played in the Basketball Club of Alkorn University, but left the sport.
The future actor had to interrupt education after mother got sick. The care of the family lay on Michael's shoulders, and he began to work as a security guard in Chicago clubs. The powerful physique and the huge growth of Michael predetermined the choice of profession. Later, the future actor moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a bodyguard.
Films
One of the first at Michael's acting career became the role of Bugaya in the Fantastic Catastrophe "Armageddon" with Bruce Willis. Duncana hero is a member of the crew of the Space Shuttle "Independence", which flies to the asteroid, heading towards the Earth. The team should be dried asteroid and lays inside the atomic bomb to split this huge stone, a collision with which threatens the planet disaster.
Wearing the moon, the shuttle falls into the cloud of cosmic wreckage, carrying after the asteroid. The ship is broken, and almost all people who are aboard are dying, only Bugai survive and two more. One of these two, Hey Jay Frost, plays Ben Affleck. The survivors are sent to meet the team of the second flying on asteroid shuttle, who also does not all go as it should.
In 1999, the Mystical Drama "Green Mile" on the novel Stephen King, where the actor fulfills the role of John Coffin. Michael got to this project for meeting Bruce Willis, his counterpart in Armageddon.
Duncan Hero in Green Mile sentenced to death for the rape and murder of two girls, and Coffea finds himself in prison, in the death row chamber. Paul, one of the warders, doubts the guilt of the Coffey.
The behavior of John is little similar to how the killer and sociopath should behave. In addition, the Coffey exhibits the healer's ability - the Hero's array is eliminated by the gear from the infection and returns to the life of a manual mouse of one prisoner, which another inhabitant of prison was trampled to the retaliatory.
The head of the prison chief is also sick, and medicine is powerless to help her. The prison guards secretly will take Coffea to the home of the boss, so that he helped the unhappy woman, and it succeeds. Later, the COFFI uses his amazing abilities to indicate the floor on the real killer of girls. After making sure the innocence of Coffei, the floor is trying to help that run out of prison, but the Coffin refuses to help and in the end dies.
For the role of John Coffi Duncan was nominated for Oscar as the best actor of the second plan, but did not receive the award.
Joint work with Willis continued in the project "Nine Yards". This comedy came out a year after the Green Mile. Bruce Willis plays here the role of the hired killer Jimmy Tuessic on nicknamed Tulip, and Michael Duncan - Franklin Franuero on nicknamed Frankie, a member of a gang that works on Jimmy.
After that, the adventure film "King Scorpion" came out. Here Michael played the role of Baltazar, the leader of Nubian rebels, which takes pronounced the main hero of Metaes, Akkadz's mercenary, which Dway Johnson plays. There is a short fight between heroes, after which they combine and decide to unite against Memnon, Tsar-Tirana.
The actor once again starred with Bruce Willis in the 2005 film "City of Sins". This is a crime thriller in the style of Noir, shot by director Robert Rodriguez based on Frank Miller's graphic novels. The film consists of separate completed episodes - prologue, epilogue and three novel. Duncan performed the role of Manutu in the Novel of "Big Sober", where the conflict between the prostitutes of the old city, the police and mafia syndicate is unwinding.
In 2011, the superhero film "Green Lantern" was published based on the comic DC comic. Michael Clark Duncan voiced here a character named Kilovog. This is a member of the body of green lamps, a gifted technician and coach of recruits. In the movie Kilovog and another veteran of the hull, Thomar-re, train the test pilot of Hal Jordan, the chief hero of the film. In the final, Kilovoga saves Jordan from death when he falls in the sun after a fierce battle in space, having lost consciousness.
A few years before that, the actor starred in the comedy "School of National Sciences", where the character was played by Lesher. This is an assistant doctor Pi, head of self-esteem raising courses. These courses were signed by the main hero of the film, the young loser Roger. Doctor PI helps the hero get rid of the complexes, but after this starts breaking the life of Roder and seek the attention of the girl to which Roger himself has plans.
One of the latest projects in which Duncan took part is the comedy-dramatic series "Seeker". The main hero of the series, the retired Major Walter Sherman, has an extraordinary gift to find anything.
Having received a serious injury in the head in the war in Iraq, the Major became an eccentric and paranoid, but just the exacerbated suspicion and helps him in search. Michael Duncan plays the series the role of Widset and former lawyer Leo Noks, a friend of the main character.
"Seeker" - Spin-off the detective series "Bones", where the plot rotates around the adventures of the judicial anthropologists who help the FBI. To submit a new character to the public, Leo Noksa before the launch of the "seeker" was introduced into the plot of the series "Bones". There, the hero appeared in the 19 episode of the sixth season, which also wore the name "seeker."
Personal life
An actor's girlfriend, TV presenter Locking Manigo-Stolvet, did not have time to become his wife. The couple was preparing for the wedding, which was scheduled for January 2013. The actor was going to make a family, but the chance of his infarction did not give the plans to come true.
Before that, Michael Duncan met with Vanessa Bosel, and even earlier - with Irene Marquez. During the filming of the film "Armageddon" Duncan met the Alisia Harrison, and young people were in relationships for some time. Michael Duncan has no children.
Death
On the night of July 13, 2012, the girlfriend actor Omarov found the house underlying unconscious. Michael Duncan had a heart attack, and Omarov helped him hold out before the arrogant arriving, making an indirect heart massage. The life of the actor was saved, but not long. Michael hit the hospital, and on September 3 of the same year died. The cause of death has become a serious heart disease.
The funeral of Michael Duncan took place on September 10 in Los Angeles. His friends and colleagues came to the last path, among which Tom Hanks was seen. Duncana's grave is located on the Hollywood Hills cemetery.
Filmography
- 1998 - "Armageddon"
- 1998 - "Night in Rocksbury"
- 1999 - "Breakfast for Champions"
- 1999 - "Green Mile"
- 1999 - "Griffins"
- 2000 - "Nine Yards"
- 2001 - "Cats against dogs"
- 2001 - "Planet Monkeys"
- 2002 - "King Scorpion"
- 2003 - "Sorvigolov"
- 2005 - "City of sins"
- 2007 - "Whirlwind"
- 2009 - Street Fitter
- 2011 - "Green Lantern"
- 2012 - "Seeker"