Biography
"It is impossible to glorify good things!" - declared in the Soviet cartoon the old woman Shapoklyak. According to many actors, negative characters are remembered better than positive heroes. In the filmography of American Billy Drago, the roles of monsters and villains are dominated by the role of monsters and villains, but the artist, the photo resembles the evil twin brother David Bowie, was loved by the audience.Childhood and youth
The actor was born on the last autumn day of 1945 in the Kansas Hugotone County. Father William and Mother Gladys, except Billy, gave life to many more children, in particular the son of Stephen and the daughter of Patricia, who were destined to survive the artist.
Like the Frenchman Claude Lelouch, in childhood, William Eugene Burrowz - the youngest clock spent on watching films in the cinema. But if the future director mother hid in Cinematakes from Hitler's patrols, then young Kansatza parents, coming to the city by affairs, sent to the cinema, so that the boy would not hang under his feet. This actor told about this in an interview with the British magazine about the cinema.
In his youth, Billy managed to work as a correspondent of Associated Press agency, a radio host and cascadeur. Becoming an actor after the end of the Kansat University, a man took the name of the grandmother as a pseudonym, because he did not want to be confused with the writer William Berrouz, who chant forbidden substances.
Personal life
Billy William has two sons, Derrick Burrowz and Dagrren Eugene Burrowz, who went through the father's footsteps and, like the parent, lit up in "secret materials".Happiness in the personal life of Drago found in 1980 with the actress of Silvan Gallando, which had Sicilian, Venezuelan and Cuban roots. In addition to the artistic path, the lady succeeded as a runway and coach. Despite the successes in sports, Gallardo died in 2012, without surviving 11 days before his 59th anniversary.
Films
Cinematographic Career Drago lasted 35 years. A 33-year-old actor debuted in the series "Cheese Hills", in which Brett Cullen reincarnated in one of the main characters.
After eight years of shooting in the episodes of Billy played his most star role. Frank Nitti's Frank Nitti became a character in Triller Brian de Palm "untouchables." The image of this gangster for 12 years before Drago has already created Sylvester Stallone in the Carver Steve Drama "Capone". Billy was not lost in the crowd of celebrities, removed in "untouchables", from Sean Connery to Robert de Niro.
In the film "Detachment" Delta "- 2" Drago reincarnated in the caricature drug trap Ramon Kotu, remotely resembling Pablo Escobar. The picture put the director Aaron Norris, who invited Billy Chak's Star Brother Chaka for the role of the opponent's opponent. With Chuck Norris, a native of Kansas crossed in 6 years in the television series "Steep Walker: Justice in Texas", where Drago, who did not have Indian roots, had a chance to play a rooting wolf of America.
Another Sikvel is an Indonesian thriller "Lady Dragon - 2" - Gave Billy to the meeting on the set with Sintia Rotok, and the fantastic thriller "Cyborg-2" - with Angelina Jolie. The only major positive role in the Drago career was performed in the comedian horror-western "tremor of the Earth - 4: the beginning of the legend."
In the series "Enchanted" and "Supernatural" Characters Barbas and Dr. Benton, played by Billy, although they were remembered to the audience, they were notal for the previous roles of the actor. But in the "Masters of Horror", the "imprint" series with the participation of Drago, filmed by the Japanese Takasi Miihe, became the most impressive in all the anthology. The episode is prohibited to show in the United States.
In addition to movies and serials, Billy starred in the music clips, in particular in You Rock My World Michael Jackson. The last role in the movie Drago played in 2014 in the painting "Dance", which did not demonstrate in Russia.
Death
Billy Drago died on June 24, 2019 in Los Angeles. The cause of the death of the actor was complications after stroke.Filmography
- 1987 - "Non-Plated"
- 1991 - "diplomatic inviolability"
- 1992 - "Death Circle"
- 1993 - "Special Arms"
- 1993 - "Adventures of Brisco County Jr."
- 1994 - "Lunar Police"
- 1994 - "Never give up"
- 1996 - "Cool Walker"
- 1998-2006 - "Enchanted"
- 1999 - "King of Football"
- 2004 - "Mysterious Leather"
- 2004 - "Shivering Earth 4: the beginning of the legend"
- 2006 - "The hills have eyes"
- 2006 - "Seven Mums"
- 2007 - "Supernatural"
- 2011 - "Children of Corn: Genesis"
- 2014 - "Dance"