in The Expendables, Rocky, Rambo

Sylvester Stallone was born in New York City on July 6, 1946, and began his acting career in college theater. After several uncredited film roles in the early 1970s, Stallone landed a memorable role in the street gang film The Lords of Flatbush (1974). Around this time, Stallone shopped around a boxing script he had written called Rocky (1976).

Insisting that he star in the film, he secured the financing, and the film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Stallone receiving nominations for both acting and writing. Some Facts: Oil paints in his spare time. Birth complications, caused by forceps, resulted in paralysis of the lower left side of his face, manifested by a perennial snarl and slurred speech.

Born on the same day as President George W. Bush and Fred Dryer. Went to Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Among his classmates were Goldie Hawn and Ben Stein. Turned down Christopher Reeve's role in Superman (1978), Jon Voight's role in Coming Home (1978), Eddie Murphy's role in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Harrison Ford's role in Witness (1985), Bruce Willis's roles in Die Hard (1988) and Pulp Fiction (1994), John Travolta's role in Face/Off (1997), Samuel L. Jackson's role in Rules of Engagement (2000), and Kurt Russell's role in Death Proof (2007).

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