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Ireland Education: Drama Center, England (acting) Off-hand charm and self-deprecating comic timing were two of the qualities this dashing Irish-born leading man brought to his winning portrayal of the sophisticated, often inept, con man/private investigator Remington Steele on the long-running TV series (NBC, 1982-87) of the same name. Brosnan, a former commercial illustrator who has garnered frequent comparisons to Cary Grant, became so popular in this role that he was selected by readers polled by a national magazine as the favored actor to replace the departing Roger Moore in the highly profitable James Bond series. However, contractual obligations to "Remington Steele" made him unavailable and the baton was passed to Timothy Dalton. Brosnan finally received his cinematic license to kill in 1994 when he was named as the new 007. He proved an elegant yet hard-edged Bond in GOLDENEYE (1995). Brosnan entered show business as a teen runaway, working with the circus as a fire eater. He gained somewhat more conventional experience as a member of an experimental London theater workshop before making his stage debut in a 1976 production of Wait Until Dark. Brosnan's theatrical breakthrough came from playwright Tennessee Williams who chose the handsome young actor to create the role of McCabe in the British premiere of his Red Devil Battery Sign. Additional stage work followed before his film debut in a character turn in the well-received Brit gangster film, THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (1981). America first discovered the slender, dark-haired performer on TV in the miniseries THE MANIONS OF AMERICA (ABC, 1981) as Rory O'Manion, an Irish immigrant who makes it big in 19th century America. This successful exposure lead to his being cast as Steele. Brosnan turned up on a number of specials during the series' run and one failed feature, NOMADS (1986), in which he played a bedeviled French anthropologist. The transition to film actor proved difficult, but TV offered regular work in telefilms and miniseries. Brosnan was well cast as urbane eccentric Phineas Fogg in a miniseries adaptation of Jules Verne's novel AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (NBC, 1989). He became a familiar face in made-for-cable thrillers, notably playing special agent Mike Graham in Alistair MacLean's DEATH TRAIN (USA, 1993) and ALISTAIR MACLEAN'S NIGHT WATCH (USA, 1995). Brosnan initially found little success in features. He starred in the poorly received Ismail Merchant-produced adventure THE DECEIVERS (1988) but received some positive notices for his portrayal of a Russian agent opposite Michael Caine in THE FOURTH PROTOCOL (1987). He enjoyed a measure of popular success playing a scientist in the derivative special F/X fest, THE LAWNMOWER MAN (1992). Brosnan also played the supporting role of Stu, the other man, in the immensely successful if mild comedy MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993). His subsequent casting as the English secret agent ensured a renewed career as a feature lead. Pierce Brosnan was married to actress Cassandra Harris from the 1970s until her death in 1991 of ovarian cancer. |
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| 1980 THE MIRROR CRACK'D performer 1981 THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY performer 1982-1987 REMINGTON STEELE 1986 NOMADS performer 1987 THE FOURTH PROTOCOL performer 1988 THE DECEIVERS performer 1988 TAFFIN performer 1989 THE HEIST performer 1991 MISTER JOHNSON performer 1991 MURDER 101 performer 1992 THE LAWNMOWER MAN performer 1992 LIVE WIRE performer 1993 THE BROKEN CHAIN performer 1993 DEATH TRAIN performer 1993 ENTANGLED performer 1993 MRS. DOUBTFIRE performer 1994 LOVE AFFAIR performer 1995 ALISTAIR MACLEAN'S NIGHT WATCH performer 1995 GOLDENEYE performer 1996 THE DISAPPEARENCE OF KEVIN JOHNSON performer. 1996 THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES performer. 1996 MARS ATTACKS! performer. 1997 DANTE'S PEAK performer. 1997 TOMORROW NEVER DIES. performer. 1998 THE NEPHEW producer, performer. 1998 QUEST OF CAMELOT voice of King Arthur 1999 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGHT, performer 1999 THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, performer, producer
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TAILOR OF PANAMA, performer 2001 EVELYN, performer, producer 2002 DIE ANOTHER DAY, performer
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1976 WAIT UNTIL DARK. 1976 RED DEVIL BATTERY SIGN. 1976 WEST END |
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