American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter

Albert Brooks

Albert Lawrence Einstein, known professionally as Albert Brooks, is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the comedy-drama Broadcast News (1987) and was widely praised for his performance in the action drama Drive (2011). Brooks has acted in films such as Taxi Driver (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), Out of Sight (1998), My First Mister (2001), and Concussion (2015). He has written, directed, and starred in a number of comedies, including Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991).

Born

1947

July 22

Died

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1940s

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Albert, in brief

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Key dates

1947 Born

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838 Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1209 Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
1227 A coalition of north-east German towns, counts and princes defeats king Valdemar II of Denmark in the battle of Bornhöved.

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The world in 1947

When Albert arrived

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Selena Gomez 1992– American singer and actress Emma Lazarus 1849–1887 American poet and educator (died 1887) Gilles Duceppe 1947– Canadian politician Hella Wuolijoki 1886–1954 Estonian-Finnish author and politician (born 1886) Kevin Fiala 1996– Swiss ice hockey player Madame de Brinvilliers 1630– French aristocrat (died 1676) Marcel Cerdan 1916–1949 French boxer (died 1949) Paul Schrader 1946– American director and screenwriter Rhys Ifans 1967– Welsh actor

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Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947– Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California Alain Bashung 1947– French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009) Andrea Martin 1947– American-Canadian actress, singer, and screenwriter Ángel Nieto 1947– Spanish motorcycle racer (died 2017) Angry Anderson 1947– Australian singer and actor Anton Mosimann 1947– Swiss chef and author Assata Shakur 1947– American-Cuban criminal and activist (died 2025) Barry Melton 1947– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Bob Weir 1947–2026 American musician, (born 1947)

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