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Matthew Broderick

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Matthew Broderick

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American actor (born 1962)

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Matthew Broderick is a male person from the United States who began his work period in 1981. Born on March 21, 1962, he is associated with several media productions. His top works include *Wonderful World*, *The lion king 2*, *The lion king*, and *Inspector Gadget*.

Broderick has been recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. He is listed as an author with six works, while another source indicates a count of five works. He is also categorized under the name Matthew Broderick in various databases.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1962
Works
6

Top works

  • Wonderful World
  • Wonderful World
  • The lion king 2
  • The lion king
  • Inspector Gadget

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1962-03-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
7,633
Total plays
48,399

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Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor and singer. His roles include the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the adult voice of Simba in Disney's The Lion King trilogy (1994–2004), David Lightman in the Cold War thriller WarGames (1983), and Leo Bloom in the Broadway production of The Producers. Broderick has won two Tony Awards <a href="https://www.last.fm/music

via Last.fm · Matthew Broderick

Quotes

  • My experience with first-time directors is that they’re all extremely prepared, because I guess they’re worried. They spend weeks preparing everything, and they have to get used to the fact that once you get there, everything goes wrong and you have to make everything up.

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Encyclopedic overview

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen he has received two Tony Awards as well nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Broderick was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star in 2006 and the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017.

Broderick took early roles in WarGames (1983) and Ladyhawke (1985) before playing the title role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He then acted in Project X (1987), Biloxi Blues (1988), Torch Song Trilogy (1988), Glory (1989), The Freshman (1990), The Cable Guy (1996), Election (1999), Inspector Gadget (1999), You Can Count on Me (2000), The Producers (2005), Deck the Halls (2006), and Tower Heist (2011). He also directed himself in Infinity (1996) and voiced Simba in The Lion King (1994) and a Bee in the Bee Movie (2007).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matthew Broderick” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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