starring



LARRY HAGMAN




His real name being LAWRENCE HAGEMAN, he was born on September 21, 1931 in FORT WORTH, about 40 km away from Dallas. In her memoirs his mother, stage celebrity MARY MARTIN, confessed: “When he was born, my first impression was horror.”



She was barely 17 and her main goal was becoming a star. His father BEN HAGEMAN was a Texan lawyer but she was only interested in her career, so their marriage was a failure and ended up in divorce when the kid was 5: at 14, he had already been at 16 different schools. Those times were really hard for LARRY, resented to his mother for giving priority to her career: MARY spent most of her time at the auditions and, when LARRY was 8, she married RICHARD HALLIDAY. But the child did not get along with him and stayed with his grandparents´. At 14, he was sent at his father´s in the small town of WEATHERFORD:
“I got a job at Weatherford Oil, working with my own hands, while a machine was doing the same thing, one million times faster. I packed hay, handled a pneumatic hammer...”



After attending BARD COLLEGE in N.Y., followed his mother´s steps in show business, first with Margo Jones Theatre-in-the-Round in DALLAS. Then he appeared in the N.Y.C. Center production of “The Taming of the Shrew” and spent a whole year acting in local theatre. His mother was going to start a tour with the musical ANNIE GET YOUR GUN and asked LARRY and his sister HELLER to join the show. After that, his father proposed him to study Law at university, but he was more attracted by the acting job.



In 1948, his mother gifted him a passage to SWEDEN and he spent 2 months in STOCKHOLM. As she could obviously not get him a career, decided to take him to EUROPE and give him another chance on stage. In LONDON, LARRY debuted in a WEST END montage of SOUTH PACIFIC starring his mother which lasted 5 years. He was 19 and, after that success, he returned the next year to do a revue released at LEICESTER theatre. By then he still did not get along with his mother and moved to his friend TED FLICKER´s, where he met his would be wife, MAJ AXELSSON, born in SWEDEN and 3 years older than he was.



When they got married, LARRY was broke, while she already was a successful fashion designer. Then he enrolled in the U.S. Air Forces and, though he just had the corporal graduation, he spent 4 years producing, directing and playing in a lot of shows addressed to the soldiers in the front. Life was not easy for the young couple at first, since LARRY had a hard time getting acting jobs even with his mother´s influence, so they left to BRASIL to take care of a big estate bought by MARY. LARRY´s unhappy childhood had a positive consequence: both of them promised themselves that their children would never go through the same situation.



The next years he was wandering from show to show: he did on stage "Once Around the Block", "Career", "Comes A Day", "A Priest in the House" and others. MAJ got pregnant by first time in 1958 and LARRY was unemployed then, but knew his responsibilities to his family. His career on TV started off in 1961 with a number of appearances on shows like “The ALCOA Hour". After that he played on daytime soap “The Edge Of Night" for 2 years, and hesitantly took the role of astronaut TONY NELSON on the TV sitcom I DREAM OF JEANNIE. After 5 years playing the same part he had a nervous breakdown, due to the effort of “trying to make the best show in the world, instead of accepting it as just a light comedy”, as HAGMAN himself confessed.



At last he was offered the DALLAS´s script. Tired of reading stories like that, he gave it to his wife and she told him: “Here is the final role for your career.” At the beginning he discussed 3 times with the producers about the salary, but they eventually came to an agreement and, in a matter of a few days, he began to impersonate J.R. EWING. One of the reasons that led him to take the role was the chance to act with BARBARA BEL GEDDES.



His DALLAS´s character did not only make him one of the most popular stars in worldwide TV, but also the best paid TV actor in history: he was getting 125.000 dollars each episode in 1984. This same year LARRY was awarded with a star with his name on, at the well-known HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME. The star was placed between DICK POWELL´s and his own mother´s. Machiavellian J.R. provided him popularity, financial safety and fear to people who identified him with hated J.R., so he had to increase the security measures in his public appearances.



After 30 years of work, LARRY HAGMAN achieved stability and acknowledgement through a negative character who had almost every human default. Currently, recovered from a kidney transplant realized in July 1995, he is still campaigning on behalf of organ donation and against smoke, after a couple of brief stints in movies like NIXON and PRIMARY COLORS, and the 2 TV sequels to DALLAS:
“TV bores me and movie directors don´t remember me. J.R. was a lifetime role. What else could I play? Besides, that was my family. I had my real family, with my wife MAJ, and the EWING family, and wanted both of them.”



CAREER:
Movies:

    -Primary Colors (1998)

    -Nixon (1995)

    -Jag rodnar (1981)
    ... aka I Am Blushing (1981) (English Version Title)

    -S.O.B. (1981)

    -Superman, the Movie (1978)

    -Cry for Justice (1977)

    -Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
    ... aka Crash

    -The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

    -The Big Bus (1976)

    -Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)

    -Stardust (1974)

    -Harry & Tonto (1974)

    -Antonio (1973)

    -Toy Game, The (1973)

    -Beware! The Blob (1972) (direction and cameo)
    ... aka Son of Blob (1972) (UK)
    ... aka Beware of the Blob

    -The Hired Hand, The (1971) (uncredited) (only in the TV and DVD versions)

    -Up in the Cellar (1970)
    ... aka Three in the Cellar

    -The Group (1966)

    -In Harm's Way (1965)

    -Fail-Safe (1964)

    -Ensign Pulver (1964)

    -Sette contro la morte (1964)

    ... aka Cavern, The (1965)


Television:

    -NIP/TUCK (2006) episode “Cindy Plumb” (# 4.1)

    -THE SIMPSONS (2006) episode “The Monkey Suit” (#17.21) (sólo voz)

    -Lindenstraße (2006) episode "Der Tanz"

    -Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork (2004) Documentary

    -A&E Biography: Larry Hagman (2004) Documentary

    -TV Land Moguls (2004) Documentary

    -Intimate Portrait: Linda Gray (2003) Documentary

    -TV's Most Memorable Weddings (2003) Documentary

    -After Dallas (2002) Documentary

    -When Shoulderpads Ruled the World (2002) Documentary

    -Intimate Portrait: Barbara Eden (2002) Documentary

    -Top Ten (2002) episode "Soap Queens", documentary

    -I Dream of Jeannie... The E! True Hollywood Story (2000) Documentary

    -Doing Dallas (2000) Documentary

    -Biography (1987) episode "Sidney Sheldon: The Storyteller" Documentary

    -Intimate Portrait: Joan Rivers (1999) (voice) Documentary

    -Intimate Portrait: Victoria Principal (1998) Documentary

    -Dallas: War of the Ewings (1998) (and co-production)

    -The Third Twin (1997) Miniseries
    ... aka Ken Follett's The Third Twin

    -Orleans (1997) Serie

    -Dallas: J.R. Returns (1996) (and co-production)

    -In the Heat of the Night (1994) (only direction) episode "Who Was Geli Bendl?"

    -Staying Afloat (1993)

    -Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle (1993) Documentary

    -Dallas: The Early Years (1986)

    -Deadly Encounter (1982)
    ... aka American Eagle

    -Diana (1981)

    -Knots Landing (1979-82) episodes # 1.2, # 2.9, # 2.17, # 4.2 and # 4.6.

    -Sword of Justice (1978) episode "A Double Life" (# 1.0)

    -DALLAS (1978-91) Series (original cast) (and co-direction and co-production)

    -Last of the Good Guys (1978) (uncredited)

    -The President's Mistress (1978)

    -Intimate Strangers (1977)

    -The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) Miniseries

    -The Rockford Files (1977) episode "Forced Retirement" (# 4.11)

    -McMillan and Wife (1977) episode # 6.5.

    -The Return of the World's Greatest Detective, 1976)

    -The Big Rip-Off (1975)

    -Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)

    -The Streets of San Francisco (1975) episode "Dead Air" (# 4.10)

    -Barnaby Jones (1975) episode "Fatal Witness" (# 4".9)

    -Ellery Queen (1975) episode "The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party" (#1.8)

    -Doctors' Hospital (1975) episode "Come at Last to Love" (# 1.2)

    -Harry O (1975) episode "One for the Road" (# 2.2)

    -Marcus Welby, M.D. (1970, 75) episodes "To Get Through the Night" (# 2.5) and "Loser in a Dead Heat" (#6.24)

    -McCoy (1975) episode "The Big Ripoff" (# 1.1)

    -Hurricane (1974) (TV)
    ... aka Hurricane Hunters

    -Sidekicks (1974)

    -Police Story (1974) episode "Glamour Boy" (# 2.6)

    -McCloud (1974) episode "The Gang That Stole Manhattan" (# 5.2)

    -Police Woman (1974) episode "Seven-Eleven" (#1.4)

    -Here We Go Again (1973) Series

    -Love Story (1973) episode "The Youngest Lovers" (# 1.10)

    -Medical Center (1973) episode "Between 2 Fires" (#4.19)

    -What Are Best Friends For? (1973)

    -Blood Sport (1973)

    -The Alpha Caper (1973)
    ... aka Inside Job (UK)

    -Applause (1973)

    -No Place to Run (1972)

    -Getting Away from It All (1972)

    -The Name of the Game (1971) episode "A Capitol Affair" (# 3.19)

    -A Howling in the Woods (1971)

    -The Good Life (1971) Series

    -Vanished (1971)

    -Night Gallery (1970) episode "The Housekeeper" (#1.2)

    -Love, American Style (1969) episode "Love and the Psychiatrist" (# 2.3b)

    -Three's a Crowd (1969)

    -I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70) Series

    -The Rogues (1964) Series

    -The DuPont Show of the Week (1963, 64) episodes "The Takers" (# 3.5) and "Ambassador at Large" (# 3.21)

    -Mr. Broadway (1964) episode "Between the Rats and the Finks" (# 1.3)

    -The Defenders (1963, 64) episodes "The Noose" (#2.31) and "The Last Day" (# 3.15)

    -The Silver Burro (1963)

    -The Edge Of Night (1961-3) Series

    -Diagnosis: Unknown (1960) episodes "The Case of the Radiant Wine" (# 1.1)

    -The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1958)

    -The United States Steel Hour (1958) episode "Climate of Marriage" (# 5.24)

    -Sea Hunt (1958) episodes "The Sponge Divers" (# 1.18), "The Hero" (# 1.26) and "Legend of the Mermaid" (# 1.23)

    -The DuPont Show of the Month (1958) episode "The Member of the Wedding" (# 1.10)

    -Harbourmaster" (1958) episode "The Captain's Gun" (# 1.25)

    -Kraft Television Theatre (1958) episode "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (#11.30)

    -Goodyear Television Playhouse (1957) episode "Backwoods Cinderella" (# 6.14)

    -Decoy (1957) episode "Saturday Lost"



    NEW: THE COMPLETE FILMS OF LARRY HAGMAN

    SUSAN HOWARD