John Travolta

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John Travolta, 2018

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954 in Englewood , New Jersey ) is an American actor , singer , dancer , producer and author . Travolta was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the films Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction .

Life

John Travolta, 1983

Travolta was born the youngest of six siblings. He is half Italian (paternal) and half Irish (maternal) descent. Two passions shaped his childhood: airplanes and acting. He got acting lessons from his mother Helen Cecilia-Burke, as she was also an actress. She also taught theater, initially giving him roles in local theater productions. His father Salvatore Travolta worked as a tire dealer. At the age of 16, John dropped out of high school with the consent of his parents and moved to New York (where he initially lived with his sister Margaret) to try his hand at performing there, including in the musical Grease , with which he also went on tour. He also took tap dance lessons from Gene Kelly's brother, which helped him in his later career. He also worked in night clubs and made commercials for television. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s .

At the age of 21 came his breakthrough as a serious actor after he played the role of Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979). Travolta had his first major film role as Billy Nolan in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976). At the height of the disco wave, he was with Saturday Night Fever ( Saturday Night Fever, 1977) and Grease ( 1978) as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

His career stalled after the production of Staying Alive and Perfect , both films were not commercially successful. It was not until 1989 that Travolta achieved a look at who's talking! a new success.

Travolta made his comeback in 1994 with the role of Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction , which earned him an Oscar nomination. He then shot, in addition to commercially successful films such as Snap Shorty and its sequel Be Cool , Face / Off - In the Body of the Enemy and Password: Swordfish, also repeatedly less commercially successful films such as Lucky Numbers . He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1999 for the role of Governor Jack Stanton in the film drama With All Power (1998) .

In 2007, Travolta played the role of an (overweight) woman for the first time in the music and dance film Hairspray , for whose portrayal he had to wear a 15 kilogram fat suit during filming .

In 2016, he took on the role of Robert Shapiro , OJ Simpson's defense attorney, in the anthology series American Crime Story . He also received a Golden Globe nomination for this role .

Travolta was dubbed by Thomas Danneberg until he withdrew from the dubbing business . After Danneberg's withdrawal, Ronald Nitschke took over the synchronization (as of May 2020).

Travolta is also active as a book author: He made his debut with Nachtflug nach LA , the story of eight-year-old Jeff, who would like to fly.

Scientology

Travolta also took on a larger role in the science fiction film Battlefield Earth (2000), which he produced. This film adaptation of a science fiction book by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is considered one of the worst films of all time and became a commercial flop. Since 1975, alongside Tom Cruise , he has been the most prominent member of the Scientology sect , which is controversial in Germany and observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in several federal states .

Private life

John Travolta Boeing 707-138B

While filming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), Travolta fell in love with fellow actress Diana Hyland , who died of breast cancer in 1977 at the age of only 41; a year later, Travolta's mother Helen also died of cancer. Both deaths resulted in him not assuming roles for some time. In 1989, while shooting the film The Experts , he met actress Kelly Preston . Both separated after a short time. In 1991, Travolta and Preston reunited and married in September. He has three children with her: two sons (born April 14, 1992; born November 23, 2010) and a daughter (born April 3, 2000). His eldest son, Jett, died on January 2, 2009 at the age of 16 from a seizure in the Bahamas .

After Jett's death, the Travoltas took legal action against a paramedic and his lawyer, a former MP. The two defendants allegedly extorted $ 25 million from the Travolta family. They threatened to publish details of the circumstances of death and to blame Travolta for complicity. In the fall of 2009, the proceedings were broken off immediately before the verdict was announced, after the results of the jury's consultation had been published prematurely. As announced on September 7, 2010, Travolta put the lawsuit against the two alleged blackmailers. The reason given by the family was that they had suffered too much from the strenuous process and therefore wanted to leave it behind.

Travolta's hobby has been aviation since 1989. Although he only has a private pilot license , he may have. a. Type ratings for the aircraft types Boeing 707 and Boeing 747 completed. Travolta owns five aircraft, including a Boeing 707-138B . He is allowed to fly this himself, but due to the flight hours completed so far on this type, he can only fly this with the status of copilot accompanied by a pilot in command who is qualified for this type . The machine is named after his children: "Jett Clipper Ella". His house in Ocala (Florida) has its own runway including a gate at Greystone Airport ( FAA LID : 17FL).

His older brother Joey Travolta is also in the film business, u. a. as an actor and director.

On July 13, 2020, John Travolta announced via Instagram that his wife Kelly Preston had died of breast cancer the day before at the age of 57 .

Filmography

John Travolta, 1991
John Travolta at the premiere of Born to be Wild , 2007 in London

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1976 John Travolta - - - - US39 (22 weeks)
US
1977 Can't Let You Go - - - - US66 (9 weeks)
US
1978 Grease DE1
Quintuple gold
× 5
Quintuple gold

(52 weeks)DE 		AT1
gold
gold

(52 weeks)AT 		CH-
gold
gold
CH 		UK1
Eight times platinum
× 8
Eight times platinum

(47 weeks)UK 		US1
Eight times platinum
× 8
Eight times platinum

(77 weeks)US
with Olivia Newton-John
Soundtrack for the film of the same name
Sandy - - - UK40
gold
gold

(6 weeks)UK 		-
1979 Travolta Fever - - - - US161 (7 weeks)
US
1983 Two of a kind - - - - US26th
platinum
platinum

(12 weeks)US
2012 This Christmas - - - - US81 (5 weeks)
US
with Olivia Newton-John

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1978: Travolta
  • 1996: John Travolta Sings

Compilations

  • 1979: Super John Travolta
  • 1982: La grande storia del rock 47
  • 1991: You Set My Dreams to Music (Best Of)
  • 1993: gold
  • 1995: Let Her In
  • 1996: The Best of John Travolta
  • 1996: Greased Lightnin '
  • 1997: 20 greatest hits
  • 1999: Slow Dancing
  • 1999: Essential
  • 2001: You Set My Dreams to Music
  • 2002: Saturday Night Fiction
  • 2003: The Collection
  • 2005: Cult Fiction
  • 2005: The Hit Years
  • 2008: Forever Gold

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1976 Let Her In
John Travolta 		- - - - US10 (19 weeks)
US
Whenever I'm Away from You
Can't Let You Go 		- - - - US38 (6 weeks)
US
1977 All Strung Out on You
Can't Let You Go 		- - - - US34 (8 weeks)
US
First published: 1974
1978 You're the One That I Want
Grease OST 		DE1
gold
gold

(35 weeks)DE 		AT2 (28 weeks)
AT 		CH1 (22 weeks)
CH 		UK1
platinum
platinum

(35 weeks)UK 		US1
platinum
platinum

(24 weeks)US
with Olivia Newton-John
Summer Nights
Grease OST 		DE4 (18 weeks)
DE 		AT1 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH7 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK1
platinum
platinum

(19 weeks)UK 		US5
gold
gold

(16 weeks)US
with Olivia Newton-John
Greased Lightning
Grease OST 		- - - UK11
silver
silver

(9 weeks)UK 		US47 (8 weeks)
US
Sandy
Grease EAST 		DE26 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT24 (4 weeks)
AT 		- UK2
gold
gold

(15 weeks)UK 		-
1990 Grease Megamix
 DE42 (8 weeks)
DE 		AT26 (7 weeks)
AT 		- UK3 (10 weeks)
UK 		-
with Olivia Newton-John
1991 Grease - Dream Mix
 - - - UK47 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
with Frankie Valli and Olivia Newton-John
1998 You're the One That I Want (Martian Remix) - AT26 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH34 (2 weeks)
CH 		- -
with Olivia Newton-John

More singles

  • 1977: Big Trouble
  • 1977: (Feel so Good) Slow Dancing
  • 1977: Easy Evil
  • 1978: Razzamatazz
  • 1978: Dejala Entrar (Let Her In) (EP)
  • 1978: The Official John Travolta Fan Club (Travolta's personal message)
  • 1979: A Girl Like You
  • 1983: Take A Chance (with Olivia Newton-John)
  • 1998: Grease (The Remix EP)
  • 1998: Summer Nights [Martian Remix] (with Olivia Newton-John)
  • 1998: Grease Is Still the Word (Radio PressKit) (EP)

Awards (selection)

Awards

Nominations

  • 1978: Oscar for Best Actor for Saturday Night Only
  • 1978: Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy / Musical for Saturday Night Only
  • 1984: Golden Raspberry as Worst Actor for Staying Alive and Two of the Same Kind
  • 1986: Golden Raspberry as worst actor for Perfect
  • 1990: Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor of the Decade
  • 1992: Golden Raspberry as Worst Supporting Actor for Shout
  • 1995: Oscar for Best Actor for Pulp Fiction
  • 1995: Golden Globe for Best Actor - Drama for Pulp Fiction
  • 1999: Golden Globe for Best Actor - Comedy / Musical for With All Power
  • 2002: Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor for Deadly Trust and Password: Swordfish
  • 2010: Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor for Old Dogs - Daddy or Deal
  • 2010: Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor of the Decade
  • 2017: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie for American Crime Story
  • 2019: Golden Raspberry as worst actor for Gotti
  • 2019: Golden Raspberry as worst screen couple (together with Kelly Preston) for Gotti
  • 2020: Golden Raspberry Worst Screen Couple (and any script it adopts)

literature

  • Nigel Andrews : Travolta: The Life. Bloomsbury, New York 1998.
  • Brigitte Tast (Ed.): John Travolta. Kulleraugen, Hildesheim 1978.
  • John Travolta: Night flight to LA orange-press, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-936086-00-1 .

Web links

Commons : John Travolta  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ German synchronous index | Actor | John Travolta. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  2. ^ John Travolta TV Movie
  3. ↑ Scientology: Ex-member talks about Tom Cruise and John Travolta When Scientology has its say, many think of Tom Cruise or John Travolta. A dropout now tells private things about the life of the stars of the "Church".
  4. ↑ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20294135,00.html , accessed August 15, 2009
  5. ↑ John Travolta - the cult actor and Scientology advocate turns 65
  6. ↑ John Travolta - Return to Hollywood | ARTE. Retrieved August 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Son Jett dies after an attack
  8. ↑ http://www.news.de/medien/855072302/rueckzieher-vor-gericht/1/ accessed on September 7, 2010, news.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically saved as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.news.de  
  9. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles Albums Billboard 200 / Soundtrack Grease Album Billboard 200
  10. ↑ a b gold / platinum databases: DE UK US
  11. ↑ Soundtrack "Grease"
  12. ↑ Soundtrack "Grease" in the Austrian hit parade on AustrianCharts.at
  13. ↑ Soundtrack "Grease" in the Official UK Charts (English)
personal data
SURNAME Travolta, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Travolta, John Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, dancer, producer, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Englewood , New Jersey, USA