Michael Schoeffling

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Michael Earl Schoeffling (born December 10, 1960 in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania ) is a former American actor .

life and career

In his youth Schoeffling was a talented wrestler and took part in the youth world championships in Munich in 1978, where he won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling with his team . After graduating from Cherokee High School in New Jersey , he studied the Seven Liberal Arts at Temple University . In the 1980s he worked as a model, including for GQ magazine and photographer Bruce Weber . The modeling jobs also helped fund his acting studies at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York.

The 23-year-old Schoeffling became known suddenly through the teenage comedy That is only allowed as an adult by John Hughes , in which he turns his head in the role of the dreamy Jake Ryan Molly Ringwald's character. In the USA, the character achieved an iconic effect in the field of teenage films , the Washington Post wrote in 2004 that the character Jake Ryan is still the definition of an unattainable dream type. After this first major cinema appearance, he received a number of major cinema roles in the 1980s, mostly as the object of attraction for the main female character. In 1985 he worked alongside Matthew Modine on Crazy for You , another well-known high school film. He then turned increasingly to more adult roles, for example in Stuart Rosenberg's action film Get Harry out! (1986) and in Norman René's AIDS film drama Longtime Companion (1989). In 1990, he took on the role of a school bus driver alongside Cher in Mermaids Kiss Better , with whom Winona Ryder's character falls in love.

At the age of just 30 he retired from acting, probably also because, as a young family man, he found the film business too insecure professionally. His last film was The Heart of an Amazon , in which he played the male lead alongside Gabrielle Anwar . Since then there have been no more interviews or public appearances. According to scant information, he now runs a shop in Pennsylvania selling handmade and self-designed furniture. He and his wife Valerie Robinson, a former model, have two children.

Filmography

  • 1984: Time Flies, the Navy Calls (Racing with the Moon)
  • 1984: You can only do that as an adult (Sixteen Candles)
  • 1985: Crazy for You (Vision Quest)
  • 1985: My friend the wild horse (Sylvester)
  • 1986: The Hitchhiker ( The Hitchhiker , television series, episode Dead Man's Curve )
  • 1986: Belizaire - The Cajun (Belizaire the Cajun)
  • 1986: Get Harry out! (Let's Get Harry)
  • 1989: City Slaves (Slaves of New York)
  • 1989: Friendship for life (Longtime Companion)
  • 1990: Mermaids Kiss Better (Mermaids)
  • 1991: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Schoeffling | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Michael Schoeffling | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  3. ^ Hank Stuever: Reflections on Jake Ryan of the John Hughes Film 'Sixteen Candles' . February 14, 2004, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed September 20, 2018]).
  4. ^ Reflections on Jake Ryan of the John Hughes film 'Sixteen Candles' . February 14, 2004, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed September 20, 2018]).
  5. ↑ 12 Big Stars Who Said Goodbye to Hollywood | Michael Schoeffling. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ The real reason these celebs quit acting for good. Retrieved September 20, 2018 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Schoeffling, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoeffling, Michael Earl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American former actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania