George Gibson Biography Of A Film Actor
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He was born in Peekskill, New York, and moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old. He studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. During the 1980s, Gibson founded Icon Entertainment, a production company which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called, "an alternative to the studio system. Director Peter Weir cast Gibson as one of the leads in the critically acclaimed World War I drama Gallipoli which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute. Gibson gained very favorable notices from film critics when he first entered the cinematic scene, as well as comparisons to several classic movie stars. In 1982, Vincent Canby wrote that Mr. Gibson recalls the young Steve McQueen...