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Richard Gere

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Richard Gere

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Also known as Richard Tiffany Gere

American actor (born 1949)

OverviewAI-generated

Richard Gere is a male person from the United States. His work period began in 1969, and he was born on August 31, 1949. He has three children.

In the music domain, his works are associated with tags including musical, Soundtrack, jazz, chicago, and musicals. His artist type is listed as Person, with genres categorized as american. He has five works, and his activity is noted with a floruit date of January 1, 2018.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1949
Works
5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1949-08-31
american

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
92,952
Total plays
549,234

Tags

musicalSoundtrackjazzchicagomusicals

Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He first became famous during the 1980s, after appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman, and has since retained his status as a leading man. During the 1990s and 2000s, he starred in several well-received films, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, and Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe award as Best Actor. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Gere">Read more on L

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 63,319x

  2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,210x

  3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    · 2009 · cited 47,632x

  4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 47,223x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,543x

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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Tiffany Gere (/ɡɪər/ GHEER; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began appearing in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). Gere came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. Gere's other films include An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Internal Affairs (1990), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), First Knight (1995), Primal Fear (1996), Red Corner (1997), Runaway Bride (1999), Unfaithful (2002), Shall We Dance? (2004), I'm Not There (2007), Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award.

Early life and education

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

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