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Up for sale "American Gigilo" Richard Gere Hand Signed 8x10 Color Photo. This item is authenticated By Professional Autograph Authentication
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Richard Tiffany August 31, 1949) is an American actor and producer. He began in
films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). He came to prominence with his
role in the film American Gigolo (1980),
which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in many well-received films,
including An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Pretty Fear (1996), Runaway Bride (1999), I'm Not There (2007), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016).
For portraying Billy Flynn in
the Academy Award-winning musical Chicago (2002),
he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast. Gere was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he grew up in Syracuse, New York. His mother, Doris Ann a housewife. His father, Homer George Gere (born 1922), was an insurance agent for the Nationwide
Mutual Insurance Company and had originally intended to become
a minister. Gere is their eldest son and second child. His
paternal great-grandfather George Lane Gere (1848–1932) had changed the
spelling of the surname from "Geer". The direct paternal ancestor is George Geer
along with his brother Thomas from Heavitree, Devon, England who settled in Connecticut Colony in
1638. Both of his parents were Mayflower descendants; Gere's ancestors Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, Francis Cooke, and William Brewster. In
1967, Gere graduated from North
Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music and played the trumpet. He attended the University
of Massachusetts Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship, majoring
in philosophy; after two years, he left and did not graduate.
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