Sylvester Stallone

His trademark sneer and slur are the result of forceps complications during his birth. Inspired to write Rocky after watching the 1975 Muhammad Ali/Chuck Wepner fight. In that bout, Wepner, a little known boxer, went 15 rounds with Ali. Rocky cost $1.1 million to make, and grossed $225 million in ticket sales worldwide. Did all of his own singing in the 1984 film Rhinestone, costarring Dolly Parton. In 2003, the American Film Institute ranked Rocky Balboa seventh on their list of the 100… Show more Greatest Movie Heroes.  Was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984. In 2010, made the International Boxing Hall of Fame (as a screenwriter). That year, Stallone's action film The Expendables ---for which he was director, star and a screenwriter, and which led to his breaking his neck during production---made a big splash at the box office. Supports the efforts of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. ~ Rovi

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