LOS ANGELES, California, United States (Reuters) — Oscar and Emmy-nominated actor Nick Nolte was honored in Los Angeles on Monday (November 20) with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Nolte, who was given the 2,623rd on Hollywood Boulevard, has been nominated twice for acting Oscars with the first being in 1992 for “Prince of Tides” and the second in 1999 for “Affliction.”
“In the early 1960s my parents lived up here off of Gower, so I was over in Pasadena playing football but I used to, on my time off, come down here and walk this boulevard and look at these stars and it would not only evoke the memory of the individual person but it would evoke the memory of the stories they told. and that’s very much indicative of the history of America. It was written down, yes, but it was passed on word by word and many times by art and statuary and these kinds of things,” Nolte, said.
Gavin O’connor, who directed Nolte in “Warrior,” said he has “one of the greatest listener’s ears I’ve ever witnessed and a voice that sounds like he swallowed a bag of nails.”
“Nick is mythic, Nick is a glassblower, Nick likes to stir the soup. Nick is a redwood. Nick is crooked timber. Nick is a national treasure.”
Nolte’s roles have run the gamut, from the philosophical bum in “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” to a no nonsense cop in “48 Hours,” to a disillusioned football star in “North Dallas Forty.”
The actor first found fame for his role in the 1976 ABC miniseries “Rich Man, Poor Man.”
Nolte, who hails from Omaha, Nebraska, is currently starring in the Epix comedy “Graves.”
