Kurt Russell turns 59.

Since his first on screen appearance at 10 years old in "It Happened At The World's Fair" 1963, a successful career with Disney through his teens, then broke out as an adult actor working in several films with John Carpenter. He's definitely had a varied career in more recent films from a super hero father in Disney's Sky Hight, to a psycho stunt man in Tarantino's Deathproof.

"If it hadn't been for video cassette, I may not have had a career at all." - Kurt Russell