Personal details
- Birth Date: 1948-09-11
- Birth Location: New York, USA
- Professions: Actor, Soundtrack
Michael Sacks, man, what a weirdly underrated story. Most people just know him as Billy Pilgrim from the 1972 movie version of Slaughterhouse-Five. Dude just drops into that role and—boom—gets a Golden Globe nomination out the gate. Not bad for your very first film, though he lost to Edward Albert (tough break). The ’70s were basically his playground. He pops up in all sorts of stuff: The Sugarland Express, where he’s this unlucky kidnapped cop; The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, playing Melvin Purvis, and then you’ve got Hanover Street and The Amityville Horror—yeah, that classic haunted house flick. Sacks worked with some big-deal directors too—Spielberg, George Roy Hill, Stuart Rosenberg. These aren’t small names. Harvard grad, by the way. Bachelor of Arts in Social Relations. Not your average Hollywood backstory, right? The ’80s kind of saw him drifting away from the scene—just a couple TV movies, and then two last films: The House of God and Split Image (sharing the screen with James Woods and Peter Fonda, no less). Then, poof, he’s out. Retired from acting like it’s just another Tuesday. But he didn’t just fade into obscurity or anything. Nope, dude went full tech. He landed gigs at Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers, and IBM’s Research Division. Apparently picked up some computer science chops at Columbia. Hollywood to Wall Street to Big Tech—talk about plot twists.
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September 11, 1948
Konidela Ram Charan
New York, USA
76 years old