John Travolta

Age: 55
Height: 6' 2"

Birth Place: Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Born: Feb. 18th, 1954

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John Travolta's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Welcome Back, Kotter	Vinnie Barb…
Revealed with Jules Asner	John Travolta

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

John Travolta first gained fame as the swaggering Vinnie Barbarino on the television series "Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975). In 1977, he parlayed his teeny-bopper fame into a big-screen career with the disco blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (1977). He languished in light dramas and television movies in the 1980s, but started a comeback in 1989 with Look Who's Talking (1989). He further resuscitated his career with an Oscar nomination for his role as a heavyset sympathetic hitman in Pulp Fiction (1994) in 1994.

TRIVIA:

His publicist is 'Paul Bloch (II)' (qv).
'Jett Travolta' (qv), his 16-year-old son, died following a seizure at the family's Bahamas holiday retreat on Friday Jan 2, 2009.
His favorite film is _Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)_ (qv).
Stated that one of his favorite places is Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.
He also owns an Eclipse 500 twin turbofan aircraft.
He was named Man of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club in 1981.
During the 1970s, he frequently watched foreign films. One of his favorites was _La strada (1954)_ (qv).
In October 2004, he starred in a series of television commercials for Sky TV (meant for Italian TV). Directed by 'Harald Zwart' (qv), the television commercials play as a sit-com, where John Travolta - as himself - moves in with a working-class family because they have Sky.