People (Births)

• 1978 – Anthony Mackie, American actor.

People (Deaths)

• 2018 – Gary Kurtz, American film producer (b. 1940).

Anthony Mackie

Anthony Dwane Mackie (born 23 September 1978) is an American actor. Mackie made his acting debut starring in the semi-biographical drama film 8 Mile (2002); he was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor for his performance in the LGBT drama Brother to Brother (2004), and in the same year, appeared in psychological thriller The Manchurian Candidate and the sports film Million Dollar Baby. Mackie starred in Half Nelson (2006); in 2008, Mackie both appeared in the action thriller Eagle Eye, and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Hurt Locker. He portrayed Tupac Shakur in Notorious (2009), and later starred in Night Catches Us (2010), and The Adjustment Bureau and Real Steel (both 2011).

He achieved global recognition for portraying Sam Wilson / Falcon / Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and most recently starring in the Disney+ miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021); he is set to lead his own film titled Captain America: New World Order (2024). During this period, Mackie also starred in the period crime film Detroit (2017), The Hate U Give (2018), the science fiction film Synchronic (2019), and The Banker (2020).

Away from film, Mackie has performed in Broadway and Off-Broadway adaptations, including Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier’s Play and Carl Hancock Rux’s Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002. Mackie portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the HBO television film All the Way (2016), and portrayed Takeshi Kovacs in Netflix series Altered Carbon (2020).

• The Manchurian Candidate (2004): PFC Robert Baker.
• Eagle Eye (2008): Major William Bowman.
• The Hurt Locker (2009): Sergeant J.T. Sanborn.
• Outside the Wire (2021): Captain Leo.

Gary Kurtz

Gary Douglas Kurtz (27 July 1940 to 23 September 2018) was an American film producer whose list of credits includes American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Dark Crystal (1982) and Return to Oz (1985). Kurtz also co-produced the 1989 science fiction adventure film Slipstream, which reunited him with Star Wars star Mark Hamill.