Known for:	The Best Years of Our Lives, Inside Moves, Dogtown
Birth name:	Harold John Russell
Birthday:	14 January 1914, North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Two children: Adele and Gerald The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tried to keep him from selling his award, and offered to loan him money, but he turned them down. (Several Oscars have since been auctioned off posthumously, but the Academy now makes all recipients sign an agreement forbidding them from selling their Oscars.) Director William Wyler told Russell after The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) wrapped, "There aren't that many parts for a guy with no hands. You should go back to college, get your degree." Russell followed the advice, got a business degree from Boston University and became an ardent advocate for the disabled. Served three terms as the National Commander of the AMVETS. As National Commander, he wrote an 11 April 1951 letter to President Harry S. Truman supporting his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of his supreme command: "The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." He became so adept with the hooks that replaced his hands, he would joke he could do anything with them except pick up a dinner check. Interred at Lakeview Cemetery, Wayland, MA. Had one of the least prolific careers of any Oscar winner, starring in only four films over a span of fifty years.

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