[ambrose]

Who is Sean Astin?

[JohnGalt]

Rudy

[NewHampshireDuo]

actor son of Patty Duke and John Astin - plays the part of Sam in Lord of the Rings..

[Munch]

Sean Astin played RUDY in the movie RUDY

[MississippiMan]

[VOA]

Who is Sean Astin?

He also was one of the crew in "Memphis Belle".

I snagged the little passage below from his official website www.seanastin.com.

I've seen him on The Craig Kilborne Show (sorry, but I just love "In The News").
Astin seems to be the exception in Hollywood: married, stable, patriotic, thoughtful.
I'd buy him a beer or two.

Sean Astin on Memphis Belle

I'll never forget being with David Puttnam and Mathew Modine in Japan on January
15, 1991 promoting Memphis Belle. I had asked David to bring me with him when it came
time to publicize the film in Asia. I was sitting on a dais preparing to field
questions about making an "American War Movie", when I glanced at my watch and saw
that it was 12:00 back home...the UN Deadline had just expired and coalition airplanes
were about to begin a massive bombing campaign in the air above Kuwait and Iraq.
I remember feeling later that day that my country was at war and I needed to get home.
The irony was not lost on me. I think the real value of our film is that it
attempts to show, in a realistic way, human faces during a critical moment in
the evolution of American Air Supremacy.

Pretty atypical thought process for a Hollywood guy, huh?

[sweetliberty]

"Who is Sean Astin?"

The one on the left.

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