Hugh Grant To Be A Famous Playboy actor

The 45-year-old actor, who is currently filming for American Dremz, is set to star in a new movie about the legendary 60's playboy Peter Lawford, according to Sky News.

Hollywood actor Peter Sydney Lawford (September 7, 1923 - December 24, 1984) was a member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," more famous for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting.

Lawford spent his early childhood in France, and began acting as a child.

The actor had a gained a contract position with the MGM studios. His first major movie role was A Yank At Eton (1942). He played a snobby bully opposite Mickey Rooney. The picture was a smash hit and Lawford's performance was widely praised. Lawford won even greater kudos for his performance in The White Cliffs Of Dover (1944). He played a young soldier in World War II. MGM gave the young actor another important role in The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1945). Lawford's father also had a role in the film. Lawford also made Son Of Lassie (1945) and won a Modern Screen magazine readers poll as the most popular actor in Hollywood. His fan mail jumped to thousands of letters a week.

His busiest year as an actor was in 1946 when two of his films opened within days of each other Cluny Brown (1946) and Two Sisters From Boston (1946). Lawford was recognized as the romantic lead on the MGM lot. Lawford appeared with Frank Sinatra for the first time in the musical It Happened In Brooklyn (1947). Lawford later admitted the most terrifying experience of his career was the first musical number he performed. Lawford also made his first comedy that same year My Brother Talks To Horses (1947).
It was in Good News (1947) that Lawford won his greatest acclaim as an actor. He also got to dance and sing as well and held his own against the other cast. Lawford was given other important roles in MGM films the next few years such as On An Island With You (1948), Easter Parade (1948) and Little Women (1949).
He became an American citizen in 1960, in time to vote for his brother-in-law John F. Kennedy. Along with the other members of the Rat Pack helped to campaign for Kennedy and the Democratic party.

Lawford married four times. He married his first wife, Patricia Kennedy, sister to President John F. Kennedy, in 1954. They had four children, including actor Christopher Lawford. They divorced in 1966. He married his second wife, Mary Rowan, daughter of Dan Rowan, in 1971. They divorced in 1975. He married his third wife, Deborah Gould in 1976. They divorced in 1977. His fourth wife, whom he married in 1984, was Patricia Seaton. Lawford was reported to have had many affairs with famous ladies of movies, song, and politics including Ava Gardner, June Allyson, Lana Turner, Janet Leigh, Rita Hayworth, Dorothy Dandridge, Lucille Ball, Anne Baxter, Judy Holliday, Gina Lollobrigida, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lee Remick, Nancy Reagan, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Peter Lawford died in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve1984 of liver and kidney disease culminating in cardiac arrest. His body was cremated and the ashes were inurned at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.


Hugh Grant

American Dreamz (2006) (filming)
Travaux, on sait quand ça commence... (2005)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Love Actually (2003)
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Legend of the Lost Tribe (2002) (TV) (voice: US version)
About a Boy (2002)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Hooves of Fire (1999) (TV) (voice: US version)
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Notting Hill (1999)
Comic Relief: Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999) (V)
Extreme Measures (1996)
Restoration (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Nine Months (1995)
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Sirens (1994)
The Changeling (1994) (TV)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Night Train to Venice (1993)
"Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" (1992) (mini) TV Series (voice)
Bitter Moon (1992)
The Trials of Oz (1991) (TV)
Our Sons (1991) (TV)
Impromptu (1991)
The Big Man (1990)
"Till We Meet Again" (1989) (mini) TV Series
Champagne Charlie (1989) (TV)
The Lady and the Highwayman (1989) (TV)
Remando al viento (1988)
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
The Dawning (1988)
Nocturnes (1988)
Nuit Bengali, La (1988)
Maurice (1987)
White Mischief (1987)
Lord Elgin and Some Stones of No Value (1986) (TV)
The Dream Lover (1986/II) (TV)
"Ladies in Charge" (1986) TV Series
Honour, Profit & Pleasure (1985) (TV)
Jenny's War (1985) (TV)
"The Detective" (1985) (mini) TV Series
"The Last Place on Earth" (1985) (mini) TV Series
Privileged (1982) (as Hughie Grant) .... Lord Adrian


Peter Lawford

Filmography
Poor Old Bill (1930)
A Gentleman of Paris (1931)
Lord Jeff (1938)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Eagle Squadron (1942)
A Yank at Eton (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
Junior Army (1942)
Random Harvest (1942)
Immortal Sergeant (1943)
London Blackout Murders (1943)
Assignment in Brittany (1943)
The Purple V (1943)
Pilot #5 (1943)
The Sky's the Limit (1943)
The Man from Down Under (1943)
Above Suspicion (1943)
Someone to Remember (1943)
West Side Kid (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Corvette K-225 (1943)
Paris After Dark (1943)
Sahara (1943)
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Girl Crazy (1943)
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Son of Lassie (1945)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946) (voice)
Two Sisters from Boston] (1946)
Cluny Brown (1946)
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
Screen Snapshots: Out-of-This-World Series (1947) (short subject)
Good News (1947)
On an Island with You (1948)
Easter Parade (1948)
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
Little Women (1949)
The Red Danube (1949)
Please Believe Me (1950)
Royal Wedding (1951)
Just This Once (1952)
Kangaroo (1952)
You for Me (1952)
The Hour of 13 (1952)
Rogue's March (1953)
It Should Happen to You (1954)
Never So Few (1959)
Exodus (1960)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Pepe (1960) (cameo)
Sergeants 3 (1962)
Advise and Consent (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Dead Ringer (1964)
Sylvia (1965)
Harlow (1965)
The Oscar (1966)
A Man Called Adam (1966)
Dead Run (1967)
Salt and Pepper (1968)
Skidoo (1968)
Bunoa Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
Walls of Sin (1969)
Hook, Line & Sinker (1969)
The April Fools (1969)
Togetherness (1970)
One More Time (1970)
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
Just One More Time (1974) (short subject)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
Rosebud (1975)
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
Angels' Brigade (1979)
Gypsy Angels (1980)
Body and Soul (1981)
Where Is Parsifal? (1983)