Michael Jackson overview

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Biography:

Roles: Actor, Choreography, Executive Producer, Composer (Music Score), Songwriter, Screen Story, Featured Music

Date of Birth: August 29, 1958 (died June 25, 2009)

Active Years: 1974-2009

Throughout his long career, internationally acclaimed music superstar Michael Jacksonsporadically made film appearances as an actor, notably in his first starring role in The Wiz (1978), but he was best known for producing cutting-edge feature-film quality music videos such as "Thriller," "Billie Jean," and "Black or White." He also produced films for Disney virtual rides, the first of which was the extremely popular Francis Ford Coppola-directed Captain Eo (1985), which ran at Disney World in Orlando until 1997.

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