William Katt
William Theodore Katt (born February 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor, voice artist and musician best known as the star of the television series The Greatest American Hero. He first became known for playing Tommy Ross, the ill-fated prom date of Carrie White in the film version of Carrie (1976) and subsequently starred in films such as First Love (1977), Big Wednesday (1978) and Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979). Between 1985 and 1988, he starred in nine Perry Mason television films alongside his mother Barbara Hale, who reprised her role as Della Street from the television series Perry Mason.
Early life
Katt was born in Los Angeles, to actors Barbara Hale and Bill Williams (whose birth name is Herman August Wilhelm Katt). He grew up in the San Fernando Valley and began acting while a teenager.
Career
Katt attended Orange Coast College before pursuing a career as a musician. Inspired by his father, he then started an acting career, appearing in summer stock theatre and in small television roles. His earliest film credits include the role of a jock, Tommy Ross in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film adaptation Carrie, which allowed Katt to make a name for himself. In 1978, he appeared as Barlow, a young surfer, in the John Milius drama film Big Wednesday opposite Jan-Michael Vincent and Gary Busey. His mother in that film was his real-life mother, Barbara Hale. The following year he took the role of Sundance Kid in the 1979 film Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. The role in Big Wednesday made him so well known in the surfing community that in 2004 he presented one of the Association of Surfing Professionals awards at their annual World Championship Tour ceremony to wild applause from the crowd of professional surfers. Katt explained in a 1979 interview with critic Roger Ebert that he was holding out only for parts that were personally interesting to him.
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ALBUMS
- The Perfect Year: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber released: 2012
The Perfect Year: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Released 2012- Heaven on Their Minds
- King Herod’s Song
- I Don’t Know How to Love Him
- Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)
- Pie Jesu
- Oh, What a Circus
- The Charity Concert
- High Flying Adored
- Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
- Tell Me on a Sunday
- Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad
- Unexpected Song
- Half a Moment
- Other Pleasures
- The First Man You Remember
- One Rock’n’Roll Too
- Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
- The Addressing of Cats
- Memory
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by Michael Buble
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by By Jeeves Soundtrack
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by Sarah Brightman
Half a moment
by: Michael BubleMichael Buble:
Half a moment
We are together
I shall want no-one else
And nothing new.
Half a moment
I shall treasure,
Keep it locked away
For some future rainy day.
Should you leave me
With just this moment
In my mind
I shall capture it anew,
Like some picture
Taken in my childhood
Half a moment
Spent with you.
Jose Carreras:
Countless vivid memories
Spin before my view,
Like some toy kaleidoscope
Images of you.
Time looks kindly
On fleeting lovers
They can turn the briefest hour
Into a day
Turn a moment
To a lifetime
Making it to last
Blending future with the past.
Michael Buble:
We're together,
What else can matter?
Jose Carreras:
Even though
Half a moment is too few
Michael Buble:
I shall save it
'Til I have another
Jose Carreras:
Making one whole moment
Both: