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Balthazar Getty
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Actor Born: January 22, 1975 Biography:Often playing characters with a sensitive demeanor lurking beneath a brooding surface, "Balthazar Getty" is an actor whose offscreen life has boasted as much drama as his onscreen work. Born in Los Angeles, CA, on January 22, 1975, "Balthazar Getty"'s father was John Paul Getty III, the grandson of famous oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, and a notorious figure in his own right after his ear was cut off by kidnappers in 1973. John Paul Getty III suffered a debilitating drug overdose in 1980 which left him in a wheelchair, and in time he and his wife Gisela Zacher split up; Gisela remarried in 1988, to wedding translator and musician Olaf Kraemar. In 1989, a casting agent spotted young "Balthazar Getty" in his art class at school, and invited him to audition for a film role. Getty was then cast in the 1990 film adaptation of "Lord of the Flies" as Ralph, the child who struggles against the baser impulses which... Full Biography
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