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John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954)   is an American actor, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978). His acting career declined through the 1980s, but enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction (1994), and he has since starred in films such as Face/Off (1997), Swordfish (2001), Wild Hogs and Hairspray (both 2007).

Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won his only Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, the most recent being in 2008. In 2016, Travolta received his first two Emmy Awards as producer and actor for his portrayal of lawyer Robert Shapiro in the first season, subtitled "The People v. O.J. Simpson", of FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story . In 2014, he received the IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema.[http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/iifa-2014-john-travolta-kevin-spacey-star-in-bollywood-oscars-515136 IIFA 2014: John Travolta, Kevin Spacey star in 'Bollywood Oscars' – NDTV]

Early life

Travolta, the youngest of six children,  was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of New York City. His father, Salvatore Travolta (November 1912 – May 1995),  was a semi-professional American football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke; January 18, 1912 – December 1978), was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher.Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2003 His siblings, Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and Sam Travolta, have all acted. His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American;  he grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture.   He was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to Scientology in 1975.  Travolta attended Dwight Morrow High School, but dropped out as a junior at age 17 in 1971. 

Career

Early career

After attending Dwight Morrow High School,  Travolta moved across the Hudson River to New York City and landed a role in the touring company of the musical Grease and on Broadway in Over Here!, singing the Sherman Brothers' song "Dream Drummin'".   He then moved to Los Angeles to further his career in show business.

Travolta's first California-filmed television role was as a fall victim in Emergency! (S2E2), in September 1972,  but his first significant movie role was as Billy Nolan, a bully who was goaded into playing a prank on Sissy Spacek's character in the horror film Carrie (1976).  Around the same time, he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother).  The show aired on ABC.

1970s stardom

Travolta had a hit single entitled "Let Her In", peaking at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1976.    In the next few years, he appeared in two of his most noted screen roles: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and as Danny Zuko in Grease (1978). The films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom.  Saturday Night Fever earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.  At age 24, Travolta became one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar.  His mother and his sister Ann appeared in minor roles in Saturday Night Fever and his sister Ellen appeared as a waitress in Grease. Travolta performed several of the songs on the Grease soundtrack album.  In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger. 

Downturn

After Urban Cowboy, Travolta starred in a series of financial and critical failures that sidelined his acting career. These included Perfect, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Two of a Kind, a romantic comedy reteaming him with Olivia Newton-John. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including American Gigolo  and An Officer and a Gentleman, both of which went to Richard Gere. 

Resurgence

In 1989, Travolta starred with Kirstie Alley in Look Who's Talking, which grossed $297,000,000, making it his most successful film since Grease. Travolta continued to the two sequels Look Who's Talking Too (1990) and Look Who's Talking Now (1993). But it was not until he played Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, that his career revived.   The movie shifted him back onto the A-list, and he was inundated with offers. Notable roles following Pulp Fiction include a movie-buff loan shark in Get Shorty (1995), an FBI agent and terrorist in Face/Off (1997), a desperate attorney in A Civil Action (1998), a Bill Clinton-esque presidential candidate in Primary Colors (1998), and a military investigator in The General's Daughter (1999).

2000–present

Travolta also starred in and co-produced Battlefield Earth (2000), based on a work of science fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, in which he played the leader of a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Earth. The film received almost universally negative reviews and did very poorly at the box office.  Travolta's performance in Battlefield Earth also earned him two Razzie Awards. In 2007, he starred in Wild Hogs and played Mrs. Edna Turnblad in the remake of Hairspray, his first musical since Grease.  In 2008 he lent his voice for the film Bolt, in which he played the title role.

In 2016, Travolta returned to TV in the first season of the anthology series American Crime Story, titled The People v. O.J. Simpson. The series was developed by screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and he portrayed Robert Shapiro. 

Personal life

Relationships

Travolta was in a relationship with actress Diana Hyland, whom he met while filming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; Hyland died of breast cancer in 1977. 

Travolta married actress Kelly Preston in 1991. The couple had a son, Jett (April 13, 1992 – January 2, 2009).  Their daughter, Ella Bleu, was born in 2000 and a third child, a son named Benjamin, was born in 2010 in Florida.  Travolta and Preston have regularly attended marriage counseling; Travolta has stated that therapy has helped the marriage. 

In May 1991, Time magazine published a cover story entitled "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power".  In the article, former Church of Scientology Executive Director William Franks alleged that Travolta was wary of leaving the faith because he feared the Church would publish detailed revelations of his private life, to include homosexual behavior.  These claims were reiterated by Franks and other Scientology defectors in Lawrence Wright's 2013 book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, and former Church official Marty Rathbun claimed that he worked with Travolta's attorneys several times to keep allegations about Travolta's homosexuality out of the press and resolve lawsuits against the star.  

In May 2012, an anonymous masseur filed a lawsuit against Travolta citing claims of sexual assault and battery. A lawyer for Travolta said that the allegations were "complete fiction and fabrication" and someone wanting their 15 minutes of fame. Travolta's counsel also stated that his client would be able to prove that he was not in California on the day in question and asserted that Travolta would "sue the attorney and Plaintiff for malicious prosecution" after getting the case thrown out.  A second masseur later joined the lawsuit making similar claims.   Both lawsuits were subsequently dropped by the complainants and dismissed without prejudice. 

A judge ruled to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against Travolta and his attorney Marty Singer by writer Robert Randolph. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Malcolm Mackey dismissed the case on September 27, 2012, because he found that a letter, written by Singer in response to allegations in a book by Randolph, had free speech protection. 

In September 2014, Travolta denied claims made in January 2014 by his former pilot, Douglas Gotterba, that they had shared a sexual relationship while working for Travolta's aircraft company, Alto, for six years before leaving voluntarily in 1987. Gotterba argued that he was not bound by any confidentiality agreement during his term in the position. 

Son's death

In 2009, Travolta's son, Jett, died at age 16 while on a Christmas vacation in the Bahamas.  A Bahamian death certificate was issued, attributing the cause of death to a seizure.  Jett, who had a troubled history of seizures, reportedly suffered from Kawasaki disease at the age of two.   Travolta confirmed speculation that his son had autism and suffered regular seizures and immediately made his public statements while giving testimony after a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against him in connection to his son's death.  After a mistrial, Travolta dropped the charges and has credited his immediate family and faith in helping him survive the premature death of his son and in moving forward with his film career.    In memory of his son, Travolta founded the Jett Travolta Foundation, a non-profit organization to help children with special needs.  It has contributed to organizations such as the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center  

Religion

Travolta has been a practitioner of Scientology since 1975 when he was given the book Dianetics while filming the movie The Devil's Rain in Durango, Mexico.  After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, joining other celebrities in helping with the relief efforts, Travolta flew his Boeing 707 full of supplies, doctors, and Scientologist Volunteer Ministers into the disaster area. 

Pilot

Travolta is an accomplished private pilot, with multiple certifications and extensive experience.  He owns five aircraft, including an ex-Qantas Boeing 707-138 airliner that bears the name Jett Clipper Ella in honor of his children.  Pan American World Airways was a large operator of the Boeing 707 and used Clipper in its names. The 707 aircraft bears the marks of Qantas, as Travolta acts as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he flies. 

His $4.9 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala, Florida, is situated on Greystone Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to his house, with two outbuildings for covered access to planes.  

On November 24, 1992, Travolta was piloting his Gulfstream N728T at night above a solid undercast, when he experienced a total electrical system failure, while flying under instrument flight rules into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. During the emergency landing, he almost had a mid-air collision with a USAir Boeing 727, an event attributed to a risky decision by an air traffic controller. 

Travolta was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation in 2007 and acts as the award show's official ambassador. 

On September 13, 2010, during the first episode of the final season of her talk show, Oprah Winfrey announced that she would be taking her entire studio audience on an 8-day expenses-paid trip to Australia, with Travolta serving as pilot for the trip. He had helped Winfrey plan the trip for more than a year. 

He is the author of the book Propeller One-Way Night Coach, the story of a young boy's first flight. 

Filmography

Discography

Albums

Singles Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track is the soundtrack album from the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. In the United States, the album was certified 15× Platinum for shipments of over 15 million copies.  The album stayed atop the album charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboards album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation.  The album has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being culturally significant. 

Background

Origins and recording

According to the DVD commentary for Saturday Night Fever, the producers intended to use the song "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs in the rehearsal scene between Tony and Annette in the dance studio, and choreographed their dance moves to the song. However, representatives for Scaggs' label, Columbia Records, refused to grant legal clearance for it, as they wanted to pursue another disco movie project, which never materialized.  Composer David Shire, who scored the film, had to in turn write a song to match the dance steps demonstrated in the scene and eliminate the need for future legal hassles.  However, this track does not appear on the movie's soundtrack.

The Bee Gees' involvement in the film did not begin until post-production. As John Travolta asserted, "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning ... I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs." 

Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film. 

Robin Gibb recalled: 

The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" at Château d'Hérouville studio in France. The first song they recorded was "If I Can't Have You", but their version was not used on the film.

Barry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos:

Maurice Gibb recalled, "We played him demo tracks of 'If I Can't Have You', 'Night Fever' and 'More Than a Woman'. He asked if we could write it more discoey" 

Releases

The original issue of the album included the original studio version of "Jive Talkin; later LP pressings included a version culled from Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live. All CD releases have included the original "Jive Talkin. "Jive Talkin was to have been used in a deleted scene taking place the day after Tony Manero's first Saturday night at the disco, but as the sequence was cut for the final film, the song was cut as well. In addition to the Bee Gees songs, additional incidental music was composed and adapted by David Shire. Three of Shire's cues – "Manhattan Skyline", "Night on Disco Mountain" (based on the classical piece "Night on Bald Mountain") and "Salsation" – are included on the soundtrack album as well. Five additional cues – "Tony and Stephanie", "Near the Verrazano Bridge" (both adapted from the Bee Gees' song "How Deep Is Your Love"), "Barracuda Hangout", "Death on the Bridge" and "All Night Train" – while heard in the film, remain unreleased on CD. In 1994, the soundtrack was re-released on CD through Polydor Records. In 2006, the album was re-released on Reprise Records as part of the Bee Gees' regaining control of their master tapes.

Legacy

Along with the success of the movie, the soundtrack, composed and performed primarily by the Bee Gees, was the best-selling soundtrack album of all time (it was later surpassed by Whitney Houston's soundtrack to The Bodyguard).  
Saturday Night Fever had a large cultural impact in the United States. The Bee Gees had originally written and recorded five of the songs used in the film – "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "How Deep Is Your Love", "More Than a Woman" (performed in the film in two different versions – one version by Tavares, and another by the Bee Gees) and "If I Can't Have You" (performed in the movie by Yvonne Elliman) as part of a regular album. They had no idea at the time they would be making a soundtrack and said that they basically lost an album in the process. Two previously released Bee Gees songs – "Jive Talkin and "You Should Be Dancing" – are also included on the soundtrack. Other previously released songs from the disco era round out the music in the movie.

The soundtrack also won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.  It is the only disco album to do so, and one of only two soundtrack albums so honored (the other being The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album). In 2012, the album was ranked No. 132 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The soundtrack hit the No. 1 spot on Billboard Music Chart's Pop Album and Soul Album charts. In 2003 the TV network VH1 named it the 57th greatest album of all time, and it was ranked 80th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. Pitchfork Media listed Saturday Night Fever as the 34th best album of the 1970s.

The album was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress on March 21, 2013 for long-term preservation. 

Track listing

Additional songs recorded for the film but not used

*"Emotion" by Samantha Sang
*"You Stepped Into My Life" by Bee Gees
*"If I Can't Have You" by Bee Gees
*"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" by Bee Gees
*"Warm Ride" by Bee Gees

Personnel

*Barry Gibb – lead, harmony and backing vocals, rhythm guitar (tracks 1-4, 12-13)
*Robin Gibb – harmony and backing vocals (tracks 1-4, 12-13)
*Maurice Gibb – bass, harmony and backing vocals (tracks 1-4, 12-13)
*Alan Kendall – electric guitar (tracks 1-4, 12-13)
*Blue Weaver – keyboards, synthesizer, piano (tracks 1-4, 12-13)
*Dennis Bryon – drums, percussion (tracks 1-4, 12-13)
*Joe Lala – percussion (tracks 1-4)
*Stephen Stills – percussion (track 13)
*Mike Baird – drums (track 10)
*Michael Boddicker – synthesizer (tracks 8, 10)
*Bob Bowles – guitar (tracks 5, 7)
*Dennis Budimir – guitar (track 10)
*Sonny Burke – piano (tracks 5, 7, 8); electric keyboards (track 15)
*Eddie Cano – acoustic piano (track 15)
*Mike Caruso – guitar (track 6)
*Paulinho da Costa – percussion (tracks 5, 7)
*Scott Edwards – bass (tracks 5, 10, 15)
*Steve Forman – percussion (tracks 8, 10, 15)
*James Gadson – drums (tracks 5, 7-8)
*Ralph Grierson – keyboards (track 10)
*Mitch Hoder – guitar (track 8)
*Abraham Laboriel – bass (track 8)
*Freddie Perren – synthesizer, keyboards, percussion (track 5)
*Emil Richards – percussion (track 10)
*Jerome Richardson – flute solo (track 15)
*Tony Terran – trumpet solo (track 15)
*Lee Ritenour – guitar (tracks 8, 10, 15)
*David Shire – adaptation (track 10)
*Mark Stevens – drums (track 15)
*Chino Valdez – congas (track 15)
*Bob Zimmitti – percussion (tracks 5, 7, 15)
*John Tobler – liner notes
*Bill Oakes – compilation, album supervision

Awards

Grammy Awards

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"center" |1978 ||"How Deep Is Your Love" ||Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Group  || 
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"center" rowspan=4 |1979 || Saturday Night Fever || Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group  ||
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|Saturday Night Fever ||   Album of the Year || 
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|"Stayin' Alive" ||Best Arrangement of Voices || 
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|Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson (producers) ||Producer of the Year || 
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"center" | 2004 || Saturday Night Fever || Hall of Fame Award || 
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American Music Awards

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"center" | 1979 || Saturday Night Fever ||Favorite Soul/R&B album || 
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Singles

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications/sales

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!scope="row"| Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong) 
| Platinum
| 15,000*
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