Up for auction "American Gigilo" Richard Gere Hand Signed 8x10 Color Photo.  This item is authenticated By Professional Autograph Authentication

Service (PAAS) and comes with their certificate of authenticity and hologram

affixed. 

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 Richard Tiffany Gere (IPA: /ɡɪər/ GEER;[2][3] born August 31, 1949) is an American actor and producer. He began in

films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). He came to prominence with his

role in the film American Gigolo (1980),

which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in many well-received films,

including An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), Primal Fear (1996), Runaway Bride (1999), I'm Not There (2007), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016).

For portraying Billy Flynn in

the Academy Award-winning musical Chicago (2002),

he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast. Gere was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he grew up in Syracuse, New York. His mother, Doris Ann (née Tiffany,

1924–2016), was a housewife. His father, Homer George Gere (born 1922), was an insurance agent for the Nationwide

Mutual Insurance Company and had originally intended to become

a minister. Gere is their eldest son and second child. His

paternal great-grandfather George Lane Gere (1848–1932) had changed the

spelling of the surname from "Geer". The direct paternal ancestor is George Geer

along with his brother Thomas from Heavitree, Devon, England who settled in Connecticut Colony in

1638. Both of his parents were Mayflower descendants; Gere's ancestors include Pilgrims Francis

Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, Francis Cooke, and William Brewster. In

1967, Gere graduated from North

Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music and played the trumpet. He attended the University

of Massachusetts Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship, majoring

in philosophy; after two years, he left and did not graduate. 

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