The special celebrity guest for the 13th Annual Port Townsend Film Festival was the actor Bruce Dern.


The special celebrity guest for the 13th Annual Port Townsend Film Festival was the actor Bruce Dern who told stories about his many years in film. Dern has appeared in more than 80 feature films and made for television films. Dern was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jean (née MacLeish) and John Dern. His paternal grandfather was George Henry Dern, a former Utah governor and Secretary of War, and his great-uncle was poet Archibald MacLeish. His godfather was well-known politician Adlai Stevenson and his godmother was Eleanor Roosevelt. Dern attended The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) and the University of Pennsylvania. Dern is the father of actress Laura Dern (1967), whom he had with his ex-wife Diane Ladd; married 1960–1969. He married his current wife, Andrea Beckett, in 1969.


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Location: Port Townsend Film Festival, Port Townsend, Washington, USA
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