Anson Adams Mount IV is an American actor who has appeared in both movies and television shows and is best known for playing Cullen Bohannon in the AMC show Hell on Wheels. Mount has also played Jim Steele on the short-lived NBC series Conviction and appeared in the independ...
Sewanee: The University of the South, Michael Howard Studios, Columbia University
Nationality
United States of America
Parents
Nancy Smith, Anson Adams Mount II
Siblings
Kristin Mount, Anson Adams Mount III
Nicknames
Anson Adams Mount IV
Nominations
Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Chemistry
Movies
Crossroads, Mr. Right, City by the Sea, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Supremacy, Non-Stop, Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, Visions, Urban Legends: Final Cut, Straw Dogs, In Her Shoes, Hood of Horror, Boiler Room, Hick, The Battle of Shaker Heights, Burning Palms, Poolhall Junkies, The Tw...
TV Shows
Hell on Wheels, Conviction, The Mountain, Line of Fire
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.
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The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.
3
You don't need to like your protagonists.
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I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.
5
I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.
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I'm a goofball.
7
I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.
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I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
9
In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.
10
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
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I like being able to be a man.
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I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.
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I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
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I love getting paid to ride a horse.
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I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
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I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.
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I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
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I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!
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I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
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I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.
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I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
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For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.
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Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
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About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.
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Fact
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His great-great-great-grandfather was a Confederate Cavalry Colonel in the American Civil War.
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Studied acting at Michael Howard Studios in New York City.
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Anson has a brother named Anson Adams Mount III from his father's previous marriage.
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Graduated from Columbia University, New York, NY, with a MFA in Theater in 1998.
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Was reluctant to play the role of "Ben Kimble" in Crossroads (2002) because he thought the movie, and the role, was too cheesy and lame. However, while working on the movie, City by the Sea (2002), co-star Robert De Niro encouraged Mount to take the part, being that DeNiro is a big Britney Spears fan. During breaks from filming "Sea", Mount and DeNiro would go over the script from the movie; Mount reading his lines and DeNiro reading Spears' lines.
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Only child of pro golfer Nancy Smith (b. c. 1946) and Playboy sports editor Anson Adams Mount II (d. 1986, age 60).
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Was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.
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Graduated from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1995.
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Graduated from Dickson County High School, Tennessee, in 1991.
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