Tom Cruise, a famous megastar, is unstoppable.
The actor’s most recent movie, Top Gun: Maverick, helped him establish himself as one of the most eminent actors in the business while also reaching new heights at the global box office.
We examine Cruise’s films before he became the face of Top Gun and the Mission: Impossible series on the actor’s 60th birthday.
Infinite Love
Endless Love, a 1981 teen romantic drama movie, marked Cruise’s entrance into the Hollywood film industry.
The actor briefly appeared in the movie while portraying Billy.
When Cruise made his acting debut in Endless Love at the age of 19, nobody could have predicted the seismic changes he would undergo in the years to come.
After Endless Love, Cruise’s first significant part was in the film Taps, in which he played the ruthless David Shawn.
Another 1981 film under the direction of Harold Becker was this one.
In Taps
Cruise, Timothy Hutton, and Sean Penn played a group of military cadets named Shawn, Brian Moreland, and Alex Dwyer who had to risk everything to defend their academy from nearby condo developers.
‘Losin
‘ It’ Afterward, Cruise agreed to star in Curtis Hanson’s 1982 picture Losin’ It, which was directed by Hanson.
In comparison to his earlier films, the actor received a larger role, which ultimately propelled him to fame.
He was in the primary cast alongside stars Jackie Earle Haley and John Stockwell.
In “The Outsiders,”
Francis Ford Coppola, who subsequently went on to make The Godfather, was the director of the coming-of-age movie The Outsiders.
Cruise played Steve Randle in this movie.
He shared the screen with actors Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, and C Thomas Howell.
Rival gangs Greasers and Socs brawl in the 1983 crime thriller movie after one of their members is discovered dead.
Rogue Business
Risky Business, billed as a comedy-drama, was a significant movie for Cruise because he and Rebecca De Mornay shared the lead role.
In the movie, an adolescent from Chicago named Joel (Cruise) receives a free pass to do anything he pleases after his parents take a vacation.
Risky Business, which Paul Brickman directed, was published in 1983.
