Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Leo Bloom in The Producers and Broadway theatre productions of The Producers. He starred in Glory, a film about the American Civil War, as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.

Broderick in September 2012.

Quotes

• My experience with first-time directors is that they’re all extremely prepared, because I guess they’re worried. They spend weeks preparing everything, and they have to get used to the fact that once you get there, everything goes wrong and you have to make everything up.
  • "Matthew Broderick on John Hughes, the Never-Finished Margaret, and His New Film Wonderful World" by Kyle Buchanan, in Movieline (7 January 2010)

External links

• Matthew Broderick on IMDb