Michael Ensign

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

George Clooney leads Steven Soderbergh's sci-fi, 2002 an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's novel, about a troubled psychologist sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.