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'''''Tom Bell''''' (born [[August 2]], [[1933]] in [[Liverpool]], England) is a British actor from stage, movies and television.
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name=Randy Orton
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|names=The Legend Killer
|height=6'5" (194 cm)
|weight=245lbs (111 kg)
|birthdate=[[April 1]], [[1980]]
|died=
|hometown=[[Knoxville, Tennessee]]<br>[[St. Louis, Missouri]]
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|trainer=[[Bob Orton, Jr.|Cowboy Bob Orton]]<BR>[[Ohio Valley Wrestling]]
|debut=[[2000]]
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He is dark-haired, lean and often angry-looking.
'''Randall Keith (Randy) Orton''' (born [[April 1]], [[1980]] in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]]), is an [[United States|American]] third-generation [[professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] currently working for [[World Wrestling Entertainment|World Wrestling Entertainment's]] ''[[SmackDown!]]'' brand.
As a child he was evacuated during the wartime in Liverpool and he had to live in three different families in the [[Morecambe]] area.
Orton comes from a family of professional wrestlers starting from his grandfather [[Bob Orton|Bob Orton, Sr.]]. After graduating from Hazelwood Central High School he was trained by his father, [[Bob Orton, Jr.|"Cowboy" Bob Orton]], and made his professional wrestling debut in [[2000]] with the MMWA-SICW in his hometown of [[Saint Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]]. Not long after, he signed a developmental deal with WWE and was sent to [[Ohio Valley Wrestling]]. He debuted on WWE programming in [[September 2002]].
In 1948 at age 15 Tom Bell began to play in his first school plays and though he has never dominated the play he demonstrated that he had good actor qualities. He made his first movie appearances in the 1960s in so-called [[Kitchen Sink Drama | kitchen sink dramas]] like "The Kitchen" or the [[The L-Shaped Room]].
==Career==
=== The Legend Killer ===
In 1978 he came to worldwide fame by portraying [[Adolf Eichmann]] in the [[Emmy | Emmy-winning]] tv-series Holocaust.
Randy Orton trained at Ohio Valley Wrestling in [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], until he was brought up to the main roster. He made little impact as a [[face (professional wrestling)|face]] on SmackDown! before being drafted to [[WWE RAW|RAW]], where he became a [[heel (professional wrestling)|heel]].
==Filmography==
Orton's heel [[turn (professional wrestling)|turn]] was drawn out over several months. While sidelined with a separated shoulder, Orton launched the "Randy News Network", a weekly vignette which featured Orton explaining the current status of his shoulder. He also provided an e-mail address by which fans could contact him to express their support (GetWellRandy@wwe.com). His smug, self-centred attitude gradually turned the fans against him.
===Movies (selected)===
Upon his return on [[January 20]], [[2003]], Orton helped [[Paul Levesque|Triple H]], [[Ric Flair]] and [[David Bautista|Batista]] beat down [[Scott Rechsteiner|Scott Steiner]], a rival of Triple H's. Triple H later called the foursome ''[[Evolution (professional wrestling)|Evolution]]''. At this point Orton was given the [[gimmick (professional wrestling)|gimmick]] of '''The Legend Killer''' which saw him defeating or humiliating legendary wrestlers and personalities. Orton gained infamy when he spat in the faces of wrestling legends [[Mick Foley]] and [[Harley Race]]. At [[WWE Unforgiven|Unforgiven 2003]] on [[September 21]] Orton defeated [[Shawn Michaels]] with the help of Ric Flair.
*1960: [[The Kitchen (1960 movie) | The Kitchen]] Paul
Orton went on to defeat [[Rob Szatkowski|Rob Van Dam]] for the [[WWE Intercontinental Championship]] at [[WWE Armageddon#2003|Armageddon 2003]] on [[December 14]]. He became one of the longest-reigning Intercontinental Champions of recent years, holding the title for seven months. <!----[[Wayne Farris|the Honky Tonk Man]] held the belt in the 1980s for about 15 months.--->
*1962: [[The L-Shaped Room]] Toby
*1965: [[He Who Rides a Tiger]] Peter Rayston
*1968: [[The Long Day's Dying]] Tom Cooper
*1971: [[Quest for Love]] Colin Trafford
*1975: [[Royal Flash]] De Gautet
*1987: [[Wish You Were Here]] Eric
*1990: [[The Krays (film) | The Krays]] Jack 'The Hat' McVitie
*1991: [[Prospero's Books]] Antonio
*1997: [[Preaching to the Perverted]] Henry Harding MP
===Television (selected)===
=== World Heavyweight Champion ===
*1972: [[Hedda Gabler]] Eilert Lovborg
[[Image:Randy Orton2.jpg|frame|right|Randy Orton with the [[World Heavyweight Championship]].]]
*1978: [[Holocaust]] (tv series) Adolf Eichmann
==References==
On [[August 15]], [[2004]] at the [[SummerSlam#2004|SummerSlam]] [[pay-per-view|PPV]], Orton defeated [[Chris Benoit]] by pinfall following an [[Professional wrestling throws#Three-quarter Facelock Bulldog|R.K.O.]] capturing his first [[World Heavyweight Championship]]. This made him the youngest World Heavyweight Champion (in the WWE) of all time at the age of twenty-four. After the match, Orton and Benoit shook hands. The match was held in [[Toronto|Toronto Ontario]], [[Canada]] at the [[Air Canada Centre]].
*[[1991]] Quinlans Illustrated Directory of Film Stars by David Quinlan, B.T. Batsford Limited - London, (eng) ISBN 0-7134-6324-4
Randy was kicked out of Evolution the night after after winning the World Heavyweight Championship, which the group's leader, Triple H, believed belonged to him. Orton became a face, and Triple H began [[feud (professional wrestling)|feuding]] with him over the World Heavyweight Championship.
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A little under a month later on [[September 12]], 2004, Randy lost the World Heavyweight Title to Triple H at ''[[WWE Unforgiven|Unforgiven]]''. His short reign as World Heavyweight Champion was largely regarded as a dismal failure, in part due to his unwanted and sudden rise to main event status but largely because his face turn was not well received by the majority of the WWE audience, especially as Chris Benoit had clearly been a popular World Heavyweight Champion. Backstage politics by Triple H were also rumoured to have played a part in his short run as champion.
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He was one of the [[WWE RAW#One-night-only managers|one-night-only General Managers]] of RAW, along with [[Maven Huffman|Maven]], [[Chris Jericho]] and Chris Benoit, following their victory at [[Survivor Series 2004]] in a match which entitled the winners to each be General Manager for one of the four weeks following the event. On the [[November 29]], 2004, episode of RAW, Orton [[booking (professional wrestling)|booked]] a [[Professional wrestling match types#Battle_Royal|Battle Royal]] for the World Heavyweight Championship. However, [[Vince McMahon]] overruled Orton, changing the Battle Royale to a number one contender match. Orton also gave [[Nick Dinsmore|Eugene]] and [[Darrin Matthews|William Regal]] a match for the [[WWE World Tag-Team Championships]] against [[La Résistance]], and scheduled a [[lingerie]] contest between several RAW [[diva (professional wrestling)|divas]].
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After the World Heavyweight Championship was vacated, Orton was chosen to face Triple H, Chris Benoit, [[Adam Copeland|Edge]], Batista and Chris Jericho in an [[Professional wrestling match types#Elimination Chamber Match|Elimination Chamber]] match at ''[[WWE New Year's Revolution]]'' to determine a new champion. Triple H managed to win the match, thus keeping their feud active for a longer period of time. He was later unsuccessful in his attempt to win back the WWE World Heavyweight Championship from Triple H at the [[2005 Royal Rumble]].
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=== Return of The Legend Killer ===
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After Batista began to be [[push (professional wrestling)|pushed]], Orton was marginalized. He began an onscreen relationship with [[Stacy Keibler]] and briefly feuded with [[Jason Reso|Christian]]. After [[Billy Graham (wrestler)|"Superstar" Billy Graham]] advised Orton to "go where no wrestler has gone before", Orton challenged veteran SmackDown! wrestler [[Mark Calaway|The Undertaker]] to a match at [[WrestleMania 21]], making the ambitious claim that he would defeat The Undertaker, thus ending his undefeated (WrestleMania) streak.
This feud saw Orton in an in-ring confrontation with [[Aurelian Smith, Jr.|Jake "The Snake" Roberts]], who warned him not to "bite off more than he could chew" by facing The Undertaker. Orton responded by hitting the R.K.O. on Roberts, drawing boos from the crowd. Just two weeks before WrestleMania, Orton turned his back on Stacy, giving her the R.K.O. and knocking her out cold in the middle of the ring, sending a message to The Undertaker and punishing Keibler for what he perceived as a lack of confidence in his ability to defeat The Undertaker. He went on to slap The Undertaker and assault him following a distraction by his father, Cowboy Bob Orton. Despite interference from his father, Orton was defeated by The Undertaker at WrestleMania after he attempted a [[Piledriver (professional wrestling)#Tombstone Piledriver|Tombstone Piledriver]], but was off-balance, enabling The Undertaker to reverse the move into his own Tombstone Piledriver for the pinfall victory.
Orton then fought World Heavyweight Champion Batista on the episode of RAW immediately after WrestleMania and was powerbombed. In [[angle (professional wrestling)|storyline]] terms, the match aggravated Orton's shoulder problems stemming from WrestleMania (he is expected to be sidelined for four to six months while recuperating his third genuine shoulder injury). The following week, the WWE showed footage of Orton undergoing shoulder surgery in a hospital, where he sent Batista a message. Stacy Keibler, watching along with some other RAW divas, stated "Orton got what he deserved."
On [[June 16]], 2005 The Undertaker, who had not been around since WrestleMania 21, returned to SmackDown! and faced [[John Layfield|John Bradshaw Layfield]] in a [[Professional wrestling match types#No Disqualification Match|no disqualification match]]. As The Undertaker went for his signature Tombstone Piledriver, Orton stormed the ring and gave him the R.K.O., enabling JBL to win the match. Orton then announced that he had been traded back to SmackDown!, making him the fourth man to be traded in the 2005 Draft Lottery.
== Finishing/Signature Moves ==
*[[Professional wrestling throws#Three-quarter Facelock Bulldog|'''R.K.O.''']]
*[[Neckbreaker#Overdrive|'''O-Zone''' (Overdrive)]]
*[[Professional wrestling aerial attacks#Crossbody|Top-rope flying crossbody]]
*[[DDT (professional wrestling)#Elevated DDT|Elevated DDT]]
*[[Professional wrestling attacks#European uppercut|European uppercut]]
*[[Backbreaker#Inverted headlock backbreaker|Rotated inverted-facelock into a back stretch]]
=="Legend Killings"==
Orton's "Legend Killer" gimmick has led to him defeating, assaulting, humiliating or otherwise denigrating the following "Legends":
*[[Sgt. Slaughter]]
*[[Mae Young]]
*[[Shawn Michaels]]
*[[Ric Flair]]
*[[Booker Huffman|Booker T]]
*[[Rob Szatkowski|Rob Van Dam]]
*[[Mick Foley|Cactus Jack]]
*[[The Fabulous Moolah]]
*[[Mark Cuban]] (Owner of the [[Dallas Mavericks]])
*[[Stone Cold Steve Austin]]
*[[Jerry Lawler|Jerry "The King" Lawler]]
*[[Chris Benoit]]
*[[Harley Race|"King" Harley Race]]
*[[Paul Levesque|Triple H]]
*[[Eric Bischoff]]
*[[Aurelian Smith, Jr.|Jake "The Snake" Roberts]]
*[[Mark Callaway|The Undertaker]]
== Quotes ==
*"''Get a look at greatness!''"
*"''Not only am I better looking, I am just plain better!''"
*"''All of your opponents in the future, they had already beaten themselves before they even stepped into the ring.''"
*"''R...K...O!''"
== Personal life ==
Before becoming a wrestler, Orton enlisted with the [[United States Marine Corps]] out of high school. Orton was dishonorably discharged about a year later after going [[AWOL]] on two occasions, the first time for 82 days, and disobeying an order from a commanding officer, under the [[Uniform Code of Military Justice]]. [[Private First Class]] Orton was convicted under a special [[court-martial]], and, because this was before the law changed in 2002, did not become a [[Felony|felon]] as a result.
While on [[WWE RAW|RAW]], Orton was accused of harassing fellow WWE employees [[Amy Weber]] and [[Rochelle Loewen]], leading to the departure of Weber from the company, while Loewen was transferred to [[SmackDown!]] (she was later released). Loewen claimed that he vandalized her possessions and directed racist remarks towards her, calling him "''an animal''".
In late 2004 and early 2005, it was rumored that Orton was in a relationship with [[Stacy Keibler]], when reports that they have been around each most of the time backstage along with pictures of the two together, and video that showed the two kissing each other surfaced on the internet, but neither Orton nor Keibler ever confirmed the relationship.
== Trivia ==
*Though Randy Orton is the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in the history of World Wrestling Entertainment, he is only the fourth youngest World Heavyweight Champion in the belt's history. [[Kerry Adkisson|Kerry Von Erich]] is the third person to win the belt at a younger age, which was back in [[May]] of [[1984]] when the belt was known as the [[NWA World Heavyweight Championship]]. When Von Erich won the belt he was 24 years and three months old. This makes Von Erich one month younger when he won the belt first making him the youngest World Heavyweight Champion of all-time, contradicting the reports that Orton is the youngest all-time to win such an accolade.[[Paul Wight]] was twenty three, becoming the youngest man to become World Heavyweight Champion in either the WWF or WCW.Historically, in terms of the lineage of the widely-recognized World Heavyweight Championship, Lou Thesz is the actual youngest World Heavyweight Champion. He won the prestigious title at the tender age of 21.
*Along with [[Glen Jacobs|Kane]], [[Kevin Nash]] and [[Chris Jericho]], Randy Orton holds the record for the number of wrestlers a single competitor eliminated in the [[Royal Rumble]] (ten).
*Orton started his training and made his professional debut at the above mentioned MMWA-SICW or South Broadway Athletic Club as it is known in [[Saint Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]]. This is a organization that was a off-shoot of the old [[Wrestling at the Chase]] headed by [[Sam Munchnick]] between [[1950]]-[[1983]].
*His entrance theme music (called Burn In My Light) is performed by Mercy Drive. His entrance theme made its debut a week after spitting in the face of Triple H when he refused to surrender the World Heavyweight Championship
== Championships and accomplishments ==
<br>
'''[[World Wrestling Entertainment]]'''
*1-time [[World Heavyweight Championship|World Heavyweight Champion]]
*1-time [[WWE Intercontinental Championship|WWE Intercontinental Champion]]
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'''[[Ohio Valley Wrestling]]'''
*2-time OVW Hardcore Champion
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'''[[Pro Wrestling Illustrated]]'''
*PWI Rookie of the Year Award (2001)
*PWI Most Improved Award (2004)
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<table border= 2><tr><td colspan = 3 align = center>'''[[World Heavyweight Championship]] Reigns'''
<tr>
<td width="30%" align="center">'''Preceded by:'''<br/>[[Chris Benoit]]
<td width="40%" align="center">First
<td width="30%" align="center">'''Succeeded by'''<br/>[[Triple H]]
</table>
<br>
<table border= 2><tr><td colspan = 3 align = center>'''[[WWE Intercontinental Championship]] Reigns'''
<tr>
<td width="30%" align="center">'''Preceded by:'''<br/>[[Rob Van Dam]]
<td width="40%" align="center">First
<td width="30%" align="center">'''Succeeded by'''<br/>[[Adam Copeland|Edge]]
</table>
</center>
== External links ==
*[http://www.wwe.com/superstars/smackdown/randyorton/ WWE profile]
*[http://www.randyortonzone.com/ Fan Operated Website]
*[http://www3.telus.net/start/wrestlingupdate/bios/randyorton.htm Wrestling Update's Randy Orton Biography]
*[http://www.randy-orton.com/ randy-orton.com fan operated website]
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