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 Mark Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - a role he reprised in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He also starred and co-starred in the films Corvette Summer (1978), The Big Red One (1980), and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). Hamill's extensive voice acting work includes a long-standing role as the Joker, commencing with Batman: The Animated Series (1992).Hamill was born in Oakland, California, to Virginia Suzanne (Johnson) and William Thomas Hamill, a captain in the United States Navy. He majored in drama at Los Angeles City College and made his acting debut on The Bill Cosby Show (1969). He then played a recurring role (Kent Murray) on the soap opera General Hospital (1963) and co-starred on the comedy series The Texas Wheelers (1974).Released on May 25, 1977, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) was an enormous unexpected success and made a huge impact on the film industry. Hamill also appeared in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) and later starred in the successful sequels Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). For both of the sequels, Hamill was honored with the Saturn Award for Best Actor given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. He reprised the role of Luke Skywalker for the radio dramatizations of both "Star Wars" (1981) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1983), and then in a starring role in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017). For the radio dramatization of "Return of the Jedi" (1996), the role was played by a different actor.He voiced the new Chucky in Child's Play (2019), taking over from Brad Dourif.
Bio:
Mark Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - a role he reprised in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He also starred and co-starred in the films Corvette Summer (1978), The Big Red One (1980), and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). Hamill's extensive voice acting work includes a long-standing role as the Joker, commencing with Batman: The Animated Series (1992).Hamill was born in Oakland, California, to Virginia Suzanne (Johnson) and William Thomas Hamill, a captain in the United States Navy. He majored in drama at Los Angeles City College and made his acting debut on The Bill Cosby Show (1969). He then played a recurring role (Kent Murray) on the soap opera General Hospital (1963) and co-starred on the comedy series The Texas Wheelers (1974).Released on May 25, 1977, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) was an enormous unexpected success and made a huge impact on the film industry. Hamill also appeared in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) and later starred in the successful sequels Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). For both of the sequels, Hamill was honored with the Saturn Award for Best Actor given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. He reprised the role of Luke Skywalker for the radio dramatizations of both "Star Wars" (1981) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1983), and then in a starring role in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017). For the radio dramatization of "Return of the Jedi" (1996), the role was played by a different actor.He voiced the new Chucky in Child's Play (2019), taking over from Brad Dourif.
Tivia:
He kept his Luke Skywalker boots, from the first "Star Wars" movie. When the movie was re-released to theaters in the late 1990s, his son asked if he could wear the boots to a showing. Hamill said no, telling him he didn't think the boy would "get out alive" if fans knew his boots were the originals.Has played the DC Comics supervillain, The Joker, longer and in more adaptations than any other actor.Has actually played two roles in the original Star Wars trilogy. That's Mark's voice on the PA system announcing that "The first transport is away" in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).Claims his inspiration for the vocal interpretation as The Joker on Batman: The Animated Series (1992) came from a mixture of Hannibal Lecter and Jerry Lewis.Trained with swordmaster Bob Anderson for his role as Luke Skywalker; Anderson also trained David Prowse (Darth Vader).Has appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), which also starred Carrie Fisher. It was the first time the two had starred together since Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). Neither of them knew that the other was involved in the project until shortly after filming had been completed.Does not like having a beard, but agreed to have one for the Star Wars sequel trilogy.He did most of his own stunts in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), except in the scene in Cloud City where he is sucked out of a window.In an ironic counterpoint to his problem of being typecast as a upright hero like Luke Skywalker in live-action roles, he has found that his successful career as an animation voice actor has typecast him as a player of flamboyant villains like The Joker on Batman: The Animated Series (1992).Has played the DC Comics supervillain, The Trickster, in both live-action (The Flash (1990), The Flash (2014)) and animated form (Justice League (2001)).For the New Jedi Order novelization, he reprised his role as Luke Skywalker playing his own voice in a commercial.Is one of three actors, along with Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams, to reprise their same roles from the original Star Wars trilogy in the NPR radio dramatizations of the trilogy.After the release of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), demands for autographs signed by him skyrocketed, especially via eBay. Through Twitter, Hamill got requests by fans to verify the authenticity of autographs they were about to buy. He kindly responded to any request.He was originally cast as David Bradford on Eight Is Enough (1977), and asked to be released from his contract before Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) came out because he sensed the movie would be successful, and Hamill wanted to focus on his movie career. ABC refused to release him from his contract, thinking that having a successful movie star connected with the show would help "Eight Is Enough" (1977). Hamill was then in a car crash in December 1976 and injured his face. This made him unavailable for shooting the television series, and ABC was forced to recast the role of David, which then went to Grant Goodeve.He did all his own stunts in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) -- except two places: where Luke Skywalker jumps off the plank into the Sarlaac, turns, and flips back onto the plank and on the Death Star when Darth Vader throws his lightsaber at the supports of the catwalk. According to "The Making of Return of the Jedi" by John Philip Peecher (c. 1983), his stunt double, Colin Skeaping, performed both of these stunts.Has played the same character (Luke Skywalker) on three different series: The Muppet Show (1976), Family Guy (1999) and Robot Chicken (2001).His daughter Chelsea is a huge fan of Criminal Minds (2005). When he was offered the role of John Curtis in The Replicator (2013), she was thrilled to learn that, since his role had been hinted at all through season 8, he would be playing the Replicator.In Tricksters (2015), he delivers (in a raspy creepy voice) the famous line Darth Vader spoke to Luke Skywalker, "I am your father".Though in the original Star Wars trilogy he shoots a pistol and swings a lightsaber right-handed, he eats and writes left-handed. He can be seen eating left-handed in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) when in Yoda's home, throwing the skull left-handed to defeat the Rancor in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), and when writing left-handed on a guest appearance on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996).Has played the same character (the Joker) on eight different series: Batman: The Animated Series (1992), Superman: The Animated Series (1996), The New Batman Adventures (1997), Static Shock (2000), Justice League (2001), Birds of Prey (2002), Robot Chicken (2001) and Justice League Action (2016).He, Joe Mantegna, and Elizabeth Taylor are the only actors to play both themselves and a fictional character on The Simpsons (1989). Coincidentally, Hamill and Mantegna both appear in Mayored to the Mob (1998).Has played the infamous Flash villain, The Trickster aka James Jesse (a word play for old west bandit Jesse James, a popular stunt for "Flash" creator Gardner Fox and other series writers), in both the short lived live-action CBS series The Flash (1990), in 1991 (two episodes), and in the animated Justice League (2001) series in 2005, in the episode "Flash and Substance".George Lucas had asked Hamill if he would be interested in playing an Obi-Wan type Jedi Master in Star Wars Episodes VII, VIII and IX where he would pass on the excalibur to the next young hope and that it would be out around 2011. Disney will now make these films for 2015, 2017 and 2019.Auditioned for the comedy-drama American Graffiti (1973).Is the fourth of seven children of William Thomas and Virginia Suzanne Hamill.He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on March 8, 2018.Got along quite well with his Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) castmate Ian McDiarmid, as they both had a taste for British comedy.Replaced Tim Curry, as the voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series (1992).He was almost tricked into appearing in the documentary The People vs. George Lucas (2010), but he quickly realized, even before the title was finalized, that it had an anti-Lucas vibe to it, and refused to take any part in it.Mark and his "Star Wars" co-star Harrison Ford were both considered for the role of the bumbling wizard Schmendrick in the animated adaptation of The Last Unicorn (1982).Is a huge fan of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013) and the British rock group The Kinks.As an honor to him, the Castleton Drive in Clairmont, San Diego, was renamed into Mark Hamill Drive. The Castleton Drive was an important part of his life, as he lived several years of his childhood there after moving with his family to San Diego. He attended the ceremony on July 30, 2017.He auditioned to play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus (1984), having played the role on Broadway. The role went to Tom Hulce.He accidentally hit Peter Stormare during a fight scene in Hamilton (1998).Father of Nathan Hamill (born 25 June 1979), Griffin Hamill (born 4 March 1983) and Chelsea Hamill (born 27 July 1988). Nathan was born in the United Kingdom while dad Mark was on location there shooting Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).Attended Annandale High School in Annandale, Virginia before his father was transfered.Attended Nile C. Kinnick High School (known as Yo-Hi) in Yokohama, Japan, where as a senior he played Henry Aldrich in the high school production of Clifford Goldsmith's "What a Life". School is now on the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, where it is known by its original name, Kinnick High. Original site of the high school where Hamill acted is now a MyCal department store.In addition to playing Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, he played the role in the NPR radio dramatizations of "Star Wars" (1981) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1983). However, he was not available to reprise the role for "Return of the Jedi" (1996).He was offered a zombie cameo in the horror comedy Zombieland (2009).Is a lifelong fan of Laurel and Hardy. In June 2016, he called into The Ross Owen Show on Black Sky Radio to talk for over an hour about his passion for Stan and Ollie.He was good friends with the puppeteer Richard Hunt. His family called him "Uncle Richard", due to the fact that Hunt made regular visits.Has played the DC Comics supervillain, The Trickster, in both live-action (The Flash (1990)) and animated form (Justice League (2001)).Attended the LACC Theater Academy. Other alumni include Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Cindy Williams, Donna Reed and Rene Aranda.Mark's maternal grandfather was of Swedish descent. Mark's other ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh.Tweeted he has never met Natalie Portman and revealed that the Annie Leibovitz photoshoot for Vanity Fair magazine which featured the stars of both Star Wars trilogies was actually shot individually.He campaigned for George McGovern during the 1972 presidential race.Worked for free on the comedy-drama Britannia Hospital (1982).A great deal of the voice-overs for Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars" were done by another actor. Hamill remarks he was never contacted with requests for the spin-off video games, books-on-tapes and such as they probably thought he would never want to do that character after it completely pigeonholed his career.Director Stephen Weeks originally wanted him for the role of Sir Gawain in Sword of the Valiant (1984) but the producers refused and insisted on Miles O'Keeffe.Attended Hale Junior High School in the Clairemont Community of San Diego, California. |
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Mark Hamill |
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Actor,Producer,Director (IMDB) |
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| Biography: |
Mark Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) |
| Trivia: |
He kept his Luke Skywalker boots, from the first "Star Wars" movie. When the movie was re-released to theaters in the late 1990s, his son asked if he could wear the boots to a showing. Hamill said no, telling him he didn't think the boy would "get out alive" if fans knew his boots were the originals.Has played the DC Comics supervillain, The Joker, longer and in more adaptations than any other actor.Has actually played two roles in the original Star Wars trilogy. That's Mark's voice on the PA system announcing that "The first transport is away" in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).Claims his inspiration for the vocal interpretation as The Joker on Batman: The Animated Series (1992) came from a mixture of Hannibal Lecter and Jerry Lewis.Trained with swordmaster Bob Anderson for his role as Luke Skywalker; Anderson also trained David Prowse (Darth Vader).Has appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), which also starred Carrie Fisher. It was the first time the two had starred together since Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). Neither of them knew that the other was involved in the project until shortly after filming had been completed.Does not like having a beard, but agreed to have one for the Star Wars sequel trilogy.He did most of his own stunts in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), except in the scene in Cloud City where he is sucked out of a window.In an ironic counterpoint to his problem of being typecast as a upright hero like Luke Skywalker in live-action roles, he has found that his successful career as an animation voice actor has typecast him as a player of flamboyant villains like The Joker on Batman: The Animated Series (1992).Has played the DC Comics supervillain, The Trickster, in both live-action (The Flash (1990), The Flash (2014)) and animated form (Justice League (2001)).For the New Jedi Order novelization, he reprised his role as Luke Skywalker playing his own voice in a commercial.Is one of three actors, along with Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams, to reprise their same roles from the original Star Wars trilogy in the NPR radio dramatizations of the trilogy.After the release of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), demands for autographs signed by him skyrocketed, especially via eBay. Through Twitter, Hamill got requests by fans to verify the authenticity of autographs they were about to buy. He kindly responded to any request.He was originally cast as David Bradford on Eight Is Enough (1977), and asked to be released from his contract before Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) came out because he sensed the movie would be successful, and Hamill wanted to focus on his movie career. ABC refused to release him from his contract, thinking that having a successful movie star connected with the show would help "Eight Is Enough" (1977). Hamill was then in a car crash in December 1976 and injured his face. This made him unavailable for shooting the television series, and ABC was forced to recast the role of David, which then went to Grant Goodeve.He did all his own stunts in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) -- except two places: where Luke Skywalker jumps off the plank into the Sarlaac, turns, and flips back onto the plank and on the Death Star when Darth Vader throws his lightsaber at the supports of the catwalk. According to "The Making of Return of the Jedi" by John Philip Peecher (c. 1983), his stunt double, Colin Skeaping, performed both of these stunts.Has played the same character (Luke Skywalker) on three different series: The Muppet Show (1976), Family Guy (1999) and Robot Chicken (2001).His daughter Chelsea is a huge fan of Criminal Minds (2005). When he was offered the role of John Curtis in The Replicator (2013), she was thrilled to learn that, since his role had been hinted at all through season 8, he would be playing the Replicator.In Tricksters (2015), he delivers (in a raspy creepy voice) the famous line Darth Vader spoke to Luke Skywalker, "I am your father".Though in the original Star Wars trilogy he shoots a pistol and swings a lightsaber right-handed, he eats and writes left-handed. He can be seen eating left-handed in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) when in Yoda's home, throwing the skull left-handed to defeat the Rancor in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), and when writing left-handed on a guest appearance on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996).Has played the same character (the Joker) on eight different series: Batman: The Animated Series (1992), Superman: The Animated Series (1996), The New Batman Adventures (1997), Static Shock (2000), Justice League (2001), Birds of Prey (2002), Robot Chicken (2001) and Justice League Action (2016).He, Joe Mantegna, and Elizabeth Taylor are the only actors to play both themselves and a fictional character on The Simpsons (1989). Coincidentally, Hamill and Mantegna both appear in Mayored to the Mob (1998).Has played the infamous Flash villain, The Trickster aka James Jesse (a word play for old west bandit Jesse James, a popular stunt for "Flash" creator Gardner Fox and other series writers), in both the short lived live-action CBS series The Flash (1990), in 1991 (two episodes), and in the animated Justice League (2001) series in 2005, in the episode "Flash and Substance".George Lucas had asked Hamill if he would be interested in playing an Obi-Wan type Jedi Master in Star Wars Episodes VII, VIII and IX where he would pass on the excalibur to the next young hope and that it would be out around 2011. Disney will now make these films for 2015, 2017 and 2019.Auditioned for the comedy-drama American Graffiti (1973).Is the fourth of seven children of William Thomas and Virginia Suzanne Hamill.He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on March 8, 2018.Got along quite well with his Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) castmate Ian McDiarmid, as they both had a taste for British comedy.Replaced Tim Curry, as the voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series (1992).He was almost tricked into appearing in the documentary The People vs. George Lucas (2010), but he quickly realized, even before the title was finalized, that it had an anti-Lucas vibe to it, and refused to take any part in it.Mark and his "Star Wars" co-star Harrison Ford were both considered for the role of the bumbling wizard Schmendrick in the animated adaptation of The Last Unicorn (1982).Is a huge fan of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013) and the British rock group The Kinks.As an honor to him, the Castleton Drive in Clairmont, San Diego, was renamed into Mark Hamill Drive. The Castleton Drive was an important part of his life, as he lived several years of his childhood there after moving with his family to San Diego. He attended the ceremony on July 30, 2017.He auditioned to play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus (1984), having played the role on Broadway. The role went to Tom Hulce.He accidentally hit Peter Stormare during a fight scene in Hamilton (1998).Father of Nathan Hamill (born 25 June 1979), Griffin Hamill (born 4 March 1983) and Chelsea Hamill (born 27 July 1988). Nathan was born in the United Kingdom while dad Mark was on location there shooting Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).Attended Annandale High School in Annandale, Virginia before his father was transfered.Attended Nile C. Kinnick High School (known as Yo-Hi) in Yokohama, Japan, where as a senior he played Henry Aldrich in the high school production of Clifford Goldsmith's "What a Life". School is now on the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, where it is known by its original name, Kinnick High. Original site of the high school where Hamill acted is now a MyCal department store.In addition to playing Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, he played the role in the NPR radio dramatizations of "Star Wars" (1981) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1983). However, he was not available to reprise the role for "Return of the Jedi" (1996).He was offered a zombie cameo in the horror comedy Zombieland (2009).Is a lifelong fan of Laurel and Hardy. In June 2016, he called into The Ross Owen Show on Black Sky Radio to talk for over an hour about his passion for Stan and Ollie.He was good friends with the puppeteer Richard Hunt. His family called him "Uncle Richard", due to the fact that Hunt made regular visits.Has played the DC Comics supervillain, The Trickster, in both live-action (The Flash (1990)) and animated form (Justice League (2001)).Attended the LACC Theater Academy. Other alumni include Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Cindy Williams, Donna Reed and Rene Aranda.Mark's maternal grandfather was of Swedish descent. Mark's other ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh.Tweeted he has never met Natalie Portman and revealed that the Annie Leibovitz photoshoot for Vanity Fair magazine which featured the stars of both Star Wars trilogies was actually shot individually.He campaigned for George McGovern during the 1972 presidential race.Worked for free on the comedy-drama Britannia Hospital (1982).A great deal of the voice-overs for Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars" were done by another actor. Hamill remarks he was never contacted with requests for the spin-off video games, books-on-tapes and such as they probably thought he would never want to do that character after it completely pigeonholed his career.Director Stephen Weeks originally wanted him for the role of Sir Gawain in Sword of the Valiant (1984) but the producers refused and insisted on Miles O'Keeffe.Attended Hale Junior High School in the Clairemont Community of San Diego, California. |
| Trademarks: |
The voice of the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series and the Arkham video games.
Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films
Ability to change his voice, and be unrecognizable in a variety of animated roles
Geeky/Nerdy personality to his fans. |
| Quotes: |
I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George (Lucas) would do it.
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Acting in "Star Wars", I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
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"I had the accident way before Star Wars came out, but what really happened has been terribly distorted. I broke my nose, that's it! But I've read accounts about how my face has been reconstructed with plastic surgery and how I was pulling myself along the highway with one arm looking for help. I even heard that I drove off a cliff! That's the best one of all." - Mark Hamill on his auto accident.
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The idea of The Force is basically "Religion's Greatest Hits".
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You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that. |
| Salaries: |
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) - $3,000,000
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - $650,000 +.025% of backend |
| Job title: |
Actor,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
(1999) TV commercial for Marsh Supermarkets, "The Force is Still With Me". .
Created "Black Pearl" from Dark Horse Comics
(1993) He provided the voice for Detective Mosley in the CD-ROM game Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993) |
| Spouse: |
Marilou York (December 17, 1978 - present) (3 children) |
| Children: |
Nathan HamillGriffin HamillChelsea Hamill |
| Parents: |
Virginia Suzanne Hamill (Johnson)
William Thomas Hamill |
| Relatives: |
Kim Hamill (Sibling)
Jan Hamill (Sibling)
Patrick Hamill (Sibling)
Will Hamill (Sibling)
Jeanie Hamill (Sibling)
Terry Hamill (Sibling) |
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