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Mark Hamill (born 25 September 1951 in Oakland, California) is an American actor and voice actor, best known for his portrayal of farmboy-turned-Jedi knight Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films. Hamill's film career since Star Wars has been mostly attached to lower-budget sci-fi movies that went straight to video, but he has been successful in Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and video games, and as a comic book creator.
Mayhap a role for which Hamill is better known, Luke Skywalker aside, is the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and the more alive series that followed it. His profits around a role has led to various nefarious and/or half-crazed roles in more alive series, including the Gargoyle in the alive series of The Incredible Hulk, the Hobgoblin in the Spider-Man animated series, Maximus in Fantastic Four, Cock-Knocker from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and the deranged shock jock Dr. Jack within Phantom 2040. He too voiced Larry 3000 in Time Squad. He too recorded voice tracks for Zim on Nickelodeon's Invader Zim, but was at last turned down for a role; the a portion was late given to Richard Steven Horvitz (he didn't scream longest & loudly). Both recent notable performances keep around involved Colonel Muska in the English language version of Castle in the Sky and the City manager of Pejite around NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind, both directed by Hayao Miyazaki and distributed by Disney. One of Hamill's todays projects is providing voice acting overdubs for Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, the sequel of the 1980s adapted anime series Robotech.
He starred & directed a 2004 direct-to-DVD Comic Book: The Movie. The comic book fan, Hamill has said his character was according to an exaggerated version of himself. He & his crew shot a mockumentary moving picture primarily when you took a 2002 San Diego Comic-Con, & enlisted potentially Stan Lee, Kevwithin Smith, & Hugh Hefner in microscopic roles. A picture won an award for Right Survive-Action DVD Premiere Movie at a 2005 DVD Exclusive Awards.
Around survive-action television, Hamill experienced recurring roles around General Hospital and The Texas Wheelers (both pre-Star Wars), &, foreshadowing his late illustrious role, appeared when The Trickster in the live-action television series of The Flash. He has likewise been mass produced cameo appearances around MADTv, A Simpsons, & Third Rock From either a Sun among others.
Whilst a Wing Commander series of computer games began utilizing full motion video cut-scenes, Hamill was cast as the series protagonist, Colonel Christopher Blair, a role he played inside Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994), Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1995), and Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997). (In the 1999 Wing Commander film, set sooner in a series, the character was played by Freddie Prinze, Jr..) Other notable computer-game roles (voice only) include Lieutenant Mosely in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, Assistant Director Wilson in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, several characters in the LucasArts game Full Throttle (including Ripburger), and Wolverine in ''X2: Wolverine's Revenge, the tie-in game to the movie X2: X-Men United.
In 11 January 1977, on a way to shoot one of the final scenes requisite for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'', Hamill was involved inside the car accident that driven damage to his face. Though a bit of fry scarring would survive, a hardship of his injury was greatly exaggerated in the as punishment years. Rumour prove my point to abound that he suffered terrible disfigurement & was forced to undergo vivid anaplasty sequentially to resume his acting career. Hamill, notwithstanding, insists he single suffered from either the broken nose. In the 2nd Star Wars film, Episode V, he is seen using the freshly scar along his upper lip which can or even might not exist as related. Around an A&E Biography special from 2002, the nature and result of the accident are explained by Hamill's family.
Hamill married Marilou York around 1978; they keep close at h& triad kids - Nathan Elias, Griffin Tobias and Chelsea Elizabeth. Mark Hamill is too a co-writer of The Black Pearl, a comedian book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics.
A select few of his more film credits include Corvette Summer, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, The Big Red One, The Guyver, and a 1995 remaking of Village of the Damned.
He starred by owning Linda Blair in the tv-movie Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic.
Although Hamill has been replaced within the role of the Joker, in Warner Bros. newly alive incarnation of a Dark Knight numerous fans assume Hamill to exist as the better Joker. Around the indicate of trend lines numerous fans online tried talking WB executives to sign Mark back in, by using or even forswearing Kevin Conroy. Likewise several critics agree that a cause of The Batman's abortive process when latterly is because of Mark's departure. Fans keep locution that there are no 1 gave when much to the role of the Joker as Mark.
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