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Mark Hamill
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American actor (born 1951)
OverviewAI-generated
Mark Hamill is an American person who began his work period in 1970. He has three children and uses the pseudonyms "William M. Patrick" and "Patrick Williams". His social media presence includes 5,296,516 followers.
Hamill is associated with the Star Wars franchise, as indicated by tags such as "Star Wars" and "JEdi". His top works include the Star Wars Trilogy [VHS], Star Wars Trilogy Giftpack [VHS], Legends of Robin, El Joker, and The Joker. He has been recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1951
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Star Wars Trilogy [VHS]
- Star Wars Trilogy Giftpack [VHS]
- Legends of Robin
- El Joker
- The Joker
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 619
- Total plays
- 52,740
Tags
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor and voice artist, best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the voice of The Joker in the DC Animated Universe. In 1977, Hamill starred as Luke Skywalker in George Lucas epic saga Star Wars. The film was an enormous unexpected success and became revolutionary in the film industry. Hamill also appeared in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Ham
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,769x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,004x
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
· 1995 · cited 40,166x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,657x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,383x
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Quotes
- “My puppeteer was Olly Taylor. The first couple of sessions, I said, "Who's the guy going the Scientist?" It was Olly Taylor, and I loved his vocal performance. [expressing his inner monologue at the time] "Why are you voicing this guy? He's great!"”
- “[in his Larry 3000 voice] One reviewer said, "Larry 3000 makes C-3PO look like a teamster"! [in his normal voice] Which I thought was so interesting, 'cause I never thought about... I mean, because he was a robot. So what sexuality is involved there?”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Hamill
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oakland
- Occupation
- film director
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- American English
- Notable work
- Batman: Arkham
- Image
- Mark Hamill at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- writing language
- English language
- notable role
- The Joker
- Commons category
- Mark Hamill
- date of birth
- 1951-09-25
- filmography
- Mark Hamill filmography
- Commons gallery
- Mark Hamill
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
- birth name
- Mark Richard Hamill
- name in native language
- Mark Hamill
- social media followers
- 5296516
- supported sports team
- Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
- pseudonym
- Patrick Williams
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Encyclopedic overview
Mark Richard Hamill (/ˈhæməl/; born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. He starred as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise, and has voiced the Joker in multiple pieces of DC Comics media, starting with Batman: The Animated Series in 1992.
Through the 1980s, Hamill distinguished himself from his role in Star Wars by pursuing a theatre career on Broadway, starring in productions of The Elephant Man, Amadeus and The Nerd. His other live-action film and television roles include Kenneth W. Dantley Jr. in Corvette Summer (1978), Private Griff in The Big Red One (1980), Crow in Sushi Girl (2012), Ted Mitchum in Brigsby Bear (2017), Arthur Pym in the Netflix miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), and Albie Krantz in The Life of Chuck (2024).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mark Hamill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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