Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson , of its complete name Samuel Leroy Jackson , is an American actor, born the December 21st 1948 with Washington (the United States).

Biography

Samuel L. Jackson enters in Morehouse College of Atlanta to undertake studies of architecture but it is with a diploma of dramatic art that it comes out from it in 1972. It makes its beginnings with the cinema the same year in Together for days of Michael Schultz, but it prefers to be devoted to the theater while playing New York.

It made there the meeting of Spike Lee which will entrust later some small roles in its films to him (Do the right thing, Mo' Better Blues). This collaboration enables him to obtain with the Cannes festival in 1991 the Price of the best supporting role for Jungle Fever, in which it incarnates a junky. But it is its role of Jules, the philosophical killer of Pulp Fiction of Quentin Tarantino (1994), which it starifie. This last will again direct it in Jackie Brown in 1994 and a small role in Kill Bill in 2003 will also offer to him.

Crowned the American actor most prolific of the Eighties ten, Samuel L. Jackson is especially known for his roles of police officer as in KIS off death (1994) of Barbet Schroeder or in Négociateur (1998) of F. Gary Gray. What enables him to take down the role of the black cop most famous, Shaft, in 2000. Present in good number of action films with large budget, it has as a partner Bruce Willis in One day in hell (1995) of John McTiernan, with which it will collaborate again in Incassable (2000) of Mr. Night Shyamalan.

At fifty seven years, Samuel L. Jackson is the actor black-American " incontournable" (he played in nearly 70 films) so much so that George Lucas proposes to him to incarnate Mace Windu in the first three episodes of the saga Star wars. Always also avid of turning, in 2004 it makes six films of which XXx 2 and Star wars: episode III - Revenge of Sith. .

Catalog of films

1972 : Together for Days , of Michael Schultz
1977: The Displaced Persson , of Glenn Jordan (TV)
1978: The Trial off the Moke , of Stan Lathan (TV)
1981: Ragtime , of Milos Forman
1987: Uncle Tom' S Cabin , of Stan Lathan (TV)
1987: Magic Stick , of Peter Keglevic
1987: Eddie Murphy Raw , of Robert Townsend
1988: Class all laughter ( School Daze ), of Spike Lee
1988: a prince in New York ( Coming to America ), of John Landis
1989: Dead Man Out , of Richard Pearce (TV)
1989: C the Right Thing , of Spike Lee
1989: Melody for a murder ( Sea off Coils ), of Harold Becker
1990: Business obliges ( has Shock to the System ), of Jan Egleson
1990: Succube ( Def by Temptation ), of James Bond III
1990: the Marriage of Betsy ( Betsy' S Wedding ), of Alan Alda
1990: Mo' Better Blues , of Spike Lee
1990: Exorcist: the continuation ( The Exorcist III ), of William Peter Blatty
1990: Freed the ( Goodfellas ), of Martin Scorsese
1990: The Return off Superfly , of Sig Shore
1991: Jungle Fever , of Spike Lee
1991: Johnny Sweden , of Tom DiCillo
1991: Strictly Business , of Kevin Hooks
1991: Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace , of Peter Markle (TV)
1992: Jumpin' At the Boneyard , of Jeff Stanzler
1992: a son in danger ( Fathers & Sounds ), of Paul Mones
1992: Juice , of Ernest R. Dickerson
1992: Sands mortals ( White Sands ), of Roger Donaldson
1992: War games ( Patriot Ranges ), of Phillip Noyce
1993: Simple Justice , of Helaine Head (TV)
1993: fatal Alarm ( Loaded Weapon 1 ), of Gene Quintano
1993: Amos and Andrew ( Amos & Andrew ), of E. max Frye
1993: Threat II Society , of Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes
1993: Jurassic Park , of Steven Spielberg
1993: True Lovesong , of Tony Scott
1994: Hail Caesar , of Anthony Michael Hall
1994: Fresh , of Boaz Yakin
1994: Assault At West Point: The Short-Martial off Johnson Whittaker , of Harry Moses (TV)
1994: Against the Wall , of John Frankenheimer (TV)
1994: Pulp Fiction , of Quentin Tarantino
1994: The New Old , of Michael Tolkin
1994: In the search of Jimmy One-eyed the ( The Search for One-eye Jimmy ), of Sam Henry Kass
1995: Happily Ever After: Fairy Bruise for Every Child , of Anthony Bell and Edward Bell (series TV) (voice)
1995: Ways of the love ( Losing Isaiah ), of Stephen Gyllenhaal
1995: KIS off Death , of Barbet spaniel Schroeder
1995: One day in hell ( Die Hardware: With has Vengeance ), of John McTiernan
1995: Fluke , of Carlo Carlei (voice)
1996: Double setting ( Sydney ), of Paul Thomas Anderson
1996: The Great White Hype , of Reginald Hudlin
1996: Trees Lounge , of Steve Buscemi
1996: right to kill? ( has Time to Kill ), of Joel Schumacher
1996: Goodbye forever ( The Long KIS Goodnight ), of Renny Harlin
1997: 187 code murder ( One Eight Seven ), of Kevin Reynolds
1997: the Secrecy of the bayou ( Eve' S Bayou ), of Kasi Lemmons
1997: Jackie Brown , of Quentin Tarantino
1998: Sphere ( Sphere ), of Barry Levinson
1998: Out of reach ( Out off Sight ), of Steven Soderbergh
1998: Negotiator ( The Negotiator ), of F. Gary Gray
1998: the red Violin , of François Girard
1999: Our Friend, Martin , of Rob Smiley and Vincenzo Trippetti (video) (voice)
1999: Star Wars: episode I - The phantom Threat ( Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Threatens ), of George Lucas
1999: blue Fear ( Deep Blue Sea ), of Renny Harlin
2000: Any Given Wednesday , of Neil Mandt (short-measuring)
2000: the Hell of the duty ( Rules off Engagement ), of William Friedkin
2000: Shaft , of John Singleton
2000: Unbreakable ( Unbreakable ), of Mr. Night Shyamalan
2001: The Caveman' S Valentine , of Kasi Lemmons
2001: the 51e State ( The 51st State ), of Ronny Yu
2002: The Comeback , of the Trent Cooper (short-measuring)
2002: uncontrolled Skids ( Changing Lanes ), of Roger Michel
2002: Star Wars: episode II - The Attack of the clones ( Star Wars: Episode II - Attack off the Clones ), of George Lucas
2002: Without apparent reason ( The House one Turk Street ), of Bob Rafelson
2002: xXx , of Rob Cohen
2003: BASIC , of John McTiernan
2003: Coaching the Minors , of the Trent Cooper (short-measuring)
2003: S.W.A.T unit of elite ( S.W.A.T. ), of Clark Johnson
2004: Country off My Skull , of John Boorman
2004: fatal Instincts ( Twisted ), of Philip Kaufman
2004: Kill Bill (volume 2) ( Kill Bill: Vol. 2 ), of Quentin Tarantino
2004: Indestructibles ( The Incredibles ), of Brad Bird (voice)

2005 : Coach Casing , of Thomas Casing
2005: Mr. Incredible and Stakes , of Roger Gould (video) (voice)
2005: XXx 2 ( xXx: State off the Union ), of Lee Tamahori
2005: Star Wars: episode III - The Revenge of Sith ( Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge off the Sith ), of George Lucas
2005: the Boss ( The Man ), of Mayfield
2006: Freedomland , of Joe Roth
2006: Of the snakes on the aircraft, David R. Ellis

2007: Black Snake Moan, of Craig Brewer
2007: 1408, of Jan Mikael Håfström

Video plays

2004 : Large Theft Car San Andreas: the voice of the officer Frank Tenpenny

External bond

Samuel L. Jackson on Internet Movie Database

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