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