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Samuel L. Jackson

Highest Rated:: 100% Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Lowest Rated:: 1% Twisted (2004)

Birthday:: Dec 21, 1948
Birthplace:: Washington, DC
Bio:: After spending the 1980s playing a series of drug addict and character parts, Samuel L. Jackson emerged in the 1990s as one of the most prominent and well-respected actors in Hollywood. Work on a number of projects, both high-profile and low-key, has given Jackson ample opportunity to display an…

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Highest Rated Movies

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
100%
GoodFellas
97%
The Incredibles
97%
Do the Right Thing
96%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 1% - 100%

Number of Movies: 142

Box Office Since 2001: $3815.6M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2015		The Avengers 2	Nick Fury	--
2014		The Last Dragon	Sho' Nuff	--
2014		Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Nick Fury	--
2013	17%	Zambezia	Actor	--
2013		Oldboy	Actor	--
2013		RoboCop	Pat Novak	--
2013		Turbo	Actor	--
2012		XXX: The Return of Xander Cage	Agent Augustus Gibbons	--
2012	93%	Marvel's The Avengers	Nick Fury	$623.3M
2012	88%	Django Unchained	Stephen	$162.8M
2012	22%	The Samaritan	Foley	$1.7k
2012	13%	Meeting Evil	Richie	$181
2011		Arena	Actor	--
2011	71%	African Cats	Actor	$15.4M
2011		Big Cats	Narrator	--
2011		On The Shoulders Of Giants	Actor	--
2011	79%	Captain America: The First Avenger	Nick Fury	$176.6M
2011		John Legend - Duke Ellington	Actor	--
2011		Young Jeezy: A Hustlerz Ambition	Actor	--
2011		The Sunset Limited	Actor	--
2010		In The Land Of The Free	Actor	--
2010		Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey	Actor	--
2010	79%	Mother and Child	Paul	$1.1M
2010	78%	The Other Guys	Det. P.K. Highsmith	$119.2M
2010	73%	Iron Man 2	Nick Fury	$312.1M
2010		Unthinkable	"H"	--
2010		Blown	Julian Lezard	--
2009	49%	Astro Boy (AstroBoy)	Zog	$19.5M
2009		Afro Samurai: Resurrection	Afro Samurai	--
2009	33%	Gospel Hill	Peter Malcolm	--
2009		Starz Inside: The Face Is Familiar	Actor	--
2008		Meeting at Midnight (Black Magic)	Narrator	--
2008	14%	The Spirit	The Octopus	$19.8M
2008	93%	Iron Man	Actor	$318.3M
2008	16%	Jumper	Roland	$80.1M
2008	18%	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Mace Windu	$35.1M
2008	45%	Lakeview Terrace	Abel Turner	$39.3M
2008	44%	Soul Men	Louis Hinds	$12.0M
2007	17%	Cleaner	Tom Cutler	--
2007		Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story	Actor	--
2007	58%	Resurrecting the Champ	Battling Bob Satterfield	$2.9M
2007	66%	Black Snake Moan	Lazarus Woods	$9.3M
2007		Farce of the Penguins	Narrator	--
2007	78%	1408	Gerald Olin	$71.9M
2006	23%	Home of the Brave	Will Marsh	--
2006	68%	Snakes on a Plane	Neville Flynn	$33.9M
2006	23%	Freedomland	Lorenzo Council	$12.3M
2005	80%	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 3D	Mace Windu	$380.2M
2005	16%	xXx: State of the Union	Augustus Gibbons	$26.1M
2005		The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer	Actor	--
2005	11%	The Man	Derrick Vann	$8.3M
2005		Martin's Big Words ... and More Stories from the African-American Tradition	Actor	--
2005	65%	Coach Carter	Ken Carter	$67.2M
2004	100%	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Actor	--
2004	22%	In My Country	Langston Whitfield	--
2004	84%	Kill Bill, Volume 2	Rufus	$66.1M
2004		Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Jack Johnson	--
2004		America Beyond the Color Line	Actor	--
2004	97%	The Incredibles	Lucius Best / Frozone	$261.4M
2004		The Scrambled States of America	Actor	--
2004	1%	Twisted	Commissioner John Mills	$25.0M
2004		The N-Word	Actor	--
2003	85%	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Rufus	$70.0M
2003	48%	S.W.A.T.	Sgt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson	$116.6M
2003		Baadasssss Cinema - A Bold Look at 70's Blaxploitation Films	Actor	--
2003	21%	Basic	Sgt. Nathan West	$26.5M
2003	20%	No Good Deed	Jack Friar	--
2002	77%	Changing Lanes	Doyle Gipson	$66.7M
2002	67%	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 3D	Mace Windu	$310.3M
2002		Unchained Memories: Slave Narratives	Actor	--
2002	25%	Formula 51 (The 51st State)	Actor	$5.1M
2002	90%	Fresh	Sam	--
2002		Trial of the Moke	Actor	--
2002	48%	XXX	Agent Gibbons	$141.1M
2002		Unchained Memories - Readings from the Slave Narratives	Actor	--
2002		Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War	Narrator	--
2001	45%	The Caveman's Valentine	Romulus Ledbetter	--
2001		R2-D2: Beneath the Dome	Actor	--
2000	68%	Shaft	John Shaft	--
2000	68%	Unbreakable	Elijah Prince	$92.9M
2000	37%	Rules of Engagement	Col. Terry L. Childers	--
1999		Forever Hollywood	Actor	--
1999		Our Friend, Martin	Actor	--
1999	57%	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace	Mace Windu	$43.5M
1999	56%	Deep Blue Sea	Russell Franklin	--
1999		The Stars of Star Wars: Interviews from the Cast	Actor	--
1998	93%	Out of Sight	[uncredited]	--
1998	75%	The Negotiator	Danny Roman	--
1998	12%	Sphere	Harry Adams	--
1998	73%	The Red Violin (Le violon rouge)	Charles Morritz	--
1997	80%	Eve's Bayou	Louis Batiste	--
1997		Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasens	Actor	--
1997	30%	187	Trevor Garfield	--
1997	86%	Jackie Brown	Ordell Robbie	--
1996	67%	The Long Kiss Goodnight	Mitch Henessey	--
1996	67%	A Time to Kill	Carl Lee Hailey	--
1996	45%	The Great White Hype	Rev. Fred Sultan	--
1996	82%	Hard Eight (Sydney)	Jimmy	--
1996	81%	Trees Lounge	Wendell	--
1996		The Search for One-eye Jimmy	Col. Ron	--
1996		Search for One-Eye Jimmy	Actor	--
1995	68%	Kiss of Death	Calvin	--
1995	45%	Losing Isaiah	Kadar Lewis	--
1995	52%	Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance	Zeus Carver	--
1995	30%	Fluke	Rumbo	--
1994	69%	The New Age	Dale Deveaux	--
1994		Assault at West Point	Richard Greener	--
1994		Hail Caesar	Mailman	--
1994		Ghostwriter - Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?	Actor	--
1994	95%	Pulp Fiction	Jules Winnfield	--
1994		Against the Wall	Jamaal	--
1993	92%	Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience	Arnold	$43.8M
1993	13%	National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1	Wes Luger	--
1993	21%	Amos & Andrew	Andrew Sterling	--
1993	91%	True Romance	Big Don	--
1993	29%	The Meteor Man	Dre	--
1993	85%	Menace II Society	Tat Lawson	--
1992	74%	Patriot Games	Robby Jackson	--
1992	40%	Johnny Suede	B-Bop	--
1992	83%	Juice	Trip	--
1992	43%	White Sands	Greg Meeker	--
1992		Jumpin' at the Boneyard	Mr. Simpson	--
1992		Fathers & Sons	Marshall	--
1991	86%	Jungle Fever	Gator Purify	--
1991	10%	Strictly Business	Monroe	--
1991		Mob Justice	Actor	--
1990	73%	Mo' Better Blues	Madlock	--
1990	97%	GoodFellas	Stacks Edwards	--
1990		Return of Superfly	Nate Cabot	--
1990	50%	Betsy's Wedding	Taxi Dispatcher	--
1990	77%	A Shock to the System	Ulysses	--
1990		Def by Temptation	Minister Garth	--
1989	96%	Do the Right Thing	Mister Senor Love Daddy	--
1989	84%	Sea of Love	Black Guy	--
1989		Dead Man Out	Calvin Fredricks	--
1988	68%	Coming to America	Hold-Up Man	--
1988	58%	School Daze	Leeds	--
1987	80%	Eddie Murphy Raw	Actor	--
1987		Uncle Tom's Cabin	Actor	--
1981	90%	Ragtime	Gang Member	--
1976		The Displaced Person	Actor	--
		Black Magic	Actor	--

Samuel L. Jackson Trivia

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In the first two Star Wars movies, 'Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope' (1977) and 'Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back' (1980), there were only two lightsaber colors. The Jedi used blue lightsabers, while Darth Vader used a red lightsaber. In 'Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi' (1983), a green lightsaber was introduced. The green lightsaber was used in this movie, because a blue lightsaber did not contract enough against the blue sky in the fighting scenes on Tattoine. In the prequel trilogy, both the blue and the green lightsabers were used by the Jedi equally. The exception is the purple lightsaber used by Mace Windu. This was a special request from Samuel L. Jackson, in order for him to accept the part as Mace Windu.

- submitted by F0xy H (3 years ago)

Quotes from Samuel L. Jackson's Characters

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1. Tony Stark: I already told you, I don't wanna join your Super Secret Boy Band
2. Nick Fury: Nah I remember you go it alone. How's that working out by the way?
3. Tony Stark: It's you know it's, I'm sorry I don't wanna get off on the wrong foot here, do I look at your eye or the patch? I'm still hungover, I can't even tell if you're real or not.
From Iron Man 2. Submitted by Matthew H (5 days ago)

1. Jules Winnfield: You ever read the Bible, Brett?
2. Brett: Yes!
3. Jules Winnfield: There's a passage that I got memorized, seems appropiate for this situation: Ezekiel 25,17. "The path of the righteous man is beset of all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil me. Blessed is he who, in the name of the charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
From Pulp Fiction. Submitted by Jean R (17 days ago)