John Malkovich

Highest Rated: 100% Which Way Home (2009)

Lowest Rated: 12% Jonah Hex (2010)

Birthday: Dec 9, 1953

Birthplace: Christopher, Illinois, USA

One of the leading actors of his generation and an important figure in world cinema, John Malkovich made the term "icy calm" his trademark. After winning acclaim for his characterization of the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, he became associated with a series of roles that, to put it plainly, essentially required him to be an evil bastard.The product of a large, highly intellectual family, Malkovich was born December 9, 1953, in Christopher, IL. Initially a portly youth, he underwent a self-imposed physical transformation, emerging as a star high school athlete. He went on to attend Eastern Illinois University, where he originally aspired to be a professional environmentalist. With his friend Gary Sinise, Malkovich helped co-found Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 1976. Seven years later, he won an Obie award when the Steppenwolf production of Sam Shepard's True West was brought to New York. He next appeared on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in the 1984 revival of Death of a Salesman; when it was transformed into a television movie a year later, Malkovich won an Emmy for his efforts. While he was working on Broadway, he made his film debut, playing a blind transient in Places in the Heart (1984), which earned him an Oscar nomination. He also had a starring role in The Killing Fields the same year.Although certainly capable of projecting warmth and pathos, Malkovich became best-known for his ice-water-in-the-veins roles. In addition to praise for his performance in Dangerous Liaisons, Malkovich won recognition -- and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations -- for his portrayal of the chameleon-like political assassin in Wolfgang Peterson's In the Line of Fire (1993). Other sinister Malkovich characterizations include Kurtz in the 1994 TV-movie version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the secretive Dr. Jekyll in Mary Reilly (1996), and Isabel Archer's dastardly husband in The Portrait of a Lady (1996). In 1999, Malkovich played what was undoubtedly his most unusual role -- himself -- in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich. Both the subject of the film and one of its stars, he had the surreal duty of letting the film's other characters into his mind, something many audience members had no doubt been dreaming of doing for years. The film provided Malkovich's career with a sort of popular resurgence, and the following year found him essaying the role of a wild eyed F.W. Murnau in the dark horror comedy Shadow of the Vampire. The second feature by experimental filmmaker E. ELias Mehrige, Shadow of the Vampire took a magic realism approach to documenting the production of Murnau's legendary 1922 classic Nosferatu. In the years that followed Malkovich continued his trend of alternating roles in high-profile Hollywood fare with more artistically gratifying foreign films, and after turning up in the German miniseries Les Miserables (2000) and Je rentre a la maison Malkovich turned up opposite Vin Diesel in the box office flash Knockaround Guys (2001). In 2002 Malkovich picked up where Matt Damon left off in the thriller Ripley's Game before traveling back in time for the historical adventure drama Napoleon. After cracking up international audiences in Johnny English (2003), fans got to see Malkovich take on the role of a Stanley Kubrick imposter in the fact based Colour Me Kubrick. After a string of decidedly small films, Malkovich surfaced in 2005 in the sci-fi comedy blockbuster The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Based on the cult novel by Douglas Adams, the picture cast Malkovich as an alien guru and gave him a chance to flex some of his sillier chops. Subsequent roles in Art School Confidential, the Coen Brother's Burn After Reading, and Jonah Hex offered a bit of levity between performances in more serious-minded dramas like Disgrace and Secretariat, and on the heels of a memorable comic performance as an unhinged former assassin in the big budget action comedy Red, Malkovich could be spotted amidst an explosion

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Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Velvet Buzzsaw	Piers	—	2019
64%	Bird Box	Douglas	—	2018
23%	Mile 22	Bishop	—	2018
No Score Yet	22 milhas	Actor	—	2018
17%	Supercon	Sid Newberry	—	2018
56%	Bullet Head	Actor	—	2017
29%	The Wilde Wedding	Laurence Darling	—	2017
25%	Unlocked	Bob Hunter	—	2017
83%	Deepwater Horizon	Vidrine	$73.1M	2016
52%	Demolition	Executive Producer Producer	$1.7M	2016
35%	Cut Bank	Sheriff Vogel	—	2015
72%	Penguins Of Madagascar	Dr. Octavius Brine	$70.8M	2014
38%	Cesar Chavez	Executive Producer Bogdanovich Senior	$5.6M	2014
No Score Yet	Casanova Variations	Actor	—	2014
43%	Red 2	Marvin Boggs	$53.3M	2013
81%	Warm Bodies	Grigio	$65.1M	2013
93%	Abel	Executive Producer	—	2013
No Score Yet	Educazione siberiana	Nonno Kuzja	—	2013
No Score Yet	Deadly Code	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Lines of Wellington	Wellington	—	2013
No Score Yet	Deadly Code	Actor	—	2013
85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Producer	$15M	2012
92%	Side by Side	John Malkovich	$29.1K	2012
23%	Drunkboat	Producer Mort Gleason	—	2012
No Score Yet	Noseland	Actor	—	2012
80%	Young Adult	Executive Producer	$16.3M	2011
35%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Bruce	$352.4M	2011
No Score Yet	Saturday Night	Actor	—	2010
71%	Red	Marvin Boggs	$89M	2010
63%	Secretariat	Lucien Laurin	$59.7M	2010
12%	Jonah Hex	Quentin Turnbull	$10.6M	2010
No Score Yet	Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer	Actor	—	2010
72%	The Great Buck Howard	Buck Howard	$0.7M	2009
100%	Which Way Home	Executive Producer	—	2009
No Score Yet	Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies	Narrator	—	2009
54%	Gardens of the Night	Michael	—	2008
62%	Changeling	Rev. Gustav Briegleb	$35.8M	2008
No Score Yet	Afterwards (Et après)	Doctor Kay	—	2008
83%	Disgrace	Professor David Lurie	—	2008
78%	Burn After Reading	Osbourne Cox	$60.4M	2008
18%	Mutant Chronicles	Constantine	—	2008
94%	Juno	Executive Producer Producer	$143.4M	2007
71%	Beowulf	Unferth	$82.3M	2007
50%	Color Me Kubrick	Alan Conway	$37.7K	2007
16%	Eragon	King Galbatorix	$75.1M	2006
36%	Art School Confidential	Producer Professor Sandiford	$3.2M	2006
33%	The Libertine	King Charles II Producer	$4.8M	2006
No Score Yet	FLY: Words Remembered	Actor	—	2006
25%	Kill the Poor	Producer	—	2006
No Score Yet	In Tranzit	Pavlov	—	2006
60%	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Humma Kavula	$51.1M	2005
32%	Klimt	Gustav Klimt	—	2005
76%	A Talking Picture (Um Filme Falado)	Comandante John Walesa	—	2004
81%	How to Draw a Bunny	Executive Producer	—	2004
No Score Yet	Savage Soul	Actor	—	2004
38%	Hotel	Omar Johnson	—	2003
33%	Johnny English	Pascal Sauvage	$28M	2003
92%	Ripley's Game	Tom Ripley	—	2003
91%	Adaptation	Himself (uncredited)	$22.2M	2002
21%	Knockaround Guys	Teddy Deserve	$11.6M	2002
64%	The Dancer Upstairs	Director Producer Abimael Guzman	$2.5M	2002
No Score Yet	Âmes fortes, Les, (Savage Souls)	M. Numance	—	2002
No Score Yet	Napoleon	Talleyrand	—	2002
92%	Ghost World	Producer	$4.7M	2001
96%	I'm Going Home	John Crawford	—	2001
No Score Yet	Les Miserables	Actor	—	2001
81%	Shadow of the Vampire	F.W. Murnau	$7.6M	2000
93%	RKO 281	Herman Mankiewicz	—	1999
30%	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	Charles VII	—	1999
93%	Being John Malkovich	Himself	—	1999
89%	Der Unhold (The Ogre)	Abel Tiffauges	—	1999
No Score Yet	Ladies Room	Roberto	—	1999
70%	Time Regained	Baron de Charlus	—	1999
65%	Rounders	KGB	—	1998
33%	The Man in the Iron Mask	Athos	—	1998
55%	Con Air	Cyrus Grissom	—	1997
No Score Yet	Great Performances	Actor	—	1997
45%	The Portrait of a Lady	Gilbert Osmond	—	1996
30%	Mulholland Falls	Timms	—	1996
26%	Mary Reilly	Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde	—	1996
38%	The Convent (O Convento)	Michael Padovic	—	1995
67%	Beyond the Clouds	The Director	—	1995
50%	Cannes Man	Actor	—	1995
40%	Heart of Darkness	Kurtz	—	1994
96%	In the Line of Fire	Mitch Leary	—	1993
64%	Alive	older Carlitos Páez	—	1993
38%	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story	Actor	—	1993
37%	Jennifer 8	St. Anne	—	1992
97%	Of Mice and Men	Lenny	—	1992
48%	Shadows and Fog	Clown	—	1992
77%	The Object of Beauty	Jake	—	1991
38%	Queens Logic	Eliot	—	1991
50%	The Sheltering Sky	Port Moresby	—	1990
80%	The Accidental Tourist	Producer	—	1988
60%	Miles from Home	Barry Maxwell	—	1988
93%	Dangerous Liaisons	Vicomte De Valmont	—	1988
74%	Empire of the Sun	Basie	—	1987
70%	The Glass Menagerie	Tom Wingfield	—	1987
46%	Making Mr. Right	Dr. Jeff Peters/Ulysses	—	1987
No Score Yet	Santabear's Highflying Adventure	Actor	—	1987
No Score Yet	American Playhouse	Lee	—	1986
No Score Yet	Rocket to the Moon	Ben Stark	—	1986
No Score Yet	Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'	Actor	—	1985
100%	Death of a Salesman	Biff Loman	—	1985
100%	Eleni	Nicholas Gage	—	1985
93%	The Killing Fields	Al Rockoff	—	1984
96%	Places in the Heart	Mr. Will	—	1984
No Score Yet	Word of Honor	Actor	—	1981
No Score Yet	American Dream	Actor	—	1981
70%	A Wedding	Wedding Guest	—	1978

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
93%	The ABC Murders 2018	Hercule Poirot	2019
No Score Yet	Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	CBS This Morning 2012	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Colbert Report 2005-2014	Guest	2014
59%	Crossbones 2014	Edward "Blackbeard" Teach	2014
No Score Yet	Conan 2010	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	The Graham Norton Show 2007	Guest	2013 2008
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Host Guest	2008 1993 1989
No Score Yet	The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 1999-2015	Guest	2006
No Score Yet	American Playhouse 1982-1996	Lee Dr. Ben Stark	1986 1984
86%	Billions 2016-2018	Grigor Andolov
No Score Yet	Great Performances 2000

QUOTES FROM John Malkovich CHARACTERS

Dr. Octavius Brine

Halle bury them!

Dr. Octavius Brine

Drew! Barry! More Power!

Dr. Octavius Brine

Nicolas, cage them!

Marvin Boggs

Kids, what happens in the Kremlin stays in the Kremlin.

Frank Moses	You gave her a gun?
Marvin Boggs	It is America, Frank!

Tom Ripley

"Turn over and I'll tell you."

Marvin Boggs	"If there's one thing I know, it's women and covert ops."
Frank Moses	"That's two things."
Han Cho Bai	"No, Grasshopper, it is not."

Jake	What do these people want, my spleen?

Marvin Boggs

Frank, I never thought I'd say this again. I'm gettin' the pig!

Marvin Boggs	Do you know what's wrong with this country?
Sarah Ross	They're all tryin' to kill us?
Marvin Boggs	Exactly!

Marvin Boggs	You haven't killed anybody in months !
Marvin Boggs	You haven't killed anybody in months!
Frank Moses	That's a positive thing !
Frank Moses	That's a positive thing!

Marvin Boggs

What happens in the Kremlin stays in the Kremlin!

Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom

I am not plausible as a tough guy because I have an effeminate voice.

Vince Larkin	When are you going with my plane, Cyrus?
Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	We're going to Disney Land.
Vince Larkin	You're lying, Cyrus.
Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	So are you, Vince.
Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	Ohh.. Nothing makes me sadder than the agent lost his bladder in the.. aaiirrplane!!
Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	Oh. Nothing makes me sadder than the agent lost his bladder in the airplane!

Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	Do you fly, Johnny?
Johnny 23	No.
Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	You keep that in mind when you look at her, because if your dick jumps out of your pants, you jump off this plane.

Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	I despise rapists. For me, you're somewhere between a Cockroach and that white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you're really thirsty. But, in your case, I'll make an exception.
Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	I despise rapists. For me, you're somewhere between a cockroach and that white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you're really thirsty. But, in your case, I'll make an exception.

Jim Graham	(About Japanese boy) He was my friend!
Jim Graham	He was my friend!
Basie	He's a jap!

Teddy KGB	Just like a young man coming in for a quickie...i feel so unsatisfied.
Teddy KGB	Just like a young man coming in for a quickie... I feel so unsatisfied.

Lennie

Tell me about the rabbits...

Marvin Boggs

Old man, my ass!

King Charles II

Anyone can oppose, it's fun to be against things, but there comes a time when you have to start being for things as well.

Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	Make a move and the bunny gets it
Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom	Make a move and the bunny gets it.

Frank Moses	It's not that bad, people get shot all the time.
Sarah Ross	No they don't, they get paper cuts.
Marvin Boggs	I mostly get shot.

Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom

To me you're somewhere between a cockroach and the white stuff that accumulates at the corners of your mouth when you're thirsty.

Bruce

Why is Shantel using what appears to be a red cup from the red floor when we are on the yellow floor? It is a visual and therefore a viseral betrayal...Stop it!

Marvin Boggs	Do you what's wrong with this country?
Sarah Ross	They're all trying to kill us?
Marvin Boggs	Exactly!

Marvin Boggs	(While running from modolva people) modolva sucks.
Marvin Boggs	[while running from modolva people] Modolva sucks.
Frank Moses	(Turns around) MODOLVA SUCKS!!!!!
Frank Moses	[turns around] MODOLVA SUCKS!

Jonathan Trevanny	Oh, hi. You're here, then. Excellent. We were hoping you'd come.
Tom Ripley	Why?
Jonathan Trevanny	Well, to... to add spice to the evening.
Tom Ripley	Meaning?
Jonathan Trevanny	You're a bit of a local personality
Jonathan Trevanny	People have heard about you.
Jonathan Trevanny	Meaning?
Jonathan Trevanny	Nothing. Just... nothing.

FW. Murnau

Go ahead! Eat the writer! That will leave you explaining how your character gets to Bremen!

FW. Murnau

If it's not in frame, it doesn't exist!

FW. Murnau	Why him, you monster? Why not the... script girl?
Max Schreck	Oh. The script girl. I'll eat her later.

King Galbatorix

I suffer without my stone. DO NOT... PROLONG... MY SUFFERING.

Vicomte De Valmont

But it is always the best swimmers who drown.

Vicomte De Valmont

You are a genuinely wicked woman.

Marvin Boggs	Old man my ass!!
Marvin Boggs	Old man my ass!

Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom

The last thing your daughter will see is my stinky breath!

Cyrus (The Virus) Grissom

Hey he's right If your dick jumps out your pants you're jumping out of this plane.

John Malkovich

It's my head, Schwartz! It's my head!

Tom Ripley	It never used to be so crowded in First Class.
Tom Ripley	It never used to be so crowded in first class.

Adelman Lusk	Sure hope you succeed. I would surely hang if you didn't. And that's something I'd like to avoid.
Quentin Turnbull	(shoots Lusk in the head) Consider it avoided
Quentin Turnbull	(shoots Lusk in the head) Consider it avoided.
Quentin Turnbull	[shoots Lusk in the head] Consider it avoided.

Frank Moses	Feel better now?
Marvin Boggs	Yes. Let's get pancakes.

King Galbatorix

When the Varden learn that the legend is real, they will be encouraged to challenge me. And I am not interested in being challenged.

King Galbatorix

I suffer without my stone. Do not prolong my suffering.

Athos

[to Phillipe] Once I, once all of us, believed in serving something greater than ourselves. Aramis had his faith, Porthos his lust for life, D'Artagnan his devotion and I had Raoul. But we all had a common dream. That one day we would finally be able to serve a king who was worthy of the throne. It is what we dreamt, what we bled for, and what we have waited a lifetime to see. I taught Raoul to believe in that dream, and now my son is dead. And now I want to know if my son's life was in vain, and the only person who can answer that is you.

Athos

D'Artagnan, I have never known a finer man than you nor cared more for a friend, but if this king harms my son merely to take a lover, then this king will become my enemy. And so will any man who stands between that enemy and me.

Osborne Cox

No. No, I'm sorry, I don't know the number to, uh, my savings account because believe it or not I don't spend my entire day sitting around trying to memorize the fucking numbers to my fucking bank accounts! Moron!

Lucien Laurin

He's slower than a fat man encased in concrete being drug backwards.