Johnny Knoxville
Highest Rated: 100% Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine (2017)
Lowest Rated: 0% Father of Invention (2011)
Birthday: Mar 11, 1971
Birthplace: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Johnny Knoxville became both a beloved goofball and a lightning rod for controversy as soon as his signature TV show, Jackass, premiered on MTV in 2000. The show, which featured Knoxville and his friends executing a variety of stupid pranks and dangerous stunts, made an instant star of its hip, easygoing, developmentally arrested host, who was quickly signed on for a variety of film projects. However, its subject matter of foolish bicycle jumps, gross eating feats, and pepper spray testing drew the ire of concerned parents whose children were hurting themselves trying to imitate their hero.Knoxville was born Philip John Clapp in Knoxville, TN, on March 11, 1971, son of a used car salesman. At age eight, the asthmatic suffered a simultaneous bout of flu, pneumonia, and bronchitis that nearly killed him. Knoxville would later joke that surviving this period convinced him he was invincible, making possible his future vocation as a performer who would injure himself for laughs. Knoxville had originally planned to go into acting through normal channels, attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, CA. However, it was while writing for a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother that Knoxville got his big break. Working on a story about self-defense equipment, Knoxville agreed to let magazine editor Jeff Tremaine film him testing the devices on himself. Hence, Jackass was born, with Tremaine, Knoxville, and director Spike Jonze serving as co-creators. MTV won a bidding war with Comedy Central, and the show became a hit -- one quickly festooned with warning labels not to try this at home.After a role in the little-seen indie Desert Blues (1995) (credited as Phillip John) and a blink-and-you'll-miss-him appearance in Coyote Ugly (2000), Knoxville was offered a string of film roles following the success of Jackass, as well as a stint on Saturday Night Live, which he turned down. However, his cinematic coming-out party was delayed when Big Trouble, which featured a nuclear weapon smuggled aboard a commercial airplane, was pushed back indefinitely due to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. In 2001, he was also cast in the smaller films The Tree, The Ranger, and Life Without Dick, in which he plays the title character. As if one Knoxville wasn't enought to keep fans in stitches, the death-defying funnyman turned up as a two-headed alien in Men in Black II before taking his small screen antics to the silver screen, unrestrained by the restrictions of television, in Jackass: The Movie (both 2002). Though to this point Knoxville's fairly minimal film roles (of course excluding Jackass: The Movie) called for any true acting ability, increasingly prominant roles in such efforts as Grand Theft Parsons (2003) and Walking Tall (2004) found the likeable Jackass successfully developing a notable film career. Following a supporting performance alongside wrestler-turned-actor in Walking Tall, Knoxville landed a role in self-described "Prince of Puke" director John Waters' Baltimore-based comedy A Dirty Shame. In 2005 Knoxville made two big attempts to court the mainstream, though neither struck box office gold. He starred as Luke Duke in the big-screen version of The Dukes of Hazzard, and was the lead in the comedy The Ringer, where he played a man who pretended to be disabled so he could compete in the Special Olympics. He reteamed with the Jackass crew for a second feature film playfully titled Jackass: Number Two.In the years to follow, Knoxville would do more and more conventional acting, appearing in movies like The Ringer and Nature Calls, as well as writing and producing projects like The Dudesons in America.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77% | We Summon the Darkness | Pastor John Henry Butler | — | 2020 |
| 19% | Polar | Michael Green | — | 2019 |
| 64% | Weightless | Actor | — | 2018 |
| 13% | Action Point | Screenwriter D.C. | — | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Rosy | Actor | — | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Rosy | Actor | — | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Bunker77 | Actor | — | 2017 |
| 100% | Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine | Actor | — | 2017 |
| 38% | Skiptrace | Connor Watts | — | 2016 |
| 77% | Elvis & Nixon | Sonny | $0.8M | 2016 |
| 97% | Being Evel | Producer Actor | — | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Sick Day | Actor | — | 2015 |
| 22% | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Leonardo (voice) Leonardo (voice only) | $164M | 2014 |
| 61% | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | Producer Screenwriter Irving Zisman | $85M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 (Unrated) | Irving Zisman Producer Screenwriter | — | 2013 |
| 30% | Small Apartments | Tommy Balls | — | 2013 |
| 5% | Movie 43 | Pete | $8.8M | 2013 |
| 61% | The Last Stand | Lewis Dinkum | $12.1M | 2013 |
| 5% | Nature Calls | Kirk | $382 | 2012 |
| 6% | Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D | Actor | $3.4M | 2012 |
| 0% | Father of Invention | Troy Coangelo | — | 2011 |
| 60% | Jackass 3.5 | Actor Producer | — | 2011 |
| 65% | Jackass 3 | Producer Actor | $117.3M | 2010 |
| 60% | The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia | Executive Producer | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Jackass: The Lost Tapes | Actor | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Jackass Presents - Matt Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel | Actor | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Thrillbillies Double Wide | Actor | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Jackass 2.5 | Actor Producer | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | The Man Who Souled the World | Actor | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Vice Guide to Travel | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 64% | Jackass: Number Two | Actor Producer | $72.8M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Ultimate Predator | Actor | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Don't Try This at Home - The Steve-O Video | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 40% | The Ringer | Steve Barker | $35.1M | 2005 |
| 7% | Daltry Calhoun | Daltry Calhoun | — | 2005 |
| 14% | The Dukes of Hazzard | Luke Duke | $80.3M | 2005 |
| 55% | Lords of Dogtown | Topper | $11.1M | 2005 |
| 53% | A Dirty Shame | Ray-Ray Perkins | $1.3M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Steve-O: The Early Years | Actor | — | 2004 |
| 46% | Grand Theft Parsons | Phil Kaufman | — | 2004 |
| 26% | Walking Tall | Ray Templeton | $45.9M | 2004 |
| 49% | Jackass - The Movie | Screenwriter Actor Producer | $64.3M | 2002 |
| 39% | Men in Black II | Scrad/Charlie | $190.5M | 2002 |
| 3% | Deuces Wild | Vinnie Fish | $6.1M | 2002 |
| 48% | Big Trouble | Eddie | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Life Without Dick | Dick | — | 2001 |
| 23% | Coyote Ugly | College Guy | — | 2000 |
TV
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| No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah 2015-2019 |
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2018 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015-2019 |
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2018 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Drunk History 2013 |
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2018 2015 2014 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003 |
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2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014 |
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2014 2013 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 1999-2015 |
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2014 2010 2006 2004 |
| No Score Yet |
Nikki & Sara Live 2013 |
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2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Conan 2010 |
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2013 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately 2007-2014 |
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2013 2010 2009 |
| No Score Yet |
SpongeBob SquarePants 1999 |
Voice |
2012 |
| No Score Yet |
The Burn With Jeff Ross 2012-2013 |
Appearing |
2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Ridiculousness 2011 |
Guest Appearing |
2012 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
30 for 30 2009 |
Co-producer Producer |
2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Last Call With Carson Daly 2007-2019 |
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2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Lopez Tonight 2009-2011 |
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2010 |
| No Score Yet |
WWE Monday Night Raw 1993-2019 |
Guest |
2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory 2009-2015 |
Appearing |
2009 |
| 36% |
The Goode Family 2009 |
Voice |
2009 |
| 71% |
Family Guy 1999 |
Voice |
2008 |
| 30% |
Unhitched 2008 |
Chuck |
2008 |
| No Score Yet |
King of the Hill 1997-2010 |
Voice |
2008 2006 |
| No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003 |
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2008 2005 2003 |
| No Score Yet |
The Henry Rollins Show 2006-2007 |
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2006 |
| No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live 1975 |
Host Performer |
2005 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014 |
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2002 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
Jackass 2000-2002 |
Host Executive Producer |
2002 2001 2000 |
QUOTES FROM Johnny Knoxville CHARACTERS
Raphael says: Give me the camera...
Michaelangelo says: Oh, he's doing his Batman voice.
Leonardo says: Back off, Raph!
Eddie Leadbetter says: We're arrivin', but, we're departin'.
Sheriff Ray Owens says: We meet in Main Street in five; and we need as many vehicles as possible for the blockade.
Lewis Dinkum says: I'll drive old Henrietta here. [pats his vintage military truck]
Sheriff Ray Owens says: Do you have stupid names for all your shit?
Lewis Dinkum says: Only the shit I love!
Irving Zisman says: [Looking at Billy] Your a pretty little girl you hear me!
Irving Zisman says: You're a pretty little girl you hear me!
Irving Zisman says: "Im 86 Years Old!!!"
Irving Zisman says: I'm 86 years old!
Kirk says: I'm gonna murder him dead!
Uncle Jesse says: You know what you get when you cross a donkey with an union?
Luke Duke says: What?
Boss Hogg says: A piece of ass that brings a tear to your eye!
Uncle Jesse says: You know why divorces are so expensive?
Luke Duke says: Why?
Uncle Jesse says: Because they're worth it!
Billy says: Sratch! You scratched my CD.
Billy says: You picked it up in clear daylight and you scratched it.
Steve Barker / Jeffy says: Jeffy just admiring CD.
Billy says: Hey don't give me tude!
College Guy says: Jim, Jack, Johnny Red, Johnny Black, and Jose; all my favorite men. You can have it any way you like it, as long as it's in a shot glass.
Lil says: Jim, Jack, Johnny Red, Johnny Black, and Jose; all my favorite men. You can have it any way you like it, as long as it's in a shot glass.