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TALENT
When you can play and iconic, nobel hero for six years, a psychopathic killer for 14 years, at least ten different animated supervillains, and have most people not realize it’s the same actor.
(Mark Hamill)
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Wha…I didn’t know he was anything other than Luke Skywalker.
Probably because I’m a Star Wars nerd and didn’t give any thought to assuming that he had other work.
remember the Batman cartoon from the early 90’s? You’re looking at the Joker himself
If you play the new Batman: Arkham Asylum, he reprises his role.
Seriously? That’s him? Good lord. I did not know that!
He was also Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
that was him?!?!?!?!?!?!?!OMFG!!!!!!! i looove that show!
My favorite Joker line was in the Batman/Superman team-up episode. He had just unleashed a bunch of Luther-bots to kill Batman, but Batman was taking them out. Joker says “Hey! This might be a fair fight after all…and who wants to see that?” and lets loose another ten of the bots.
What psychopathic killer?
The Joker from Batman: The Animated Series.
That’s not exactly much acting. Voice acting is more something where people go who can’t really act.
You know nothing, fool.
Haha, agreed. Mark Hamill is one of the most incredible voice actors ever.
On the contrary, voice acting requires “selling” the character with just your voice, matched to the drawings. Sure, you get to show up for curtain call in your pajamas, but when you just stand in front of a mike, and you’re told to be the character, it’s all up to skill.
Anyone who can say that with a straight face has never watched the pitiful attempts big-name Hollywood actors have made to break into voice acting / dubbing. (Case in point, Princess Mononoke. Watch the sub, then watch the dub.)
Take away their attractive faces as a selling point, and most American actors make utter fools of themselves wrt subtlety of inflection or intonation. Either they sound like wooden dolls, or they Sound! Like! William! Shatner!
you’re dumb. drink drano.
You sir, are clearly a gentleman, and a scholar.
Yeah, thanks for that, negating my and thousands of other people’s livelihood.
How about you give it a go, and come back to us when you find out how hard it is to act when you have nothing but the tonality and inflections in your voice. You have no idea how much people rely on visual clues from body language and facials when it comes to your “real” acting.
arimareiji has a point: take “Kung Fu Panda” for example. If you didn’t know all those famous actors were the voices, they were just normal voices. Apart from Jack Black, because he knows how to do character voices.
I still prefer subbed anime to dubbed anime.
Why? It seems that almost every young male role in dubbed anime goes to one certain actor*. And he doesn’t have that much range. Come on, there’s others out there.
*Definitely not Mark Hamill.
Lemme guess…Johnny Yong Bosch?
that or greg aryes.
Vic Mignogna?
Hely whats his face!
Actually, thoughts like that are the reason American voice acting sucks compared to another country with heavy interest in animation.
Can I post your quote on FailBlog?
Wow. What a moronic statement.
The caption sure oversells his position. To me, three movies doesn’t really count as six years of acting, and several occasional roles doesn’t really work out to be fourteen years of acting that role, again, because of many years of gaps between the different jobs. He does lot of one or two episode guest roles and video game voice acting.
You obviously know nothing, first of all, those three movies that he was in took six years to make, so that does count for six years of acting. Secondly, check him out on wikipedia or imdb, look at his expansive career.
Get over yourself.
But what about the “fourteen years” of being the Joker? Did you check out his expansive career? You must have a sad life if you get off by putting other people down.
Exactly; see if you can find the original Dylan Thomas recording of “Under Milkwood”; there are about 30 characters in that play, but with doubling it can be done with six to eight actors. My late father taught voice acting.
And hence that famous comment from the Radio and some Audio Books – “Other voices supplied by members of the cast”.
That was…uhm…clever.
Luke in the post Jedi years. After Leia hooked up with Han, Luke realised he would most probably die alone, so he slaughtered all the Ewoks then went on a rampage throughout the galaxy.
14 years of being the Joker on multiple Batman and Batman-related animated series, including IIRC some direct-to-video Batman movies.
True. But not lol.
Not even remotely funny. Not even trying. Not all that accurate a caption anyway. he had one role, in three movies dispersed over 6 years. He became an iconic figure not due to his acting ability, but because of the cultural force that was Star Wars. to compare that to his voice acting for animated series doesn’t really prove anything.
Now this, is an example of the use of humour:
http://roflrazzi.com/2009/06/11/celebrity-pictures-ford-hamill-career-continue/
just the fact that people dont realise its him is a voucher for his talent and versatility. I never would have guessed Fire Lord Ozai from Avatar the Last Airbender would have been Mark Hamil. He’s done LOTS of voice acting, big and small roles, because he has a natural talent for it. Anyone would have seen that just from watching Star Wars and seeing how dynamic his dialog is in certain parts of the movie. He talks like a cartoon character.
From the amount of comments of people who are amazed that it was him being Joker, fire Lord Ozai e.t.c, that certainly is a voucher for his talents (and his manic Joker laugh is classic), though I can imagine a rewrite to Empire Strikes Back:
Darth: No, I am your Father:
Luke: No, that’s impossible. NOOOOO!!!
Vader: Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Luke: Noo, before, I would have given my right hand to know who my father is . . . ooops, looks like I already have, he HE HAAA HAAA WHOO HOOO HAAA AHAHAHAA!!!!
And he does do a good NOOOOOOOO!!!! (in all three films too
)
Would have been better though if they let Dave Prowse use his own accent in the Films. You can just imagine that scene “Luke, Oi be yer Father.” or coming down the ramp of the shuttle with a bit of corn sticking out of his helmet, or flying his shuttle in the first film whilst shouting “OI Rebels gerroff me Death Star”
The reason no one knows its him is because they can’t see him.
And yet you know it’s Jack Black when you hear his voice. Right? That’s the point. Mark Hamill is a GOOD voice actor. Being a good voice actor pretty much means nobody ever knows it’s you.
I didn’t know he had a role in Balto II until the credits rolled. That is exactly the point.
It can actually go two ways. The very best Voice Actors (especially those who do normal acting) can have their voices recognised (and usually have to heavily disguise their voice.) David Jason’s voice, since he is a well respected actor is known everywhere, and if you hear the Tesco’s adverts his input can be readily recognised. However the other way is also true. Actors can use an entirely different voice and basically get away with anything. For a big example try playing (if you can as it is basically a DOS Game) Tie Fighter (NOT X Wing Vs Tie Fighter, as Tie Fighter is the game that came before) Your normal briefing officer in the game has a completely unrecognisable voice, but the actor is actually VERY Famous. Why?? Because the actor is Guy Siner (Who acted in Doctor Who, Star Trek and more famously as Lt Hubert Gruber (and his little Tank.) This is unknown until you read the credits.
My son thinks I’m a little crazy because I’m always watching the credits because I will vaguely recognize voices. Like on Avatar the Last airbender, he’s the voice of Firelord Ozai.
It took me forever to realise that Julia Sawalha was in Fable II. I am so ashamed….
Some people are poor at recognising voices. No idea why.
Because we only have the telephone for how long now, compared to the time lifeforms are able to communicate with each other while being seen?
Man, if my mom called me out of the blue, the only way I’d hazard a guess that it’s my mom is if she shouted “HI SWEETIE!!!” the way she always does. If she ever said “Hey, what’s up?” I would have no idea it’s her.
Yeah, it’s just one of those things I think.
Some people can recognise voices instantly, even if the person is putting on an accent.
My friends can’t tell it’s me calling when I call from work – apparently I modulate my voice when I’m in the office. But if I called them on a stringphone, they’d know it was me. Probably because I’d be the only person likely to call them on a stringphone, but also because you learn tonal inflections by listening to people a lot. It’s how mothers and babies cue to one another’s voices so quickly – they spend a lot of time together and they listen
Actually this isn’t a altogether uncommon occurrance. Most people have two or more voices that they commonly use. I have a normal voice and a telephone voice (which I have been told sounds a bit South African, which isn’t altogether surprising since I am partly South African.) (I actually have three if you count my Drunk Voice
)
errr.. stringphone? as in two tin cans connected by a lenght of string? OK.. my non native engrish speaking is showing.. Prease to exprain wot is stringphone? Or could it be a land line phone? connected to jack in the wall?
Right first time – 2 cans and a piece of string.
To be fair, when he voice acts, he comes up with really different and unique voices. If he were sticking with his normal, Luke Skywalker voice, we’d all recognize him pretty quickly. Right? I’m not the only person whose heart rate instantly doubles as soon as they hear Mark Hamill’s voice, right?
I think that’s kind of the point: That he has the talent to come up with those different and unique voices.
woo typo wooooooooooo
Now that you mention it, he kinda does look like Ric Flair in his younger days.
Talent?
I thought that was called obscurity.
It is.
You really don’t get the point of voice acting, do you? You’re not SUPPOSED to sound like yourself. You’re supposed to sound like the CHARACTER. Why is this so hard to understand?
Unless the character is supposed to sound like yourself.
Or if you’re Tim Curry.
*highfive*
And let us not forget his iconic role as a chain smoking detective in one of the best sci-fi/horror B-film of all times…….”The Guyver”
I was trying to forget The Guyver….
The manga and anime it was loosely based on was much better.
YES, i was hoping someone would mention Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back! What took you so long?
Of course, the car accident and subsequent reconstructive surgery might have had something to do with that…..
Remember “The Texas Wheelers”?
I was way too happy when I saw this photo. I’m a HUGE Mark Hamil fan. And he IS extremely talented!!!!!!
He’s also in Metalocalypse as a regular character. So is Malcolm McDowell.
He’s two regular characters in Metalocalypse.
Mark Hamill is Mr. Selatcia, the leader of the Cabal and Malcolm McDowell is the skinny bearded member of the cabal who wears the weird fringes on his suit and is also usually the voice of whichever “expert” on a subject the cabal brings in to discuss the week’s plot-point scheme…to quote Pickles: “That’s the most metal thing i’ve ever heard”
When I was little I was in LOVE with Luke Skywalker. I’m not sure why, but I was. If anyone had tried to tell me that Luke Skywalker was the Joker, I would have kicked them and then cried because Luke is a Jedi, not a meany-pants.
Pffft! I’m grown up now and I’m still in love with Luke… Hes a Jedi and hes wonderful. My husband has come to accept this fact.
he was also wolverine in the X2 wolverines revenge game. he’s also on metalocalypse as the senator guy and the creepy leader of those bad guys. Hes an amazing voice actor
Just look up Mark Hamill doing the joker laugh and you will be amazed
Holy **** – thanks for that tip.
Anyone who questions his talent should check out the YouTube montage of joker laughs. It’s long and the same clip is never duplicated – nor does it seem that the same laugh is dubbed into two different scenes.
And I’m not saying this to be rude or troll-ish, but if any cubicle monkeys out there think it’s easy to laugh convincingly on command, be it in an evil manner or like Santa Claus, you’re in the wrong business. You should get an agent.
Yeah you can be talented, having your work all over the place without people taking notice that it is you. Doesn’t mean you’re doing a bad job. In his case (voice acting), it even means he is doing a great job
Mark found it humerous when the new set of films came out and they did a remake of the older ones. He compared an action figure of himself from the ’70’s with one from the ’90’s, and concluded that he was on steroids in the ’90’s.
Finding that funny, I dug through my brother’s collection, and sure enough, the action figures done in the 70’s look like people. The new ones look like masses of python-sized steroidal muscles strangling the poor human inside them.
The men do. The women look like they’re carrying Mark V torpedoes that could explode at any second. (Or at least the ones in the comics did.)
And that’s when they’re not looking like a guy in drag.
Wasn’t he also in Black Magic Woman? I think he fell in love with someone (a woman, obviously – this was back in the 70/80s when the world was not as enlightened as it is now, unless you live in California, then it was pretty much the same) and tried to rescue her from being sacrificed by this black magic cult….
He was in “Black Magic Woman” but that’s not the plot. Black Magic Woman was softcore pr0n… errr… I mean… about an art dealer who had an affair with this hot, mysterious Latina chick (Appolonia) that came ’round the gallery. He stopped seeing her, and bad things happened to him: snakes found in his bed, tires slashed; i.e. black magic being used on him. Drastic things happen to get the the curse removed, there’s twists and turns, and some really steamy shower scenes!
YALTC = Yet Another Lame Tribute Caption
Booooooring!
Christ… remember when ‘Lol’ meant ‘Laugh Out Loud’ and not ‘Boring Tribute Caption’?
Not to ask the obvious question, but how would LOL mean Boring Tribute Caption? (It could stand for lacking obvious lols, if you are feeling recursive).
I said ‘meant’ not ‘was an acronym for’. But I think we’re both right.
Wanna see him actually play a psychopathic killer for real? watch midnight ride where he has a certain obsession with his victims’ eyeballs.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that remembers that!
Holy crap, I love that movie! I remember once a group of us went to NYC and instead of going out one night, we stayed in and watched that on TV. I think we had the most fun watching that!
I think it’s less talent and more the fact that you don’t see his face with all the voice acting.
Be ye sayin’ that his face is negative talent?
No, he’s saying that he’s never listened carefully to voice actors and doesn’t realize that most American VAs sound so similar from role to role that they’re easy to pick out – but the really talented ones can make you swear that the credits must be wrong, because that just doesn’t sound like them.
Wow, just wow. Who knew?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/
Oh, dear God. He was in Wizards, AKA The Most Traumatizingly-Bad Movie of All Time?
He was in a Scooby Doo movie too – Zombie Island – he did the voice of the man who took them back and forth on his boat. The look on my kids faces when I pointed that out was hilarious. He has a wonderful range of voices. Very talented voice actor and as someone who’s done some acting, I can honestly tell you that being a voice actor is much harder than some people think. Look him up on IMDB and see everything he’s done.
If you look at his IMDB, really, he’s making a fortune on voice acting, and he’s really good at it – which is why he’s in such high demand.
I remember the first voice acting thing I heard him do, was the head bad guy in Full Throttle, fun game
mark hamil rocks ….. and to whomever said that comment about william shatner … : P
He was bloody brilliant in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, I have never laughed that hard in my life.
Seems it would have been more appropriate to pick one of the 20 to 40 thousand actors who are more talented than Fluke Starbucker here.
Seems as though you don’t actually know what “talent” means. Chances are very good that you’ve heard him doing some voice acting and you didn’t know it was him. That means he has talent. If you can tell who it is doing the voice acting, that is a LACK of talent.
He’s just amazing.
And I guess the fact that there’s not much of his face on screen is mainly because of the accident he had and what it did to his face.
Pitty, he’s an amazing actor!
Not really talent, so much as a really bad publicist.
I thought it was Robert Redford for a second.
He also did the voice of Tom Waino in the audio book for World War Z by Max Brooks.
Damn, get over yourselves. If he hadn’t played Luke Skywalker, you’d probably think he was a voice acting GOD.
I find it amusing that there’s a debate about his merits as a performer, as if voice acting and film are the only venues for an actor. He has done a great deal of stagework, including Broadway runs in both “Amadeus” and “The Elephant Man.” Could be why he’s been “seen” so little.
Exactly! He was incredible on Broadway, and because he played Luke Skywalker, the people casting for the plays didn’t want him for that reason. He had to, in a way, be better than the other actors just to prove himself… and he did!
He even drank beer in his underwear with Robert Englund
Why did he put beer in his underwear?
Ahahahahhahaahahhha!!!
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If Malefor is Spyro’s father, that would make Darth Vader his grand-father.
Wait. Wut?
Didn’t he brag about bombing swamp rats or something? I hate him.
No, he whomped ‘em!
and lets not forget the Haunukah Zombie in Benders Big Score…he’s just everywhere
2nd best role of his. ever.
Eh??? He was in Bender’s Big Score???? I must watch that again!!
I think it’s kind of ironic that he plays the sadistic father of one of the heroes in Avatar: the Last Airbender.
He challenges his 13-year-old son to an Agni Kai (duel) for speaking out of turn, horribly burns and scars him for life, then banishes him for refusing to fight, promising that he shall return with his honor if he was to complete a task that seemed impossible at the time.
(poor Zuko DX)
If anyone watches Metalocalypse on Adult Swim, This is Senator Stampingston, the guy that introduces the dethklok experts.
I just IMDB’d him. 208 different projects; that’s impressive except for the fact that I’ve only seen 3 things on that list (the star wars movies). The rest of the stuff on there is apparently so unpopular that most people would have never seen them. Most people would agree that Harrison Ford came out the better end of the franchise. As far as most people know Mark Hamil didn’t come out of it at all.
overrated actor…