Serkis is set to play Alfred Pennyworth in the 2022 crime-thriller movie "The Batman".
Serkis was born on 20 April 1964 in Ruislip, Middlesex, England. He studied at St Benedict's School, Ealing, Lancaster University, and in The County College. Serkis has been married to Lorraine Ashbourne since 2002. They have three children.
Serkis has won 15 top awards for his portrayal of Gollum and his other work in movies, television and stage acting.
Keystone Kops
The Keystone Kops were fictional policemen. They were clumsy and not very well organized. They were in silent comedy movies in the 1910s. The movies were produced by Mack Sennett between 1912 and 1917. Their first movie was "Hoffmeyer's Legacy" in 1912. They became popular from the 1913 short movie "The Bangville Police".
One of the Keystone Kops movies was "A Thief Catcher", made in 1914. That movie was lost for a long time. In 2010, it was found at an antique sale in Michigan. Charlie Chaplin has a small role in it as a Keystone Kop. Before the movie was found, people didn't know that Charlie Chaplin had played a Keystone Cop.
J. J. Abrams
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American movie and television director, movie and producer, screenwriter, writer, movie and television actor, and composer. Abrams is known for his movie directing; "Star Trek", "Super 8", "Cloverfield" and "". He is also known for his television directing; "Lost" and "Fringe". He has won an Emmy Award in 2005 and a Saturn Award in 2011.
Abrams was born on June 27, 1966 in New York City, New York and studied at Sarah Lawrence College. Abrams has been married to Katie McGrath since 1996.
Johnny Lewis
Jonathan Kendrick "Johnny" Lewis (October 29, 1983 – September 26, 2012), or Johnny K. Lewis, was an American movie and television actor. He is known for his role as Kip "Half-Sack" Epps in "Sons of Anarchy". Lewis was born on October 29, 1983 in Los Angeles, California.
On the morning of September 26, 2012, at the age of 28, Lewis was found dead in Los Angeles, California, after falling into the ground. Lewis is suspected of killing an 81 year old woman, his landlady, And his death was ruled an injured fall.
Guarujá
Guarujá is a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city has a population of about 311.000 people.
Geoffrey Bannister
Geoffrey Bannister (born 1946, Manchester, England) was an English-American educator and geographer. He is the fourth president of Hawai'i Pacific University. His goals for the university were to expand the graduate program research as well as building connections with other universities around the world.
Bannister was born in Manchester, England. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to New Zealand. He later moved to Toronto, Canada to get doctorate in geography. He became a U.S. citizen in 1989.
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, singer and musician. Thornton first became known for his acting on the CBS sitcom "Hearts Afire" and in a number of early 1990s movies. These movies included "On Deadly Ground" and "Tombstone". In the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the independent movie "Sling Blade", he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He had many large movie roles after "Sling Blade" 's success. These included 1998's "Armageddon" and "A Simple Plan." During the late 1990s, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released three albums. Thorton was the singer in a blues rock band.
Thornton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He is the son of Virginia Roberta (née Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond "Billy Ray" Thornton, a high school history teacher and basketball coach. His father died when Thornton was 18. He has two younger brothers, Jimmy Don and John David. During his childhood, Thornton lived in both Alpine, Arkansas, and Malvern, Arkansas. He was raised a Methodist. Thorton grew up in a large family in a shack. It did not have electricity nor plumbing. Thornton graduated from high school in 1973. He was good high school baseball player. He tried out for the Kansas City Royals, but was let go after an injury.
In the mid 1980s, Thornton moved to Los Angeles to become an actor. At first, Thornton had a hard time becoming an actor. He worked in telemarketing, offshore wind farming, and fast food management while trying to get acting jobs. He also played drums and sang with South African rock band Jack Hammer. While Thornton worked as a waiter for an event, he served movie director and screenwriter Billy Wilder. Wilder is known for movies that include "Double Indemnity" and "Sunset Boulevard". Thornton talked with Wilder, who told Thornton to think about a career as a screenwriter.
Billy Bob's first role was in 1980s "South of Reno". He played a small role as a man in a restaurant. Billy Bob was also in a 1987 episode of Andy Griffith's series "Matlock". Another one of Thornton's early roles was on the CBS sitcom "Hearts Afire" with John Ritter and Markie Post. His role as the villain in the 1992 movie "One False Move" got him noticed by the critics. He also had small roles in the early 1990s movies "Indecent Proposal", "On Deadly Ground", "Bound by Honor", "Grey Knight", and "Tombstone". Thornton did what Wilder told him to do. He wrote, direct and star in the independent movie "Sling Blade". The movie was released in 1996. The movie was an expansion of a short named "Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade". It told the story of Karl Childers, a mentally handicapped man imprisoned for murder. "Sling Blade" was well liked internationally. Thornton's screenplay earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award. His acting in the movie earned him an Oscar and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Actor.
In 1998, he played the James-Carville-like Richard Jemmons in "Primary Colors". Thornton wrote the movie version of the book "All the Pretty Horses" as a 2000 movie with the same name. The movie starred Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. After he was forced to cut more than an hour of the movie, he decided to never direct another movie. Also in 2000, an early script he had written was made into "The Gift". It starred Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, and Giovanni Ribisi. In 2000, he also appeared in Travis Tritt's music video for the song "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde".
The press usually describe Thorton as a "tattooed, hirsute man's man". He had many large movie roles after "Sling Blade" 's success. These include 1998's "Armageddon" with Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis, "A Simple Plan", "Monster's Ball", "Bandits" and "The Man Who Wasn't There". He played a mall Santa Claus in 2003's "Bad Santa". It was a black comedy that did very good at the box office. The movie made Thornton notable as a leading comic actor. Thornton has said that, after "Bad Santa"'s success, audiences "like to watch [him] play that kind of guy," and "they [casting directors] call [him] up when they need an asshole. It's kinda that simple... you know how narrow the imagination in this business can be." In 2004 he played Davy Crockett in "The Alamo".
He was in the comic movie "School for Scoundrels" in 2006. More recent movies include "The Astronaut Farmer" and the comedy, "Mr. Woodcock". In September 2008, Thornton starred in the action movie "Eagle Eye" with Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. Thornton has also said he may want to direct another movie. He may direct a period piece about cave explorer Floyd Collins. The movie would be based on the book "Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins" by Robert K. Murray and Roger Brucker. Thornton got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 7, 2004.