Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968 in Daly City, California) is an American actor who has starred in more than forty films, including Charlie's Angels, Box of Moon Light, Galaxy Quest, The Green Mile, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... Daly City is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States with a 2000 population of 103,621. ... Image File history File links Thats one hoopy frood. ... Image File history File links Thats one hoopy frood. ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ... is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... Daly City is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States with a 2000 population of 103,621. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Box of Moon Light is a 1996 film about a man who, on the way home from a business trip, takes a side trip for nostalgias sake and meets an eccentric character who gives him perspective. ... Galaxy Quest is a 1999 film written by Robert Gordon and David Howard and directed by Dean Parisot, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, and Tony Shalhoub. ... The Green Mile is an Academy Award-nominated 1999 drama film, directed by Frank Darabont and adapted by him from the Stephen King novel The Green Mile. ... Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a 2002 drama film directed by George Clooney. ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ...

Biography

Early life

Rockwell, born to two actors who divorced when he was five years old,^[1] was raised by his father, Pete, in San Francisco while his mother, Penny, stayed behind in New York (he spent his summer vacations with her.) Rockwell had what The New York Times described in 1998 as a "footloose upbringing," and, at age 10, made his brief stage debut playing Humphrey Bogart in an East Village improv comedy sketch starring his mother.^[2] The ensuing applause provided a memorable rush that helped fuel his desire to become an actor when he got older. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... NY redirects here. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor. ... Looking south from 6th Street down Second Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares through the East Village. ...

He attended School of the Arts High School (San Francisco) and dropped out before graduation. He later received his high school diploma after his parents enrolled him in the somewhat controversial Outward Bound-style alternative high school called Urban Pioneers because, as Rockwell explained, "I just wanted to get stoned, flirt with girls, go to parties."^[3] The school, the actor said, "had a reputation as a place stoners went because it was easy to graduate," but the program ended up helping him regain an interest in performing. After appearing in an independent film during his senior year, he graduated and moved to New York to pursue an acting career.^[4] School of the Arts High School (SOTA) is a public magnet high school in San Francisco, California, in the United States. ...

Early films

After his first film role in 1989's Clownhouse (produced by Francis Ford Coppola's production company) which he filmed when based in San Francisco, he moved to New York at age 18 and trained at the William Esper Studios. His career slowly gathered momentum in the early 90s when he alternated between small-screen guest spots in TV shows like The Equalizer, NYPD Blue and Law & Order and small roles in films such as Last Exit to Brooklyn and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He also appeared as the title character in the comedy cult classic^{[citation needed]} "The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy". During this time Rockwell worked in restaurants as a busboy and delivered burritos by bicycle.^[5] At one point, Rockwell even worked as a private detective's assistant. "I tailed a chick who was having an affair and took pictures of her at this motel," he told Rolling Stone in 2002. "It was pretty sleazy." A well-paying Miller beer commercial in 1994 finally freed the actor from restaurant drudgery and allowed him to pursue acting full-time. Clownhouse is a 1988 horror film directed by Victor Salva. ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... NY redirects here. ... William Esper Studio is a school for the performing arts located in New York City, New York, USA founded in 1965. ... For the professional wrestler known as The Equalizer, see Bill Dannenhauser. ... NYPD Blue was an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ... Law & Order is a long-running American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... Cover of the 1988 Grove Press reissue of Last Exit to Brooklyn Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. ... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the 1990 live-action film based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Miller Brewing is a large American beermaker based in Milwaukee. ...

His career continued on an upward momentum and the turning point in Rockwell's career was Tom DiCillo's 1996 film Box of Moon Light, playing an eccentric man-child who dresses like Davy Crockett and lives in an isolated mobile home. The ensuing acclaim put him front and center with casting agents and new-found fans alike, with Rockwell himself acknowledging that "That film was definitely a turning point....I was sort of put on some independent film map after 10 years in New York."^[4] Tom DiCillo is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1954. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1996. ... Box of Moon Light is a 1996 film about a man who, on the way home from a business trip, takes a side trip for nostalgias sake and meets an eccentric character who gives him perspective. ... Colonel David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title King of the Wild Frontier. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the...

He also won strong reviews for the 1997 film Lawn Dogs, where he played a working-class lawn mower who befriends a wealthy 10-year-old girl (played by Mischa Barton) in an upper-class gated community in Kentucky; Rockwell's impressive performance won him Best Actor honors at both the Montreal World Film Festival and the Catalonian International Film Festival. In 1999, Rockwell played the psychotic killer and villain, William " Wild Bill" Wharton, opposite Tom Hanks in the Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile. At the time of the film's shooting, Rockwell explained why he was attracted to playing such unlikable characters. He said, "I like that dark stuff. I think heroes should be flawed. There's a bit of self-loathing in there, and a bit of anger....But after this, I've really got to play some lawyers, or a British aristocrat, or they'll put a label on me."^[1] The year 1997 in film involved some significant events. ... Lawn Dogs (1997) is a controversial film dealing with class relations, or possibly an even more controversial film dealing with pedophilia. ... Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born January 24, 1986) is an English-born American actress and fashion model, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper on the former Fox television teen drama series // Mischa was born in Hammersmith, London, England, to an English father, Paul Marsden Barton, and an Irish... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... The Montreal World Film Festival (Festival des Films du Monde - Montréal) is Montreals oldest current film festival. ... Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. ... The Green Mile has several different meanings, including: The Green Mile, a 1996 book by Stephen King. ...

After strong appearances as a bumbling actor in 1999's sci-fi satire Galaxy Quest and as gregarious villain Eric Knox in Charlie's Angels (2000), Rockwell won the biggest leading role of his career to date: the troubled and controversial The Gong Show host Chuck Barris in actor George Clooney's 2002 directorial debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Starring alongside established Hollywood stars like Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts, Rockwell earned the lion's share of critics' praise. Galaxy Quest is a 1999 film written by Robert Gordon and David Howard and directed by Dean Parisot, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, and Tony Shalhoub. ... This article is about the television series. ... The Gong Show was a television variety show spoof broadcast on NBCs daytime schedule from June 14, 1976 through July 21, 1978 and in first-run syndication in the U.S. from 1976 to 1980. ... Chuck Barris (born Charles Hirsch Barris on June 3, 1929) produced American game shows during the 1960s and 1970s. ... George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award- and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994–99), and his rise as an A-List movie star... This is a list of film-related events in 2002. ... Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a 2002 drama film directed by George Clooney. ... ... Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. ... Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. ...

Recent work

Since then he has also received positive notices for his somewhat comedic role opposite Nicolas Cage in Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men (2003), with Entertainment Weekly singling out "Sam Rockwell, who seems destined by a kind of excessive interestingness to forever be a colorful sidekick."^[6] The actor received somewhat more mixed reviews as Zaphod Beeblebrox in the 2005 film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Nicolas Cage (born Nicholas Coppola on January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, County Durham) is an influential Academy Award-nominated English film director, and producer. ... Matchstick Men is a 2003 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman. ... Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ... Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, from the TV adaptation. ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ...

In addition to big-budget feature films, Rockwell also keeps his feet firmly planted in the indie film world with projects such as The F Word and he recently played a very randy, Halloween-costume-clad Batman in a short, Robin's Big Date, opposite Justin Long as Robin. Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Robins Big Date is a parody Batman short subject starring Justin Long as Robin and Sam Rockwell as Batman. ... Justin Jake Long (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his performances in the films Jeepers Creepers, Waiting. ...

Rockwell has just recently been cast as Victor Mancini in the upcoming film Choke, based on the National Bestseller by Chuck Palahniuk. Choke (2001) is a novel by U.S. author Chuck Palahniuk. ... Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk (IPA: )[1] (born February 21, 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist of Ukrainian ancestry born in Pasco, Washington. ...

Theater continues to be important to Rockwell; since 1992 the actor has been a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company, where Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz are Co-Artistic Directors. In 2005, Hoffman directed him in Stephen Adly Guirgis' hit play, The Last Days of Judas Icariot. This past August, Rockwell work-shopped an upcoming LAByrinth production, North of Mason-Dixon, scheduled to debut in London, UK in 2007 and then premiere in New York City later the same year. Other plays in which Rockwell performed are: Dumb Waiter (2001), Zoo Story (2001), Hot L Baltimore (2000), Goosepimples (1998), Unidentified Human Remains, Face Divided, Orphans, Dessert at Waffle House, and The Largest Elizabeth. LAByrinth Theater Company is non-profit, Off-Broadway theater company based in New York City. ... Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... John Ortiz is an American actor whose roles have included Detective Ruben Sommariba in the television series The Job and drug middleman José Yero in the movie Miami Vice. ...

Selected filmography

2007 has been referred to, by film and media critics, as the year of the threequels, a nickname referring to both the 2004 summer movie season and three film franchises from that year, which again appear this year: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, and Oceans Thirteen, and in... Joshua is a 2007 psychological horror/thriller film about an affluent young Manhattan family, and how they are torn apart by the increasingly psychotic behavior of the mentally disturbed son Joshua. ... The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is an upcoming film directed by Andrew Dominik. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ... The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. ... Matchstick Men is a 2003 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2002. ... Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a 2002 drama film directed by George Clooney. ... Welcome to Collinwood is a 2002 movie about five guys from the Collinwood area of Cleveland who try to organise one last big job. ... For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ... Heist poster Heist is a crime thriller written and directed by David Mamet, and released in November 2001. ... Made film poster Made is a 2001 movie written and directed by Jon Favreau. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... Charlies Angels (2000) is an action/comedy film based on (and something of a sequel to) the 1970s television series Charlies Angels. ... The year 1999 in film involved some significant events. ... Galaxy Quest is a 1999 film written by Robert Gordon and David Howard and directed by Dean Parisot, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, and Tony Shalhoub. ... The Green Mile is an Academy Award-nominated 1999 drama film, directed by Frank Darabont and adapted by him from the Stephen King novel The Green Mile. ... A Midsummer Nights Dream is a 1999 film adaptation of William Shakespeares play of the same title. ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... Celebrity is a 1998 film written and directed by Woody Allen and shot in black-and-white. ... Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg. ... The year 1997 in film involved some significant events. ... Lawn Dogs (1997) is a controversial film dealing with class relations, or possibly an even more controversial film dealing with pedophilia. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1996. ... Box of Moon Light is a 1996 film about a man who, on the way home from a business trip, takes a side trip for nostalgias sake and meets an eccentric character who gives him perspective. ... Basquiat (pronounced ) is a 1996 film directed by Julian Schnabel which is loosely based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. ... The year 1990 in film involved some significant events. ... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the 1990 live-action film based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. ... // Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. ... Clownhouse is a 1988 horror film directed by Victor Salva. ...

References

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External links

• Sam Rockwell at the Internet Movie Database
• LAByrinth Theater Company http://www.labtheater.org/
• Sam Rockwell Interview (Rescue Dawn)