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Mark Hamill (1951-) is an American actor, voice actor, and writer. Hamill is best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films. He is also known for his voice acting in animation and video games, especially for his portrayal of the Joker. His IMDb page shows over 340 acting credits since 1963. This page will rank Mark Hamill movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings.
Mark Hamill Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Mark Hamill Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb trivia on Mark Hamill
- Mark Richard Hamill was born in Oakland, California in 1951.
2. Freddy Krueger helped Hamill get Skywalker role? Yep! Mark Hamill and Robert Englund are friends, the actor best known for playing Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street films. Englund, himself, auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker and, when he did not get the role, he encouraged Mark to go and audition after him.
3. Mark Hamill is a lifelong fan of Laurel and Hardy. In June 2016, he called into The Ross Owen Show on Black Sky Radio to talk for over an hour about his passion for Stan and Ollie.
4. Mark Hamill kept his Luke Skywalker boots, from the first “Star Wars” movie. When the movie was re-released to theaters in the late 1990s, his son asked if he could wear the boots to a showing. Hamill said no, telling him he didn’t think the boy would “get out alive” if fans knew his boots were the originals.
5. Check out Mark Hamill’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Impressive that Luke Skywalker was hanging around this website. Heck it makes me feel special. Congratulations.
Mark Hamill amazingly is # 486 on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. It’s now a year or so since they went to the Wikipedia listings and it looks like they won’t be updating the list at the moment. Sometimes they waited a few years between updates. These are the other people on the 1000 Mark has appeared with’
3 CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER HOWARD LOVECRAFT & THE UNDERSEA KINGDOM (2017)
5 MICHAEL CAINE KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015)
7 HARRISON FORD Star Wars (1977)
7 HARRISON FORD Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
7 HARRISON FORD Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
7 HARRISON FORD STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
11 SAMUEL L. JACKSON KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015)
11 SAMUEL L. JACKSON Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
12 MAX VON SYDOW STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
13 BEN KINGSLEY Slipstream (1989)
25 MALCOLM MCDOWELL Britannia Hospital (1982)
27 FRANK WELKER Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
27 FRANK WELKER The Little Mermaid (1989)
60 JOHN RHYS-DAVIES Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000)
62 JAMES CAAN CON MAN (2018)
76 RON PERLMAN Battle for Terra (2007)
76 RON PERLMAN HOWARD LOVECRAFT & THE UNDERSEA KINGDOM (2017)
76 RON PERLMAN Sleepwalkers (1992)
95 JAMES EARL JONES Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
95 JAMES EARL JONES Star Wars (1977)
95 JAMES EARL JONES Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
95 JAMES EARL JONES Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
98 JOHN GOODMAN BUNYAN & BABE (2017)
105 ROBERT MITCHUM Midnight Ride (1990)
125 SHANE RIMMER Star Wars (1977)
128 DAVID WARNER Wing Commander (1999)
132 PETER STORMARE Commander Hamilton (1998)
143 F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Slipstream (1989)
159 DENNIS QUAID Battle for Terra (2007)
159 DENNIS QUAID The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)
160 DANNY GLOVER Battle for Terra (2007)
178 RICHARD GRIFFITHS Britannia Hospital (1982)
191 COLIN FIRTH KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015)
198 ELLEN BURSTYN Walking Across Egypt (1999)
200 BRIAN COX Battle for Terra (2007)
215 STACY KEACH Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
231 TREAT WILLIAMS Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
240 RICHARD E. GRANT STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (2019)
253 VING RHAMES CON MAN (2018)
255 EDWARD HERRMANN Walking Across Egypt (1999)
265 ROBBIE COLTRANE Britannia Hospital (1982)
265 ROBBIE COLTRANE Slipstream (1989)
266 ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars (1977)
266 ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
266 ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
279 JASON ISAACS DARK CRYSTAL: THE AGE OF RESISTANCE (2019)
281 CLORIS LEACHMAN Castle in the Sky (1986)
290 JURGEN PROCHNOW Wing Commander (1999)
298 JULIAN GLOVER Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
310 TOM KENNY Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
315 MARK STRONG KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015)
319 PETER JASON Village of the Damned (1995)
322 ROSHAN SETH SLIPSTREAM (1989)
324 UMA THURMAN Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
351 BRENDAN FRASER Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000)
356 BILL PAXTON Slipstream (1989)
383 JOHN RATZENBERGER Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
386 TCHEKY KARYO Wing Commander (1999)
389 PETER CUSHING Star Wars (1977)
401 ARMAND ASSANTE CON MAN (2018)
420 PATRICK STEWART Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
427 WILLIAM SHATNER Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
449 CHARLES NAPIER Silk Degrees (1994)
451 CLIVE REVILL Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
455 ROSANNA ARQUETTE Battle for Terra (2007)
484 BEVERLY D’ANGELO Battle for Terra (2007)
489 DICK MILLER Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
489 DICK MILLER Corvette Summer (1978)
565 TIM CURRY The Little Mermaid (1989)
568 LIZ SMITH BRITANNIA HOSPITAL (1982)
571 LUKE WILSON Battle for Terra (2007)
590 BEN AFFLECK Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
649 BENICIO DEL TORO STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (2017)
650 ROLAND CULVER Britannia Hospital (1982)
667 LENA HEADEY DARK CRYSTAL: THE AGE OF RESISTANCE (2019)
711 DAVID CROSS BATTLE FOR TERRA (2007)
744 BARRY CORBIN THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA (1981)
749 ALAN BATES Britannia Hospital (1982)
760 LEE MARVIN The Big Red One (1980)
762 FRED TATASCIORE STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
772 SALLY KIRKLAND Thank You, Good Night (2001)
777 HELENA BONHAM CARTER DARK CRYSTAL: THE AGE OF RESISTANCE (2019)
796 WILL FERRELL Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
839 DAVID SUCHET WING COMMANDER (1999)
844 GARRICK HAGON Star Wars (1977)
870 DEE BRADLEY BAKER Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
870 DEE BRADLEY BAKER THRU THE MOEBIUS STRIP (2005)
891 RENE AUBERJONOIS The Little Mermaid (1989)
912 LENA OLIN Commander Hamilton (1998)
931 WILLIAM HOOTKINS Star Wars (1977)
936 BRIAN GLOVER BRITANNIA HOSPITAL (1982)
952 SANDRA OH Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
959 MICHAEL MEDWIN Britannia Hospital (1982)
969 BRION JAMES Corvette Summer (1978)
969 BRION JAMES Time Runner (1993)
979 CHRIS ROCK Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
1000 MANDY PATINKIN Castle in the Sky (1986)
HM (862) JOAN PLOWRIGHT BRITANNIA HOSPITAL (1982)
Mark has appeared with 12 Oscar winners, not many considering his over 40 year career.
ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars (1977)
ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
ALEC GUINNESS Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
ALICIA VIKANDER DARK CRYSTAL: THE AGE OF RESISTANCE (2019)
BEN KINGSLEY Slipstream (1989)
BENICIO DEL TORO STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (2017)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER HOWARD LOVECRAFT & THE UNDERSEA KINGDOM (2017)
CLORIS LEACHMAN Castle in the Sky (1986)
COLIN FIRTH KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015)
ELLEN BURSTYN Walking Across Egypt (1999)
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Slipstream (1989)
LEE MARVIN The Big Red One (1980)
LUPITA NYONG’O STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
LUPITA NYONG’O STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (2017)
LUPITA NYONG’O STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (2019)
MICHAEL CAINE KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015)
Nobody’s name alphabetically starts after Michael.
If Michael Caine has appeared with the most Oscar winners one wonders who has starred in the most films with the fewest Oscar winning co-stars since they started giving them (eliminating most silent stars).
Hey Dan. Thanks for the trivia lists on Mark Hamill. Good stuff as always. He is a lot higher than I would have guessed….but all of those voice roles really add up in these rankings. Lots and lots of Star Wars connections. With Star Wars alumni Ford and Jones leading the way with 4 movies. Only 12 Oscar winning co-stars….well at least one of them is Michael Caine…lol.
Hmmmm..interesting question….which person starred with the fewest Oscar winning co-stars. My mind immediately went to Judd Nelson…..once one of my all-time favorite actors. He only has two from his movies that reached theaters….Forest Whitaker and the actor we no longer name (K.S.)….lol. I am sure he has more in his many many direct to home entertain movies. Good question. Thanks again.
Hello,
He is Star Wars with Dark Vador and Lucas so far away before Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
Of course for the three first films who are in fact the 4 5 and 6 in the saga.
He was looking so innocent and handsome, I remembered that a lot of people in France when the film start on screen said he was not a good actor, but at the end he is always in the myth.
Funny my kids love Star Wars but after all the new films now when we speak about it, it is always the three first films that everybody love.
In the mean time it is easy to say that Dark Vador was equally very good as the bad Guy
I know for him it was difficult in his carrière after the first films but when they always start the beginning of the film, nobody known how famous it will be in the future.
Bye
Pierre
Hey Pierre…..good to hear from you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Mark Hamill. You make some very good points on him. Getting the view from France is very interesting. The first three films are easily the best..but then again I am old….lol. Star Wars is a juggernaut that nobody saw coming….but it will keep Hamill alive forever…as these Star Wars movies are not going anywhere. Hope you have a great holiday.
“use the force Luke!” Mark Hamill eh? Does he have a new film out or something?
I’ve seen 16 of the 24 films on the chart. Favorites are – the Star Wars series, Kingsman, Wizards, The Big Red One, Battle for Terra and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.
By coincidence there’s a nice still of Private Mark Hamill with Sergeant Lee Marvin in my Sam Fuller video uploaded yesterday.
The new Star Wars movie has had mixed reviews but it won’t stop me from seeing the last episode of the Skywalker saga.
Bruce, oh Brucie, where for art thou Bruce? Hamill did appear at the very end of The Force Awakens which isn’t listed on the chart. I mean they are searching for Luke all through the film so it does count as a Luke Skywalker film. You’ve included films in other charts where the subject doesn’t even make an appearance, or just a fleeting cameo. Just sayin’.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up.
” BRUCE You’ve included films in other charts where the subject doesn’t even make an appearance, or just a fleeting cameo. Just sayin’ ” STEVE
Astute observation Steve. However those were epic performances compared with Willis and Split. I can’t remember him actually in that one; so I concluded he must have written to WH and told the latter that he, Willis, had read a review of Split and liked it, so WH credited him with the movie.
The Work Horse is desperate these days to get Mr Gimme More in a hit even if it’s somebody else’s – or Other People’s Money as Danny DeVito boasted about securing.
Hi Bob, background film as I type this is ‘Thunder Bay’ starring Jimmy Stewart and Dan Duryea, in a rare good guy role. I’ll bet Flora’s seen it. 😉
The nearer we get to Xmas the less we’ll see of our commandante, come to think of it did we see Bruce at all this year? [Bob shrugs] hmm wasn’t there a rare sighting in July? Wait! There he goes… over there look [points] … somebody wearing a Myrna Loy t-shirt.. aaah darn he’s gone… might have been Bruce.
HI STEVE: I laughed at the Myrna Loy crack of yours. It seems that I’m not the only one on this site who can be riotously satirical and funny! I don’t keep count of course; but its my impression that in the good old Halcyon days when I first joined this site Our Shepherd kept in much more constant DIRECT touch with his flock.
I recall that in the months before signing up I used to marvel at the exchanges that flew back and forward between for example him and Flora. Now he goes missing for days and one feels abandoned for most of the time.
NOTES from WIKIPEDIA The Lost Leader is an 1845 poem by Robert Browning first published in his book It berates William Wordsworth, for what Browning considered his desertion of the liberal cause, and his lapse from his high idealism. More generally, it is an attack on any liberal leader who has deserted his cause. [and Jo Swinson?] It is one of Browning’s “best known, if not actually best, poems”. See Part 2
THE LOST LEADER by ROBERT BROWNING
Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat—
Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote;
We that had loved him so, followed him, honored him,
Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,
Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,
Made him our pattern to live and to die!
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,
One task more declined, one more foot-path untrod,
One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels,
One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
Life’s night begins: let him never come back to us!
There would be doubt, hesitation and pain,
Forced praise on our part—the glimmer of twilight,
Never glad confident morning again!
my favorite Churchhill quote:” if a man is not a liberal at 20 years old he has no heart
if not a conservative by 40 years old he has no brain.”
deserters all
HI STEVE:
I forgot to say that I loved Thunder Bay and it’s one of my personal fave Jimmy Stewart films.
It’s one of 3 movies that my Jimmy made with Duryea in the 1950s, the other two being Night Passage and Winchester 73 and the only one of the 3 where Dan was not the baddie.
The Work Horse in some exchanges with me a while ago opined that it was really a western disguised as an oil movie.
I vividly remember going to see Thunder Bay one rainy night in 1953. The supporting feature was a Brit B thriller called Deadly Nightshade which lasted just 1 hour and 1 min. We knew how to keep things short in those days; no endless Star Wars sagas!
Bob, I enjoyed Thunder Bay, refreshingly different, there are no bad guys and no one gets killed.
The original 1953 New York Times review was interesting, here’s an excerpt-
“There are two noteworthy innovations in “Thunder Bay;” the Technicolor Universal-International romantic adventure about offshore oil-well drilling marked the first use of a wide, curved screen and stereophonic (or directional) sound by the company and the theatre, and it presented James Stewart and a troupe of “wildcatters” who set a precedent by not only striking oil but a shrimp bed at practically one and the same time.
The use of a stereophonic sound system indicated that such directional devices will enhance the realism of the medium. However, the three speakers employed here generally imparted a startling effect of voices and sound suddenly emanating from either the left, center or right of the screen. And the abrupt switch in direction of sound mainly served to distract rather than impress.”
By widescreen he meant the 1.85 ratio which became standard for non cinemascope films from 1953 onwards. True widescreen like cinemascope and panavision has a 2.35 aspect ratio. Before 1953 nearly every film was square shaped or 1.33 ratio.
(some films like Ben-Hur had a super wide 2.55 or 2.76 aspect ratio)
Hey Steve…..December gets crazy for sure…..but my winter break start from school starts in 8 hours……granted we are headed to Alabama after Xmas…but I am hoping to do some major changes on the website in the next few weeks. Good stuff.
Hey Bob…..Willis’ part in Split….was close to Hamill’s part in The Force Awakens….small..at the end and nothing to do with the movie that was just watched….but like Willis’ part got me to theaters to see Split…I am sure Hamill/Luke fans got them to The Force Awakens. As for trying to get Willis in more hits….I confess…guilty as charged……which is why Brando now gets credit for Superman The Return on UMR..lol.
HI BRUCE
When I see what you say about Brucie in Split and Mark in The Force Awakens regarding length of role, that saying from The Duke in Rio Bravo 1959 comes to mind: “Sure wouldn’t like to live on the difference!”
Hey Steve…..I have since added The Force Awakens….so your tally count is 17….just like mine. I guess I assumed he had already been listed with that movie…..but it was not…thanks for the catch. Of your favorites….give me Star Wars 1 and 2, Kingsman, Wizards and The Big Red One. I noticed The Big Red One when I was commenting on your video last night. Great minds thinking alike.
P.S. I have since added a Mark Hamill UMR shout out since you last commented….you can find it in interesting fact #4. That made my day!
Hi Bruce, thanks for adding The Force Awakens to the chart.
Wow that Mark Hamill tweet is great, how did you spot it? By accident? I wonder how many other celebs have been tweeting about this site. hmm I don’t think the Myrna Loy ‘Queen of Hollywood’ website would be happy with Bob’s recent posts. 😉
It will be seen from the table above that leaving aside Kingsman 2014 in which Mark has just a supporting role and is well down in the cast lists, his major box office hits all relate to the Star Wars films; and his best times in those were in the first 3 from 1977-1983 where he was the top-billed lead hero.
Unlike his Star Wars leading co-star Harrison Ford, Mark has unfortunately never been a box office Force [no pun intended!] away from the franchise: Hamill’s other 18 movies out of the 24 listed above have an overall adjusted domestic gross of just $315 million overall, a mere $17.5 million per movie. That latter would not even look at the budget and other costs for a Star Wars movie: The Rise of Skywalker cost an estimated $200 million plus distribution, publicity expenditure etc.
It could be argued that in giving the likeable Mark a low priority until now in the Cogerson allocation of new pages to stars, Bruce is once again proving the accuracy of the observation of one film historian that “In their entertainment American don’t like losers.”
However in terms of personal finances, aside from artistic achievement, Mark Hamill cannot be seen in the ‘loser’ category as his reported net worth at the moment is $18 million dollars; though it should be pointed out that Celebrity Net Worth says that Harrison Ford has currently $300 million in his bank accounts [and Harrison is ranked a high 9th in WH’s book of the 50 Greatest Stars of all time]. To round off the record The Princess apparently had a net worth of $25 million at her sad premature death in 2016.
Anyway however it ultimately panned out for them individually, and although I personally lost interest in the Star Wars movies long ago, it must be acknowledged that in those early Star Wars movies the younger Mark, Harrison and Carrie did as a team have a massive impact on the screen with their magnetism and energy and obviously Mark was a big part of all that. He has often reminded me of Stefan Edberg the tennis player. “Voted Up!”
LOOSELY ASSOCIATED ADDITIONAL TRIVIA
In an episode of the TV sitcom Frasier called The Show Must go Off and aired in Feb 2001, prestigious Brit thespian Derek Jacobi plays Jackson Hedley an actor once famous for his Shakespearian and other classical performances but who can currently get only roles as androids as be has become closely associated with his part as Tobor the Android in a big hit Star Wars-type film franchise.
People now rarely address him by his own names and the man-in- the- street will often greet him with “Good morning Tobor!” “What’s Jackson Hedley doing at a sci-fi movie gathering?” a bemused Frasier asks one of the fans, who replies “Tobor you mean. What he’s doing here is being awesome, signing autographs and taking bookings to appear in costume at children’s parties!” Coincidentally The other production company involved with Lucasfilm and Disney Productions in the making of Rise of Skywalker is called ‘Bad Robots Productions’
Hey Bob…..good thoughts. It took me awhile longer than you….but my interest in the Star Wars movies has slowed. I did not even see the Solo movie until it reached home entertainment. Right now there are no plans to see The Rise Of Skywalker…….those are the first Star Wars movies I did not see in theaters. Good information on Jacobi/Tobor. Thanks as always for taking the time to comment.
Hey Bob….good points on Mark Hamill. I think Mark Hamill’s non Star Wars leading man roles were Corvette Summer and The Big Red One…..when neither of those took off at the box office….Hamill and Luke Skywalker merged forever. Ford and Solo had Indy Jones to help him break away from his Solo character. Still…..Hamill has put together a pretty amazing career….340 IMDb credits…that is a huge number…not many people get that high…and certainly not stars. For example…Rance Howard…a bit character Hall of Famer only reached 280 IMDb credits. As for the timing of this Mark Hamill page…..well….better late than never. Good stuff.
Thanks for the two feedback posts. The inclusion of The Force Awakens to humour Steve [and rightly so!] doesn’t alter the equation: Mark has had little box office success outside the Star Wars franchise and your comment about Mark and Luke “merged” is perfectly accurate.
I accept that by the measure that you mention Mark can be regarded as an artistic as well as financial success; and indeed I’m sure that most thespians who have acquired a lot of work in entertainment over many years would consider themselves successful to one degree another: unemployment within the entertainment industry can be soul destroying.
However THIS is the Cogerson site a large part of whose raison detre is to rank stars by merit and illustrate among other things who have been the greatest mega stars past and present down through the years; indeed you personally have written a comprehensive book on the subject.
Accordingly within that context I don’t think it is inappropriate for me to highlight that Mark has been nowhere near as successful overall as his old Star Wars buddy Harrison, and of course Mark get’s no ‘love’ in your book which goes a long way towards sorting out the ‘wheat from the chaff’.
Anyway take care and have a good weekend.