Some would say "Schindler's List" is Liam Neeson's best movie. It's not a knock against any of Neeson's other movies; it's just to say that "Schindler's List" is one of the 20th century's greatest films, and it's rather hard to top that. On the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, only seven titles ranked ahead of "Schindler's List." And only one of them, "Raging Bull," was made after 1978 — the year Neeson made his feature-film debut in another literary adaptation, "Pilgrim's Progress."
Directed by Steven Spielberg, "Schindler's List" was based on the book "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally, and...
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Directed by Steven Spielberg, "Schindler's List" was based on the book "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally, and...
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- 5/13/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
From humble Irish beginnings to full-fledged Hollywood stardom, Liam Neeson has had a whirlwind career.
Heck, he even reinvented the action hero.
Coming up in the '80s, Neeson enjoyed moderate success on stage and screen. It was his star turn in a 1992 production of "Anna Christie," however, that inadvertently catapulted him to fame. After seeing a performance of the Broadway play, Steven Spielberg cast Neeson in his now acclaimed "Schindler's List" (1993) and made the Irishman a Hollywood leading man. This winter, Neeson is back as another noble ass-kicker in the action movie "Taken 3."
From his early influences to his own fighting prowess, here are 30 things you probably don't know about Liam Neeson.
1. Liam John Neeson was born June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
2. His mother was a cook, while his father was a caretaker at a local primary school.
3. Neeson was one of four children, and the only boy.
Heck, he even reinvented the action hero.
Coming up in the '80s, Neeson enjoyed moderate success on stage and screen. It was his star turn in a 1992 production of "Anna Christie," however, that inadvertently catapulted him to fame. After seeing a performance of the Broadway play, Steven Spielberg cast Neeson in his now acclaimed "Schindler's List" (1993) and made the Irishman a Hollywood leading man. This winter, Neeson is back as another noble ass-kicker in the action movie "Taken 3."
From his early influences to his own fighting prowess, here are 30 things you probably don't know about Liam Neeson.
1. Liam John Neeson was born June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
2. His mother was a cook, while his father was a caretaker at a local primary school.
3. Neeson was one of four children, and the only boy.
- 1/9/2015
- by Jonny Black
- Moviefone
Liam Neeson is back in action in Taken 2 as Bryan Mills, a protective father who just happens to be a retired CIA agent with a "very particular set of skills".
The 60-year-old actor has portrayed, as he says himself, "Michael Collins, Schindler, Zeus and a Jedi", but he was surprised to find himself playing Bryan again.
Since the success of Taken - one of the most successful French-made films ever released in the Us - Neeson has experienced a resurgence in his career and there has been demand for a sequel.
Having won admirers through films such as Schindler's List and Star Wars: Episode I, and capturing women's hearts as a grieving widow in Love Actually, the actor has now evolved into an action hero.
But the Irish actor admits, despite his admiration for screenwriter Luc Besson, he never even expected the first film to be such a hit.
The 60-year-old actor has portrayed, as he says himself, "Michael Collins, Schindler, Zeus and a Jedi", but he was surprised to find himself playing Bryan again.
Since the success of Taken - one of the most successful French-made films ever released in the Us - Neeson has experienced a resurgence in his career and there has been demand for a sequel.
Having won admirers through films such as Schindler's List and Star Wars: Episode I, and capturing women's hearts as a grieving widow in Love Actually, the actor has now evolved into an action hero.
But the Irish actor admits, despite his admiration for screenwriter Luc Besson, he never even expected the first film to be such a hit.
- 10/9/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
In somewhat of an odd turn, Dead Noon director Andrew Wiest has decided to turn away from Grindhouse films about gun slingers and bring us a post-apocalyptic Christian parable in the form of a low budget family outing called The Wylds. Now, I'm like the farthest thing from a religious scholar type so I'll let those of you who are decide how faithful the film looks next to John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (which I imagine is not a lot). For everyone else, there's sword fighting, cowboys, and evil mustache twirling types wearing steam-punk goggles in the film's teaser so I thought I'd post it up for a larf.
Someplace, somewhere, in the future mankind fell. A Great War turned Earth into a wilderness and a wasteland. Cars, electricity, computers, all modern technology is long gone and forgotten about. There are pockets of civilization living in decaying and ramshackle cities,...
Someplace, somewhere, in the future mankind fell. A Great War turned Earth into a wilderness and a wasteland. Cars, electricity, computers, all modern technology is long gone and forgotten about. There are pockets of civilization living in decaying and ramshackle cities,...
- 2/25/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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