Philip John Clapp (born March 11, 1971), known by his stage name Johnny Knoxville, is an American ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language actor An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an "actor," ὑποκριτής (hypokrites), means literally "one who interprets"; in this sense, an actor is one who interprets a dramatic character, comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comic and daredevil These stunts are sometimes rigged so that they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be. There is an inherent risk in the performance of all stunt work in film, television and stage work. Daredevil performers are distinct from stunt performers and stunt doubles, as they perform their. He has been featured in a number of films, but is best known as the co-creator and principal star of the MTV MTV is an American cable television network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs. Today, MTV still plays a limited selection of music videos, but the channel primarily broadcasts a variety of popular culture and reality television series Jackass Jackass is an American television series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, and self-injuring stunts and pranks. The show served as a launchpad for the television and acting careers of Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera. Since 2002, two Jackass theatrical films have been and its subsequent films.
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Career
Knoxville credits a copy of Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation, and a literary iconoclast. Kerouac is recognized as an important writer both for his spontaneous style and for his content which consistently dealt with such topics as jazz,'s On the Road On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by given to him by his cousin, country singer/songwriter Roger Alan Wade, with giving him the acting bug.[1] After graduating from South-Young High School in 1989 in Knoxville, he moved to California California's geography ranges from the Pacific coast to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east, to Mojave desert areas in the southeast and the Redwood–Douglas fir forests of the northwest. The center of the state is dominated by the Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. California is the most to become an actor, and at first appeared in commercials and as an extra. Not getting the big break he had hoped for, he began writing and pitching article ideas to various magazines. He also attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts on a scholarship, but dropped out within two weeks. An idea to test self-defense equipment on himself was picked up by the Jeff Tremaine-helmed skateboarding magazine Big Brother No subject was taboo. Early articles featured step by step ways to commit suicide and rip off schemes such as how to make a fake ID. They would often use odd gimmicks like printing the magazine in different sizes, packaging it in a cereal box, and throwing in items like trading cards and a cassette tape. Early writers were Sean Cliver, Earl Parker, and the stunts were filmed and included in Big Brother's Number Two video.
Jackass
Main article: Jackass (TV series) Jackass is an American television series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, and self-injuring stunts and pranks. The show served as a launchpad for the television and acting careers of Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera. Since 2002, two Jackass theatrical films have beenEventually, Knoxville, Tremaine, Sean Cliver and Dave Carnie produced a pilot that used Big Brother footage along with footage from Bam Margera Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, television and radio personality, and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew. He has since appeared in MTV's Viva La Bam and Bam's Unholy Union, both Jackass movies, and Haggard,'s CKY videos, and with help from Tremaine's friend, film director Spike Jonze, they pitched a series to various networks. A deal was made with MTV MTV is an American cable television network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs. Today, MTV still plays a limited selection of music videos, but the channel primarily broadcasts a variety of popular culture and reality television and Jackass Jackass is an American television series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, and self-injuring stunts and pranks. The show served as a launchpad for the television and acting careers of Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera. Since 2002, two Jackass theatrical films have been was born.[2] Knoxville also participated in the Gumball 3000 for Jackass along with co-stars Steve-O and Chris Pontius and Jackass director Jeff Tremaine and producer Dimitry Elyashkevich. Prior to Jackass landing on MTV, Knoxville and company turned down an offer from Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live is a live late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. It premiered on NBC, a terrestrial television network in the United States, on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's sketches often parody contemporary American popular culture and politics to perform similar stunts for the show[citation needed] on a weekly basis (Knoxville eventually did host SNL in 2005).
After the role in Jackass, he is considered a gay icon.[3]
Film and television roles
Knoxville has been in several feature films, most notably starring opposite Seann William Scott in Jay Chandrasekhar's adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard. He has also worked with director John Waters John Samuel Waters. is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, journalist, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. Waters's 1970s and early '80s trash films feature his regular troupe of actors known as Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and in A Dirty Shame and starred in Daltry Calhoun, written and directed by Katrina Holden Bronson and produced by Quentin Tarantino Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose black comedy films used nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His most notorious films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995), Jackie. In The Ringer, Knoxville was cast as an able-bodied office worker who joins the Special Olympics Special Olympics is an international organization and competition held every two years, alternating between Summer and Winter Games, for people who have intellectual disabilities. There are also local, national and regional competitions in over 150 countries worldwide to pay for a surgical operation for his gardener. He played a two-headed alien in Men in Black II Men in Black II is a 2002 sci-fi action comedy starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The film also stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson and Rip Torn. The film is a sequel to the 1997 film Men in Black, both of which are based on the Malibu comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham. He also starred in the movie Lords of Dogtown as "Topper Burks", made a minor appearance in the 2000 movie Coyote Ugly, and was featured as a guest voice on an episode of King of the Hill King of the Hill is an American animated series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997 to September 13, 2009 on Fox. It centers on the Hills, a small-town Methodist family in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas. It attempts to retain a realistic approach, seeking humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of. Knoxville appeared as a supporting character to The Rock in the 2004 remake of Walking Tall. He also guest-starred on the pilot of the show Unhitched.
Knoxville appeared in the John Madden John Philip Madden is an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio. He was educated at Clifton College.He was in the same house as friend and fellow director Roger Michell. He began his career in British independent films. He graduated from the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex) in 1970 with a B.A. in English Literature. He-directed adaptation of Elmore Leonard Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, several of which have been adapted into successful motion pictures or TV movies's novel, Killshot. He guest-starred in a Season 3 episode "Prank Wars" on Viva La Bam, in which he and Ryan Dunn trashed Bam Margera Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, television and radio personality, and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew. He has since appeared in MTV's Viva La Bam and Bam's Unholy Union, both Jackass movies, and Haggard,'s Hummer Hummer was a marque of trucks sold by General Motors that marketed three vehicles: the original Hummer H1 based on the military High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle , along with the Hummer H2 and the Hummer H3 — based on other, smaller civilian-market vehicles, among other pranks.
Personal life
Knoxville was born in Knoxville, Tennessee Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is also the largest city in East Tennessee. As of the 2000 United States Census, Knoxville had a total population of 173,890; the July 2007 estimated population was 183,546. Knoxville is the, the son of Lemoyne and Philip Clapp, who was a car salesman.[4][5] He has one daughter, Madison. She can be seen in the credits for Jackass Number Two. On February 1, 2007, Knoxville and his wife of twelve years, Melanie, filed for legal separation Legal separation is a legal process by which a married couple may formalize a de facto separation while remaining legally married. A legal separation is granted in the form of a court order, which can be in the form of a legally-binding consent decree. The most common reason for filing with the courts for a legal separation is to make interim. Shortly afterwards, they filed for divorce Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, cancelling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties. In most countries divorce requires the sanction of a court or other authority in a legal process. The legal process for divorce may also involve issues of spousal support,.[6] They were married on May 15, 1995.
On January 15, 2009 at the Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles International Airport is the primary airport serving Los Angeles, California, the second-most populated metropolitan area of the United States. It is often referred to by its IATA airport code LAX, with the letters usually pronounced individually (IPA: /ɛl.eɪ.ɛks/). LAX is located in southwestern Los Angeles in the neighborhood of security workers discovered an inert grenade A hand grenade is an anti-personnel weapon that explodes a short time after release. The French military term grenade probably comes from the shape of the pomegranate fruit, which is also called grenade in French in his carry-on; he was detained and was cited for carrying a prohibited item into the airport.[7] Knoxville explained on February 4, 2009 on The Howard Stern Show The Howard Stern Show is an American talk radio show hosted by Howard Stern, broadcasting on his two uncensored channels on satellite radio service Sirius XM since January 2006. The show developed while on terrestrial radio, when Stern became a morning disc jockey at WCCC in Hartford in 1979, two years into his professional radio career. Stern how this was a prop from a commercial and that an assistant had packed his bag for him. Also on that February 4 visit he explained how he tore his urethra In anatomy, the urethra is a tube that connects the urinary bladder to the outside of the body. In males, the urethra travels through the penis, and carries semen as well as urine. In females, the urethra is shorter and emerges above the vaginal opening during a stunt for Nitro Circus explaining how he has to flush it twice daily. He said this is done by sticking a tube into his penis all the way up to his bladder (10–11 inches). Knoxville said the process prevented scar tissue Granulation tissue is the perfused, fibrous connective tissue that replaces a fibrin clot in healing wounds. Granulation tissue typically grows from the base of a wound and is able to fill wounds of almost any size it heals from forming.[8] On August 18, 2009, Knoxville announced that he and his girlfriend Naomi Nelson are expecting a baby.[9] Nelson gave birth to son Rocko Akira Clapp on December 20, 2009.[10]
Filmography
- Desert Blues (1995) – Bob
- Coyote Ugly Coyote Ugly is a romantic comedy/drama based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, set in New York City, and released in August 2000 . The film stars Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia. It was directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman and written by Gina Wendkos (2000) – College Guy (uncredited)
- Life Without Dick (2001) – Dick Rasmusson
- Don't Try This At Home: The Steve-O Video (2001) – Himself
- Big Trouble (2002) – Eddie Leadbetter
- Deuces Wild (2002) – Vinnie Fish
- Men in Black II Men in Black II is a 2002 sci-fi action comedy starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The film also stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson and Rip Torn. The film is a sequel to the 1997 film Men in Black, both of which are based on the Malibu comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham (2002) – Scrad/Charlie
- Jackass: The Movie Jackass: The Movie is a 2002 American reality film directed by Jeff Tremaine with the tagline "Do not attempt this at home." It is a riskier and uncensored continuation of the stunts and pranks by the various characters of the MTV television series Jackass, which had completed its series run by this time. The film was produced by (2002) – Himself/Irving Zisman
- Grand Theft Parsons (2003) – Phil Kaufman
- Walking Tall (2004) – Ray Templeton
- A Dirty Shame (2004) – Ray Ray Perkins
- Lords of Dogtown (2005) – Topper Burks
- The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) – Luke Duke
- The Devils Rejects (2005)- Cop (uncredited)
- Daltry Calhoun (2005) – Daltry Calhoun
- The Ringer (2005) – Steve Barker (Jeffy Dahmor)
- Jackass: Number Two (2006) – Himself/Irving Zisman
- Jackass 2.5 (2007) – Himself
Upcoming:
- Fruitcake (2010) – Unknown
- Hawaiian Dick (2011) – Byrd
- The Drop-Out (pre-production, 2010) – Unknown (with co-star Cher Cher is an American pop singer-songwriter, actress, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television)
- Father of Invention (2010)
- The Drop-Out (2010)
- Jackass 3D Jackass 3D is an upcoming 2010 3-D film of the Jackass series. In December 2009, Paramount Pictures, TriStar Pictures, and MTV Films announced an October 15, 2010 release (2010)
References
- ^ http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-08-01-knoxville-gentleman_x.htm "Knoxville: A Southern mix of contradictions"], USAToday USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the paper, August 8, 2005.
- ^ Scott, Mike (August 04, 2009). "Johnny Knoxville: 'Jackass' star Steve-O almost ready to dive back into his work". The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune is a daily newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Its name, which is widely recognized among journalists nationwide, is an icon of life in New Orleans and its environs. http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/08/johnny_knoxville_jackass_star.html. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ "Johnny on John". MontrealMirror.com. September 2004. http://www.montrealmirror.com/2004/092304/film2.html. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
- ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1115522.ece?print=yes&randnum=1151003209000
- ^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=369041&apid=0
- ^ Usmagazine.com | Johnny Knoxville Separates From Wife
- ^ Knoxville Pinned in Grenade Incident TMZ.com, January 15, 2009.
- ^ http://www.marksfriggin.com/news09/2-2.htm#wed
- ^ http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2009/08/18/news-its-official/
- ^ "'Jackass' star Johnny Knoxville has a new recruit: Baby boy Rocko". Monsters and Critics.com. December 23, 2009. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1521184.php/Jackass-star-Johnny-Knoxville-has-a-new-recruit-Baby-boy-Rocko. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
External links
- Official Jackass site
- Johnny Knoxville at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com
- Interview with IGN.com. Johnny Knoxville reveals what scares him
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