Happy Birthday Johnny Depp!

Happy Birthday Johnny Depp!  Johnny Depp started off his career in genre films starring as Glen Lantz in Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).  He also had a role in Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1986) as a young soldier and interpreter.  In 1987, he took everyone’s attention as Officer Tom Hanson in 21 Jump Street as an undercover officer posing as a high school student.  In 1990, he starred as Edward Scissorhands in Tim Burton’s film.  Johnny starred in another Tim Burton film as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999).  It was in 2003, though, that Johnny took an almost iconic part as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).  He starred once again in a Tim Burton film, in one of his many remakes, as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Johnny Depp voiced Victor Van Dort in Tim Burton’s animated Corpse Bride (2005).  

He returned as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007). He also sung in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Johnny had another strange part as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland (2010).  He reprised his role as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) that sputtered the franchise.  Another interesting part for Johnny was the Wolf in the Into the Woods (2014) musical.  Johnny returned as the Mad Hatter in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).  He had a surprise cameo in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016).  My favorite Pirates film is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).  He was also the mysterious Edward Ratchett in Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express (2017).  Johnny Depp returned as a villain in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).  Recently, he was also in the true crime film, City of Lies (2018). Happy Birthday Johnny Depp!

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