Happy Birthday Liam Neeson! He has a long genre career starting with Gawain in Excalibur (1981). He was also in Krull (1983). Still, I actually took notice of Neeson in the High Spirits (1988) comedy as an Irish ghost who falls for Beverly D’Angelo’s character. His lead role as Peyton Westlake in Sam Raimi’s Darkman (1990) was almost iconic. Liam Neeson’s incredible career defining part was as Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s award winning Schindler’s List (1993). Two years later he was in Rob Roy (1995) and then Michael Collins (1996). He starred as Valjean in the drama Les Miserables (1998). Neeson returned to genre films as Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999). He also investigated ghosts in The Haunting (1999). Neeson also had a great role as Ducard in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005).
Next, Liam Neeson voiced Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and the sequel Prince Caspian (2008). Also in 2008, he brought a “certain set of skills” to Taken (2008) which led to a series of films; Taken 2 (2012) and Taken 3 (2014). Neeson played Zeus in the Clash of the Titans (2010) remake and the sequel Wrath of the Titans (2012). He returned to voice Aslan in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). Neeson was Admiral Shane in Battleship (2012). He returned in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Liam Neeson also returned as Qui-Gon Jinn in episodes of Clone Wars. The voice of The Monster was Liam Neeson in A Monster Calls (2016). In 2016, Neeson played Ferreira in Martin Scorsese’s powerful Silence (2016). Neeson was in the crime drama Widows (2018). Recently, he is in the action film, Cold Pursuit (2019). Neeson is also in Men in Black: International out on June 14th. Happy Birthday Liam Neeson!
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