Happy Birthday Liam Neeson! He has a long genre career starting with Gawain in Excalibur (1981). Neeson was also in the fantasy film 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 iconic. 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). Liam 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 played Bryan Mills in Taken (2008) which led to a series of films; Taken 2 (2012) and Taken 3 (2014). There was a Taken television series from 2017 to 2018.
He returned to voice Aslan in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). Hannibal, in The A-Team (2010) was played by Neeson in the tv adaptation of the action show. Neeson played Zeus in the Clash of the Titans (2010) remake and the sequel Wrath of the Titans (2012). In 2011, Neeson was The Grey (2011) a favorite of Jeff Winger from Community. Neeson was Admiral Shane in Battleship (2012). He returned in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). He also returned as Qui-Gon Jinn in episodes of Clone Wars. Neeson was the voice of Bad Cop in The Lego Movie (2014). In 2014, Neeson was Mustafa in the animated adaptation of The Prophet (2014) based on the Kahlil Gibran novel. The voice of The Monster was Liam Neeson in A Monster Calls (2016). In 2016, Liam Neeson played Ferreira in Martin Scorsese’s powerful Silence (2016). Neeson was in the action film, Cold Pursuit (2019) as Nels Coxman. He was Harry Rawlings in the crime film Widows (2018). He played Agent High T in Men in Black International (2019). Liam Neeson has an incredible list of movies, award winning dramas, sci fi, horror, and fantasy. Happy Birthday Liam Neeson!
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