Happy Birthday Liam Neeson!

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 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).  Liam 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 played Bryan Mills in Taken (2008).  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). Nesson was Admiral Shane in Battleship (2012).  He returned in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).  Then, he reprised the role of Bryan Mills in Taken 2 (2012).  Neeson also returned as Qui-Gon Jinn in episodes of Clone Wars.  The last of the trilogy, Taken 3 (2014) starred Neeson.  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).  Next, he was in The Orville episode, “If the Stars Should Appear” (2017).  There was a Taken (2017-2018) series with a different Bryan Mills.   Neeson played Michael MaCaley in the thriller, The Commuter (2018).  Then, he was in the comedy anthology, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).  Neeson pursued his son’s killer in Cold Pursuit (2019).  Agent High T was played by Neeson in Men in Black: International (2019).  He starred as Tom Dolan in the crime drama, Honest Thief  (2020).Neeson was in the crime drama, Widows (2018).   This year, he played the rancher, Jim, in The Marksman.  Happy Birthday Liam Neeson!  

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