Happy Birthday Samuel L. Jackson!

Happy Birthday Samuel L. Jackson!  One of Jackson’s first movie roles was in the Spike Lee film, School Daze (1988).  Then, he played an unnamed robber foiled by Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem in the comedy Coming to America (1988).  Jackson played the dj, Mister Señor Love Daddy, in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989).  He followed it up with Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues (1990).  His first genre picture was in The Exorcist III directed by William Peter Blatty.   He played Stacks Edwards in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990).  Then, Jackson played Gator Purify in Jungle Fever directed by Spike Lee.  It was playing the computer technician, Arnold, in Jurassic Park (1993) that made Jackson’s lines memorable.  He reached icon status playing Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). Samuel J. Jackson played Zeus Carver in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995). 

In Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997), Samuel L. Jackson played Ordell Robbie.  In 1999, Jackson played Jedi Master Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.  He played the criminal genius, Elijah Price, in Unbreakable (2000).  Jackson returned as Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002).  Agent Augustus Gibbons was played by Jackson in the action movie, xXx (2002).  Next, he played Rufus in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) directed by Quentin Tarantino.  Jackson had another iconic role voicing Frozone in The Incredibles (2004).  He returned as Agent Augustus in xXx: State of the Union (2005) and then Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).  Another film with memorable Samuel Jackson lines were in Snakes on a Plane (2006).  In 2007, he voiced the title character in the animated series Afro Samurai.  

Samuel L. Jackson entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his cameo as Nick Fury in Iron Man (2008). Later, he returned as Fury in Iron Man 2 (2010) and then Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Nick Fury helped form the team in The Avengers (2012).  He worked again with Quentin Tarantino in Django Unchained (2012).  Jackson was back as Nick Fury in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).  He was the villain Valentine in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014).  Then, returned as Fury in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).  He was Dolmedes in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq (2015).  Then, Jackson worked again with Tarantino in the western The Hateful Eight (2015).  xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) was also the return of Augustus Gibbons.  

Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard fought against the king of the kaiju in Kong: Skull Island (2017).  He had the role as hitman, Darius Kincaid, in The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017).  Nick Fury has a cameo at the end of Avengers: Infinity War (2018).  He also reprised Frozone in The Incredibles 2 (2018).  Next year, he returns as Elijah Price in Glass.  Then, Jackson played a pre-eyepatch Nick Fury in Captain Marvel (2019).  Fury was also at the end with Avengers: Endgame (2019).  “He is a complicated man” in Shaft (2019). Jackson was in the horror sequel Spiral (2021).  Next, Jackson played Moody in the action picture, The Protege (2021).  Darius Kincaid returned played by Jackson in Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021).  He voiced Nick Fury in four episodes of What If…? (2021).  Jackson has upcoming the Disney+ series Secret Invasion and is filming The Marvels (2023).  Happy Birthday Samuel L. Jackson!   

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