Mark Hamill Net Worth

Mark Hamill's Quotes

• I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George (Lucas) would do it.
• Acting in "Star Wars", I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
• "I had the accident way before Star Wars came out, but what really happened has been terribly distorted. I broke my nose, that's it! But I've read accounts about how my face has been reconstructed with plastic surgery and how I was pulling myself along the highway with one arm looking for help. I even heard that I drove off a cliff! That's the best one of all." - Mark Hamill on his auto accident.
• The idea of The Force is basically "Religion's Greatest Hits".
• You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

Interesting Facts about Mark Hamill

1. Father of Nathan Hamill (born 25 June 1979), Griffin Hamill (born 4 March 1983) and Chelsea Hamill (born 27 July 1988). Nathan was born in the United Kingdom while dad Mark was on location there shooting Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
2. This is a pseudonym of Mark Hamill (I). He said, "It was never about billing or salary. It was for fun & the fans & because I love Easter Eggs! I misremembered my pseudonym as "Patrick Williams"-It was actually "William M. Patrick" (for my older & younger brothers) I'm not telling what the M. stands for. Guess".
3. Patrick Williams is a stage name used by Mark Hamill in Star Wars Episode XI: The Rise of Skywalker.
4. In an ironic counterpoint to his problem of being typecast as a upright hero like Luke Skywalker in live-action roles, he has found that his successful career as an animation voice actor has typecast him as a player of flamboyant villains like The Joker on Batman: The Animated Series (1992).
5. Attended Nile C. Kinnick High School (known as Yo-Hi) in Yokohama, Japan, where as a senior he played Henry Aldrich in the high school production of Clifford Goldsmith's "What a Life". School is now on the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, where it is known by its original name, Kinnick High. Original site of the high school where Hamill acted is now a MyCal department store.
6. Hamill met his wife, Mary Lou York, when she was his dental hygienist.
7. He did all his own stunts in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) -- except two places: where Luke Skywalker jumps off the plank into the Sarlaac, turns, and flips back onto the plank and on the Death Star when Darth Vader throws his lightsaber at the supports of the catwalk. According to "The Making of Return of the Jedi" by John Philip Peecher (c. 1983), his stunt double, Colin Skeaping, performed both of these stunts.
8. He accidentally hit Peter Stormare during a fight scene in Commander Hamilton (1998).
9. He did most of his own stunts in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), except in the scene in Cloud City where he is sucked out of a window.
10. He was originally cast as David Bradford on Eight Is Enough (1977), and asked to be released from his contract before Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) came out because he sensed the movie would be successful, and Hamill wanted to focus on his movie career. ABC refused to release him from his contract, thinking that having a successful movie star connected with the show would help "Eight Is Enough" (1977). Hamill was then in a car crash in December 1976 and injured his face. This made him unavailable for shooting the television series, and ABC was forced to recast the role of David, which then went to Grant Goodeve.
11. Is the fourth of seven children of William Thomas and Virginia Suzanne Hamill.
12. Auditioned for the comedy-drama American Graffiti (1973).
13. Has appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), which also starred Carrie Fisher. It was the first time the two had starred together since Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). Neither of them knew that the other was involved in the project until shortly after filming had been completed.
14. Claims his inspiration for the vocal interpretation as The Joker on Batman: The Animated Series (1992) came from a mixture of Hannibal Lecter and Jerry Lewis.
15. Attended Annandale High School in Annandale, Virginia before his father was transfered.
16. He kept his Luke Skywalker boots, from the first "Star Wars" movie. When the movie was re-released to theaters in the late 1990s, his son asked if he could wear the boots to a showing. Hamill said no, telling him he didn't think the boy would "get out alive" if fans knew his boots were the originals.
17. Though in the original Star Wars trilogy he shoots a pistol and swings a lightsaber right-handed, he eats and writes left-handed. He can be seen eating left-handed in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) when in Yoda's home, throwing the skull left-handed to defeat the Rancor in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), and when writing left-handed on a guest appearance on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996).
18. Director Stephen Weeks originally wanted him for the role of Sir Gawain in Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984) but the producers refused and insisted on Miles O'Keeffe.
19. Mark and his "Star Wars" co-star Harrison Ford were both considered for the role of the bumbling wizard Schmendrick in the animated adaptation of The Last Unicorn (1982).
20. Has played the infamous Flash villain, The Trickster aka James Jesse (a word play for old west bandit Jesse James, a popular stunt for "Flash" creator Gardner Fox and other series writers), in both the short lived live-action CBS series The Flash (1990), in 1991 (two episodes), and in the animated Justice League (2001) series in 2005, in the episode "Flash and Substance".