John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953 in Christopher , Franklin County, Illinois ) is an American actor and film producer .
Life
Malkovich grew up as the second born with four siblings in Benton, Illinois. He graduated from Illinois State University . In 1976 he was hired by the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago .
In 1983 Malkovich moved to New York , where he appeared on Broadway in 1984 alongside Dustin Hoffman in the play Death of a Salesman . For his film debut as Mr. Will in A Place in the Heart , he was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Supporting Actor in 1985. In 1984 he also had a role in the film The Killing Fields , for which he received the Boston Society of Film Critics Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award . In 1985 Volker Schlöndorff made the television film Death of a Salesman after the above. Play, again with Hoffman in the lead and Malkovich as Biff . For this role, Malkovich received an Emmy Award in 1986 and was nominated for a Golden Globe .
Malkovich is one of the most distinguished actors of complex, problematic and abysmal, often highly intelligent but equally condescending characters. The spectrum of the characters he embodies is broad and ranges from sympathetic villains ( Ripley's Game ) to failed intellectuals ( sky over the desert ) , cynical careless people ( The Man with the Iron Mask ) and unscrupulous schemers (dangerous love affairs) to Figures that represent pure evil ( Con Air ) . He played a dangerous madman in Con Air and the evil, tyrannical king in Eragon - The Legacy of the Dragon Riders . In Mary Reilly and Shadow of the Vampire he embodied scientists and artists who, in their insatiable desire for the absolute, do not shy away from a pact with dark and uncontrollable forces. Malkovich demonstrated a different kind of complexity in the film Of Mice and Men with the portrayal of an unsuspecting and good-natured, but in his overdeveloped physicality, dangerous debile . A variation on the theme is offered by Volker Schlöndorff's German-French-British coproduction Der Unhold , in which Malkovich plays an introverted but deeply good naive who campaigns for animals and children, but allows himself to be abused as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany, his empathy at the service of the inhumane National Socialist cause. The attraction and the urgency of his portrayal consists in many cases in the ambivalence that arises from the emotional vulnerability of his characters, who are deadly dangerous for the environment.
His penchant for independent films and his reputation as one of the most interesting actors in the USA led to a title role being dedicated to him: In Being John Malkovich (1999), he plays himself while several other people try to get into himself and into his brain after someone accidentally got into it by opening a secret door and enthusiastically reported about it.
John Malkovich lived in France for many years and also made films there. After a dispute with the local authorities over tax payments, however, he moved back to the USA, near Boston .
Working in Germany
Malkovich also performs regularly in Germany. At the Ruhr Festival 2010 in Recklinghausen , he played the leading role in the musical theater adaptation The Infernal Comedy - Confessions of a Serial Killer , the woman murderer Jack Unterweger . In 2011 he played the writer Casanova in the music theater project The Giacomo Variations .
In March 2017, the world premiere of a "scenic production in English" with Malkovich in the lead role as a megalomaniac dictator took place in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie : Just Call Me God - A Dictator's Final Speech . The production then went on an international tour.
German dubbing voice
In German versions of films with Malkovich, he is mostly dubbed by Joachim Tennstedt .
Filmography
actor
- 1978: A Wedding (Uncredited)
- 1981: The Unknown Witness ( Word of Honor , Movie made for TV)
- 1981: American Dream (TV movie)
- 1981: Say Goodnight, Gracie (TV movie)
- 1984: American Playhouse (TV series, episode: True West)
- 1984: Places in the Heart (Places in the Heart)
- 1984: The Killing Fields - Crying country (The Killing Fields)
- 1985: Death of a Salesman (Death of a Salesman)
- 1985: Eleni
- 1986: American Playhouse (TV series, episode: Tolldreiste)
- 1987: Making Mr. Right - Ein Mann à la Carte (Making Mr. Right)
- 1987: The Glass Menagerie (The Glass Menagerie)
- 1987: Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun)
- 1988: Miles from Home
- 1988 Dangerous liaisons (Dangerous liaisons)
- 1990: The Sheltering Sky (The Sheltering Sky)
- 1991: Born in Queens (Queens Logic)
- 1991: Object of Beauty
- 1991: Old Times (TV movie)
- 1991: Shadows and Fog (Shadows and Fog)
- 1992: Of Mice and Men (Of Mice and Men)
- 1992: Jennifer 8
- 1993: In the Line of Fire - The Second Chance (In the Line of Fire)
- 1993: survive! (Alive)
- 1994: Heart of Darkness (TV movie)
- 1995: Beyond the Clouds (Par delà les nuages)
- 1995: The monastery (O Convento)
- 1996: Mary Reilly
- 1996: According to its own rules (Mulholland Falls)
- 1996: The Ogre (The Ogre)
- 1996: Portrait of a Lady
- 1997: Con Air
- 1998: The Man in the Iron Mask (The Man in the Iron Mask)
- 1998: Ladies Room
- 1998: Rounders
- 1999: Being John Malkovich
- 1999: Johanna von Orleans (The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc)
- 1999: Citizen Kane - The Hollywood Legend (RKO 281)
- 1999: Time found again (Le temps retrouvé)
- 2000: Les Misérables - Prisoners of Fate ( Les Misérables , TV film)
- 2000: Shadow of the Vampire
- 2001: The strong souls (Les âmes fortes)
- 2001: I'm going home (Je rentre à la maison)
- 2001: Hotel
- 2001: Knockaround Guys
- 2002: The Colonel and the Dancer (The Dancer Upstairs)
- 2002: Ripley's Game
- 2002: Adaptation - The Orchid Thief (Adaptation.)
- 2002: Napoleon - TV film
- 2003: Johnny English - The Spy Who Broken It (Johnny English)
- 2003: To Films Falado - Trip to Bombay (To Films Falado)
- 2004: The Libertine
- 2005: Color Me Kubrick
- 2005: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
- 2006: Art School Confidential
- 2006: Eragon - Legacy of the Dragon Riders (Eragon)
- 2006: Art School Confidential
- 2006: Klimt
- 2007: The Legend of Beowulf (Beowulf)
- 2008: Gardens of the Night
- 2008: The Great Buck Howard (The Great Buck Howard)
- 2008: Mutant Chronicles
- 2008: The Camp - We Went Through Hell (In Tranzit)
- 2008: Burn After Reading - Who is Burning Their Fingers Here? (Burn After Reading)
- 2008: The Stranger's Son (Changeling)
- 2008: An Angel in Winter (Afterwards)
- 2008: Shame (Disgrace)
- 2010: Drunkboat - Desperate Escape (Drunkboat)
- 2010: RED - Older, Harder, Better (RED - Retired Extremely Dangerous)
- 2010: Jonah Hex
- 2010: Secretariat - A horse becomes a legend (Secretariat)
- 2011: Transformers 3 (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
- 2012: Noseland (documentary)
- 2012: Lines of Wellington - Storm over Portugal (Lines of Wellington / Linhas de Wellington)
- 2013: Warm Bodies
- 2013: Siberian education (Educazione Siberiana)
- 2013: RED 2 (RED 2)
- 2014: Crossbones (TV series, nine episodes)
- 2014: The Casanova Variations
- 2014: The penguins of Madagascar ( Penguins of Madagascar , speaking role)
- 2014: Cut Bank - Small murders among neighbors (Cut Bank)
- 2014: Cesar Chavez
- 2016: Zoolander 2
- 2016: Deepwater Horizon
- 2017: Unlocked
- 2017: I Love You, Daddy
- 2017: About love. For adults only
- 2018: Mile 22
- 2018: Bird Box - Close Your Eyes (Bird Box)
- 2018: The ABC Murders (mini-series, three episodes)
- 2018-2019: Billions (TV series, six episodes)
- 2019: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
- 2019: The Dead Man's Art (Velvet Buzzsaw)
- 2019: Valley of the Gods
- 2020: The New Pope (TV series)
- 2020: Space Force (TV series)
Director
- 2002: Hideous Man (short film, also screenplay)
- 2002: The Colonel and the Dancer (The Dancer Upstairs)
- 2015: A Postcard from Istanbul (short film, also screenplay)
producer
- 2001: Ghost World
- 2001: The Loner
- 2002: The Colonel and the Dancer (The Dancer Upstairs)
- 2003: Kill the Poor
- 2004: The Libertine
- 2007: Juno
- 2012: Maybe Better Tomorrow (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Films about John Malkovich
- Flipping Uncle Kimono. Documentary by Howard Brull , Canada 2005
- Hollywood Profile - John Malkovich . Documentary film portrait by Georg Stefan Troller. Published by kickfilm.de
- Being John Malkovich . Comedy film by Spike Jonze, USA 1999
Interviews
- Gero von Boehm : John Malkovich, February 28, 2006 . Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 488-497.
Awards
- 1984: NBR Award for Places in the Heart
- 1985: NSFC Award for Places in the Heart
- 1985: BSFC Award for Killing Fields
- 1985: KCFCC Award for Places in the Heart
- 1986: Emmy for his role in Death of a Salesman
- 1990: Sant Jordi for Dangerous Liaisons
- 1993: Cognac Festival du Film Policier for Jennifer Eight
- 1999: NYFCC Award for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: American Comedy Award for Being John Malkovich
- 2001: Special Award
- 2005: DIVA-Award in the category World Award (Hall of Fame)
- 2008: Christopher Award for Juno
- 2008: Independent Spirit Award for Juno
- 2011: CineMerit Award of the Munich Film Festival for services to film art
Nominations
- 1985: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for A Place in the Heart
- 1986: Golden Globe for Death of a Salesman
- 1992: Independent Spirit Award for Queens Logic
- 1994: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for In the Line of Fire
- 1994: Saturn Award for In the Line of Fire
- 1994: British Academy Film Award for In the Line of Fire
- 1994: Golden Globe for In the Line of Fire
- 1994: MTV Movie Award for In the Line of Fire
- 1995: Golden Globe for Heart of Darkness
- 1995: Screen Actors Guild Awards for Heart of Darkness
- 2000: OFCS Award for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: Screen Actors Guild Awards for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: CFCA Award for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: Sierra Award for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: Chlotrudis Award for Being John Malkovich
- 2000: Emmy for RKO 281
- 2003: Emmy for Napoleon
Web links
- Literature by and about John Malkovich in the catalog of the German National Library
- John Malkovich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- John Malkovich in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 17, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Demonic Child. Interview with Malte Herwig, in: Stern No. 10, March 2, 2017, pp. 116f.
- ↑ VESTIVALplus: The magazine for the 64th Ruhrfestspiele, Marl 2010, p. 4
- ↑ dpa: John Malkovich as a great dictator in the Elbphilharmonie . March 9, 2017 ( stern.de [accessed March 12, 2017]).
- ↑ John Malkovich as Casanova at the Ruhr Festival. In: Der Westen, May 2, 2011, accessed May 5, 2011
- ↑ Hamburgmusik gGmbH - Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle operating company (ed.): Just Call Me God . Program booklet. Hamburg March 2017, p. 3 .
- ↑ Hubert Spiegel: John Malkovich in Hamburg: Because crazy rulers love big notes . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 10, 2017, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 12, 2017]).
- ^ Daniel Kaiser: John Malkovich as a cynical fantasy dictator. In: ndr.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, March 9, 2017, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
- ↑ John Malkovich ( Memento of the original of July 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kickfilm.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Malkovich, John |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malkovich, John Gavin (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor and producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Christopher , Illinois, United States |