Benjamin Walker
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Georgia, USA
Benjamin Walker is the son of a music teacher mother and a father who Walker describes as having had "a number of different careers". He has one older brother. Walker was educated at Cartersville High School in Georgia and the Interlochen Arts Academy in Traverse City, Michigan, before studying acting at the Juilliard School in New York. Whilst at Juilliard, Walker got his first experiences of performing for paying audiences as a stand-up comedian. His acting break came in 2007, when he was cast as Bertram Cates in a Broadway production of 'Inherit the Wind'. Further theater roles followed, including playing Andrew Jackson in the rock musical 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson', which was critically acclaimed. Walker first came to film-goers' attention when he played the young Kinsey in Kinsey (2004). Other film and TV roles followed including Harlon Block in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers (2006), and playing another president, Abraham Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012).
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Highest Rated Movies
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Filmography
MOVIES
| RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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| 20% | The King's Daughter |
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— | 2022 |
| 43% | The Ice Road |
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— | 2021 |
| 33% | Love Is Blind |
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— | 2019 |
| 60% | Shimmer Lake |
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— | 2017 |
| 11% | The Choice |
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$15.3M | 2016 |
| 43% | In the Heart of the Sea |
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$19.1M | 2015 |
| 38% | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight |
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— | 2013 |
| 34% | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter |
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$37.4M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Coach |
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— | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | The War Boys |
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— | 2009 |
| 85% | Unconscious |
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— | 2006 |
| 73% | Flags of Our Fathers |
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$33.6M | 2006 |
| 57% | The Notorious Bettie Page |
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$1.4M | 2006 |
| 90% | Kinsey |
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$10.3M | 2004 |
TV
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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Need to Know
2010-2013
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Quotes from Benjamin Walker's Characters
| Owen Chase: | You sent 'em into a storm? |
| Captain George Pollard: | That... was unlucky. |
| Owen Chase: | No, it was a bad seamanship, and blaming misfortune is just plain weakness. |
| Travis Parker: | I'm walking towards you real slow... because if i ran I'd scare you |
| Travis Parker: | I'm walking towards you real slow... because if i ran I'd scare you. |
| Captain George Pollard: | We will surely perish out there. |
| Owen Chase: | We might also survive. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | I'm sorry, Mary. I'm sorry I've kept you in the dark all these years... I need you, Mary. |
| Mary Todd Lincoln: | I've waited a long time to hear you say those words. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | History prefers legends to men. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quiet deeds. History remembers the battle, but forgets the blood. However history remembers me before I was a president, it shall only remember a fraction of the truth... |
| Abraham Lincoln: | An wise man said always have a contingency plan... |
| Abraham Lincoln: | A wise man once told me always have a contingency plan. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | Until every man is free, we are all slaves! |
| Mary Todd Lincoln: | It's called a dance. If we were meant to sit alone, they would've called it something else |
| Mary Todd Lincoln: | It's called a dance. If we were meant to sit alone, they would've called it something else. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | Yes, I supposed they would have. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | Will! Speed! This! This is what we need! |
| Will Johnson: | A fork... |
| Abraham Lincoln: | Silver. |
| Henry Sturges: | [sucking the blood out of a man] |
| Abraham Lincoln: | [walks into the same alley as Henry, finds out he's a vampire] You lying son of a bitch! |
| Abraham Lincoln: | of the people, by the people, for the people... |
| Abraham Lincoln: | Government of the people, by the people, for the people... |
| Abraham Lincoln: | History remembers the battle, but forgets the blood. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | How ever history remembers me, it'll only remember, a fraction of the truth. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | How ever history remembers me, it'll only remember, a fraction of the truth.However, history remembers me before I was a President. It shall only remember a fraction of the truth. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | History prefers legends it remembers the battles and forgets the darkness |
| Abraham Lincoln: | History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to wild deeds. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quiet deeds. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | I persume you know what I can do with this. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | I presume you know what I can do with this. |
| Adam: | I know what you can do with one,but against 20? |
| Adam: | I know what you can do with one, but against 20? |
| Abraham Lincoln: | Wait, this didn't happen to me. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | I shall kill them all |
| Abraham Lincoln: | I shall kill them all. |