Johnny Knoxville
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Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Johnny Knoxville became both a beloved goofball and a lightning rod for controversy as soon as his signature TV show, Jackass, premiered on MTV in 2000. The show, which featured Knoxville and his friends executing a variety of stupid pranks and dangerous stunts, made an instant star of its hip, easygoing, developmentally arrested host, who was quickly signed on for a variety of film projects. However, its subject matter of foolish bicycle jumps, gross eating feats, and pepper spray testing drew the ire of concerned parents whose children were hurting themselves trying to imitate their hero.Knoxville was born Philip John Clapp in Knoxville, TN, on March 11, 1971, son of a used car salesman. At age eight, the asthmatic suffered a simultaneous bout of flu, pneumonia, and bronchitis that nearly killed him. Knoxville would later joke that surviving this period convinced him he was invincible, making possible his future vocation as a performer who would injure himself for laughs. Knoxville had originally planned to go into acting through normal channels, attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, CA. However, it was while writing for a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother that Knoxville got his big break. Working on a story about self-defense equipment, Knoxville agreed to let magazine editor Jeff Tremaine film him testing the devices on himself. Hence, Jackass was born, with Tremaine, Knoxville, and director Spike Jonze serving as co-creators. MTV won a bidding war with Comedy Central, and the show became a hit -- one quickly festooned with warning labels not to try this at home.After a role in the little-seen indie Desert Blues (1995) (credited as Phillip John) and a blink-and-you'll-miss-him appearance in Coyote Ugly (2000), Knoxville was offered a string of film roles following the success of Jackass, as well as a stint on Saturday Night Live, which he turned down. However, his cinematic coming-out party was delayed when Big Trouble, which featured a nuclear weapon smuggled aboard a commercial airplane, was pushed back indefinitely due to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. In 2001, he was also cast in the smaller films The Tree, The Ranger, and Life Without Dick, in which he plays the title character. As if one Knoxville wasn't enought to keep fans in stitches, the death-defying funnyman turned up as a two-headed alien in Men in Black II before taking his small screen antics to the silver screen, unrestrained by the restrictions of television, in Jackass: The Movie (both 2002). Though to this point Knoxville's fairly minimal film roles (of course excluding Jackass: The Movie) called for any true acting ability, increasingly prominant roles in such efforts as Grand Theft Parsons (2003) and Walking Tall (2004) found the likeable Jackass successfully developing a notable film career. Following a supporting performance alongside wrestler-turned-actor in Walking Tall, Knoxville landed a role in self-described "Prince of Puke" director John Waters' Baltimore-based comedy A Dirty Shame. In 2005 Knoxville made two big attempts to court the mainstream, though neither struck box office gold. He starred as Luke Duke in the big-screen version of The Dukes of Hazzard, and was the lead in the comedy The Ringer, where he played a man who pretended to be disabled so he could compete in the Special Olympics. He reteamed with the Jackass crew for a second feature film playfully titled Jackass: Number Two.In the years to follow, Knoxville would do more and more conventional acting, appearing in movies like The Ringer and Nature Calls, as well as writing and producing projects like The Dudesons in America.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Jackass |
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— | 2021 |
40% | Above Suspicion |
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— | 2021 |
36% | Mainstream |
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— | 2021 |
69% | We Summon the Darkness |
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— | 2020 |
19% | Polar |
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— | 2019 |
58% | Weightless |
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— | 2018 |
15% | Action Point |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Rosy |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Rosy |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Bunker77 |
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— | 2017 |
100% | Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine |
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— | 2017 |
38% | Skiptrace |
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— | 2016 |
38% | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows |
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$82.1M | 2016 |
77% | Elvis & Nixon |
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$0.8M | 2016 |
97% | Being Evel |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Sick Day |
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— | 2015 |
21% | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
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$164M | 2014 |
61% | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa |
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$85M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 (Unrated) |
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— | 2013 |
30% | Small Apartments |
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— | 2013 |
4% | Movie 43 |
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$8.8M | 2013 |
61% | The Last Stand |
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$12.1M | 2013 |
5% | Nature Calls |
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$382 | 2012 |
6% | Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D |
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$3.4M | 2012 |
0% | Father of Invention |
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— | 2011 |
60% | Jackass 3.5 |
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— | 2011 |
65% | Jackass 3 |
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$117.3M | 2010 |
60% | The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Jackass: The Lost Tapes |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Jackass Presents - Matt Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Thrillbillies Double Wide |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Jackass 2.5 |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | The Man Who Souled the World |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Vice Guide to Travel |
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— | 2006 |
64% | Jackass: Number Two |
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$72.8M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Ultimate Predator |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Don't Try This at Home - The Steve-O Video |
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— | 2006 |
40% | The Ringer |
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$35.1M | 2005 |
7% | Daltry Calhoun |
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— | 2005 |
14% | The Dukes of Hazzard |
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$80.3M | 2005 |
55% | Lords of Dogtown |
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$11.1M | 2005 |
53% | A Dirty Shame |
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$1.3M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Steve-O: The Early Years |
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— | 2004 |
46% | Grand Theft Parsons |
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— | 2004 |
26% | Walking Tall |
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$45.9M | 2004 |
49% | Jackass - The Movie |
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$64.3M | 2002 |
38% | Men in Black II |
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$190.4M | 2002 |
3% | Deuces Wild |
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$6.1M | 2002 |
48% | Big Trouble |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Life Without Dick |
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— | 2001 |
23% | Coyote Ugly |
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— | 2000 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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96% |
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
Drunk History
2013
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
30 for 30
2009-2020
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
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No Score Yet |
Nikki & Sara Live
2013
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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No Score Yet |
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Burn With Jeff Ross
2012-2013
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No Score Yet |
Ridiculousness
2011
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No Score Yet |
Last Call With Carson Daly
2007-2019
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No Score Yet |
Lopez Tonight
2009-2011
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No Score Yet |
WWE Monday Night Raw
1993-2019
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No Score Yet |
Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory
2009-2015
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39% |
The Goode Family
2009
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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30% |
Unhitched
2008
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No Score Yet |
King of the Hill
1997-2010
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Henry Rollins Show
2006-2007
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Jackass
2000-2002
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Quotes from Johnny Knoxville's Characters
Raphael: | Give me the camera... |
Michaelangelo: | Oh, he's doing his Batman voice. |
Leonardo: | Back off, Raph! |
Eddie Leadbetter: | We're arrivin', but, we're departin'. |
Sheriff Ray Owens: | We meet in Main Street in five; and we need as many vehicles as possible for the blockade. |
Lewis Dinkum: | I'll drive old Henrietta here. [pats his vintage military truck] |
Sheriff Ray Owens: | Do you have stupid names for all your shit? |
Lewis Dinkum: | Only the shit I love! |
Irving Zisman: | [Looking at Billy] Your a pretty little girl you hear me! |
Irving Zisman: | You're a pretty little girl you hear me! |
Irving Zisman: | "Im 86 Years Old!!!" |
Irving Zisman: | I'm 86 years old! |
Kirk: | I'm gonna murder him dead! |
Uncle Jesse: | You know what you get when you cross a donkey with an union? |
Luke Duke: | What? |
Boss Hogg: | A piece of ass that brings a tear to your eye! |
Uncle Jesse: | You know why divorces are so expensive? |
Luke Duke: | Why? |
Uncle Jesse: | Because they're worth it! |
Billy: | Sratch! You scratched my CD. |
Billy: | You picked it up in clear daylight and you scratched it. |
Steve Barker / Jeffy: | Jeffy just admiring CD. |
Billy: | Hey don't give me tude! |
College Guy: | Jim, Jack, Johnny Red, Johnny Black, and Jose; all my favorite men. You can have it any way you like it, as long as it's in a shot glass. |
Lil: | Jim, Jack, Johnny Red, Johnny Black, and Jose; all my favorite men. You can have it any way you like it, as long as it's in a shot glass. |