Rabu, 27 Januari 2010

Film Kartun lama Terfavorit

Flashback masa-masa kecil di SD, dulu saat SD saya paling senang dengan namanya nonton Film Kartun, untuk itu saya sharingkan film-film kenangan saat saya msh TK-sekarang:

  • Scooby Doo : kisah 4 orang sahabat+anjing pintar yg
  • Simpsons : kisah menakjubkan dua orang kembar
  • Doraemon : Kucing dari abad ke-22 membantu sahabatnya Nobita
  • Ninja Hatori : Seorang Ninja yang membantu orang kesusahan
  • Winne The pooh : kisah beruang madu bersama teman-teman nya
  • P-Man : Bocah sakti yang membantu membereskan kejahatan
  • Let's Go : kisah pemain tamiya
  • Digimon: Petualangan monster-monster
  • Yugi Oh: Pertempuran monster digital
  • Tsubatsa: Pemain bola terkenal dari jepang
  • Sailor Moon
  • Seinsaya
  • Rugrats : anak bayi cerdik
  • Hatchi : Kisah seorang anak lebah yg ditinggal oleh keluarganya
  • Jiraya
  • Gundam : Peperangan antara robot
  • Hunter X hunter : Petualangan Gon, dan 3 sahabatnya untuk menjadi Master Hunter
  • Beyblade : tentang Pemain Gangsing
  • Samurai X : kisah seorang pendekar yg menolong orang
  • Chalk Zone : Seorang anak mendapat kapur ajaib
  • Yuyohakuso
  • Ghost School : Kisah seorang guru yang mempunyai ilmu sakti
  • Crash Gear : Mengadunya mobil bertarung
  • Transformers : pertempuran robot-robot
  • Spongebob : kisah mahluk hidup di air
  • Naruto : petualangan bocah sakti
Yang manakah film favorit teman-teman? Bila Teman-teman punya film lama yang teman2 favoritkan dan belum ada di list ini bisa langsung comment aja.

komik-kartun jadul

dandoh
prince of tennis
rugrats
simpson
catdog
asterik
power puff girl
Voltus V
magoo
teko ajaib
google v
huma
kumkum
dr. slump
inspector gadgets

Robin Williams


At "Stand Up for Heroes", a benefit organized by the Bob Woodruff Family Fund to raise money for injured U.S. servicemen (2007)
Born Robin McLaurim Williams
July 21, 1951 (1951-07-21) (age 58)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation Actor/Comedian
Years active 1973–present
Spouse(s) Valerie Velardi
(1978–1988)
Marsha Garces Williams (1989–2008)

Robin McLaurim Williams[1][2] (born July 21, 1951)[3] is an American actor and comedian.

Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He has also won three Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Grammy Awards


Early life

Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Laura (née Smith, 1922 – 2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana.[4] His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 – October 18, 1987) was a senior executive at Lincoln-Mercury Motorship in charge of the Midwest area. Williams was raised in the Episcopal Church, though his mother practiced Christian Science.[5][6] He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School,[7] and Marin County, California, where he attended the public Redwood High School. Williams also attended Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College) for four years.

He has two half-brothers: Todd (who died August 14, 2007) and McLaurin.[8]

Williams has described himself as a quiet child whose first imitation was of his grandmother to his mother. He did not overcome his shyness until he became involved with his high-school drama department.[9]

In 1973, Williams was one of only 20 students accepted into the freshman class at the Juilliard School, and one of only two students to be accepted by John Houseman into the Advanced Program at the school that year, the other being Christopher Reeve.[10] In his dialects class, Williams had no trouble mastering all dialects quickly.

Television career

After appearing in the cast of the short-lived The Richard Pryor Show on NBC, Williams was cast by Garry Marshall as the alien Mork in the hit TV series "Happy Days".[11] As Mork, Williams improvised much of his dialogue and devised plenty of rapid-fire verbal and physical comedy, speaking in a high, nasal voice. Mork's appearance was so popular with viewers that it led to a spin-off hit television sitcom, Mork and Mindy, which ran from 1978 to 1982. Although playing the same character as in his appearance in Happy Days, the show was set in the present day, in Boulder, Colorado, instead of late '50s in Milwaukee. Mork was an extremely popular character, featured on posters, coloring books, lunchboxes, and other merchandise.

Starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Williams began to reach a wider audience with his standup comedy, including three HBO comedy specials, Off The Wall (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams (1982), and Robin Williams: Live at the Met (1986). Also in 1986, Williams reached an ever wider audience to exhibit his style at the 58th Academy Awards show; noting the Hollywood writers strike that year he commented that the Hollywood writer... "is the only man in the world that can blow smoke up his own ass." As a result, Williams has never hosted the Academy Awards again.

His standup work has been a consistent thread through his career, as is seen by the success of his one-man show (and subsequent DVD) Robin Williams Live on Broadway (2002). He was voted 13th on Comedy Central's list "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time" in 2004.[12]

After some encouragement from his friend Whoopi Goldberg, he was set to make a guest appearance in the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "A Matter of Time", but he had to cancel due to a scheduling conflict;[13] Matt Frewer took his place as a time-traveling con man, Professor Berlingoff Rasmussen.

Williams also appeared on an episode of the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Season 3, Episode 9: November 16, 2000). During a game of "Scenes from a Hat", the scene "What Robin Williams is thinking right now" was drawn, and Williams stated "I have a career. What the hell am I doing here?"[14]

Cinema career

Most of Williams' acting career has been in film, although he has given some performances on stage as well (notably as Estragon in a production of Waiting for Godot with Steve Martin). His performance in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) got Williams nominated for an Academy Award. Many of his roles have been comedies tinged with pathos, for example The Birdcage and Mrs. Doubtfire.

His role as the Genie in the animated film Aladdin was instrumental in establishing the importance of star power in voice actor casting. Williams also used his voice talents in Fern Gully, as the holographic Dr. Know in the 2001 feature A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the 2005 animated feature Robots, the 2006 Academy Award winning Happy Feet, and an uncredited vocal performance in 2006's Everyone's Hero. Furthermore, he was the voice of The Timekeeper, a former attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort about a time-traveling robot who encounters Jules Verne and brings him to the future.

Williams has also starred in dramatic films, which got him two subsequent Academy Award nominations: First for playing an English teacher in Dead Poets Society (1989), and later for playing a troubled homeless man in The Fisher King (1991);[15] that same year, he played an adult Peter Pan in the movie Hook. Other acclaimed dramatic films include Awakenings (1990) and What Dreams May Come (1998). In the 2002 dramatic thriller Insomnia, Williams portrays a writer/killer on the run from a sleep-deprived Los Angeles policeman (played by Al Pacino) in rural Alaska. And also in 2002, in the psychological thriller One Hour Photo, Williams played an emotionally disturbed photo development technician who becomes obsessed with a family for whom he has developed pictures for a long time.

In 1998, he won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his role as a psychologist in Good Will Hunting.[15] However, by the early 2000s, he was thought by some to be typecast in films such as Patch Adams (1998) and Bicentennial Man (1999) that critics complained were excessively maudlin. In 2006 Williams starred in The Night Listener, a thriller about a radio show host who realizes he has developed a friendship with a child who may or may not exist.

He is known for his improvisational skills and impersonations. His performances frequently involve impromptu humor designed and delivered in rapid-fire succession while on stage. According to the Aladdin DVD commentary, most of his dialogue as the Genie was improvised.

In 2006, he starred in five movies including Man of the Year and was the Surprise Guest at the 2006 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. He appeared on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that aired on January 30, 2006.

At one point, he was in the running to play the Riddler in Batman Forever until director Tim Burton dropped the project. Earlier, Williams had been a strong contender to play the Joker in Batman. He had expressed interest in assuming the role in The Dark Knight, the sequel to 2005's Batman Begins,[16] although the part of the Joker was played by Heath Ledger, who went on to win, posthumously, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He was portrayed by Chris Diamantopoulos in the made-for-TV biopic Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy (2005), documenting the actor's arrival in Hollywood as a struggling comedian.

Disputes with Disney

In gratitude for his success with the Disney/Touchstone film Good Morning, Vietnam, Robin Williams voiced the Genie in the Disney animated film Aladdin for SAG scale pay ($75,000), on condition that his name or image not be used for marketing, and his (supporting) character not take more than 25% of space on advertising artwork, since Toys was scheduled for release one month after Aladdin's debut. The studio went back on the deal on both counts, especially in poster art by having the Genie in 25% of the image, but having other major and supporting characters portrayed considerably smaller. Disney's Hyperion book, Aladdin: The Making Of An Animated Film, listed both of Williams' characters "The Peddler" and "The Genie" ahead of main characters, but was forced to refer to him only as "the actor signed to play the Genie".[17]

Williams and Disney had a bitter falling-out, and as a result Dan Castellaneta voiced the Genie in The Return of Jafar, the Aladdin animated television series, and had recorded his voice for Aladdin and the King of Thieves. When Jeffrey Katzenberg was fired from Disney and replaced by former 20th Century Fox production head Joe Roth (whose last act for Fox was greenlighting Williams' film Mrs. Doubtfire), Roth arranged for a public apology to Williams by Disney. Williams agreed to perform in Hollywood Pictures' Jack, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and even agreed to voice the Genie again for the King Of Thieves sequel (for considerably more than scale), replacing all of Castellaneta's dialogue.[18]

When Williams re-teamed with Doubtfire director Chris Columbus for 1999's Bicentennial Man, Disney asked that the budget be cut by approximately $20 million, and when the film was released on Christmas Day, it flopped at the box office. Williams blamed Disney's marketing and the loss of content the film had suffered due to the budget cuts. As a result, Williams was again on bad terms with Disney, and Castellaneta was once again recruited to replace him as Genie in the Kingdom Hearts video game series and the House of Mouse TV series. The DVD release for Aladdin has no involvement whatsoever from Williams in the bonus materials, although some of his original recording sessions can be seen.

Robin Williams has recently made peace with the Walt Disney Company and in 2009 agreed to be inducted into the Disney hall of fame, designated as a Disney Legend.[19]

Stand-up career

Robin Williams has done a number of stand-up comedy tours since the early 1970s. Some of his most notable tours include An Evening With Robin Williams (1982), Robin Williams: At The Met (1986) and Robin Williams LIVE on Broadway (2002). The latter broke many long held records for a comedy show. In some cases, tickets were sold out within thirty minutes of going on sale.

After a six-year break, in August 2008 Williams announced a brand new 26-city tour titled "Weapons of Self Destruction". He was quoted as saying that this was his last chance to make cracks at the expense of the current Bush Administration, but by the time the show was staged only a few minutes covered that subject. The tour started at the end of September 2009, finishing in New York on December 3, and was the subject of an HBO special on December 8, 2009.[20]

Controversy

Robin Williams gained a reputation for stealing material from other comics to the extent that David Brenner claims that he confronted Williams personally and threatened him with bodily harm if he heard Williams utter another one of his jokes.[21].

Personal life

Robin Williams' first marriage was to Valerie Velardi on June 4, 1978, with whom he has one child, Zachary Pym (Zak) (born April 11, 1983). During Williams' first marriage, he was involved in an extramarital relationship with Michelle Tish Carter, a cocktail waitress whom he met in 1984. She sued him in 1986, claiming that he did not tell her he was infected with the herpes simplex virus before he embarked on a sexual relationship with her in the mid-1980s, during which, she said, he transmitted the virus to her. The case was settled out of court.[22]

On April 30, 1989, he married Marsha Garces, his son's nanny who was already several months pregnant with his child. They have two children, Zelda Rae (born July 31, 1989) and Cody Alan (born November 25, 1991). However, in March 2008, Garces filed for divorce from Williams, citing irreconcilable differences.[23]

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Williams had an addiction to cocaine; he has since quit. Williams was a close friend and frequent partier alongside John Belushi. He says the death of his friend and the birth of his son prompted him to quit drugs: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The grand jury helped too."[15]

On August 9, 2006, Williams checked himself in to a substance-abuse rehabilitation center, later admitting that he was an alcoholic.[24] His publicist delivered the announcement:

"After 20 years of sobriety, Robin Williams found himself drinking again and has decided to take proactive measures to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being of his family. He asks that you respect his and his family's privacy during this time. He looks forward to returning to work this fall to support his upcoming film releases."[25]

On August 20, 2007, Williams' elder brother, Robert Todd Williams, died of complications from heart surgery performed a month earlier.[26]

Williams is a member of the Episcopal Church. He has described his denomination in a comedy routine as "Catholic Lite —; same rituals, half the guilt."[27]

While studying at Juilliard, Williams befriended Christopher Reeve. They had several classes together in which they were the only students, and they remained good friends for the rest of Reeve's life. Williams visited Reeve after the horse riding accident that rendered him a quadriplegic, and cheered him up by pretending to be an eccentric Russian doctor (similar to his role in Nine Months). Williams claimed that he was there to perform a colonoscopy. Reeve stated that he laughed for the first time since the accident and knew that life was going to be okay.[10]

Health

Williams was hospitalized in March 2009 due to heart problems. Williams postponed his one-man tour in order to undergo surgery to replace his aortic valve.[28][29] The surgery was successfully completed on March 13, 2009, at the Cleveland Clinic.[30][31]

Other interests

Williams speaking at the 2008 BBC World Debate

Williams is an avid enthusiast of games (even naming his daughter after Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda video game series),[32] enjoying pen-and-paper role-playing games and online video games, recently playing Warcraft 3, Day of Defeat, Half-Life,[33] and the first-person shooter Battlefield 2 as a sniper.[34] On January 6, 2006, he performed live at Consumer Electronics Show during Google's keynote.[35] In the 2006 E3, on the invitation of Will Wright, he demonstrated the creature editor of Spore while simultaneously commenting on the creature's look: "This will actually make a platypus look good."[36] He also complimented the game's versatility, comparing it to Populous and Black & White. Later that year, he was one of several celebrities to participate in the Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day.[37]

Williams has gone on record as a fan of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, and incorporated a scene referencing it in One Hour Photo where he purchases a model kit from it as a gift.

A fan of professional road cycling, he was a regular on the US Postal and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling team bus and hotels during the years Lance Armstrong dominated the Tour de France.[38] He owns over 50 bicycles.[39]

He also enjoys rugby union and is a big fan of former All Black, Jonah Lomu.[40]

Williams is a supporter of eco-friendly vehicles. He currently drives a Toyota Prius,[41] but is on the waiting list to be an early adopter of the Aptera 2-series electric vehicle.[42]

Charity work

Williams and his former wife, Marsha, founded the Windfall Foundation, a philanthropic organization to raise money for many different charities. Williams devotes much of his energy doing work for charities, including the Comic Relief fund-raising efforts. In December 1999, he sang in French on the BBC-inspired music video of international celebrities doing a cover of the Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock & Roll" for the charity Children's Promise.[43]

Williams has performed with the USO for U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.[44]

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1977 Can I Do It 'Till I Need Glasses? Himself
1980 Popeye Popeye
1982 The World According to Garp T.S. Garp
1983 The Survivors Donald Quinelle
1984 Moscow on the Hudson Vladimir Ivanov Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1986 Seize the Day Tommy Wilhelm
Club Paradise Jack Moniker
The Best of Times Jack Dundee
1987 Good Morning, Vietnam Adrian Cronauer Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen King of the Moon Credited as Ray D. Tutto
Portrait of a White Marriage Air Conditioning Salesman
Rabbit Ears: Pecos Bill Narrator Voice
1989 Dead Poets Society John Keating Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
I'm from Hollywood Himself
1990 Awakenings Dr. Malcolm Sayer Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Cadillac Man Joey O'Brien
Back to Neverland Himself
1991 Hook Peter Banning / Peter Pan
The Fisher King Parry Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
Dead Again Doctor Cozy Carlisle
"Rabbit Ears: The Fool and the Flying Ship" Narrator Voice
1992 Toys Leslie Zevo voice
Aladdin Genie/Merchant Voice
The Timekeeper The Timekeeper
FernGully: The Last Rainforest Batty Koda Voice
Shakes the Clown Mime Class Instructor
1993 Mrs. Doubtfire Daniel Hillard/Mrs. Doubtfire Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Being Human Hector
1994 In Search of Dr. Seuss Father
1995 Aladdin and the King of Thieves Genie Voice
Jumanji Alan Parrish
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Nine Months Dr. Kosevich
1996 Hamlet Osric
The Secret Agent The Professor
Jack Jack Powell
The Birdcage Armand Goldman Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1997 Good Will Hunting Sean Maguire Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Flubber Professor Philip Brainard
Deconstructing Harry Mel/Harry's Character
Fathers' Day Dale Putley
1998 Patch Adams Hunter "Patch" Adams Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Junket Whore Himself
What Dreams May Come Chris Nielsen
1999 Bicentennial Man Andrew Martin
Jakob the Liar Jakob Heym/Narrator
Get Bruce Himself
2000 Model Behavior Faremain
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence Dr. Know voice
2002 The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch Hans Hänkie
Insomnia Walter Finch
Death to Smoochy 'Rainbow' Randolph Smiley
One Hour Photo Sy Parrish
2004 Noel Charlie Boyd/The Priest
House of D Pappass
The Final Cut Alan W. Hakman
2005 The Big White Paul Barnell
Robots Fender voice
The Aristocrats Himself
2006 Man of the Year Tom Dobbs
Night at the Museum Theodore Roosevelt
Happy Feet Ramon/Lovelace (voice)
Everyone's Hero Napoleon Cross (voice)
RV Bob Munro
The Night Listener Gabriel Noone
2007 License to Wed Reverend Frank
August Rush Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace
2009 Shrink Holden
World's Greatest Dad Lance Clayton
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Theodore Roosevelt
Old Dogs Dan
2010 Wedding Banned[45] John Fischer In development
2011 Happy Feet 2 in 3D Ramon/Lovelace Voice role
Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1977 Richard Pryor Show Himself Writer
"Man with Bad Arm," "John Brownstein, Defense Attorney/Archeologist/Shopper," "Himself," "Himself/Titanic Survivor/Voice of Gun"
Laugh-In

Eight is Enough
Episode: "The Return of Auntie V"
1978 Happy Days Mork Episode: My Favorite Orkan
America 2-Night Jason Shine Episodes: "Jason Shine" and "Olfactory Distosis Telethon"
1979-1982 Mork & Mindy Mork Appeared in 92 episodes
1979 Happy Days Mork Episode: "Mork Returns"
Out of the Blue
Episode: "Random's Arrival"
1981 Saturday Night Live Himself Host/Various
1982 The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour Himself Episode: #1.1
Faerie Tale Theater Frog/The Prince Episode: "Tale of the Frog Prince"
SCTV Network 90 Various Episode: "Jane Eyrehead"
1984 Saturday Night Live Himself Host/Various
Pryor's Place Gaby Episode: "Sax Education"
1986 Saturday Night Live Himself Host/Various
The Max Headroom Show Himself Episode: "Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey"
1988 Saturday Night Live Himself Host/Various
Wogan Himself
1991 Wogan Himself
1992 The Larry Sanders Show Himself Episode: "Hank's Contract"
1994 Homicide: Life on the Streets Robert Ellison Episode: "Bop Gun"
Live & Kicking Himself
The Larry Sanders Show Himself Episode: "Montana"
Nyhetsmorgon Himself Episode: "Filmen 'Mrs. Doubtfire' svensk premiär"
In the Wild Himself Episode: "In the Wild: Dolphins with Robin Williams"
1995 Primer Plano Himself
1996 American Masters Himself Episode: "Take Two: Mike Nichols and Elaine May"
Primer Plano
1996 Friends Tomas Uncredited
HBO First Look Himself Episode: "Fathers Day"
1998 Nyhetsmorgon Himself/Sean Maguire Episode: "Filmen 'Good Will Hunting"
Hollywood Squares Himself Guest appearance
Noel's House Party Himself Episode: #8.10
1999 L.A. Doctors Hugo Kinsley Episode: "Just Duet"
2000 Whose Line Is It Anyways? Himself Episodes: #3.4 and #3.9
2002 Comedy Central Canned Ham Himself Episode: "Death to Smoochy"
Leute heute Himself
Supermarket Sweep Himself
2003 Player$ Himself Episodes: "E3 03, Playa;" "Players Halloweenie Televizzie"
Freedoom: A History of Us Josiah Quincy/Ulysses S. Grant/Missouri Farmer/Wilbur Wright/Orville Wright Episodes: "Wake Up America," "A War to End Slavery," "Liberty for All," and "Safe for Democracy"
Life With Bonnie Kevin Powalski Episode: "Psychic"
2004 This Hour Has 22 Minutes Himself
20005 Just For Laughs Himself
2006 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Himself
Mind of Mencia Himself Episode: "That's F**king Historical"
Getaway Himself Episode: #15.15
2008 American Idol: The Search for a New Superstar Ivan "Bob" Poppanoff the "Russian Idol"/Himself Episodes: "Idol Gives Back" and "Live Results Show: One Contestant Eliminated"
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Merrit Rook Episode: "Authority"
2009 SpongeBob SquarePants Himself
TV Land Moguls Episode: "The 80s"

Discography

Williams sings a version of "Come Together" with Bobby McFerrin on In My Life, a Beatles tribute album produced by George Martin. He also sings "A Mi Manera (My Way)", on the Happy Feet soundtrack. For the 1993 soundtrack of Mrs. Doubtfire, and the film, he sings a rendition of a fragment of Gioachino Rossini's "Largo al factotum" from The Barber of Seville.

Williams appeared in the music video of Bobby McFerrin's hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy".[46]

  • Reality...What a Concept (1979)
  • Throbbing Python of Love (1983)
  • A Night at the Met (1986)
  • Pecos Bill (1988)
  • Live 2002 (2002)

DVDs and videos

  • An Evening with Robin Williams (1982, VHS)
  • Robin Williams: Live at the Met (1986, VHS)
  • Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002)
  • Robin Williams: Raul's House 2 (2009)[citation needed]
  • Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction (TBA)

Television guest appearances

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Shia LaBeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf[1] (pronounced /ˈʃaɪə ləˈbʌf/ SHY-ə lə-BUFF; born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian.

LaBeouf began his comedy career when he was 10 years old, and then launched his acting career in 1998 at the age of 12. He became known among younger audiences for his part in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, also appearing in three Disney TV movies. In 2003, LaBeouf made his film debut in Holes, also appearing in the lead role in The Battle of Shaker Heights the same year.

In 2005, LaBeouf made his transition from teen roles in The Greatest Game Ever Played. In 2007, he starred as the leads in Disturbia and Transformers, and the following year he appeared in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Indiana's son. In 2009, LaBeouf reprised his role as Sam Witwicky in the Transformers sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and appeared in New York, I Love You. LaBeouf's upcoming films include the lead roles in The Associate, and Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.

In May 2009, LaBeouf made his directorial debut by directing Cage's music video for the single "I Never Knew You".

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Early life

Family

LaBeouf was born in Los Angeles, California, an only child. His mother, Shayna (née Saide), is a dancer and ballerina turned visual artist and clothing/jewelry designer; before she met LaBeouf's father, she ran a head shop in Brooklyn - according to LaBeouf, "Bob Dylan used to come in and smoke weed. All her furniture hung upside-down from the ceiling".[2] LaBeouf's father, Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf, is a Vietnam War veteran who "drifted" from job to job, working as a mime at a circus, a snow cone salesman, a rodeo clown, and a stand-up comedian, and touring with the Doobie Brothers as their opening act.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Shia LaBeouf's New York-born mother is Jewish and his father is a Cajun (once described by LaBeouf as a "Ragin' Cajun"). LaBeouf was raised in the Jewish religion and had a Bar Mitzvah.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] The name Shia is Hebrew for "gift from God" (שי-יה), and the surname LaBeouf is a corruption of "le bœuf", the French term for "the ox" or "the beef".[15][16][9][17] LaBeouf has said that he comes from "five generations of performers" and was "acting when [he] came out of the womb."[8] One of LaBeouf's great-grandmothers played piano in gangster Lucky Luciano’s casino.[18] LaBeouf's maternal grandfather, a Polish Holocaust survivor who shared his first name,[19] was a comedian who worked in the Borscht Belt of the Catskill Mountains and sidelined as a barber for the Mafia.[18] LaBeouf's alcoholic paternal grandfather was a Green Beret in the military[18] and LaBeouf's paternal grandmother was a Beatnik poet and lesbian who associated with Allen Ginsberg.[4][17][20]

LaBeouf has described his parents as "hippies", his father as "tough as nails and a different breed of man", and his upbringing as similar to a "hippy lifestyle", stating that his parents were "pretty weird people, but they loved me and I loved them."[8][21] LaBeouf's father used to grow cannabis, and the two smoked marijuana together when LaBeouf was ten.[5][8] LaBeouf has also said that his father was "on drugs" during his childhood, being addicted to heroin and placed in drug rehabilitation for heroin addiction, while LaBeouf's mother was "trying to hold down the fort."[5] Young Shia was subjected to verbal and mental abuse by his heroin-addicted father who once pointed a gun at his son during a Vietnam War flashback.[8] His parents eventually divorced, and he had what he has described as a "good childhood", growing up poor with his mother (who worked selling fabrics and brooches) in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California.[10][22]. LaBeouf's uncle was going to adopt him at one stage because his parents couldn't afford to have him anymore, "they had too much pride to go on welfare or food stamps."[23]

In a May 2009 PARADE magazine interview, LaBeouf states, "I just knew that money was a solution to whatever the hell was going on in my household. With money, I and my family would have had more options. So I went after a job that I thought I could make the most money for a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old boy."'[24]. He also recounts how his father become a drug dealer "My dad brought something called the 'elephant seed' to Oahu, Hawaii. And in Oahu, it became the 'Thai' stick. But how do you make millions on weed when you don't own a plant? Nobody owns a plant. Well, my dad wasn't thinking franchise. He was selling things to the Hawaiian mafia, and then they would give it to their cab drivers to sell when they picked people up from airports."[23][24]

In that same interview LaBeouf explained that part of what he remembers is that in 1988, when he was two, his dad began dressing him up as a clown and putting him to work shilling for the family's pushcart business.[2] "It was a hustle. We’d walk around the neighborhood in full clown regalia," he recalls. "My embarrassment factor didn't exist. I had fun, because I knew that in the middle of a performance my parents couldn't fight. So, for sure, every day, there had to be some peaceful time for us, or we weren't going to make it through the week financially. "I'm still doing the same hustle now," he continues. "The only change is that, instead of my dad selling hot dogs from the cart, it's Steven Spielberg selling the hot dogs."[24]

Education

LaBeouf attended a predominantly Latino and African American school.[10][22] Theatrically, LaBeouf attended 32nd Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet school in Los Angeles (LAUSD)[8] and Alexander Hamilton High School, although he received most of his education from tutors.[22] Following high-school, LaBeouf was accepted to Yale University but declined, later remarking that he is "getting the kind of education you don't get at school,"[25] although he would like to attend college.[8] He is currently studying for his CFA Level 1 exam scheduled for December. [26]

Acting career

Early work

LaBeouf has said that he initially became an actor because his family was broke, not because he wanted to pursue an acting career.[27] “My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked—just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor,” he says. “I’d get up there in my OshKosh B’Gosh outfit and my bowl haircut. I was a little kid with a Lenny Bruce mouth. That was the act. But there’s no money in stand-up comedy, so I went into acting.”[2] LaBeouf began acting when he was 12 years old. His acting debut was on Caroline in the City in 1998, in the episode "Caroline and the Bar Mitzvah", and he made guest appearances on popular television shows such as The X-Files, Touched by an Angel, Jesse, and Suddenly Susan, all in 1999.

2000–2003: Disney career

LaBeouf became well known among young audiences after playing Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel weekly program Even Stevens, a role for which he was cast three months after being signed by his agent. Even Stevens aired from 2000-2003 for three seasons and aired 65 episodes. Even Stevens ended with The Even Stevens Movie—a TV movie which premiered on Disney Channel on June 13, 2003.

LaBeouf also appeared in the Disney Channel TV movie Tru Confessions, where he played a mentally challenged kid with a sister who made a documentary about his disability.[10] His father, at the time just released from rehab, served as his on-set parent and the two bonded.[28]

In 2002, LaBeouf appeared as a supporting character in a Disney Channel TV movie Hounded, as Ronny Van Dussel, a rival of the main characters.

In 2003, LaBeouf was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of Louis[8] and has said that he "grew up on that show" and that his childhood was "kind of lost", although his being cast in the show was the "best thing" that has happened to him.[5]

During this time period, LaBeouf also appeared in sketch shows on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[27]

In 2003, he appeared in another Disney production, Holes, as Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats IV, opposite Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight and Tim Blake Nelson. While filming Holes, Voight gave LaBeouf a book on acting, and this made LaBeouf realize acting could be more than a job.[4] The film was a moderate box office success. Steven Spielberg was also a fan of LaBeouf in Holes, saying he reminded him of a young Tom Hanks.[7] The film Holes made over US$67 million worldwide and was well-received by critics, in which the film garnered 77% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[29]

That same year, he was heavily featured in the HBO documentary show Project Greenlight, which chronicled the making of the independent film The Battle of Shaker Heights, his first PG-13 film.[30] LaBeouf played the lead role of troubled teen Kelly Ernswiler, starring opposite Amy Smart. The Battle of Shaker Heights was theatrically released on August 22, 2003 as a limited release. The film opened at #54 at the box office with $50,000 and made over $280,000 in its 28-day limited release.[30][31]

LaBeouf also had a minor role in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle as Max Petroni, an orphan whom the Angels end up protecting.

2004–2006: Career success

LaBeouf co-wrote and directed the short film Let's Love Hate with Lorenzo Eduardo. The short-film won second place at the 2004 Children's Jury Award and won the 2005 Children's Audience Award.[32][33]

In 2004, LaBeouf played Farber, a minor role in I, Robot.

In 2005, Labeouf then appeared in the action-horror film Constantine starring opposite Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz as Chas Kramer, a supporting character. He also had the lead role in the Disney film The Greatest Game Ever Played, playing Francis Ouimet, a real-life golf player from a poor family who won the 1913 U.S. Open Championship,[4] and voiced the character Asbel in the English dubbed version of the 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a Japanese anime film.[34]

Photo of Shia while promoting the movie Bobby.

LaBeouf appeared in the 2006 ensemble drama Bobby as Cooper, a campaign volunteer for Robert F. Kennedy. As part of the cast of Bobby, which also included Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, and Lindsay Lohan, LaBeouf won a Hollywood Film Award for "Ensemble Of The Year", and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture".[32]

Also in 2006, LaBeouf played the younger version of Dito Montiel in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, the older version being played by Robert Downey, Jr. in a semi-autobiographical account of Montiel's upbringing in 1980s Astoria, Queens. LaBeouf starred opposite Channing Tatum.

2007–2008: Breakthrough

In 2007, LaBeouf starred in Disturbia, a thriller released on April 13. He played a teenager under house arrest who suspects that his neighbor, played by David Morse, is a serial killer. The film was a hit and LaBeouf received positive reviews for the role, with The Buffalo News stating that LaBeouf "has grown into an appealing, bright young actor who is able to simultaneously pull off [the character's] anger, remorse and intelligence",[35] Kurt Loder of MTV wrote that LaBeouf "gets his star ticket decisively punched",[36] and the San Francisco Chronicle noted that LaBeouf is "fast becoming the best young actor in Hollywood".[37] In comparing the film with Rear Window, The New York Daily News described LaBeouf's appeal as "more John Cusack than James Stewart".[38] For his role in Disturbia, LaBeouf won three Teen Choice Awards for Horror/Thriller, Breakout Male (also for LaBeouf's work on A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, and Transformers), Actor: Horror/Thriller. LaBeouf and co-star Sarah Roemer were nominated for an MTV Movie Award for "Best Kiss".

Also in 2007, LaBeouf voiced Cody Maverick in the animated mockumentary film Surf's Up, starring alongside Zooey Deschanel and Jeff Bridges. Cody was reportedly supposed to be voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.[citation needed]

That same year, LaBeouf played teenager Sam Witwicky, who becomes involved in the Autobot-Decepticon war on Earth, in Michael Bay's Transformers, released on July 3. Executive producer Steven Spielberg cast him in the role having been impressed by his performance in Holes.[4] Michael Bay initially considered LaBeouf too old for the part of Sam Witwicky, having only seen his performance in Constantine, but he was "bowled" over by LaBeouf's enthusiasm.[39] LaBeouf has also signed on for two Transformers sequels.[40] LaBeouf performed his own stunts, including a scene in which Sam clings to a statue as Megatron approaches, with only a safety harness to protect LaBeouf. "There are action stars who wouldn’t have been as dumb," he joked.[41] To prepare for the role LaBeouf worked out five days a week for three months and gained twenty-five pounds of muscle for the role, but realized during shooting that his role required agility rather than strength. LaBeouf received critical acclaim for his role, with Empire's Ian Nathan praising LaBeouf as "a smart, natural comedian, [who] levels the bluntness of this toy story with an ironic bluster".[42] For his role in Transformers, LaBeouf was nominated for a Empire Award for Best New Comer, an MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance, four Teen Choice Awards - one of which he won - and a National Movie Award for Best Performance by a Male. LaBeouf was named 2007's "star of tomorrow" by the ShoWest convention of the National Association of Theater Owners.[25] For his lead role in the film LaBeouf was reportedly paid $500,000.[43] In February 2008 LaBeouf was awarded the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award, which was voted for by the British general public.[44]

In April 2007, it was confirmed that LaBeouf was cast in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. LaBeouf was Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role, having been impressed by his performance in Holes.[45] LaBeouf said that he signed on to the film without reading the script and did not know what character he would play.[46] Shooting for the film began on June 18, 2007[47] at Deming, New Mexico.[48] and finished on the morning of October 12, 2007.[49][50] LaBeouf played Mutt Williams, a greaser who goes to Indiana Jones to tell him that his old colleague Harold Oxley was kidnapped after discovering a "crystal skull in Peru". LaBeouf said that in order to prepare for his role in the film that he worked out seven days a week for three hours a day and described his diet as being "protein-heavy, carb-heavy", saying that "I'll run for an hour and then I'll do two hours of weights." LaBeouf gained over fifteen pounds of muscle.[51] LaBeouf said of the experience "I have definitely not trained like this for anything in my life. I'm preparing like I'm going into battle."[52] LaBeouf watched Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause and The Wild One to get into his character's "mindset", and he also[45] copied mannerisms and words from characters in those films, such as the use of a switchblade as a weapon.[53]

During filming LaBeouf pulled his rotator cuff when filming a fight scene with Spalko, which was the first injury in his career. The injury got worse throughout filming and he pulled his groin.[54] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and was released Thursday May 22 in North America and grossed $25 million its opening day.[55] For his role, LaBeouf was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Teen Choice Award for Actor: Action Adventure, and a People's Choice Award for Favorite On-Screen Match-Up.

LaBeouf's next and final 2008 film was Eagle Eye, a thriller directed by D. J. Caruso (who also directed LaBeouf in Disturbia) and released on September 26, 2008. This was LaBeouf's third film in which producer Steven Spielberg was involved (who also produced Transformers and directed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Filming began on November 6, 2007[56] and wrapped in February 2008.[57] LaBeouf starred alongside Michelle Monaghan and Billy Bob Thornton.[58] Eagle Eye centers around two strangers, Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) who are being framed as terrorist by the FBI. LaBeouf and Monaghan performed 80% of their own stunts. LaBeouf said that "There was a CIA agent who was working on the movie with us, and [he] told me...[that] one in five phone calls is recorded. [He then] proceeded to play for me a phone call I had made two years prior to signing on to the film. It's pretty terrifying."[59] Eagle Eye opened at #1 in its opening weekend, making over $29 million, and over $177 million worldwide. For his role LaBeouf was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance.

In December 2008, LaBeouf dropped out of the film Dark Fields due to a hand injury for which he had to undergo surgery, which would not be fully healed by the time production started.[60][61][62]

2009–present: Upcoming films

In May, 2008 LaBeouf began filming the sequel to Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen[63] and finished filming on November 2, 2008.[64] LaBeouf reprised his role as Sam Witwicky. Due to LaBeouf's injury from his car accident, director Michael Bay and screen writer Roberto Orci had to rewrite the script to protect LaBeouf's hand throughout filming.[65][66] LaBeouf said production was only delayed by two days after his accident because Michael Bay made up for it by filming second unit scenes, and he recovered from a few weeks earlier than expected, allowing him to return to the set.[67] Near the end of filming, LaBeouf injured his eye when he hit a prop; the injury required seven stitches. LaBeouf resumed filming two hours later.[68] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen premiered on June 8, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.[69] After its UK release on June 19, 2009, the film was released in regular and IMAX theaters in the United States on June 24.[70] For his lead role in the film, LaBeouf was reportedly paid around $5 million.[43]

In March 2008, LaBeouf began filming the romantic comedy New York, I Love You, and finished filming in April 2008. LaBeouf played Jacob, a minor role in the film, which is a collection of short stories about finding love in the five boroughs of New York and the sequel to Paris, je t'aime. LaBeouf's co-stars included Natalie Portman, Blake Lively, and Orlando Bloom. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 and was released in October 2009.[71]

Neil Gaiman said in an interview with MTV that he is planning to direct a film adaption of the comic book series Death: The High Cost of Living, and that the film is tentatively titled Death and Me. The project has been in development hell for several years; work on it was renewed in 2007, but was quickly derailed again due to the WGA strikes and production of the film was relaunched in late 2007.[72] Gaiman said of LaBeouf having involvement in the film that "Shia really wanted the part," and "and it’s not that he’s too big after Transformers, or whether I could get him after he’s in the new Indiana Jones, but he’s growing up fast. Can he pass for 17 for that much longer? That might have been just about it after Transformers. He’s becoming an adult, but he’s one of Death’s biggest supporters, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he were in it.".[73]

In early December 2008, LaBeouf signed on to star as the lead role Kyle McAvoy in the film adaption of the novel The Associate by John Grisham.[74][75] The film is currently in pre-production. It was reported that Grisham had hand picked LaBeouf for the role, saying that "I think he'll be wonderful!", and that "He's a very talented actor, and he's hot. He's the hottest 22-year-old actor in America, and I think he'll do a wonderful job."[76]

In May 2009, Variety reported that LaBeouf was negotiations to join the cast of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.[77] On June 2, 2009, it was confirmed that LaBeouf signed onto to star as the lead role in Wall Street 2, the sequel to the Academy Award-winning film Wall Street.[78][79] In the film Labeouf will play an "ambitious, young Wall Street trader who is engaged to Gekko's (Michael Douglas) daughter".[80][81] The film is set to begin principal photography on August 10, 2009, and the film is tentative set to be released in February 2010.[82][83][84]

Other work

Comedian

LaBeouf would "create things, story lines and fictitious tales" during his childhood, and practiced stand-up comedy around his neighborhood as an "escape" from a hostile environment.[10] He began performing stand-up and "talking dirty" at comedy clubs (including the The Ice House in Pasadena) at the age of ten (describing his appeal as having "disgustingly dirty" material and a "50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old kid").[22][27] LaBeouf subsequently found an agent through the Yellow Pages, being taken on after doing his stand-up act for her and pretending to be his own manager, promoting himself in the third person.[10][85]

Director

In February 2009, LaBeouf teamed up with rapper Chris "Cage" Palko to direct the music video for "I Never Knew You," the first single off of Cage's third album, Depart From Me. The music video was shot on location in downtown Los Angeles on February 21 and 22 and featured cameos by other Definitive Jux artists such as El-P, Aesop Rock, Chauncey, F. Sean Martin, Yak Ballz and Alex Pardee. According to the LA Weekly, this video marks the first in a series of collaborations between LaBeouf and Cage and will ultimately result in a film about the rapper's life starring LaBeouf. When asked what it was like directing the "I Never Knew You" video, LaBeouf said, "I'm 22 and I'm directing my favorite rapper's music video. This shit is better than riding unicorns."[86] The video premiered May 18, on MTV2 and MtvU.

Host

On April 14, 2007, LaBeouf hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Avril Lavigne to promote his then upcoming film Disturbia. Throughout the show LaBeouf and Lavigne acted in skits.[87][88][89] LaBeouf said of the experience of hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time that "This is hands down the biggest, most exciting thing I've ever been involved with in my life. I can only compare it to my Bar Mitzvah."[90] On May 10, 2008, LaBeouf hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time with musical guest My Morning Jacket to promote his then upcoming film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, appearing in skits during the show.[87][88]

Personal life

LaBeouf bought his own two-bedroom house at the age of 18,[91] lives in Burbank, California, and remains close to both his parents;[5] his mother now lives nearby in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California and his father in Montana.[4][8][10] LaBeouf is a cigarette smoker,[4][8][92] but he has recently stated that he has quit smoking.[93] LaBeouf drives a Nissan Maxima,[94] and has two bulldogs named Brando and Rex.[91][95] LaBeouf is good friends with A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints co-stars Channing Tatum and Adam Scarimbolo[96] and his Transformers co-star Megan Fox. LaBeouf wears contact lenses.[97] LaBeouf has said that "sports are so big in my life"[92] and that he is a "film junkie".[98] He enjoys the music of The Shins, CKY, and the hip hop label Definitive Jux.[27] LaBeouf has said that he is a fan of The Transformers television series and the 1986 The Transformers: The Movie,[99] LaBeoufs favorite movies include American Beauty, Dumb and Dumber and Saving Silverman.[100] LaBeouf has said that he considers The Greatest Game Ever Played his transition movie from child actor to adult actor.[101]

LaBeouf has said that he is "very serious" about his career and has made "a calculated effort to stay away from the party scene," believing that "if the industry takes you lightly because you're always partying, then they will take your work lightly as well."[8] Interviewer Jamie Portman of The Vancouver Sun described LaBeouf as seeming to have a "love-hate relationship with the teenage culture that has spawned him."[94] LaBeouf has said that although he does not devoutly practice Judaism, he has a "personal relationship with God that happens to work within the confines of Judaism".[13]

LaBeouf has said that he is not the "All-American Disney role model"[7] and chose to appear in some of his film roles in order to "curse as much as possible"[102] and "age [himself] publicly" after his Disney roles, specifying that Disney is "great and all" and a "nurturing place"[27] but "dehabilitating for an actor", being "one constant string of same".[6] He has also said that he enjoyed being a child actor and hated school.[7][103] LaBeouf has said that Disturbia was the most important film to LaBeouf of his three 2007 films, because it was a "character-driven" role.[10] LaBeouf was ranked #7 on Yahoo! List of 10 Most Popular Stars of 2007 on Yahoo! Movies, #4 on interview magazines Hollywood faces to watch "future stars of tomorrow", #24 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actors list, and was ranked #6 on Moviefone's 'The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25' in 2008[104]

LaBeouf has three known tattoos as of May 2009, which are: 1986-2004 on his inner right wrist, a dog paw tattoo on his upper left arm, and a hand with a shackle on it on his left upper side torso.[105][106][107] LaBeouf said of the reason to why he got the tattoo on his wrist was "I’ve been doing this for 10 years, a lot of people say, ‘Oh, I forgot my childhood or I miss my childhood." and continued with "so that’s just precautionary".[105] LaBeouf also described the tattoo on his upper side torso as "It’s like an artist drawing his own prison" and continued with "Just life. That’s where I’m at".[105]

LaBeouf has cited actors Gary Oldman,[108] Dustin Hoffman,[27] Jodie Foster, Jon Voight, and John Turturro as inspirations,[91] and has also cited director/producer Francis Lawrence as an inspiration, with whom LaBeouf worked on the 2005 film Constantine.[109] LaBeouf has also said of Jon Voight that he considers him to be like a second father and a mentor.[110] Both Voight and Turturro star alongside LaBeouf in Transformers.

LaBeouf confirmed to People that from 2004-2007 he dated model China Brezner, who he met on the set of The Greatest Game Ever Played.[111] He said of the reason of the break-up that "My focus became so work-related that I couldn't devote any time to a relationship", but that "We were inseparable, she was my best friend and my love", LaBeouf said of the break-up that "it was like rebuilding after a tornado."[51][112] LaBeouf has said he tries to avoid relationships with co-stars saying that "It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them".[113]

As of August 2009, LaBeouf is in a relationship with British actress Carey Mulligan, his co-star in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. Mulligan and LaBeouf were introduced by director Oliver Stone prior to filming and began dating shortly after.[114]

Arrests

On November 4, 2007, LaBeouf was arrested early in the morning for misdemeanor criminal trespassing in a Chicago Walgreens after refusing to leave when asked by a security guard.[115] The criminal charges were dropped on December 12, 2007.[116]

In March 2008, an arrest warrant was issued for LaBeouf after he failed to turn up to a court appearance. The hearing was in relation to a ticket he received for unlawful smoking in Burbank, California in February 2008. When neither LaBeouf nor a lawyer turned up at the court at 8:30 a.m., a $1000 bench warrant was issued for his arrest,[117] however the court commissioner in California recalled this warrant on March 19, 2008 after the actor’s attorney arrived a day late to plead not guilty on LaBeouf's behalf, and a pre-trial hearing was set for April 24, 2008.[118] The charge was dismissed after the actor paid a $500 fine.[119]

In the early morning hours of July 27, 2008, authorities arrested LaBeouf on misdemeanor drunk driving charges in Los Angeles, after the actor was involved in a car collision in which he injured his hand. His passenger (Isabel Lucas) and another driver also suffered minor injuries.[120][121] Two days later, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman announced that LaBeouf was not at fault in the accident, saying that the other driver had run a red light.[122] Roberto Orci revealed that LaBeouf's injury had been written into the plot of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which he was filming at the time, and that they wanted to ensure that his hand was protected for the remainder of the shoot.[123] Despite the fact that LaBeouf was not criminally charged in the accident, his license was suspended for one year by the California Department of Motor Vehicles for his refusal to take a breathalyzer test.[124]

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
2003 The Battle of Shaker Heights Kelly Ernswiler Main Role (Limited release)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Max Petroni Minor Role
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Lewis Minor Role
Holes Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats IV Main Role
2004 I, Robot Farber Supporting Role
2005 The Greatest Game Ever Played Francis Ouimet Main Role
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Asbel Voice (English Version)
Constantine Chas Kramer Supporting Role
2006 Bobby Cooper Minor Role
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Young Dito Supporting Role
2007 Disturbia Kale Brecht Main Role
Surf's Up Cody Maverick Voice
Transformers Sam Witwicky Main role
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Henry "Mutt Williams" Jones III Supporting Role
Eagle Eye Jerry Shaw/Ethan Shaw Main Role
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Sam Witwicky Main Role
New York, I Love You Jacob Minor Role
2010[83][84] Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps Jake "Jacob" Moore Main Role (Filming)
2011 Transformers 3 Sam Witwicky Main Role (Pre-production)[125][126][127]
2012[128] The Associate Kyle McAvoy Main Role (Pre-Production)
Film Made for Television or Video
Year Title Role Notes
1998 The Christmas Path Cal Main Role
Monkey Business Wyatt Minor role
Breakfast with Einstein Joey Supporting Role
2001 Hounded Ronny van Dussel Supporting Role (Disney Channel Original Movie)
2002 Tru Confessions Eddie Walker Supporting Role (Disney Channel Original Movie)
2003 The Even Stevens Movie Louis Stevens Main Role (Disney Channel Original Movie)
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1998 Caroline in the City Ethan Episode: ("Caroline and the Bar Mitzvah")
1999 Jesse Moe Episode: ("Momma Was a Rollin' Stone")
1999 Suddenly Susan Ritchie Episode: ("A Day in the Life")
1999 Touched by an Angel Johnny Episode: ("The Occupant")
1999 The X-Files Richie Lupone Episode: ("The Goldberg Variation")
2000 ER Darnel Smith Episode: ("Abby Road")
2000 Freaks and Geeks Herbert the mascot Episode: ("We've Got Spirit")
2000-2003 Even Stevens Louis Stevens Main Role
2001 The Nightmare Room Dylan Pierce Episode: ("Scareful What You Wish For")
2002 The Proud Family Johnny McBride Episode: ("I Love You Penny Proud") (Voice)