Mark Hamill: A Force to be Reckoned With.

[@TrOllinM4sTEr]

Hamill is a fantastic storyteller. When he talks in interviews and tells his stories...you can tell he loves being the center of attention and loved being on stage.

[@vesper180]

+TrOllinM4sTEr well, he grew up as one of 7 kids!

[@TrOllinM4sTEr]

Vesper haha, didn't know that. knew he had siblings, but not that many.

[@vesper180]

TrOllinM4sTEr yeah, so you know, they say some kids in big families have to be outgoing to get any attention ;)

[@UchronianKing]

That's the sort of thing I can envy, and he should never change. It's nice to know he's done well, still the occasional project, still the witty interviews. One funny story is how he has to prepare recent Star Wars fans (too young to realize when the original trilogy had been filmed) to the fact that he had aged since late 70's/early 80's.

[@annabelle1898]

takes a real diverse, brilliant, talented, generous, accessible & well-rounded actor, talent and performer, such as Mark H., to be not only in silver screen but also live on stage!! .... Annie Potts says it best... anybody that can survive that blast of a fame, is a real measure of a man, somebody who can come out of that and have their feet on the ground and raise 3 kids and be married to the same woman for 25 years in hollywood.. deserves a major applause!! xD

[@sauronbastard1307]

annabelle1898 mark Hamill really was and still is an extraordinary actor, and very talented as well, didnt know he spent several years in broadway, and that he even played the role of amadeus in theatre, i loved the film amadeus when it came out, and he was that close to getting the role which won several oscars!! well star wars was his time of fame, but its interesting to see also how his career was quite differen to harrison ford who obviously ended up a huge star in hollywood, and mark hamill didnt really make it there after star wars; clearly he had the talent, but it just didnt happend for him

[@annabelle1898]

he's clearly such a talented yet remains an underrated actor

[@eddrush209mph]

+annabelle1898 Celebrities often seem like they have the world at their feet. Money, fame, talent and beauty are things many of us wish for, but becoming an international star also comes with its downsides. Almost every celebrity has struggled with the pressures of fame at some point. However, a great number have found life in the spotlight far too stressful and eventually ruined their careers through alcohol and drug abuse or erratic behaviour. What you quoted from Annie Potts (like you say) "said it best." "Regrets, I've had a few But then again, too few to mention I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway And more, much more than this, I did it my way." "For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows and did it my way." Frank Sinatra - My Way

[@42kellys]

true

[@nigelcarren]

BRAVO!!

[@OztrumStrikesBack]

As a big fan of Mark Hamill and his roles, I say: Mark Hamill borned for the role of Luke Skywalker.

[@ja__vlog]

his journey to fulfilling his dreams is just so inspiring. the courage, trust and not giving up, Mark Hamill is the best actor, father and son. bravo!! I love this video btw

[@alirico5343]

Yoda is a real entity

[@42kellys]

I have always loved him. He is the only star who has never tumbled off the pedestal because he is always true to himself and honest and loves his wife without cheating on her. He is like a rare gem, a man who is not married min. 3x and who has not cheated his wife and slept around with tons of women. I have a great and undiminishing respect for him, as a man with high morals and true love for his wife. Apart from all that I think he is super talented, I am just so sorry that directors did not use his talent more and would not give him many stellar roles like they did to Harrison Ford.

[@joelsundhall3069]

Mark Hamill is my hero!

[@MsLm97]

I'm such a huge fan of Marks, this has given me an even greater respect for him both personally and professionally this should deff be updated to add all the amazing work he's done in the past couple of years alone

[@IanBrown-qo1dv]

Mark Hamill is my hero... Often times when I am unsure of what course of action to take, I think to myself... What would Luke Skywalker do?

[@moist_captain]

Ian Brown Well apparently Luke would almost kill his nephew in his sleep.

[@kevingarrett8403]

Wow, what a standup guy. Nice to see someone who worked hard all his life, reap what he sowed, instead of being born into the business, like so many others. And married for 25 years! In Hollywood! That in itself speaks of his character.

[@Diava76]

I met him at the Star Wars Convention in Germany. A very kind & nice person. Can't wait toll see him in Episode VII!!! :-)

[@IceSkateUpHilll]

I couldn’t wait either :( what a shame

[@OffTheBeatenPath_]

Wacko leftists turned him into soy boy

[@negativeindustrial]

25:52 Does Lucas truly not understand either his actors nor his own script enough to get that Mark was simply playing the role he was given correctly? He played the whiny self centered teenager perfectly despite his age in A New Hope ("But I wanted to go to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters..."). In Empire, while still quite the brash young man, Luke has been through the wringer of a year at war. He's nowhere near the fully realized adult male Jedi who is at peace with himself that he would perfectly portray in Return Of The Jedi but he's not the wet behind the ears, whiny little brat that he was in A New Hope either. To me it's obvious he played the role as he, correctly, saw it.

[@sylviebutts]

Neg Ative lmao i'm so glad i wasn't the only person who got mad about this

[@seifnotsorry]

Neg Ative What a drama queen you are!

[@negativeindustrial]

seifnotsorry Example?

[@42kellys]

What a perfect way to put it! (: Well done.

[@oswald1068]

Mark is a true legend...he is so great for wanting to be a good actor not only thanks to SW success. But I think that instead of many normal movies like many actors, it's better to have played Luke Skywalker and be remembered forever and ever in the centuries to come!

[@sinlokemp]

The force was always with him!!

[@Rodzilla97]

Hamill and Ford should have won oscars for their work in the Star Wars trilogy. arguably the best movies ever/ most popular movies ever. they're my favorite movies ever, along with back to the future 1 and 2

[@CrueMagnon]

Mark also narrates several documentaries. It kinda sounds like him on this, his own biography. I love what he said about Harrison Fords recent emergency crash landing in his plane. "May all your future flights be on green screen"

[@Lastkingof33]

was a promo stunt. never crashed a plane

[@crichter1724]

Loved this!

[@noraarico1313]

Thanks for this biography of Mark Hamill. I only knew him as Luke Skywalker and did not realize his real name until now. I was always a "Trekie" and a Star Wars fan and still am. It's a good thing that Mark persisted in making his career a reality instead of giving up because he was type cast.

[@carolinedebouver8535]

I admire him so much, he's a fantastic and handsome actor, great storyteller, soooooo talented and a wonderfull dad! I really love him and Marilou, they are such a cute couple.

[@taiwarrior1]

Thank you for uploading this. It was a real treat to watch.

[@sailorbychoice1]

I love that they had Bill Mumy from Lost in Space narrate Mark Hamill from Star Wars!

[@anniebeatlemcca]

i love mark hamill, for me....he and harrison ford, are the best of star wars, actors and persons, mark hamill love you

[@zantijimenez7206]

What a great video. An eye opener of the extended life of Mark Hamill which people only know him as Luke Skywalker. Now that I realized how good and bad the franchise brought to his career, but good thing he manages it on his own. I hope that Star Wars would bring him this big opportunity comeback in the next sequel.

[@titanium3883]

Mark is just amazing as a person and an actor! As a young actress I really look up to him and I want to pursue my love of acting and I want to follow in the footsteps of greatness

[@bigwhopper6501]

He played the greatest hero and the greatest villain

[@Alice0s]

Poor man! Famous only for one role. Two for other people who can remember one great animated villain. But honnestly, I saw him on some others roles and he was very good even if the movies where he was weren't always great. For me, he is not just Luke Skywalker or the Joker, he is an actor with talent. I just hope he will have the chance to play other roles again even if he has to continue to be Luke Skywalker for a time.

[@Sirrom5]

He had an accident between a new hope and Empire Strike Back which changed dramatically his facial features. This circumstance changed the course of his life.... in better in my opinion because many stars have only money but no dignity. Yes it is a very talented actor but hollywood prefers stars to talents.... because of commercial reasons (and appearance is more important than talent. that's holliwood's shit).

[@nagudelomusic]

Well, been immortalized by his portrayal of Luke Skywalker... is really distant to the concept of being a "poor man". He's quite respected and privileged because of that for his entire lifetime. Most of the actors in tv, theater and cinema struggle their entire career to achieve 1% of Mark Hamill's recognition.

[@Alice0s]

Nicolas Agudelo - DJ / Electronic Producer It's not a good thing for an actor to be remembered for only one role and not for the rest of his carreer. It's living in the shadow of a character he performed and people compare him to that character instead of trying to know his actor carreer . And that's what is sad for him: people only see him as Luke Skywalker and not Mark Hamill the actor. An actor respected and priliviged for only one role is often treated that way at the cost of his identity. And that's what happened to Mark Hamill who laugh about it but yet is still prisonner of Luke Skywalker's character. That's why I used the words poor man.

[@Nyerguds]

What about Wing Commander?

[@Alice0s]

Nyerguds It's especially in the United States people know about that, not the rest of the world.

[@kevcatnip7589]

A real super guy ,,, He is always on Twitter ,even on not so great days ,,give him an oscar

[@angeldelarosa7975]

Mark will always be a jedi and joker :D

[@Firegas456]

You know your a beast when your Luke and joker and people don't know it's the same person

[@Indylimburg]

The Big Red One is a great film and I always really liked how he played Griff.

[@CaminoAir]

'The Force Awakens' will be pay back for Hamil having suffered for so long in his career. I'm glad he'll really be back in the public consciousness again.

[@klyanadkmorr]

+Numinous20111 God when people made fun of him getting heavy during last 10yrs, it a was a sign of DEEP DEPRESSION to me and he and Carrie Fisher are very sensitive LIBRA personalities and as performers need to feed on an audience and telling story and entertaining.

[@barbarawinsor8401]

Yeah, some payback. He's in "The Force Awakens" for thirty seconds with no lines, and we know what happens to Luke in "The Last Jedi". What a crying shame. I hate What Disney has done. #LukeLivesOn

[@moist_captain]

Numinous20111 I thought he was amazing in TLJ. Still not sure how I like what they did to Luke.

[@TheWillowtear]

Great man

[@jobelbute]

ty so much for this.. hope Mark comes back in episode 7.. that will be huuugeeeee!!!!!

[@barbarawinsor8401]

Yeah for 30 seconds in The Force Awakens and not a single line. Now we Star Wars fans hate Disney for what they did to Luke in The Last Jedi.

[@twstf8905]

His wife was STUNNING, back then. I mean, she's still beautiful but when she was 22 OMG!!! 🔥

[@funnydank8064]

"Mark could finally put Luke Skywalker aside". Not so fast, we have the new trilogy here!

[@cisio64123]

Exactly what I was thinking. This was clearly made before definite plans for the sequel trilogy were announced. It also is not quite accurate as Mark has said that he already knew there was a possibility that he could be playing Luke again in the sequel trilogy. George Lucas already had in mind three sets of trilogy's even while filming the first film Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope. He had asked Mark in 1976 how he felt about reprising the role as a middle aged man for the sequel trilogy "around 2011". He told Mark he would be needed as it would be Luke handing "Excalibur to the next generation". Due to the fact that it would be decades away ( and possibly because he thought it might not even happen ) Mark was mute in his reaction. Though, really Mark will never truly be able to put Luke aside...it's the signature role that made him a world wide icon.

[@barbarawinsor8401]

Yeah now we see how Disney has ruined Luke Skywalker. What a crying shame. -#LukeForever

[@RDarth]

Can't wait to see the return of Luke Skywalker! Mark is the greatest

[@rizmdiz9875]

This was pretty good.

[@twstf8905]

Mark was great in, "Slipstream." I just watched that movie again recently and, although it's hardly what anyone would consider a, "blockbuster," lol Hamill's performance as the Villain was definitely one of its best aspects. A movie is only ever as good as its primary antagonist, and Mark can certainly play an effective bad guy, no question. 👍

[@mustangmikep51]

Mark is a Quality human being in every way...a good example for us all to emulate....and admire

[@kascnef]

rip Carrie

[@pablosonic892]

This is such an important cultural document. It really fills in gaps to decades-long questions and ties up loose-ends. I never knew the Eight is Enough drama and his car accident were so closely intertwined. Quick: put this in the time capsule to preserve the historical record before some revisionist history alters it.

[@shreeprasadchaudhary205]

i luv this video

[@johnellizz]

How come it doesn't mention that "Amazing Stories" episode where he plays a guy obsessed with his comic books?

[@forcedadventure]

STAR WARS - PURE CINEMA MAGIC !!!

[@UchronianKing]

I like Mark Hamill, a great actor. Although famous for his role as Luke Skywalker, much of his work often goes unnoticed - before watching this I didn't even know about Corvette Summer or the Big Red One! That's the trouble with having a 'signature' role: it's a double-edged sword, swings one way you get worldwide recognition, then it can chop back down upon other roles such as 'Elephant Man' and 'Amadeus'. However, I have seen 'Timerunner' and 'Slipstream' (both cult sci-fi movies), and the comic-book style 'Mutronics' (not mentioned by name in this documentary). However, it's good to know that he enjoyed a career on Broadway and received further accolades through his brilliant voice-acting (developed from a keen interest in cartoon and animations during his youth) especially The Joker. Such action-hero, comic book roles must have seemed as pure gold to him, a full circle. Furthermore, he played Christopher Blair in the Wing Commander video game franchise. Oh heck, there's too many strings to his bow to mention - I urge everyone, right now, to consult his profile on Wikipedia!

[@UchronianKing]

@@kaotiqx Ah yes :)

[@Shoobybuhdooby]

mark hamill kissed my mom in a play of her brothers when his family settled in San diego

[@jackiesmith5774]

Wheres the proof

[@buckcheep]

I'd have her go get checked for herpes

[@patjackson132_6]

No way!!! Thats so cool!

[@nslater1388]

That car accident really did a number on Mark. He was so good-looking and was lucky to still remain handsome after the incident. I can’t help but wonder at how he would look today had he not suffered that tragedy. Still, what a hell of a guy!

[@nicky29031977]

How ironic Mark Hamill fell into obscurity after SW while Harrison Ford went into the big time.

[@robertmorris8997]

What? No Wing Commander? BLASPHEMY!!! BLASPHEMY!!! At least they had Corvette Summer in it.

[@adamkhabazian3249]

this is not a biography, it's an advertisement

[@SOULRELIEF22]

Poor man was obviously traumatized by his father. The black pearl comic was made for adults, but it will certainly traumatize children. "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Revelation 12:12!

[@enterbalak]

Aw Linda Blair is so hot..

[@rsr789]

240p, we meet again.

[@wildone106]

Filmed via a potatoe

[@SOULRELIEF22]

Not a word about JESUS! His parents left out St John 3:16! Remember only what you do for CHRIST will last. THIS world is shutting down. Souls live FOREVER...with or WITHOUT JESUS! BELOVED! PLEASE don't die without JESUS in your heart! 🙏🙌❤️

[@mew10521]

Interesting

[@dustinkirkland4863]

Who would dislike this?

[@Lastkingof33]

he was good in gather ye acorns

[@gaynor1721]

Mark Hamill was prettier than his sister and looked like his father. Shame about his disfiguring car accident. This documentary glosses over the fact that Hamill's wife was a Playboy model and that the couple had to get married because Nathan was on the way. It was still shocking in those days for a movie star to have to get married. Hamill is a bad boy in his private life and his eldest son, Nathan, takes after him, but I am glad that the Hamill's marriage is a happy one and didn't buckle under the usual strain of most Hollywood marriages.

[@barbarawinsor8401]

Hey GAYnor, What an awful thing to say. His wife was a dental assistant when he met her. Stop spreading lies. And so she got in trouble. Getting pregnant out of wedlock happens more than people know and it could happen to anybody. It doesn't make him a "bad boy". He has stayed married to her for decades. Get a life, creep.

[@patrickwentzell4638]

I have an idea to see a Sith female and male Jedi love story happen in a new movie video. just don't let Walt Vader or Darth Sidimouse direct something like this.

[@warrenwooding9012]

#StarWars7

[@jessejohnson3.24]

I wish George Lucas didn't have to sold his company to Disney mark hamill would be best Luke Skywalker

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

No matter how you feel about Star Wars you can't deny that the dialogue is really bad in every movie.

[@lucasstrunc7669]

Empire's dialogue was good. Still I would have hired Tarantino for the prequels...

[@blaxerx]

Unpopular opinion: He's not that talented in acting at all and in fact quite arrogant and critical of almost everything. He criticizes everything that he isn't the center of.

[@hecate235]

You obviously haven't watched any of his interviews. Mark never has a unkind word to say about any of the people he's worked with. He's funny as hell, self-deprecating, and slips in and out of impressions of his castmates, even producers on the films. And he loves the fans. He understands very well what Luke means and the place that character holds. Go watch the interview he did with Frank Oz.