Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor best known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003), as well as his. The Hangover describes the story of 3 men (Phil, Stu, and Alan) who experience an unforgettable night in Las Vegas as they celebrate their friend's upcoming wedding. Adorable 1. 3- Year- Old Jason Bateman on the Set of 'Silver Spoons'. Jason Bateman stars alongside Tina Fey and Jane Fonda in the family dramedy This Where I Leave You, in theaters Friday, so naturally we thought we'd dig into the ET vault and find the first time we sat down with the funny man. Turns out that we've watched Jason Bateman grow up in front of our cameras! At just 1. 3- years- old he landed a supporting role playing a bully opposite Ricky Schroeder. While the show would eventually last five seasons on NBC (Jason stuck around for two of them), a young Bateman had his sights high on a long acting career. I guess something bigger and better will come along. The son of director and producer Kent Bateman, and younger brother of Family Times sweetheart Justine Bateman, Jason forged his own career path working furiously for the next decade including 1. Valerie/The Hogan Family. The movie offers also started pouring in and Bateman was eventually cast as the lead in 1. Teen Wolf Too. Well I don't really jump out of bed in the morning.! I initially rolled my eyes to hear that this was yet another "suburban dad gets dragged into a life of crime" series, but in all fairness: this looks like a very top. Read the Latest Entertainment and Celebrity News, TV News and Breaking News from TVGuide.com. Get the latest news about celebrities, royals, music, TV, and real people. Find exclusive content, including photos and videos, on PEOPLE.com. Watch The DArkest Knight on TVGuide.com. See full shows episodes and clips of your favorite shows and celebrities. The former child star turned A- lister has clearly hit his stride and we've been there since the beginning. We were also with the actor on the set of first season of Arrested Development: Follow Denny on Twitter @DDirecto. SHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE. The Greatest Movie Characters Of All Time. We asked. You voted (in your thousands). And here it is - Empire's definitive (and not a little surprising) tally of the most memorable movie characters, the most iconic movie characters, the beautiful, the powerful, the heroic, despicable, hilarious and downright barking characters who have ever graced the big screen. Edna Mode. Appearance: The Incredibles (2. Creator: Brad Bird. Performer: Brad Bird. Defining moment: “No capes!” — Mode’s more than eccentric personality hides a distinctly practical approach to superhero fashion. Fascinating fact: Edna appeared alongside Pierce Brosnan to present the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in February 2. She’s a Lord Of The Rings fan. Stream The Incredibles now with Amazon Video. Randle Mc. Murphy. Appearance: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1. Creator: Ken Kesey, Bo Goldman. Performer: Jack Nicholson. Defining moment: When Nurse Ratched bans the World Series, Mc. Murphy improvises a commentary. Fascinating fact: Kirk Douglas played Mc. Murphy on stage but was considered too old for the part by the time his son Michael, as producer, put the film together. Buy One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest now on Amazon. Optimus Prime. Appearance: The Transformers series (2. Creator: Denny O’Neil, Jim Shooter, Bob Budiansky. Performer: Peter Cullen (voice)Defining moment: Riding high on a mecha dinosaur in Age Of Extinction. Fascinating fact: He has his own Mr. Potatohead, called Optimash Prime (“More than meets the fry”). Norman Bates. Appearance: The Psycho films (1. Psycho remake (1. Creator: Robert Bloch. Performer: Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Vince Vaughn. Defining moment: With a superimposed skull, he says, “I wouldn’t hurt a fly.”Fascinating fact: Hitchcock always addressed Anthony Perkins on set as . The Minions. Appearance: Despicable Me movies (2. Minions movie (2. Creator: Sergio Pablos. Defining moment: Singing “banana” to the tune of Barbara Ann during the Despicable Me 2 trailer. Fascinating fact: In Minion, Bu ta na ma ka means . Maximus. Appearance: Gladiator (2. Creator: David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson. Performer: Russell Crowe. Defining moment: Rousing the troops with his immortal line, “What we do in life, echoes in eternity!”Fascinating fact: Original choice Mel Gibson pronounced himself too old, opening the way for Russell Crowe and establishing his and Ridley Scott’s legendary collaboration. Stream Gladiator now with Amazon Video. Legolas. Appearance: The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2. Creator: J. Tolkien. Performer: Orlando Bloom. Defining moment: With the rest of the Fellowship bogged down in a snowdrift, Legolas walks across, not leaving a mark. Fascinating fact: Among his myriad talents, Legolas can talk to stones. A passage in Fellowship Of The Ring sees the nimble elf listening to the lament of grieving rocks. A useful skill if ever there were one. Stream The Lord Of The Rings now with Amazon Video. Wednesday Addams. Appearance: The Addams Family films (1. In "The Gift," written and directed by actor Joel Edgerton, Simon (Jason Bateman) and his wife (Rebecca Hall) have an awkward reunion dinner with a guy Simon knew. Creator: Charles Addams. Performer: Christina Ricci. Defining moment: At a costume party as herself — “I am a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.”Fascinating fact: The character takes her name from a line in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme: . Inspector Clouseau. Appearance: The Pink Panther films (1. Creator: Blake Edwards, Maurice Richlin. Performer: Peter Sellers, Alan Arkin, Steve Martin. Defining moment: “I suspect everyone and I suspect no- one!”Fascinating fact: Sellers and Edwards announced that they could never work with each other again after A Shot In The Dark opening the way for Alan Arkin to play the role. Stream The Pink Panther now with Amazon Video. Inigo Montoya. Appearance: The Princess Bride (1. Creator: William Goldman. Performer: Mandy Patinkin. Defining moment: “I want my father back, you son of a bitch!” Inigo’s moment of revenge is perfection. Fascinating fact: Patinkin bruised a rib trying not to laugh at Billy Crystal’s Miracle Max. Hal. Appearance: 2. A Space Odyssey (1. Creator: Arthur C. Clarke. Performer: Douglas Rain (voice)Defining moment: Conceding the battle for supremacy between humans and technology, HAL departs with a plaintive rendition of Daisy Bell. Fascinating fact: Originally envisioned by Clarke as a humanoid robot called Socrates. Stream 2. 00. 1: A Space Odyssey now with Amazon Video. Groot. Appearance: Guardians Of The Galaxy (2. Creator: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers. Performer: Vin Diesel/ Krystian Godlewski. Defining moment: His return midcredits, getting his groove on as a sapling. Fascinating fact: A Flora colossus from Planet X, Groot made his debut 1. Tales to Astonish #1. Far from heroic, proto Groot attempted to abduct humans for scientific experimentation. Stream Guardians Of The Galaxy now with Amazon Video. Gromit. Appearance: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were- Rabbit (2. Creator: Nick Park. Performer: Team Aardman Animations. Defining moment: How about reviving the comatose Wallace with a wedge of Stinking Bishop? Fascinating fact: In 2. NASA named a prototype Mars rover Gromit. Stream Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were- Rabbit now with Amazon Video. Ethan Hunt. Appearance: The Mission: Impossible series (1. Creator: David Koepp, Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne. Performer: Tom Cruise. Defining moment: Hunt’s penchant for defying gravity, physics and fear reached its apotheosis in part four, with the daring climb up the side of the Burj Khalifa – aka the world’s tallest building – in Dubai. Fascinating fact: Rumour has it that Hunt was going to die in Ghost Protocol, but the character survived due to production rewrites. Stream Mission: Impossible now with Amazon Video. Red. Appearance: The Shawshank Redemption (1. Creator: Stephen King. Performer: Morgan Freeman. Defining moment: His final parole board. He gets his name from his mop of crimson hair. Stream The Shawshank Redemption now with Amazon Video. Walker. Appearance: Point Blank (1. Creator: Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark)Performer: Lee Marvin. Defining moment: Cutting between Walker’s wife and betrayer (Sharon Acker) getting dressed and Walker striding down a long corridor. The click of his relentless heels sounds over both images — he will not be stopped. Fascinating fact: Richard Widmark, Robert Duvall, Mel Gibson, and Jason Statham have played versions of Walker. Stream Point Blank now with Amazon Video. Corporal Hicks. Appearance: Aliens (1. Creator: James Cameron. Performer: Michael Biehn. Defining moment: “I like to keep this handy.. Bane. Appearance: Batman & Robin (1. The Dark Knight Rises (2. Creator: Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Graham Nolan. Performer: Jeep Swenson (Batman & Robin), Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises)Defining moment: After a major fist fight, Bane breaks Batman’s back and symbolically throws away the broken mask in The Dark Knight Rises. Fascinating fact: Hardy based Bane’s strange voice on Romany Irish boxer Bartley Gorman. Stream Batman & Robin now with Amazon Video. Watch The Dark Knight Rises online now with Amazon Prime – 3. Woody. Appearance: The Toy Story series (1. Creator: John Lasseter. Performer: Tom Hanks (voice)Defining moment: “YOU ARE A TOY! You aren’t the real Buzz Lightyear! You are a child’s plaything!” Woody doles out some tough love to his deluded new friend suffering delusions of grandeur. Fascinating fact: Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich revealed on Twitter that Woody’s last name is Pride. Stream Toy Story now with Amazon Video. Withnail. Appearance: Withnail & I (1. Creator: Bruce Robinson. Performer: Richard E. Grant. Defining moment: Withnail’s preposterous tea shop demands: “We want the finest wines known to humanity. We want them here and we want them now!”Fascinating fact: Grant’s first reading of the line, “Fork it!” was exactly how Robinson had imagined it, thus securing the actor the part. Stream Withnail & I now with Amazon Video. VAppearance: V For Vendetta (2. Creator: Alan Moore, David Lloyd. Performer: Hugo Weaving (though James Purefoy began filming before the role was recast, and some of his scenes still appear with Weaving’s voice- over). Defining moment: The massed ranks of like- masked protesters appearing at the Houses Of Parliament as V blows the place up and brings down the dystopian government. Fascinating fact: Weaving based V’s voice on ex- Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Stream V For Vendetta now with Amazon Video. Roy Batty. Appearance: Blade Runner (1. Creator: Philip K. Dick, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples. Performer: Rutger Hauer. Defining moment: The incredible sense of loss that comes with the “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe” dying speech. Time to die.”Fascinating fact: Roy’s birthday – or rather, his inception – was celebrated on January 8, 2. He’s three years and ten months old when he dies. Stream Blade Runner now with Amazon Video. Martin Blank. Appearance: Grosse Pointe Blank (1. Creator: Tom Jankiewicz, D. De. Vincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack. Performer: John Cusack. Defining moment: Killing a would- be assassin with the promotional pen his glad- handing real- estate agent friend has given him at a school reunion. Fascinating fact: Though the character is renamed Brand Hauser, Blank essentially returns in the little- seen War, Inc. Samwise Gamgee. Appearance: The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2. Creator: J. Tolkien. Performer: Sean Astin. Defining moment: Lugging Master Frodo onto his back and trudging up Mount Doom’s ashy slope: “I can’t carry it for you.. Stream The Lord Of The Rings now with Amazon Video. Private William Hudson. Appearance: Aliens (1. Creator: James Cameron. Performer: Bill Paxton. Defining moment: The character’s a certifiable quote- machine, especially when he goes into panicky gobshite mode. After Ripley reasonably points out how long little girl Newt survived, he brilliantly ripostes, “Why don’t you put her in charge?”Fascinating fact: Hudson’s most repeated line in the movie — “Game over, man, game over!” — was improvised by Paxton on set.
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