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filmography
Killshot (2008) >> Ferris Britton
Jackass Number Two (2006) >> himself The Ringer (2005) >> Steve Barker Daltry Calhoun (2005) >> Daltry Calhoun The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) >> Luke Duke Lords of Dogtown (2005) >> Topper Burks A Dirty Shame (2004) >> Ray Ray Perkins Walking Tall (2004) >> Ray Templeton Grand Theft Parsons (2003) >> Phil Kaufman Men in Black II (2002) >> Scrad/Charlie Jackass: The Movie (2002) >> himself Deuces Wild (2002) >> Vinnie Fish Big Trouble (2002) >> Eddie Leadbetter Life Without Dick (2002) >> Dick Rasmusson Coyote Ugly (2000) >> College Guy Desert Blues (1995) (as Philip John Clapp) >> Bob biography
Johnny Knoxville (born Philip John Clapp on March 11, 1971 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American comic actor, best known as the co-creator and principal star of the MTV series Jackass. He starred with Seann William Scott in the Jay Chandrasekhar adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard. He has also worked with director John Waters in A Dirty Shame and starred in Daltry Calhoun, written and directed by Katrina Holden Bronson and produced by Quentin Tarantino. His most recent film, The Ringer, casts Knoxville as an able-bodied office worker who joins the Special Olympics to pay for a surgical operation on his gardener.
He was first noticed while writing a Tennessee newspaper series on testing warning labels and "do not try this at home" warnings. His tests eventually evolved into Jackass. Prior to the MTV show, he turned down an offer from Saturday Night Live to do similar stunts for them on a weekly basis. However, later in 2005, Knoxville hosted SNL. Knoxville has a wife, Melanie, and a daughter named Madison, whose name is tattooed on his chest over his heart. He purchased a cabin from Johnny Cash right before Cash died. He is currently slated to appear in the John Madden directed adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel, Killshot. This biography was written by Akasha. |