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Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. Newsweek has called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy...
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Ali
Ali is a 2001 American biographical film directed by Michael Mann. The film tells the story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali (Will Smith) from 1964 to 1974 featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston, his conversion to Islam,...
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- Muhammad Ali
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Bad Boys
Bad Boys is a 1995 action comedy film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer, producers of Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop, and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The film also spawned a 2003 sequel, Bad Boys II, with...
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- Detective Mike Lowrey
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Bad Boys II
Bad Boys II is a 2003 action-comedy film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. It is a sequel to the 1995 film Bad Boys.
Eight years after the events of the first film, Detective Mike...
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- Detective Mike Lowrey
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Enemy of the State
Enemy of the State is a 1998 spy-thriller film directed by Tony Scott about a group of rogue NSA agents who kill a Congressman in a political-related murder, and then try to cover up the murder by destroying evidence and intimidating witnesses. It...
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- Robert Clayton Dean
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Hitch
Hitch is a 2005 romantic comedy film starring Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, and Amber Valletta. The film is directed by Andy Tennant and written by Kevin Bisch. Smith plays a professional matchmaker, who makes a living teaching men how to woo...
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- Alex "Hitch" Hitchens
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I, Robot
I, Robot is a 2004 science fiction-action film. The film was directed by Alex Proyas and produced by John Davis, Topher Dow, Wyck Godfrey, Laurence Mark and Will Smith. The screenplay was penned by Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsman and Hillary Seitz and...
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- Detective Del Spooner
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Independence Day
Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert...
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- Captain Steven "Steve" Hiller, USMC
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Made in America
Made in America is a 1993 comedy film released on May 28, 1993 by Warner Bros. starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, and featuring Nia Long, Jennifer Tilly and Will Smith.
Zora Matthews (Long), whose mother, Sarah (Goldberg) conceived her with...
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- Tea Cake Walters
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Men in Black
Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction-comedy-action film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film was based on the Men in Black comic book series by Lowell Cunningham, originally published...
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Men in Black II
Men in Black II (also known as MIIB) is a 2002 science fiction action comedy film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The film also stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson and Rip Torn. The film is a sequel to the 1997 film Men...
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Shark Tale
Shark Tale is a 2004 CGI comedy produced by DreamWorks Animation. In the story, a young fish named Oscar (voiced by Will Smith) falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss to win favor with the mob boss' enemies and advance his own...
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Six Degrees of Separation
Six Degrees of Separation is a 1990 play written by John Guare that premiered at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center on May 16, 1990, directed by Jerry Zaks and starring Stockard Channing. The production transferred to the Vivian Beaumont...
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Bagger Vance is a 2000 film directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron, based on the same-titled 1995 book by Steven Pressfield. The story takes place in the US state of Georgia in 1931. It was...
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- Bagger Vance
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Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West (1999) is a science fiction Western action-comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline (who appears in a dual roles as both the protagonist Artemus Gordon and as President Ulysses S. Grant), Kenneth...
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- Captain James "Jim" West
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The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film, directed by Gabriele Muccino and based on the true story of Chris Gardner. The film stars Will Smith as Gardner, an on-and-off-homeless salesman-turned stockbroker.
The screenplay...
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- Christopher Gardner
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I Am Legend
I Am Legend is a 2007 science fiction-disaster film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It is the third feature film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name, following 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's...
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- Dr. Robert Neville
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Hancock
Hancock, formerly known as John Hancock and Tonight, He Comes, is an superhero film directed by Peter Berg and starring Will Smith, Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron. The story was originally written by Vincent Ngo in 1996 and had languished in...
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Torrance Rises
Torrance Rises is a 1999 mockumentary directed by and starring Spike Jonze.
The film is based on a dance group in Torrance, California, and traces their journey to the MTV Video Music Awards presentation. The music video for Fatboy Slim's 1999 song ...
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- Cameo appearance
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Seven Pounds
Seven Pounds is a 2008 film, directed by Gabriele Muccino. Will Smith stars as a man who sets out to change the lives of seven people. Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, and Barry Pepper also star. The film was released in theaters in the United...
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A Closer Walk
A Closer Walk is Robert Bilheimer's documentary film about the global AIDS epidemic. Narrated by Glenn Close and Will Smith, A Closer Walk features cinematography by Richard D. Young, interviews with the Dalai Lama, Bono, and Kofi Annan, and musical...
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Jersey Girl
Jersey Girl is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler and George Carlin. At $35 million it was Smith's biggest-budget project to date ($10 million of which was Ben Affleck's salary, $4...
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Where the Day Takes You
'Where the Day Takes You' is a 1992 film directed by Marc Rocco. The movie is the story of teenage runaways trying to survive on the streets of Los Angeles. The film was nominated for the "Critics Award" at the Deauville Film Festival and won the...
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Six Degrees of Separation
Six Degrees of Separation is a 1993 film adaptation of the John Guare play of the same title, which was inspired by the real-life con artist David Hampton. The film makes reference to two Kandinsky artworks, "Black Lines" and "Several Circles",...
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Capone
Capone (1975) is an American crime film directed by Steve Carver and the film stars Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakely and an early film role for Sylvester Stallone. The movie is a biography of the infamous Al Capone, although much of it is...
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Men in Black III
Men in Black III is an upcoming science fiction action comedy film film due to be released in 2011, it will be the third iteration of the Men In Black Film Franchise. The film is the second sequel to the 1997 film Men in Black which was followed by...
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