Heath Ledger
Actor (1979-2008)
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
- Dir. Gil Junger
Feat. Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles
- Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is shrink–wrapped as '90s high–school hi–jinks.
A protective Dad forbids his nubile daughter…
- Two Hands (1999)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, Steve LaMarquand
- Mobster Bryan Brown finds work for Heath Ledger's idle hands, who fumbles the ball and finds himself deep in the crapper…
Overcoming the…
- Patriot, The (2000)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson…
- Mel Gibson transplants the patriotic, anti–English fervour of BRAVEHEART into an American Revolutionary setting, playing real–life…
- Knight's Tale, A (2001)
- Dir. Brian Helgeland
Feat. Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany
- Surprisingly satisfying medieval comedy slam–bang, that wears its mindlessness on its chain–mail sleeve, while Geoffrey Chaucer’s…
- Monster's Ball (2001)
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger…
- A surprising success of 2001 after Halle Berry won the Best Actress Oscar, this compelling race–drama is harrowing, angst–ridden and…
- Four Feathers, The (2002)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson
- The British Army copes with an uprising in Sudan in 1875, while one officer must redeem himself from a charge of cowardice – which earned him…
- Ned Kelly (2003)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush…
- Australia's most famous bushranger is portrayed with outright sympathy and a large measure of romantic invention in this messy, but not entirely…
- Sin Eater, The (The Order) (2003)
- Dir. Brian Helgeland
Feat. Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Peter Weller
- Priest Heath Ledger investigates a series of mysterious deaths within the Catholic Church that lead him to the Vatican, and beyond, in this murky…
- Lords of Dogtown (2005)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson…
- A quasi–fictional recreation of territory covered in DOGTOWN AND Z–BOYS, about the invention of the skateboard by a group of scruffy Los…
- Casanova (2005)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons…
- A lavish, middle–brow account of the infamous 18th century Italian lover, played here with deadpan wit by Heath Ledger, which weaves its own…
- Brothers Grimm (2005)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Heath Ledger, Matt Damon, Jonathan Pryce…
- Loosely based on the lives of 19th century German folklore collectors Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, this has the said brothers (played by Ledger and…
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams…
- A 'cause celebre' of recent cinema, this epic romantic drama is set around the terse and smouldering long–term love affair between two cowboys…
- Candy (2006)
- Dir. Neil Armfield
Feat. Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush…
- Injecting free–spirited performances and downbeat songs into a predictable heroin dramaturgy , this roving drama concerns two young bohemians…
- I'm Not There (2007)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger…
- Arthouse maestro Todd Haynes directs this deliciously cinematic, kaleidoscopic musing on the life of Bob Dylan, with six different actors portraying…
- Batman: The Dark Knight (2008)
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart…
- Christopher Nolan’s follow–up to BATMAN BEGINS pitches Christian Bale’s Batman against Heath Ledger’s lunatic Joker, propelling this…
- Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The (2009)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Andrew Garfield…
- Firing on all imaginative cylinders, dir. Terry Gilliam delivers what is possibly his magnum opus – an original, mind–bending fantasy…