Was the joker played by anyone else but Heath Ledger?

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Le Snip

Mmmm... Honestly I prefer Marks laugh over anyone else's.

 

[nick n stuff]

he died during Dr Parnassus (don't know who to spell it and i aint checking). everything to do with Batman was done as far as i know.

 

[Woodsey]

No, he died after they'd finished filming The Dark Knight, I'm sure of it.

 

[Firia]

More accurately, Jack was Jack in clown makeup. Because much like Shatner, Heston, and Adam West, Jack Nicholson can *only* play himself.

Don't forget John Travolta. That man has forgotten how to act. He knows how to get a paycheck, though.

 

[Soxafloppin]

He died when the film was being Edited and he was half way into shooting another Movie.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

... Which leaves Jack Nicholson as the last Joker incarnate. That slasher smile is classic.

AH but you are wrong there was a Joker before Jack Nicholson..his name was Caesar Romero and played Joker in the Adam West era.

OT: I believe it was after the main scenes in which he participated he died.

 

[Firia]

Mark Hammill's -

Hammill will ALWAYS be the voice of the Joker, as far as I'm concerned. I grew up with the cartoon in it's first and second generation incarnations. Didn't much care for the simplified 3rd generation. But Hammill made the character redesign of the Joker bearable.

 

[The Night Shade]

He died after the film was made

 

[MelziGurl]

He died after The Dark Knight but during The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassius (if that's how it's spelt) and they used other actors to play his part for that rest of the film.

 

[GrinningManiac]

That was the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was an awesome film with the coolest bad guy in town (the devil played by a gravel-voiced blues musician, PURE GENIUS)

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

They did for the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. All of Ledgers scenes TDK were long completed. He died near to when the movie was released, and by that stage, the thing would already have been long into post production.

 

[Cody211282]

No they didn't, but I still think the Jack Nicholson joker was better.

 

[Koeryn]

Didn't he OD on sleeping pills or somthing but it was definately after filming finished. The film with three actor is the imaginarium of doctor parnassus isn't it

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EPIC Multininj'd

The Joker character was apparently incredibly disturbing to him, gave him hella nightmares, that sleeping pills weren't helping with. He upped his own dose until the obvious happened.

 

[TheTim]

I think the last 5 minutes with the joker were without Ledger.
Not positive though.

 

[Shjade]

Mind you, this is not the whimsical criminal prankster Joker of the more light-hearted portrayals of the Batman series, this is the psychotic spirit of anarchy and chaos Joker of the more mature and serious portrayals of the series.

The Joker in the more mature and serious portrayals of the series - for instance, The Dark Knight Returns, as in the book rather than the movie - varies widely. In that particular book, however, he's nothing like Heath's character: he's calm, cool, collected, the epitome of the uncaring sociopath, not a fidgety anarchist out to prove something to the world. He just wants to play with Bats again. Like old times.

Heath's portrayal was definitely interesting, but like I said before, it just didn't seem like Joker to me. He was just some bat***t crazy guy with facial scars.

About the laugh contest above: I had to consider it for a bit, but I'm going with Hamill. Romero's got a convincing giggle, too, but it doesn't have quite the same sinister undercurrent Hamill puts into his that pushes it over from just laughter into okay-getting-creepy territory. Admittedly I liked the animated series more than the Adam West series, so I'm biased in that regard.

 

[UberMore]

I heard rumors that Other actors had to do reshoots for Heath Ledger after he died. I have found no mention of this anywhere, but my friends are certain of it.

I mentioned the film by terry gilliam, which was shooting while he died, but they are certain it was the Dark Knight.

So I'm asking you if there's any merit to this. Were there any reshoots after Heath Ledger died for the Joker?

He did during the filming of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
That's why it also had Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell. They couldn't finish the film with Heath for obvious reasons, so they brought in these actors to show the progression of his character throughout the story...a pretty clever device.
And Johnny Depp gave all his profit from that film to Heath's daughter!