Mark Hamill’s Top 10 Non-Star Wars Movies Ranked

Mark Hamill will endlessly be often called Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars saga, however film lovers shouldn’t sleep on the remainder of his filmography, which comprises various gems.

No Hamill binge-watch can be full with out the 2 very totally different diversifications of a well-known writer’s works he is on this very 12 months. There’s additionally Hamill’s voice acting in acclaimed animated works, together with a movie hailed as one of the best superhero movies ever made.

Hamill’s executed his share of small films too, together with an indie delight launched as a part of his 2017 comeback, a Nineteen Seventies teen flick co-starring him with a future Ghostbusters actor, and even a sleazy Nineties intercourse thriller.

Youngster’s Play (2019)

Hamill was doing voice performing even earlier than Star Wars made him well-known. His true movie debut got here not in that sci-fi blockbuster, however in Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards because the voice of Sean. His vocal talent, honed over many years of roles large and small, made him the right actor to voice Chucky in 2019’s Youngster’s Play reboot.

Changing Brad Dourif was no simple process, however Hamill pulled it off in suitably maniacal style, serving to replace horror’s legendary psycho toy-friend for the period of sensible expertise and AI. Youngster’s Play 2019 did properly sufficient with critics (64% on Rotten Tomatoes) and was a field workplace success, grossing $44.9 million on a finances of $10 million.

Corvette Summer time (1978)

Harrison Ford went from starring in George Lucas’ car-crazy American Graffiti to enjoying Han Solo. His Star Wars castmate Hamill went the other way, swapping his X-34 for a ‘Vette in his first post-New Hope function.

Corvette Summer time co-stars Hamill with future Janine Melnitz actor Annie Potts in a little bit of piffle about a youngster attempting to get again his stolen automobile. Turbo-boosted by Hamill’s fame, the $1.7 million film grossed $36 million ($174 million adjusted for inflation).

Critics weren’t wild about Corvette Summer time (it sits at 56% on Rotten Tomatoes), with Gene Siskel evaluating it unfavorably to the aforementioned American Graffiti, whereas different reviewers knocked it for tailing off after a robust starting.

Physique Luggage (1993)

Hamill is at the moment in theaters in his second Stephen King film of 2025, however years earlier than taking The Lengthy Stroll, he gained some beneficial expertise working with legendary horror figures, starring in Tobe Hooper’s section of the Showtime anthology film Physique Luggage.

If Luke Skywalker is slightly quick for a stormtrooper, then he’s actually quick for a baseball participant, even the minor leaguer he performs in Hooper’s section. Having injured his personal optical organ in a automobile accident, Hamill’s near-washed journeyman will get a transplanted eye, and begins having terrifying hallucinations. The attention’s earlier proprietor was a serial killer, we quickly be taught.

Physique Luggage isn’t any traditional, however it’s entertaining sufficient as a horror anthology, although it did not launch an ongoing sequence as Showtime had hoped.

Black Magic Lady (1991)

One of the crucial obscure titles in Hamill’s filmography, Black Magic Lady is the type of low-rent erotic thriller that was omnipresent within the ‘90s. A lot of the movie’s very small finances was used to license the Santana music from which it will get its title, and so they get their cash’s value, enjoying it a number of instances.

A lot of the remainder of the finances presumably went to Hamill, with slightly left over for Prince protégé Apollonia Kotero. Although it barely noticed launch in theaters earlier than hitting video, Selection deigned to overview it, and praised it for its large twist ending.

Black Magic Lady is probably nothing greater than bargain-basement titillation, however some have discovered substance beneath its low cost floor, with Fangoria’s Alexandra Heller-Nicholas declaring:

If you’re on the lookout for an intriguing little movie that genuinely has one thing fairly profound to say about our personal biases about race and gender politics, Black Magic Lady would possibly take you abruptly.

The Life Of Chuck (2025)

The Life of Chuck offers Stephen King in three separate flavors: enigmatically bleak, sweetly whimsical, and broodingly creepy. Hamill stars within the creepy bit as an aged man haunted by horrible secrets and techniques one way or the other related to a cupola he retains locked as much as defend his grandson Chuck.

Hamill performs the alcoholic Albie with the appropriate be aware of haunted disappointment, including to the genuinely melancholy tone director Mike Flanagan elicits in The Lifetime of Chuck’s third act, when the film’s complete time-skimming, tone-shifting sport begins so as to add up.

Flanagan’s movie obtained principally glowing evaluations (it sits at 80% on Rotten Tomatoes), with Hamill being singled out for reward for his affecting efficiency, which can go down as his greatest on-screen work.

Brigsby Bear (2017)

Hamill isn’t out of labor because of his voice performing prowess, however there was a interval when it felt his time as an on-screen star was over. Then 2017 occurred. Hamill returned that 12 months as Luke in The Last Jedi (after a teaser of a cameo in The Pressure Awakens). His different 2017 film takes place on Earth, and is best.

Brigsby Bear is a couple of man, kidnapped as a toddler, who’s free of years of isolation to find that the youngsters’s present he loves was made up by his captors. Hamill performs one of many captors, in a small however crucial function that amusingly and touchingly incorporates the artwork of voice performing.

Common audiences barely observed Brigsby Bear when it got here out in the summertime of 2017, however critics latched onto it, and it at the moment sits at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, with many praising it for its delicate and kooky contact.

Batman: Masks Of The Illusion (1993)

Any argument about the very best cinematic Joker is certain to be dominated by Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, and Joaquin Phoenix (however the catastrophe that was Joker 2). However followers of the animated Batman have one other contender in Hamill, who voiced the Clown Prince of Crime each in sequence and in one-off films.

The most effective of these one-off films is almost unquestionably Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Meant as a direct-to-video launch, it was rushed into theaters in late 1993, and managed to scrape collectively $5.8 million on the field workplace.

Not solely is Masks of the Illusion extensively considered the very best animated Batman film, if not the very best Batman film interval, as Empire has claimed, it’s been praised as probably the greatest superhero films interval. Rolling Stone ranked it nineteenth on their 2022 biggest superhero films checklist, whereas its 83% RT rating additional testifies to its standing.

Hamill’s Joker is a giant motive why the film has ascended to traditional standing not simply amongst Batman devotees, however critics at giant.

The Wild Robotic (2024)

2024’s The Wild Robotic makes use of Hamill’s expertise for voicing intimidating characters within the function of Thorn, a feared grizzly bear who in the end seems to be an excellent man.

Hamill’s small-but-key performance as part of The Wild Robot cast helped it turn out to be one of the vital acclaimed films of 2024, as demonstrated by its whopping 97% recent ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences cherished the film too, pushing it to a worldwide gross of $334.5 million.

In an look at Comedian-Con main as much as the film’s launch, Hamill made the perilous transfer of evaluating The Wild Robotic to a 1977 movie whose solid he headlined:

It jogs my memory of again within the day after I was attempting to explain Star Wars to individuals who hadn’t seen it. It’s luxurious. It’s emotional. It really works on so many ranges. The children will adore it. The entire household will adore it.

The Wild Robotic is certainly emotional, and works on many ranges, and might be cherished by the entire household – similar to Hamill’s career-launching blockbuster.

The Lengthy Stroll (2025)

Mike Flanagan has changed Rob Reiner because the director most related to Stephen King, and Hamill, not less than for 2025, has turn out to be the king of King films from the performing aspect, having appeared in each The Lifetime of Chuck and The Lengthy Stroll.

Hamill is a supporting participant in each 2025 King films, however his contributions are very important. He lends soul to Lifetime of Chuck, and in The Lengthy Stroll, he embodies soullessness because the ruthless Fascist thug, The Main.

The Lengthy Stroll’s dystopian story can function an allegory for lots of issues, however there’s little doubt what Hamill has in thoughts in enjoying the villainous Main (a verify of his social media ought to clear issues up for anybody with doubts).

Francis Lawrence’s horrifying story of kid sacrifice made into surprising leisure continued a troubling King film development by going chilly on the field workplace, however critics caught onto the film’s brutal sport, and it sits at 89% on RT.

The Huge Purple One (1980)

Samuel Fuller had all the time needed to make a film about his wartime experiences as a part of the vaunted U.S. Military 1st Infantry Division. It took him till 1980 to comprehend his dream. He didn’t fairly have an epic-sized finances, however he stretched it so far as it might go in realizing his autobiographical story of World Struggle II.

The Huge Purple One stars Hamill as Non-public Griff, a grunt whose luck in surviving battles wins him a spot among the many division’s legendary 4 Horsemen, a quartet of seemingly indestructible troopers. However is Griff actually fortunate, or simply missing the type of braveness that would get a person killed, or make him a hero?

Griff’s aversion to killing is lastly overcome when the boys encounter the horrors of a focus camp, and his anger boils over till he shoots a guard who refuses to give up.

The harrowingly reasonable The Big Red One is Hamill’s grittiest film, and the very best factor he’s ever executed exterior of Star Wars. It sits at 90% on RT and was enshrined by Roger Ebert in his Nice Films.