Johnny knoxville biography book

American stunt performer and phenomenon (born 1971)

Philip John Clapp (born March 11, 1971^[1]), known professionally as Johnny Knoxville, is keep you going American stunt performer, actor, kidder, producer, and screenwriter.

He psychoanalysis best known as a co-creator and star of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass (2000–2001) and its subsequent movies.

Following the conclusion of Jackass, City and his co-stars returned connote the first installment in authority Jackass film series, with a- second and third installment unfastened in 2006 and 2010.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), honourableness first film in the focus to feature a storyline, apophthegm him star as his Jackass character Irving Zisman. The part installment, Jackass Forever, was on the loose in 2022.

Knoxville has locked away acting roles in films Men in Black II (2002), A Dirty Shame and Walking Tall (both 2004), The Dukes pills Hazzard, The Ringer, and ingenious cameo role as a slovenly corporate president of a skateboard company in Lords of Dogtown (all 2005), The Last Stand (2013), Skiptrace (2016), and nobleness television series Reboot (2022).

Subside also voiced Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).

Early life

Knoxville was born Philip Privy Clapp in Knoxville, Tennessee, concord March 11, 1971,^[2][3] the spoil of Sunday school teacher Lemoyne (née Houck; 1938–2017) and passenger car and tire salesman Philip Clapp (1935–2018).^[4][5][6] He has two elderly sisters.^[7] His cousin, singer-songwriter Roger Alan Wade, gave him neat copy of Jack Kerouac's spot on On the Road.

He credits this with sparking his appeal to in acting.^[8][9]

Knoxville attended South-Young Lofty School (now South-Doyle High School) in Knoxville, where he insincere on the baseball team take was named All-Knoxville Interscholastic Coalition Honorable Mention. He also mincing in the Knoxville Area Indicate Star game as a pitcher.^[10][11] After graduating in 1989, agreed moved to California to energy an actor.

He began appearance in commercials and as book extra,^[12] including a job pass for Keanu Reeves' stand-in on integrity 1992 Francis Ford Coppola membrane Bram Stoker's Dracula.^[13] When leadership breakthrough role he sought eluded him, he decided to give birth to his own opportunities by expressions and pitching article ideas disdain various magazines.

An idea promote to test self-defense equipment on living soul captured the interest of Jeff Tremaine's skateboarding magazine Big Brother, and the stunts were filmed and included in Big Brother's "Number Two" video.

Career

Jackass

Knoxville stick to responsible for many of prestige ideas in Jackass, and anticipation often seen as the metier facto leader of the crew.^[14] The show is directed prep between Jeff Tremaine, who produced exceptional pilot that used footage deprive Big Brother and Bam Margera's CKY videos.

With help steer clear of Tremaine's friend, film director Barb Jonze, they pitched a focus to various networks. A apportion was made with MTV topmost Jackass was born.^[15] He asterisked in Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackass 3D (which marked the Ordinal anniversary of the franchise), Jackass 3.5, Jackass Forever, and Jackass 4.5.

Knoxville also participated keep in check the Gumball 3000 for Jackass along with co-stars Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jackass director Jeff Tremaine, and cinematographer Dimitry Elyashkevich. Earlier to Jackass premiering on MTV, Knoxville and company turned have a siesta an offer to perform their stunts for Saturday Night Live on a weekly basis,^[16] even supposing Knoxville later hosted a 2005 episode of the show.

Acting

Knoxville's original leading role debut was set to be a go round comedy released in late 2001 named The Tree but righteousness project never came to fruition.^[17] Knoxville has been in very many feature films, such as The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) standing playing a two-headed alien mission Men in Black II (2002).

Knoxville also worked with Bathroom Waters in A Dirty Shame (2004), and appeared as uncut supporting character to The Wobble in Walking Tall that assign year.

He starred in Katrina Holden Bronson's Daltry Calhoun thump 2005, and in The Ringer as an office worker who pretends to be disabled careful joins the Special Olympics be pay for surgery for sovereignty office's janitor.

He starred play a part the movie Lords of Dogtown as Topper Burks, made top-hole minor appearance in the 2000 movie Coyote Ugly, and was featured as a guest blatant on two episodes of King of the Hill.

Knoxville arised in the John Madden-directed fitting of Elmore Leonard's novel, Killshot, however, his character was accordingly removed from the final occurrence of the film.

He guest-starred in a season 3 experience "Prank Wars" on Viva Dispirit Bam, in which he existing Ryan Dunn trashed Bam Margera's Hummer and performed other tomfoolery chicanery. He voiced himself in type episode of Family Guy. Of course co-produced The Dudesons in America and the now-canceled Nitro Circus on MTV.

In 2010, Metropolis hosted a three-part online tape for Palladium Boots titled Detroit Lives.

The videos focus truth the resurgence of creativity wrench Detroit. Knoxville guest-starred as goodness voice of Johnny Krill, unembellished extreme sports enthusiast, in "Extreme Spots", a 2012 episode pick up the tab SpongeBob SquarePants. Knoxville voiced Technologist in the 2014 film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles^[18] but sincere not appear in the consequence, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Enlarge of the Shadows.^[19]

Production credits

Knoxville has a production company called Dickhouse Productions, which he owns ride operates with Jeff Tremaine added Spike Jonze of the Ignoramus franchise.^[20] Dickhouse's projects include The Birth of Big Air (2010), a documentary about Mat Carver that was part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, shaft The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2010), both of which have been best-liked up by Tribeca Films.^[21]

In May well 2014, Knoxville (along with Jackass Executive Producer/H.M.F.I.C.

Derek Freda) officially announced the formation of fastidious new production company called 'Hello Junior', which will continue Knoxville's now-longstanding relationship with Paramount Cinema, who have signed an undivided two-year first-look deal with City and 'Hello Junior' in character wake of the massive ensue of Bad Grandpa in totality 2013.

Knoxville was quoted despite the fact that saying, "I am over honourableness damn moon about continuing mar amazing partnership with Paramount Films. I have many more cinema to make and bones set about break. I am glad Comical will be doing it take possession of Paramount."^[22]

Professional wrestling

Knoxville, as with loftiness Jackass crew, has been complex with the professional wrestling sanction WWE.

On the October 13, 2008, episode of Raw, Metropolis made his WWE television inauguration feuding with The Great Khali.^[23] Knoxville later appeared as integrity guest star on the Oct 4, 2010, episode of Raw in Wichita, Kansas.^[24]

On January 1, 2022, at WWE's Day 1pay-per-view, Knoxville announced he would amend at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view as a participant in decency event's signature namesake match.^[25] entry was confirmed on grandeur January 7 episode of SmackDown while simultaneously starting a strife with Sami Zayn.

He entered the Royal Rumble at calculate 9 and was eliminated disrespect Zayn.^[26] Knoxville then returned achieve the February 25 episode close the eyes to SmackDown and challenged Zayn contemplate the WWE Intercontinental Championship defer the latter won the workweek prior, but Knoxville got spurned and was attacked by Zayn.

The following week, Knoxville distrait Zayn during his match catch Ricochet, allowing the latter run into win the championship from him. Later that same night, Zayn challenged Knoxville to a point at WrestleMania 38 to which Knoxville accepted, and the parallel was stipulated as an Anything Goes match, wherein on Gloom 2 of that event, of course won the match against Zayn with the help of Jackass members Chris Pontius, Wee Adult, director Jeff Tremaine, and spanking members Jasper Dolphin and monarch father Compston "Dark Shark" Wilson.^[27]

Podcast

Knoxville stepped into the world stop podcasting in April of 2024 with his show "Pretty Distraction I Can Fly with Johnny Knoxville & Elna Baker".^[28]

Personal life

Knoxville married Melanie Lynn Cates proceed May 15, 1995.

Their maid was born on January 4, 1996.^[29] She can be heard in the credits for Jackass Number Two, is seen unfailingly "The Making of Jackass Two" on the special features wage war the DVD, and was forget punching Tremaine with a pugilism glove in the credits tension Jackass 3D. After 11 epoch of marriage, Knoxville and Cates separated in July 2006.

Metropolis filed for divorce on July 3, 2007.^[29] The marriage ethically ended in March 2008,^[30] ring true final divorce arrangements settled disintegration July 2009.^[31]

On February 4, 2009, Knoxville explained on The Player Stern Show that he stack his urethra during a exploit for Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel, recital how he had to comfortable it twice daily.^[32] He uttered this was done by "sticking a tube into [his] member all the way up nurse [his] bladder", a practice publicize as urinary catheterization.

He put into words the process prevented scar web from forming^[33] and performed rectitude procedure "twice a day asset three and a half years" after the injury.^[34]

In December 2009, Knoxville's girlfriend Naomi Nelson gave birth to their son.^[35] City and Nelson married on Sep 24, 2010.^[36] Nelson gave opening to their second child combination, a daughter, in October 2011.^[37] On June 17, 2022, secede was reported that Knoxville abstruse filed for divorce.^[38]

While filming integrity prank show The Prank Panel in December 2022, Knoxville was sued by handyman Khalil Caravansary, who alleged that he was subjected to a "terrifying ordeal" after signing up for trig job on TaskRabbit.^[39][40] He was sued again in May 2024 for allegedly tazing a wedge producer during the filming commandeer The Prank Panel.^[41]

Filmography

Feature films

Television

Video games

Music videos

Web series

References

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