John Alexander
Biography
John Alexander is a Scottish actor and puppeteer known for physical, heavily costumed character parts in adventure films. Born in Scotland and partly raised in Malta, he trained in movement and acrobatics at the Celtic Ballet School before joining the circus as a teenager. A French acrobatic troupe, The Ghezzies, signed him, and he toured Europe in cabaret and television before settling into London theater, including two years at the London Palladium in Barnum with Michael Crawford. His first film, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, cast him as the primate leader White Eyes in a gorilla suit built by Rick Baker. He went on to play the Cowardly Lion in Return to Oz (1985), the gorilla Digit in Gorillas in the Mist, the alien Mikey in Men in Black (1997), the Robot in Zathura (2005) and Johann Krauss in Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), and also worked as a consultant, choreographer and puppeteer.
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 31 years1985 to 2016
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- Hellboy II: The Golden Army2008 Action, Adventure, Fantasyas Johann Krauss / Bethmoora Goblin
IMDb rating 7.0300K votes
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John Alexander shares two films with Deep Roy, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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