From Armageddon to Harry Potter, we salute the screen work of Mr Jason Isaacs…

This feature contains spoilers forEvent Horizonand theHarry Potterfilms.

This article was originally published atDen of Geek UK.

Hello to Jason Isaacs!

Off-screen, Isaacs has a whole other profile of popularity.

Isaacs told theEvening Standardin 2000: [Bay] said, That was great.

How did you do that?

I said action and you were like this totally different guy.

Is that theatre training?

Of course, I thought he was kidding.

Then he said, Are you on the whole shoot?

We need you on the whole shoot.

Momentarily, hes distracted from his job, until a dinner encounter with a Scottish transvestite called Cherry.

Event Horizon

Weverecently writtenabout how time has been kind to Paul W.S.

AndersonsEvent Horizon, which had a lukewarm reception back in 1997 but has since been deservingly reappraised.

is the one who eventually translates the distress signal correctlysave yourselves from hell.

After Laurence Fishburnes Captain Miller decides to destroy the Event Horizon, the crew start dying and D.J.

The combination of ickiness and gravitas makes this another memorable performance.

Steele is the shaven-headed commander of the Rangers, endlessly imitable but nevertheless highly respected by his men.

His performance is accordingly dry and odd, but he provokes many of the bigger laughs in the film.

I was supposed to say something like, Well see about that.

Instead, I turned to him and said, Go ahead, and I threw him a gun.

He went with it as if thats just what he imagined Id do.

The only recurring adult character who truly developed with each subsequent appearance was Lucius Malfoy.

Isaacs is one of the executive producers on this film and was instrumental in getting it made.

Captain Hook/George Darling Peter Pan

Weve saved this for last for a reason.

And when you think of 2003sPeter Pan, you think of Isaacs take on Hook.

In the theatrical tradition of J.M.