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Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his roles in family and comedy films and his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. After portraying supporting roles in films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Black had his breakout role in the musical film High Fidelity (2000). This led to larger roles in films like Shallow Hal (2001) and Orange County (2002) before he solidified his leading-man status with his starring role in School of Rock (2003). Black has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie franchise (2023-present). Black is the lead vocalist of the duo Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. In 2015, they won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "The Last in Line." Since 2018, Black has run a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jack Black

Hugo
for Hugo in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2005 Live Action Remake)
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June 24, 2005. Rated PG-13. The film is mostly based on the 1996 Disney animated film, scrapped ideas from the 1996 Disney animated film, the 1999-2002 Berlin Disney stage play by James Lapine and elements from the Victor Hugo novel. The film is rated PG-13 and is much darker in tone. The death of Quasimodo's mother is far more graphic. Claude Frollo's backstory of being a priest before he became a judge and has a younger brother named Jehan. The Gargoyles humor is not over the top and are confirmed to be in Quasimodo's imagination. Brutish Guard and Oafish Guard are portrayed as serious and threatening. New songs, a happy ending and a sad ending. The happy and sad endings are based on ending that were scrapped from the 1996 Disney animated film. In both endings Esmeralda kills Judge Claude Frollo, in order to save Quasimodo. In the happy ending, in a fit of rage Quasimodo brutally beats up Frollo after discovering that he lied to him about his mother and Esmeralda kills Judge Frollo and sucessfully saves Quasimodo when she kicks him off the cathedral. In the sad ending, Frollo successfully stabs Quasimodo with his dagger, Esmeralda wakes up gets into a struggle with Frollo, Esmeralda pushes Frollo outside of the cathedral to the ground. In a fit of rage Esmeralda kills Judge Claude Frollo, when she breaks his arm and kicks off the cathedral. Esmeralda attempts to heal Quasimodo and dies his arms and a funeral is held for Quasimodo as he becomes a martyr.
