The image of Joker falling into a vat of chemicals and emerging bleached and twisted has become one of the character’s most ...

Nicholson’s Joker was the city personified, which is why I think it was ultimately so effective in scaring the hell out of me as a kid. I’ll just never forget that fear.

Jack Nicholson knew immediately how he was going to play the Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman; it was going to be the only way the film would have been taken seriously. The multi-winning Oscar ...

Except the Joker, in this instance, was Jack Nicholson — who, while quirky and volatile, also was the consummate pro. Batman, circa 1989, not only was completed ...

Nicholson went on to share that he would’ve done a sequel if asked, and how his competitiveness with the Joker role stemmed from his childhood. “Well, the Joker comes from my childhood.

Jack Nicholson knew kids would like his terrifying vision for the Joker "The more you scare them, the more they like it," said the Oscar-winning actor in a recently resurfaced featurette for 1989 ...

Jack Nicholson’s Joker from Tim Burton‘s 1989 Batman film is iconic, not just in his performance of Batman’s most famous villain but in the character’s appearance as well.

Jack Nicholson‘s take on the Joker, like everything else in Tim Burton‘s original Batman movie, is an evolution away from the Batman of the 1960s — not quite willing to do it’s own thing ...

Nicholson’s Joker (Jack Napier) is a patchwork quilt, too, and, like the other Jokers, born a bad seed. Yet his fate is also shaped by fluke. Take his disfigurement, for example, ...

When Jack Nicholson signed on to play the Joker in 1989’s Batman, he had no intention of portraying him as a campy comic book villain, so the look needed to be right.The Tim Burton-directed film ...