Thomas Haden Church
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Thomas Haden Church (born June 17, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated American film and television actor. In 2007 he played the villain Sandman on Spider-Man 3.
Thomas Haden Church Facts
He was born June 17, 1960 in Texas. He began his career as a radio dj.
Spider-Man 3's Sandman creates sympathy similarly exhibited by Lon Chaney in his portrayals of misunderstood creatures, as well as Frankenstein's monster, the Golem, and Andy Serkis's portrayals of Gollum and King Kong.
Church worked out for 16 months to improve his physique for the role, gaining twenty-eight pounds of muscle and losing ten pounds of fat.
Sam Raimi had tried to hire Church for another role in the movie "The Gift" but studio execs insisted on Keanu Reeves.
Most folks probably remember him from the 90's TV show "Wings" as Lowell Mather the mechanic. He was great on that show. It was some real funny stuff. "Wings" also starred Superman the Animated Series voice Timothy Daly, and "Monk's" Tony Shalhoub.
He got his own show on Fox called, "Ned and Stacey" where he played Ned Dorsey a man who gets a beautiful woman to become his wife in exchange for a place to live to help him get a promotion.
He does the voice of Brooks the Crow in the new movie "Charlotte's Web".
He was the villain in the movie, "George of the Jungle".
Thomas Haden Church lives his real life more like a cowboy than a super villain. Before calling in a recent interview with Wizard magazine he was actually driving cattle all day.
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