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Kevin Smith
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Kevin Smith is an American filmmaker born in 1970 who is known for writing and directing independent films. He matters because his work has been influential in independent cinema and popular culture.
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Vinony's link graph records 1,297 inbound references to Kevin Smith, and connects out to Clerks, Catholic Church and San Diego Comic-Con International.
It is catalogued under topics including 1970 births, 20th-century American comedians and 20th-century American male actors.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1970
- Works
- 80
Top works
- Daredevil, Vol. 1
- Chasing Dogma
- XMPP
- The Tattered Tapestry
- At The Foot of Heaven
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969-08-06
- Active to
- 2003-10-21
Discography
- Shytown / No Confidence Man1994
- Roman Candle1994
- Needle in the Hay1995
- Elliott Smith1995
- Speed Trials1996
- Division Day / No Name #61997
- Either/Or1997
- Ballad of Big Nothing1998
- XO1998
- Waltz #2 (XO)1998
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9,210
- Total plays
- 74,190
Tags
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy Clerks (1994), in which he appeared as the character Silent Bob. Smith's first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they frequently feature crossover plot elements <a href="https://w
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
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- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 41,922x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,740x
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Quotes
- “God is a great concept, [but it] doesn't work”
- “Ten years in and we bone like we're cheating on each other WITH each other. A decade-plus and her clit/brown/taint-area still pOwns my dick.”
- “Sir, I just think that's it's fucking brilliant that you somehow managed to tie Chuck Norris, Chewbacca the Wookie, and Jesus Christ together.”
- “Guy from audience: Your wife is your beard!Kevin: My wife is my beard isn't she?... Oh, sir, who was it? It was you? That was your move. 'Cause in your head you're going "I'm gonna yell out your wife is your beard and they'll laugh like they laughed at the rock guy!" And you yelled it out, you got it out there, you had the guts to do it and shit, and then I even echoed it for you just in case the cheap seats didn't hear it, and there was fucking crickets, sir.”
- “What's your name, new best friend?”
- “In Hollywood, you just kind of fail upwards.”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.silentbobspeaks.com
- Image
- Kevin Smith by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- Commons category
- Kevin Smith
- date of birth
- 1970-08-02
- birth name
- Kevin Patrick Smith
- social media followers
- 551000
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- pseudonym
- Silent Bob
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Encyclopedic overview
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy film Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, co-edited, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob. These characters also appeared in Smith's later films Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), and Clerks III (2022), which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the "View Askewniverse", named after Smith's production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.
He is a supporting actor in film, his most prominent role playing a rogue computer hacker in Live Free or Die Hard (2007), and has made cameos in other movies. His other non-"View Askewniverse" films written and directed by Smith include the comedy-drama Jersey Girl (2004), the sex comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), Cop Out (2010), the horror Red State (2011), and the comedy horror Tusk (2014). He has directed numerous episodes of television for series such as The Flash (2016–2018), Supergirl (2017–2018), and The Goldbergs (2017–2019), and created the animated television series Clerks: The Animated Series (2000) and Netflix's Masters of the Universe (2021–2024).
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