In Loving Tribute

Words Cannot Express The Depths of Our Love

and How much We Miss You.

Heath Andrew Ledger

1979 - 2008

"The guy was brilliant.

He was a fantastic actor

and he put everything into this part.

I absolutely know without question

that he would have wanted everyone

to see [The Dark Knight].

"For me, this is a celebration

of what he did best - entertain people...

Respect the man.  This is what he did.

This is what he wanted to do."

(Actor Christian Bale)

Sunday, 29 June 2008, TDK Press Conference
 

"In between takes he would sit on the curbside

and smoke a cigarette and laugh and talk about

his daughter Matilda."

 "I thought he was just a beautiful kid.

I thought he was just wonderful.

I had a real affection for him.

(Actor Gary Oldman)

The Dark Knight Press Conference

Sunday 29 June2008


"Heath showed me pictures of [his daughter] ...

[he] would come in and say 'she did this and she did that.'"

"[For the Joker] he really created his look.

That character — Heath loved so much.

He really cared about the Joker."

(Actor Aaron Eckhart)

who plays District Attorney Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight.


"He was a very fine actor, and an actor's job is to create

an artificial reality while the camera is running.

Of the actors I've worked with, he was one of the easiest,

most delightful presences on set.

Not at all, you know, dark and intense when he didn't need to be.

Very easygoing and very kind to everybody around him,

which is certainly not the Joker.

It's a real testament to his skill to see how utterly unlike him,

and the way he saw the world, this character is.

[For] those who knew him and those who had

the privilege of working with him, it's pretty amazing

the disparity between the person he was

and the monster that he created for us. 

To see that being created from this

very gentle person is a real testament

to his skill as an actor."

(Christopher Nolan, Director of The Dark Knight)

I could feel, as soon as I started working with him,

that he was in this place which is so rare,

even for the greatest actors, where he was absolutely free.

And when you can hit that stride, you know, it rubs off on everyone

 around you. It was totally rubbing off on me.   Acting with

someone who's totally free is what everyone wants to do. . .

(Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Dark Knight)

I finished filming ‘The Imaginarium…’

with Heath Ledger on 20th January,

and during all that time he was nothing but professional -

working into the small hours in the freezing cold,

clad only in satin, fighting flu, doing his own stunt work,

chilling out with the crew, viewing the rushes with Gilliam.

There was no star system and Heath was part

of the crew, helping out and working damned hard.

Besides that, Heath was caring and friendly,

 and if you didn’t know him, you quickly grew to love him

 because he had a genuine way of connecting with people.

I was totally enchanted by Heath’s performance,

and it was a pure joy to be around him.

(Baba Berni, London, April 15, 2008)

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