By the time Sean Astin took his first trip to the American Film Market in 1990 at age 19, ... The trilogy, in which Astin played hobbit Samwise Gamgee, went on to gross nearly $3 billion worldwide.

John Astin, who endeared himself to classic TV fans as Gomez in the 1960s series The Addams Family, wasn’t just a notable TV dad. The actor, 95, gave son Sean Astin some key acting advice before the ...

Sean Astin: Happy Hobbit. Sean Astin is a drifter who chats with God in Jeremiah, his post-apocalyptic Showtime series co-starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

SALT LAKE CITY — Sean Astin, the actor best known for his roles in "The Goonies," "Lord of the Rings" and "Rudy," joined fans ...

“Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” fans will be able to see Middle Earth like never before. The legendary fantasy movies from director Peter Jackson are now getting the 4K ultra high ...

Peter Jackson, Sean Astin and Ed Sheeran were among those at the event; star Evangeline Lilly tells THR that she hopes her character, Tauriel, will be a role model for young women: "There is ...

It’s a measure of the sort of man he is that when colleagues talk about Sean Astin, it’s not the work that’s first in their minds. “The Lord of the Rings” star is an actor, the son of ...

T he heroic and faithful Hobbit, Samwise Gamgee, played by Sean Astin in the original Lord of the Ringstrilogy, proved to be a loyal friend to Frodo Baggins in his journey to destroy the Ring. The ...

Sean Astin, who you may know from playing the hobbit Samwise Gamgee in a small trio of 2000s-era films known as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was recently named as a Civilian Aide Emeritus to the ...

Sean Astin took a trip down memory lane with 50 First Dates costar Drew ... "I had to gain like a million pounds to be in Lord of the Rings because I played a stupid fat hobbit," recalled Astin.

Elijah Wood and Sean Astin had a 'Lord of the Rings' reunion Saturday at the 2024 SAG ... The Fellowship of the Ring, taking the final bow as their Hobbit characters in 2003's The Lord of the ...

Harfoots, as laid out by Tolkien in his books, are one of three different types of hobbits and are essentially ancestors to the hobbits we see in “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” ...