Heath Ledger selected filmography

Although to many it felt as if Heath Ledger was just getting warmed up in his film career, the actor, who was 28 when he died last year, had amassed an impressive body of work. Beginning with his 1999 U.S. film debut, “10 Things I Hate About You,” Ledger made 15 movies -- 16 if you count the one he was working on when he died.

2009: “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,” a traveling theater company has a race with the devil.

2008: “ The Dark Knight,” the Joker unleashes chaos in Gotham City.

2007: “I’m Not There,” looks at different aspects of the life of Bob Dylan.

2006: “Candy,” heroin addicts in love.

2005: “Casanova,” the fabled romantic learns about real love.

2005: “Brokeback Mountain,” two cowboys keep their love a secret.

2005: “The Brothers Grimm,” traveling con artists encounter a curse.

2005: “The Lords of Dogtown,” based on the lives of the early Dogtown skateboarders in Venice.

2003: “The Order,” a priest travels to Rome to investigate a death in his order.

2003: “Ned Kelly,” the life of the Australian outlaw.

2002: “The Four Feathers,” a British officer appears to be a coward when he resigns his post.

2001: “Monster’s Ball,” a racist prison guard falls in love with the African American wife of a prisoner he executed.

2001: “A Knight’s Tale,” a peasant creates a new identity for himself as a knight.

2000: “The Patriot,” a father and son fight in the American Revolution.

1999: “Two Hands,” an Australian film about a teen who gets into debt with the local gangster.

1999: “10 Things I Hate About You,” a modern-day telling of “The Taming of the Shrew.”