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  2. He is best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile (1999), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and other honors, and for playing Kingpin in Daredevil and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (both 2003).

  3. John Coffey is a supporting character of the Stephen King multiverse, serving as the deuteragonist of the novel The Green Mile and its film adaptation of the same name. He was an innocent inmate placed on death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary for a crime he never committed.

  4. Sep 15, 2022 · John Coffey was sentenced to death after being convicted of rape and the brutal murder of two girls. However, Coffey’s horrendous crime is at odds with his caring and miraculous personality. The big man does all that’s within his capabilities to rid people of pain.

  5. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work.

    • Stephen King
    • 1996
  6. May 11, 2023 · In 1935, John Coffey was imprisoned in the Cold Mountain Penitentiary. He was convicted for a crime he did not commit. He allegedly raped and murdered two girls.

  7. John Coffey Character Analysis. Despite his intimidating size, John Coffey is sensitive and non-violent. He is mostly illiterate (the only thing he can spell is his own name) and, like a child, is afraid of the dark. In prison, he spends most of his time crying for the suffering of other people.

  8. Feb 8, 2022 · Standing taller than the jail cell door that housed him, John Coffey is used as a scapegoat for the horrific crime of the raping and murdering of two small white girls.