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Environmentalist. Cannabis spokesperson. Playwright. Vegan. Cannabis enjoyer. Woody Harrelson is a complex individual and a multifaceted presence on screen, his roles running the range of clean-cut cowboy to cold-blooded killer. But no matter who he's playing there always seems to be a lingering essence of the real Woody, and that's why he rules.

This week sees the former TV star getting "Cheers" for his role as a stage-magician-cum-bank-robber in "Now You See Me" and this November he'll reprise the part of Haymitch Abernathy in his first-ever sequel, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." We're stoking the fires of Woody worship as we pay tribute to our favorite High Times cover boy with nine of his quintessential roles.

9. 'A Scanner Darkly' (2006)

There's no denying the essential Woodiness of stoner dude Ernie Luckman in Richard Linklater's rotoscope animated take on one of Philip K. Dick's most grounded and personal novels.

Only 206 more days until fans of The Hunger Games will be able to see Suzanne Collins' novel brought to life. Everyone's favorite stoner, Woody Harrelson, will be playing Haymitch Abernathy – a character who spends a lot of his time nursing a bottle of booze. Harrelson's made a career out of playing oddball characters – some of the violent and unhinged variety. The Zombieland star's inspiration may come from something that hits close to home for the actor, since his own father was a career criminal. Charles Harrelson was a California encyclopedia salesman and a gambler. In Houston, 1968, he left his family (a wife and three sons, including Woody) and wasn't heard from again until news hit that he was under...

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Movie actor Woody Harrelson's father, a convicted murderer, has died of a heart attack in prison. He was 69. Charles Harrelson, who was serving two life sentences in Colorado's high-security Supermax prison for the 1979 murder of a federal judge, was found dead in his cell last Thursday. Fremont County Coroner Dorothy Twellman has concluded Harrelson probably died in his sleep. She says, "It appears to be very sudden." Harrelson was convicted of murdering US District Judge John Wood outside his San Antonio, Texas home in May 1979. He denied the killing, but prosecutors said a drug dealer paid him $250,000 to assassinate Wood so he would not preside over a trial. Harrelson had earlier been found guilty of, and served time for, a 1968 killing.