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Guru Somasundaram

Guru Somasundaram (born 1975, Chennai) is an Indian actor in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu cinema, known for Joker (2016), Shibu in Minnal Murali (2021), Jai Bhim, and Bottle Radha (2025).

Hal Needham

Hal Needham (1931-2013), American stuntman and director, Hollywood's highest-paid stuntman, doubled Burt Reynolds, directed Smokey and the Bandit, invented the Shotmaker camera car, received a 2012 honorary Oscar.

Haluk Bilginer

Haluk Bilginer, also known as Nihat Haluk Bilginer, is a Turkish actor recognized for his work in British soap operas and his celebrated performances in Winter Sleep.

Hank Azaria

Hank Azaria, born in Queens, New York, is the American voice actor behind The Simpsons characters Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, and formerly Apu, which he retired in 2020 after The Problem with Apu controversy; Apu was later recast with Sunil Malhotra.

Hank Patterson

Hank Patterson (Elmer Calvin Patterson, 1888–1975) was an American character actor and vaudeville pianist; stableman Hank Miller on Gunsmoke and farmer Fred Ziffel on Green Acres, not the ballplayer or the Delaware namesake.

Hank Worden

Hank Worden (Norton Earl Worden, 1901–1992), American Western character actor; Mose Harper in The Searchers, Simms Reeves in Red River, the Twin Peaks waiter; 15 John Wayne films.

Hans Conried

Hans Conried (Hans Georg Conried Jr., 1917-1982), American comic character and voice actor from Baltimore. Voiced Captain Hook and Mr. Darling in Disney's Peter Pan (1953), Snidely Whiplash, and played Dr. T.; famed as Uncle Tonoose on Danny Thomas's show.

Hansika Motwani

Hansika Motwani (born 1991, Mumbai) is an Indian actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema, formerly a Hindi child artist. Lead debut Desamuduru (2007) won Filmfare Best Female Debut – South; 50th film Maha (2022).

Hari Shivdasani (हरि शिवदासानी)

Hari Shivdasani (हरि शिवदासानी, 1909–1994) was a Sindhi-born Indian character actor in Hindi cinema from 1935 to the 1980s, father of Babita, uncle of Sadhana, and grandfather of Karisma and Kareena Kapoor.

Hariprriya (ಹರಿಪ್ರಿಯ)

Hariprriya (Kannada: ಹರಿಪ್ರಿಯ), born Shruthi Chandrasena in 1991, is an Indian actress in Kannada cinema whose career turning point was Ugramm (2014); she later married actor Vashishta Simha in January 2023.

Harish Kalyan (ஹரீஷ் கல்யாண்)

Harish Kalyan (ஹரீஷ் கல்யாண்), Tamil actor and playback singer born 1990 in Chennai; debut Sindhu Samaveli (2010), Bigg Boss Tamil 1 finalist, breakthrough Pyaar Prema Kaadhal (2018), hits Parking and Lubber Pandhu, married Narmada Udayakumar.

Harish Kumar (actor)

Harish Kumar (హరీష్ కుమార్) names two Indian actors: a Telugu-Hindi actor-producer born 1975 in Hyderabad, star of Prema Khaidi and Prem Qaidi, and a younger Tamil actor of Por Thozhil and With Love.

Harish Uthaman

Harish Uthaman (born 1982), also credited as Sri Hari, is an Indian actor in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada films; debut lead in Thaa (2010), known for villain roles in Kaithi, Vikram, and Thani Oruvan.

Harisree Ashokan (ഹരിശ്രീ അശോകൻ)

Harisree Ashokan (ഹരിശ്രീ അശോകൻ) is an Indian actor and director known for comedy roles in Malayalam cinema. He debuted in 1986 and has acted in over 200 films.

Harman Baweja

Harman Baweja (born 1980, Chandigarh), Indian actor, writer, and producer, son of filmmaker Harry Baweja; debuted in Love Story 2050 (2008), later Chairman and MD of Baweja Studios, producer of Chaar Sahibzaade and Mrs.

Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), American silent-film comedian, the "glasses character" beside Chaplin and Keaton; star of Safety Last!'s clock stunt, survivor of a 1919 bomb blast, maker of more than 200 comedies, Honorary Oscar 1953.

Harold Ramis

Harold Ramis (1944–2014), American comedy writer, director, and actor; Second City and SCTV head writer; co-wrote Animal House and Ghostbusters (as Egon Spengler); directed Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, winning a BAFTA for its screenplay.

Harpo Marx

Harpo Marx (Adolph/Arthur Marx, 1888-1964), mute member of the Marx Brothers, self-taught harpist who went silent after a critic's review, declined $50,000 to speak, and was heard posthumously in a 1964 concert recording.

Harrison Ford filmography

Harrison Ford filmography: screen credits of the American actor (born 1942), from Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) through Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, Jack Ryan, and 2025 Marvel roles.

Harry Carey Jr.

Harry Carey Jr., also known as Dobe Carey (1921–2012), was an American character actor best known for Westerns, appearing in more than 100 films including many for John Ford.

Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017), American character actor and musician of about 200 films; star of Paris, Texas and Repo Man, David Lynch collaborator, Harry Dean Stanton Band frontman, final lead in Lucky.

Harry Reems

Harry Reems (Herbert Streicher, 1947–2013), American actor, male star of the 1972 film Deep Throat with Linda Lovelace; convicted 1976 of federal obscenity conspiracy, overturned 1977; later a Park City, Utah realtor.

Harvey Spencer Stephens

Harvey Spencer Stephens (born 1970, London) is an English former child actor who played Damien Thorn in The Omen (1976), cast after attacking director Richard Donner at audition; his only other notable role was Gauguin the Savage (1980).

Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian from Wichita, Kansas, the first African American to win an Oscar, taking Best Supporting Actress on February 29, 1940 for Mammy in Gone with the Wind, later starring on radio's Beulah and winning a landmark housing case.

Haya Harareet (חיה הררית)

Haya Harareet (חיה הררית), born Haya Neuberg, Israeli actress (1931–2021); debuted in Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955), played Esther in Ben-Hur (1959), co-wrote Our Mother's House (1967).

Hazel Court

Hazel Court (1926–2008), English actress known as the 'Queen of Scream'; starred in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Roger Corman's Poe films The Premature Burial, The Raven, and The Masque of the Red Death.

Hazel Keech

Hazel Keech (born Rose Dawn, later Gurbasant Kaur), British actress and model born 1987 in Essex, London, known for Tamil film Billa (2007), Maya in Bodyguard (2011), the Maximum item song, Bigg Boss 7, and marriage to cricketer Yuvraj Singh in 2016.

Heather Hunter

Heather Hunter (Heather Keisha Hunter, Double H), born 1969 in the Bronx, is a former adult film star, the first Black woman under Vivid contract, later a rapper, novelist of Insatiable, painter, and photographer.

Heera Rajagopal

Heera Rajagopal (ஹீரா ராசகோபால்), also credited as Heera, is a former Indian actress active from 1991 to 1999 who debuted in the Tamil film Idhayam.

Helen (actress)

Helen (Helen Ann Richardson Khan, born 21 November 1938, Rangoon) is a Burma-born Indian actress and dancer of Hindi cinema, the famed Cabaret Queen and vamp of 1950s-1980s Bollywood, known for "Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu" and the Filmfare-winning Lahu Ke Do Rang.