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Joe Pantoliano

Joe Pantoliano (Joey Pants), born 1951 in Hoboken, New Jersey, is an American character actor with 150+ credits: Cypher in The Matrix, Ralph Cifaretto in The Sopranos (2003 Emmy), Captain Howard in Bad Boys, Teddy in Memento, and Eugene in The Last of Us.

Joe Spinell

Joe Spinell (born Joseph Spagnuolo, 1936–1989) was an American character actor known for tough roles in The Godfather, Rocky, and the horror film Maniac, which he wrote and produced.

Joe Turkel

Joe Turkel (1927 to 2022), born Joseph Turkel, was an American character actor known for Lloyd in Kubrick's The Shining and Dr. Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner.

Joe Viterelli

Joe Viterelli (1937–2004), American character actor from the Bronx who began acting in his 50s; played Jelly in Analyze This and Analyze That and gangster roles in over 40 films.

Joey Cramer

Joey Cramer (Deleriyes August Joe Fisher Cramer), Canadian actor born 1973 in Vancouver, child star of Flight of the Navigator (1986); also Runaway, Stone Fox; 2016 bank robbery conviction; subject of Life After the Navigator (2020). Not Aerosmith's Joey Kramer.

Joey Stefano

Joey Stefano (Nicholas Anthony Iacona Jr., 1968-1994), American gay adult film star of the early 1990s, famed as a 'power-bottom,' appeared in 58 films, modeled for Madonna's Sex, died of a drug overdose at 26.

Joey Zimmerman

Joey Zimmerman, also credited J. Paul Zimmerman, American actor born 1986 in Albuquerque; child star of Earth 2, Bailey Kipper's P.O.V., and Disney's Halloweentown films as Dylan Piper; distinct from Swiss actor Joey Zimmermann.

John Abraham

John Abraham (जॉन अब्राहम), born 1972, is an Indian Hindi-film actor, producer, and former model; debut Jism (2003), breakthrough Dhoom (2004), producer of Vicky Donor; distinct from the 1937-born Malayalam filmmaker of the same name.

John Agar

John Agar was an American film and television actor who began in John Ford's 1940s cavalry Westerns before becoming known for 1950s science fiction films.

John Barrymore

John Barrymore, born John Sidney Blyth, was an American stage and screen actor acclaimed for his Broadway Hamlet of 1922 and films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

John Bernecker

John Bernecker (1984-2017) was an American stunt performer with over 90 credits who died falling about 22 feet from a balcony while rehearsing a Walking Dead fight scene; his family won an $8.6 million verdict.

John C. Reilly filmography

John C. Reilly filmography: screen credits of the Chicago-born American actor (born 1965), from Casualties of War (1989) and Paul Thomas Anderson dramas to Chicago, Walk Hard, Wreck-It Ralph, and Stan & Ollie.

John Carradine

John Carradine (Richmond Reed Carradine, 1906-1988), American character actor of Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath, father of David, Keith, and Robert Carradine, prolific in horror films, never a star.

John Drew Barrymore

John Drew Barrymore (1932–2004), also known as John Barrymore Jr., was an American actor, son of John Barrymore and Dolores Costello and father of Drew Barrymore, whose sporadic film career included While the City Sleeps and High School Confidential.

John Franklin (actor)

John Franklin (born 1959, Blue Island, Illinois; birth name John Paul Salapatek) is the American actor who played Isaac in Children of the Corn (1984) and Cousin Itt in The Addams Family films; later a teacher, returning in Hag (2014).

John Getz

John Getz (born 1946, Davenport, Iowa) is an American character actor known for Ray in Blood Simple, Stathis Borans in The Fly and The Fly II, and roles in The Social Network, Zodiac, The Last of Us, and The Pitt.

John Gilbert (actor)

John Gilbert (born John Cecil Pringle, 1897–1936) was an American silent-film superstar and MGM's top male romantic lead, famed for The Big Parade and four films with Greta Garbo; his talkie-era decline is now attributed to studio politics, not his voice.

John Holmes (actor)

John Holmes (John Curtis Estes, 1944–1988), also Johnny Wadd, American adult film star of the 1970s golden age; over 573 feature credits, acquitted in the Wonderland murders, died of AIDS in 1988.

John Kassir

John Edward Kassir, also credited as Jon Kassir, is an American actor and comedian from Baltimore, Maryland, born 1957, best known as the voice of the Crypt Keeper on HBO's Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996), plus Buster Bunny, Meeko, Scrooge McDuck, and Deadpool.

John Krasinski filmography

John Krasinski filmography: screen credits of the American actor and filmmaker (born 1979), from Jim Halpert on The Office (2005-2013) to directing A Quiet Place, IF, and starring as Jack Ryan.

John Leguizamo filmography

John Leguizamo filmography: screen credits of the Colombian-American actor (born 1960), from Mixed Blood and Carlito's Way to Sid the Sloth in Ice Age, Bruno in Encanto, and Eumaeus in Nolan's The Odyssey (2026).

John McIntire

John Herrick McIntire (1907-1991) was an American character actor of westerns and crime dramas; replaced Ward Bond as wagonmaster Chris Hale on Wagon Train, played Clay Grainger on The Virginian, the sheriff in Psycho, and married Jeanette Nolan for 56 years.

John Mitchum

John Mitchum (1919–2001) was an American character actor, singer, and poet, the younger brother of Robert Mitchum, best known as Inspector Frank DiGiorgio in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films.

John Phillip Law

John Phillip Law (1937-2008), American actor, played Pygar in Barbarella, the title role in Danger: Diabolik, and a Soviet submariner in The Russians Are Coming; also Death Rides a Horse and The Love Machine.

John Quade

John Quade (John William Saunders III, 1938–2009), American character actor and former JPL aerospace engineer, best known as biker-gang leader Cholla in Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can.

John Saxon

John Saxon (Carmine Orrico, 1936–2020), American actor of nearly 200 roles over 60 years; Roper in Enter the Dragon, Lt. Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Golden Globe winner 1958, nominee 1966.

John Stagliano

John Stagliano (born 1951, Chicago), known as Buttman, is the American adult-film director and founder of Evil Angel credited with inventing gonzo pornography through The Adventures of Buttman (1989); later Fashionistas and a 2008-2010 federal obscenity case ending in acquittal.

John Wayne filmography

The John Wayne filmography records the screen appearances of American actor John Wayne, from late-1920s silent films to The Shootist (1976), including about 180 roles, 83 of them Westerns.

Johnny Depp filmography

Johnny Depp filmography: credited roles of the American actor John Christopher Depp II (born 1963), from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and 21 Jump Street through Tim Burton films, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jeanne du Barry, Ebenezer (2026), and Day Drinker (2027).

Johnny Eck

Johnny Eck (John Eckhardt Jr., 1911–1991) was a Baltimore sideshow performer and film actor born with sacral agenesis; billed "The Amazing Half-Boy", he performed on his hands, played the Half Boy in Freaks (1932) and bird creatures in three Tarzan films, and became Baltimore's best-known screen painter.