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Joey Lawrence
Joey Lawrence (Joseph Lawrence Mignogna III, born 1976) is an American actor and singer from Pennsylvania, known as Joey Russo on Blossom, Joey Donovan on Gimme a Break!, and Joe Longo on Melissa & Joey, with a 1993 pop hit.
Joey Slotnick
Joey Slotnick (Joseph Jay Slotnick, born 1968, Chicago) is an American actor and voice actor, an ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre, known for The Single Guy, Boston Public, and playing Steve Wozniak in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Joey Travolta
Joey Travolta (Joseph Allen Travolta, born 1950) is an American actor, singer, director, and older brother of John Travolta, known for founding Inclusion Films in 2007, a California vocational program training adults with developmental disabilities in filmmaking.
John Allen Nelson
John Allen Nelson (born 1959) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer: Warren Lockridge on Santa Barbara, John D. Cort on Baywatch, Walt Cummings on 24, and the title role in the film Hunk; also the Wine Guy on Friends.
John Amos
John Amos (John Allen Amos Jr., 1939–2024), American actor known as James Evans Sr. on Good Times and the adult Kunta Kinte in Roots; Emmy-nominated 1977; also The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The West Wing, Coming to America.
John Asher
John Asher (John Mallory Asher, born 1971) is an American actor-director known as Gary Wallace in Weird Science and for directing Kounterfeit, Dirty Love, Somebody Marry Me, and A Boy Called Po.
John Ashton (actor)
John David Ashton (1948–2024), American character actor from Springfield, Massachusetts; played Sergeant John Taggart in Beverly Hills Cop (1984, 1987, 2024) and Marvin Dorfler in Midnight Run; died of cancer in Fort Collins, Colorado.
John Beasley (actor)
John Beasley was an American character actor known for his roles in Everwood and The Soul Man. He was born in Omaha in 1943 and died in 2023.
John Beck (actor)
John Beck (born 1943, Chicago) is an American retired actor, best known as Mark Graison on Dallas and for Rollerball, Sleeper, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid; distinct from the 1876–1956 actor and writer John D. Beck.
John Belushi
John Belushi (1949-1982), American comedian and actor, original Saturday Night Live cast member, star of Animal House and The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd; died March 5, 1982, of a cocaine-heroin overdose at the Chateau Marmont.
John Bennett Perry
John Bennett Perry (born 1941) is an American actor and singer, the Old Spice "sailor" of 1970s-80s commercials, with roles in 240-Robert, Falcon Crest, and Fools Rush In, and father of actor Matthew Perry.
John Blyth Barrymore
John Blyth Barrymore (John Barrymore III), born 1954, is an American actor, son of John Drew Barrymore and Cara Williams, half-brother of Drew Barrymore; best known as Zeke in Kung Fu (1975), later an acting coach and software developer.
John C. McGinley
John C. McGinley (born 1959) is an American actor known as Dr. Perry Cox on Scrubs (2001–2010, 2026 ABC revival) and for Oliver Stone films Platoon, Wall Street, and Any Given Sunday, plus Seven, The Rock, Office Space, and Rooster.
John C. Reilly
John C. Reilly (John Christopher Reilly, born 1965) is an American actor from Chicago known for Paul Thomas Anderson films Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia; Oscar-nominated for Chicago; comedy roles with Will Ferrell; voices Wreck-It Ralph.
John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch, born 1963 in Boulder, Colorado, is an American character actor known for Norm Gunderson in Fargo and Twisty the Clown in American Horror Story.
John Corbett
John Corbett (born 1962, Wheeling, WV) is an American actor and country singer, not the virologist, writer, or boxer of the same name; known for Northern Exposure's Chris Stevens, Aidan in Sex and the City, and Ian Miller in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
John Cullum
John Cullum (born 1930, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American stage and television actor, two-time Tony winner for Shenandoah and On the Twentieth Century, known as Holling Vincoeur on Northern Exposure.
John Cusack
John Cusack (born 1966, Evanston, Illinois), American actor, producer, and screenwriter; rose in 1980s teen films (Say Anything), peaked with Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, later shifted to writing, including the 2026 graphic novel Momo.
John de Lancie
John de Lancie (born 1948, Philadelphia), also John Sherwood de Lancie Jr., American actor known as Q in Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager, Picard and Strange New Worlds; also Eugene Bradford on Days of Our Lives, Donald Margolis on Breaking Bad, and the voice of Discord in My Little Pony.
John Diehl
John Diehl (John Henry Diehl, born 1950, Cincinnati) is an American character actor with 150+ credits, known as Det. Larry Zito on Miami Vice, Maj. Kawalsky in Stargate (1994), G. Gordon Liddy in Nixon, Ben Gilroy on The Shield, and Fred Trump in Armageddon Time.
John Ducey
John Ducey (John Joseph Ducey, born 1969, Endwell, New York) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer; Harvard-educated, known as Tom Lucas on Disney's Jonas, Ford Lowell on Oh Grow Up, and writer of streaming films like I Believe in Santa.
John Dye
John Dye (John Carroll Dye, 1963-2011), American actor from Amory, Mississippi, best known as Andrew, the Angel of Death, on CBS's Touched by an Angel (1995-2003); also Tour of Duty and Campus Man.
John Gibson (actor, born 1948)
John Gibson (1948–1986) was an American actor from Michigan, the Baseball Fury in The Warriors (1979), also seen in The Fall Guy and One Life to Live; fiancé of Vanna White, he died piloting his own plane near Van Nuys airport.
John Glover (actor)
John Soursby Glover Jr. (born 1944, Salisbury, Maryland) is an American character actor, Tony winner for Love! Valour! Compassion!, five-time Emmy nominee, and Lionel Luthor on Smallville; not the artist John Glover or John V. Glover.
John Goodman
John Goodman, American actor born 1952 in Affton, Missouri, known as Dan Conner on Roseanne (1988–1997), Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski, Sulley in Monsters, Inc., and later The Conners and The Righteous Gemstones.
John Heard (actor)
John Matthew Heard (1945 or 1946 - 2017), American character actor; played Peter McCallister in Home Alone and Detective Vin Makazian in The Sopranos; Emmy-nominated 1999; Obie and Theatre World Award stage actor.
John Henton
John Henton (born 1960, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor and comedian, known as Overton Wakefield Jones on Living Single (1993-1998) and Milsap Morris on The Hughleys (1998-2002), after a stand-up career launched by a 1991 Johnny Carson appearance.
John Hillerman
John Hillerman (1932-2017), American character actor from Denison, Texas; Emmy-winning as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on Magnum, P.I. (1980-88), also in Chinatown and Blazing Saddles.
John Houseman
John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann, 1902–1988), Romanian-born American producer, director, actor: Mercury Theatre co-founder with Orson Welles, Juilliard Drama Division founder, Oscar winner for The Paper Chase.
John James (actor)
John James (John James Anderson, born 1956), American actor, played Jeff Colby on Dynasty (1981–1989) and The Colbys, later on As the World Turns and All My Children; distinct from the London actor, the 1913–1960 actor, and the Michigan politician.