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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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John Bell (Scottish actor)

John Hunter Bell (born 1997, Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish actor known as Bain in The Hobbit films and Young Ian Murray in Starz's Outlander; distinct from the Australian actor John Bell born 1940.

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 Benjamin Hickey

John Benjamin Hickey (born 1963, Plano, Texas) is an American stage, film, and television actor; Tony winner for Felix Turner in The Normal Heart (2011), Emmy-nominated for The Big C, and director of Broadway's Plaza Suite revival.

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 Billingsley

John Billingsley (born 1960, Media, Pennsylvania) is an American character actor, also known as John A. Billingsley, who played Dr. Phlox in all 98 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), with later roles in True Blood, The Nine, and Pam & Tommy, and charity work with the Hollywood Food Coalition.

John Bindon

John Bindon (1943-1993), nicknamed Biffo, was a British actor and bodyguard typecast as London gangland heavies in Poor Cow, Performance, Get Carter and Quadrophenia, and bodyguard for Led Zeppelin.

John Bluthal

John Bluthal (Isaac Bluthal, 1929-2018), Polish-born Australian-British comedy actor; starred as tailor Manny Cohen in Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, voiced Fireball XL5's Commander Zero, and played Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley.

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 Boyd (actor)

John Boyd (born 1981, New York City) is an American actor and son of Guy Boyd; plays Special Agent Stuart Scola on CBS's FBI after Arlo Glass on 24 and James Aubrey on Bones, with film credits Argo and Peppermint.

John Boyega

John Boyega (John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega), British-Nigerian actor born 1992 in Peckham, London; broke out as Moses in Attack the Block (2011), played Finn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, won the 2016 BAFTA EE Rising Star Award, and starred in Breaking, The Woman King, and They Cloned Tyrone.

John Bradley (English actor)

John Bradley (John Bradley West, born 1988) is an English actor from Wythenshawe, Manchester, known for Samwell Tarly in Game of Thrones, and for Moonfall, Marry Me, and 3 Body Problem.

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 Cameron Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell, American actor, writer, and director born 1963 in El Paso, Texas; creator and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (1998 stage, 2001 film), director of Shortbus and Rabbit Hole, and 2015 Special Tony winner.

John Candy

John Candy (1950–1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor, a Second City Toronto and SCTV star known for Johnny LaRue and Yosh Shmenge, who headlined Splash, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and Cool Runnings before dying at 43.

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 Cazale

John Cazale (John Holland Cazale, 1935 to 1978) was an American character actor who appeared in five films, each nominated for Best Picture, and played Fredo Corleone in The Godfather films.

John Challis

John Challis (1942–2021), English character actor best known as Boycie in Only Fools and Horses and The Green Green Grass; also Benidorm, Z Cars, Doctor Who, and Boycie in Belgrade.

John Cho

John Cho (조요한, born 1972, Seoul) is a Korean American actor, Berkeley English graduate, star of Harold & Kumar, Sulu in Star Trek (2009), and Searching (2018), living in Los Angeles.

John Colicos

John Colicos (1928–2000), Canadian Shakespearean actor, played Commander Kor, the first Klingon in Star Trek, and Count Baltar in the original Battlestar Galactica, plus Mikkos Cassadine on General Hospital.

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 Dall

John Dall (John Dall Thompson, 1920-1971) was an American stage and film actor, Oscar-nominated for his debut The Corn Is Green (1945), best known as Brandon in Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and the lead of Gun Crazy (1950).

John David Washington

John David Washington (born 1984) is an American actor and former football player, son of Denzel Washington; star of Ballers, BlacKkKlansman, Tenet, and The Piano Lesson on stage and screen.

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 Dehner

John Dehner (John Dehner Forkum, 1915-1992), American character actor and baritone radio voice; Disney animator turned actor, radio's J.B. Kendall and Paladin, Pat Garrett in The Left Handed Gun.

John Derek

John Derek (born Derek Harris, 1926–1998) was an American actor turned director and cinematographer, married to Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, and Bo Derek, whom he directed in Tarzan the Ape Man, Bolero, and Ghosts Can't Do It.

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 Doman

John Doman (born 1945, Philadelphia) is an American character actor, Marine Vietnam veteran, and former advertising executive who began acting at 46, known for William Rawls in The Wire, Pope Alexander VI in Borgia, and Carmine Falcone in Gotham.