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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 Dunsworth
John Francis Dunsworth (1946–2017), Canadian actor from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia; played Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys (2001–2018, 106 episodes), founded Halifax's Pier One Theatre (1970) and Filmworks Casting (1987), and ran for the NDP in 1988.
John Duttine
John Duttine (born 1949, Barnsley) is an English actor known for David Powlett-Jones in To Serve Them All My Days (1980), Bill Masen in The Day of the Triffids (1981), and Sergeant George Miller in Heartbeat; husband of actress Mel Martin, uncle of actor Joe Duttine.
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 Fiedler
John Donald Fiedler (1925-2005), American character actor: Juror No. 2 in 12 Angry Men, Vinnie in The Odd Couple, Mr. Peterson on The Bob Newhart Show, and the voice of Disney's Piglet from 1968 to 2005.
John Forsythe
John Forsythe, born John Lincoln Freund, was an American actor best known as Blake Carrington on Dynasty and the voice of Charlie Townsend on Charlie's Angels.
John Francis Daley
John Francis Daley (born 1985) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director, also known as Sam Weir in Freaks and Geeks and Lance Sweets in Bones. With Jonathan Goldstein he wrote Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming and directed Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
John Gallagher Jr.
John Gallagher Jr. (born 1984, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American actor and singer-songwriter, Tony winner for originating Moritz in Spring Awakening, later Johnny in American Idiot, Jim Harper on The Newsroom, and star of Short Term 12 and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
John Garfield
John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, 1913–1952), American film and stage actor, Warner Bros. star and pioneer of rebellious screen antiheroes; Oscar-nominated for Four Daughters, famed for The Postman Always Rings Twice, blacklisted after HUAC.
John Gavin
John Gavin (1931–2018), born Juan Vincent Apablasa or John Anthony Golenor, American actor in Psycho, Spartacus, and Imitation of Life, SAG president 1971–73, and US Ambassador to Mexico 1981–86 under Reagan.
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 Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair (b. Glasgow, 1962), Scottish actor and crime novelist; played Gregory in Gregory's Girl (1981), won a 1995 Olivier Award for She Loves Me, and writes Faber crime fiction.
John Gregson
John Gregson (Harold Thomas Gregson, 1919-1975), English actor of stage, film and television; star of Genevieve (1953), Ealing comedies, and Commander Gideon in Gideon's Way (1964-66).
John Hannah (actor)
John Hannah (born 1962, East Kilbride, Scotland) is a Scottish actor known for Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral (BAFTA-nominated), James Hammerton in Sliding Doors, Jonathan Carnahan in The Mummy trilogy, and Batiatus in Spartacus.
John Hart (actor)
John Hart (John Lewis Hart, 1917–2009), American actor also credited as John Hilton, who replaced Clayton Moore as TV's Lone Ranger for 52 episodes from 1952 and starred in the Jack Armstrong serial and Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans.
John Hawkes (actor)
John Hawkes (born John Marvin Perkins, 1959) is an American character actor known for Deadwood's Sol Star, his Oscar-nominated Teardrop in Winter's Bone, The Sessions, and two 2024 Emmy nominations for True Detective: Night Country.
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 Hodiak
John Hodiak (Годяк; 1914–1955) was an American actor of Ukrainian and Polish descent who worked in radio, stage, and film, and starred in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).
John Hollingworth (actor)
John Hollingworth (born 1981, Keighley, England) is an English actor and playwright, distinct from conductor John Hollingsworth. Known for Poldark's Captain Henshawe, 1917, The Crown, Napoleon, and the Globe's Antony and Cleopatra.
John Hopkins (actor)
John Hopkins is an English actor from Luton, Bedfordshire, a RADA graduate and Royal Shakespeare Company member known as DS Dan Scott in Midsomer Murders, Sir Francis Basset in Poldark, and Jeffrey Epstein in A Very Royal Scandal; distinct from the 1931–1998 writer of the same name.
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 Howard (Australian actor)
John Howard (Australian actor), born 1952 in Corowa, NSW, is an Australian stage and screen actor; NIDA graduate (1978) known for Bob Jelly in SeaChange, Dr Frank Campion in All Saints, The Club, and The People Eater in Mad Max: Fury Road; distinct from the former Prime Minister of the same name.
John Hoyt
John Hoyt (born John McArthur Hoysradt) was an American character actor, a charter member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre who played Dr. Phillip Boyce in Star Trek's first pilot.
John Hurt
Sir John Hurt (1940–2017), English actor, John Vincent Hurt, born Shirebrook, Derbyshire; famed for Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, The Elephant Man, Alien, and 1984; two Oscar nominations, four BAFTAs, knighted 2015.
John Inman
John Inman (1935–2007), English actor and singer, played camp menswear assistant Mr Humphries with the catchphrase "I'm free!" in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972–1985), and was a celebrated British pantomime dame.
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.