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John Jarratt
John Jarratt (born 1951) is an Australian actor known for Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek, NIDA training, The Last Outlaw, Better Homes and Gardens, and Django Unchained.
John Kapelos
John Kapelos is a Canadian character actor, born in 1956, best known as the janitor Carl Reed in The Breakfast Club and Detective Donald Schanke in Forever Knight.
John Kavanagh (actor)
John Kavanagh (born 1946, Dublin) is an Irish character actor, Abbey Theatre member 1967–1977, known as Cardinal Campeggio in The Tudors and the Seer in Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla, with films including Braveheart, Cal, and The Butcher Boy.
John Kerr (actor)
John Kerr (John Grinham Kerr), 1931-2013, American stage, film and TV actor; Tony-winning original Tom Lee in Tea and Sympathy on Broadway and screen, Lt. Cable in South Pacific, later a California lawyer.
John Kirby (actor)
John Kirby (1950/1951 – July 15, 2026) was an American acting coach and bit-part actor, son of Bruce Kirby and brother of Bruno Kirby, Caviezel's longtime coach, nicknamed Actor's Guardian Angel.
John Krasinski
John Krasinski (born 1979), American actor and filmmaker: Jim Halpert on The Office (2005–2013), writer-director-star of A Quiet Place (2018), Jack Ryan in the Prime Video series and 2026 film Ghost War.
John Larroquette
John Larroquette (born 1947, New Orleans) is an American actor, five-time Emmy winner as Dan Fielding on Night Court, also a Tony winner for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
John Laurie
John Paton Laurie (1897–1980) was a Scottish Shakespearean stage actor and prolific film character actor, best known as Private Frazer with the catchphrase 'We're doomed!' in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977).
John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, 1912–1983) was an English character actor, the genteel Sergeant Arthur Wilson in BBC's Dad's Army (1968–1977), a BAFTA-winning lead in Traitor, married three times including Hattie Jacques; not the same-named Jeremy Thorpe plot figure.
John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, comedian, and playwright born in Bogotá, known for one-man shows (Mambo Mouth, Freak, Latin History for Morons), an Emmy, a Special Tony, Ice Age's Sid, and Latino representation advocacy.
John Light (actor)
John Light (born 1972, Birmingham) is an English LAMDA-trained actor known for Hercule Flambeau in Father Brown, Henry Lennox in North & South, Band of Brothers, and an Olivier-nominated stage career; formerly married to Neve Campbell.
John Lithgow
John Lithgow (born 1945) is an American actor of stage, film, and TV, known for 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dexter, The Crown, and Giant. Three Tonys, six Emmys as of 2019, two Oscar nominations; cast as Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter.
John Lloyd Young
John Lloyd Young (born 1975) is an American actor and singer, original Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys; 2006 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World winner, later the 2014 Eastwood film and Grammy-winning cast album.
John Loder (actor)
John Loder (born John Muir Lowe, 1898-1988) was a British leading man in films from silent-era Germany to Sabotage, How Green Was My Valley and Now, Voyager; third husband of Hedy Lamarr.
John Lone
John Lone (尊龍), born 1952 in Hong Kong, is a Chinese-American actor trained in Peking Opera, known for The Last Emperor (1987), M. Butterfly, and two Golden Globe nominations; distinct from John Lennon subjects.
John Lynch (actor)
John Lynch (born 1961, Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish actor and novelist, not the American actor John Carroll Lynch. Debut in Cal (1984); known for In the Name of the Father, Some Mother's Son, Angel Baby, The Fall, and novels Torn Water and Falling Out of Heaven.
John M. Jackson
John M. Jackson (John Murice Jackson, born 1950) is an American actor, best known as Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden on CBS's JAG (1996-2004), later on Bones, NCIS, and NCIS: Los Angeles; distinct from the Dallas litigator and other namesakes.
John Magaro
John Magaro (John Robert Magaro, born 1983, Akron, Ohio) is an American actor known for First Cow, Past Lives, September 5, Koln 75, The Big Short, and The Agency, distinguished from others of the same name by his indie-film career.
John Mahoney
John Mahoney (1940–2018), English-born American actor Charles John Mahoney, Tony winner and star of Martin Crane on Frasier; Steppenwolf member, voice actor in The Iron Giant and Antz; died in Chicago aged 77.
John Malkovich
John Malkovich (born 1953), American actor and Steppenwolf Theatre founding member, two-time Oscar nominee known for Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, and starring as himself in Being John Malkovich (1999).
John Marley
John Marley (Mortimer Leon Marlieb, 1907–1984), American character actor. Known for Faces (1968, Volpi Cup), Love Story (Oscar nomination), and Jack Woltz in The Godfather (1972); died after open-heart surgery.
John McGiver
John McGiver (John Irwin McGiver, 1913–1975) was an American character actor known for pompous, comic authority figures in over one hundred film and television roles from 1955 to 1975.
John Meillon
John Meillon (1934–1989) was an Australian actor of radio, stage, film, and television, known as Wal in the Crocodile Dundee films, Wally Stiller in My Name's McGooley, AFI best actor 1977, OBE 1979.
John Merivale
John Herman Merivale (Jack Merivale, 1917–1990), Canadian-born British stage, film, and TV actor; starred in A Night to Remember, King Rat, Arabesque; longtime partner of Vivien Leigh; married Jan Sterling and Dinah Sheridan.
John Michael Higgins
John Michael Higgins (born 1963) is an American actor and game show host known for Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Pitch Perfect, The Late Shift as David Letterman, Great News, America Says, and Split Second.
John Mills
Sir John Mills (1908-2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, English actor with a 70-year, 100-plus-film career; Oscar winner for Ryan's Daughter (1970), famed for British war films, father of Hayley and Juliet Mills; not the WWI soldier or the Florida lawyer.
John Nettles
John Nettles, full name John Vivian Drummond Nettles, is an English actor and author known for playing Jim Bergerac in Bergerac and DCI Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders.
John Neville (actor)
John Reginald Neville (1925-2011), British-born Canadian actor and stage director; Old Vic Shakespearean lead, artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse, Citadel, Neptune, and Stratford Festival, and the Well-Manicured Man in The X-Files.
John Noble
John Noble, born 1948 in Port Pirie, Australia, is an actor and theatre director known as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings and Walter Bishop in Fringe; not the Noble Corporation oil driller or the Scottish electrical engineer of the same name.
John O'Hurley
John O'Hurley (born 1954, Kittery, Maine) is an American actor and host, aka J. Peterman on Seinfeld, sixth host of Family Feud (2006–2010), and longtime host of NBC's National Dog Show.