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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 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 Boorman
John Boorman (born 1933, Shepperton) is a British film director of Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, Hope and Glory, and The General; twice Cannes Best Director winner, five-time Oscar nominee, and longtime County Wicklow, Ireland resident.
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 Carney (director)
John Carney, Irish film director, screenwriter, and composer, ex-bassist of The Frames; known for the naturalistic musicals Once (2007), Begin Again, Sing Street, Modern Love, Flora and Son, and Power Ballad.
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 Davidson (entertainer)
John Davidson (born 1941, Pittsburgh) is the American singer-actor-TV host of That's Incredible! and Hollywood Squares, distinct from the NHL goaltender John Davidson and the Scottish Tourette campaigner of the same name.