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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 DiMaggio
John William DiMaggio, born 1968 in North Plainfield, New Jersey, is an American voice actor known for Bender in Futurama, Jake the Dog in Adventure Time, and Marcus Fenix in Gears of War; 2001 Annie Award winner.
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.
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 Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer (1930–2002), American film and television director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Seconds, and Ronin; emerged from 1950s live TV, won four consecutive 1990s Emmys.
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 Gau (producer)
John Gau (John Glen Mackay Gau, 1940-2024) was a British television producer, BBC Panorama producer and head of current affairs, founder of John Gau Productions, Channel 4 director, and CBE.
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 Glen (director)
John Glen (born 1932, Sunbury-on-Thames) is a British director who made five consecutive James Bond films (1981–1989), the series record, after serving as editor and second-unit director on earlier Bond entries.
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.