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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 Hopkins (screenwriter)
John Richard Hopkins (1931–1998), British screenwriter and playwright, lead writer of BBC's Z Cars, author of Talking to a Stranger, and co-writer of Thunderball, Smiley's People, and Hiroshima; died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, in 1998.
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.
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 Koyama
John Koyama (born 1973) is an American stunt coordinator, fight coordinator, second unit director, and actor, a three-time Emmy winner for supervising stunt coordination on The Boys, known for Preacher and for playing Emilio in Breaking Bad.
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 Kricfalusi
John Kricfalusi (John K., Michael John Kricfalusi), Canadian animator born 1955 in Chicoutimi, Quebec; creator of Nickelodeon's The Ren & Stimpy Show and founder of Spümcø; fired in 1992 over missed deadlines; later web animation; 2018 sexual-abuse allegations.
John Landis
John Landis (born 1950), American film director of Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, and Michael Jackson's Thriller; acquitted in the Twilight Zone set-deaths manslaughter trial.
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 Lasseter
John Lasseter (born 1957, Hollywood) is an American animator, director, and producer, Pixar co-founder and director of Toy Story (1995), the first fully computer-animated feature; two-time Oscar winner, Disney CCO 2006–2018, later head of Skydance Animation.
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 Leslie (director)
John Leslie (John Leslie Nuzzo, 1945–2010) was an American adult film actor-director of porn's Golden Age, star of Talk Dirty to Me (1980), one of the first performers to direct, with 21 AVN/XRCO awards and three hall-of-fame inductions; distinct from the Scottish TV presenter of the same name.
John Leslie (TV presenter)
John Leslie (John Leslie Stott, born 1965, Edinburgh) is a Scottish TV and radio presenter, first Scottish Blue Peter host (1989-1994), later Wheel of Fortune and This Morning; career ended by 2002 allegations, with charges dropped, not proven, or acquitted.
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 Cruz
John Lloyd Cruz (born 1983, Pasay City) is a Filipino actor known for the ABS-CBN loveteam with Bea Alonzo (One More Chance, A Second Chance), Gawad Urian and Locarno Boccalino d'Oro Best Actor awards, and a 2021 GMA Network comeback.
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.