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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 Madden (director)
John Madden is an English film and theater director from Portsmouth, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Debt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011); distinct from the NFL coach John Madden.
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 McTiernan
John McTiernan, American action film director from Albany, New York, directed Predator, Die Hard, and The Hunt for Red October, then was convicted in the Pellicano wiretapping case; his last film to date is Basic (2003).
John Megna
John Megna (1952-1995), American child actor who played Dill Harris in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and a boy in Star Trek's "Miri"; Broadway debut in Greenwillow and All the Way Home; later a Los Angeles stage director and teacher; half-brother of Connie Stevens.
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 Melendez
John Melendez, known as Stuttering John, is an American radio personality who interviewed celebrities on The Howard Stern Show and announced The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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 Michael McDonagh
John Michael McDonagh (born 1967, London) is a British-Irish writer-director, older brother of Martin McDonagh, known for The Guard (2011), Calvary, War on Everyone, The Forgiven, and the Ned Kelly screenplay.
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 Moschitta Jr.
John Moschitta Jr. (born 1954), the "Fast Talking Guy" and Micro Machines pitchman, is an American fast-talk performer and voice actor, Guinness record holder at 586 wpm and Clio-winning FedEx ad star.
John Musker
John Edward Musker is an American Disney animator and director who, with Ron Clements, co-directed The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog, and Moana.
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 Noakes
John Noakes (1934-2017), English TV presenter and actor, longest-serving Blue Peter host (1965-1978), famous for daredevil stunts, Shep the collie, and the catchphrase "Get down, Shep!" Distinct from Prof Tim Noakes, the nutritionist.
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.
John Ortiz
John Ortiz (John Augustin Ortiz) is an American actor, co-founder of LAByrinth Theater Company with Philip Seymour Hoffman, known for Jack Goes Boating, Fast & Furious, Luck, and Broadway's Anna in the Tropics; distinct from the racehorse trainer and other namesakes.
John Owen Lowe
John Owen Lowe (born 1995) is an American actor, writer, and producer, son of Rob Lowe and Sheryl Berkoff; co-creator and star of Netflix's Unstable, writer on 9-1-1: Lone Star, and lead of Grace Point.
John Pankow
John Pankow is an American actor born in St. Louis, known as Ira Buchman on Mad About You (1993-1999) and Merc Lapidus on Episodes (2011-2017), with extensive Broadway and Shakespeare in the Park credits.
John Patrick Amedori
John Patrick Amedori (born 1987, Baltimore) is an American actor and musician known for young Evan Treborn in The Butterfly Effect, Gabe Mitchell in Dear White People, and Jack in Three Women, with a music career in the band Ceesau.
John Patrick Jordan
John Patrick Jordan, American actor known for Larnell in the Evil Bong franchise and Stifler in American Pie Presents: The Book of Love; recent roles include The Accountant 2, Landman, Them, and an upcoming Dark Winds arc.