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John Travolta
John Travolta (born 1954) is an American actor known for Welcome Back Kotter, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, and Get Shorty; two-time Oscar nominee, Golden Globe winner, pilot, and 2026 directorial debut Propeller One-Way Night Coach.
John Turturro
John Turturro (John Michael Turturro, born 1957, Brooklyn) is an American actor and director, a Spike Lee and Coen brothers collaborator, Cannes Best Actor for Barton Fink, Caméra d'Or winner for Mac, Emmy winner for Monk, and Irving in Severance.
John Ventimiglia
John Ventimiglia (born 1963) is an American actor, best known as Artie Bucco on The Sopranos and Dino Arbogast on Blue Bloods; unrelated to Milo Ventimiglia, born in Ridgewood, Queens.
John Vernon
John Vernon (Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz, 1932–2005) was a Canadian character actor, RADA-trained, known for Dean Wormer in Animal House, the mayor in Dirty Harry, and CBC's Wojeck; distinct from Baron Vernon and the novelist.
John Waters (actor)
John Waters (born 1948, London) is an English-born Australian actor, singer and musician, not the Baltimore filmmaker of the same name. Known for Rush, Play School (1972–1991), Offspring, All Saints, the 1988 AFI Award for Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and Lennon: Through a Glass Onion.
John Wayne
John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison, 1907-1979), American film star nicknamed the Duke, defined the movie Western from Stagecoach to True Grit, won the 1969 Best Actor Oscar, and remains polarizing for his 1971 Playboy remarks.
John Wells (filmmaker)
John Marcum Wells (born 1956, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American TV and film producer, writer, and director, showrunner of ER, The West Wing, Third Watch, Southland, and Shameless, founder of John Wells Productions at Warner Bros., and executive producer of the Emmy-winning The Pitt.
John Wells (satirist)
John Campbell Wells (1936–1998), English satirist, actor and writer; original Private Eye contributor behind Mrs Wilson's Diary and Dear Bill, performer of Denis Thatcher, and co-author of A Melon For Ecstasy and Bernstein's Candide narration. Distinct from the American TV producer John Wells.
John Wesley Shipp
John Wesley Shipp (born 1955, Norfolk, Virginia) is an American actor known as Barry Allen in The Flash (1990), Mitch Leery on Dawson's Creek, two-time Daytime Emmy winner, and Henry Allen/Jay Garrick on The Flash (2014–2023).
John Williams (actor)
John Williams (1903–1983), English character actor of Dial M for Murder and Sabrina; Broadway debut 1924 in The Fake, 1953 Tony winner, later Hollywood and TV supporting player, died La Jolla, California.
John Witherspoon (actor)
John Witherspoon (John Weatherspoon, 1942-2019), Detroit-born American comedian and actor, Willie Jones in the Friday films, Pops on The Wayans Bros., voice of Granddad on The Boondocks.
John Woo (吴宇森)
John Woo (吳宇森, born 1946, Guangzhou) is a Hong Kong action film director, creator of heroic bloodshed via A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer, and Hard Boiled, later a Hollywood director of Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II.
John Wood (English actor)
John Lamin Wood (1930–2011) was an English actor known for Shakespearean roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for winning a 1976 Tony Award for Tom Stoppard's Travesties.
John Yorke (producer)
John Yorke, British TV producer and drama executive (ex-Controller of BBC Drama Production, Head of Channel 4 Drama, MD of Company Pictures), author of Into the Woods on five-act narrative structure and founder of the BBC Writers' Academy.
John-Paul Lavoisier
John-Paul Lavoisier (John Paul Seponski, born 1980) is an American soap opera actor known as Rex Balsom on One Life to Live (2002–2012) and Philip Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives (2015–2026).
Johnathon Schaech
Johnathon Schaech (born 1969, Edgewood, Maryland) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for That Thing You Do!, How to Make an American Quilt, Prom Night, Jonah Hex, and starring in Blue Ridge as Sheriff Justin Wise.
Johnnie To (杜琪峰)
Johnnie To (杜琪峯, born 1955) is a Hong Kong film director and producer, co-founder of Milkyway Image with Wai Ka-fai, known for The Mission, PTU, Election, Exiled, and Drug War, with three Hong Kong Film Awards and three Golden Horse Best Director awards.
Johnny "Drama" Alves
Johnny "Drama" Alves (born 1961), born John Alves, is a Plymouth, Massachusetts funk musician and actor, Mark Wahlberg's honorary "cuzin" and the real-life inspiration for Kevin Dillon's Johnny Drama Chase on HBO's Entourage.
Johnny Ball
Johnny Ball is an English television presenter and comedy writer who created 23 factual children's series, including Think of a Number, and was born in Bristol in 1938.
Johnny Berchtold
Johnny Berchtold (born 1994) is an American actor and writer from New Jersey, known for Dog Gone, The Passenger, Reacher season 3 as Richard Beck, and Paul Murdaugh in Murdaugh: Death in the Family, plus TikTok movie-trope parodies.
Johnny Brown (actor)
Johnny Brown (1937–2022) was an American actor, comedian, and singer, famed as Nathan Bookman on Good Times and as a Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In regular; distinct from actors John Brown and Johnny Mack Brown.
Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson (John William Carson, 1925–2005) hosted The Tonight Show on NBC from October 1, 1962 to May 22, 1992, won six Emmys and the 1992 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and shaped the late-night format.
Johnny Crawford
Johnny Crawford (John Ernest Crawford, 1946-2021), American actor, singer, and Mouseketeer, played Mark McCain on ABC's The Rifleman (1958-1963), earned a 1959 Emmy nomination, recorded Billboard hits like Cindy's Birthday, and later led the Johnny Crawford Dance Orchestra. Not the Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, or other unrelated Johnny Crawfords in obituary records.
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp II, born 1963) is an American actor and musician, star of Pirates of the Caribbean's Jack Sparrow, with three Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe and SAG Award, known for Tim Burton collaborations and the 2022 Depp v. Heard verdict.
Johnny Flynn
Johnny Flynn is an English singer-songwriter and actor, frontman of the Sussex Wit, whose albums include A Larum and The Moon Also Rises with Robert Macfarlane; acting roles span Lovesick, Emma., Stardust, One Life, and Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter series.
Johnny Galecki
Johnny Galecki (born 1975, Bree, Belgium) is an American actor who played David Healy on Roseanne and Dr. Leonard Hofstadter for all 12 seasons of The Big Bang Theory, earning 2011 Emmy and 2012 Golden Globe nominations, and returning in 2026 to play Tennessee Williams in Kowalski in Chicago.
Johnny Gilbert
Johnny Gilbert (John Lewis Gilbert III, born 1928) is the American announcer of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! since 1984, famed for "This is Jeopardy!", over 8,000 Alex Trebek introductions, and a Guinness longevity record.
Johnny Hardwick
Johnny Hardwick (John Michael Hardwick, 1958–2023), American voice actor, comedian, writer, and producer; voice of Dale Gribble on King of the Hill (1997–2010), also staff writer, story editor and producer; 1999 Emmy winner; died in Austin, Texas.
Johnny Harris (actor)
Johnny Harris (born 1973, Lambeth, London) is an English actor, screenwriter, and producer known for Mick in This Is England '86 and for writing and starring in Jawbone (2017); multiple BAFTA nominations.
Johnny Knoxville
Johnny Knoxville (Philip John Clapp, born 1971) is an American stunt performer, actor, and co-creator and star of MTV's Jackass and its film series, ending with Jackass: Best and Last (2026).