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Will Swenson (actor)
Will Swenson (born 1972, Provo, Utah) is an American actor and singer, grandson of theater founders Ruth and Nathan Hale, Tony-nominated as Berger in Hair's 2009 Broadway revival, and originator of Neil Diamond in A Beautiful Noise.
Will Tracy
Will Tracy, American screenwriter and producer; former Onion editor-in-chief; Emmy winner for Last Week Tonight and Succession; wrote The Menu, created The Regime, and wrote Bugonia, the Oscar-nominated adaptation of Save the Green Planet!.
Will Yun Lee
Will Yun Lee is a Korean-American actor born in Arlington, Virginia, known as Colonel Moon in Die Another Day, Takeshi Kovacs in Altered Carbon, and Dr. Alex Park in The Good Doctor, with a Taekwondo background and roles in The Wolverine, Elektra, and Sleeping Dogs.
Willa Fitzgerald
Willa Fitzgerald (born 1991, Nashville) is an American actress known for MTV's Scream: The TV Series, Reacher season 1, The Fall of the House of Usher, and her acclaimed lead role as The Lady in the 2024 thriller Strange Darling.
Willa Holland
Willa Holland (born 1991), American actress, voice actress and model, known as Kaitlin Cooper on The O.C., Agnes Andrews on Gossip Girl, Thea Queen/Speedy on Arrow for eight seasons, voice of Aqua in Kingdom Hearts, and lead of The Mortuary Assistant film.
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe (born 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American actor and Wooster Group co-founder; four-time Oscar nominee (Platoon, Shadow of the Vampire, The Florida Project, At Eternity's Gate) and Venice Biennale Theatre artistic director for 2025-2028.
William Abadie
William Abadie is a French actor from Saint-Raphaël, known as Antoine Lambert in Netflix's Emily in Paris (2020–2026), Tony in Sex and the City, Roman in Gossip Girl, and Denis Laurent in Greenland: Migration.
William Ash (actor)
William Ash (Will Ash), English actor born 1977 in Chadderton, known for Chris Mead in Waterloo Road, Caleb Milligan in Emmerdale since 2022, Making Out, The Tunnel, Doctor Who, Mad About Mambo and Hush.
William Asher
William Asher (1921–2012) was an American television and film director and producer who directed 100 episodes of I Love Lucy and 131 of Bewitched, starring his wife Elizabeth Montgomery.
William Atherton
William Atherton (William Atherton Knight, born 1947, Orange, Connecticut) is an American actor known as Walter Peck in Ghostbusters and reporter Dick Thornburg in Die Hard and Die Hard 2, with a Carnegie-Mellon-trained stage career and 1970s leading roles.
William B. Davis
William B. Davis (born January 13, 1938, Toronto) is a Canadian actor, director, and acting teacher best known as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files, and founder of the William Davis Centre for Actors' Study in Vancouver.
William Baldwin
William (Billy) Baldwin, born 1963 in Massapequa, New York, American actor and producer, third Baldwin brother, known for Backdraft, Sliver, The Squid and the Whale, Dirty Sexy Money, and Northern Rescue.
William Bendix
William Bendix (1906–1964), American character actor with a thick New York accent; Oscar-nominated for Wake Island (1942), starred in Lifeboat, and played Chester A. Riley in radio, film, and TV versions of The Life of Riley.
William Boyd (actor)
William Boyd (1895–1972), American actor born in Hendrysburg, Ohio, who played Hopalong Cassidy in 66 B-westerns from 1935, then bought the character's rights and became television's first cowboy hero and a merchandising pioneer.
William Christopher
William Christopher (1932–2016) was an American actor, not the journalist or other namesakes, who played Father Francis Mulcahy on M*A*S*H (1972–1983) and AfterMASH, and Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; born Evanston, Illinois; died Pasadena, California.
William Daniels
William Daniels (born March 31, 1927, Brooklyn) is an American actor, not the singer Billy Daniels: Emmy-winning Dr. Mark Craig on St. Elsewhere, voice of KITT in Knight Rider, and Mr. Feeny in Boy Meets World, married 75 years to Bonnie Bartlett.
William David Powell
William David Powell (1925–1968), American television writer, story editor, and associate producer for Warner Bros. and Universal; only child of actor William Powell; credited on Bonanza, Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip.
William Demarest
William Demarest (Carl William Demarest, 1892–1983), American character actor of vaudeville, film, and TV; Sturges stock company regular, Oscar-nominated for The Jolson Story, and Uncle Charley on My Three Sons (1965–1972).
William Devane
William Devane (born September 5, 1939, Albany, New York) is an American actor known as Greg Sumner on Knots Landing (1983-93), JFK in The Missiles of October (1974), and James Heller on 24 and 24: Live Another Day.
William Fichtner
William Fichtner, American character actor born 1956 in East Meadow, New York, raised in Cheektowaga; known for Heat, Armageddon, Go, Crash, The Dark Knight, Prison Break, and directing debut Cold Brook.
William Franklyn-Miller
William Franklyn-Miller (Will Franklyn-Miller), British actor and model born 2004, known for Medici's Giovanni de' Medici, Arrow's Young Joseph Wilson, and as George Washington in Young Washington (2026).
William Frawley
William Frawley (1887–1966), American vaudevillian and character actor from Burlington, Iowa, played landlord Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy (1951–1957, five Emmy nominations) and Bub O'Casey on My Three Sons, after more than 150 Hollywood films.
William G. Stewart
William G. Stewart (William Gladstone Stewart, 1933–2017), English TV producer-director and host of Channel 4's Fifteen to One (1988–2003, 2,265 episodes); also produced Bless This House, Family Fortunes, and The Price Is Right.
William Gaunt
William Gaunt (William Charles Anthony Gaunt, born 3 April 1937, Pudsey, Yorkshire) is an English actor: Richard Barrett in The Champions, Arthur Crabtree in No Place Like Home, Next of Kin with Penelope Keith, plus RSC and National Theatre stage work.
William Goldman
William Goldman (1931–2018), American screenwriter and novelist, won Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, wrote The Princess Bride and Adventures in the Screen Trade, and coined "Nobody knows anything."
William H. Macy
William H. Macy, born William Hall Macy Jr. in 1950, is an American actor known for anxious everymen: Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo (1996) and Frank Gallagher on Shameless (2011–2021).
William Haines
William (Billy) Haines, 1900–1973, American silent film star and interior designer, MGM's top box-office draw around 1930; refused Louis B. Mayer's demand to enter a sham marriage, left films, and ran William Haines Designs with partner Jimmie Shields.
William Hanna
William Denby Hanna (1910-2001), American animator and producer, co-created Tom and Jerry at MGM with Joseph Barbera, winning seven Oscars, then co-founded Hanna-Barbera Productions, pioneer of limited television animation with The Flintstones.
William Hartnell
William Hartnell (1908–1975), English actor, the original First Doctor in Doctor Who (1963–1966, 1973), also a prolific British film star known for Brighton Rock and The Army Game.
William Hickey (actor)
William Hickey, also known as William Edward Hickey, was an American character actor and acting teacher, Oscar-nominated as the Mafia don in Prizzi's Honor (1985).