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Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (1893/1894-1964), American journalist, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter; won the first screenwriting Oscar for Underworld, co-wrote The Front Page, and led Bergson Group Zionist activism.
Ben Higgins
Ben Higgins (Benjamin Edward Higgins) is an American reality television personality and entrepreneur best known as the lead of The Bachelor season 20, which aired in 2016.
Ben Is Back
Ben Is Back is a 2018 American drama written and directed by Peter Hedges, starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges as mother and son over one Christmas Eve after Ben leaves rehab; also known by its single-day structure distinguishing it from Beautiful Boy.
Ben Johnson (actor)
Ben Johnson (1918-1996), American Western character actor, stuntman, and 1953 PRCA world champion team roper; won the 1971 Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show.
Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley (Krishna Pandit Bhanji, born 1943) is a British actor, Oscar winner for Gandhi (1982), knighted 2002, known for Sexy Beast, Schindler's List, and Marvel's Trevor Slattery.
Ben Koldyke
Ben Koldyke (Benjamin Koldyke, born 1968, Chicago) is an American actor known for Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother, Lee Standish in Work It, and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, plus The Finest Hours.
Ben Lawson
Ben Lawson (born 1980, Brisbane) is an Australian actor and writer, a NIDA graduate known as Frazer Yeats on Neighbours, Johnny Ryan on Firefly Lane, and Lachlan Murdoch in Bombshell; distinct from musicians, directors, and data scientists of the same name.
Ben Leonberg
Ben Leonberg (born 1987) is an American film and VR director, Columbia University MFA, best known for directing Good Boy (2025), the $70,000 dog-POV horror hit starring his own dog Indy.
Ben Linus
Ben Linus is a fictional character on ABC's Lost, portrayed by Michael Emerson; introduced as Henry Gale, leader of the Others, main villain of Seasons 2-3 turned anti-hero, with a 2009 Emmy for Emerson and a DVD epilogue.
Ben Mankiewicz
Ben Mankiewicz (Benjamin Frederick Mankiewicz, b. March 25, 1967 per TMDB), American TV and radio host, TCM primetime host since 2003, The Young Turks co-founder, grandson of Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Ben Marshall (comedian)
Ben Marshall (born 1995) is an American comedian, one third of the trio Please Don't Destroy with Martin Herlihy and John Higgins. An SNL writer from 2021, he became a featured player in season 51 (2025) and co-wrote The Treasure of Foggy Mountain.
Ben McKenzie
Ben McKenzie (Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan, born 1978) is an American actor from The O.C., Southland, and Gotham, and an anti-crypto author of Easy Money and director of Everyone Is Lying to You for Money; distinct from the Australian performer of the same name.
Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969, Melbourne) is an Australian actor, full name Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn, known for Animal Kingdom, Bloodline (2016 Emmy), Orson Krennic in Rogue One and Andor, and Christian Dior in The New Look.
Ben Miles
Ben Miles (Benjamin Charles Miles), English actor born 1966 in Wimbledon, trained at Guildhall; known for Patrick Maitland in Coupling, Thomas Cromwell in the RSC's Wolf Hall plays (2015 Tony nomination), The Lehman Trilogy, and The Crown.
Ben Miller
Ben Miller is a British actor, comedian, and writer, half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and star of Death in Paradise; also known as Johnny English's Bough, Bridgerton's Lord Featherington, and a former Cambridge physics PhD student.
Ben Mitchell (EastEnders)
Ben Mitchell, fictional character in BBC soap EastEnders, son of Phil Mitchell and Kathy Beale, first seen 21 March 1996; played by six actors, and known for deafness, coming out, the Paul Coker hate crime, marriage to Callum, and a 2024 prison exit.
Ben Murphy
Ben Murphy (Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr., b. March 6, 1942, Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American actor, Kid Curry in Alias Smith and Jones, lead in eight TV series including Gemini Man, active 1967–2010.
Ben Powers
Ben Powers (Alton Adelbert Powers, 1950-2015) was an American actor and comedian, best known as Keith Anderson, Thelma's husband, on the final season of Good Times, and as Moochie on The New Mike Hammer.
Ben Rappaport
Ben Rappaport (Bennett Eli Rappaport, born 1986, Arlington, Texas) is an American actor, a Juilliard graduate and Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize winner, known for NBC's Outsourced, ABC's For the People, Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, and Good Night, Oscar.
Ben Reilly
Ben Reilly (Benjamin Reilly) is Marvel Comics' clone of Peter Parker, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #149 (1975). Known as Scarlet Spider, briefly Spider-Man during the 1990s Clone Saga, killed in 1996, later Chasm, and Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir lead.
Ben Richardson
Ben Richardson, ASC BSC, is a British cinematographer and director known for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Wind River, Mare of Easttown, and Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923.
Ben Rosenfield
Ben Rosenfield (born 1992, Montclair, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Willie Thompson on Boardwalk Empire, Tim Buckley in Greetings from Tim Buckley, 6 Years, Twin Peaks, and Off-Broadway stage work; distinct from comedian Ben Rosenfeld.
Ben Savage
Ben Savage (Bennett Joseph Savage, born 1980) is an American actor, brother of Fred Savage, known as Cory Matthews on Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and Girl Meets World, later a Democratic candidate for West Hollywood City Council and California's 30th Congressional District.
Ben Schnetzer
Ben Schnetzer (born 1990, New York City) is an American actor trained at London's Guildhall School, known for Pride, The Book Thief, Warcraft, Y: The Last Man, and Van Davis in Taylor Sheridan's The Madison.
Ben Schwartz
Ben Schwartz (born 1981, Bronx, New York) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and improviser known as Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation, Clyde Oberholt on House of Lies, and the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the film series.
Ben Shenkman
Ben Shenkman (born 1968, New York) is an American actor, Brown graduate with an NYU MFA, known as Louis Ironson in HBO's Angels in America (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), Tony-nominated for Proof, and in Fish in the Dark.
Ben Shephard
Ben Shephard (Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard, born 1974) is an English TV presenter hosting ITV's This Morning with Cat Deeley since March 2024, Tipping Point since 2012, and formerly Good Morning Britain and GMTV.
Ben Silverman
Ben Silverman (born 1970), American TV producer and executive; adapted foreign formats like The Office and Ugly Betty, led Reveille, co-chaired NBC Entertainment 2007–2009, then founded Electus and Propagate.
Ben Stein
Ben Stein (Benjamin Jeremy Stein, born 1944) is an American lawyer, economist, writer, and actor, a speechwriter for Nixon and Ford, the monotone teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Emmy-winning host of Win Ben Stein's Money.
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller, full name Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller, is an American actor, comedian, and director born in 1965 to comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, known for hit comedies.