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Henri, le Chat Noir

Henri, le Chat Noir is an internet-famous tuxedo cat, actually Henry, a Seattle shelter cat, starring in William Braden's French-narrated film noir YouTube videos; winner of the 2012 Golden Kitty Award.

Henry & June

Henry & June (1990) is Philip Kaufman's drama, starring Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, and Maria de Medeiros, about Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, and June Miller in 1931 Paris; the first film released with the MPAA's NC-17 rating.

Henry Ashton (actor)

Henry Ashton (born 1991, Bletchley, England) is an English actor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduate, known for Stan Dudley in My Lady Jane, Max Hastings in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and Daeron Targaryen in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Henry Brandon (actor)

Henry Brandon (Heinrich von Kleinbach, 1912–1990), German-born American character actor, villain specialist of over 100 films; Silas Barnaby in Babes in Toyland, Scar in The Searchers, not the casting director Brandon Henry Rodriguez.

Henry Cavill

Henry Cavill (born 1983, Jersey) is a British actor known as Superman in Man of Steel and Geralt in The Witcher; he left both roles in 2022 and now leads Amazon's Warhammer 40,000 series.

Henry Czerny

Henry Czerny (born 1959, Toronto) is a Canadian stage, film, and TV actor known for The Boys of St. Vincent, Mission: Impossible's Kittridge, Clear and Present Danger, and Revenge's Conrad Grayson.

Henry Danger

Henry Danger is an American Nickelodeon live-action superhero comedy (2014–2020, five seasons) created by Dan Schneider and Dana Olsen, starring Jace Norman as Henry Hart/Kid Danger, sidekick to Cooper Barnes's Captain Man in Swellview; it spawned Danger Force and a 2025 movie.

Henry Danger: The Movie

Henry Danger: The Movie (2025) is a Nickelodeon/Paramount+ TV film directed by Joe Menendez, starring Jace Norman as Henry Hart, whose superfan Missy Martin's reality-opening device traps him in a multiverse.

Henry Darrow

Henry Darrow (Enrique Tomás Delgado, 1933-2021), Puerto Rican-born American actor; Manolito Montoya on The High Chaparral; first Latino TV Zorro, 1981-83, and Zorro's father 1990-93; 1990 Daytime Emmy; SAG Ethnic Minority Committee co-founder.

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda (1905–1982), American stage and film actor born in Grand Island, Nebraska; star of The Grapes of Wrath, 12 Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; won the 1982 Best Actor Oscar and the 1978 AFI Life Achievement Award.

Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson (born James Bateman, 1935–2009), American character actor and comedian, Laugh-In's flower-holding poet; Altman's Nashville, The Blues Brothers, Boston Legal.

Henry Golding

Henry Golding, full name Henry Ewan Golding, is a British-Malaysian actor and former television presenter who became a star with his debut in 2018's Crazy Rich Asians.

Henry Goodman

Henry Goodman (born 1950, Whitechapel, London) is a British stage and screen actor, RADA-trained, a two-time Olivier Award winner for Assassins (1993) and Shylock in Trevor Nunn's Merchant of Venice (2000), known for The Producers sacking and Marvel's Dr. List.

Henry Ian Cusick

Henry Ian Cusick (born 1967, Trujillo, Peru) is a Peruvian-Scottish actor and director, Emmy-nominated as Desmond Hume on Lost, later Marcus Kane on The 100, Stephen Finch on Scandal, and Russ Taylor on MacGyver.

Henry Johnson (film)

Henry Johnson is a 2025 American psychological drama written and directed by David Mamet, adapted from his stage play, starring Evan Jonigkeit, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Bauer, and Dominic Hoffman; released May 9, 2025.

Henry Jones (actor)

Henry Jones (Henry Burk Jones, 1912–1999), American character actor; Tony winner for Sunrise at Campobello; known for The Bad Seed and the coroner in Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Henry Lloyd-Hughes

Henry Lloyd-Hughes (born 1985, London) is a British actor known for Mark Donovan in The Inbetweeners, Ralph Whelan in Indian Summers, Aaron Peel in Killing Eve, Genek Kurc in We Were the Lucky Ones, and Bogdan in The Thursday Murder Club; he also runs the sportswear label N.E. Blake & Co.

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini, 1924–1994) was an American composer, conductor, and arranger of film and television music: Moon River, The Pink Panther, Peter Gunn; four Oscars, 20 Grammys, Blake Edwards collaborator.

Henry Selick

Henry Selick (born 1952, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American stop-motion animation director, distinct from Tim Burton; he directed The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone, Coraline (2009), and Wendell & Wild (2022), all using stop-motion puppet animation.

Henry Silva

Henry Silva (1926-1928 sources vary; died 14 September 2022), American character actor of 130+ credits, villain in The Manchurian Candidate, Ocean's Eleven, Rat Pack films, Italian crime cinema, retired 2001.

Henry Simmons

Henry Simmons (Henry Oswald Simmons, Jr., born 1970, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American actor known as Detective Baldwin Jones on NYPD Blue and Mack on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., distinct from same-named crew members.

Henry Thomas

Henry Thomas (Henry Jackson Thomas Jr.), American actor born 1971 in San Antonio, Texas; child star as Elliott in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), later a Mike Flanagan horror regular and musician with Farspeaker.

Henry Travers

Henry Travers (1874–1965) was an English stage and film character actor best known as Clarence the angel in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Henry V (1944 film)

Henry V (1944) is Laurence Olivier's Technicolor adaptation of Shakespeare's play, which he directed, produced, and starred in. Made as wartime propaganda with Ministry of Information backing, it won Olivier a special Oscar and became the top-grossing English film of its time.

Henry V (1989 film)

Henry V (1989) is Kenneth Branagh's debut feature, a gritty adaptation of Shakespeare's play produced by Renaissance Films, starring Branagh with Derek Jacobi and Emma Thompson, Oscar-nominated and credited with reviving Shakespeare on film.

Henry Willson

Henry Willson (Henry Leroy Willson, 1911-1978) was a Hollywood talent agent, creator of the "Adonis factory" of beefcake stars, best known as Rock Hudson's agent; died penniless in 1978.

Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler (born 1945) is an American actor, producer, director, and author. Best known as Fonzie on Happy Days (1974-1984) and Emmy-winning Gene Cousineau on Barry (2018); dyslexia advocate and author of Hank Zipzer and Being Henry.

Henry Zebrowski

Henry Zebrowski (Henry Thomas Zebrowski Jr., born 1984, Florida) is an American actor and comedian, Sea Otter in The Wolf of Wall Street, Quentin in Heroes Reborn, Gary on Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, and co-host of Last Podcast on the Left with Marcus Parks since 2011.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is John McNaughton's 1986 low-budget American horror film loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas, starring Michael Rooker. Blocked by an MPAA X rating for years, it released unrated in 1990 and helped spur the NC-17 rating.

Heo Nam-jun

Heo Nam-jun (허남준), born 1993, is a South Korean actor with H.SOLID who debuted in the 2019 film Like the First Glass and broke out with Your Honor, When the Phone Rings, A Hundred Memories, and My Royal Nemesis.