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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is an American dine-in theater chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas by Tim and Karrie League, known for in-seat food service, strict no-talking rules, and repertory programming; acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2024.
Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, 1936) is an American actor, director, and science-communication advocate, famous as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H (1972–1983), later Arnold Vinick on The West Wing, with six Emmys and an Oscar nomination for The Aviator.
Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (1934–2023), American character actor; Oscar winner for Little Miss Sunshine, nominated for The Russians Are Coming and Argo; Second City and Tarriers alumnus, Tony winner for Enter Laughing, final major role in The Kominsky Method.
Alan Autry
Alan Autry (Carlos Alan Autry, born 1952) is an American actor, former Green Bay Packers quarterback, and Republican mayor of Fresno, California, 2001–2009, best known as Bubba Skinner on In the Heat of the Night.
Alan Ball (screenwriter)
Alan Erwin Ball (born 1957) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer, Oscar winner for American Beauty and creator of HBO's Six Feet Under and True Blood.
Alan Barinholtz
Alan Barinholtz (born 1951) is an American attorney and actor, also known as Judge Alan Rosen of Jury Duty. A Chicago personal-injury lawyer of about 40 years and father of Ike and Jon Barinholtz, he won the 2023 Freevee role via audition tape.
Alan Bates
Alan Bates: chiefly Sir Alan Arthur Bates (1934–2003), English stage and film actor of Look Back in Anger, Butley, Zorba the Greek and Women in Love; also the subpostmaster knighted in 2024 for exposing the Post Office Horizon scandal, and a Monckton Chambers barrister.
Alan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale (born 1946, Liverpool) is the British TV dramatist behind Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), GBH (1991), and The Monocled Mutineer, known for realist, darkly comic Liverpool drama; not to be confused with other Bleasdales.
Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke (1935–1990), British television and film director born in Seacombe, Cheshire, known for Scum, Made in Britain, The Firm, Rita Sue and Bob Too, and Elephant.
Alan Cox (actor)
Alan Cox (born 1970, London) is a British actor, son of Brian Cox; young Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), RSC and National Theatre stage actor, Broadway's Translations and Frost/Nixon, and Tony Crosland in The Gang of Three. Distinct from the Cleveland radio host of the same name.
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming, Scottish stage and screen actor; Olivier winner for Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Eli Gold on The Good Wife, Emmy-winning host of The Traitors US, memoirist and cabaret performer.
Alan Dale
Alan Hugh Dale (born 1947, Dunedin) is a New Zealand actor, Jim Robinson in Neighbours, then US TV authority figures: Caleb Nichol in The O.C., Bradford Meade in Ugly Betty, Charles Widmore in Lost, Joseph Anders in Dynasty. Distinct from the singer Alan Dale (1925–2002).
Alan Ford (actor)
Alan Ford (born 23 February 1938, London) is an English character actor known for Brick Top in Guy Ritchie's Snatch and for narrating Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; also The Long Good Friday, EastEnders, and the Hitchhiker's Guide radio Roosta.
Alan Hale Jr.
Alan Hale Jr. (born Alan Hale MacKahan Jr., 1921–1990) was an American character actor, son of actor Alan Hale Sr., best known as Skipper Jonas Grumby on Gilligan's Island (1964–67) and co-owner of the Lobster Barrel restaurant.
Alan Hale Sr.
Alan Hale Sr. (Rufus Edward Mackahan, 1892–1950) was an American character actor and director, Errol Flynn's frequent sidekick, who played Little John in Robin Hood (1922), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950), father of Alan Hale Jr.
Alan Hamel
Alan Hamel (born 1936, Toronto) is a Canadian TV host and producer, co-host of CBC's Razzle Dazzle, host of Anniversary Game and CTV's The Alan Hamel Show (1976–80), and Suzanne Somers' husband.
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula (1928–1998), American director and producer of To Kill a Mockingbird and the paranoia trilogy Klute, The Parallax View, and All the President's Men, shot by Gordon Willis.
Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd (1913–1964), American film star of the 1940s and 1950s, aka Alan Walbridge Ladd; famous for This Gun for Hire, The Blue Dahlia, and Shane; father of producer Alan Ladd Jr.
Alan Ladd Jr.
Alan Ladd Jr. (1937-2022), nicknamed Laddie, American film executive and producer; Fox president who greenlit Star Wars, founded the Ladd Company, ran MGM/UA, and won the Best Picture Oscar for Braveheart.
Alan Lake
Alan Lake (1940–1984), English RADA-trained character actor and third husband of Diana Dors; played Jack Daniels in Slade In Flame and John Merrick in The Sweeney. Distinct from the Australian film editor Alan Lake (1934–2017).
Alan Lee (voice actor)
Alan Lee (born 1996, Red Bluff, California) is a Korean-American Los Angeles voice actor, also credited as Allen Lee, known for Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat 1, Makoto Edamura in Great Pretender, Ollie Chen in The Ghost and Molly McGee, and Mystery Saja in KPop Demon Hunters; distinct from the Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee.
Alan Napier
Alan Napier (Alan William Napier-Clavering, 1903–1988), English character actor and Neville Chamberlain's cousin; RADA-trained, Hollywood from 1939, best known as Alfred Pennyworth in all 120 episodes of the 1966–68 Batman TV series.
Alan Oppenheimer
Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor and voice artist, the voice of Skeletor, Man-at-Arms, and Cringer in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Ming in Flash Gordon, Vanity Smurf, and Falkor in The NeverEnding Story, distinct from the physicist Oppenheimers.
Alan Parker
Alan Parker, full name Alan William Parker, was a British film director known for Bugsy Malone, Fame, and Mississippi Burning, who lived from 1944 to 2020.
Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge is a fictional British broadcaster played by Steve Coogan, created in 1991 with Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber on BBC Radio 4's On the Hour; his vehicles include Knowing Me, Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa, This Time, and From the Oasthouse.
Alan Partridge (2013 film)
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is a 2013 British comedy film directed by Declan Lowney, marking Steve Coogan's cinema debut as radio DJ Alan Partridge after two decades.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013) is a British comedy film, Steve Coogan's big-screen debut as DJ Alan Partridge, directed by Declan Lowney, in which Partridge negotiates a siege at North Norfolk Digital after a corporate takeover.
Alan Plater
Alan Plater (1935-2010), British screenwriter and playwright from Jarrow and Hull; wrote Z Cars, the Beiderbecke trilogy, A Very British Coup; architect turned full-time writer in 1961.
Alan Rachins
Alan Rachins (Alan Leonard Rachins, 1942-2024), American actor of L.A. Law's Douglas Brackman Jr. and Dharma & Greg's Larry Finkelstein, 1988 Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, also Showgirls' Tony Moss; died of heart failure November 2, 2024.
Alan Reed
Alan Reed (Herbert Theodore Bergman, 1907–1977), also billed as Teddy Bergman, American radio and film character actor and original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones (1960–1977), coiner of "Yabba Dabba Doo!"