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Jack Davenport

Jack Davenport (born 1973) is an English actor, son of Maria Aitken and Nigel Davenport, known for This Life, Coupling, James Norrington in Pirates of the Caribbean, FlashForward, Smash, and The Morning Show.

Jack Deam

Jack Deam (Ian Deam, born 1972, Oldham) is an English actor known as Marty Fisher in Shameless, Inspector Mallory in Father Brown, and DC Ken Blackstone in DCI Banks.

Jack DeSena

Jack DeSena (John Patrick De Sena, born 1987, Boston) is an American actor and comedian, an All That regular and the voice of Sokka in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Prince Callum in The Dragon Prince.

Jack Deveraux

Jack Deveraux, born Billy Johnson, is a Days of Our Lives character introduced in 1987; a villain redeemed into half of supercouple Jack and Jennifer, portrayed chiefly by Matthew Ashford.

Jack Dodson

Jack Dodson (born John Smeaton Dodson, 1931-1994) was an American character actor known as Howard Sprague on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D., with stage credits in Hughie and over 150 TV guest appearances.

Jack Dolman

Jack Dolman (born 1988, Toronto) is a Canadian music and sound editor, son of Andrea Martin, brother of Joe Dolman; supervising music editor on Wicked and Wicked: For Good, Oscar-nominated for Best Sound for Wicked. Not the actor Jack Doolan.

Jack Donaghy

Jack Donaghy (John Francis Donaghy) is the fictional GE and Kabletown television executive in NBC's 30 Rock, played by Alec Baldwin; mentor and conservative foil to Liz Lemon, modeled partly on Lorne Michaels and GE culture.

Jack Donnelly

Jack Donnelly (born 1985) is a British actor, writer, and director from Bournemouth, best known for playing Jason in the BBC fantasy series Atlantis (2013–2015) and for films including Friendsgiving.

Jack Dylan Grazer

Jack Dylan Grazer (born 2003) is an American actor from Los Angeles, known as Eddie in It (2017/2019), Freddy Freeman in Shazam!, and the voice of Alberto in Pixar's Luca.

Jack Elam

Jack Elam, born William Scott Elam, was an American character actor whose blind left eye made him a memorable Western villain in more than fifty Westerns.

Jack Falahee

Jack Falahee (John Ryan Falahee), American actor born 1989 in Ann Arbor, Michigan; NYU Tisch graduate known for Connor Walsh on How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020), Frank Stringfellow on Mercy Street, and understudy in the 2026 Broadway Death of a Salesman revival.

Jack Fisk

Jack Fisk (born 1945, Canton, Illinois) is an American production designer known for building full-scale, 360-degree-shootable sets for Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, and Iñárritu; four-time Oscar nominee, married to Sissy Spacek.

Jack Fox (actor)

Jack Louis Fox (born 1985, London) is a British actor of the Fox acting dynasty, known as Sir Edward Denham in Sanditon, Nico Eltham in Riviera, and for Dear Lupin with his father James Fox.

Jack Frost (1997 film)

Jack Frost (1997) is a direct-to-video horror comedy directed by Michael Cooney, starring Scott MacDonald as a serial killer transformed into a murderous snowman. Distinct from the 1998 Michael Keaton family film of the same name.

Jack Frost (1998 film)

Jack Frost is a 1998 American comedy-drama directed by Troy Miller, starring Michael Keaton as a musician who returns as a snowman to reconnect with his son.

Jack Garner

Jack Garner (Jack Edward Bumgarner, 1926-2011), American character actor, older brother of James Garner; appeared in Rockford Files, Bret Maverick; also the name of a Rochester film critic.

Jack Gilford

Jack Gilford, born Jacob Aaron Gellman, was an American comic actor of vaudeville, Broadway, film, and television, Oscar-nominated for Save the Tiger and blacklisted in the 1950s.

Jack Gilpin

Jack Gilpin (John Mitchell Gilpin, born 1951, Boyce, Virginia) is an American actor and Episcopal priest, the butler Mr. Church in HBO's The Gilded Age, father of Betty Gilpin, and grandson of Billy Mitchell.

Jack Gleeson

Jack Gleeson (born 1992, Cork, Ireland) is an Irish actor famous as Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2011–2014). He stepped back from screen acting in 2014, co-founded Collapsing Horse Theatre, and returned via In the Land of Saints and Sinners, The Sandman, and House of Guinness.

Jack Griffo

Jack Davis Griffo (born 1996, Orlando, Florida) is an American actor, musician, and producer known as Max Thunderman on Nickelodeon's The Thundermans, its 2024 revival film, and the Undercover spin-off, plus Alexa & Katie and Super Sons voice work.

Jack Haley

Jack Haley (John Joseph Haley Jr.) was an American vaudeville, stage, radio, and film actor best known as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Jack Handey

Jack Handey (born 1949), American humorist, creator of Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey on Saturday Night Live, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, and Toonces; New Yorker writer since 1987 and novelist (The Stench of Honolulu).

Jack Harkness

Captain Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman, is a fictional Time Agent from Doctor Who (2005) and the spin-off Torchwood; an immortal, pansexual companion created by Russell T Davies, first appearing in "The Empty Child".

Jack Hawkins

Jack Hawkins (born John Edward Hawkins) was an English actor, a top British film star of the 1950s known for The Cruel Sea, Ben-Hur, and Lawrence of Arabia.

Jack Hodgins (Bones)

Jack Hodgins (Dr. Jonathan Stanley Hodgins) is a fictional Jeffersonian Institute entomologist on Bones, played by T.J. Thyne, created by Hart Hanson; conspiracy theorist, "King of the Lab", husband of Angela Montenegro.

Jack Holt (actor)

Jack Holt (Charles John Holt, 1888–1951), American film actor and stuntman-turned-star of silent and sound Westerns; Paramount and Columbia leading man in Capra's Submarine, Flight, Dirigible; father of actors Tim and Jennifer Holt.

Jack Huston

Jack Alexander Huston is an English actor and director, grandson of John Huston, best known as Richard Harrow on HBO's Boardwalk Empire and as the star of Ben-Hur (2016).

Jack Innanen

Jack Innanen is a Toronto-born Canadian actor and digital creator. He began with viral TikTok sketches and later starred as Paul Baker in the FX comedy Adults.

Jack Irish

Jack Irish is the Melbourne private investigator created by Peter Temple and the ABC franchise adapted from him: four novels (Bad Debts, 1996 onward), three telemovies (2012-2014) and three Guy Pearce series (2016-2021), distinguished by Fitzroy pub settings, racing subplots and the 2018 AACTA Best Drama Series award.

Jack Kelly (actor)

Jack Kelly (John Augustus Kelly Jr., 1927–1992), American actor and politician; Bart Maverick opposite James Garner on ABC's Maverick (1957–62), Lt. Jerry Farman in Forbidden Planet, later Huntington Beach councilman and twice mayor.